Tag: Federalist Papers

I’m An Anti-Federalist: I’m never going to sign up for global communism or a life without the American Constitution

Since there is so much talk about revolution, law and order, and proper conduct for people and their government, let’s put a few things in perspective. Most of the people in the world are really dumb. Not because they lack intelligence but because they have not educated themselves and are entirely too dependent on the government education they received as kids and young adults, and their minds are rotten. This was a purposeful excursion into the world of control as the powers of the world have intended. One of the first things I did on this blog site was to establish that a couple of my favorite works of literature are the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. I consider the American Constitution to be one of the most important works of philosophy in the history of the world. And that trajectory will continue despite this current globalist movement toward borderless communism led by a new military power in the world, the aristocratic financiers. The trajectory of human experience naturally drives them toward more personal freedom, whereas the power structures using technology to facilitate it seek more centralized control resulting in the kind of divisiveness we see today. When governments try to take people where they naturally don’t want to go, people would have a moral, ethical, and legal right to stop them. I never signed up for a communist takeover of my government, so if a government tries to move in that direction, people naturally have a moral obligation to fight it for the sake of all future humanity.   Because of the poor quality of their education systems, most people don’t know what they should be thinking or doing. They just know what they feel even if their intellectual aptitude has been robbed from them deliberately by these corrupt forces to acquire power that has always been at the heart of the problem. 

When I say I love the American Constitution, I love it as a work of philosophy as part of the evolution of human experience that will continue along that many thousands of years of trajectory. That collision of personal freedom and expression is colliding with many millions of years of human beings clambering to be the village chief of their tribe and the centralized authority of their localized clan. People naturally want to be in charge of other people, even if people as a species are constantly growing away from that primal perspective. But I am not happy at all with the tone of the American Constitution.   I see Federalism to be entirely too restrictive and centralized, which is uncomfortably too cozy with big government solutions. During the debate of the original Constitution, I would not have been happy with the eventual Constitution, as I would have been aligned with the Anti-Federalist sentiment, such as Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. I live in the town named after the big-time Federalist Alexander Hamilton. But I would not have liked Hamilton. I think the world was done a great service when he lost the duel with Aaron Burr and that the world would be a lot better off if people still settled their disputes with one another with duels instead of hiring a bunch of pansy lawyers to go to court. Courts have been a poor substitution for the restitution of satisfaction. But, I have agreed to live in such a society under those rules, and its that settled Constitution that I have signed up for, even if I don’t agree with much of the big government approach that was in the final Constitution for which we have built our laws around as a nation. History now shows how wise such a Constitution was and how a country could prosper. So, it’s worth defending as written.

However, I view the Bill of Rights as a concession to the Anti-Federalist arguments, which is precisely what they were. I am personally to the right of the Bill of Rights by quite a lot. Much of my personal beliefs are to the right of Thomas Jefferson and other early Anti-Federalists, so what ended up in our Constitution naturally is too oppressive for me as it is. The Bill of Rights, which was added after the Constitution was ratified, was included to appease the Anti-Federalists. George Washington was a Federalist; I don’t talk much about him. He may have done a great job as a leader of his time, but he’s not the kind of person I’d sit down with and talk all night about philosophy.   George Washington was entirely too liberal for me. And that is even more true today for people who do their homework and read the Constitution and understand history; the conflicts being expressed presently are an attempt to reverse the course of the human race back to a dependent culture that runs contrary to the desires of all human beings. George Washington and his buddy Alexander Hamilton and John Adams were good people with roots still in the old aristocracy of Federalist ideas. While they rebelled against the crown’s control over the colonies, they still liked to play dress up and dance with the ladies as military officers. The Anti-Federalists wouldn’t even want the military because they could be used as an oppressive force against the rights of the people. 

This is why the notion that Trump supporters, or any hard-liner conservatives, are Nazis or fascists, or anything derogatory, is rooted in sheer stupidity. All those terms are along the scale of European socialism and communism as defined by Karl Marx and are not even considerations in American life, which evolved from the philosophy of the Constitution and the economic concepts identified in the great work by Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations. Because global academics have ignored Adam Smith and embraced Karl Marx, that doesn’t mean they were right. All it means is that people trusted authority too much to question what was being taught and not ask the basic questions as to whether it should be taught, as most people would be better off without knowing anything about Karl Marx. But Karl Marx facilitated those immature urgencies in the effort for the village chiefs to retake the primal desire for centralized authority. The work of the American Constitution is what everyone should be studying and using to have successful cultures of their own. But as for global definitions, the political spectrum isn’t along the lines of hard Karl Marx and soft Karl Marx, but no Karl Marx all together. Global communism and socialism are not an option; for America, there is only one law: the Constitution. If we are dealing with a government that seeks to get rid of it in favor of something else if that’s the case, I’m to the political right of the Anti-Federalist types, and the fight will be along those lines. Not in digital currency, run by a bunch of dumb Marxists in Switzerland while debating the merits of cuff links over tea. I’m happy to live under the restrictions of the American Constitution because it has a history of working, even if it drives me crazy with too much-centralized government. But for those who want to get rid of that law, I think the world would be a lot better off with Aaron Burrs and the duels of satisfaction than the brain-dead stupidity of the Deep State bureaucrats. And if they want to go there, that’s on them.

Rich Hoffman

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Why Our Constitution is Worth Fighting For: The Supreme Court does its job, somewhat

Understanding and Defending our Constitution

When I first started this blog, I had in mind something like what formed this country, a healthy debate on the nature of our Republic in the form of what we know today as the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers. Back when we were trying to figure out how to have a proper government, some of the founding fathers would contribute essays to the local newspapers making the debate on what the federal government should look like. This process went on for quite a long time. What we know of today as those books is essentially a collection of those essays that formed the constitutional convention and would include our Constitution and, eventually, the Bill of Rights. I’ve never been a big fan of Alexander Hamilton, even though the town I live in is named after him. He’s too much of a big government guy for me. I associate much more with the Anti-Federalists. But to give Hamilton credit, we needed a reference point to settle the Articles of Confederation, which was not sufficient after the Revolutionary War to run a country. I think the debate to form our American Constitution is one of the most advanced processes ever to form a government in the history of the world, and the results paid off. I keep both of those books next to my reading chair and refer to them constantly, just for fun. 

Those books gave me the understanding to handle many complicated problems over the last year or so, everything from election fraud to this latest problem of the Biden vaccine mandates. It was more than just a little satisfying to see it all blow up in the Biden administration’s face this past week of mid-January 2022. With the filibuster intact in the Senate, the Democrats have no chance to change election laws to keep them in power in 2022, which they had to have. They can’t win without cheating, just as they did in the 2020 election to get rid of Trump. When all this started back during that election, remember what I said. Don’t freak out. Let the process run its course. Trust our constitutional system even though it is evident that the Biden administration and Democrats, in general, wanted to get rid of the Constitution. Evidently, the Davos crowd and the other globalists worldwide had no fundamental understanding of our Constitution, nor did they care to learn.   As Progressives, they fully intended to move beyond our Constitution and the great work that the Founding Fathers did to form the United States. Their game was to accelerate things so fast that the courts would never catch up to the aggressive actions to overthrow the country, which the Biden clan have been attempting to do. As things would get hot, I would refer to those books for the many thousands of times that I have before, and I could see how it would end up. Our Republic was designed to handle just these kinds of problems, and it was working to my eyes. The proof came on January 13th around 2:45 PM when our Supreme Court issued a strike down of the OSHA vaccine mandates Biden had attempted to pass through executive order. 

I think it has been a precious lesson to watch how everyone behaved during all this mess. In my own book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, I feel relieved to see that my opinions were not isolated into some bubble of conservative thought born out of midwestern politics but were highly relevant in corporate America across the world. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers could probably be applied to every small village in Africa or South America. All over Europe. Everywhere. It’s not just a set of laws that we have in America, but the foundation of a functioning republic that can function over vast distances that makes it an incredible work of philosophy surpassing in my mind any of the works done by Rome, Greece, the Indus Valley, Egypt, or any of the Dynasties of the Orient. Never in the history of the world was there such a proper set of laws and order to establish the best government possible to the minds of humanity than what is talked about in those books. I’ve read them all, and there isn’t anything better than the documents that formed our Republic. And so long as we had a Supreme Court following those ideas, much of this Biden tyranny would be eliminated. The originators of Covid never planned for our Constitution, and it shows. When it was announced that the Supreme Court had made a 6 to 3 decision against the Biden Executive Orders, the pride I felt made a lot of all this pain worth it. Because not only had it been horrifying at times, but we’ve never seen our system tested like this before, especially from domestic enemies, and it had held turning theory into reality. Thank goodness Trump had three picks for the Supreme Court during his one turbulent term. It’s probably the most important thing to come out of the Trump presidency. 

Because of my love of those books, I was more than familiar with the constitutional challenges that worked at all levels of politics and really rattled the cages of people with powerful positions. I can’t say that I was ever apprehensive that the rule of law would not hold. But at the rate of change coming from the Biden administration, his masters in the United Nations and China, and the donor class, which is different in many cases, the main weakness of the Constitution and our Republic in general is time. Things are meant to take a long time in our government, to keep the breaks on during hot human sentiment. China brags about how fast it can do something with centralized authority. Democrats drool at the power of the centralized state because that’s how they want things to be in America, more like China, where a mob of administrative tyrants can do and say whatever they want. In America, it takes a long time to sift through the legislative process, and if the idea survives, we would consider it a good thing. But it’s the rushes to judgment that we always want to put the brakes on, and that is what has been assaulted by our enemies recently, especially after Trump left office. The speed of our innovation comes from free people, which is the key to everything. Not the government, so bureaucrats have a tough time getting their minds around such a concept. When the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Papers were written, and our Constitution was formed with the Bill of Rights to follow, all this was figured out, and now we have the results of the greatest nation on earth to prove it works. And now, even under great assault, it has operated under very tenuous conditions, and that is something we should all take pride in. Of course, the fights are far from over, but a big blow occurred in that Supreme Court decision that will reverberate historically for the next century. It was an easy case for them to decide on, can the Federal government compel health decisions, and the answer was always no. But the big-government types had more intrusions in mind to follow should they manage to make that Biden executive order stick. And now those big global plans are blown out of the water. There will not be a global takeover of America from the Davos crowd or anybody else without some form of physical assault. And in a country full of guns, that option isn’t a good one for them either. Our Republic is still standing, and now more people than ever are empowered to fight back, and it makes my love for those books even that much more powerful, fueled by a pride few in the world could understand. 

Rich Hoffman

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Finney Law Firm Goes after Amy Acton: Politicians who ruined our lives over Covid-19 must pay one way or the other

I was very happy to hear that the Finney Law Firm and the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law have joined forces to sue Dr. Amy Acton and the Ohio Department of Health over the mandatory business closures that were imposed in Ohio due to the Covid-19 scare which was set forth without due process hearings. Of course the DeWine administration will say that time is of the essence and they had to act fast to save lives, so to Hell with due process, but it’s the kind of situation that must be fought out if not in the streets, then in court. The conflict must happen. I would say that getting Chris Finney and his law firm involved, which I have covered him on several other issues on this site over the years, is the best thing that could be considered a “next stage” enterprise. In previous cultures bad things might have happened to Amy Acton due to the way her decisions imposed themselves on the freedoms of all our lives. This method of challenging what she had done is far better than making a belt out of her, but let’s not forget, the basic tenants of the American Constitution require all people to be a bit combative when it comes to the enforcement of the law and the conduct of a civil society. As much as I’ve written over the years on these matters let me remind everyone, which is quite obvious on my profile page that explains why I run this blog site, is my love of literature and specifically the two main books that shaped our Constitution, the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers. I am never far from those two books and I refer to them often, along with the Ohio Constitution several times a week now for decades. I consider them beautiful works of art and the premise behind them is constructive conflict, and if there was ever a need for it, this ridiculous reaction that the United States had to the Covid-19 invasion is it. The ultimate costs of bad decisions by the politicians in charge is incalculable at this point and there needs to be some punishment inflicted. Legally is always better than with violence, but justice must be heard.

I’ve been saying it from the outset, the coronavirus shutdowns, the social distancing, the whole “saving the lives by staying home together” was a foreign attack on the American way of life, and we should have been taking up arms against it, not cowering in fear like a bunch of terrified children letting it ruin our lives. Maybe it was easier for me to see since I am a very avid reader with thousands of books in my wake. I’ve read everything from War and Peace, Finnegan’s Wake, to the Canterbury Tales—and enjoyed them. I would throw Atlas Shrugged in there as well, my son in law was just laid off this week from a very good job purely because of how politicians ruined our economy over the coronavirus and that book came to my mind—almost verbatim to the conditions of that story. Once you’ve seen the heart of mankind from such a god-like perspective as written works of art, it makes understanding big picture problems much easier to decipher. What was imposed on our culture was wrong, and it was completely un-American. The land of the free and the home of the brave don’t hide in homes terrified of a silly virus. And it is not our obligation to “slow the spread” to help the health care industry with their capacity. That is a free market problem and the health care industry needs to be ready for whatever comes, at all times because profit is their motive. Not a government that has overregulated the industry so that only complacent minds are left who follow orders too quickly without question and have lost their imaginations to solutions that Covid-19 actually required. Trump tried to use such ideas from the outset by seeing the problem, Covid-19 was spreading fast. So he suggested taking hydroxychloroquine and to get back to their lives. The doctors said, “no, we need more trials until we get a vaccine. Keep America shut down for the next 18 months.”

The insistence that a government bureaucracy knew best and that we were supposed to suspend our lives waiting for them to get their act together is the heart of any legal argument that will emerge from this dispute, for which the Finney Law Firm is basing as a foundation by the nature of the incursion. Amy Acton in this case is the target because Governor DeWine deferred the control of the state over to her and it was her decisions that made the problem much worse, the solution was far worse than the problem especially when she insisted on using global models from hostile foreign governments as her bases for the decision making process. Many of these governors, especially in the Blue states, which Ohio isn’t, but it behaved that way especially when DeWine overruled a judge to shut down the primary elections in March just hours before the polling places were to open—they don’t want what happens next which are many court cases where they will be lacerated due to their violations of constitutional liberty. DeWine isn’t a dummy to the law, he used to be the attorney general of the state and a prosecutor. He thinks he was functioning from legal ground due to the emergency powers afforded to him under the Constitution of both the federal government and the state. However, his inability to provide timelines is at the heart of the problem, and to continue to move the goal posts during the entire ordeal. Most of the governors of the United States abused their power under the emergency conditions and those are prosecutable offenses. Amy Acton may have been well meaning, just like an airplane pilot, but if they crash land an aircraft on a busy highway and end up destroying lives and money, they are going to be prosecuted for neglect. Amy Acton certainly destroyed many lives directly connected to her decisions and good intentions are not a defense. Many governors can see that bad things are coming for them and they’d love for this crises to go on forever, because the day to pay is coming and it won’t be pretty.

But we just can’t let this go, just as the DeWine administration declared that we would never be allowed to go back to a normal life until there is a vaccine for coronavirus—as if it is his mandate to protect us all from every danger that there is. In the legal world everyone sees what he’s doing, the setting the goal post way out there to protect his bad decisions and to keep legal entanglements wrapped in uncertainty to cover for his own Constitutional violations. That is why even as this virus scare is declining, the governors’ restrictions are increasing as people are now being pushed to wear masks in public to slow the spread, because the politicians need a boogieman to blame for why they abused their power, and overstepped their mandate. It has nothing to do with safety or concern for the public. Its to protect their own asses for overstepping their powers and ruining countless lives and placing the states in billions and billions of further debt. And because of that, the burden to challenge them falls on us through protests, court challenges, and other means of defiance. Laws are one thing that have been debated in congress and within our senate chambers, but made up crap from some health freaks who step over the legislature to enact laws that change our lives drastically, and bring harm to our economy are not acceptable and the due process that we are all promised is going to play out in some form. Court challenges are a good resort over physical violence, but we are talking about an either-or situation. And the longer governors try to hide behind safety, the more violent the protests will become, so it’s better to pay now than later, because things could get out of control quickly—especially when so many lives have been ruined by the dumb decisions of the politicians who were in charge.

Rich Hoffman

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