Deep State: Stop Invading Our Airspace with Drones
As concern mounted over the wave of unidentified drones flying over populated areas of the Northeast, President Trump felt compelled to cancel his trip to his New Jersey home. Trump soberly declined to say whether he had received a classified security briefing about the drones, but pointed out that “The government knows what is happening. Our military knows, and our president knows, and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense.”
White House spokesman John Kirby is not disclosing the full story, obviously, as he’s already backed off his implausible assertion that most of the low-flying objects are really airplanes. He still insists, however, that hobbyists are behind many of these drones, which are too large, too sophisticated, and flying too late at night to be from amateurs amusing themselves.
It appears likely that the numerous high-tech drones are searching for something from their low altitude of 400 feet and less. By flying only at night they must be using sensors that can detect substances on the ground in the dark.
After four years of an open border under Biden, it’s possible that a weapon of mass destruction has been smuggled into our country. But it’s more likely that this drone operation is another stunt by the Deep State to exert power over everyday Americans, and even Trump, under the false pretense of national security.
Realistically, threats from distant lands of destruction in America are probably nothing more than a teenage boy in someone’s basement emailing a prank message. The calls to Springfield, Ohio in September that shut down its schools and hospitals were phony threats from a foreigner that were taken too seriously.
Trump said on December 16 that Biden knows what is behind these drones, and that he should tell the American people. Any assumption that there would be panic about a revelation, for example, that the drones are looking for a nuclear weapon, would underestimate the resilience and healthy skepticism of the public about fake news from D.C.
The political timing of this mystery is suspect. Merely a month from Trump’s inauguration and on the eve of the annual bloated defense appropriation in Congress, whereby billions are wastefully allocated to a military having too many generals and not enough recruits, a more ingenious public relations stunt at this time for boosting expenditures is difficult to imagine.
The Deep State is demonically clever at asserting its own power and obtaining more lavish funding for itself, and may never fess up to the truth about this. Someone is probably making a fortune at taxpayer expense by providing these high-tech drones in the Northeast.
The federal government claims to have exclusive authority to regulate everyone’s airspace such that Deep State drones can buzz our homes late at night. One of these large drones, reportedly as big as an SUV or refrigerator, could crash into someone’s living room and kill innocent inhabitants there.
Part of the game plan may be to get Trump to back off from draining the Swamp and fumigating the intelligence community. This apparently military exercise is a way for the overpaid and underproductive spooks in D.C. to reassert their authority over our incoming president, even forcing him away from his summer home.
“Something strange is going on,” Trump said on December 16. “For some reason they don’t want to tell the people.”
Meanwhile the usually talkative Elon Musk has been oddly silent about these drones, like the dog that didn’t bark in the famous Sherlock Holmes tale, which suggests that Musk may be selling drone technology under one of his many contracts with our military. Musk’s SpaceX has the expertise to pull off this type of operation while evading detection by Americans who have a right to know who is flying a few hundred feet over their homes.
“National security” is the phony reason given for the planned shutdown of TikTok on January 19, the day before the inauguration of Trump. Supposedly watching funny videos of children’s mishaps, embarrassing moments, and overbearing official behavior poses such a threat to our country from China that this popular rival of liberal-controlled Facebook and YouTube must be forced out of business.
Trump met with the CEO of TikTok on December 16, observing that the platform helped Trump get elected by enabling him to reach young voters. Liberals control schools, the media, and other internet platforms so TikTok is one of the few ways that a conservative message can reach them.
TikTok users and most of the American public would shrug their shoulders at a claim that a weapon of mass destruction may have been smuggled into our country, thereby supposedly justifying this intrusive drone operation. Many Americans want to know the truth about these drones, and want them out of their airspace over their homes.
Trump’s Pardons Can Extend to Elector Cases, Too
The biggest furor over Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son Hunter has been from Deep Staters who resist any limits on political prosecutions, which Democrats have been abusively using against Trump and his supporters. A recent headline in the liberal Washington Post screams, “The political case for limiting pardon power.”
The U.S. Supreme Court, including the eminent Chief Justice William Rehnquist, repeatedly emphasized that pardons are “rarely, if ever, appropriate subjects for judicial review” because they are the authority of the executive, including the president. The pardon clause in the Constitution extends to all crimes “against the United States.”
The Constitution broadly uses the term “United States” to refer to all the States, as in “We the People of the United States” in the Preamble. The Constitution refers in Article I, Section 8 to the “general Welfare of the United States.”
President Ulysses S. Grant pardoned officials convicted under state law for the criminal offense of allowing Susan B. Anthony to vote in the 1872 presidential election. President Grant’s power to pardon for that crime is widely supported, even though the officials were convicted under state rather than federal law.
The U.S. Department of Justice, which prosecutes federal crimes today, did not even exist prior to 1870. The only federal crimes mentioned in the original Constitution are treason, piracy on the high seas, and counterfeiting; the pardon power extends beyond those and not merely to federal crimes as some argue.
The ongoing political prosecutions of Republican electors in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan allege crimes related to the 2020 election for president of the United States, and Trump can grant pardons to end this abuse of power by local prosecutors. These were not common law crimes such as murder or robbery which might arguably be beyond presidential pardon authority.
On December 10, Democrats in Wisconsin filed sweeping new criminal charges against Trump advisers and supporters based on disputes over the 2020 election, which the American People resolved in favor of Trump by reelecting him in November. These and similar charges can and should be pardoned by President Trump on January 20, as this is within the broad presidential pardon power and necessary to ensure Trump can obtain candid advice.
When the State of Colorado wrongly excluded Trump from being on its ballot for the presidential primary there earlier in 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed 9-0 that this was an improper action affecting the entire United States. The Court reversed the Colorado Supreme Court for the good of our entire Nation, just as Trump should end the political prosecutions by Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Josh Kaul, and Kris Mayes.
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 74 “that the benign prerogative of pardoning should be as little as possible fettered or embarrassed.” James Monroe, a popular early conservative president, granted 419 pardons.
The King of England’s pardon power, on which our constitutional pardon power is based, withstood attempts there to narrow it, other than not allowing it to extend to impeachment as our Constitution also states. An attempt at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to remove treason from the scope of the pardon power was defeated by a vote of 8 states to 2.
Pardons issued by President George Washington and many presidents ever since have been broad in scope, such that state prosecutions did not proceed after the grant of these presidential pardons. Democrat President Bill Clinton was the first to issue a posthumous pardon in 1999, which some questioned because the deceased recipient could not accept it, but no one challenged it.
The Supreme Court held that the president’s pardon power “extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment,” in Ex parte Garland (1867). President Millard Fillmore granted a conditional pardon to spare the execution by hanging of a convicted murderer in the District of Columbia, as upheld by the Supreme Court in Ex parte Wells (1856).
Biden set the precedent by broadly pardoning his son, which should silence the liberal media when Trump does likewise soon for victims of political prosecutions. Democrats can hardly complain about the full use of the pardon power by Trump now, which can extend to politically motivated state prosecutions.
Our Founders would be appalled at the overbearing police state of today, whereby congressmen, Cabinet officials, and even presidents have been terrified of what low-level attorneys may do to them by filing criminal charges in biased courts. It is long overdue to rein in the tyranny by politically motivated prosecutors, federal and state, through Trump’s full use of the pardon power.
Nationwide Injunction against Deep State FinCEN
A stunning setback to the Deep State from a federal district court in remote eastern Texas: Judge Amos Mazzant just issued a nationwide injunction against the new mandate that more than 30 million Americans report their personal information to the federal government by Jan. 1.
Merely 29 days from the deadline, Judge Amos Mazzant gave Americans the Christmas gift that many hoped for. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which is a federal agency located near Washington, D.C., is suddenly blocked nationwide from requiring that Americans report their home addresses, birthdates, and driver’s license numbers to it.
Many Americans were unaware of this new federal criminal law, which carries a penalty of two years in prison for non-compliance. Everyone involved in small local entities, other than those exempt, faced this reporting requirement for the purpose of law enforcement, including harassing federal investigations.
The two-year incarceration is particularly significant because that automatically strips Americans of their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, if found to be in violation of this Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The actual punishment for a CTA violation may be light, but the mere possibility of being imprisoned for more than a year results in automatic deprivation of the right to possess a firearm due to another federal statute.
The federal government justified this new privacy-invading statute based on its overused monikers of supposedly combating money laundering and terrorism. The Deep State expands its federal police power by repeatedly pretending to fight such unlawful activity, when in fact the D.C. elite are really monitoring and intimidating law-abiding Americans.
House Democrats used that same excuse of supposedly eradicating money laundering and terrorism as a justification for seeking private banking records of Trump’s family members with sweeping subpoenas. The Supreme Court halted those subpoenas back in July 2020, unpersuaded by the pretext.
But at the end of 2020, Dems inserted the CTA into a 1,500-page defense appropriations bill, such that no one noticed at the time. This was set to go into effect with its draconian penalties on Jan. 1, 2025, for 33 million Americans.
Some have received notices about this requirement from their accountants, but not even CPAs can understand exactly which entities and individuals are truly subject to this law. People are being told to get legal advice that will cost thousands of dollars.
Congress lacks the constitutional authority to become Big Brother to watch so many ordinary Americans, the federal court held on December 3 in issuing its nationwide injunction against this horrible law. “For good reason, Plaintiffs fear this flanking, quasi-Orwellian statute and its implications on our dual system of government,” the court held while ruling against the Deep State.
The CTA would turn every law-abiding American into a suspected federal criminal, subject to investigations and prosecution by the federal government for purely local activities far afield from any legitimate national concern. The political persecution of national leaders like Trump was about to come to every mom-and-pop entity organized under state law without any expectation of federal monitoring.
The six plaintiffs in this case were led by Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc, a family-operated small business in Conroe, Texas, that sells firearms locally. It has only four employees, and yet FinCEN demanded that it file by New Year’s Day personal information about some of the participants in its business.
Another plaintiff is Mustardseed Livestock, LLC, which is a small dairy farm located entirely in Lingle, Wyoming. It produces dairy for its own use, while occasionally selling surplus raw milk there, not across state lines.
The federal government has no legitimate authority over these small, local entities created under state law. The Commerce Clause grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, but that is not what Congress is doing with the CTA.
The federal judge in this case was appointed to the bench by President Barack Obama and supported by Sen. Ted Cruz as part of a compromise with respect to confirming a batch of new judges.
“Great nations, like great men, should keep their word,” Judge Mazzant wrote in quotation of Justice Hugo Black. Judge Mazzant added, “Ours is a written Constitution.” He held that the “CTA does not regulate channels of, or instrumentalities in, commerce” between states, and thus is beyond the authority of Congress under the Commerce Clause.
Other provisions of the Constitution, such as doing what is necessary and proper to regulate foreign affairs and protect national security, likewise fail to justify this intrusive snooping that FinCEN itself estimated would cost $22.7 billion in the first year and $5.6 billion in subsequent years. Selling raw milk to a neighbor does not justify this vast, costly expansion in federal police power, and Americans can breathe a sigh of relief.
Chilly Temperatures Debunk Climate Change, Again
The climate change agenda has become the latest way for foreign countries to loot the United States for billions of dollars. Supposedly climate change caused by carbon emissions in developed countries is bringing about natural disasters in poorer countries, such as floods and droughts, but these have been occurring since long before the use of oil.
COP29, which was the 29th annual climate conference of the United Nations, wrapped up in Azerbaijan with a shocking resentment by recipients of a mammoth new $300 billion annual handout promised to them by Western nations by 2035. This far exceeds prior pledges, but the ungrateful recipients of this handout are howling in protest that it is not enough for them.
In 2023 then-Climate Czar John Kerry said we would not agree to pay climate reparations, but he’s left office and the Biden Administration just told the world that we would pay billions of dollars. Playing semantics, liberals say that when these payments are voluntary then it is called a “loss and damage fund,” while if the obligation is mandatory it is called “reparations.”
If voluntary, President Trump can decline to pay them. After all, India is ranked as the worst overall polluter in the world while it also has trade barriers impeding American-made farm products, and we certainly should not pay those who refuse our goods.
The New York Times complains about the “Climate Change” that is coming to the White House on this issue, as Trump has pledged to withdraw the United States from liberal foreign agreements like the Paris Agreement. “Drill, baby, drill” is Trump’s exhortation to his nominee for the Department of Interior, Doug Burgum, to open up vast federal lands to the extraction of oil.
Under Burgum’s leadership and that of his predecessors as governor of North Dakota, it has become the second-largest oil producer in the United States after Texas. This has brought prosperity, many well-paying jobs, and population growth to the barren land that lacks the natural beauty and warm weather of California.
Colder-than-usual temperatures gripped the northern United States beginning on Thanksgiving and worsening into the following week. The expected low temperature for the traditional NFL Thanksgiving Green Bay Packers game was a frigid 20 degrees Fahrenheit, possibly with snow.
That was bad news for the star Hawaiian quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, who had been 0-7 in cold games and lost again this time, by 30-17. Despite the predictions of Al Gore and other liberals of devastating global warming that was going to ruin the world, cold weather continues to be a bigger problem than warm weather.
Recall how Biden and Harris offered only $750 for each household ravaged by Hurricane Helene, which is barely enough to pay for a month’s grocery and fuel expenses. Just as when we end up on the hook for most of the handouts promised by NATO officials, Democrats will have us paying victims of hurricanes in every country except our own.
Azerbaijan’s president, Ilham Aliyev, candidly called oil and gas a “gift from God.” China, which is the biggest carbon emitter on our planet, is still defined by the U.N. as merely a “developing” country that thereby has no obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or contribute payments to poor countries.
Military emissions continue to be exempt from the reporting, despite that many bombs, fighter planes, tanks, aircraft carriers, and more than a half-million military buildings are among the biggest emitters. The environmentalists who clamor for cutbacks are silent on the harm caused by the Russia-Ukraine war.
In retaliation for Biden approving the use by Ukraine of launching American missiles into Russia, Putin has responded by firing its new hypersonic “Oreshnik” missile that travels too fast to intercept. These fly at 8,000 miles per hour and can travel up to 3,400 miles, easily reaching all of Europe and even our West Coast for enormous explosions.
A far greater risk to climate change is posed by the increasing likelihood of World War III breaking out. On November 25th, speaking at an event for the European Policy Centre think tank, Dutch Admiral and NATO Military Committee Chair Rob Bauer warned businesses around the world to bring their production back home so that they are not beholden to foreign governments.
Bauer declared as quoted in the New York Post, “Businesses need to be prepared for a wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly. Because while it may be the military who wins battles, it’s the economies that win wars.”
But wait, doesn’t this advice go against the globalist mantra that pushed the United States to send manufacturing jobs offshore in recent decades? If world war breaks out, China and Mexico could order a halt to their manufacturing of cell phones, automobiles, and other products for American consumers, crippling our economy.
