E-Newsletter No. 104 August 2022
Our Liberties are in danger of being toppled. In previous months, we discussed the Left’s attacks on the First and Second Amendments. This month, the Fourth Amendment –
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Is this fundamental right in danger of being toppled? We believe so. There are too many instances to list them all, so we will only mention a few of the more prominent examples. It has now been confirmed that the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe spied on the Trump campaign. Other questionable searches and seizures have been conducted against Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, Brandon Straka, James O’Keefe, and several others, including the FBI’s August 8th raid on President Trump’s home in Florida.
In addition to the incidents mentioned above, there continues to be a general increase in public surveillance. Fortunately, our country has not (yet) gone to the extremes of the Chinese Communist Party with their implementation of comprehensive surveillance, coupled with face recognition technology, and the implementation of a person’s “social credit score.” The CCP’s social credit ranking system ranges from Level 1 for people “who have done nothing wrong” to Level 6 for people who are considered to be a dishonest person and will face restrictions in their social lives, including being banned from air travel.
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This month, we also need to comment on the Democrat party’s $740 billion “Inflation Reduction Act” that was signed into law on August 16th. This spending equates to over $2,200 per person / nearly $9,000 for a family of four. Inflation can be characterized as paying more money for a particular item or (even worse) paying more money for an item of lesser value. Contrary to the name the Democrat party is using to sell this piece of legislation to the public, a more appropriate title should be the “Inflation Increase Act.”
President Biden has also announced the cancellation of Student Loan Debt. Estimates of the possible cost range from $300 billion to $1 trillion (another sizable sum). So, here are some pertinent questions. Is this simply a classic example of trying to buy votes? Aren’t the beneficiaries of this debt cancellation supposedly the individuals who have generally higher incomes? Isn’t this debt forgiveness simply shifting costs from those lucky individuals to someone else (i.e., our country’s taxpayers, many of whom have already paid off their own student loans)? And lastly… How can the Executive Branch unilaterally make such a law? Isn’t it the responsibility of Congress to control the federal government’s purse strings? When we were studying the Constitution, we were told that the Legislature writes the laws, the Executive branch enforces the laws passed by Congress, and the Judiciary helps protect our rights. What do we need to do to make sure each branch of government gets back to doing its own role, as laid out in the Constitution? (Nothing more, nothing less).
US Debt Clock – – July 1st – $91,700 per citizen / August 1st – $91,925