During this program, I will quote from the article “Nation Writer Labels the Constitution ‘Trash’” by Isaac Schorr, which appeared in National Review on March 4, 2022. The Nation is, quoting their website, “principled and progressive” and “empowers readers to fight for justice and equality for all” in order “to bring about a more democratic and equitable world.” To paraphrase: The Nation is a left-wing, globalist, socialist, and anti-Biblical periodical that works tirelessly for the destruction of our God-given Constitutional liberties by focusing on, and distorting, current issues in order to undermine our social fabric and thus destabilize our country so that most of our citizens will be impoverished and subjugated.
National Review is a neo-con globalist periodical, so I don’t necessarily agree with everything that appears in that publication.
“Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, labeled the Constitution “trash” in an appearance on ABC’s The View on Friday.”
“Appearing on the program to promote his new book, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution, Mystal was asked by co-host Ana Navarro-Cárdenas if the Constitution “is a living document,” or a “sacred document.” Mystal responded by declaring that “it’s certainly not sacred, all right, let’s start there. The Constitution is kind of trash.” ”
The US Constitution is a living document in the sense that it is still the Supreme Law of the Land, per Article VI of the Constitution itself: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.” It is also a “living document” in the sense that it can be amended, as stated in Article V of the Constitution itself: “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments.” The second method is called the Convention of States, about which I will comment if I have time. Judges do not amend the Constitution but are bound to adhere to it. Several times the Supreme Court has modified the Constitution, such as the banishment of prayer and Bible reading from public schools and the promotion of sodomy and all forms of sexual depravity. Congress and the president should have ignored these rulings and removed the judges who usurped the position of the legislature by legislating from the bench. Per Article I of the US Constitution, all legislative powers are vested in the congress; per Article III of the US Constitution, judges can be removed from office if they don’t exhibit “good behavior.” Usurping the legislative powers of congress is definitely not “good behavior.”
The US Constitution is not a sacred document, but the principles of the US Constitution are Biblical and thus are sacred, universal, and eternal.
“ “It was written by slavers and colonists and white people who were willing to make deals with slavers and colonists. They didn’t ask anybody that looked like me what they thought about the Constitution,” continued Mystal, who proceeded to do an impression of a 18th century slave weighing in on the document.” ”
It’s true that many of the authors of the US Constitution owned slaves, but many were vehemently opposed to slavery, such as Ben Franklin and John Adams. One delegate to the Constitutional Convention was George Mason of Virginia. He objected to the Constitution and refused to sign it because he felt that it did not provide protection for the individual citizen and gave the federal government ill-defined and over-zealous powers. His objections helped the incorporation of the Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. In addition, George Mason, although he owned slaves, opposed the US Constitution because it allowed the slave trade to continue until 1808. George Mason said that “slavery brings the judgment of God down upon a nation.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence but was not present at the Constitutional Convention because he was the ambassador to France at the time. His first draft of the Declaration of Independence abolished slavery, which at the time was legal in the British Empire. Unfortunately, the delegates from South Carolina and Georgia would have never signed the Declaration of Independence if slavery abolition remained in the text. The colonies needed a united front against Great Britain, so Thomas Jefferson removed from the Declaration of Independence the portion calling for slavery’s abolition.
Mr. Mystal’s opposition to slavery is somewhat ironic, since he and his fellow globalist socialist want to make us all slaves.
His ad-hominem attacks on the authors of the US Constitution are most distasteful. He attacks the authors for being who they are, not their ideas. Colonists are simply people who live in a colony rather than the main or mother country. The complexion of one’s skin (dark or light) is irrelevant to any substantive discussion of the issues, unless you are a racist demagogue, such as Mr. Mystal.
“ “In another interview promoting his book Allow Me to Retort, Mystal was asked if he thought the Constitution should be “scrapped altogether.” ”
Such sentiments seem to make him an enemy of the US Constitution. Article VI of the US Constitution itself states: “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.” When I took a commission in the US Marine Corps, I took the following oath: "I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
“In the absence of that emerging [scrapping the Constitution altogether], however, he suggested Americans “interpret our Constitution so that we extend justice and fairness and equality to all, as opposed to whatever the heck we do now.” ”
That is already codified in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Leviticus 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Proverbs 24:23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Colossians 3:25 But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
“Mystal expanded on this point in his Friday appearance on The View, “the very least we can do is ignore what those slavers and colonists and misogynists thought.” ”
Abolishing our Bill of Rights, including freedom of religion, speech, assembly, due process, trial by jury, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures and cruel and unusual punishment, just to name a few?
“Included in his proposed improvements to the Constitution was “no states’ rights when it comes to healthcare, elections, policing, and guns. That’s just better.” ”
In other words, let an all-powerful federal (or global) government control our healthcare, elections, policing, and self-defense. He thinks that is better. Better for whom. We will own nothing, but the elite will own everything, and somehow, we will all be happier. Mr. Mystal wants government to be God. First, the job is not available, and second, unlike God, people are not omniscient (they don’t know everything, not even the CIA or NSA), not omni present (they can’t be everywhere), and they aren’t omnipotent (they can’t do everything).
Mr. Mystal’s proposal to “scrap the US Constitution altogether” is consistent with some famous conservative personalities who call for a Convention of States to revise the Constitution. When our Constitution was written and adopted, almost everyone, including the most highly educated, was a Christian or had strong attachments to Biblical ethics, including the least religious founders such as Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin. Today, most of the highly educated (indoctrinated) are scoffers and mockers. Any Convention of States would soon be taken over by the acolytes of such globalists and America-haters as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros. They would put our Constitution through a paper shredder, and the document they produce would relegate our liberties to nothing more than a distant memory. We have all the mechanism we need to amend the Constitution without destroying it. The Constitutional Convention met to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up scrapping it. The same thing could happen again with disastrous consequences.
The program title, Liberty and Posterity, comes from the US Constitution, the preamble of which states that one of the reasons for writing and ratifying the Constitution was to “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” our posterity being our children and descendants not yet born. As a reminder, on the Liberty and Posterity program, we view all events and activities in relation to reality, truth, and Biblical morality, the same principles stated in the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence that entitle the United States to be separate from, and equal to, other nations: The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God. The Laws of Nature are the physical laws by which the universe operates (also called reality and truth), and the Laws of Nature’s God are the moral laws of God as specified in the Bible. Romans 3:4 “let God be true, but every man a liar.” John 8:31-32 “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” James Madison, Fourth President of the United States and one of the authors of the US Constitution wrote: “The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.” "Honor, justice, and humanity, call upon us to hold, and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty which we received from our ancestors. It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty to them." ~ John Dickinson, known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published individually in 1767 and 1768 and author of the first draft of the Articles of Confederation, the agreement by which the thirteen colonies coordinated their affairs after the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and prior to the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789. If you have a problem with that, the problem is on your end, not ours.
A word of caution to those who have the urge to travel to Washington, DC: based on what happened to the peaceful protestors on January 6, 2021, neither sanity nor Constitutional liberty is observed by local or federal government officials in our nation’s capitol. Washington, DC seems to have fallen to the state described of Babylon in Revelation 18:2 and has “become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” One of these “unclean and hateful birds” could be named “Michael” and spelled Byrd: the killer of Ashli Babbitt. The violence that occurred during the protest on January 6 was nearly all perpetrated by agent provocateurs, FBI informants, or out-of-control Capitol Police. Even an on-scene reporter for the deceitful New York Times seems to admit this. Four people died of violence during the January 6, demonstration: Capitol Offense: “The Ugly Truth Behind the Five Deaths from January 6th and 7th,” by Tayler Hansen, which appeared in his newsletter on January 26, 2022.
Ashli Babbitt, who was callously shot to death by Lt. Michael Byrd of the Capitol Police, and Rosanne Boyland, who, based on video evidence and witness testimony, appears to have been beaten to death by Lila Morris of the Capitol Police, and Benjamin Phillips and Kevin Greeson, who appear to have died as a result of the Capitol Police indiscriminately firing flash grenades into the crowd on January 6. Never forget Benjamin Phillips, Kevin Greeson, Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland, and never cease to work to bring their assailants to justice.
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Ron Higgins
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