Georgia Patriot Files

I know many great patriots who are interested in helping to restore America to the ideals that guided our founding fathers almost 250 years ago.   Even so, the question I hear most often is, “What can I do?”   There is no perfect answer to that question because we all have abilities and tendencies we are born with.   No two patriots are the same.   Paul Revere was no skilled wordsmith; but he could ride a horse like the wind.   Thomas Jefferson was no soldier or saint; but he possessed an unrivaled capacity to grasp and formulate abstractions regarding the human condition and express them in a way that has since allowed his ponderings to pierce the hearts of generations, inspiring peoples throughout the world to act to better their socio-political conditions.   Noting the individuals who tasked themselves with declaring independence in Philadelphia in 1776, each brought something different to the table.   Jefferson largely disagreed with Americ...

Since his arrest last week, how many of you thought that Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange might be in big trouble?  Even so, didn’t you think the timing a little odd?  I mean, how long had Assange been holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, almost 8 years?  And if the authorities arrested him last week, why didn’t they two weeks ago?  A year ago?  Five years ago?  What was different last week than any time previous, such that it made the Ecuadorian President Moreno decide to allow British law enforcement inside the embassy and snatch Assange from his safe place and arrest him?  Could it be the recently unsealed indictment of Assange by the US Department of Justice?  And if that might be the case, why was it unsealed just now, almost a decade after the offense it alleges?  According to the Ecuadorian President, Ecuadorians were simply tired of “aggressive behavior” on the part of the notably mild-mannered Assange.  Plausible explan...

It is my experience that when an individual is obviously guilty, and everyone knows it, the transgressor has two options, either admit guilt or bear down proclaiming innocence, and out of sheer insistence hope others will eventually believe.  Nobody is perfect, we all know that.  We all have done things we regret.  But most of us come to realize that a time to admit one’s failings eventually materializes.  That’s when we ‘fess up, take the consequences, learn from it and try to do better.  Adults do that.  But children are different.  They do not have enough experience in the world to yet grasp the certainty that truth will endure longer than they will.  Their understanding is so limited that many guilty of wrong-doing convince themselves that, though guilty, there must be a way out of a hole of their own digging.  Thus, children attempt to buy time, increasingly insisting innocence, hoping to outlast various adversaries to whom the real trut...

How many times did Trump to tell you?  How many times did I tell you?  Over and over Trump told you there was no collusion with Russia.  Over and over I told you, there was no collusion with Russia, at least not with Trump.  That Trump needed nothing from Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton was obvious to anyone who did not hold an overwhelming desire for the opposite to be true.  Democrats and Trump-haters simply lost their minds.  They wanted this so badly that they were willing to believe the most implausible hoax in American history.  How could anyone be so vulnerable? And so, for all of you who may have been wishing upon hope that Trump colluded with Putin, notice who you have been listening to, the Democrats and their dishonest media partners.  Assess their credibility now that their, and frankly your former champion, Robert Mueller, declared that after spending millions in tax dollars, after hiring 19 attorneys and 40 FBI agents, after 2800 su...

I got into a conversation with a proponent of the “Convention of States” this week.  If you are not aware, the writers of the Constitution left us two routes to amend our law of the land.  Either Congress can initiate the process, or the people can work through their state legislatures to do it.  The latter process is the one the Convention of states proponents have decided is the answer to fixing what is wrong with the US Government.  A few years back, the Georgia legislature enacted a law in favor of the Convention of States, and more have approved the idea since.  It takes 2/3 of the states to hold a CoS and 3/4 of the states to ratify any amendment that might result from its workings. Convention of States-A Really Bad Idea The CoS proponents are all good people.  They see we have problems with the government not following the letter of the Constitution.  On that we all agree.  And when asked how we might expect the courts to follow any ...

I like Rand Paul, but in deciding to block Trump’s national emergency declaration we see why Rand can never be President. Senator Paul does not understand that a President can violate the Constitution either of two ways, by exceeding presidential authority, or by not fulfilling that same authority when doing so is necessary to preserve, protect and defend the very purposes of the document. It is a mistake to believe that a President who does nothing to protect the rights of the American people, when a President should act, can claim he or she is acting constitutionally.  Errors of omission are still errors.  The Constitution requires a President to act when the Constitution’s very existence is in peril.  And that’s where we are. And the mistake of Senator Paul I describe is the same mistake of all the Lincoln haters out there.  I say that because, in the Spring of 1861 had Lincoln not acted when he did, as Trump acts now, there would have been no Constitution le...

Once upon a time there was a country whose political engine ran on a fuel of virtue, and whose moving members, the politicians, were lubricated by a universal and heart-felt obligation to avoid even the faintest appearance of impropriety.  That was America long ago.  Judging people in their times, arguably, George Washington was such a political adherent, his thoughts and actions the result of an intrinsic personal desire to avoid public indecency or shame, or even the appearance of improper motives, as were many of his contemporaries.  There have been others along the way, who have chosen virtue over personal gain and power, some we might agree on and some we might not.  Either way, in modern times, notably commencing in the early 20th century, the American political engine was covertly altered, modified to run on a different fuel resulting in policies other than those inherent personal virtue might select.  It was in those days that a financial class cemented ...

I can’t lie.  During the disquieting Obama years, I found myself further distressed by the fact that my 7th District US Representative, Rob Woodall, did very little, in my opinion, to resist the 44th President’s efforts to turn America into a third world country and destroy the US Constitution domestically, while executing illegal regime change operations across the world in countries such as Ukraine, Libya and Syria.  I remember attending an open forum and asking Congressman Woodall why he did nothing visibly to resist Obama’s policies. He responded that the “Article 1 Congress” was powerless to resist the “Article 2 President” from doing anything he wanted to do, and that “we,” the American people, were complicit with Obama’s actions by electing him .  I did not buy that then, and Woodall’s statement has proven false noting the extent that Democrats in Congress have successfully resisted the initiatives of President Trump over the first two years of his presidency....

When for the first time in history the Speaker of the House failed to honor America’s President to visit the House Chamber to offer his appraisal of the state of the American union, I decided that responsibility must fall upon anyone who might possess an opinion of that condition, and also the opportunity to share it.  Since I have both, of sorts, perhaps you will indulge my poor judgments for a short duration. Now any attempt to describe the state of a “union,” necessarily implies a union exists.  Well, does it?  What is a “union” anyway?  In mathematics a union is that part of a set of objects common among two or more sets.  In politics, however, instead of objects, we might think of common ideas, viewpoints and intentions.  And instead of sets, we might talk of political groups.  So if a political union really exists, certain members attributed to one of those political groups must share some degree of uniformity of thought with members of others....

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer want you to believe that their disagreement with President Trump’s proposal to build a wall across the border with Mexico is about money.  It’s too expensive.  Chuck and Nancy are just protecting the taxpayers.  But don’t you recall?  When they knew the votes were not there to make it law, the outspoken stars of the Chuck and Nancy Show at one time supported the idea.  Now, everyone has a right to change their minds, don’t they?  Of course they do.  So Chuck and Nancy just changed their minds.  Right? Now, according to President Trump, Chuck, Nancy and all the rest of the Democrats who once favored the wall, but now vehemently oppose it, changed their minds for the political reason of simply resisting him, a Republican, in all he tries to do, their purpose being to satisfy the far-left base of the Democrat Party.  Well, there may be some truth to that, and Trump’s allegation is certainly understandable by a poli...