“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)

On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 You Will Decide What Kind Of Country You Want

And there is no second chance…

By de Andréa

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Posted October 26, 2018

Illegals from Honduras and Guatemala push through the border with Mexico on October 19, 2018. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images),

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claimed that if Democrats gain the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will “welcome” the caravan of Honduran and Guatemalan criminal terrorists into the United States.

Graham stated, “I think people are going to be voting on the mob rule of the Democratic Party. If you elect Democrats to run the House, you know exactly what you’re going to get. They’re going to try and impeach the president and impeach Kavanaugh. They don’t care about your’ wallet — they just want to get in’ your wallet. Kavanaugh to me, was a despicable episode in the history of the Senate. These caravans will never be stopped by Nancy Pelosi. And when it comes to standing up to the world, you need a strong leader like President Trump.”

He continued, “I’m going to let everybody in these states know what happens if you put the Democratic Party in charge of this country. You’re rewarding mob rule. You’re undercutting the rule of law. Don’t give these people power. The best thing you can do to make sure Kavanaugh never happens again is punish them for what they were willing to do to this good man. I’m going to take this on the road. Two weeks from Tuesday, we can decide what kind of country you want to be. Do you want to be the country of people who run you up and down the halls and spit on you? Or do you want to be a country of Republicans who can actually deliver for working families out there? Nancy Pelosi will welcome the caravans here. Donald Trump and the rest of us will stop them.”

Military-aged males from Bangladesh, Haiti and Congo are among those in the caravan.

Even as the first caravan has moved within 1,000 miles of the US border, a second Caravan with 2,000 people has just crossed over from Honduras to Guatemala.

According to a Univision correspondent, Bangladeshis joined the migrant caravan before it crossed from Guatemala into Mexico. This will be a major test for the Trump presidency because if he doesn’t stop the invasion of illegal criminals and terrorists, the number of invaders will only increase as they see how easy it is to illegally cross into and invade our country. This is what life under a Democrat government would look like.

The Daily Caller reported:

A Spanish language reporter who has spent weeks embedded with the migrant caravan said in a Friday report that people from Bangladesh had joined the mass of people trying to cross from Guatemala into Mexico.

The Bangladeshis, he said, were detained in an immigration facility, though it’s not clear what happened to them after their detention.

100 Terrorists Captured at the Gates of North America

Why should an announcement by Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales that 100 terrorists captured in Guatemala, including ISIS militants, be concerning to Americans? (At the same time, Morales also revealed over 1,000 gang members were also arrested, including members of the drug cartel MS-13.)

Guatemala has long been recognized as a funnel for trafficking of illegal aliens to the U.S. illegals pass through Guatemala’s porous border with Mexico and on to the United States. Armed with this knowledge, aliens from countries where immigration to the U.S. is difficult, particularly those from the Middle East, have long used the Guatemalan conduit.

As one investigative journalist who witnessed first-hand human trafficking from Guatemala to the U.S. wrote:

“[Guatemala] is literally a superhighway for human smuggling of people from all over the world, including the Middle East. As a journalist in 2007, I traveled throughout Guatemala tracing their paths and interviewed numerous current and former government officials there about the Middle Easterners, Somalis, Pakistanis, and others coursing through toward Mexico. I also once visited a Guatemalan consular office in Amman, Jordan, where Iraqi refugees told me their human smugglers were sourcing visas for about $700 each.”

Guatemala is also heavy on the radar for illegals who seek to enter the U.S from African and Asian countries.

Elaborate smuggling schemes might take an illegal alien from, say, Afghanistan to Dubai before being flown to Brazil. From there, the alien is sent to Colombia, then Panama, Costa Rica then finally Guatemala, where fake passports are known to be easy to come by.

During the Obama administration, when the borders were essentially open and illegal aliens were receiving housing, food, medical treatment and a free education, illegals from Guatemala represented one of the largest influxes into the U.S. of any country.

Many were UACs – unaccompanied alien children. A report out of Texas noted that in a period of a few months, 60,000 entered the U.S. Included in that figure were many criminal gang members. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also reported the number of UACs from Guatemala caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally was more than 20,000 this fiscal year (up 5,000 from last year).

Illegals are told if they come in as family, they will not be deported. Indeed, the DHS reported that only 1.4 percent of family members who entered the U.S. illegally from Guatemala this fiscal year were sent back, with most cases (in the hundreds of thousands) backlogged in immigration courts.

Many in the news media questioned the voracity of Morales’ claims regarding Guatemala’s arrest of 100 terrorists. When we look at the expressed strategy of terror groups like ISIS to enter Europe after being chased out of Syria and Iraq and when we listen to their terror bosses telling them to leave the Middle East and commit terror attacks in the West, Morales’ assertions are entirely believable.

What is also believable is that despite the arrests many more hundreds, perhaps thousands have slipped through.

Article IV Section IV of the U.S. Constitution:

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.

Article VI of the Constitution requires Officials to take an oath “to support this Constitution.” Today, 5 U.S.C. 3331 specifies the language of the oath for federal officials. According to this statute, officials must “solemnly swear (or affirm)” that they “will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and that they “will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”

The law is - that you are guaranteed a republican form of government not a democratic form of government. And the government must defend each State against invasion. It’s the Supreme law of the United States.

Remember that’ when you go to vote on Tuesday, November 6. You will either return this country to a Free Constitutional Republic, or’ put us back on the road to Democratic Tyranny.

Your Right To Choose!

Thanks for listening my friend. Now go do the right thing, pray and fight for truth and freedom. If you would like to write me direct with a question or a comment you can contact me at writedeandrea@hotmail.com

- de Andréa

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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)

What Does It Mean To Be A Real American?

By de Andréa

Opinion Editorialist for

‘THE BOTTOM LINE’

Posted October 20, 2018

The true foundation of America is not a democracy as the anti-America media propaganda says, the real foundation of America is individualism.

Defining individualism within the construct of the United States and what it means to be an American, gives us an understanding of both our individual purpose and the purpose of our Constitutional-Republican guaranteed form of government.

Article 4 - Section 4 – of the U.S. Constitution:

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”

A Republic 1: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and is usually a president; also: a nation or other political unit having such a government 2 a government in which supreme power is held by the citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives governing according to law; also: a nation or other political unit having such a form of government Source: NMW

In the context of the United States, both definitions apply.

Both John Locke and Charles de Montesquieu, two of America’s most influential Enlightenment philosophers, articulate this as well. Dr. Lyle Rossiter, in his study of the American psyche, gives a very concrete definition which eloquently and clearly characterizes the meaning and function of individualism; and, as Dr. Rossiter rightfully states, “Individuation is fundamental to any society grounded in the principles of individual liberty.”

Dr. Rossiter defines and explains individualism as:

“The autonomous individuated adult correctly assumes his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He assumes the right as a moral conviction: he has a proper sense of entitlement to a life of his own, to live as he sees fit and not as someone else directs. But mature autonomy does not consist in a belief that one should be able to do or have anything that one wants without regard for others and without earning it. It does not imply entitlement to goods and services from others simply because one demands it or needs it. That is the attitude of a dependent child…It is not the callous disdain for the other that is always present in a pathological narcissism but often concealed by superficial charm.

The truly autonomous person learns in contrast to the narcissist that every other person is also an autonomous agent in his own right, not a mere object to be exploited…the truly autonomous person honors the sovereignty of other competent persons and respects their right to live lives of their own. These insights are critical to participation in a free society. They ground our conception of individual liberty, lead to prohibitions against encroaching upon the persons and property of others, and establish the attitudinal foundation for equality under the law.[1]”

Locke, nearly a century prior to the formation of the United States, wrote [2] that “Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of his estate, and subjected to a political power of another, without his own consent. The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any that are not of it…wherein the majority have a right to act and conclude the rest.”[3]

This individualism cannot be supplanted by the will of a majority. It is the cornerstone behind why we are not a democracy, but a deliberately chosen Constitutional-Republic.[4] Our Founders studied the democracies of the past and understood their abject failures, so while embracing democratic principles; they reject democracy as a form of governance. They realized a pure democracy, as history had demonstrated, was a road to despotism, and an absolute breach of individualism. Moreover, I say this because, few understand that in the year 1913 with the passage of the unconstitutional 16^thand 17^th Amendments, as well as the Federal Reserve Act, the United States became a true pure democracy. Today as in all of history we are surruptishisly, as the Framers feared, - on the road to despotism.

Rossiter continues:

“Individualism insists that an individual’s freedom to live as he chooses may not be subordinated to any collective-based rules beyond those essential to ensure social order and equal liberty for all individuals…[and]…must give first importance to the individual, not to a group; no collective cause should be allowed to override those rights. The only legitimate function of government is to foster the lives of citizens by protecting their rights as individuals, not as members of a class or group; no collective cause should be allowed to override those rights. Individualism opposes any conception of the state or other collective as primary in value over the individual. In particular, it opposes any notion that the individual exists for the good of the state.[5]

Bibliography Source is at the bottom of this article.

Our Philosophical Founders, Locke, and Montesquieu couldn’t agree more.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Somehow I have always known this. Maybe it’s because in my day they still taught real American history. While I have written articles on this subject several times before. I decided after graduating from the class on American Constitutional History at Hillsdale University in Hillsdale Michigan that this was an appropriate time in our political history to revisit this important, little known and little understood truth about our American Heritage.

If one is ignorant about where one comes from, one will also be ignorant about where one is going.

- de Andréa

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[1] Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D., 2006, The Liberal mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, (St. Charles, IL: Free World Books, LLC), pp. 130-131.

[2] Locke ascribes to this throughout his Second Treatise articulated it in a variety of descriptions.

[3] John Locke, 1982, ed. Richard Cox (originally published in 1690), Second Treatise of Government, “Book VIII: Of the Beginning of Political Societies, Sec. 95,” (Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc.), p. 58.

[4] In pages 120 to 125, Montesquieu begins building the bases for why separate states join to build a confederate-republic. See Charles de Montesquieu, 2010 (originally published in 1748), The Spirit of the Laws, “Book IX: Of Laws in the Relation They Bear to a Defensive Force,” (Digireads.com Book), p 120-125.

[5] Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D., 2006, The Liberal mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, (St. Charles, IL: Free World Books, LLC), p. 146.

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