1/ It's time to admit something. The Constitution is not able to protect itself. It has always required that We The People do so. Most especially since the 16th & 17th amendments it needs us to step up for freedom. We have to look at how that has occurred.
2/ There's something the founders thought that time has proven wrong. They thought the Judiciary would be less corruptible than the Legislature or Executive. This showed itself wrong early on, but we have never accepted its truth. The Judiciary is corruptible.
3/ Thus, under the guise of its wrongly believed incorruptibility, its power for evil in America is greater than the other two branches. Consider the definition of evidence. As long as SCOTUS refuses to allow any, election 2020 can go stolen. No evidence, we're told.
4/ Even before @elonmusk's revelations, this was easy to see, if you just let go the belief in incorruptibility of courts.
6/ Everyone naturally preferred Exoneration to a Pardon. But we had to fight them. A corrupt court has no standing to exonerate. Uncountable 1,000s of times I fought that fight, debated that point. I came to love all Exonerators, as their wish was righteous.
7/ Here we are again. The court system, in all its hellacious corruption, has Americans in a gulag. Check out my great friend @HelpStopHate's work on the #AmericanGulag. It could not and would not exist if it were not for a #CorruptJudiciary.
8/ So that is why we're now rebuilding our #PardonFlynnNow coalition. This time, it is for America's political prisoners. These are our current hashtags. Let me know what you think:
9/ David Sumrall, @HelpStopHate, will give us further guidance. No one has done more on behalf of our Political Prisoners than he has. David, please sound off.
1/ I have decided that, when I have to post ad hoc threads like this one, I will use a slash, as opposed to en end parentheses after my thread’s tweet numbers. As such, this will be in and out…
2/ The image above, which is for now also my profile picture, is amazing. It was created by @pgeerkens about a year or so ago. He created it in repose to work I was doing on this book:
3/ It is impossible for me to urge you to read and study this book strongly enough. But I am going to try. Sharp’s work is one of the most influential cult classics of the 20th century. It has led to real revolutions around the world.
3 December 2022 - It May Be Sad, But We Need Our Billionaire Heroes
You may never have thought of it, but this is NOT a new phenomenon. Let's dive in with Ben Franklin. He was arguably America's 1st modern entrepreneur.
2) No, his millions would not, moved forward to today, land him in the Billionaire Boys Club. But that his wealth was vast for the day, and all created during his own lifetime, is quite extraordinary. We'll come back to him.
3) While George Washington was certainly born well, his real economic wisdom was in marrying well. His wife was one of the wealthiest widows in America at the time. And, image the value of the 1,000 or so slaves he freed upon his death. And the land. Oh, the land!
I don’t whine much or often. Whining alert given. Kate, Anthony and I go to a restaurant. Anthony is 33, looks it, and we have his passport. Alas, it is expired, but states his 1989 birthday. Anthony doesn’t speak much.
Anthony does, however, love Blue Moon beer. I order it for him as I always do. The waiter comes back, asking for his ID. Kate whips out his passport. Nope. Not good enough. It’s expired so they can’t serve him. We leave.
I may have skipped over a few choice aspects of the encounter. But now to the real point. While I do not support government’s power to set consumption laws, what I support even less is the presumption that technical adherence to law overcomes common sense.
The raw force, power, and significance of this moment cannot be exaggerated. Our founders knew that the USA would be the shining city on a hill, shooting forth the beacon of freedom for all peoples and for all time.
Here’s a painful YouTube story. Do you video control skills suck like mine do? So there I am adoring my great hero Andres Segovia as he plays essentially perfectly for many minutes and minutes. You have to hate that kind of perfection and I do. I suffer through it. Until!…!!!
2/ No, not a mistake per we, but a crystal clear imperfection, the sort of thing I’d crucify myself for years over. The master messed up! Thrilled with evil student glee, I’ve caught him. So I attempt to hit pause. Ha, YouTube sees me coming!
3/ So, first thing it does is thrown down an advertisement to get me off the trail. Ha! I say. Not so fast villainous high tech! I watch the interminable ad until…a totally different video comes up after. With weak heart, I try again. Alas.
Over the decades, I've essentially - but not completely - stopped asking my friends and family this question on this day. They all know me too well. They know I'll probe, and no one wants that.
2) They also know I'm both dogged and devious. They see right through me if I say, "It sounds like you really enjoyed that this year, yes?" It's the same question, of course. Alas. It's so easy to see me coming.
3) You can probably anticipate that I'll mention my friends and family in gratitude, and you're right. Family and friends are, in that order, the greatest blessings we have. If you know me, you know they give me purpose in my every moment, waking and sleeping.