The Shell Game of Corrupted Government Exposed
A Re-Declaration of Independence - Third Installment
"...Everson v. Board of Education [1947] was the first time the Supreme Court applied the 'due process' clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to make the federal wall of separation apply to religious matters among the individual states. What this amounted to was the actual breaking down of the federal wall set up by the First Amendment so that the Supreme Court actually usurped jurisdiction over religious matters in the states and began dictating what the states could or could not do with reference to religious questions" (Skousen 685). Moreover, in this case, "...the Supreme Court made it clear that neither the federal government nor the state government could encourage religion in any way. Justice Hugo L. Black spoke for the court and declared in his opinion, 'Neither a State nor the Federal government...can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. The Founders would have heartily endorsed Justice Black's 'no preference' doctrine, but they would, no doubt, have objected vigorously to outlawing indirect aid for, and encouragement to, 'all religions'...it was 'all religions' the Founders had said they were relying upon to undergird society with those moral teachings which are 'necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind. No doubt they would have further objected to the court's presumptive usurpation in taking jurisdiction over a religious question, which had been specifically reserved, by the First and Tenth Amendments, to the states themselves" (Skousen 686). "Without a doubt, there has been a severe wrenching of the Constitution from its original First Amendment moorings ever since this new trend began," starting with the Gitlow case (Skousen 685).
In Zorach v. Clauson [1952], "...the Supreme Court took its newly acquired jurisdiction over religious questions in state schools to announce...that it was very solicitous of religion and would approve classes in religion during the regular school day, providing the classes were held separate from any tax-supported property" (Skousen 686).
In Engel v. Vitale [1962], the Supreme Court overruled the New York Court of Appeals' approval of a prepared, nondenominational prayer for use in the public schools, thereby intermeddling in a religious state question (Skousen 687).
In Abington School District v. Schemp [1963], the Supreme Court intruded upon the religious liberty of a high school which had opening ceremonies that included reciting the Lord's Prayer and reading Bible verses, declaring such conduct as unconstitutional. "It was pointed out to the court that 'unless these religious exercises are permitted, a "religion of secularism" is established in the schools,' but the Court rejected this argument" (Skousen 687).
Summary of "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...": The federal government cannot limit the freedom of speech.
Examples of how the Founders' original intention of this provision has been violated by the federal government:
Catherine Engelbrecht, who is the chairwoman of the election integrity group True the Vote and is the founder and leader of King Street Patriots (a Tea Party group) and is the president of Engelbrecht Manufacturing, became a target of the federal government. As Mrs. Engelbrecht testified on February 6, 2014, before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, "Shortly after filing IRS forms to establish 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organizations, an assortment of federal entities - including law enforcement agencies and a Congressman from Maryland, Elijah Cummings - came knocking at my door. In nearly two decades of running our small business, my husband and I never dealt with any government agency, outside of filing our annual tax returns. We had never been audited, we had never been investigated, but all that changed upon submitting applications for the non-profit statuses of True the Vote and King Street Patriots. Since that filing in 2010, my private businesses, my nonprofit organizations, and family have been subjected to more than 15 instances of audit or inquiry by federal agencies [i.e. IRS, OSHA, ATF, FBI]... All of these incursions into my affairs began after filing applications for tax-exemption. There is no other remarkable event, no other reason, to explain away how for decades I went unnoticed, but now find myself on the receiving end of interagency coordination into and against all facets of my life, both public and private... these events were occurring while the IRS was subjecting me to multiple rounds of abusive inquiries, with requests to provide every Facebook and Twitter entry I'd every posted, questions about my political aspirations, and demands to know the names of every group I'd ever made presentations to, the content of what I'd said, and where I intended to speak for the coming year. The answers to these sorts of questions are not of interest to the typical IRS analyst, but they are of great interest to a political machine that puts its own survival above the civil liberties of any private citizen" ("Testimony" 2-4). This kind of testimony has been shared before Congress by Becky Gerritson (President of Wetumpka Tea Party in Alabama), Karen Kenney (Leader of the San Fernando Valley Patriots), Kevin Kookegey (President and Founder of Linchpins of Liberty), Susan Martinek (President of the Coalition for Life of Iowa), and many others, and has resulted in what has become known as the IRS Scandal (Pavlich).
Diane's "Magnus Opus" is rather long, so it has been broken into excerpts, and we will bring those excerpts in a concise manner here. If you are one who considers knowledge is the key to all worthy endeavors to, in exact wisdom, take back our Republic, Diane Rufino's "Magnus Opus" is a must read.
The previous second installment for "A Re-Declaration of Independence" can be found here.
On February 17, 2014, it was reported that "IRS Regulation-134417-13, 'Guidance for Tax-Exempt Social Welfare Organizations on Candidate-Related Political Activities,' is a proposed new regulation that is an outrageously brazen attempt by the IRS to silence the speech of 501(c)(4) organizations before the upcoming election. If implemented, the regulation would prohibit a 501(c)(4) from speaking to matters of public concern during the 2014 election cycle" (Staver).
Summary of "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom...of the press...": The federal government cannot limit the freedom of the press.
Examples of how the Founders' original intention of this provision has been violated by the federal government:
On May 13, 2013, the Associated Press announced that the telephone records for 20 of their reporters had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department for a two-month period in 2012; the subpoenas were not issued to the AP but to the AP's telephone providers and Verizon Wireless (Ingram).
On May 19, 2013, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. Justice Department seized the email and telephone records of Fox News reporters, including chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, and obtained a search warrant for the content of Rosen's private and work emails and telephone records (as well as his parent's phone records) in connection with Stephen Kim, a former State Department contractor who was charged with disclosing classified information about North Korea to Rosen (Marimow & Howerton). The warrants were obtained on the accusation that Rosen was a possible "criminal co-conspirator" with Kim.
Thomas Drake, who worked as a senior technical director with the NSA for 32 years but is now a prominent NSA whistleblower, recently "...warned that journalists are being increasingly frozen out of government sources." He went on to say, "In our post-9/11 world, the government is increasingly in the 'First Un-amendment' business, engaged in a direct assault on free speech and the very foundation of our democracy." He also said, "How...will the press report the real news when their sources dry up and the government becomes a primary purveyor of its own news?" (Lyngass)
Summary of "Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble...": The federal government cannot keep the American people from peaceful assembly.
Diane's "Magnus Opus" will continue by breaking this fine work into ongoing excerpts, which can be found in excerpt form here in volumes. Stay tuned and know that more of Diane Rufino's "A Re-Declaration of Independence" is on the way to a BCN near you.
Go Back
In Zorach v. Clauson [1952], "...the Supreme Court took its newly acquired jurisdiction over religious questions in state schools to announce...that it was very solicitous of religion and would approve classes in religion during the regular school day, providing the classes were held separate from any tax-supported property" (Skousen 686).
In Engel v. Vitale [1962], the Supreme Court overruled the New York Court of Appeals' approval of a prepared, nondenominational prayer for use in the public schools, thereby intermeddling in a religious state question (Skousen 687).
In Abington School District v. Schemp [1963], the Supreme Court intruded upon the religious liberty of a high school which had opening ceremonies that included reciting the Lord's Prayer and reading Bible verses, declaring such conduct as unconstitutional. "It was pointed out to the court that 'unless these religious exercises are permitted, a "religion of secularism" is established in the schools,' but the Court rejected this argument" (Skousen 687).
Summary of "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...": The federal government cannot limit the freedom of speech.
Examples of how the Founders' original intention of this provision has been violated by the federal government:
Catherine Engelbrecht, who is the chairwoman of the election integrity group True the Vote and is the founder and leader of King Street Patriots (a Tea Party group) and is the president of Engelbrecht Manufacturing, became a target of the federal government. As Mrs. Engelbrecht testified on February 6, 2014, before the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, "Shortly after filing IRS forms to establish 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organizations, an assortment of federal entities - including law enforcement agencies and a Congressman from Maryland, Elijah Cummings - came knocking at my door. In nearly two decades of running our small business, my husband and I never dealt with any government agency, outside of filing our annual tax returns. We had never been audited, we had never been investigated, but all that changed upon submitting applications for the non-profit statuses of True the Vote and King Street Patriots. Since that filing in 2010, my private businesses, my nonprofit organizations, and family have been subjected to more than 15 instances of audit or inquiry by federal agencies [i.e. IRS, OSHA, ATF, FBI]... All of these incursions into my affairs began after filing applications for tax-exemption. There is no other remarkable event, no other reason, to explain away how for decades I went unnoticed, but now find myself on the receiving end of interagency coordination into and against all facets of my life, both public and private... these events were occurring while the IRS was subjecting me to multiple rounds of abusive inquiries, with requests to provide every Facebook and Twitter entry I'd every posted, questions about my political aspirations, and demands to know the names of every group I'd ever made presentations to, the content of what I'd said, and where I intended to speak for the coming year. The answers to these sorts of questions are not of interest to the typical IRS analyst, but they are of great interest to a political machine that puts its own survival above the civil liberties of any private citizen" ("Testimony" 2-4). This kind of testimony has been shared before Congress by Becky Gerritson (President of Wetumpka Tea Party in Alabama), Karen Kenney (Leader of the San Fernando Valley Patriots), Kevin Kookegey (President and Founder of Linchpins of Liberty), Susan Martinek (President of the Coalition for Life of Iowa), and many others, and has resulted in what has become known as the IRS Scandal (Pavlich).
Diane's "Magnus Opus" is rather long, so it has been broken into excerpts, and we will bring those excerpts in a concise manner here. If you are one who considers knowledge is the key to all worthy endeavors to, in exact wisdom, take back our Republic, Diane Rufino's "Magnus Opus" is a must read.
On February 17, 2014, it was reported that "IRS Regulation-134417-13, 'Guidance for Tax-Exempt Social Welfare Organizations on Candidate-Related Political Activities,' is a proposed new regulation that is an outrageously brazen attempt by the IRS to silence the speech of 501(c)(4) organizations before the upcoming election. If implemented, the regulation would prohibit a 501(c)(4) from speaking to matters of public concern during the 2014 election cycle" (Staver).
Summary of "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom...of the press...": The federal government cannot limit the freedom of the press.
Examples of how the Founders' original intention of this provision has been violated by the federal government:
On May 13, 2013, the Associated Press announced that the telephone records for 20 of their reporters had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department for a two-month period in 2012; the subpoenas were not issued to the AP but to the AP's telephone providers and Verizon Wireless (Ingram).
On May 19, 2013, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. Justice Department seized the email and telephone records of Fox News reporters, including chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen, and obtained a search warrant for the content of Rosen's private and work emails and telephone records (as well as his parent's phone records) in connection with Stephen Kim, a former State Department contractor who was charged with disclosing classified information about North Korea to Rosen (Marimow & Howerton). The warrants were obtained on the accusation that Rosen was a possible "criminal co-conspirator" with Kim.
Thomas Drake, who worked as a senior technical director with the NSA for 32 years but is now a prominent NSA whistleblower, recently "...warned that journalists are being increasingly frozen out of government sources." He went on to say, "In our post-9/11 world, the government is increasingly in the 'First Un-amendment' business, engaged in a direct assault on free speech and the very foundation of our democracy." He also said, "How...will the press report the real news when their sources dry up and the government becomes a primary purveyor of its own news?" (Lyngass)
Summary of "Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble...": The federal government cannot keep the American people from peaceful assembly.
Diane's "Magnus Opus" will continue by breaking this fine work into ongoing excerpts, which can be found in excerpt form here in volumes. Stay tuned and know that more of Diane Rufino's "A Re-Declaration of Independence" is on the way to a BCN near you.
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George Schryer said:
( February 27th, 2021 @ 11:19 pm )
Thank you so much for the "education" of our nations government rewriting the Constitution.
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