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Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It Is Time to Recalibrate the Government

By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

It is time to recalibrate the government.

For years now, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry.

By “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.

We are overdue for a systemic check on the government’s overreaches and power grabs.

We have lingered too long in this strange twilight zone where ego trumps justice, propaganda perverts truth, and imperial presidents—empowered to indulge their authoritarian tendencies by legalistic courts, corrupt legislatures and a disinterested, distracted populace—rule by fiat rather than by the rule of law.

This COVID-19 pandemic has provided the government with the perfect excuse to lay claim to a long laundry list of terrifying lockdown powers (at both the federal and state level) that override the Constitution: the ability to suspend the Constitution, indefinitely detain American citizens, bypass the courts, quarantine whole communities or segments of the population, override the First Amendment by outlawing religious gatherings and assemblies of more than a few people, shut down entire industries and manipulate the economy, muzzle dissidents, reshape financial markets, create a digital currency (and thus further restrict the use of cash), determine who should live or die, and impose health mandates on large segments of the population.

These kinds of crises tend to bring out the authoritarian tendencies in government.

That’s no surprise: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Where we find ourselves now is in the unenviable position of needing to rein in all three branches of government—the Executive, the Judicial, and the Legislative—that have exceeded their authority and grown drunk on power.

This is exactly the kind of concentrated, absolute power the founders attempted to guard against by establishing a system of checks of balances that separate and shares power between three co-equal branches: the executive, the legislative and the judiciary.

“The system of checks and balances that the Framers envisioned now lacks effective checks and is no longer in balance,” concludes law professor William P. Marshall. “The implications of this are serious. The Framers designed a system of separation of powers to combat government excess and abuse and to curb incompetence. They also believed that, in the absence of an effective separation-of-powers structure, such ills would inevitably follow. Unfortunately, however, power once taken is not easily surrendered.”

Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom.

There’s no point debating which political party would be more dangerous with these powers.

The fact that any individual—or branch of government—of any political persuasion is empowered to act like a dictator is danger enough.

So what we can do to wrest back control over a runaway government and an imperial presidency?

It won’t be easy.

We are the unwitting victims of a system so corrupt that those who stand up for the rule of law and aspire to transparency in government are in the minority.

This corruption is so vast it spans all branches of government: from the power-hungry agencies under the executive branch and the corporate puppets within the legislative branch to a judiciary that is, more often than not, elitist and biased towards government entities and corporations.

We are ruled by an elite class of individuals who are completely out of touch with the travails of the average American.

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We have arrived at the dystopian future depicted in the 2005 film V for Vendetta, which is no future at all.

Set in the year 2020, V for Vendetta (written and produced by the Wachowskis) provides an eerie glimpse into a parallel universe in which a government-engineered virus wreaks havoc on the world. Capitalizing on the people’s fear, a totalitarian government comes to power that knows all, sees all, controls everything and promises safety and security above all.

Concentration camps (jails, private prisons and detention facilities) have been established to house political prisoners and others deemed to be enemies of the state. Executions of undesirables (extremists, troublemakers and the like) are common, while other enemies of the state are made to “disappear.” Populist uprisings and protests are met with extreme force. The television networks are controlled by the government with the purpose of perpetuating the regime. And most of the population is hooked into an entertainment mode and are clueless.

Sounds painfully familiar, doesn’t it? MORE.

The Global Landscape on Vaccine ID Passports and Where It’s Headed

Via Corey’s Digs

Who would have thought just a couple years ago that we would be facing this level of unconstitutional surveillance, whereby your health is on full display and entry into civilization is thwarted by a little thing called “vaccine id passports?” Well, the fact is, many of us saw this coming, and have been warning of it for quite some time. One big tip off was ID2020, which was launched in 2016 by none other than Bill Gates’ Gavi, Microsoft, The Rockefeller Foundation, Accenture, and Ideo.org. How prophetic of them to nail down the year ‘2020’ as a need for a “digital ID solution,” and launch their “certification mark” approval for stakeholders to get to work on technology apps as early as January 2019… ahead of schedule. All of this is part of their overall “Great Reset” agenda, with their full intention of implementing digital IDs that go far beyond the Covid-19 element, and will incorporate additional data on each individual, while tying in their social score, climate score, and finances as well.

So just how far have they gotten with these digital “vaccine id passports” thus far? Below is a roadmap showing where all states are at as far as a partial ban, full ban, legislation, allowing the passports, and those who are heavily pushing it. One thing is clear – people and states are fighting this! In subsequent articles, I will break down where they are trying to go with this agenda, who the biggest players are, and how they intend to connect this into the digital financial future they are creating. People and states must continue to fight back against this to prevent these authoritarians from unleashing the greatest takeover of mankind ever witnessed on a global scale. We can stop this.

According to the Chronicle for Higher Education, more than 500 colleges and universities plan to require a Covid-19 injection for at least some of their students and employees, with the majority of them being located in democrat states. One university in a republican state, Indiana University, is now facing a lawsuit by several students, alleging that IU’s mandate violates the liberty protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which includes rights of personal autonomy and bodily integrity, and the right to reject medical treatment. Lawsuits to prevent the requirement of both the injection and id passports must continue. This is a fight for our future.

Congress has already introduced 13 new vaccine-related bills in 2021, of which 11 were sponsored by democrats. They’ve even introduced a new “maternal vaccinations act,” and want to roll out a campaign to push expanding HPV vaccinations. Under the guise of “protecting seniors,” they want to further inform seniors to get the dozen immunizations they recommend for adult populations. While pushing them on seniors, they were certain to include an “Act” to be sure all of the children have access to vaccines as well. There is one bill that includes providing information on the benefits and potential side effects for each immunization, to nursing facility operators, which could be beneficial. One bill that could be very important is the ‘vaccine injury compensation modernization act,’ but we have no way of knowing, as they have neglected to publish the text or summary on it as of yet, despite being introduced over 3 weeks ago.

Perhaps one of the most disconcerting bills, is the ‘Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021‘ which entails “supporting the development and implementation of policies that facilitate complete population-level capture, consolidation, and access to accurate immunization information” through rapid identification, while working with private partnerships to achieve this goal, and awarding only those who follow the exact “standards” set by the technical team the Secretary chooses to contract with. Now who could that possibly be, lurking in the shadows? This entire bill is a setup to track every single person, lock them into a database that shares information far and wide, and try to force vaccine id passports. Rep. Ann M. Kuster (D-NH-2), sponsor of the bill, is on a mission to “get this vaccine into the arms of every American.” MORE.

Nanny State Britain: Boris Johnson to Introduce Junk Food Credit Score App

Via Breitbart

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to launch a communist China-style social credit score app that will reward families based on government-approved choices at the grocery store.

The supposedly Conservative government will launch an app by the end of the year to monitor the supermarket spending habits of families in the UK. Those who choose “healthier” options such as fruits and vegetables or engage in exercise will be rewarded with “loyalty points” in the app, which will translate into discounts and other incentives.

“There is a whole team in Downing Street working on this, and the Prime Minister thinks that we simply cannot go on as before and that we must now tackle it head-on,” a White Hall source told The Telegraph.

“He has been on a very rigorous diet and exercise programme and it is likely he will play a leading role in fronting this whole campaign.”

The outgoing head of the NHS, Lord Stevens said that the UK’s socialised healthcare system will be weighed down in the future if the government failed to tackle the rising obesity in the country.

“The layers of the onion… stretch out to things that are obviously beyond a healthcare system’s direct control, including the obesogenic food environment that children and poorer communities are exposed to.

“Countries, where more than half the population are overweight, have had 10 times more Covid death,” Lord Stevens noted.

Some have criticised the nanny state mentality of the government, likening the programme to the social credit score in China, which tracks the habits of citizens, awarding positive points for buying things like diapers and subtractions for buying alcohol. The communist scheme has also seen tens of millions of citizens barred from travelling because their score was too low. MORE.

Hillary Clinton donor Ed Buck convicted over overdoses of two men in West Hollywood

Via The Post Millennial

Buck gave thousands for Clinton’s 2016 campaign. He also lured black men to his home and injected them with drugs, subjecting them to sexual servitude.

On Tuesday the notorious Democrat Donor Ed Buck, age 66, was convicted in the deaths of two people and several overdoses for a grand total of nine charges. The specifics include “maintaining a drug den,” distributing meth, and soliciting for prostitution.

The most prominent of these cases being the July 2017 death of Gemmel Moore and the January 2019 death of Timothy Dean.

In the aftermath of Moore’s death, reporting swelled surrounding the connections between Ed Buck and Hillary Clinton.

According to WeHo Times: “Buck gave $2700 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2015 and another $250 in 2016. He was also influential in the most recent city council races (to which he gave thousands of dollars to support the incumbents), making him one of California’s most prolific and substantial political donors.”

Now today according to Associated Press the demonstrably wealthy California Democrat donor was found guilty by a federal jury for injecting meth into gay men for sex.
A practice that claimed two victims and almost caused a third death. The trial went into gratuitous detail about how Black men were sexualized and subjected to “drugs-and-sex sessions” in Ed Buck’s West Hollywood den.

In what the Daily Beast previously described as Ed Buck meticulously seeking out victims, the January 2019 death of Timothy Dean at Buck’s home put him on the radar of authorities.
But everyone knew. In the gay community Buck’s predatory behavior was an open secret. He’s said to have “eluded arrest by filling the coffers of California’s most powerful politicians” for many years.

The aspect of drug addiction forming the tightrope of connecting tissue that put all the pieces into place. MORE.

BLM Group Demands White Parents ‘Pledge’ Not To Send Their Kids To Ivy League Schools So Black Students Can Attend Instead

Via The Daily Mail

A social justice group has said it sent a letter to white Democrats in two wealthy Texas neighborhoods calling on them to pledge their children will not apply to Ivy League schools so that black students can get a spot instead.

Dallas Justice Now (DJN), which appears to have been set up recently, is asking white supporters of Black Lives Matter to commit to ‘making sacrifices to correct centuries of injustice.’

The group is specifically calling on white people to sign its ‘college pledge’ not to send their children to Ivy League or US News & World Report Top 50 schools ‘and instead leave those spots open for students from Black, LatinX, and other marginalized backgrounds who were denied access to these institutions for hundreds of years.’

Ethnic minorities have long been underrepresented in Ivy League schools. At Harvard and Princeton, only around 6 percent of the total student body are black, according to Data USA. At Columbia and Cornell this figure stood at around 5 percent, while Brown around 7 percent.

DJN said in a press release it has sent the pledge out to the ’95 percent white Highland Park and University Park neighborhoods’.

Data from the US Census Bureau shows 88 percent of residents in University Park are white, with just 1.5 percent of people being black or African American. In Highland Park, 91 percent are white and less than 1 percent black or African American.

Both areas are among the richest in the state, with residents enjoying a median household income above $200,000 and Highland Park ranking in the 10 wealthiest communities in America back in 2018.

The average house price stood at $1.3 million in University Park and $1.5 million in Highland Park between 2015 and 2019, with some mansions along the iconic Beverly Drive currently on the market for $10 million.

The pledge letter, seen by Dallas City Wire, tells rich, white people they ‘earned or inherited your money through oppressing people of color’.

‘We are writing to you because we understand you are white and live within the Highland Park Independent School District and thus benefit from enormous privileges taken at the expense of communities of color,’ the letter reads.

‘You live in the whitest and wealthiest neighborhood in Dallas, whether you know it or not, you earned or inherited your money through oppressing people of color.’ MORE.

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