The Bill of Rights turns 233 years old. Will it make it to 234 and beyond?

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The Bill of Rights turns 233 years old; will it make it to 234 and beyond?

On December 15, 1791, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution were ratified. Known collectively as the Bill of Rights, these amendments didn’t create and/or grant us our rights because they are endowed to us by our Creator, not the government. Instead, the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to confirm and guarantee those rights.

Sadly, on this 233rd birthday of the Bill of Rights, we are living in an age where liberty and freedom are facing the greatest dangers in history of being destroyed by the very government that the Bill of Rights was designed to protect us from.

In today’s America, hardly a day goes by where we aren’t facing an attempt by our government to deny us of our rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion, the right to bear arms, the right to private property, the right to fair treatment for accused criminals, the right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure, and the right of the states (the people) to have the final word on matters not covered by the Constitution.

I’ve documented in hundreds of articles since launching the Strident Conservative how the current assault against our rights has intensified at the hands of Democratic Socialists, the far left, Republican Nationalists, and the so-called conservative right. Additionally, I just released my book about this threat to liberty titled: The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty.

Though the destruction of the Bill of Rights has been going on since the days of FDR, things really took off post-9/11 when George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden used terrorism and COVID to begin building America’s police state.

George W. Bush got the ball rolling when he joined a bipartisan Congress to create a myriad of agencies and programs responsible for killing liberty. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The style Patriot Act. The Patriot Act II. Warrantless spying on Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA) under the “President’s Surveillance Program.”

These are just a few of the ways George W. Bush provided a foundation for Barack Obama to build upon. During his presidency, Obama expanded warrantless NSA spying on the phones and computers of Americans — thank you, Edward Snowden for exposing that — an expansion Obama defended as being “transparent” and providing “security” without sacrificing “our freedom.”

Barack Obama’s expansion of NSA power came as no surprise to those paying attention. On July 2, 2008, then-candidate Obama made this promise during a Boulder, CO, campaign stop:

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” (Emphasis mine)

While these words were forgotten after he became president, Obama began building his civilian national security force (i.e. police state) when he ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to buy billions of rounds of ammunition — enough to empty five rounds into the body of every living American at the time. Obama also began the militarization of local police, and his Department of Justice began placing local police under the control of the federal government.

In the early days of his first presidency, Donald Trump picked up where his predecessor left off with the militarization of local police when he threatened to “send in the Feds” to the City of Chicago for failing to address its violence problem to his liking.

In October 2019, Trump spoke at the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Chicago and announced a new plan to begin a sweeping crackdown on crime using a program he referred to as “the surge” — Ron Paul called this plan “the Patriot Act on steroids.”

Though “the surge” was temporarily delayed, Trump used COVID, Black Lives Matter riots, and his collapsing reelection campaign in 2020 to refocus on his plan to create a tyrannical police state when his Department of Justice ordered the DHS to begin “the surge” in Portland, Oregon. Using federal agents dressed in fatigues and wearing no badges or Federal ID, Trump’s DOJ abducted protesters, hauled them off to detention centers in unmarked vans, and conducted intelligence gathering.

This Gestapo-styled attack on liberty pleased Trump so much so that he threatened to use federal troops again in “other cities to deal with unrest.” A short time later, he made good on this threat by sending federal troops to Chicago and Albuquerque. Tom Ridge, the first DHS Secretary under Bush, said at the time that Trump had turned the Department into “the president’s personal militia,” a sentiment also shared by Judge Andrew Napolitano, who called Trump’s police state actions clearly “unconstitutional.”

During Trump’s presidency, the NSA continued spying at will and collecting massive amounts of call data on Americans. Trump was also responsible for the expansion of FISA702 and increase the NSA’s ability to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance on Americans, and he later pushed to make the NSA’s spying programs permanent.

For the Trumpists in the audience who will deny that Trump is a clear and present danger to the Bill of Rights, and since he’s about to begin his second term, let’s take a look at some of the things he did (in no particular order) during his first term in office:

Early in the first year of his presidency, Joe Biden unveiled his National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism to counter the rise in so-called “domestic terrorism” — a phrase he uses to describe people critical of government tyranny — and he added thousands of prosecutors and other law enforcement officials to the government payroll, including new personnel in the DOJ and DHS.

Biden later turned COVID hysteria into an opportunity to address so-called misinformation concerning vaccines and mask mandates by turning Big Tech companies into defacto speech police by requiring them to surrender user data to the federal government of people found to be spreading “misinformation.”

Biden created a “domestic terrorism” unit within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to deal with domestic terrorism as defined by the administration and would later use it to target parents concerned about Critical Race Theory being taught in public schools after labeling them “domestic terrorists” in a memorandum issued by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Joe Biden’s domestic terrorism agenda also went after the Second Amendment. Under his administration, he began building a national gun registry, and he used credit card companies to help him build it by tracking the gun and ammunition purchases of their customers and then making those records available to government.

And let’s not forget that it was Biden’s DHS that attempted to create an Orwellian Ministry of Truth known as the Misinformation/Disinformation Board to silence speech unless it was approved by government.

233 years ago, the Bill of Rights was born, but thanks to tyrants in Washington, we have to wonder how much longer we have before these rights no longer exists.

 

David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties.

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