Georgia Patriot Files

The absurdity is practically overwhelming.  They obviously think, or at least hope, that you are stupid.  They hope that either you do not have the brain God gave a grasshopper, or that you deliberately choose to be stupid and ignore the obvious. Now if you read the Good Book, it tells us that there really are folks among us who choose to be stupid, choose not to see what is perfectly obvious to others.  It tells us that if people don’t want to see the truth, God will not allow them to see it, kind of a “spiritual” thing.  But the Bible also tells us that to see the truth, all we have to do is ask.  That’s fair.  Remember? Knock and the door shall be opened?  Seek and we shall find? But if we don’t knock with an open heart, if we truly do not want to know the truth, God, Who knows our hearts, will allow us to live in ignorance, and out of our own free will.  And to people who see the obvious truth all around us, we just appear stupid, althou...

Last week congress passed a two-year, bipartisan budget deal.  Now if the calculations are correct, this budget will add $300 billion in additional federal spending, unmatched by revenues.  That means the national debt will continue to accelerate, ironically, while majorities of “fiscal conservative” Republicans populate both houses. Now am I the only one who just doesn’t care anymore?  I have been hearing that the national debt is unsustainable since Reagan ran for office…the first time.  I recall the same political points being scored, each side against the other, when Reagan’s national debt approached…drumroll…one trillion dollars.   And so, except for use in academia, or maybe political theater, it’s almost like the US national debt, now over $20 trillion, just really doesn’t matter.  I mean, what’s in a number?  I ask because, whatever the national debt might be at any particular moment is just a number on a computer screen.  That’s all i...

For several years now, I have described the parties actually running the US Government in terms my parents would never have recognized.  Expressions such as, “criminal,” “world class criminal,” or “world class liars,” have almost seem too tame to describe the kinds of behaviors I have studied these people to be involved in.  For a long time, people, friends and family alike, thought I was at least over-the-top in my assessments.  I have been called the usual, “conspiracy theorist.”  And I remember one relative wrote, “If you are looking for it on the Internet, you’ll find it.”  Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I would hear about the black helicopters that are surely on the way to get me.  Oh yes, I remember it all. But that’s okay.  I don’t hold it against anyone.  After all, we have a right to expect that our government has not turned over to the dark side.  We have a right to expect that the people we vote into office have our best interests at hear...

One of my favorite sayings, applicable to President Trump, is one that comes from Christian apologist, Ravi Zacharias.  According to Zacharias, anyone who truly desires to make a difference must first, “enter the arena of need.”  In other words, one cannot stand on the outside criticizing and expect anything to change.  One must go inside and deal with those who need to understand a better path from that which they have chosen in the past.  One can accomplish that purpose only from inside their house.  And that is where President Trump goes.  Consequently, Trump continues being heard by those who need to hear him and is making a difference for America and the world.  Let’s look at how Trump enters the arena of need. Remember, shortly after taking office, Trump began planning his first trip abroad.  Interestingly, that visit, which took place last May, was not to visit America’s traditional allies in Europe.  Instead, Trump entered a greater a...

Does the government need to spy on you, to protect you?  Are you a threat to yourself? To your neighbors?  Are you a threat to the security of the American people?  Your 7th and 9th District US Representatives, Rob Woodall and Doug Collins, believe that you are.  I say that because both voted for HR 4861, the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2015 .  Although the IAA is reauthorized each year, certain requirements from previous years remain in effect, essentially forever, unless repealed or modified. Woodall and Collins OK Spying on Americans One such set of requirements, still in effect today, can be found in Section 309 of that bill, one entitled, “Procedures for the Retention of Incidentally Acquired Communications.”  Those procedures are now carved permanently into the “Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book,” a handbook of guidelines for the intelligence community to spy on people.  The law for which Representatives Woodall and Collins...

The prospect of ending Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and deporting an entire class of inhabitants who have never known a home beyond America, is a no-win stance, politically, for Republicans and conservatives, and a no-win proposition for President Trump, except as a tool of leverage on the much greater issue, the wall along the Southern border. The globalists’ plan, executed overwhelmingly by the Democrats, to render America to a state no greater than any other, depends upon open borders.  Over time open borders mean that the American culture, and the very meaning of America, its heritage and founding, would be lost.  Open borders would eventually result in the American culture becoming homogeneous with various non-American cultures who understand no such heritage and meaning.  When that occurs, federal government policies would tend to follow the transient opinions of the masses whose individual concerns for personal well-being overw...

On December 21st of last year, three days after congress passed President Trump’s tax cut package, the president signed a detailed executive order, one entitled, “ Executive Order Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption .”  We cannot read enough into Trump’s purposes in issuing this landmark set of instructions the mainstream media has ignored.  Something is up, friends.  Trump appears readying to drop the proverbial hammer. An entire host of players may be affected. According to the president’s order, “serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world” constitute an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.” For that reason, in his next paragraph President Trump declares a state of national emergency, giving him the necessary powers under law to deal with the threats he identifies in the order. Now the order does not specifically indicate w...

Earlier this week President Trump tweeted that over the last 15 years America has “foolishly” given Pakistan over 33 billion dollars in foreign aid, stating that in return Pakistan has handed America, “nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.”  Trump didn’t stop there, offering to his followers that while Americans hunt terrorists in Afghanistan, Pakistan gives our enemies safe haven right next-door.  Trump finished his message, proclaiming, “No more!” “No more,” indeed.  Each year American taxpayers shoulder the burden of rendering financial aid to the governments of the world, their own government passing out dollars like candy, either taxing or indebting the American people for every dollar that various corrupt leaders around the world receive. Your Washington congresspersons would like you to believe that US foreign aid goes to help the disadvantaged peoples of the world, providing them with food and a roof over their heads, neces...

Will the new tax cuts raise the federal deficit?  The hand-wringing liberals seem to think so.  And that is the only remaining argument they have against the Trump tax cuts.   That is because virtually all American socio-economic groups benefit financially from the cuts.  All Americans will keep more of their hard-earned dollars for themselves, even the liberals.  So there is really no substantive argument to oppose the tax cut legislation, from anybody…well, except of course for that pesky deficit. Now it is no foregone conclusion that the deficit will rise anyway.  But in the minds of the nay-sayers, life is a zero-sum game, pitting the “haves” against the “have-nots.”  In their world, even if they benefit from a tax cut, if another perhaps wealthier group, benefits as well, that’s bad.  In their world, all tax cut benefits should accrue to them and them only, even if they don’t pay taxes.  Under this plan, the typical family of fo...

Judge Roy Moore is the last senator the establishment wanted, the last senator the left wanted, the last senator the libertarians wanted.  Obviously, Judge Roy Moore is even the last senator many fair-minded, Alabama conservatives wanted, confused by all they heard.  This column is for those fair-minded conservatives among us who have been misinformed, disinformed and confused by the media coverage of Judge Moore.  You should know the truth.  So let’s look at what you were told. Moore’s detractors and the media claim he was thrown off the high bench for refusing to respect the US Constitution by disregarding a federal order to remove a replica of the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court Building.  But there is another side to that story.  Judge Moore knows the federal Courts derive powers from Article III of the US Constitution. He also knows those powers only extend to matters of federal law subject to those tendered under the Constitution, ...

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To enact Chapter 25 under Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to state government, so as to provide for the restoration and preservation of the people’s interests above all others; to provide for legislative findings and purposes; to provide for limiting the scope and authority of Georgia courts and courts under the jurisdiction of Georgia to those authorized as prescribed under the Constitution of the State of Georgia;  to provide for limiting the scope and authority of United States courts and courts under the jurisdiction of the United States to those authorized as prescribed under the Constitution of the United States; to provide for definitions; to provide for a short title; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia People’s Interests Restoration Act....

After last year’s Georgia General Assembly, Governor Deal vetoed the Religious Freedom Act (RFRA) passed by both Houses. I wrote at the time, “Fine, good for you Mr. Governor.” I wrote that not because I am against the peaceful exercise of religion, but because in the final analysis that bill does nothing to prevent the government from stepping once again where it has no authority, and infringing on religious freedoms already protected under the 1st Amendment. RFRA is not legislation constructed to somehow enforce the 1st Amendment.  RFRA merely seeks to minimize the degree to which the government might assert powers it does not possess and thus continue violating the 1st Amendment.  At the federal level, the 1st Amendment is clear, “Congress shall make no law infringing the free exercise of religion.”  What part of “make no law” do the federal courts not understand? And if Congress “shall make no law,” then what law might the federal courts interpret in order to rest...

Nydia Tisdale During Recent Trial I had never been to a criminal trial before. But because I know Nydia Tisdale and am interested in her case, I attended numerous hours of her trial, spanning five days of testimony which concluded this past Monday in Dawsonville.  Later that evening, after four hours of deliberating, the jury concluded, and justifiably so, that Nydia Tisdale committed no crime for which she deserved to be arrested.  In the same breath, however, they convicted her for misdemeanor obstruction for resisting arrest.  So let’s see if we can wrap our minds around this.  According to the jury, Nydia Tisdale did nothing to deserve being arrested, yet she was arrested anyway.  And during the arrest for which she had done nothing wrong, she resisted the officer in some minor fashion, but enough to earn her a misdemeanor conviction.  Now who among us would not in the very least question why we might be arrested when all we are doing is sitting q...

Trump with WWII Navajo Code Talkers So this week, President Trump honored the Navajo nation, and in particular three Navajo World War II veteran “Code Talkers.”  If you never heard the term, during the War in the Pacific, 400 or so Navajos were assigned to use their extremely indistinguishable language to communicate vital battle information to and from command and control centers of the various island campaigns.  Neither the Japanese nor the American soldiers or Marines understood the language.  American commanders could therefore send radio messages with impunity, understanding that no one, especially the enemy, would be able to decode them and learn the American battle strategies. To commemorate and store knowledge of the Navajo Code Talker accomplishments during World War II, during their time at the White House the surviving Code Talkers expressed a desire to build a Code Talker Museum, a project which during the ceremony President Trump pledged support. But duri...

Nydia Tisdale Regarding the case of Nydia Tisdale presently under trial in Dawson County, the US Constitution protects individuals from governmental arrest under the color of law. IOW, there are no laws that can bypass the freedom of the press protections cited and guaranteed under the 1st Amendment. Any law enacted or invoked to make such an arrest would be null and void on its face. I expect the prosecutor will try to invoke the private property rights of the owner of the facility, who when asked to do so by certain Republicans at the event, instructed Captain Wooten to have Ms. Tisdale removed. As a property owner, the prosecutor will argue, he had that right. I looked into this at the time, and here is my body of research from three years ago: The question is not whether the event is on private property, but whether the event is held at a place of business with an open invitation inducing the public to attend. In this circumstance, because it is a business, normally ope...