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Ed’s Editorial 2017 Jan 20
MURPHY’S LAW IN POLITICS
Buried deep beneath this week’s dramatic news about the inauguration of President Trump and undercover videos of leftist groups plotting to bring revolution to the streets of America, there was a story that is easy to miss. The event, which is described in the Featured News section, below, was barely newsworthy and certainly not surprising. In my view, however, it contains a profound lesson that is the key to restoring the Republic.
The story is about the abrupt end of donations to the Clinton Foundation now that neither Bill nor Hillary are in direct political power. No one was surprised at this because, even though the Clinton organization claimed that the Foundation did much good around the world, it was obvious that the millions of donated dollars were merely bribes for political favors. The minute the opportunity for such favors was removed from the equation, donations ceased.
This is a variation of Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong, will.” The political version is this: “If corruption is possible, corruption will occur.” That’s the lesson. If we create a government that allows corruption, we create a government that eventually will be destroyed by it. By allowing it, we create it. Bill and Hillary are merely the tip of the iceberg. There are thousands of others just like them who, as we speak, are continuing the grand tradition. Why? Because they can.
If we truly want to put an end to corruption, we must stop looking only at the criminals who are exposed from time-to-time and begin looking at the system that allows corruption. As long as the system remains, so will corruption.
The system that allows political corruption is built on a belief that the proper function of the state is to re-distribute wealth and treat different groups and classes of citizens differently, supposedly for the greater good. The name for that belief is collectivism. It is what allows con artists to move into government proclaiming they wish to serve mankind and bring about social justice. In most cases, however, what they really want is to be the elite who decide who gets what and who pays for it. Once in that position, they know there will be a never-ending line of people at their doors offering gifts, donations, no-risk investments, under-the-table payoffs, and pleasures galore in return for high-profit government contracts, tax loopholes, and legislative advantages over their competition.
This phenomenon is 100% predictable, and there is no way to stop it. It cannot be stopped by limiting the terms of elected officials, or by putting limits on the amount one person can donate to an official, or by preventing former officials from becoming lobbyists, or anything else that squirts water on the flames while ignoring the gas leak.
Collectivism is the gas leak. As long as we accept a political system built on the assumption that office holders will be honorable and that it is good that they should direct our lives, we shall forever be victims of the predator class.
The only way to stop thieves from going into public service is to have nothing there for them to steal. When the American Republic was created, this concept was well known. It was expressed by Thomas Jefferson when he said: “In questions of power, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”
The message was clear. Only fools would create a political system that depends on “confidence in man”. He and the others at the Constitutional Convention understood that scoundrels will seek government employment if there is an advantage for them to do so. Therefore, it is up to us to eliminate the advantage. That means we must create limitations on political power, we must write the rules so no one can re-distribute wealth or treat different groups and classes of citizens differently. In other words, we must bind men down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
G. Edward Griffin
2017 January 20
Featured Stories 2017 Jan 20
FEATURED STORIES
US: President-elect Trump wants to ban former government officials from lobbying for five years after they hold office and to ban them from lobbying for foreign enterprises entirely. InfoWars 2017 Jan 17 (Story)
Bill and Hillary Clinton are closing down their Clinton Global Initiative, part of the Clinton Foundation, because the donations have plummeted. Foreign governments are no longer interested in donating hundreds of millions of dollars now that Clintons are unable to sell political favors. Fox News 2017 Jan 16 (Story)
Week In Review 2017 Jan 20
WEEK IN REVIEW
California: The professional accountants on the state budget staff say they made a slight ‘math error’ in the amount of $1.5 billion. They ‘forgot’ to count all the expenses. California’s leftist legislators will have no problem with this. Instead of cutting expenses, they will, as usual, merely increase taxes and add a few new ones. ZeroHedge 2017 Jan 20 (Story) (Cached)
Mexican officials said that drug-cartel kingpin, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, has been extradited to the US. El Chapo was wanted in the US for drug trafficking and homicide, but the homicide charges have been dropped “to speed up extradition”. [Let’s face it. Guzman has friends in high places.] NewsBeat Social 2017 Jan 19 (Story)
The Secret Service has agreed to pay $24 million (in taxpayer funds) to settle a racism lawsuit in which more than 100 agents of African descent accused the agency of racial discrimination by promoting white agents over more qualified black agents. NewsBeat Social 2017 Jan 19 (Story)
Monsanto and EPA officials want to keep their information secret about the connection between cancer and glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup Ready pesticide. Fifty plaintiffs say they or their loved ones developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after exposure to Roundup herbicide, and that Monsanto has spent decades covering up the cancer risks. EcoWatch 2017 Jan 19 (Story) (Cached)
California: During a Rialto City Council meeting to consider becoming a sanctuary city, a leftist Mexican supremacist with the ACLU told white folks that they should have no more say in how the town that their forefathers founded is to be governed. The reason, he said, is that white people are a dwindling minority that only “has five years left.” [On that point, he may be right.] Information Liberation 2017 Jan 19 (Story) (Cached)
Bill Gates is launching a program for creating DNA and RNA vaccines. He wants to create vaccines at a faster rate by having regulations pre-authorized to begin rapid manufacturing in the event of an epidemic. [No one is asking who will decide if there is an epidemic or what criteria will be used, but we can be certain that the drug companies that make the vaccines will do both.] CBS News 2017 Jan 18 (Story)
US: Trump’s transitional team announced with satisfaction that Bayer AG will invest $8 billion in American research as part of its acquisition of Monsanto and that, in addition to keeping 9,000 Monsanto jobs in the US, it will add an additional 3,000 jobs that will “drive future innovation in agriculture”. It is clear that the focus of the Trump administration is on jobs with little awareness of the health-safety-issue behind genetically-modified foods. Newsmax 2017 Jan 18 (Story) (Cached)
Obama commuted much of the 35-year prison sentence of former US Army intelligence analyst, Chelsea Manning, for sharing classified documents with Wikileaks about killing innocent civilians by US forces in the wars in the Middle East. Chelsea has served over six years in prison and has tried to commit suicide twice. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said that he would accept extradition to the US if Obama granted clemency to Manning. Similar clemency will not be extended to Edward Snowden. RT 2017 Jan 17 (Story)
A privately owned Russian mint has created a 12-centimeter silver coin to commemorate Donald Trump’s inauguration that reads, “In Trump We Trust.” ODN 2017 Jan 17 (Story)
US: Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, interviews a man claiming to be Dom Tullipso and exposes him as a hoaxer who claimed to have funding of $80-million to hire protesters to disrupt Trump’s inauguration. On air, Tullipso switches his position and says that now his mission is to support Trump. In the end, this fellow, still unidentified, says he was just trying to see how easy it would be to fool the press. [We wonder if his real mission was to muddy up the fact that there really are groups out there paying protestors to create chaos in the name of protesting against Trump. If one story could be proved to be a hoax, then the public would be more inclined to dismiss the true stories as well.] Fox News 2017 Jan 17 (Story)
California: A Bill of Rights for Children has been introduced in the state Senate that would make it easy for the government to kidnap any child in the name of protecting them against the ‘poor judgment’ of their parents. The bill was authored by Dr. Richard Pan, the legislator/pediatrician who made vaccines nearly mandatory by requiring them for school attendance while also removing most parental exemptions. If this bill passes, the government will have unlimited authority to determine what is appropriate healthcare for a child, including mandatory vaccines. WeAreChange 2017 Jan 17 (Story) (Cached)
Turkish police captured the gunman they say shot and killed 39 people on New Years Eve at a nightclub in Istanbul. Abdulkadir Masharipov has confessed to the massacre and is said to be an Uzbekistan national who trained in Afghanistan and has links to ISIS. AP 2017 Jan 17 (Story) (Cached)
Covert cameras reveal that Disruption J20, an umbrella coalition of radical leftist groups, is planning to shut down Trump’s inauguration by blockading Washington, DC’s bridges, highways, and the metro rail system. The FBI has been notified of their plans. Project Veritas 2017 Jan 17 (Story)
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More covert-camera disclosures: Project Veritas infiltrated leftist organizations that are planning acts of terrorism during a privately organized inauguration ball celebrating Donald Trump’s election. Members of the radical ‘DC Anti-Fascist Coalition’ (who, themselves, follow the ideology of Fascism) met at the Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant, home of the Pizzagate pedophile controversy, to plot how to gas attendees with stink bombs and set off sprinklers. One of the conspirators advocated burning down the homes of people who try to stop them. Project Veritas 2017 Jan 16 (Story)
Donald Trump pulled a sting operation and proved that the intelligence community is leaking information about their meetings and doing so in such a way as to create fake news to put him in a bad light. Trump’s secret weapon is the abiliity to Tweet directly to 20-million Americans and completely bypass the controlled media. InfoWars 2017 Jan 16 (Story)
Yves Chandelon, NATO’s chief auditor who was investigating sources of funding for terrorism and money laundering, was found in his car, dead from a gunshot wound to the head. He was left-handed but the gun was found in his right hand. Although he owned three guns, the gun used in the alleged suicide was not one of them. Daily Sabah posted 2017 Jan 16 (Story) (Cached)
The European Council is seeking to require all Bitcoin users to register their identity and address into a central database. It is not clear how that could be enforced, but the power of law could make it dangerous for Bitcoin users not to comply. Registration is defended on the basis that it is needed to fight terrorism, but there is no evidence that terrorists use electronic currencies any more than they use any other payment system. Everyone knows that the primary reason governments oppose Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is that they allow people to escape the hidden tax of inflation and to maintain financial privacy. Deep Dot Web posted 2017 Jan 16 (Story) (Cached)
UK: An undercover reporter discovers that organizations pretending to be independent groups supporting policies of the Israeli government actually are fronts for the Israeli government and are directed from Israeli embassies. The goal is to shut down the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel because of its treatment of Palestine. Electronic Intafada 2017 Jan 12 (Story)
Analysis Jan 20
ANALYSIS
News and commentaries that reveal historical facts and trends that place current events into perspective and make it possible to anticipate future events.
US: Ben Swann analyses Pizzagate on his local CBS news show in Atlanta. While making it clear that there is no proof that Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant is operating a child sex ring, there are many facts surrounding the operation and the people associated with it that are hard to explain any other way. Swann is to be congratulated for asking why local police and the FBI have failed to open a public investigation into this matter. The absence of official interest in the possibility of pedophilia at such high political levels is suggestive of cover up. Ben Swann 2017 Jan 18 (Story)
US: David Knight reports that Congress has remained silent while the executive branch of government has usurped the power of Congress to make laws. It now is increasingly common for the bureaucracy, such as the EPA, to write rulings that are imposed upon the public as though they were laws. Furthermore, these administrative regulations have no limits on the size of fines that can be imposed and they presume the accused is guilty until proven innocent. This is the essence of totalitarianism. InfoWars 2017 Jan 18 (Story)
Geoff Lawton built a lush garden on ten acres in Jordan, despite the arid land (seven inches of rain per year) and salty soil, 400 meters below sea level. This was accomplished using ‘permaculture’ and ‘water harvesting’. Permaculture is the technique of selecting and arranging plants to sustain each other without human intervention. Water harvesting is done with contoured swale ditches that trap rain water and allow it to soak into the surrounding landscape. This uses only one-fifth the amount of water normally needed for growing. Fungi beneath the organic mulch repels salt, and decomposition makes salt inert. In this way, the desert becomes green and plush. See it for yourself. If this works in the Jordan desert, it will work anywhere. Withheld Intelligence posted 2017 Jan 17 (Story)
Craig Richardson of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute gives a quick overview of the Rockefeller game plan for using the myth of global warming. The goal is to build a social movement that, eventually, will lead to even greater wealth and political power for the global elites. InfoWars 2017 Jan 13 (Story)
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Here is a link to Richardson’s 24-page report on this history, “The Rockefeller Way: The Family’s Covert Climate Change Plan”. Energy & Environment Legal Institute 2017 Jan 13 (Story) (Cached)
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Humor 2017 Jan 20
HUMOR
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Soon after the drinks have been handed out, the Republican gives him a big smile, waves at him then says, “Thank you!” in an equally loud voice. This infuriates the union boss, who, once again loudly orders drinks for everyone except the Republican. As before, the Republican smiles and yells, “Thank you!”
The union boss cannot stand this and, yet again, orders drinks for everyone except the Republican and, as before the Republican smiles and yells, “Thank you!”
In anger, the union boss asks the bartender, “What the hell is the matter with that guy? I have ordered three rounds of drinks for everyone in the bar but him, and all the silly jerk does is smile and thanks me. Is he nuts?”
“Nope,” replies the bartender. “He owns the place!”
It’s Amazing 2017 Jan 20
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Reader’s Forum 2017 Jan 20
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SHOULD IMMORAL ACTS BE ILLEGAL?
2016 Jan 19 from Ben
Dear Mr. Griffin,
I was once (in my childhood) a liberal, then (after much learning) became a conservative. After Milton Friedman convinced me that drugs should be legalized, I realized that, through time and research, I had become a libertarian. You certainly influenced my political positions. You (and Bastiat) say that the state’s sole duty is to protect citizens life, liberty, and property. The only trouble I have with this, as a fundamentalist Christian, is that this would mean legalizing bestiality and similar things. What would you have to say on this?
REPLY FROM GEG:
Hello Ben.
You have hit upon one of the most challenging issues in knowing where to draw the line between freedom and coercion. However, there is an answer, although it puts our beliefs to the test. Below is my answer (short and long versions) as it appears on the web site of Freedom Force International:
MORALITY BY DECREE: Members of Freedom Force have strong convictions about life style, morality, and religion but they do not advocate the use of government to force their views on others. None of us have the right to compel our neighbor to adhere to a particular moral code – unless doing so is essential for the protection of lives, liberty, or property. If we do not have that right as individuals, then we cannot grant it to our elected representatives. The full explanation is here.
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TRUTH IS TRUTH
2017 Jan 16 from Stephen Walker
Subject: Satanist Explains NSA Power Grab
Mr. Griffin,
Truth is truth no matter its source. What this young man explains needs to be evaluated on the basis of its veracity. His beliefs certainly color what he has to say, but the essential truth he gives stands no mater his religious affiliation.
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CAN THE MESSAGE BE CONSIDERED APART FROM THE MESSENGER?
2016 Jan 15 from Graeme Howarth
Subject: Commentary from a Satanist
Hello Mr. Griffin,
I say as a born-again Christian that, though this man [a commentator quoted in last week’s news] is completely deluded spiritually, facts remain facts regardless of the source. If we can verify what he states to be as he states, there is no need to take into account our opinion of his religious beliefs or worldview. Thank you and may God bless your work.
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Quote Reveal 2017 Jan 20
Theodore Roosevelt
explorer, soldier, naturalist,
26th President of the United States,
1858 – 1919
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”