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Renee Parsons<\/p>\n
It is a good bet that when the majority of Americans cast their votes in the 2024 Presidential election, there were expectations that President-elect Donald Trump would abolish the \u2018deep state\u2019 rather than become its ally;\u00a0 <\/span>as a\u00a0 <\/span>\u2018peace president\u2019<\/i> Trump would end the Ukraine war at his earliest convenience.\u00a0 <\/span>There might have been an expectation that Trump policies would be in sync with Constitutional rights dedicated to freedom and liberty. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If that last point sounds familiar, it should \u2013 it was the basis for the Founding Fathers who labored, fought and died to create \u2018a more perfect Union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty<\/i>\u201d as they established the Constitutional Republic that remains celebrated today around the world.<\/p>\n Fast forward almost 250 years, there is ample evidence that the Trump White House continues to exhibit no basic obligation to defend the country\u2019s Constitutional heavy weights like First Amendment protections and its Bill of Rights both of which include explicit guarantees of individual freedom and liberty against governmental overreach.<\/p>\n MAGA voters may experience an uncomfortable loss of credibility as the Trump Administration relinquishes control of foreign policy to Zionist domination allowing its alliance with Israel to undermine the essential role of the Constitution in every federal government objective. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Here is a brief synopsis of that which President Trump remains clueless:<\/p>\n As a student on his way to the New Jersey College (later Princeton University) James Madison came upon several Baptist Ministers who were jailed because of their religious preference. \u00a0 <\/span>That may have been the beginning for the young Madison to devote himself to multiple freedoms which grew into creation of the US Constitution and a timeless Bill of Rights.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With the blockade and surrender of Gen. Cornwallis\u2019 British army at the Battle of Yorktown in October, 1781, the American Revolution successfully concluded its eight year war for Independence.\u00a0 <\/span>That war was led by General George Washington with a scruffy Continental Army while the Treaty of Paris<\/span><\/a> was negotiated by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay in 1783 which legally recognized the existence of the United States of America.<\/p>\n As a result of the Revolutionary War victory, the Constitutional Convention reconvened in Philadelphia (May-September) 1787 to reassess the original Articles of Confederation which had been approved in 1775.\u00a0 <\/span>The Convention continued to formulate, debate and revise the Articles as the delegates recognized they were on the threshold of establishing a new international system<\/span><\/a> of government to be directly accountable to the American People.<\/p>\n During the Convention, James Madison, a principle architect of the original Articles, took precise day-to-day Notes of the debates<\/span><\/a> which constitute the only \u2018minutes<\/span><\/a>\u2019\u00a0 <\/span>in existence of the historic event.<\/p>\n From Madison\u2019s thorough and detailed notes, we can determine that the predominantly strong central government advocates were serious minded delegates from all thirteen colonies.\u00a0 <\/span>They were united by a pragmatic compromise while creating the legal framework for what became a transformational document with explicit guarantees protecting\u00a0 <\/span>fundamental individual freedoms against government interference.<\/p>\n Recognized as Father of the Constitution<\/span><\/a>, Madison introduced the Bill of Rights<\/span><\/a> to the First Session of the House of Representative in June 1788.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To facilitate public support for adoption of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights added ten Constitutional amendments which set an international standard for civil liberties with its First Amendment cherished in the vanguard of world acclaim; First in the\u00a0 <\/span>protection of free speech, religious choice, freedom of the press and assembly with the right to lobby government. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCongress shall make no law respecting any establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the\u00a0<\/i>freedom of speech<\/i><\/span><\/a>, or of the press; or the right of the\u00a0 <\/span>people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Madison\u2019s notes confirm there were no narcissistic blowhards in attendance at the Constitutional Convention to take credit for himself or dominate the debate.<\/p>\n *** \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fast forward 250 years as unexpected opposition to the revered First Amendment continues to intensify as an illustration of the President\u2019s noncompliance with the Constitution as the Trump Administration creeps towards authoritarianism in the name of anti-semitism against pro Palestinian students. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As the President\u2019s fidelity for the continued Zionist attacks on Gaza, multiple American universities have experienced funding cuts because of pro-Palestinian demonstrations including ideological deportation of foreign-born students or student editorialists.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Federal government cancelled $400 Million in funding for Columbia University<\/span><\/a> because of its alleged failure to address Trump-defined anti semitism amid the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A recent court decision identified an \u2018impermissibly chilled\u2019<\/span><\/a> protected speech by university professors and students who were in support of Palestinians. \u00a0 <\/span>The Court opined that\u00a0 <\/span>the \u201cPresident\u2019s conduct violated the sacred oath of a president to \u201cpreserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States\u201d <\/i>as his administration represented a \u2018full throated assault on the First Amendment.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n In a related matter infringing on the First Amendment, the Administration submitted a <\/i>Compact for Excellence in Higher Education<\/i><\/span><\/a> <\/i>to nine academic institutions which would adopt ten reforms in exchange for preference in federal funding.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Some of the \u2018reforms\u2019 could require a substantial readjustment beyond its current operational agenda such as abstention from certain political\/social events, review by government agencies like the DOJ, DHS, Treasury and Education with limits on attendance of foreign students\/endowments\/biologic and sex preferences.<\/p>\n To date, all but one of the universities have declined participation<\/span><\/a> in the Federal guidelines.<\/p>\n In a separate setback for the First Amendment, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued new press credential rules at the Pentagon.\u00a0 <\/span>Refusal to sign the agreement would risk being penalized for routine newsgathering activity like requesting information from a source without explicit authorization as well as access for Pentagon personnel at public events.\u00a0 <\/span>Hegseth is a former part time FOX News employee with no specific foreign policy or federal government experience.<\/p>\n From the Guidelines 17 pages: \u201cDoW information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified” <\/i>which also stated that \u201cjournalists who report on news outside of the explicit commands of the Pentagon could be deemed “a security or safety risk.”<\/i><\/p>\n In what was described as an effort to \u2018regulate a \u2018very disruptive\u2019 press<\/span><\/a>, failure to sign the agreement led to dozens of national media journalists turning in their access badge, packing up their desks and walking out of the Pentagon \u2013 to the detriment of a \u2018free\u2019 press and an informed American public.<\/p>\n At issue is the ability to release classified or unclassified information that Secretary Hegseth had approved for release which drew a \u2018condemnation<\/i>\u2019<\/span><\/a> from the National Press Club\u00a0 <\/span>citing the \u201cPentagon\u2019s unprecedented move to strip dozens of journalists of access, a sweeping action that strikes at the heart of press freedom and public accountability<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n As National Press Club President Mike Balsamo summed up “This is a direct assault on independent journalism at the very place where independent scrutiny matters most: the U.S. military<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n The new Pentagon press corps willing to sign the nondisclosure agreement include the Gateway Pundit, the National Pulse, Human Events, podcaster Tim Pool,\u00a0 <\/span>Just the News website founded by journalist John Solomon, Frontlines by Turning Point USA and LindellTV, run by \u201cMyPillow\u201d CEO Mike Lindell.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Switching gears to the Fourteenth Amendment: in a massive display of power project, US President Donald Trump moved a Navy strike group of eight warships, a submarine\u00a0 <\/span>and destroyer into the Caribbean Sea under the guise of accusing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of narco-terrorism and corruption.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In the pretense of conducting a transformational foreign policy, the Trump Administration conducted at least five extra-judicial attacks off the Venezuelan coast killing over thirty locals<\/span><\/a> in small motor boats in international waters in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Added to the Constitution in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment\u00a0 <\/span>prohibits depriving \u201cany person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law\u201d <\/i> with many of its individual equal protection rights found in the Bill of Rights.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In other words, each of the Venezuelan victims of Trump\u2019s use of lethal force in international waters without a legal basis were deprived of the right to prove their innocence in a court of law and in violation of international law<\/span><\/a> which amounts of extrajudicial execution as well as a violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter which asserts that covert ops may not be used or threaten force against another’s sovereignty or political independence.<\/p>\n Both Constitutional Amendments linger in the background like a forgotten foreign language in the Trump Administration with no conscience, lacking any moral judgement to conduct willful murder in international waters while offering no explanation or evidence and without legal justification<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n When questioned by a reporter about the need for Congressional approval of war, Trump casually dismissed the question as if he had no responsibility as President to follow the law:<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war.\u00a0 <\/span>I think we\u2019re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country.\u00a0 <\/span>Okay?\u00a0 <\/span>We\u2019re going to kill them.\u00a0 <\/span>You know, they\u2019re going to be, like, dead.\u00a0 <\/span>Okay?\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n No, Mr. President it is not OK.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n When a reporter suggested that \u201cMaduro offered every thing in his country,,all the natural resources, offering mediation.\u201d <\/i>Asked why Trump refused Maduro\u2019s offer, <\/i><\/p>\n