THE DEATH OF AMERICA
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF JOURNALISM
London, Great Britain. April 11, 2019: A Day Which Will Live in Infamy.
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Julian Assange,
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In 1787, the Founders of the United States refused to adopt the U.S. Constitution and our form of Government without a guarantee that there would be a Bill of Rights. Until December 15, 1791, the approval was conditional upon that Bill of Rights.
It is important to look at the order of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights. Though all the rights were important, the ones deemed most important were put up front. In the First Amendment, the Founders unequivocally stated that “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” By virtue of being Number 1, this right was considered even more important than the rights to "bear arms," against “unreasonable searches and seizures,” against “self -incrimination,” to “due process” or against “cruel and unusual punishment.” Notice, the First Amendment prevents abridgment, not just elimination. That means that any attempt, small or great, to eliminate free speech was considered by our Founders to be a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
In 1917, under Woodrow Wilson, one of the two most racist Presidents in U.S. History (the other one being Andrew Jackson), the Espionage Act was passed by Congress and signed into law. The long title was “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.” Though this was a law, it was not an Amendment. It did not abolish or amend the Constitution of the United States or the First Amendment.
The purpose behind the free press clause of the First Amendment was that, pre-revolution, colonists were arrested for publishing articles critical of the British Crown.
Now, Julian Assange, a publisher who published a true video, Collateral Murder, a video that depicts U.S. servicemen murdering reporters, shooting children and laughing about it, has been apprehended and arrested, reportedly in coordination with Donald Trump, a man who is apparently subverting and opposing the Constitution of the United States. Julian did not seek out the Collateral Murder video or other evidence of crimes committed by the U.S. military in Iraq, though the U.S. Government has imprisoned and continues to torture Chelsea Manning to try to force him to lie about Assange and Wikileaks. Such an act on the part of the U.S. Government is Subordination of Perjury. It’s a crime in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1622. This was a different law passed by Congress and signed into law by a former President.
The arrest and attempts to extradite Julian Assange in reported collaboration with the UK and Ecuadorian Governments are clear violations of the First Amendment, which supersede the Espionage Act of 1917. If the Bill of Rights goes, then what happens to the states that made their adoption of the Constitution of the United States conditional on the rights they demanded be included in the Bill of Rights? What happens to the states that later joined the union with the understanding that there was a First Amendment, a First Amendment which has not been amended or abolished and which supersedes all laws that contradict or limit it? Has Donald Trump engaged in the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government? The videos appear to show that Assange was violently removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy. He looked like a torture victim on the videos. Have Donald Trump and his Administration committed treason? Will the Democrats in the House of Representatives stand up against the overthrow of the Constitution from which the U.S. Government derives its power or will they acquiesce, thereby joining in the treasonous overthrow of the Constitution?
It is important to look at the order of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights. Though all the rights were important, the ones deemed most important were put up front. In the First Amendment, the Founders unequivocally stated that “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” By virtue of being Number 1, this right was considered even more important than the rights to "bear arms," against “unreasonable searches and seizures,” against “self -incrimination,” to “due process” or against “cruel and unusual punishment.” Notice, the First Amendment prevents abridgment, not just elimination. That means that any attempt, small or great, to eliminate free speech was considered by our Founders to be a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
In 1917, under Woodrow Wilson, one of the two most racist Presidents in U.S. History (the other one being Andrew Jackson), the Espionage Act was passed by Congress and signed into law. The long title was “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.” Though this was a law, it was not an Amendment. It did not abolish or amend the Constitution of the United States or the First Amendment.
The purpose behind the free press clause of the First Amendment was that, pre-revolution, colonists were arrested for publishing articles critical of the British Crown.
Now, Julian Assange, a publisher who published a true video, Collateral Murder, a video that depicts U.S. servicemen murdering reporters, shooting children and laughing about it, has been apprehended and arrested, reportedly in coordination with Donald Trump, a man who is apparently subverting and opposing the Constitution of the United States. Julian did not seek out the Collateral Murder video or other evidence of crimes committed by the U.S. military in Iraq, though the U.S. Government has imprisoned and continues to torture Chelsea Manning to try to force him to lie about Assange and Wikileaks. Such an act on the part of the U.S. Government is Subordination of Perjury. It’s a crime in violation of 18 U.S. Code § 1622. This was a different law passed by Congress and signed into law by a former President.
The arrest and attempts to extradite Julian Assange in reported collaboration with the UK and Ecuadorian Governments are clear violations of the First Amendment, which supersede the Espionage Act of 1917. If the Bill of Rights goes, then what happens to the states that made their adoption of the Constitution of the United States conditional on the rights they demanded be included in the Bill of Rights? What happens to the states that later joined the union with the understanding that there was a First Amendment, a First Amendment which has not been amended or abolished and which supersedes all laws that contradict or limit it? Has Donald Trump engaged in the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government? The videos appear to show that Assange was violently removed from the Ecuadorian Embassy. He looked like a torture victim on the videos. Have Donald Trump and his Administration committed treason? Will the Democrats in the House of Representatives stand up against the overthrow of the Constitution from which the U.S. Government derives its power or will they acquiesce, thereby joining in the treasonous overthrow of the Constitution?
The only member of the House of Representatives who had so far stood up for the Constitution of the United States is Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi GabbardVerified account @TulsiGabbard
The arrest of #JulianAssange is meant to send a message to all Americans and journalists: be quiet, behave, toe the line. Or you will pay the price.
Tulsi Gabbard is the only Presidential candidate who served in Iraq. She stands with the members of the armed services in wanting to end a war that should never have been fought. She believes the American people have the right to know the truth.
Tulsi GabbardVerified account @TulsiGabbard
The arrest of #JulianAssange is meant to send a message to all Americans and journalists: be quiet, behave, toe the line. Or you will pay the price.
Tulsi Gabbard is the only Presidential candidate who served in Iraq. She stands with the members of the armed services in wanting to end a war that should never have been fought. She believes the American people have the right to know the truth.
The President and his Cabinet, by working out deals with Ecuador to hold Julian Assange in solitary and turn him out to be prosecuted in violation of the First Amendment appears to be itself a clear violation of the Espionage Act as it constitutes working with a foreign government to interfere with the criminal laws of the United States.
Chelsea Manning acted in accordance with the Geneva Conventions in attempting to reveal crimes against protected civilians in an effort to stop future crimes. By refusing to participate in the cover-up of the willful murders of unarmed newsmen, he was acting in accordance with national and international laws. Under the Geneva Conventions, the very military prosecution of Chelsea Manning appears to be a violation of his right to refuse to be part of an apparent criminal cover-up of the murder of newsmen and other unarmed civilians, protected by the Geneva Conventions. Under Article 77 (1) of the ICRS (International Committee of the Red Cross),
“The High Contracting Parties undertake to ensure that their internal law penalizing disobedience to orders shall not apply to orders that would constitute grave breaches of the Conventions and this Protocol.”
What constitutes High Crimes and Misdemeanors for purposes of impeachment?
Under Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution,
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on impeachment or, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Is Conspiracy to cover up murder a high crime? Does abrogating and eliminating the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution of the United States constitute treason? Are members of the administration and Democrats who are attempting to subvert the First Amendment by having publicly pushed for and supported the arrest and/or prosecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning for engaging in First Amendment activities, also guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors?" Let’s look at section 2384 of the U.S. Code, Seditious Conspiracy, certainly is a “high crime.”
Chelsea Manning acted in accordance with the Geneva Conventions in attempting to reveal crimes against protected civilians in an effort to stop future crimes. By refusing to participate in the cover-up of the willful murders of unarmed newsmen, he was acting in accordance with national and international laws. Under the Geneva Conventions, the very military prosecution of Chelsea Manning appears to be a violation of his right to refuse to be part of an apparent criminal cover-up of the murder of newsmen and other unarmed civilians, protected by the Geneva Conventions. Under Article 77 (1) of the ICRS (International Committee of the Red Cross),
“The High Contracting Parties undertake to ensure that their internal law penalizing disobedience to orders shall not apply to orders that would constitute grave breaches of the Conventions and this Protocol.”
What constitutes High Crimes and Misdemeanors for purposes of impeachment?
Under Article II, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution,
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on impeachment or, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Is Conspiracy to cover up murder a high crime? Does abrogating and eliminating the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution of the United States constitute treason? Are members of the administration and Democrats who are attempting to subvert the First Amendment by having publicly pushed for and supported the arrest and/or prosecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning for engaging in First Amendment activities, also guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors?" Let’s look at section 2384 of the U.S. Code, Seditious Conspiracy, certainly is a “high crime.”
§2384. Seditious conspiracy: If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
While pushing the hilarious and disproven Russiagate conspiracy theory, the House and Senate Democrats appear to have joined with Donald Trump in attempting to subvert the most important of Amendments and openly attack this free speech prerequisite for the formation of the United States of America.
So who are the real criminals now? The trouble with a two party system is it will protect itself. Nancy Pelosi’s House will never impeach itself and Mitch McConnell’s Senate will never impeach itself or its President and Vice President. The only Presidential Candidate standing up with Julian Assange for freedom the press and the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Does this make Tulsi Gabbard the only member of the federal government eligible to be President.
Until and unless the people of the United States elect an independent Congress that puts the U.S Constitution above party loyalty and above political games, it is unlikely that anything will change or that America will be saved for our children and our children’s children. Gone from Congress are Constitutional Advocates like Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and Ron Paul. There is still Tulsi Gabbard and Ilhan Omar. But they are themselves being demonized for standing up for the Constitution of the United States.
The purpose of lifetime appointments to the federal courts was to make the federal courts independent of the political process. Will the Supreme Court stand up for the Constitution or will it choose loyalty to a political agenda over the Constitution? Will the people of the United States demand that their Constitution be enforced? Will the people of the United States put on their yellow vests and take to the streets to save their country? Until the Executive Legislative and Judicial Branches of the United Sates Government choose to support the Constitution of the United States, the country that was founded by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison is now DOA.
Time to have memorial services and funerals in memory of what was once
the United States of America.
So who are the real criminals now? The trouble with a two party system is it will protect itself. Nancy Pelosi’s House will never impeach itself and Mitch McConnell’s Senate will never impeach itself or its President and Vice President. The only Presidential Candidate standing up with Julian Assange for freedom the press and the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Does this make Tulsi Gabbard the only member of the federal government eligible to be President.
Until and unless the people of the United States elect an independent Congress that puts the U.S Constitution above party loyalty and above political games, it is unlikely that anything will change or that America will be saved for our children and our children’s children. Gone from Congress are Constitutional Advocates like Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and Ron Paul. There is still Tulsi Gabbard and Ilhan Omar. But they are themselves being demonized for standing up for the Constitution of the United States.
The purpose of lifetime appointments to the federal courts was to make the federal courts independent of the political process. Will the Supreme Court stand up for the Constitution or will it choose loyalty to a political agenda over the Constitution? Will the people of the United States demand that their Constitution be enforced? Will the people of the United States put on their yellow vests and take to the streets to save their country? Until the Executive Legislative and Judicial Branches of the United Sates Government choose to support the Constitution of the United States, the country that was founded by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison is now DOA.
Time to have memorial services and funerals in memory of what was once
the United States of America.
