The Constitution Has Already Been Terminated

Guest Post by John W. Whitehead

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

If there is one point on which there should be no political parsing, no legal jockeying, and no disagreement, it is this: for anyone to advocate terminating or suspending the Constitution is tantamount to a declaration of war against the founding principles of our representative government and the rule of law.

Then again, one could well make the case that the Constitution has already been terminated after years on life support, given the extent to which the safeguards enshrined in the Bill of Rights—adopted 231 years ago as a means of protecting the people against government overreach and abuse—have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded with the support of Congress, the White House, and the courts.

Consider for yourself.

We are in the grip of martial law. We have what the founders feared most: a “standing” or permanent army on American soil. This de facto standing army is made up of weaponized, militarized domestic police forces which look like, dress like, and act like the military; are armed with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment; are authorized to make arrests; and are trained in military tactics.

We are in the government’s crosshairs. The U.S. government continues to act as judge, jury and executioner over a populace that have been pre-judged and found guilty, stripped of their rights, and left to suffer at the hands of government agents trained to respond with the utmost degree of violence. Consequently, we are at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.” With alarming regularity, unarmed men, women, children and even pets are being gunned down by the government’s standing army of militarized police who shoot first and ask questions later.

We are no longer safe in our homes. This present menace comes from the government’s army of bureaucratized, corporatized, militarized SWAT teams who are waging war on the last stronghold left to us as a free people: the sanctity of our homes.

We have no real freedom of speech. We are moving fast down a slippery slope to an authoritarian society in which the only opinions, ideas and speech expressed are the ones permitted by the government and its corporate cohorts. In more and more cases, the government is declaring war on what should be protected political speech whenever it challenges the government’s power, reveals the government’s corruption, exposes the government’s lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices. The ramifications are so far-reaching as to render almost every American who criticizes the government an extremist in word, deed, thought or by association.

We have no real privacy. We’re being spied on by a domestic army of government snitches, spies and techno-warriors. This government of Peeping Toms is watching everything we do, reading everything we write, listening to everything we say, and monitoring everything we spend. Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it is all being recorded, stored, and catalogued, and will be used against you eventually, at a time and place of the government’s choosing.

We are losing our right to bodily privacy and integrity. The debate over bodily integrity covers broad territory, ranging from forced vaccinations, forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws and forced breath-alcohol tests to forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, and forced inclusion in biometric databases: these are just a few ways in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no real privacy, no real presumption of innocence, and no real control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials. The groundwork being laid with these mandates is a prologue to what will become the police state’s conquest of a new, relatively uncharted, frontier: inner space, specifically, the inner workings (genetic, biological, biometric, mental, emotional) of the human race.

We no longer have a right to private property. If government agents can invade your home, break down your doors, kill your dog, damage your furnishings and terrorize your family, your property is no longer private and secure—it belongs to the government. Hard-working Americans are having their bank accounts, homes, cars electronics and cash seized by police under the assumption that they have allegedly been associated with some criminal scheme.

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Patriotman currently ekes out a survivalist lifestyle in a suburban northeastern state as best as he can. He has varied experience in political science, public policy, biological sciences, and higher education. Proudly Catholic and an Eagle Scout, he has no military experience and thus offers a relatable perspective for the average suburban prepper who is preparing for troubled times on the horizon with less than ideal teams and in less than ideal locations. Brushbeater Store Page: http://bit.ly/BrushbeaterStore

5 Comments

  1. my2cents December 7, 2022 at 09:46

    The Constitution isn’t dead. Perhaps the administrators we put in charge of protecting, interpreting and following it to the letter need to be changed out to the last man & woman. Why does the document have to die. What they put in place will most likely be worse. Sorta like we are living now!

  2. Paulo December 7, 2022 at 11:00

    Spotted these excerps yesterday.
    Makes a lot of sense:

    The Law
    Frederic Bastiat
    (1801-1850)

    A few excerpts…

    “… But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to
    its proper functions… The law has gone further.. ; it has
    acted in direct opposition of its own purpose… It has been
    applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to
    maintain… The law has placed the collective force at the
    disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to
    exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has
    converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder.
    And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order
    to punish defense… The law has been perverted by the
    influence of two entirely different causes: … greed and
    false philanthropy.

    “… It is evident.. that the proper purpose of law is to use
    the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency
    to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law
    should protect property and punish plunder… But, generally,
    the law is made by one man or one class of men… This fact,
    combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of
    man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains
    the almost universal perversion of the law. [This is how ] law…
    becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. [It become
    understandable] why the law is used by the legislator to
    destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people,
    their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by
    oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done
    for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in
    proportion to the power that he holds…
    
    “… You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it
    is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists
    desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists,
    like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their
    weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism,
    how can it be used against socialism?…

    “Every man to his family and his possessions”

  3. The Long March December 7, 2022 at 11:31

    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within.”

    Abraham Lincoln

  4. Groundsmoke December 7, 2022 at 12:48

    Your Rights only extend as far as you are willing to stand up for them.

  5. Chris December 7, 2022 at 13:26

    Off topic but smart folks work here.

    New England, approx 4:45 pm est
    My cell rings. ( I did not answer, but laughed the rest of the way home. )

    What showed up…….

    FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMNENT AGENCY. 1-202-212-7776.
    ……………..

    Now thats a first for me. I’ve gotten spam calls, we all do, but FEMA? 😂😂🆗

    No voicemail setup by me, if i wanna chat i pickup.

    Punched # into google. Absolutey, NOTHING of any kind, wierd.
    Went to FEMA Site, nope, no number(s) even close.

    I live in a Very Very small boring NE town.

    Anybody Else?
    Perhaps real keyboard tappers will have better luck than I.

    Maybe my tinfoil is too tight.
    But FEMA? Really?

    Strange days indeed.

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