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IMMIGRATION 10 Immigrant Invasion by R. Cort Kirkwood — Illegal immigrants have overwhelmed the capacities of the Border Patrol. And they keep coming, bringing diseases, crime, and high costs with them. AP Images Features 17 POLITICS 17 Save Babies and Abort Judicial Supremacy by Selwyn Duke — With U.S. judges usurping the power to make or revoke laws — and Congress sitting idly by — it’s time to nullify extra-constitutional judicial supremacy.

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Socialism Claims Another Victim AP Images by Steve Byas — Venezuela isn’t, as liberals say, socialism done wrong. It’s the logical result of a methodical, slow implementation 22 of socialism.

BOOK REVIEW 29 Disempowering the President by Joe Wolverton II, J.D. — U.S. presidents have acquired vast power, but they haven’t really taken power; it has been given to them by Congresses that don’t want to make decisions about war.

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Larabell The roaring applause for her both before stating or even implied in the Constitution Foreign Correspondent and after she sang at the Philadelphia Fly- that the court has this power. It is obvi- p l a z a Alex Newman ers’ hockey game in 1973 also made my ous by reading his decision that Marshall heart soar, though I only saw it on film. felt that the constitutional convention had Contributors The people who were at that game were failed to consider this issue. Marshall Bob Adelmann • Dennis Behreandt truly lucky. The Flyers played her rendi- ruled that the court has this right, even Steve Byas • Raven Clabough tion of the song often before their hockey though it is not found in the Constitution. Selwyn Duke • Brian Farmer games. No wonder the league put up a This properly should be considered ultra- Christian Gomez • Larry Greenley statue of her outside the arena. But that constitutional, as opposed to unconstitu- Gregory A. 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China’s Economy Continues to Slow When President Donald Trump learned of the dismal perfor- ects. There was precious little in the way of free market reforms mance of the Chinese economy for all of last year, he tweeted in as China, like the U.S. economic establishment, has sold out to March: “China posts slowest economic numbers since 1990 due the concept of a managed economy, undergirded with Keynesian to U.S. trade tensions and new policies. Makes so much sense for economic theories and experiments. China to finally do a Real Deal, and stop playing around.” One of those experiments is printing money or otherwise ex- China’s No. 2 communist, Li Keqiang, admitted as much at the panding the money supply so that the government can spend it country’s annual news conference on March 15: “It is true that on infrastructure projects such as more highways, railroads, and China’s economy has encountered new downward pressure [but] cities. we must take strong measures to cope with [it].” But here is where the top communist officials run into an ir- China’s “strong measures” included cutting taxes modestly reversible law they cannot repeal: Each yuan of new money buys for manufacturers, lowering bank lending requirements, reduc- less and less economic growth, especially now with China’s total ing capital ratios, and spending still more on infrastructure proj- national debt exceeding 300 percent of the country’s total annual economic output. May’s economic data, some from phony “official” sources and the rest from outside communist control, show that China’s slow- down has not only continued, but accelerated. Data on China’s heavy industry, real estate, and construction sectors are all show- ing weakness. Key construction “inputs” such as crude steel, glass, electricity, and nonferrous metals are all declining. Credit growth, despite lowering bank requirements, hasn’t caused consumers to expand their borrowings. The communist Chinese are pushing on a string. Consumers are pulling back, banks aren’t lending, imports and exports have both fallen, and infrastructure projects provide only a temporary shot to the economy, while additional deficit spending adds to the country’s enormous national debt. Pixfly/iStock/GettyImagesPlus

www.TheNewAmerican.com 7 Inside Track Facebook Watching Your Offline Activity to Label You a “Hate Agent” according to a document provided exclusively to Breitbart News by a source within the social media giant. The document, titled “Hate Agent Policy Review,” out- lines a series of “signals” that Facebook uses to determine if someone ought to be categorized as a “hate agent” and banned from the platform. Those signals include a wide range of on- and off-platform behavior. If you praise the wrong individual, interview them, or appear at events alongside them, Facebook may categorize you as a “hate agent.”

Examples of Facebook’s labeling? It banned the highly popular Paul Joseph Watson because he praised and interviewed British

AP Images anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson. “Star conservative pundit Candace Owens and conservative author and terrorism ex- Facebook is now collecting information about its users’ offline pert Brigitte Gabriel were also on the list, as were British politi- activity so it can label them “hate agents” if they run afoul of cians Carl Benjamin and Anne Marie Waters,” Breitbart reported. the shifting set of rules the social-media giant employs to con- Such is Facebook’s totalitarian dragnet that even neutral com- trol speech. mentary can invite the label. That’s how Benjamin received The latest news comes from a source inside Facebook, who his, Bokhari reported: “Facebook also accuses Benjamin, a clas- spilled the beans to Breitbart’s Allum Bokhari, who might him- sical liberal and critic of identity politics, as ‘representing the self be labeled a “hate agent” for publishing the truth. Reported ideology of an ethnostate’ for a post in which he calls out an Bokhari on June 13: actual advocate of an ethnostate.” In May, Facebook banned Alex Jones and his Infowars empire, Facebook monitors the offline behavior of its users to de- the flamboyant homosexual provocateur Milos Yiannapoulos, termine if they should be categorized as a “Hate Agent,” and Nation of Islam crackpot Louis Farrakhan.

Climate Hysterics: “We Owe Al Gore an Apology”

A June 8 story published by NPR had the audacity to claim in its Gore claimed that we had only 10 years to save the planet. Gore headline that “We all owe Al Gore an apology.” The story goes on claimed that summers in the Arctic would be ice-free by the year to explain the plight of residents along the Mississippi River and 2014. In 2006, Gore also warned us that sea levels were likely to how their crisis has changed opinions vis-à-vis climate change. rise by as much as 20 feet in the near future. At the current rate, The 2019 flood season along the Mississippi River has been a we’ll reach Gore’s 20 feet in approximately 2,000 years. horrific one, no doubt. But the Mississippi River has a long his- Where’s our apology, Mr. Gore? You’ve enriched yourself tory of flooding, going back to the 16th century in man’s record- over the past two decades by selling fear and scamming the ing. And floods — big and small — undoubtedly occurred prior public, even though every major prediction you’ve made has to man’s record keeping. come up empty. n This is not to say we should not have compassion and send prayers and other assistance to those affected, but residents who live in flood plains aren’t stupid. They understand that such di- sasters can happen. They’ve happened before and will happen again. That’s the nature of weather; it changes from year to year. But in 2019, any weather abnormality is treated as an automatic affirmation that man-made climate change is real and is happening right before our eyes. Are the climate hysterics right? Do we really owe Al Gore an apology? The answer is no. The former vice-president has made over $300 million peddling junk science as indisputable fact. The real question is whether Al Gore owes us an apology. Through the years, Gore has warned us of several environ- mental catastrophes that simply didn’t come to pass. In 2006, AP Images

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Pelosi Wants Jail for Trump, Not Impeachment She Knows Will Fail “I don’t want to see him impeached. I want to see him in prison.” Most Democrats don’t understand the reason why Nancy Pelosi has adopted such an attitude. The reason stems from her awareness that an impeachment of Donald Trump would not result in a Senate conviction and removal of the president. And it would make him a martyr and help him win reelection in 2020. So to quiet the restless Democrats who want impeachment and removal, she offers a different condemnation. Nancy Pelosi Teacher Fired After Asking Trump to Deal With Illegal Students “Anything you can do to remove the illegals from Fort Worth would be greatly appreciated. The school system has been taken over by undocumented students from Mexico.” A 20-year veteran English teacher sent several tweets to President Trump, thinking that her messages were protected as private messages. They weren’t and, after the local school board examined what she had stated, English teacher Georgia Clark found herself dismissed for sending “racially intolerant and/or insensitive” messages.

Headline-grabbing New York Congresswoman Wants More Pay “I see members all the time; I see the financial pressure they’re under because this job is unique. Members of Congress, retail workers — everybody — should get a cost of living increase to accommodate for the changes in our economy.” Rank-and-file members of Congress have been paid $174,000 an- nually for the past 10 years with no cost-of-living increases. Repre- sentative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) doesn’t seem to understand that the federal deficit spending/borrowing she applauds leads to the dollar losing value and is the cause of her apparent Alexandria monetary woe. Her Boston University degree in economics obvious- Ocasio-Cortez ly didn’t include the truth about inflation, an elementary economic lesson regularly ignored.

Hundreds of Thousands in Hong Kong Protest in Vain “The major problem is that Xi Jinping holds power in China, and he is a strongman. Most people know this reality but they have come out to show the world that this legislation is not the will of the Hong Kong public.” The Chinese Communist government led by Xi Jinping has announced a new policy to deal with anti- Beijing demonstrators. They will be extradited and disciplined, not in Hong Kong itself, but in Mainland China, where any demonstrations against Beijing’s control will be met with a severe response. Lecturer Ivan Choy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong fears for the future of the former British colony.

Is a Possible Tariff on Mexican Goods Inconsequential? “Who cares about the price of an avocado when we’re having to pay for the illegals seeking asylum?” A small-business owner in Chandler, Arizona, Dodie Bell makes an excellent point about the immigration crisis and a possible tariff to deal with it.

Germany’s Chancellor Favors Globalism “Tear down walls of ignorance and narrow-mindedness. Changes for the better are possible if we tackle them together…. Take joint action in the interests of the multinational, global world.” In her May 30 commencement speech at Harvard University, German Chancellor Angela Merkel saw fit to express support for the type of globalism she has long favored. n Angela Merkel — Compiled by John F. McManus Arno Mikkor

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IMMIGRANT INVASION Illegal immigrants have overwhelmed the capacities of the Border Patrol. And they keep coming, bringing diseases, crime, and high costs with them.

by R. Cort Kirkwood done little, promises notwithstanding, to stop the invasion, does the border mean anything? That is, does a real nation with a sense of its etter late than never. Finally, President Trump woke up history and purpose permit an invasion force the size of a midsize the Mexicans and said they better stop the mass migration American city to cross its frontier illegally every two months? Bof illegal aliens from Central America. In early June, he In his 1973 dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints, French threatened tariffs of five percent, and increasing to 25 percent, if author Jean Raspail imagined the Third World’s demographic the siege continued. Mexico quickly promised, as the Washington conquest of Europe in nearly the fashion it is occurring. Now, Post called it, an “unprecedented crackdown.” the conquerors are coming here. What that will mean in practice is anyone’s guess, but at least Trump made his point. He won’t let illegal aliens erase the bor- The Raw Numbers ders of the United States. and Why They Come And erasing it they have been. Some 670,000 illegals crossed Calling the number of illegals who have crossed the border since the border between October, the beginning of fiscal 2019, and May. October “terrifying” is something of an understatement. In May, That terrifying number, fast approaching 700,000, invites some the number was 144,278. In April, they numbered 109,144, and obvious practical questions, such as how many murderers or tuber- in March 103,719. culosis cases crossed the border, and where the government is hous- So in three months, 357,031 crossed — more than the previous ing and feeding the horde. But more abstractly, it invites another. five months combined. Total for fiscal 2019? 676,315. To put the Given that hard-left Democrats and Deep State globalists want to numbers in perspective, in March, April, and May combined, a keep the border open to permit the entry of future voters who could city about the size of Santa Ana, California, crossed the southwest permanently alter the country politically, and given that Trump has border and settled in the United States. Going back to October,

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a city the size of Baltimore, Maryland, Northern Triangle countries has primarily Nor were the numbers different for packed up and moved here. been driven by economic motivations,” the those whom U.S. authorities turned away. Almost all the “migrants,” officials say, report said, and “the primary motivations of In 2016, 91 percent of 1,625 Guatemalans are from the Northern Triangle of Guate- juvenile migrants from 2011 to the present came for economic reasons. In 2017, the mala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and al- are economic opportunities and reunifica- number was 95 percent of 723. most all cross the border for one reason: tion with family that migrated previously.” For Honduras, it was 96 percent both to improve their lives. They are not, as The authors interviewed illegals and years for totals of 837 and 341 migrants. the open-borders Left says, “fleeing vio- tabulated answers to conclude they mi- And 97 percent of 2,016 Salvadoran mi- lence.” Nor do they “fear persecution.” grate for jobs and money. The numbers grants in 2016 claimed economic reasons In January, the Trump administration re- break down as follows: for leaving home. In 2017, it was 73 per- ported that 90 percent of asylum claims In 2016 and 2017, nearly 100 percent of cent of 798 migrants. are phony, and as The New American has the Guatemalan migrants whom Mexico Nor have migrants been shy about ad- reported repeatedly on its website, illegals deported told the researchers they headed mitting the truth to mainstream media re- admit the truth not only to researchers but north for economic reasons. Of 871 inter- porters. “I got no choice,” a Guatemalan also to reporters. viewed in 2016, just three cited violence told Fox News. “I got to work for a liv- A report in September 2018 from the In- as the reason for coming to the United ing.” Another Guatemalan told the Associ- stitute for Defense Analysis and National States. In 2017, none did. ated Press, “We only want to work and if a Center for Risk and Economic Analysis For Hondurans in those two years, the job turns up in Mexico, I would do it. We of Terrorism Events at the University of numbers were similar: 98 percent of 1,435 would do anything.” Southern California showed that illegals surveyed and 97 percent of 403 surveyed. “It’s time for me to go back to the Unit- are not running from violence or persecu- In 2016, for El Salvador, 98 percent of the ed States,” a Guatemalan told the Wash- tion. Rather, they want a new life in the 2,588 migrants cited economic reasons for ington Post. “It’s a country where I can United States. “Long-term illegal migra- leaving home. In 2017, it was 74 percent live my life, unlike Guatemala.” tion to the United States of adults from of 642 migrants. “That’s just how it is,” a six-time Hon- duran deportee told the Post. “They catch you and you try to get back.” Said a three- Does a real nation with a sense of its history and purpose time deportee, “We are workers. What are we supposed to do in Honduras if there’s permit an invasion force the size of a midsize American no work?” city to cross its frontier illegally every two months? These facts comport with what the Trump administration reported in Janu- ary. “Over the last five years we have seen a 2,000% increase in asylum claims, yet 72% of migrants report making the journey for economic reasons and therefore would not typically qualify for asylum.” Thus, “only 1 in 10 asylum claims [is] granted for persons from Northern Triangle countries.” Turning that figure around means, again, that at least 90 percent of asylum claims are bogus. If true, then 608,683 did not cross the border out of fear of living in the Northern Triangle, but instead because they want a job, free medical care, and a free Ameri- can education for their children. Children, of course, provide the illegals their pass into the country, officials say. The illegals know that arriving as a “family unit” means immigration authorities will release them into the country. That provides the incentive to lie about not just seeking asylum, but also being part of a family. Illegals carry false birth cer-

AP Images tificates and other forms of identification, How is this not an invasion? About 676,315 illegal aliens have crossed the border since October and smugglers, Customs and Border Pro- 1, the beginning of fiscal 2019; 144,278 crossed in May alone, more than 4,500 per day. tection (CBP) has reported, are “renting”

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Guarding against — disease: Border agents are serving as part-time nurses and children to send across the border with ties across the southwest, Breitbart.com spend a significant amount of time dealing adults who are not their parents. And those reported in May. with sick illegals. children, border officials report, might be During an eight-day stretch in mid May, recycled, i.e., sent back across the border Breitbart reported, the Department of only to return with another “family.” Homeland Security dumped 9,000 illegals release that Trump vowed to end, was “It’s well-known at this time that adults into unsuspecting American cities, which Florida. The plan called for sending 1,000 with children will not be detained during “indicates that at least 1,100 border crossers a month. Vociferous local opposition put the immigration proceedings for illegal and illegal aliens have been released into the kibosh on the plan. entry,” said CBP operations chief Brian the country every day in the past week.” Hastings in March. “The word of mouth Often, federal immigration authorities Sick and Diseased and social media quickly gets back to those are “busing border crossers into nearby bor- Floridians, including open-borders GOP in the Northern Triangle countries, that if der cities and dropping them off with the Senator Marco Rubio, who also opposed you bring a child you’ll be successful.” hope that they show up for their immigra- the plan, knew what was coming: diseased Speaking to Maria Bartiromo of CNBC tion and asylum hearings. The overwhelm- and criminal aliens. in April, Aaron Hull, chief of the El Paso ing majority of border crossers and illegal That thousands of the illegals are sick, or Sector of the border, said likewise. “Those aliens are never deported from the country carry contagious diseases that could spread people realize that as long as they’re being once they are released into the U.S.” like the plague either in federal holding fa- apprehended by us, they are still likely to Breitbart reported that most of that cilities, or, say, public schools, is beyond be released on their own recognizance,” 9,000-strong horde — about 5,000 — was dispute. When 6,000 illegal aliens landed Hull told Bartiromo. “That’s because the dumped on El Paso, while 1,900 went to in Tijuana in November in one of the first country, the U.S. government as a whole, San Antonio, 1,600 to Phoenix, and 500 major caravans to hit the border, Fox News does not have the detention and removal to San Diego. reported, Mexican officials found that more capability to hold them in custody until “Since December 21, 2018, the Trump than a third, 2,267, were sick. their immigration hearing.” administration has released 177,600 border Officials confirmed multiple cases of In other words, they want to be caught. crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of tuberculosis, four cases of AIDS, and the U.S. — the majority have been dropped chicken pox. Dumping Them off in San Antonio, where 69,200 have been They also carried “skin infections,” But “releasing” them doesn’t just mean released, and El Paso, where 61,500 have likely due to lice, and Chagas disease. Lice letting them out the front door of the bor- been released,” Breitbart reported. is the vector for typhus but is relatively der station. Immigration authorities have Among the planned targets of the dump- rare. That isn’t true of Chagas, a parasitic dumped 200,000 illegals into communi- ing operation, a continuation of catch and disease spread by the ubiquitous “kissing”

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 13 IMMIGRATION bug. Six million to seven million people because the bacterium is resistant to the assault.” He landed a six-year prison sen- in Mexico, Central America, and South two most powerful drugs used to treat it. tence, CBP reported, after which immigra- America have it, the World Health Organ American taxpayers, of course, foot the tion authorities sent him back to Mexico. ization says. bill to treat these illegals. But they might But Gonzalez-Munoz wouldn’t stay in In February, public health authorities in just pay a stiffer price: Contracting one of Mexico, and so border agents caught him Houston reported that seven illegals crossed the diseases and, perhaps, dying from it. again in May, as they did numerous other the border with mumps, and at least two il- previously deported child molesters, re- legal aliens have died with the flu, one of The Crime ports from CBP show. whom spread it to the illegals in the holding Yet another peril attendant to the dumping Welcome as that news is, the staggering facility, CBP reported. is the inundating of American communi- numbers crossing the border — more than The time border agents waste caring ties not just with diseased illegals but with 3,000 daily at this writing — suggest that for sick and diseased vagrants — 25 to 40 dangerous rapists, murderers, and garden- the Border Patrol cannot possibly catch percent of CBP manpower, Hastings said variety thugs. them all. Given that caring for the mas- in March — is only a secondary problem. The number of sex fiends, such as child sive hordes, which includes changing dia- Such is the influx of immigrants that im- molesters, caught at the border, and spe- pers and heating baby bottles, pulls border migration authorities can’t possibly eval- cific cases of catch and release fortified by agents away from their main duty to patrol uate the health of the people they spray state or local sanctuary laws, demonstrates the border, the likelihood is that multiple across the country. That means catch and that immigration anarchy and the failure child rapists have crossed and were never release, dumping hordes of illegals into of elected officials to end it not only en- caught, or border agents caught and re- cities across the fruited plain, is likely in- dangers the lives of Americans, but also leased them. Even worse, they might have fecting innocent Americans with danger- in some cases proves deadly. transported them to small-town America. ous pathogens. As TheNewAmerican.com has re- Once ensconced in an American city, Example: TB. Data from the National peatedly reported, Border Patrol agents sanctuary laws protect illegal-alien crimi- Center for Biotechnology Information regularly catch previously deported sex nals from deportation. Cities and counties published in 2017 show that 37,684 immi- criminals at the border. Consider the case that refuse to cooperate with ICE routinely grants with TB entered the United States of Simon Gonzalez-Munoz, a 44-year-old release dangerous criminals from jail so between 2005 and 2009. The most, 24.1 Mexican. In 2003, a court in Brownfield, they can’t be deported. percent, or 9,098, came from Mexico. Texas, convicted him of “indecency with Here is how sanctuary laws and poli- Another 1,154, or 3.1 percent, came from a child, sexual contact/aggravated sexual cies work in practice: In Charlotte, North Guatemala, while 853, or Carolina, the Charlotte Observer 2.3 percent, came from reported in late May, a previously Honduras, where the mi- deported 37-year-old Honduran grant invasion began. illegal, Luis Pineda-Ancheta, bar- But that’s TB generally. ricaded himself into a house after Of more concern are the police tried to serve him with do- multi-drug resistant (MDR) mestic violence warrants. But the cases that came in: 482. local sheriff, by refusing to honor Again, Mexico accounted detainers from ICE, made his crim- for most of those: 66 or 13.7 inality possible. percent, NCBI reported. “Barely a week earlier, he had Fourteen Guatemalans had been booked into jail on similar the disease, accounting for charges, allegedly against the same about 3 percent. None, ap- victim, and released on bond after parently, came from Hon- the detainer was issued,” the news- duras. MDR TB is a press- paper reported. ing concern, the Centers for The post-standoff charges Disease Control reports, against Pineda-Ancheta are shocking: “assault by strangulation, kid- napping, assault on a female, com- Homemade passports: Migrant municating threats and violation “family units” cross the border easily of a domestic violence protective and know they will be released to disappear into the country, border order, according to jail records.” officials say. Smugglers are renting But even more shocking was what happened after his arrest and children to illegals, as well. AP Images release before the standoff, the newspaper reported. A judge had issued a protective order on May 7

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to keep the Honduran thug away from his lem with catching and releasing illegals Where they’re going: Immigration authorities female victim. But “he was then arrested on the promise they will return for adjudi- have dumped nearly 70,000 illegals into San on May 15, when he was charged with as- cation of their case. Antonio, Texas. sault on a female, communicating threats, Border agents caught Escobar near felony larceny, simple assault and injury McAllen, Texas, and sent him to the Of- killing on a camera phone, according to to personal property, according to jail re- fice of Refugee Resettlement, which in charging documents.” cords. ICE placed a detainer on him the turn “released [him] to a family member Another victim of catch and release is following day, and he was released from in the Washington, D.C. area.” Sarah Root, whom President Trump dis- jail one day later, on May 17.” On May 11, 2018, before the murder of cussed while accepting the GOP nomina- He attacked the same woman on May Funes-Diaz, reported ICE, cops in Prince tion for president. Her killer, police allege, 21, thanks to the sheriff’s refusal to honor George’s arrested Fuentes-Ponce and is Honduran illegal Edwin Mejia, who the ICE detainer. Escobar for charges of “attempted first- jumped the border as an “unaccompanied The newspaper didn’t report that catch degree murder, attempted second-degree minor” in 2013 when he was 16 years old. and release helped Pineda-Ancheta get murder, participation in gang activity, Immigration authorities caught him where he was, and at least he didn’t mur- conspiracy to commit murder, attempted when he crossed the border, the Post re- der the woman. But that wasn’t the case robbery, and other related charges. ICE ported, but released him to his brother with two Salvadorans in Maryland who officers lodged a detainer with PGCDC, in Tennessee. The family moved to Ne- showed what happens when sanctuary however both were released on an un- braska, where Mejia, blood alcohol con- policy fortifies the danger of catch and known date and time without notification tent three times the legal limit at 0.241, release. to ICE.” smashed into Root at a stoplight. So fast In April, authorities in Prince George’s The Washington Post reported that was he driving his Chevy pickup, the Post County charged illegal aliens Josue Fuen- Escobar pleaded guilty to conspiracy reported, that he sent Root’s SUV “800 tes-Ponce, 16, and Joel Escobar, 17, with to commit robbery and received a 308- feet along the road, crushing it so badly the murder of 14-year-old Ariana Funes- day sentence that included time served. that the rear and front of the car had be- Diaz in April, a crime that inspired ICE to The newspaper could not detail Fuentes- come fused.” The crash snapped her spinal divulge that the county ignored a detainer. Ponce’s charges because his case went cord and fractured her skull in two places. ICE detailed how the pair entered the through the juvenile court. A judge unwisely freed Mejia on bond. country, and stayed with the help and per- Regardless, the sanctuary county ig- Of course, he disappeared. mission of the U.S. government. nored the ICE detainer and freed them. Fuentes-Ponce crossed the border il- Here was the result: “Prosecutors contend Leftist Lawfare, Globalist Plans legally in Texas three years ago “as part Funes-Diaz was taken on April 18 to a Such judges are, indeed, a corollary peril of a family unit.” Immigration authorities tunnel under an overpass by a creek,” the to Americans. The federal judiciary has freed that “family,” although an immigra- Post reported, “where Escobar attacked become a kritarchy that rules by ideo- tion judge ordered Fuentes removed in her with a wooden bat and Fuentes-Ponce logical fiat. With immigration, it aids and March 2017. Of course, Fuentes-Ponce with a machete, while another person abets the illegal-alien anarchy at the bor- never left, which highlights another prob- — who is being sought — captured the der. One example is the leftist judge in

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Suffering family: An illegal-alien beneficiary of catch and release killed Sarah Root, whom President Trump discussed in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in 2016.

that government must expand to “solve” them with, of course, “programs that the globalists have set up.” In other words, the mass migration those elites are forcing the American people to accept is turning the American political order on its head. Behind the facade of hu- manitarian assistance, the elites are creating a new people who will help them integrate the United States into a New World Order, which the elites will manage and manipulate to their own benefit in this country by AP Images appealing to that new people’s collectiv- ist instincts with expanded social welfare “programs” and police-state laws the new people traditionally support. New statutes Massachusetts who helped an illegal alien courts sided with Obama. When Trump will expand hate speech, hate crime, and escape from her courthouse as ICE waited tightened the rules governing asylum ap- gun-control violations and the corollary to take him into custody. plication to clamp down on fraud, and then penalties. But more fundamentally, with Another, however, is Haywood Gilliam, ordered the use of discretionary funds to the support of its new people, the elites will Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the North- build a border wall, leftist, open-borders push for even more radical political change, ern District of California, the kritarch who subversives sued to stop him. The courts such as eliminating the Electoral College ruled in May that the administration cannot ruled for the radical Left. and passing more “civil rights” laws to use military construction and other funds it In other words, the Constitution means concentrate even more power in the federal claimed are discretionary to build a wall. what the Left says it means, which in turn bureaucracy, give even more power to the The crux of the judge’s ruling is that the suggests that it has no meaning at all. radical Left, and finally, dispossess Ameri- president attempted expenditures for which So Trump faces a decision with respect cans of the country they inherited. Congress did not appropriate money, which to court orders that usurp his authority, i.e., Such was the plan when Trump stepped would trespass the separation of powers. to declare the courts themselves unconsti- into the breach. Such is the plan now, “Congress’s ‘absolute’ control over fed- tutional. Trump can abide those rulings, if frustrated somewhat by Trump’s tar- eral expenditures — even when that control which will continue the invasion at the bor- iff threat and Mexico’s capitulation and may frustrate the desires of the Executive der until several million Latin Americans agreement to stop the migrant hordes Branch regarding initiatives it views as im- have colonized the American Southwest from tramping north. But Mexico isn’t portant — is not a bug in our constitutional and infested the heartland. Or, because the responsible for U.S. border security. Con- system,” he wrote. “It is a feature of that executive is a co-equal branch of the feder- gress and the president are. Three simple if system, and an essential one.” al government, he can ignore those rulings difficult-to-pass measures would not only What the judge wrote is, of course, axi- and assert the authority federal law confers discourage illegals but also cause them omatic as a constitutional matter. Ques- upon the president to control immigration, to self-deport. The first should be ending tion is, did he apply that axiom correctly i.e., who gets into the country. access to public benefits for noncitizens. in Trump’s case. If not, Trump must de- American sovereignty is at stake, yet Second, stiffen penalties for businesses cide what to do vis-à-vis activist judges the Left aids the illegal immigrants. that employ illegals. Third, and perhaps who, at the behest of leftists waging law- Those organizing, aiding, and abetting most importantly, the birthright citizen- fare, are usurping his legal and constitu- the illegal immigration are, as Bill Hahn ship interpretation of the 14th Amendment tional obligations to enforce the country’s of The John Birch Society said in a recent must go. That is, “anchor babies,” the chil- immigration laws, particularly given that video, Deep State globalists who hope dren born to illegals who cross the border, judges defended that prerogative when mass migration into the United States will should not receive automatic citizenship. the president was Barack Obama. overwhelm its states and localities. Global- All that said, what Trump does now, When Arizona passed a law to permit ist elites know that migration “on such a using his presidential powers to control police to question the immigration status scale ... not only changes society, but it also the borders and stop illegal-alien invasion, of those they lawfully stop, the Obama changes government.” The immigration in- might well determine whether the United administration sued to block the law. The vasion will “create problems big enough” States as we know it survives. n

16 THE NEW AMERICAN • JULY 8, 2019 POLITICS SAVE BABIES AND ABORT JUDICIAL SUPREMACY

With U.S. judges usurping the power to make or revoke laws — and Congress sitting idly by — it’s time to nullify extra-constitutional judicial supremacy.

and Kentucky, which have enacted measures banning prenatal infanticide once a heartbeat is detected (six to eight weeks of development); Alabama has gone even further, prohibiting prenatal infanticide at all stages unless the mother’s life is threatened. The court battles are now heating up, too, with leftist judges proving reliable allies for the culture of death. In May, Judge Carlton Reeves of the Federal District Court in Jackson, Missis- sippi, an Obama appointee, temporarily blocked his state’s law. It “‘threatens immediate harm to women’s rights’ and ‘prevents a woman’s free choice, which is central to personal dignity and au- AP Images tonomy,’ Judge Reeves wrote in his ruling,” the New York Times The tell-tale heart: Some states are passing “heartbeat” bills, related. “‘This injury outweighs any interest the state might have banning abortion after a heartbeat can be detected. They’re such tough in banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.’” Re- measures to argue against rationally that the New York Times’ Alan ally? One may wonder about the actual “injury” suffered by the Blinder put on the blinders — making up an Orwellian term. He called babies never given a choice and robbed of all their tomorrows. the phenomenon “embryonic pulsing.” Worse still, Kentucky’s prenatal-infanticide law was struck down completely. U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley, Jr., a by Selwyn Duke Bill Clinton appointee, “ruled that the 2018 law would create a ‘substantial obstacle’ to a woman’s right to an abortion, violat- bortion is a rare contentious issue where it appears our ing constitutionally protected privacy rights,” the Los Angeles nation has moved “right,” rather than leftward, in the Times reported May 10. Louisiana’s and Georgia’s pro-life laws Alast 30 years. This is evidenced by the many states that are headed to court, too. And rest assured that they’ll surely be have recently enacted abortion restrictions — which would more shopped around to a sympathetic judge — who’ll very likely be accurately be called prenatal infanticide restrictions — such as an Obama or Clinton appointee. “heartbeat” bills. This pro-life shift is good news. Yet federal As for pro-lifers, they’re hoping the Supreme Court will hear judges, overstepping their bounds, are wont to strike down pro- one of these cases and then overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 life laws and have recently done so. Given this, and that Congress SCOTUS opinion stating that recourse to prenatal infanticide is refuses to tame the courts, is it time for states to simply ignore a right. But is this a sure thing? What if the SCOTUS doesn’t unconstitutional judicial rulings and enforce their duly enacted overturn Roe? Moreover, even if the court does, what of all the laws, a phenomenon known as “nullification”? babies who’ll be killed in the meantime? Of course, Congress The prenatal-infanticide battle certainly is heating up. On one could conceivably rein in the judiciary, but we shouldn’t hold our side there are states such as Illinois and New York, the latter of breath waiting for that. which’s euphemistically named Reproductive Health Act became But all is not lost. The states passing the pro-life laws can also law earlier this year and allows prenatal infanticide up to birth for do something, immediately, about Roe and usurpative judges. any reason whatsoever. (Meanwhile, Empire State lawmakers re- They can and should refuse to abide by Roe — and other uncon- cently passed a ban on cat declawing, with bill advocates calling stitutional rulings — within their own state borders. the procedure “cruel and barbaric … convenience surgery.”) On This is justifiable because Roe borders on insanity. Does anyone the other side are states such as Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, really believe the 14th Amendment’s framers mean to enshrine pre-

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natal infanticide as a “right”? In fact, they is just a small sampling, too. For it seems California’s Proposition 8, which defined weren’t even thinking about it. Moreover, that virtually everything ends up in court marriage as the union between a man the Constitution gives the federal govern- now, with judges’ decisions masquerading and woman, was overturned in 2010 ment no warrant to dictate state actions as “law,” to the point where we may ask: by federal judge Vaughn Walker, who regarding the matter. The notion that the Has legislation just become formality? It’s happens to be a homosexual. The decision federal judiciary can tell states what to do almost as if we could just cut out the mid- was apparently guided more by passion than constitutionalism, but state officials about abortion is an invention of activist dlemen, Congress and the president, and nonetheless abided by it. judges themselves. Moreover, nullifying go straight to our judicial oligarchy to learn federal judicial overreach is a no-brainer what will be “permitted.” because Roe-like activism is not the excep- This might be fine were judges inerrant chy.” It would, he’d stated the year before, tion but the rule, from a judicial branch that oracles delivering age-old wisdom. But as make the Constitution a “felo de se” — an long ago squandered its credibility. Thomas Jefferson observed in 1820, “Our act of suicide. “For intending to establish Just consider, for example, how a judge judges are as honest as other men, and not three departments, co-ordinate and inde- recently blocked construction of part of our more so. They have, with others, the same pendent, that they might check and bal- border wall. There was the Obergefell v. passions for party, for power, and the privi- ance one another, it has given, according Hodges faux (same-sex) marriage decision leges of their corps.” Thus, does it make to this [judicial supremacy] opinion, to in 2015, which, as the late Justice Antonin sense that people should vote directly on one of them alone, the right to prescribe Scalia noted, lacks “even a thin veneer of a proposition — or that a law should be rules for the government of the others, and law.” Judges also stayed President Trump’s passed by Congress and signed by the pres- to that one too, which is unelected by, and bans on immigration from certain terrorism- ident, who represent perhaps hundreds of independent of the nation,” he continued. spawning nations, in violation of a ’50s-era millions of Americans — and then be nixed “The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a law (which the courts did not even rule by one unelected, gavel-wielding lawyer? Is mere thing of wax in the hands of the ju- unconstitutional) giving the president such this what the Founders intended? diciary, which they may twist, and shape power. Longer ago, judges overturned Cali- Jefferson certainly didn’t think so. into any form they please.” fornia’s Proposition 8, the 2008 measure de- He warned in 1820 that “to consider the We’ve been judicially twisted and fining marriage as what it is, one man and judges as the ultimate arbiters of all con- shaped for ages now. But there is that solu- one woman; and the Golden State’s Propo- stitutional questions” is “a very danger- tion, nullification, which Jefferson called sition 187, the 1994 measure denying illegal ous doctrine indeed and one which would in the Kentucky Resolution of 1799 the aliens non-emergency public services. This place us under the despotism of an Oligar- “rightful remedy” for any and all uncon-

Has legislation just become formality? It’s almost as if we could just cut out the middlemen, Congress and the president, and go straight to our judicial oligarchy to learn what will be “permitted.”

18 THE NEW AMERICAN • JULY 8, 2019 stitutional federal acts, and many of the Supreme Court and the appellate jurisdic- dence’ to destroy every facet of the Consti- usurpative judges are of the federal beast. tion of the latter, thus stopping the lower tution based on liberal precedent.” But nullification should be applied to all courts, for instance, from ruling on abor- 3. Lower courts “are even worse,” and unconstitutional judicial opinions. And tion cases altogether. Congress can also since SCOTUS only considers a fraction what of judicial supremacy? impeach judges and even eliminate any of their opinions every year, relatively Consider: The legislative branch’s and every federal court except the SCO- little of their adventurism gets righted. power to make law is granted by the Con- TUS. Why isn’t this done? 4. “The next president [Trump] will not stitution. The executive branch’s power Cowardice and ignorance. fundamentally alter the balance in lower to enforce law is granted by the Consti- Congress would have to take firm stands courts” because leftists dominate numeri- tution. And the judicial branch’s supreme on contentious issues (e.g., marriage) and cally and have lifetime appointments. “power” to strike down law and enjoin the perhaps suffer electoral consequences. It’s Note: “These judges are not only redefin- other two branches is granted by... what? easier for politicians to just puff up their ing civilization, thereby rendering election It’s not in the Constitution. Rather, this chests, complain of judicial overreach, results moot, but are also preventing us extra-constitutional judicial supremacy was then throw up their hands and say, “The from winning elections in the first place declared by the courts themselves, most no- courts have ruled — there’s nothing we by perpetuating voter fraud.” tably in the Marbury v. Madison decision can do!” Few today understand the Con- 5. The Left need find only one sympa- (1803). That’s right: The courts gave the stitution, so who will argue? thetic judge, from their pool of activist ju- courts the courts’ trump-card power. rists, to scuttle any traditionalist measure. It’s a great con if you can pull it off, The Futility of 6. “Unlike our judges who uphold even which the courts have done because the Trying to Restore the Courts post-constitutional precedent, the Left’s other two branches, with rare exception, While Republicans emphasize appointing judges have no qualms about overturn- have abided by it ever since. conservative judges, sometime between ing 200 years of settled case law and the And Congress’ inaction is especially the 1960s and today the courts were “in- plain meaning of the Constitution [e.g., damnable. It does have the power under deed lost forever.” That’s the claim writer Obergefell].” the Constitution’s Article III to limit the Daniel Horowitz made in his 2016 piece 7. We can’t “balance bad judges” be- jurisdiction of federal courts below the “12 reasons why the federal judiciary is cause true “originalists won’t manipulate irremediably broken.” Here’s a summary the system to get the desired political re- Killing us, or it: Thomas Jefferson warned of his points (all quotations his): sult.… Thus, liberal judicial activism is a 200 years ago that judicial supremacy “would 1. There is a “permanent imbalance on cancer that can only be cured with whole- place us under the despotism of an Oligarchy.” Explaining that it would allow judges to “twist” the courts.” The legal profession’s nature sale surgery, not chemotherapy.” the Constitution, he lamented that it made the ensures that “every Democrat appointee is 8. “Rigged rules of standing” — for document an “act of suicide.” His predictions a rabid post-constitutionalist,” and rough- “every one at-bat we have at the courts to have come to pass, but we don’t have to ly half (at least) of “the GOP appointees strike down bad laws in blue states, the continue committing suicide — we can kill are not originalists.” other side gets 50 at bats against our laws judicial supremacy. 2. “There is enough existing ‘jurispru- in red states.… To use a[nother] sports analogy, they have a perpetual first-and- goal at our one-yard line with as many tries as they want. Coupled with one- directional stare decisis [enshrinement of precedent], we have to win every case while they only have to win once to ce- ment an enduring victory.” 9. Senate politics, with the GOP agree- ing to nominate compromise candidates — along with few judges willing to overturn “corrosive” precedent to begin with — ensure a majority of non-originalists. 10. When conservatives “win in the courts, they are narrow victories. When the other side wins, they are sweeping social transformations across the board.” 11. Horowitz’s point 11 is that the “Supreme Court is not equally divided,” contrary to myth. While he didn’t foresee Trump’s victory and a GOP opportunity to replace two SCOTUS justices, those picks just buttress his thesis. Will Neil Gorsuch www.TheNewAmerican.com 19 POLITICS and Brett Kavanaugh buck “pragmatism”- today are relativists, believing, for ex- ecuted, then they’ve arrogated to born precedent and restore constitutional ample, that what we call right and wrong themselves the executive power integrity? Don’t bet on it. changes from time to time and place to as well. Note here that James 12. Horowitz’s last point appears to be place. So, question: Would you expect Madison, “Father of the Consti- a call to inspire Congress to tame the judi- that upon receiving a judicial appoint- tution,” characterized having the ciary; this won’t work owing to cowardice ment, a relativist would suddenly become executive, legislative, and judicial and ignorance, as explained earlier. an absolutist regarding the Constitution? powers all in one entity’s hands as Horowitz concludes with an apropos Would you fancy that a judge believing the very definition of tyranny. Put 1996 quotation from the late, great Judge “principle” is mere preference would be simply, judges are corrupt par- Robert Bork. “Republican Presidents have principled when executing his duties? If tially because they’re wielding used the nomination process in an effort someone thinks even “morality” is nego- something akin to absolute power. to change the direction of the Court with tiable and can be lawyered, why would he If all this sounds negative almost zero results on the major issues,” suppose constitutional law couldn’t be? enough to make you run for the Bork lamented. “After twelve years of Another factor in judges’ overreach was hills or the Prozac, know that not Presidents Reagan and Bush, each of explained by British historian Lord Acton: only is it true, it drives home the whom made a determined effort to appoint “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power point: At this juncture, nullifica- Justices who would abide by the Constitu- corrupts absolutely.” Now, consider: As Dr. tion is a necessary recourse — tion as originally understood, we seem far- Alan Keyes, a former Reagan-era ambassa- and our only one. ther than ever from a restrained Court.… A dor, explained in a 2005 G. Gordon Liddy By the by, we’d only be tak- majority of the Justices has become more Show episode, judges have, of course, their ing a leaf from the Left’s book, arrogantly authoritarian than ever.” judicial power. Yet if they can strike down anyway. After all, what are I’ll now make a brief philosophical laws against the legislature’s will, they’ve “sanctuary cities”? They’re point. What’s perhaps the deepest reason also arrogated to themselves the legisla- places where liberals decided our judges are so bad? Studies (and expe- tive power; if they can tell the chief execu- they’re simply going to resist federal im- rience) have shown that most Americans tive that an action must or mustn’t be ex- migration law. What’s happening when states (e.g., Colorado) and municipalities ignore federal drug laws? Nullification is We’d only be taking a leaf from the Left’s book, anyway. happening. After all, what do you think “sanctuary cities” are? Some may now wonder, “But, wait, if the president and Congress can just ignore They’re places where liberals decided they’re simply judges, what power do the courts actually going to resist federal immigration law. have?” In accordance with the judiciary’s intended status as “the weakest branch,” it’s the limited power of applying the law in individual cases. For example, let’s say the government brings Selwyn Duke up on charges, and the judge I come before says, “I consider the law here unconstitutional; Duke goes free.” I do walk, and the government can’t charge me again with the same crime because the Constitution forbids double jeopardy. But the law stays on the books and operative because, since only Congress can make law, only Con- gress can unmake law. Above and beyond this, the courts act as an “alarm bell,” as Alan Keyes put it on the phone with me about a year ago. They can be a warning system that says to public officials and the people, “Examine this or that law; we believe it’s unconstitutional.”

Imperial Congress? facebook The cure: Conservative Review senior editor Daniel Horowitz, calling the federal judiciary One concern I’ve heard with shedding “irremediably broken,” warns that “judicial activism is a cancer that can only be cured with extra-constitutional judicial supremacy is wholesale surgery, not chemotherapy.” But while he appears to advocate congressional action, there that it would allow Congress (and the presi- is another recourse: This is a cancer that U.S. states can just say “No!” to — via nullification. dent) to abuse power and institute insanity.

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Making good on their oaths: Presidents, governors, congressmen, and senators take an oath their oaths, too. As Daniel Horowitz to uphold the Constitution — not judges’ opinions. Thus do they not only have a right, but an complained, stare decisis — determining obligation, to ignore unconstitutional court decisions. Their failure to do so is a cowardly mistake points in litigation according to precedent of omission that enables judicial tyranny. — is now status quo. Insofar as these prec- edents are unconstitutional, and they often Yet isn’t this precisely what the courts have faced with not orders, but illegal (uncon- are, this means that judges are upholding been doing for decades? Are the most ridic- stitutional) opinions, issued by inferiors? not the Constitution but merely other ulous social innovations the work of legis- That is to say, presidents, governors, judges. So for how long will we continue latures, or courts? Moreover, while elected congressmen, and senators take an oath to upholding these judges, people whose pas- representatives can also err egregiously, the uphold the Constitution. They do not take sions are clearly “for party, for power, and difference is that the elected can also be an oath to uphold lawyers’ agenda-driven the privileges of their corps,” and God and rejected. In fact, for this reason the Con- judgments. In fact, Keyes points out that country be damned? stitution makes Congress supreme (inter- the “judicial review” concept itself is a de- Some may now ask, lastly, if congress- branch coequality is a myth), as reflected in ception. The proper idea is “constitutional men and judges don’t have the wisdom, how that body can impeach presidents and review,” and it “is equally the prerogative, guts, and integrity to rein in rogue courts, judges but itself is untouchable — except by or the responsibility, at a common-sense why would our nation’s chief executives the people. Note here that not only are there level, of all three branches,” he explained possess the wisdom, guts, and integrity to many congressmen, but House representa- in his 2005 interview. “What the lawyers effect nullification? The difference is that tives stand for biennial reelection, making have done — and it’s very cute — is they a legislative or judicial remedy requires a them more answerable to the electorate. have tried to act as if the judges get to obey majority of representatives or judges. Congressional supremacy reflects a govern- their oath, but when they tell the legisla- Nullification requires just one brave ment of, by, and for the people; judicial su- ture to break its oath, it must go ahead and governor willing to get the ball rolling. premacy reflects one of, by, and for judges. do it; or when they tell the executive to If such a person rises to that occasion, Then there’s the moral supremacy of break his oath, he must go ahead and do and eloquently and passionately defends oaths. It’s a principle that even a lowly it,” he continued. his position, the ice will be broken and army private not only has no obligation to This is just common sense: Taking an others may follow suit. It takes just one follow illegal orders, but a duty to disobey oath implies that you must perform the man, one intrepid leader, who’s willing them. In fact, as in the post-WWII Nurem- examination necessary (the “review”) to to make waves and history as he really berg trials, a soldier can be held account- ensure you’re following it. Thus, that ex- helps make America great again. Think able for not doing so. So here’s a question: ecutives and representatives take consti- about what he’d accomplish, too: He ac- If even a low-ranking soldier must disobey tutional oaths implies rejection of judicial tually could be more hated by the Left than illegal orders issued by superiors, isn’t the supremacy. Donald Trump, as he does God’s work and same burden on presidents and governors The kicker is that the judges break becomes a true hero for our time. n

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by Steve Byas which it is tried, the poison of socialism, n the prisons of Ven- if pushed to its logi- ezuela, the shortage cal conclusion, will I of food has become ultimately destroy the so acute that inmates economy and society have resorted to can- along with it. nibalism. Juan Carlos Such is the case with Herrera told reporters Venezuela. in 2016, “My son and Prior to the ravages two others were taken of socialism, Venezu- by 40 people, stabbed, ela was a prosperous hanged to bleed, and country that benefited then … butchered … from its vast oil re- to feed all detainees.” sources — resources The situation has only that are still abundant gotten worse over the yet have not saved past three years, as Venezuela from its malnourishment has recent economic col- also contributed to the lapse. outbreak of various dis- Venezuela opened eases. its first oil well in That is the situation 1914, harnessing the in the official prisons of energy source that the socialist dictatorship would drive much of of Venezuela. Condi- the world’s modern tions in the once-pros- economy for the next perous nation, poisoned century. According by the human-caused to Money magazine,

disease of socialism, AP Images Venezuela holds the have continued to de- world’s largest supply teriorate, with chronic of crude oil. Unlike shortages of food, medical care, and elec- plain the failure of its implementation in some other oil-rich countries, the govern- trical power. a country by saying either that it was not ment did not initially nationalize the oil Supporters of socialism typically ex- “done right,” or that it was sabotaged by industry, allowing for its development in its enemies, internal or external, or even private hands. Under Juan Vicente Gómez, Photo: Socialism has reduced many of the people both. But in the end, it is never done right in power from the 1910s to the 1930s, the in Venezuela to searching through garbage bags — it cannot be done right — because government was a strong supporter of pri- for food, as is the case with these residents of socialism is intrinsically poisonous. It vate property rights. Caracas, the capital city. Before socialism, Vene- goes against human nature, and despite In a 1996 Cato Institute policy analy- zuela was among the world’s greatest economies. cultural differences in various nations in sis, Roger Fontaine said, “Venezuela’s

22 THE NEW AMERICAN • JULY 8, 2019 unique natural resource base was devel- children have turned to prostitution to enrichment of the political class and its oped by foreign capital beginning in 1917 get food. cronies. when the first oil contracts were signed by The obvious question arises, “What Venezuela is no exception. American, British, and Dutch companies happened? How did a prosperous, eco- Venezuela did not convert from a free that assumed the risks, generated the jobs, nomically blessed nation come to such market economy to the hard socialism of and paid substantial taxes to the Venezu- dire ends?” today in one leap, but instead took several elan national treasury.” steps that weakened confidence in a free During World War II, the Allied Forces Where the Country Went Wrong economy, paving the way for public ac- drew the bulk of their oil supplies from Though a good answer would be long and ceptance of socialism. Venezuela. involved, the simple answer is that social- Before the 1950s, Venezuela enjoyed The tax rates were quite low, and ism took hold there. To be specific, the a relatively free economy, with a dictato- other than significant tariff rates, there government kept controlling more and rial political system. While this surprises were few restrictions on international more of the country’s economy — for the many, some authoritarians choose to leave trade. As would be expected, the econ- good of the people, of course — and its the economy largely alone, just so long as omy thrived. With large reserves of oil mismanagement of the economy led to the general population leaves them alone and largely free market policies, and devastation. to run the government. Such was the case with almost no controls on prices of According to the Oxford English Dic- with Vicente Gómez. Unfortunately, he goods, wages, or interest rates, Venezu- tionary, “socialism” is defined as “a politi- was followed by Marcos Pérez Jiménez, ela’s economy grew at a more rapid pace cal and economic theory of social organ who introduced crony capitalism (in which than any other nation in the world from ization which advocates that the means the government favors certain corporate 1930-1966. By 1950, Venezuela enjoyed of production, distribution, and exchange actors over small business, with certain the highest per-capita income in Latin should be owned or regulated by the com- America, and ranked fourth in per-capita munity as a whole.” Socialist writer Karl GDP in the world. Marx, who became known as the father of From strong to weak: Under Juan Vicente Today, however, starvation is a prob- communism, famously described the goal Gómez (left), in power from the 1910s to the lem across Venezuela, and many citizens as, “From each according to his abilities, 1930s, the Venezuelan government strongly have been reduced to eating garbage and to each according to his needs.” supported private property rights, and became the leading economic power in Latin America. stray cats and dogs. The New York Times Socialists everywhere claim to seek Then under Marcos Pérez Jiménez came recently reported that Venezuela “is con- the attainment of a government that crony capitalism, extensive public works vulsing from hunger.” Many desperate wisely directs the economy for the en- projects, and increased state involvement in parents are giving up their children to richment and overall good of all the major industries. Finally, Rómulo Betancourt, charities, neighbors, or others because people, but what socialism in practice a former communist, quickly placed price they simply cannot provide enough food always leads to is the impoverishment controls on parts of the economy and began to keep them alive. Some abandoned of the mass of the population, and the the creation of a large welfare state.

Marcos Pérez Jiménez

Juan Rómulo Vicente Gómez Betancourt

Today, however, starvation is a problem across Venezuela, and many citizens have been reduced to eating garbage and stray cats and dogs.

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subsidies not enjoyed by small business- democratic features were introduced into Price controls, while not es), extensive public works projects, and the country, Venezuela began a headlong considered socialistic by the increased state involvement in certain in- plunge into the socialist mire. As Rafael average consumer, establish dustries such as the steel industry. But the Acevedo and Louis Cirocco wrote in their the principle that it is a legiti- government did not create an extensive article “How Socialism Ruined Venezue- mate role of the government welfare state, and the price system was la,” which appeared in the pro-free market to intervene in the economy, largely left to function freely. magazine The Austrian, “In 1958, Venezu- and limit private property However, in 1950, the telephone com- ela became a democracy when the dicta- rights, and go hand in hand pany was nationalized, and several com- torship was overthrown. With that came with socialism. Inevitably, panies and banks became state-owned. all the usual benefits of democracy such these controls lead to short- Venezuela had begun its dalliance with as freedom of the press, universal suffrage, ages, as prices are held below socialism, which illustrates that nations, and other civil rights. Unfortunately, these the normal market level. This once they inject smaller doses of the reforms came along with continued de- causes an increase in demand poison of socialism into their economic struction of our economic freedom.” (as consumers naturally buy bloodstream, are tempted to socialize In 1958, the first president of Venezu- more at a lower price), a larger portions of the economy, with the ela elected under this system was Rómulo decrease in supply (as sell- inevitable consequences. Betancourt. Betancourt was a former com- ers naturally bring less of a The problem is that such “softer” forms munist, now styling himself as a social good to market at that lower of socialism are not widely regarded as democrat willing to bring about socialism price), and a resulting short- the cause of economic decline, but rather through a more gradual process. While he age. Unfortunately, a public largely igno- the decline is blamed on those parts of the originally intended to nationalize the oil rant of the workings of the laws of supply economy left free — which far too often industry, he eventually opted to just take and demand often then blames producers leads to more socialization, rather than less. half the profits of the foreign oil companies for shortages, instead of the government, Ironically, when elections and other that had built the Venezuelan oil industry. whose price controls created the problem. In 1960, he was a driving force behind the This causes a decline in confidence in a creation of the Oil-Producing Exporting free economy, and demagogic politicians Power hungry: A lieutenant-colonel in the Countries (OPEC), along with Kuwait, offer a “government solution,” which in- Venezuelan military, Hugo Chávez failed in two coup attempts before finally winning the Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. While the cludes, not surprisingly, the politicians as presidency at the ballot box in 1998. Once in purpose of OPEC was to keep the price the problem solvers. power, Chávez began to replace many of the of Venezuelan oil sold on world markets Betancourt crafted an extensive wel- main democratic institutions of the country, high, he began implementing some price fare state, largely based upon the profits and moved the nation deeper into hard controls in the domestic economy to keep from the booming oil industry, with “free” socialism. prices in that country artificially low. education, “cheap” gasoline (through subsidies), government-subsidized healthcare, and the expansion of many other public services. As such, Betancourt deval- ued the currency (the bolivar), instituted a land policy that encouraged squatting (which undermined the property rights of landowners), and crafted a constitution, creating “positive rights.” Whereas “negative rights” are either restrictions on government action, or requirements that government provide protection of individual freedoms and property — such as freedom of speech, due process of law, the right to own property, and the like — “positive rights” involve the government taking something from one group of people to give to another, including government-provided housing, health- AP Images

24 THE NEW AMERICAN • JULY 8, 2019 Socialist welfare net: Many children, such as this boy, are chronically malnourished. An estimated one-third of the children in socialist Venezuela are in this condition. Over two million desperate Venezuelans have left the country. AP Images

care, and education, provided by taking the socialism that warped the markets. ventionism took what was once a country wealth from more productive citizens. As Acevedo and Cirocco wrote, “Over bound to join the ranks of the First World Even with Venezuela’s oil income and time, the destruction of economic free- to a middle-tier developing country. increased tax rates, the revenue was not dom led to more and more impoverish- This steady decline eventually created enough to keep up with increased spend- ment and crisis.” an environment where a demagogue like ing on social programs. When Pérez attempted to phase out gas- Chávez would completely exploit for his Unfortunately, the next several presidents oline subsidies, which had kept prices arti- political gain.” of Venezuela, instead of restoring what was ficially low, he was confronted with angry A lieutenant-colonel in the army, lost under Betancourt, followed this same consumers who had become accustomed Chávez and other military officers had “soft socialism” path, and over time, this to such lower prices. Finally, in 1989, the previously attempted a coup d’etat with softer form of socialism, with price con- capital city of Caracas was gripped with his Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement trols and government control of “only” a protests that degenerated into riots and — 200, in February 1992, and another one few productive parts of the economy, pro- looting. Government reaction led to hun- in November, which landed him in prison. duced the poison that began to weaken the dreds of dead in the streets, and the end of After two years, he and his fellow rebels nation’s freedom and prosperity. the Pérez regime. were pardoned by then-President Rafael Like an alcoholic who thinks another The softer socialism employed in Vene- Caldera. Then, in 1998, Chávez won the drink will make him well, Venezuela had zuela from 1958-1998 ultimately failed, as presidency, vowing to fight crime and to begun its deterioration. Carlos Andrés it led to an anemic economy with negative replace the softer socialism with a more Pérez was the lone president during this economic growth. Venezuela was one of radical variety. time who made any effort at any free mar- only two nations in Latin America to ex- Gustavo Coronel described what hap- ket reforms, with feeble attempts at lift- perience negative economic growth dur- pened next in a report published by Cato ing some price controls. In the end, he ing this period. When Venezuela’s “golden Institute in 2006: “Although elected in did little in the way of free market reform goose” of oil suffered the low oil prices of democratic elections in 1999, Chávez and, therefore, did little to stop the nation’s the 1980s, the government could no longer went on to dismantle the main democratic creep toward a harder socialism. sustain the extensive welfare state it had institutions in the country, with the com- Pérez made modest spending cuts, in constructed. plicity of the majority of the members of an effort to reduce the nation’s growing The stage was now set for the rise of the existing Supreme Court of Justice. A deficits, but did not address the underly- a dictator with a populist message: Hugo Constituent Assembly, stacked with his ing problems of a flawed monetary policy Chávez. followers and given supra-constitutional (printing money to pay for government As José Niño wrote in Mises Wire powers, unconstitutionally dissolved Con- spending), burdensome regulations on two years ago, “Analysts like to point to gress and most other existing democratic struggling business owners, and crony rosier pictures of Pre-Chávez Venezuela, institutions during 1999 and replaced them capitalist policies. but what these ‘experts’ conveniently ig- with institutions staffed by people loyal Then, like now, however, the econom- nore is that the seeds of Venezuela’s de- to Chávez.” This eliminated all effective ic problems that beset the country were struction were sowed during those ‘glory checks and balances. blamed on the free market reforms, not years.’ Years of gradual economic inter- In short order, Chávez nationalized the

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 25 WORLD oil industry, along with 1,168 other for- food industry. He introduced constitutional healthcare, and the like. Maduro turned to eign and domestic companies, aligning “reforms” that would make Venezuela not printing money to keep the government Venezuela with Cuba and North Korea. much different from an outright communist going, increasing the money supply 10 Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute state. Venezuelans turned down this effort times. In 2010, one American dollar was wrote, “Perhaps more than any other Latin in a constitutional referendum, but Chávez worth about eight bolivars. The continu- American strongman in recent memory, continued his hard-core socialist policies, ation of inflation since then by Maduro Chávez was a ‘true believer’ when it came growing the government bureaucracy from has only increased the problem, to where to socialism, and he showed his ideologi- 800,000 employees in 1998 to more than now that same dollar is worth more than cal devotion with his war, not just on mul- three million by the time of his death in 8,000 bolivars. tinational corporations and other power- April 2013. During that same period, the When the wild inflation of the money ful corporate interests, but on everyone he number of government ministries tripled, supply led to a predictable rise in prices of considered to be ‘bourgeois.’” giving lots of Venezuelans great incentive goods in the country, Maduro placed heavy Many small-business owners were ar- to back socialist government policies. price controls on the economy, leading to rested and tried for a variety of “capitalist” Following Chávez’ death, power passed the predictable widespread shortages now crimes. to his protégé, Nicolás Maduro, who man- plaguing the country. By 2014, the Ven- In the early years of his rule, things were aged to win a controversial election one ezuelan central bank was reporting that not good. After three years of Chávez’ eco- month later. Instead of reversing the hard- 28 percent of goods were now simply un- nomic policies, discontent had grown to the socialist course plotted by Chávez, Madu- available. It is not known how much worse point to inspire thousands of the situation is now because the enraged Venezuelans to take government quit publishing such to the streets in protest, as information after that. the economy did not make While the government under much improvement. In 2002, Maduro has increased the mini- a massive protest resulted in mum wage, sometimes multiple 17 dead, with Chávez losing times in one year, workers have power for about three days. fallen further and further behind In 2003, a two-month strike as inflation has continued to re- failed to end his presidency. duce the value of their wages. But with the rise in oil prices, It is estimated that the average Chávez’ popularity rose, too. monthly wage in Venezuela (for Despite his heavy-handed those fortunate enough to have a crackdowns, Chávez at- job in a country with an unem- tained strong popularity, ployment rate of about 25 per- because the higher world cent) would only be equivalent to oil prices from 2003-2010 a little less than $100. A person enabled him to finance his making the “minimum” wage socialist schemes, buying off in the country makes enough to the population with welfare obtain about one cup of coffee a benefits for the poor, but as day, but little else. Nino explained, “Sooner or To make matters worse, later, unsustainable transfer AP Images Money reports, the growing hos- Metals for meals: Desperate Venezuelans search for copper, gold, systems are bound to col- tility of the Maduro regime to the and silver in the polluted waters of the Guari River in Caracas, hoping lapse.” The late British Prime to make a living since socialism has destroyed the nation’s economy. foreign businesses still remaining Minister Margaret Thatcher in the country has led to many of put it well, saying that social- the remaining foreign businesses, ism works well, until one runs out of other ro continued the government’s chokehold such as Pepsi and General Motors, leaving people’s money. control of the economy. After all, Maduro the country, taking jobs and foreign money For a few years, buoyed by strong oil studied under Fidel Castro, the brutal com- with them. prices, which financed his generous wel- munist dictator of Cuba, so it is no surprise Alberto Ramos, an economist who re- fare state, Chávez was able to survive all that he was a dedicated leftist. searches Latin America for Goldman Sachs, political challenges. In 2006, Chávez was When fracking in the United States led summarizes the problem: “The economy is chosen as president with 62 percent of the to an oil glut and a downfall in worldwide really chaotic. It’s totally collapsed.” vote. He boasted that the election was a oil prices, it cut off much of the money In their article in The Austrian, Acev- vote for socialism. with which the government had been buy- edo and Cirocco, native Venezuelans, ex- In 2007, Chávez confiscated and expro- ing the goodwill of voters via social-wel- plained why. “As Venezuelans, our poor priated even more private companies, aim- fare programs, such as artificially lower understanding of the importance of free- ing now to seize control of the media and the gasoline prices, free or cheap housing, dom and free markets has created our cur-

26 THE NEW AMERICAN • JULY 8, 2019 rent disaster. We Venezuelans Continuing failure: Following never really understood free- Chávez’ death in 2013, his hand- dom in its broader dimensions picked successor, Nicolás Maduro, because when we enjoyed high a disciple of Fidel Castro, continued levels of economic freedom, we all of the socialist policies that have destroyed the once-great allowed the destruction of politi- Venezuelan economy. cal and civil rights, and when we finally established a democracy, we allowed the destruction of that healthcare is a right? But economic freedom.” the only way that government But Venezuelans might be can provide any such entitle- starting to see the economic ment is by first taking wealth light, as they strive to survive from others. There is no such the economic destruction that thing as a free lunch, because has befallen their country. someone pays for it. The same Venezuela’s vaunted social- principle applies to other “free” ized healthcare system is dying stuff, such as “free cellphones.” along with its patients. The New Government subsidies tend York Times reports, “The eco- to drive up the price of a good nomic crisis in this country has or service, whether it be college exploded into a public health tuition, housing, or healthcare, emergency, claiming the lives of which causes those who are hav- untold numbers of Venezuelans.” ing to pay the higher prices to Many hospitals are even out insist that the government “do of soap and gloves, while cancer something” about the high pric- medicines often exist only on AP Images es. Eventually, it is the providers the black market. Between 2012 of goods and services in the free and 2015, the death rate for in- market who are seen as causing fants less than a month old in the “free” Democrat politicians currently running prices that are “too high,” which leads to public hospitals increased more than a for the 2020 presidential election, such calls for the government to simply take hundred times. as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, over that industry — “nationalization.” “On a recent day at the University Hos- favor some type of medical takeover by Despite the dire circumstances facing pital of Maracaibo, in Venezuela’s second- the U.S. government. their native country, Acevedo and Cirocco largest city,” reports the Wall Street Journal, And Americans are falling for the same expressed some “reason for hope,” saying “patients lay on bare beds in rooms with appeals to greed to get socialist plans that “a revolution in ideas can really bring dirty floors. There was no running water, passed as have worked in other countries, a new era to Venezuela.” Bluntly put, Ven- medicine, cleaning supplies or food.” such as Venezuela. In any economy, some ezuela must abandon socialism. Despite these horrendous conditions, of the population is going to be wealthier Nino expressed similar views. “To dictator Nicolás Maduro defends his so- than others. Either to gain votes, or to keep reach the end of the tunnel, Venezuela cialist medical system: “I doubt that any- the poorer segments of society satisfied so must completely abandon socialism, and where in the world, except in Cuba, there they won’t rebel against the elites, politi- embrace the capitalist path to prosperity.” exists a better health system than this one.” cians from Julius Caesar to Otto von Bis- Hopefully, Americans will never have marck to Bernie Sanders have campaigned to experience the current pain of Venezu- America on the Same Path on generous wealth redistribution schemes. elans, brought on by their adoption of so- A related question is more important here: Such wealth redistribution plans have cialism. To avoid such a calamity, Ameri- Have Americans learned from the examples long been practiced in Venezuela, as cans must educate our fellow citizens on of socialist failure provided by Venezuela, well, with public housing benefits and the benefits of, in the words of the slogan the Soviet Union, Cuba, Argentina, Greece, other such income transfer schemes. But of The John Birch Society (parent organi- Italy, North Korea, Vietnam, and more? of course, there is always another “free” zation of The New American), “less gov- Many Americans smugly presume that the benefit to be desired, and in Venezuela, ernment, more responsibility, and — with idiocy that produced the disaster in Venezu- the government even took wealth from God’s help — a better world.” ela could not happen here, but that is not so. some Venezuelans to provide for artifi- Otherwise, as prosperous and vibrant A recent Gallup poll found that 43 percent cially low bus fares. What tends to hap- as the American economy has been, adop- of Americans think socialism is good. pen, however, is that those on the receiv- tion of the socialist schemes of some of our In fact, Americans are adopting social- ing end of such benefits come to view it leading politicians could not only kill the ism on an astounding scale — even pro- all as an entitlement — a right. How often goose that laid the golden egg, it could strip viding “free” cellphones — and all of the have we heard those on the Left argue us of the freedoms we have long enjoyed. n www.TheNewAmerican.com 27

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party, unless he can now and then get good jobs by it.” This, I can safely say, has been the constant principle and DISEMPOWERING practice of every leading patriot, ever since I have been capable of observing THE publick transactions; the primum mo- PRESIDENT bile, the alpha and omega of all their actions: They all professed to have in U.S. presidents have acquired vast power, but they haven’t view only the publick good; yet every one shewed he only meant his own.” really taken power; it has been given to them by Congresses that don’t want to make decisions about war. These congressmen who hand over their authority to declare war don’t do so because they feel unqualified to make such exercise its exclusive constitutional au- a weighty decision or out of some sort of thority to declare war! search for a “multitude of counsellors” in In his latest book, War and the Rogue the consideration of whether to send citi- Presidency, author Ivan Eland calls out zens to their death in some foreign field. Congress for surrendering its war-making No, representatives and senators aren’t power to the president. “The expansion of jealous of their power, and they rarely executive power over the nation’s history stand up to a president keen on combat be- — especially since the dawn of the long cause they do not want to be on the record Cold War and seemingly perpetual war on as supporting the latest military operation terror — has been less caused by presiden- should said operation prove unpopular. tial usurpation and more a result of con- By avoiding voting on war — or its gressional abdication,” Eland explains in approximates — congressmen retain the War and the Rogue Presidency, published privilege of betting after the president’s by Independent Institute. cards have been shown. While Eland expertly identifies several In War and the Rogue Presidency, reasons for the legislative branch’s export Eland examines why a president would of its power of making war to the execu- want to possess a power considered by tive branch, he points to partisanship as most lawmakers to be potentially fatal to perhaps the most relevant reason for that their congressional careers. relinquishment. “However, as a result of Eland begins the chapter on war’s ex- the stark political polarization in the coun- pansion of the power of the president by try … the willingness of congressional or pointing out, “The executive branch now chamber majority leadership to push back accounts for 99 percent of US government against excessive executive action may employees.” With that in mind, it becomes Joe Wolverton II, J.D. very well depend on whether they share clearer why waging war seems to be an the same party affiliation as the president,” addiction suffered by all occupants of the War and the Rogue Presidency: Restor- Eland observes. Oval Office for well over 100 years. ing the Republic After Congressional No one who’s taken even peripheral no- “War is also the health of executive ag- Failure, by Ivan Eland, Oakland, Cali- tice of the behavior of lawmakers — fed- grandizement at home,” Eland reports, fornia: Independent Institute, 2019, 350 eral and state — and their inclination to putting a finer point on the issue. Since pages, hardcover. put faith to party above faith to principle the 20th century, wars — conventional and could disagree with Eland’s statement. otherwise — have led to large increases in he United Nations recognizes 195 Eland’s expert examination of the taxes, regulation, and government spend- countries. The United States has manifold ways political parties and their ing, both for the military and for unrelated T a military presence in more than leadership structure contribute to congres- domestic programs, Eland reports. 150 of those. A little math reveals that sional willingness to rubber-stamp execu- Constitutionalists could easily iden- there are American military operations tive combat operations reminds readers of tify the influence of James Madison on in nearly 77 percent of the world! With John Trenchard’s savage discourse on the Eland’s explanation of executive excite- that in mind, there is no better time than real purpose for a politician’s fidelity to ment at the first whiff of war in the air. now for a book completely committed to his political party: In truth, anyone who reads the book will “restoring the republic after congressio- encounter quotes from Madison on page nal failure.” A very great authority has told us, that after page, quotes Eland wisely weaves Congressional failure to do what? To “Tis worth no man’s time to serve a into his description of why the president

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The United Nations recognizes 195 countries. The United States has a military presence in more than 150 of those. A little math reveals that there are American military operations in nearly 77 percent of the world! should not be entrusted with the power to comprises and develops the germ of every gests a course of treatment that could, if declare war. other [enemy of liberty].” followed faithfully, cure it. In a statement that is as timely now as “As the first step towards a cure, the After rehearsing the increase in the it was then, James Madison wrote that the government itself must be regenerated. Its power of congressional leadership in the power to declare war is “of a legislative will must be made subordinate to, or rather House and Senate, Eland writes, “Because and not an executive nature.” He contin- the same with, the will of the community,” congressional leadership is now powerful, ued on that subject: Madison recommended. it could more easily lead, if so inclined, What wise counsel! If, as Madison in- the chambers to push back on executive Those who are to conduct a war sists, war is an enemy to liberty, the best power, especially in the crucial areas of [the executive branch] cannot in the way to defeat that enemy is to keep the war, treaties, and budget.” nature of things, be proper or safe government under the watchful eye and in Unfortunately, Ivan Eland’s exploration judges, whether a war ought to be the complete control of the people whose of the damage done to liberty by the estab- commenced, continued, or conclud- sons and daughters would be sacrificed by lishment of an unrestrained executive and ed. They are barred from the latter the prosecuting of the war. This exercise the president’s concomitant commitment functions by a great principle in free of dominion is critical, Madison explains, to starting wars is marred by a significant government, analogous to that which because war is declared by people who shortcoming. In the final chapter, Eland rec- separates the sword from the purse, will profit from it, but is fought by people ommends abolishing the Electoral College. or the power of executing from the who will suffer from it. Therefore, we can- He insists that the Electoral College “mere- power of enacting laws. not let the former segment of society be set ly distorts the popular vote nationwide and free from the control of the latter, lest we erodes the legitimacy of US elections by Madison was so strident in his insistence see the waging of perpetual war and the deviating from the ‘one-person-one-vote’ that the power to make war not be placed in ruination of liberty. principle.” He goes on to describe the con- the presidency, that he wrote a letter (called Unlike most contemporary critics of stitutionally mandated method of electing “Helvidius,” No. 2) that began with the bold the never-ending wars, most of which are the president as “antiquated.” pronouncement that if any president were begun by the president, Ivan Eland not For a correct constitutional explanation to presume the war-making power, “no only diagnoses the disease, but he sug- and defense of the Electoral College, read- ramparts in the constitution could de- ers of The New American are direct- fend the public liberty or scarcely the ed to a series of articles on the subject forms of republican government.” I’ve written over the past few years. That’s James Madison warning us Suffice to say that following Eland’s that if we were to permit (I say “we” call to eliminate the Electoral Col- because ultimately we elect men and lege would likely lead to preventing women to Congress who close their anyone committed to being faithful eyes to executive expansion of war) to the Constitution from ever being the president to exercise any power elected president. over the making of war, our liberty Finally, Eland closes his mostly would be on life support. masterful survey of the rise of the To his credit, Eland quotes Madi- war-making president by calling for son in this chapter on the president’s a restoration of the federal arrange- penchant for using the military to ment that held sway in the days of the magnify his constitutional profile. early Republic. “In the late 1700s and The quote chosen by Eland is taken 1800s, the United States had a con- from an essay entitled “Political gressionally dominated federal gov- Observations,” written on April 20, ernment — a time of relative peace, 1795. In that lengthy elucidation of prosperity, and liberty,” Eland writes. his position on many political issues “We must now restore this vision of the day, Madison includes the fol- that the founders so presciently de- lowing lesson he’d learned through signed into the Constitution,” he adds his study of history. “Of all the ene- James in the last paragraph of his book. mies to public liberty war is, perhaps, Madison And that is a call to action we can the most to be dreaded, because it eagerly endorse. n

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Police Officers by Day, surprised the students with an announce- Teacher Turned Dad ment that he would be paying off the stu- Math teacher Finn Lanning is proof that Repairmen by Night dent debt of all 396 graduating seniors. some individuals are called to teaching. When police in Sunnydale, California, “I thought, ‘Wow, that is just such a Lanning teaches at the AXL Acad- were called to the home of an elderly cou- powerful thing for anybody,’” Bennett emy in Aurora, Colorado, where he met ple in May for a medical emergency, they told WBTV. “So many students go into so 13-year-old Damien, who has been strug- went above and beyond the call of duty to much debt just trying to get an education.” gling with kidney failure since he was help two people in need. Bennett and her husband were not in eight years old. Damien has also been in According to K985.com, after police a position to pay off the student debt of and out of a number of foster homes since addressed the medical emergency, they their local college seniors, but they knew he was a child, as his medical issues often noticed that the couple’s wheelchair ramp they wanted to do something. Bennett con- become too much for his foster families was in desperate need of repair, and found tacted the nearby East Mecklenburg High to handle. Sadly, each time a foster fam- out that the pair did not have the physical School and inquired whether there were ily relinquishes Damien’s care, Damien is or financial ability to do it. any students in dire financial straits. forced to return to the hospital, where he The officers left the house to purchase Bennett was surprised to learn that 14 stays until he can be transferred to a new some supplies, and returned to fix the high-school seniors had approximately foster home. ramp. Officers returned to the house with $4,500 worth of total debt, resulting from Unfortunately, because Damien did not new wood to support the pieces of the simple things such as outstanding lunch have a stable home, he continually had foundation that were still salvageable and debts and band equipment replacements. to be removed from the transplant list, as another piece of wood to extend from the Those students were going to be denied he is considered to be too high a risk for couple’s door to the sidewalk. the ability to graduate, participate in the organ failure to obtain the surgery. A video was captured of the officers’ commencement ceremony, and receive When Lanning learned of Damien’s good deed and posted to Facebook. their diplomas as a result. situation, he wanted to be there for the “Although these officers believe they do Bennett knew exactly what she want- boy. “As I learned more about his story not need any special recognition for doing ed to do. She immediately created a Go- and what he was facing and what his needs this, we wanted to share this story to show FundMe page in the hopes of raising the were and why they weren’t being met, it you the often unseen kindness that our money for the students. She shared her just became really hard for me to look the officers spread throughout our communi- page on social media and asked friends other way,” he told KDVR in May. ties,” reads the video caption. “This story and family to help. “We don’t know these Lanning opened up his home to the boy wouldn’t have been shared had Captain students and may never have a chance to and started the process to adopt him so that Anderson not been there to record these meet them but we know that everyone Damien could be guaranteed a place on the scenes and these officers wouldn’t have should be entitled to the high school di- transplant list. Lanning does not have chil- told anyone about their act of kindness.” ploma that they earned,” the GoFundMe dren of his own. “Everyday officers from across our na- page reads. “We know that having a high Lanning admits that it’s been a chal- tion impact the lives of others in ways un- school diploma is an important milestone lenge for him, but the outpouring of sup- noticed. To all who go above and beyond, in our society and can change the course port he has received from friends and thank you.” of your life forever.” colleagues has been astounding. Teachers The video has garnered significant Surprisingly, NFL player Thomas Davis have donated sick days so that Lanning praise for the officers’ good deed. learned of Bennett’s post, and he offered can stay home with Damien, receive train- to pay off the debt entirely. ing on his home care, and take him to his According to Bennett, the announce- appointments. The Gift of Graduation ment was met with extreme gratitude Damien’s restrictive diet has also Owners of a barbershop in Charlotte, from the students. “One girl dropped to caused Lanning’s grocery bills to increase North Carolina, were inspired by a strang- her knees and she just said ‘I have to call dramatically, and the initial costs of home er’s kindness to a group of graduating col- my mom,’” recalled Bennett, who added preparation for a special-needs child have lege students and decided they wanted to that the girl’s mother had hoped to get a overwhelmed Lanning’s finances, but a do something wonderful for high-school loan to pay off the debt so her daughter GoFundMe page has raised $70,000 since students in their own community, CBS could get her diploma. February. News reported in late May. And Davis’ generous donation gave As for Damien, the transition has been Season Bennett and her husband, own- Bennett the opportunity to help another wonderful. He told Fox31 that things ers of Headlines Barbershop, were moved group in need. She donated the $3,200 were going well for him, and that he was when they learned that during a com- of previously received GoFundMe con- especially happy because “I got my own mencement speech he gave, billionaire in- tributions to the school’s anti-suicide room now.” n vestor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith program. — Raven Clabough www.TheNewAmerican.com 31 POWERED BY

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God Blessed AMERICA with Kate Smith

by Dennis Behreandt

t was a poignant, somewhat sad, and moving ceremony. An elderly lady I elegantly attired in a black dress was pushed onto a stage in her wheelchair at the Raleigh Civic Center. The date was October 26, 1982, and the man pushing her onto the stage was none other than President Ronald Reagan. The lady in the wheelchair was Kate Smith, who, after a long and storied career in the spotlight, beloved by millions, had become immortal- ized in her own time as “America’s Song- bird.” During her career she sold millions of records, and was a pioneering star of first the stage, then of radio, and, finally, of television. Known for her ardent love of faith and of her country, she was now, at the end of her life, being presented with the Medal of Freedom, the highest award that can be given to a civilian. In awarding her the Medal of Freedom, President Reagan said: “The voice of Kate Smith is known and loved by millions.... In war and peace, it has been an inspira- tion.... In giving us a magnificent, self- less talent like Kate Smith, God has truly blessed America.” AP Images The award was well and truly deserved

Today Kate Smith is attacked for racism. But a Kate Smith, late in her career, sings “God Bless America” at a Stanley Cup Hockey game fea- review of the life of this remarkable performer who turing the Philadelphia Flyers in 1975. One of became known as America’s Songbird draws a far the best-selling performing artists in American history, Smith was by this time known affection- different picture. ately as “America’s Songbird.”

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because no entertainer, either before or of adoring fans, whom she considered since, has done so much for the American friends, had for her. people and the country she loved, and done it so selflessly and with so much passion. Despair and Perseverance Now, however, in recent months, Born in 1907, Kate Smith was blessed Smith’s legacy has come under fire. Her with a natural inborn talent for singing detractors allege that, many decades ago at and dancing. She never took a singing or the dawn of her career, she sang two songs dancing lesson, and couldn’t read music with heavy racist sentiments and that, as a or play the piano, but she could sing like result, she should no longer be honored or no one else. This delighted and worried even remembered, in anything other than her family, in about equal measure. While a negative sense. they enjoyed her talents, as she grew up, Whether this new view of Smith does they hoped for her to pursue a career her memory justice or not requires a rein nursing, which at one point led to a view of her life and times. Such a review terrible argument with her father, who reveals that Smith was very unlikely to slapped the then-teenaged singer. With be a racist as now alleged, and that she the urging of her parents and grandpar- richly deserved the love that millions ents, Smith eventually attempted to take

A review reveals that Smith was very unlikely to be a racist as now alleged, and that she richly deserved the love that millions of adoring fans, whom she considered friends, had for her.

up nursing, and throughout her life she maintained a special concern for the sick and unwell. But her passion for singing and entertaining was not to be denied, and when a break came that represented a chance to be on stage in a production in New York City, Smith boarded what her biographer, Richard K. Hayes, noted was the “first commercial airplane” for the three-hour flight to New York. Smith was only in her late teenage years when she debuted in the play Hon- eymoon Lane in the fall of 1926. The heavyset teenage vocalist was cast in the role of Tiny Little, where her weight would be played for laughs. This set a trend that would be a source of great an- guish and despair for her over the early years of her entertainment career, as she was cheered for her amazing singing talents in equal measure as she was jeered for her weight. Eddie Dowling, the playwright and actor behind Honeymoon Lane, recalled Smith’s role in the production years later,

NBC Television according to biographer Hayes: Quite the pair: Smith, with her manager and business partner, Ted Collins, on the set of her pioneering television show, The Kate Smith Show, in 1953. During her career, Smith frequently I sat her through every scene in the took the lead in adapting her talents to new broadcast technologies. show and never let her open her

34 THE NEW AMERICAN • JULY 8, 2019 talents and requested a meeting with her. Collins invited Smith, who was initially skeptical of the man, to come to the Co- lumbia Phonograph Company studios to sing for the recording engineers, with the prospect of landing a recording contract. Of course, with Smith’s voice, the result was never in doubt, and soon enough Kate Smith recordings were appearing in record stores. It wouldn’t be long before her albums would sell in the millions. This was also the beginning of a business relationship with Collins, who would become her manager. Famously, the pair set up their partnership on a handshake and nothing more. “They would divide the work, and the profits, equally” noted Smith’s biographer Hayes. He would take care of bookings and finances, and select her songs. “We’ll be millionaires before you know what to do with a million dol- lars,” Smith recalled Collins telling her. “And all you’ll have to do is sing — and follow my instructions. Look, here’s my hand; when we shake, the deal’s on,” Collins promised her. How did Smith react to this seemingly preposterous proposal? She instinctively felt she could mouth, just this big, fat, 260-pound World War II: During the conflict, Smith was trust him, and answered: “All right, Ted. girl. People asked, “What is this?” instrumental in leading the cause of the sale It’s a deal.” Until this moment, about a quarter of of war bonds. Her patriotic broadcasts in From a modern perspective, this deal eleven at night. Just before the finale support of the war and her coast-to-coast seems too good to be true, offered by of the show, when the boy meets the trips in support of the troops became the the stereotypical “rapacious executive” stuff of legend. girl (which is me in this case) I turn looking to take advantage of a young, her loose. And boy I want to tell you! naive talent. But not in this instance. I couldn’t finish the play, by the way. in the morning with ‘Hello, Fatty.’ I heard Collins was genuine, and he was right They [the audience] wouldn’t let the someone else say as we bought doughnuts all along. The partnership was more suc- play finish. and coffee at a stand, ‘Betcha she buys a cessful than even he could imagine, and dozen donuts and a gallon o’coffee.” certainly more successful than Kate, who While she surprised and delighted audi- Alone in that hotel room, hurt and sad- was still considering “exiting from stage ences on stage, in her personal life, Smith dened, Smith considered quitting. But, right” straight out of the music business, was in misery. “She was shunned socially she recalled, “My pride would not let me could conceive. The result was Smith by her peers in the cast, so she spent many turn back.” appearing in a string of radio and televi- lonely hours crying herself to sleep in her sion shows and broadcasts, and generat- small hotel room,” Hayes noted in his bi- Fate and Fortune ing millions of record sales, over the next ography of the singer. “Since she neither Smith’s next major appearance was in several decades. smoked nor drank, was offended by risqué the production Flying High, and her jokes, and had a weight problem, she just treatment was even worse than before, "God Bless America" did not fit in.” even though her stunning talents were By 1938, Kate Smith was more than a Smith herself recalled her misery in her evident on stage. They were so evident singer. She was an ever-present part of autobiography, Upon My Lips a Song. In that they attracted the attention of Ted America’s entertainment landscape, as the red-tinged darkness of a dingy hotel Collins, recording manager for Columbia well as being a respected “public intel- room, she wrote, she was thinking of Records. Collins was in the audience that lectual” of a sort, bringing perspective happier times with her family in contrast night in 1930 only because he missed his on the news and the issues of the day to with taunts and jibes she encountered as a train and decided to catch a performance her audience via her radio program Kate member of the cast. “I heard the voice of a of Flying High while he was waiting for Smith Speaks. In those days, storm clouds boy in the chorus greeting me as I arrived the next train. He was stunned by Smith’s of war were clearly on the horizon, and www.TheNewAmerican.com 35 HISTORYHISTORYPAST AND PERSPECTIVE

Ted Collins and Smith both felt some- country the immortal words and melody of thing special was needed to help bring the song, Smith herself was a blessing to a the country together around the values of country embroiled in a globe-spanning war faith and patriotism. against tyrants, genocide, and evil bloodlust. On Armistice Day, 1938, during one While the flower of America’s youth such program, Smith explained the rea- took to the skies, seas, and far-flung soning behind the new song she was in- beachheads of World War II to stand troducing. “It has been my privilege to be against both the Nazi and Imperial Japa- on the air on Armistice Day or Armistice nese juggernauts, Smith rallied those who Day Eve for the past eight years,” she remained behind to support the troops told her audience. “This year ... I felt I with epic fundraising efforts. wanted to do something special — some- Smith’s war bond broadcasts remain thing that would not only be a memorial the stuff of legend. She was expert at to our soldiers — but would also empha- using her vocal talents and naturally size just how much America means to engaging storytelling ability to draw a each and every one of us. I wanted more picture in the minds of her listeners of than an Armistice Day song — I wanted the demands and sacrifices war meant a new hymn of praise and love and al- to Americans serving in the conflict. legiance to America.” “All over America, autumn is dancing The song she would introduce is now over the hills and plains, tapping out the her most famous, and one that many have rhythm of the changing season,” she said thought should replace the “Star Spangled during a CBS war bonds broadcast. “But Banner” as the national anthem (though somewhere in the mud and the grime and Smith did not agree with this idea). noise of the battlefront a young man in Continuing her broadcast, Smith said: khaki lies sprawled on unfamiliar earth. “So, several weeks ago, I went to a man He lies very still and in his eyes there I have known and admired for many is untold agony. The guns of the enemy years — the top-ranking composer in the have gotten him, and as his comrades music field today.... I explained as well as plunge forward into the black hell of I could what I was striving for. He said, war, he waits for the stretcher-bearers.... invested in war bonds. “No entertainer ‘Kate, you want something more than He is just an average American kid, did more for the war effort on the home a popular song. I’m not sure, but I will came from a little town like any other front than Kate Smith,” Hayes noted in his try.’ He worked day after day, night after American town.... He didn’t want to set biography of the singer. “She put every bit night, until at last his task was completed. the world on fire. He wanted to live and of [her energy] to work from December 7, The other day he sent me his masterpiece, work and love and get married.... Why in 1941, until September 2, 1945. Her noon- and along with it this little note: ‘Dear God’s name should he lay down his pre- day chats were constantly giving moral Kate: here it is.... I did the best I could, cious life on the altar of freedom while support to those of us here at home. She and it expresses the way I feel.’ The song we go our accustomed ways in comfort sang more patriotic songs than any other is called ‘God Bless America’; the com- and safety? ... Is there any way we can singer, expanding her broadcast schedule poser, Mr. Irving Berlin.” get this ghastly war over more quickly to include Armed Forces Radio shows, Of course, this is one of the greatest for him and his comrades in arms?” public service messages and bond drives. songs ever composed, and in Smith it was Of course there was, Smith told her The cast of the ‘Kate Smith Hour’ traveled delivered by one the greatest female vo- audience. “Buy bonds and more bonds,” some 52,000 miles on the North American calists of the 20th century. Even today, she urged, “because you’re down on your continent to give entertainment to military when the mind hears the tune of “God knees thanking your Creator that we have bases and centers of war work.” Bless America,” the imagination delivers Americans fighting for freedom, fighting it in Smith’s voice. for victory.” Fame and Fortune As it turned out, not only did Berlin and With Smith’s impassioned pleas echo- From at least 1930 to 1950, no entertainer Smith bless America by delivering to the ing across America’s airwaves, millions was more beloved by Americans than Kate

Smith addressed the issue of racism in 1945 on the CBS show We, The People. On that show she said, “Race hatreds — social prejudices — religious bigotry — they are the disease that eat away the fibers of peace.”

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Smith. Thereafter, interest in her flagged She had always liked sports, and was flat- Accused of racism: Because of the charge, for a time, as new talents and song-styles tered when the Flyers started featuring her the Philadelphia Flyers covered the statue of emerged during the 1950s. But Kate Smith recording of “God Bless America” before Smith that had been erected in her honor near their arena. But, though Smith sang at least one was always in demand and, as she did games, as team superstition held that if racially charged song as a young woman, she for the radio, she became the pioneering played before a game, a win was sure to later vigorously and publicly denounced racism. broadcaster for the fledgling technology follow. Smith sang the song in person, on of television. Even after she stopped host- a red carpet that had been rolled out on the ing her own shows, she was in demand ice, to a crowd of 17,007 fans on October The terrible charge stems from Smith for guest appearances on other programs, 11, 1973. Doug Favell, the goalie from having performed two controversial songs, even through the 1970s with programs the opposing team that night, recalled the at least one of which possessed racist over- such as The Sonny & Cher Show and the moment, saying, “I knew our goose was tones and content, early in her career. Tony Orlando and Dawn show. cooked.” As Richard Hayes notes in his The first of these was the song “That’s Of her considerable success, Ed Sul- biography of Smith, the score that night Why Darkies Were Born,” which certain- livan, who had long known Smith and “was Philadelphia 2, Toronto 0.” The Fly- ly sounds aggressively racist. The lyrics, watched her career, remarked on the oc- ers went on to erect a statue of Smith in though, are not so clear-cut. The song is casion of an awards ceremony in 1974 full-throated song outside their arena. part lament: “Brothers, sisters, what must that she was “a great singing lady who has be, must be; though the balance is wrong, been entertaining America for nearly half Kate Smith and still your faith must be strong.” And then, a century.” She was, he continued, “one of the Snowflakes it points out that the unjustly enslaved are the top selling recording artists of all time” That beautiful and inspiring sculpture of heroes for their courageous perseverance and “was one of radio’s first major stars.” America’s Songbird is now gone, removed in the face of the unthinkable evil per- Moreover, he noted, “She introduced the because today’s social-justice snowflakes petrated against them: “Someone had to daytime talk show to television [and] her have been “triggered” by it. Moreover, fight that old Devil, Shout about Gabriel’s big time variety shows set new trends in both the New York Yankees and the Fly- Horn; Someone had to stoke that old train, both radio and TV.” ers have decided not to use Smith’s rendi- That would bring God’s children to green Eventually, her legend was compound- tion of “God Bless America” any longer pastures; That’s why darkies were born.” ed by her affiliation with the Philadelphia because, they suggest, Smith may have No one today would write such a song, Flyers of the National Hockey League. been a racist. the reference to “darkies” being especially

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irritating and terrible. But in the spirit of another war. And where are they going to ing her TV debut, according to Richard 1931 when this made its appearance in the be exterminated? At a conference table in Hayes, was “Josephine Baker, the tal- Broadway revue George White’s Scandals, Geneva? Not by a long shot. In your own ented, voluptuous, controversial black it may have been somewhat of an affront city — your church — your children’s dancer-chanteuse who spent most of her to the otherwise casual racism that was school — perhaps in your own home.” adult life in France.” not exactly uncommon in the media of the And she continued, exhorting her vast This would not seem to be the résumé of day. It is also worth noting that the song listening audience: “You and I must do it a racist, as Smith’s modern critics allege. was recorded by black superstar Paul — every father and mother in the world, Instead, it’s part of Smith’s broader Robeson, and it seems highly unlikely that every teacher, everyone who can right- legacy, that being her ability and willing- he would have recorded a song that was fully call himself a human being.” ness to try new songs herself, to keep the overtly racist. Obviously, these are not the words of a performers of the past in front of ever- The other controversial song performed racist. Instead, they are the words of some- changing audiences by helping them get by Smith was “Pickaninnies’ Heaven,” one who had come to understand that rac- access to newer broadcast technologies, from the one Hollywood film in which she ism is an evil that opposes the American and to find new talents and bring them starred, 1933’s Hello Everybody. Richard values of individual freedom and natural to the attention of the American people. Hayes, Smith’s biographer, rightly called rights that are so fundamental to the coun- For the better part of the 20th century, it an “offensive novelty.” Did Kate Smith try that she loved. Kate Smith charmed and delighted audi- mean for it to be offensive? We can’t ask It’s necessary to consider, as well, the ences with her voice, her empathy for her her, now. But we do know her opinion fact that Smith was more than just words fellow Americans, and her warm personal- about racism in general. on this subject. If she were the racist that ity. Through peace and war, through times Smith addressed the issue of racism in is now alleged by some moderns, then of plenty and times of economic distress, 1945 on the CBS show We, The People. she would not have featured so many and despite attacks on her physical appear- On that show she said, “Race hatreds — black performers on her various shows. ance and weight that continued throughout social prejudices — religious bigotry These included the great musicians Louis her life, she was a true American original. — they are the disease that eat away the Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, As many, including President Reagan, fibers of peace. Unless they are exter- Harry Belafonte, and the superb Nat King have said before, God blessed America minated it’s inevitable that we will have Cole. Also appearing on her show, mak- with Kate Smith. n 19_1180_New American_JUL Mod: May 14, 2019 3:11 PM Print: 05/29/19 9:58:27 AM page 1 v7

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Retired Cop Proves quickly. We are all grateful that no in- example, spends more than $1 million a nocent victim was killed.” year on Salesforce’s e-commerce software, He Still Has Moxie! according to one analyst estimate. Switch- CBS reported on an incident in Coates- ing to another provider now could cost the ville, Pennsylvania, on May 30 that Big Tech Threatens the company double that to migrate data, re- showed that even though a police officer Second Amendment configure systems and retrain employees.” may be retired for a few years, that’s no Salesforce simply changed its “accept- reason to think that he no longer retains Patriotic Americans who regularly use so- able use” policy, which is the list of the the skills he used on the job. cial media are mostly aware of the threat terms and conditions that govern how a The Chester County District Attor- posed by “Big Tech,” which is the euphe- user of the cloud-based services can utilize ney’s Office is still reviewing what hap- mism used to describe the giant technol- the platform. Cloud computing companies pened, but it says a retired police officer ogy corporations that have monopoly-like regularly update their acceptable use poli- halted an armed robbery at a gas station. control over the Internet. Companies such cies, and users are left with no options but Investigators believe that the retired as Google, Facebook, and Twitter, Silicon to comply or get off the platform, and, as officer was waiting to pick up a friend Valley-based firms with an oversized mar- the Washington Post reported, switching at the gas station when the 33-year-old ket presence, have been unilaterally banning to another platform might be prohibitively suspect, Lawrence Galloway, ran into the the accounts of conservatives in an ongoing costly or not even feasible for some retail- store and pulled a gun on the employees war on free speech. The term used to de- ers. The Washington Post reported that inside. The retired officer immediately scribe these purges is “deplatforming,” and “Salesforce’s new policy bars customers noticed the armed suspect point the gun it refers to not only shutting down the ac- that sell a range of firearms — including at the employees and start taking money counts of targeted users, but also making it automatic and semi-automatic — from out of the cash register. The officer next to impossible for them to even function using its e-commerce technology. The pol- pulled out his own gun, which he carries on the Internet at all. Just this past month, icy also precludes customers from selling on his person, and entered the store to Facebook banned multiple popular accounts some firearm parts, such as ‘magazines ca- engage Galloway. that were influential in helping President pable of accepting more than 10 rounds’ After ordering the suspect to stop, the Trump win his upset victory in 2016. and ‘multi-burst trigger devices.’” retired officer opened fire on the suspect, But it appears that the threat of deplat- It’s not a mystery where this anti-gun bias hitting him numerous times in the lower forming is not limited to just targeting in- is coming from, as Salesforce’s co-CEO body. Police were immediately called to dividuals on social media who opine on Marc Benioff, is very public in his disdain the scene, and Galloway was taken to a politics. The new front in the deplatform- for the Second Amendment. Benioff last nearby medical facility for surgery. He is ing war now is expanding to target the year tweeted, “The AR-15 is the most popu- expected to survive. Galloway has been Second Amendment and, specifically, the lar rifle in America. Ban it,” and then sub- charged with armed robbery, among other manufacturers of firearms. The company sequently donated $1,000,000 to anti-gun charges, and is still undergoing medical known as Salesforce appears to be just groups. This is not the only area where Be- treatment. Chester County District Attor- the latest Big Tech firm to use its market nioff has mixed his left-wing politics with ney Tom Hogan had good words to say power to try to turn the tide against gun his business. In 2015, he threatened that about the retired officer, whom he cred- rights. Salesforce is a cloud-based software Salesforce would reduce its workforce in In- ited with preventing a dangerous situa- company that provides a service for the ad- diana unless the state repealed its religious tion from turning out even worse. “We ministration of sales transactions and has freedom law, which Benioff argued would got lucky. If not for this retired officer a net income of over $1,000,000,000 an- permit discrimination against homosexuals. being in the right place at the right time, nually. It appears that Salesforce now feels And he is not the only rich CEO who we certainly would have had a robbery, that it’s big and powerful enough to take on is using his position of power and his and might have seen a double murder. the Second Amendment. The Washington company to further a left-wing agenda. Instead, this defendant now will face jus- Post reported on May 30 that “behind the The Washington Post also reported that tice,” District Attorney Hogan told CBS. scenes in recent weeks, the Silicon Valley another provider of e-commerce soft- Police are still piecing everything to- tech giant has delivered a different mes- ware, Shopify, is likewise amending its gether, but they believe Galloway used sage to gun-selling retailers such as Camp- acceptable use policy to prohibit the sale a firearm that was reported stolen back ing World: Stop selling military-style rifles, of certain firearms on its platform. Sup- in 2016. Coatesville Police Chief John or stop using our software. The pressure porters of the Second Amendment need to Laufer likewise credited the fast actions Salesforce is exerting on those retailers — be extremely concerned that our enemies of the retired officer. “The defendant had barring them from using its technology to are intent on taking away our guns by any a stolen gun and was a person disquali- market products, manage customer service means necessary, and that includes varia- fied from possessing guns. The retired operations, and fulfill orders — puts them tions of the “free market” variety. n officer had a permit to carry and acted in a difficult position. 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Item: While many were relieved to learn on June 7 that a deal about illegal immigration had been reached between the Trump administration and Mexico, thus suspending threatened tariffs, the Washington Post emphasized that the agreement, which included the expansion of the Migrant Protection Protocols — “which allows the United States to return Central American migrants to Mex-

ico while they await the adjudication of Flickr/U.S.BorderandCustomsProtection their asylum hearings in U.S. immigra- Not sneaking in: Illegal immigrants are so sure that they will be released into this country by U.S. tion court”—– might result in “tens of Customs and Border Protection that they are now crossing the border in large groups, such as thousands of [illegal] migrants waiting this group more than a thousand strong. in limbo in potentially unsafe conditions in Mexico.” grants, who complained about the potential cruel for trying to enforce the law or as Item: Seeking to minimize the achieve- curtailing of services, “We’ll see them in woefully ineffective when his efforts are ments of the Trump administration’s im- court if they go through with this,” he said. sabotaged and blocked. migration negotiations with Mexico, the “What next? Drinking water? Food?... Here is the actual setting, as has been New York Times for June 9, in the first Where are they going to stop?” noted by the U.S. Customs and Border paragraph of its leading front-page story, Item: An Associated Press dispatch in the Protection’s (CBP) chief operating offi- stressed that the deal that had been an- Los Angeles Times for June 5 took note of cer, John Sanders: “We are in a full-blown nounced “with great fanfare … consists those apprehended after they crossed ille- emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: largely of actions that Mexico had already gally into the United States from Mexico: the system is broken.” He noted in early promised to take in previous discussions.” “Most families are from Central America June that his agency had detained more (Much further down, on page 11, that ar- and expected to request asylum. Photos of than 680,000 border crossers in the previ- ticle admitted that Mexico’s promise to families waiting in jam-packed cells and in ous eight months, observing that the total deploy troops to its southern border was outdoor enclosures have sparked outrage.” is “more than the population of Miami.” indeed “larger” than previously pledged Item: An article in Politico for June 4 So, who or what is to blame? Well, the and that the timing of the Migrant Protec- reported that the House had just passed New York Times has its predictable suspect tion Protocols had been “accelerate[d].”) legislation (a bill dubbed the American — the guy in the White House. Here is the So, apparently, everything was the same Dream and Promise Act) that is aimed Times’ take from this spring: except for the things that changed — to the at providing “a path to citizenship for advantage of the United States. Dreamers brought to the United States The president’s own anti-immigrant Item: The Washington Post in the front as children.” The approval came “along rhetoric has helped supercharge the page of its June 6 edition, accompanied largely partisan lines,” with “nearly all pipeline of migrants from Honduras, by a color photo of migrant youths play- Democrats” in favor. Guatemala and El Salvador. Smug- ing soccer in a federal facility in Florida, The bill is the House Democratic major- glers lately have been buying radio bemoaned that the Trump administration ity’s answer to President Donald Trump’s ads in Central America, warning that was considering cutting such recreation hard-line immigration agenda. Mr. Trump is about to shut down all programs. (If you read very closely, down Correction: The spinning of left-wing immigration. If you ever want to go into the piece, you might discover that these narratives requires good guys and villains. to the United States, they say, go now! centers are overwhelmed with the numbers When it comes to the rather complicated of the illegals and short of the emergency topic of illegal immigration, innocent The situation on the border is truly dire. funding that had been sought by the admin- children play the former part; President Acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders istration, but not supplied by Congress.) Trump, of course, is the heavy. said: “We are experiencing a system-wide The Post, to buttress its bias, quoted a To his political foes, Trump is always emergency that is severely impacting our lawyer who represents minor illegal mi- wrong — being either painted as overly workforce, facilities and resources.”

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 41 The percentage of unaccompanied manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert security. It does not close loopholes alien children (UAC) and family units attention.” By May, even Pelosi was ad- or reform asylum laws. (FMUA) “continues to rise,” noted CBP. mitting that the border situation “is a cri- • Provides a path to citizenship for The release explained: “The migrants sis,” though she qualified it as a “humani- criminals. are mainly coming from the Northern tarian crisis” that she blamed on Trump. • Gives illegal immigrants a spe- Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala and To try to change the subject from the cial pathway to citizenship that is un- Honduras) and Mexico. 78 percent of surge of border crossers, the House Dem- available to legal immigrants. the Southwest border apprehensions in ocrats, led by Pelosi, recently passed an- May came from the Northern Triangle. If other “Dreamer” bill that was clearly not Meanwhile, the Democrats even blocked Mexico is added, the Northern Triangle going anywhere in the Senate. Meanwhile, an amendment that would have authorized and Mexico account for 91 percent of all the Office of Management and Budget $4.5 billion in crisis relief and border se- apprehensions on the Southwest border.” concluded that the Democrats’ bill “would curity funding. And in an unusual development, at the only exacerbate illegal immigration and On the other hand, the Left does seem end of May and in the first week of June, the exploitation of our immigration laws angrily exercised over potential cuts in more than 500 migrants from Africa were by incentivizing more illegal behavior.” subsidized recreation for migrant youths. apprehended by Del Rio Sector Border House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R- And just imagine the lachrymal outpour- Patrol agents in Texas; according to CBP, La.) could see little good in the Democrats’ ing if funding falls for poetry writing. these groups were “primarily made up of bill, listing the five below as its “worst as- (Immigration personnel face a difficult, family units from the Republic of the pects.” The American Dream and Promise if not impossible, job — dealing with too Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Act, as he put it: many migrants with insufficient money. Congo and Angola.” One federal law directs them not to go over Matters have been getting worse, with • Makes millions of illegal immigrants budget, which has led to potential cuts in little or no help from the leaders of the eligible for amnesty, far exceeding the services that are “not directly linked to the Democratic Party in Congress. Indeed, at roughly 700,000 DACA [Obama-era safety of human life,” at the same time that the beginning of this year, House Speaker Deferred Action for Childhood Arriv- another federal judicial decree requires the Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Senate Minor- als program] recipients. provision of school classes and hours of ity Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) held a • Would cost an estimated $34.6 bil- outdoor activity weekly for young illegal joint press conference based on the central lion, according to the Congressional migrants.) theme that there was no real border crisis, Budget Office. Democrats have not Meanwhile, in one dramatic incident no national emergency, and no security found a way to pay for this. in late May, Border Patrol agents from threat. Schumer asserted that Trump had • Provides zero enforcement. H.R. El Paso Sector in Texas apprehended the “used the backdrop of the Oval Office to 6 does not include a dime for border largest group of illegal aliens ever encountered. The agents took custody of 1,036 people after they crossed the border in El Paso, according to CBP. It was no exaggeration when one Gua- temalan told Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, that “a child is like a passport for migration.” The utilization of children is one significant way that the system is being gamed of late. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has explained: “Word is out on the streets in Central America that if you bring a child with you — regardless of whether or not it is actually your child — America’s laws can be manipulated to allow you to stay in the United States.” “Under current law,” noted Graham —

AP Images who has authored the Secure and Protect Free pass: Illegal immigrants have learned that if they bring kids to the border, they will Act of 2019, which is intended to strength- automatically be released into our country. en border security — “immigrants travel-

42 THE NEW AMERICAN • JULY 8, 2019 make it through the initial review. Then the average wait is two years. A substantial percentage of illegal aliens, not surprisingly, “disappear” and do not show up for their next hearing. As of early this year, the nationwide backlog in immigration courts was almost 800,000 cases. “Of those caught entering the country illegally in FY 2017, either as family units or unaccompanied minors,” reports James Jay Carafano of the Heritage Foundation, “98 percent remain in the U.S. today. Of those who pass a credible fear hearing and are released, 40 percent never file for asylum.” Kevin McAleenan, who now serves as commissioner of U.S. Customs and

AP Images Border Protection, previously testified Their illnesses, our costs: Not only are some locales, such as California, offering free healthcare to Congress that our immigration system to illegal immigrants, Customs and Border Protection is spending many millions on care, and was “at the breaking point.” Now, he in- Americans have to pay for the diseases we catch from illegals. sists, that “breaking point has arrived.” Among his suggested fixes is changing ing with children can only be detained for 2016 study) that it costs public schools the law so the federal government could 20 days before they must be released.” $59.8 billion for millions of illegal aliens, detain illegal migrant families while they “By turning themselves in to authorities, school-age children of illegal aliens, refu- are waiting for their hearings — rather immigrants start the clock ticking on their gees, and legal immigrant students. And than releasing them into the United States detainment. And with a massive backlog the president has said, though some dis- after 20 days in custody. In addition, he of asylum cases overloading the system, pute his figures, that illegal immigration calls on Congress to change the “credible- the majority of asylum petitions cannot costs the United States $200 billion or fear” standard that allows migrants to be be processed in time. In turn, immigrants more. If it makes you feel better, FAIR (in initially allowed in — pointing out that are released into the United States free and 2017) put the total cost of illegal immigra- “89 percent of people get that while only clear.” This is just part of the reason why tion for the country (at the federal, state, 10 percent get asylum at the end of the this country is on pace for more than one and local levels) at $116 billion. court proceedings.” million apprehensions of illegal aliens dur- Then consider the deleterious effects of Good luck with getting “progressives” ing this fiscal year. the actions of left-wing judges and attor- in Congress to agree on such matters — The cost of illegal immigration affects neys. Asylum claimants, as the Wall Street when you consider how Speaker Pelosi us in multiple ways. Take the likely price Journal reported in April, “may avoid im- responded to the president’s deal to get tag of your healthcare. Your burden isn’t mediate deportation simply by convincing more cooperation with Mexico. She com- helped by the fact that you are also pick- an immigration officer that they have a plained and said her party was “deeply ing up much of the bill for people who ‘credible fear’ that they will be persecuted disappointed” with the pledged expansion are in this country illegally. As Chris if they return to their home country.” As of what has been called “Remain-in-Mex- Conover, an adjunct scholar at the Ameri- you can imagine, those looking for a pass ico,” maintaining that action violates the can Enterprise Institute, has described in have figured that out, often with the assis- “rights” of illegals seeking asylum. some detail in Forbes posts: “All told, tance of activist lawyers. The low bar of She also bemoaned the failure to ad- Americans cross-subsidize health care claimed “credible fear” is attained easily dress the “root causes” driving migrants for unauthorized immigrants to the tune by most asylum-seekers. from Central America. You don’t need to of $18.5 billion a year.” Of this total, fed- The Journal — which is not an immi- read too deep between the lines to see what eral taxpayers (in 2016) “provided $11.2 gration opponent — also points out that, that means: More foreign aid. Yep, sending billion in subsidized care to unauthorized because of a shortage of detention beds, tax monies to other countries has such a immigrants.” asylum claimants “are usually released wondrous track record. It often amounts to That’s hardly the whole bill for taxpay- and allowed to work in the U.S. while transferring monies from poor people in rich ers. The Federation for American Immi- awaiting another hearing to determine if countries to rich people in poor countries. n gration Reform (FAIR) estimated (in a they qualify for asylum.” Most, as noted, — William P. Hoar www.TheNewAmerican.com 43 THE LAST WORD by William F. Jasper Bilderberg? What Bilderberg? ast November, Brexit taxpayers. Papandreou decided leader Nigel Farage to place personal political sur- L caused a bit of a stir with vival above globalist loyalties. several statements concerning That was the “sin” for which he the Bilderberg Group and the was cast down into the nether- dangers to representative gov- world. It didn’t matter that he ernment when super-wealthy soon recanted and withdrew insiders get together in secret his plebiscite offer. He was re- with government officials. placed by Lucas Papademos, a The Daily Express reported banker who had served as senior that in Bilderberg: The Movie, economist for the U.S. Federal a documentary about the organ Reserve Bank, before moving ization, Farage speaks “about a up to head the Bank of Greece, possible conspiracy backed by and then on to become vice EU leaders to bring down the Nigel president of the newly formed Farage nation-state. Speaking in an European Central Bank (ECB), AP Images interview, Mr Farage insists he initially under the ECB’s first ‘tries very hard not to believe in conspiracy theories,’ but ‘I can president, Wim Duisenberg (a Bilderberg member), and then, see there is a move towards supranationalism.’” under Duisenberg’s successor, Jean-Claude Trichet (a member The Express article goes on to quote Farage: “Just look at the of the Bilderberg Steering Committee). Papademos had not only IMF, in Washington. It’s supposed to be independent; effectively helped launch the euro currency and promote Greece’s adoption it has become the brand of the European Commission…. I have of the new sovereignty-destroying money, but had also helped got to know over the years, that the Van Rompuys, the Schul- Goldman Sachs secretly make immense profits off Greece’s debt. zes, the Barrosos, even the Junckers, the Timmermans, and it’s But that was just one part of a Bilderberg triple-coup dance in completely clear. They actually want to destroy the nation-state 2011. Trichet then stepped down from the ECB so that Bilderberg as a unit. A few years ago, the Greek Prime Minister said ‘I’ll member Mario Draghi (former top exec at the World Bank, Bank give you a referendum.’ He was removed and replaced by a for- of Italy, and Goldman Sachs) could take over as top EU banker. mer Goldman Sachs director. Whenever the project goes wrong, Draghi and company then engineered the ouster of Italian Prime whether it’s the Euro has a crisis, or the asylum crisis with the Minister Silvio Berlusconi so that Mario Monti (Bilderberg mem- borders, every single time, there is for these guys an opportunity. ber, honorary European chairman of the Trilateral Commission, It is known as ‘the beneficial crisis.’” Goldman Sachs exec) could take his place. This succession of Bilderberg was briefly in the news again recently, as glob- obvious coups by a secretive power elite caused widespread out- al elitists gathered in Montreux, Switzerland, May 30-June 2 rage throughout the European Union and contributed mightily to for the group’s annual confab. As per usual, the “mainstream” the ongoing “populist revolt” across the continent. media pretended not to see a thing. Farage also made passing reference to former Belgian Prime The Greek example cited by Farage referred to the 2011 Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who was elevated to president forced resignation of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. of the European Council (2009-2014) after meeting with Henry Now, Papandreou was not only the prime minister and presi- Kissinger and other Bilderberg members at their 2009 conclave. dent of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), Greece’s Also mentioned was José Manuel Barroso (prime minister of ruling party, but also president of the Socialist International (a Portugal, 2002-2004, president of the European Commission, position he still holds). In addition, he was himself a longtime 2004-2014) who, like Van Rompuy, used his offices to push member of the globalist über-elite and an attendee at the secre- empowerment of the EU and destruction of the nation state. He tive Bilderberg Group conferences. So, what sin precipitated his is a Bilderberg Steering Committee member, and, since leaving fall from grace? Well, as Nigel Farage pointed out, he had the “public service,” he has been appointed chairman of Goldman temerity to propose a national referendum to allow Greeks to Sachs International. Service has its rewards! vote on whether or not to accept the tax-and-austerity program For mentioning the ongoing, patently corrupt and treason- that the Bilderberg banksters at the IMF, the European Central ous attacks on the rule of law by a powerful oligarchy, Farage Bank, and Goldman Sachs had decided to impose upon them. has been branded as a “conspiracy theorist” by the controlled To be sure, Papandreou did not make his proposal out of media. Nevertheless, his new Brexit Party stormed to elec- any genuine sense of concern for “the will of the people.” No, toral victory in the May elections for members of the European it was a desperate politician’s pragmatic move. He was facing Parliament (MEPs). For a more in-depth report on Bilderberg nationwide revolt from furious voters, savers, investors, and 2019, see our next print issue of The New American. n

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