“Out with the old in with the new” was the theme at the Queens Village Republican Club 144th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner. All the cool Republicans and WalkAway Democrats gathered together to celebrate and promote the Grand Old Party with new people young and old with new ideas in moving forward and fighting to make our city, state and country great again. Video compilation by Michael Ferrara.
Dr. Lester Jackson author of “Equal Justice for Victims: A Blueprint for the Rightful Restoration of Capital Punishment,” will speak on the topic: The Slaughter of 870,000 Innocent, Law-Abiding People in the United States During the Last 47 years: why It Happened and How to Stop It.
Lester Jackson is the author of numerous articles about capital punishment, the Supreme Court, and American politics. 21 have been published by American Thinker. His articles also have been in Enter Stage Right, Restoring Liberty, Red State, Intellectual Conservative and elsewhere. His major articles can be found here. Most recent articles can be found at Homicide Survivors. A former college teacher, he holds a New York University Ph.D. in political science.
Thomas Zmich and Karina Moreno will talk about the MAGA Queens movement. Thomas, a Gulf War Veteran and Queens native, is the president of MAGA Queens, and the Vice President is Karina, who immigrated from Ecuador in 2000 and is the candidate for Republican District Leader of 30AD.
MAGA Queens was founded August 2018 to help spread the word of President Trump’s America First Agenda. They support our President’s agenda of pro-God, pro-life, and pro-America First policies. The short-term goal is to support all candidates who agree with this agenda, in the November election. The long-term mission is to unite all Americans, put America First, and build a united voter base of support for Trump in 2020, and the future political climate in Queens, NY.
Other speakers to be announced.
Press Release
March 19, 2019
Charlie Vavruska
On March 16, 2019, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez starred in a Jackson Heights education town hall meeting. While it was formally organized by Jackson Heights People for Public Schools, AOC was the highlight and the reason most attendees showed up. Many radical progressive education proposals were presented, e.g., stop suspensions, eliminate standardized testing, remove white teachers.
During the town hall several speakers criticized the SHSAT (Specialized High School Admissions Test). The SHSAT is an objective and merit based test used as the sole admissions criteria for the Specialized High School including Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech are among the best high schools in the country. In recent years, Mayor de Blasio has been critical that the majority of students admitted to the Specialized High Schools are Asian and few are Black and Hispanic.
The SHSAT criticisms elicited raucous protests from a group of vocal Asians parents. These Asians parents held up signs which read “Anti SHSAT = Anti Asian”, “Equity! A Code Word for Anti Asian” and “Stop Progressive Asian Racism”. Many of the AOC acolytes seem dumbfounded by the ferocity of the Asian parents who feel the SHSAT is a opportunity to achieve the America dream and feel their merit based culture is under attack by progressives. At one point a panelist said the SHSAT was anti immigrant, causing one protester to begin shouting in broken English, severely undermining the panelist’s argument.
Yesterday, the SHSAT results were released and Mayor de Blasio and his progressive followers instead of celebrating the achievement of hard working students have used it as a opportunity to engage in further racial division.
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144th ANNIVERSARY LINCOLN DINNER
Sunday, March 24, 2018, 3 – 8 pm
Antun’s, 96-43 Springfield Blvd., Queens Village, NY 11429
For tickets and information visit: www.QVGOP.org
Contact James Trent, Dinner Chair at 718-343-8830 or JTrent8830@aol.com
We anticipate a record crowd for our 144th Anniversary Lincoln Dinner on March 24th. Come and enjoy our greatest celebration of the roots of our Party, the Party of Freedom, the Party of Lincoln, and the Party of President’s Trump’s American First agenda!
The thrilling news is that Brandon Straka, the founder of #WalkAway Campaign will be our honored Lincoln Dinner guest speaker. We are proud to recognize his courageous work with the honor of our American Patriot of the Year Award.
A lifelong liberal who voted for Hillary, Straka has become an overnight sensation in the conservative movement, a superstar passionately leading the silent majority to become unsilent. In fact, recently he was denied service at a camera store in Manhattan because a salesman thought he was going to use the camera equipment for “alt-right activities.” He’s enjoyed frequent appearances on Fox News, including an hour-long interview on “Life, Liberty & Levin,” and he was a speaker at the recent annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He’s received praise from President Trump for “starting something very special.”
Fearless and undaunted, he recognized the truth and walked away from the intolerant identity politics of the left and led thousands of others to do the same with a video that went viral on social media, where he said: “Once upon a time, I was a liberal. But liberalism has changed, and I will no longer be a part of an ideology or political party that represents everything that contradicts my values of unity, equal opportunity, personal empowerment, compassion and love.”
Straka has created a mass exodus of awakened Americans from all ethnic communities and walks of life encouraging them to “walk away from the divisive tenets endorsed and mandated by the Democratic Party of today.” He mentions that “there is there is a seat at the table on the right for everybody.” Our club is putting out the welcome mat to embrace our new friends, to come and join us at the Lincoln Dinner and celebrate and honor the awesome work of Brandon Straka.
We are thrilled to present our most exciting lineup of renowned speakers, local heroes and honorees at our dinner party, including President Trump’s original campaign managers, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, our illustrious Master of Ceremonies, Frankie “Five Boroughs” Morano, and our heroic 2018 candidates, Republican Woman and Man of the Year, Vickie Paladino and David Bressler, Young Republican of the Year, Eric Butkiewicz, and our Veteran of the Year, Thomas Sullivan. Cathy Donohoe is being honored for her life-saving work as President of Bridge to Life, Charles Vavruska, honored for his vocal advocacy for saving the SHSAT. Special honors will go to Bob Turner, who has never been officially recognized for his service and dedication as former Congressman from Queens and our Party Chairman. Come to the Lincoln Dinner and join hundreds of enthusiastic Republican Patriots celebrating the Party of Lincoln and the dawn of a brand-new Republican Party!
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Robert Golomb: Nationally and internationally published columnist.
Nicholas Giordano: Professor of Political Science at Suffolk County Community College.
Donna Marino, LCSW: Licenced Clinical Social Worker in New York and Florida.
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Suzanne Israel Tufts: Trump Administration’s former Assistant Secretary for Administration in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. She will recount her personal battle with the Deep State.
Other guest speakers to be announced.
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Nicholas Giordano is a Professor of Political Science at Suffolk County Community College and a former Catastrophic Planning Lead for the New York State Office of Emergency Management (NYS OEM) within the Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Services. Professor Giordano teaches courses on American Government and World Politics/International Relations. Recognized and well-respected for his analysis, Professor Giordano is a senior contributor for the Your Island with Tom Schiliro radio program on 103.9fm and has appeared on FoxNews to provide analysis on current issues and trends within government, politics, international relations, homeland security/emergency management, and social/cultural related issues. In addition, Professor Giordano has been asked to provide his expertise on critical issues facing the United States and the international community.
ROBERT GOLOMB IS A NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY PUBLISHED COLUMNIST. OVER THE PAST 35 YEARS, HIS WRITINGS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN APPROXIMATELY 100 NEWS OULETS. HE IS ALSO A FORMER PROFESSOR OF GRADUATE WRITING AND EDUCATION AND A RETIRED SUPERVISOR OF ENGLISH IN THE NYC BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Suzanne Israel Tufts is a the Trump Administration’s former Assistant Secretary for Administration in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, led by Secretary Ben Carson. Suzanne was nominated by President Trump and was unanimously approved for office by both the Senate Housing, Banking and Urban Affairs Committee and the full Senate.
She is a attorney, consultant and executive with a diverse background in law, political campaigns, conservative causes, entrepreneurship training/adult education, bioethics/patient advocacy, eldercare and voluntarism. She has extensive experience in management, budget, public and private administration, external and government relations, audits, investigations, national and local television and radio, fundraising and development.
Suzanne is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she created the university’s first major in Biomedical Ethics and where she received the first undergraduate degree in this field awarded by Princeton. She graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a Dill
Suzanne previously served in the Administration of President George H. W. Bush as the Regional Director of ACTION (now the Corporation for National & Community Service). She was President and CEO of the American Woman’s Economic Development Corporation (“AWED”) the nation’s first entrepreneurship training center for women, where she was responsible for eliminating the organization’s ten year old debt while expanding funding, improving programs and outcomes and building a Board consisting of CEO’s and C-suite leaders.
In March 2001, Suzanne was recognized by President George W. Bush for her service to New York’s small business community in the wake of the 9/11 including the creation of an emergency business relief programs for AWED alumnae, students and faculty within 72 hours of the attacks while keeping the organization fully functional despite a crisis-related 400% increase in demand for services.
Suzanne has practiced law with an emphasis on corporate governance, white collar and complex corporate litigation and investigations. She has worked for some of the nation’s most prestigious major law firms including Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison and Friedman Kaplan Seiler and Adelman, and has served as a strategic advisor to the boards and staffs of exempt organizations and for-profit companies. She has held leadership roles in numerous Presidential and Victory campaigns as well as in state and local Republican and Conservative political campaigns in New York and nationally.
Suzanne has served on the University of Virginia’s Law School Jefferson Fellowships National Selection Committee, on the IRS Region II Exempt Organizations Advisory Council and in numerous alumni leadership roles for Princeton University. Suzanne is a member of the Federalist Society and the Republican National Lawyers’ Association. She has served on the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Election Law and has presented Election Day Continuing Legal Education trainings on behalf of the New York City Board of Elections.
She lives in Forest Hills, New York with her husband, Bob Tufts, a fellow Princeton graduate and former Major League baseball player, Wall Street executive and a cancer survivor who is currently a professor at the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. He is the founder of My Life Is Worth It which advocates on behalf of patients for access and choice to innovative treatments. Her parents, the late Abraham and Henriette Israel, were Holocaust rescuers and survivors.
Donna Marino, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in New York and Florida and member of the Queens Village Republican Club. A graduate of New York University, Donna has dedicated 28 years to the field of Social Work. Her services were employed by the Holliswood Hospital, and The Summit School, in Jamaica Estates, Queens. Her private practice is located in Fresh Meadows, NY.
Special thanks goes to James Doukas, our videographer: jaydees2002@yahoo.com
By Robert Golomb
There is probably not one elected official in Washington DC more focused on the decision of Democrat Susan Rice to run or decline to run for the Maine U.S. senate seat up for grabs in the 2020 election than Senator Susan Collins, the state’s moderate Republican incumbent, who would have to defend the seat she has held since 2009 against Rice.
Rice, who had served in several high level foreign affair positions in both the former Presidents Clinton and Obama Administrations, first spoke of her interest in taking on Collins early this past October, days following the Republican Senator’s announcement that she planned to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh (who shortly later was approved by a 52- 48 margin) as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Speaking at a NYC media event several days after Collins pledged to cast her vote for Kavanaugh, Rice accused her potential senate opponent of “putting politics” over the rights of victims of sexual assault.
There was one specific, now famous, victim Rice was referring to: Christine Blasey Ford. As reported in the media throughout the world last fall, Ford had come forward during the senate confirmation hearings to accuse then nominee Brett Kavanaugh of committing sexual assault against her while both were in high school in the mid-1980’s. While Ford was unable to remember the date or location of the alleged assault, was unable to identify even one corroborating witness, and could not produce any evidence to support her accusation, Susan Rice, just like the entire American left, found Kavanaugh guilty of the charge, and denounced Collins, who had based her support of Kavanaugh on “legal principles about due process, the presumption of innocence and fairness”.
Such an argument by Collins, while seemingly reasonable, might prove to be a problem in a race against Rice in a state whose registered Independents, a crucial 34.9%, have been known to swing left on women’s issues. Those independent voters combined with the almost one third of registered Democrats (Republicans have just over one third) would seem to present a difficult obstacle for Collins to overcome to best Rice in 2020.
But if Collins finds herself able to overcome her penchant for praising those who merit condemnation, she might find Rice to be an easy candidate to defeat, for foremost of the underserving beneficiaries of the Republican Senator’s over the top rhetorical kindness, was, ironically, Susan Rice herself. That kindness goes back to January 2009, the early days of the first Obama Administration. At that time Rice was in the process of being confirmed by the senate in what turned out to be a one hundred to zero vote in her favor for the post of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Following that rare bi-partisan, unanimous confirmation, Rice received lavish praise from Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike. But few were more effusive in their praise than Susan Collins, who in a press release praised Rice as a “remarkable woman”, whom she had met in the past at foreign policy seminars. The senator then fulsomely added that she had been “so impressed with her brilliance and nuanced insights as we discussed foreign policy”.
To defeat Rice in 2020, and perhaps even to be able to fall asleep at night, Collins must find a way to throw those words in the sewer. Where else do words that praise an enabler of genocide belong?
In Rwanda over the span of 100 days, then 29 year- old Susan Rice, who held the key position of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under then President Clinton, was – along with her boss Richard Clarke, the special presidential assistant in global affairs in the National Security Council (NSC), and, of course, President Clinton himself- nothing less than an enabler of the genocide that ravaged that tragic African nation. That genocide, which took place from April 6, 1994 through July, 16, 1994, ended with the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 Rwandan men, women and children from a population of 8 million. The victims were members of the Tutsi community, a minority ethnic group living in that beleaguered nation. Their murderers belonged to the extremist faction of the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, who used the Tutsis as their scapegoats to blame for the country’s increasing economic, social and political troubles.
Tragically, rather than taking immediate military and diplomatic action to stop the massacre President Clinton, with Susan Rice and Richard Clarke at his side, took the opposite path. During the first five days of the slaughter, he devoted all of our nation’s efforts solely to the evacuation of the approximately 250 Americans living there at the time. Completed within five days, the evacuation would have been laudatory had Clinton not kept silent and inert about the horrors that precipitated it.
Then in early May, Clinton, again with Rice and Clarke as his major advisors on African affairs, went a step further to enable the slaughter in Rwanda- by now 6 men, women and children murdered every minute of every day: And their dirty deed was committed in the halls of the United Nations. There American diplomats succeeded in pushing a resolution through the security council reducing the then already understaffed 2,500 U.N. peace keeping forces in Rwanda to a mere 270, even as humanitarian organizations, such as the Human Rights Watch, had been warning that if the U.N. forces were removed “Rwandans will quickly become victims of genocide”.
In fairness to Clinton, Clarke and Rice, it needs to be remembered that during the time leading up to the Rwandan genocide, Congress had been pressuring the Administration to cut the costs of U.N. peacekeeping forces, which were largely paid for by America. In addition, the three had been faced with an increasing isolationist mood in our nation, which had been hardened after 18 U.S. Rangers had been killed while on a mission in civil war- torn Somalia on October 3rd, 1993, only six short months before the genocide in Rwanda was to tragically begin, and, significantly, only one short year before the November 1994 United States Congressional elections were to be held.
In fact, to the Human Rights Watch and other critics of the Clinton Administration, its seeming indifference to the mass slaughter in Rwanda was predicated on the political considerations attending to those 1994 Congressional elections. And it turned out to be Susan Rice, above even Clarke, whom the Clinton Administration selected to author the political talking points on its Rwanda policy. It was a job she performed with gusto.
On May 6, 1994- a date that marked the first month anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and which pre-dated the crucial October Congressional elections by nearly a full 6 months- Susan Rice composed a series of talking points on America’s position on Rwanda for then Vice- President Al Gore.
First delivered by Gore to U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros- Ghali, the initial talking point, generally interpreted as a declaration of American policy in Rwanda read, “We have serious reservations about proposals to establish a large peace enforcement mission, which would operate throughout Rwanda with a mandate to end the fighting, restore order and pacify the population”.
One week later, those American “reservations” about a U.N. peacekeeping force were evidenced again in a handwritten note that Rice had written during a White House meeting on Rwandan genocide: “I.O. (International Organizations- the division in the state department and National Security Council that effects American United Nations policies) is looking proactive while vetoing this resolution {to maintain a U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda}.”
The threat of America vetoing such a U.N. resolution proved to be the excuse used by the world body’s aforementioned withdrawal of its peacekeeping forces in Rwanda- a withdrawal that resulted in the last chance the world possessed to end the mass murder of the people of that tragic nation.
The question of what could have been on Susan Rice’s mind during this time appears to have been provided by Samantha Power, Rice’s successor at the U.N. In a September 1, 2001 column she had written for the magazine the “Atlantic”, Power quoted one of the several participants of a late April, 1994 U.S. Government interagency teleconference, joined in by Rice, on Rwanda.
That particular participant, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Marley, as Power wrote, revealed to her that during the teleconference Rice had shocked the government officials on the line when discussing the mounting death toll in Rwanda she asked, “If we use the word ‘ genocide’, what will the effect be on the November { Congressional elections} ?” Here, to paraphrase the words that Rice herself was to use nearly a quarter of a century later in her criticism of Senator Collins’ support of Brett Kavanaugh, it might be stated, ‘Susan Rice placed politics over the lives of the 800,000 children, women and men who were slaughtered in Rwanda.’
Rice, of course, would never agree to such an assessment. Rather over the years she has denied the major role she played in the formulation of the Clinton Administration’s policy of inaction during the Rwandan massacres. The standard excuse she has repeated over the years has been that she was only a “low- level official” during the genocide in Rwanda.
As if believing her own lie, Rice, in a 2012 interview with the magazine the “New Republic”, seemed to lack any feelings of guilt about her role as an enabler of the slaughter in Rwanda. “To suggest that I’m repenting for {Rwanda} or that I’m haunted by that or that I don’t sleep at night because of that or that every policy I’ve implemented subsequently is driven by that is garbage”, she told the magazine’s reporter.
But Rice might well have lost sleep over another lie she delivered that same year, this time at the behest of then President Obama. Appearing on five separate political talk shows on Sunday September 16, 2012 to be questioned on the then recent murders of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, in the city of Benghazi, Rice, at the time the American Ambassador to the U.N., contended that the murders had been the result of a spontaneous response by a group of ordinary Libyan citizens consumed by anger over an anti- Muslim video posted over the internet from American airwaves.
As Republicans were to later discover, however, Rice had lied that day: Within two days after the attack, the Obama Administration, including Rice herself, had learned that the slaughter, rather than being a spontaneous assault spawned by a video, had been planned long in advance by a group of Islamic terrorists intent on killing Americans. It was a lie that Republicans were to soon later use to stop Rice’s promotion from UN Ambassador to Secretary of State.
It was also a lie that up to this day has made the name ‘Susan Rice’ and the 8 tragic words, ‘The murder of four Americans in Benghazi’ inseparable.
Also inseparable should be the name ‘Susan Rice’ and the words, ‘one of the callous and calculating enablers of the murder of an estimated 800,000 innocent human beings in the nation of Rwanda.’
Robert Golomb is a nationally and internationally published columnist. Mail him at MrBob347@aol.com and follow him on Twitter@RobertGolomb
It is the responsibility of Republicans to stop this. The time for grumbling, finger-pointing and waiting for some other leader or institution to step into the breach are over. The cavalry isn’t coming. Either we lick our wounds, begin to turn back the tide immediately or we all eventually get driven out of the state we love by the policies we hate.
Michael Zumbluskas: Over the past 25 years Mike has led voter registration and party enrollment drives throughout New York, and worked as a campaign advisor for numerous Independent, Republican and Democratic candidates, and as a consultant on numerous campaigns from local city council races to presidential campaigns and served as the New York County Chairman of the Independence Party. He has appeared on many television programs as a studio panelist on electoral reform and grassroots activism. Mike currently works as a resource management analyst for the New York City Department of Transportation. Visit website.
Daniel Christmann: AM620 Radio Show Host. “Humanity for ALL of the World starts and ends in NYC! As Public Advocate I will not stand for these thieving politicians, or these inhumane bureaucracies. The Environment. Housing, and our Transportation systems are under duress! The government, bankers, and corporations have exploited our poor and middle-class. They are starting to ramp things up in ways we can barely even imagine! Our Transportation Systems are collapsing, many road closures coming.” Visit website for more.
Manny Alicandro: Financial law expert and attorney from Brooklyn, a 2018 Republican candidate who ran for New York State Attorney General. He is running for NYC Public Advocate to clean up City Hall. “As I pass by the many homeless people in the freezing cold weather, I realize that the ban on styrofoam goes into effect today. This is one of the many reasons why I am running for PA – to stop the madness” @Manny_Alicandro
Tony Herbert: A Community Leader who has a broad range of corporate, political, community and business leadership experience. Tony is a community activist and media personality who is best known for providing a voice to those who have been disenfranchised. He currently serves as the President/CEO and Chairman of the Multi-Cultural Restaurant & Night Life Chamber of Commerce, as the Founder and President of the Advocates Without Borders Network, executive committee member of the NAACP-NYCHA Branch Chapter. Visit website for more.
Carrie Sheffield: founder of Bold, a digital news network committed to bipartisan dialogue & innovation for people, business & communities, will discuss:
“How the GOP can improve its messaging with Millennials, minorities and women”
As a Goldman Sachs analyst, Carrie managed municipal credit risk, and at Moody’s Investors Service, she rated healthcare bonds. In foreign affairs, Carrie reported on the 25th anniversary of perestroika in Moscow, North-South Korean relations from Seoul, the Beijing Olympics in China, and Egyptian political reforms in Cairo. She wrote on geopolitical positioning and freedom of speech in Qatar and covered the Israeli parliament for The Jerusalem Post. Carrie covered Congress for The Hill newspaper and served as a founding reporter at POLITICO. See full bio below.
Additional Public Advocate candidates
to be announced.
By Lester Jackson
Below is what I believe President Donald Trump should say in his State of the Union Address (February 5, 2019). Given the gravity of the current internal threat to freedom and to everything America has stood for, the address should be short; and without the usual lists of proposals and accomplishments most presidents use for applause lines.
The Constitution requires that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union.” However, given the disreputable dishonesty of most of the media, it is appropriate that I use these remarks to talk directly to the American people. This is the best chance a president has to reach them, without his words being twisted beyond recognition by most who call themselves journalists.
I have done my best during the last two years to Make America Great Again. But I accept Alexander Hamilton’s wisdom: It is “my duty to [portray] things as they are ….” Today, our Union is more divided than at any time since before and during the Civil War. While a significant number of Americans enthusiastically support my efforts, a true account of the state of the union must recognize the existence of extremist resistance to American greatness.
Because of the current internal war against American history, traditions and values, and especially against the United States Constitution, it would be inappropriate for me to deliver a standard State of the Union address providing a laundry list of proposals and boasting of my accomplishments, which can be found at whitehouse.gov. Instead, this will be short, in order to focus a spotlight on the threats from within facing all decent, freedom-loving Americans.
Much bitter opposition is the result of deception. The presence of the woman in the seat behind me is proof positive of how many in front of me obtained their seats by fooling voters. Remember, this woman objects to my denouncing brutal murderers as “animals” instead of “humans.” After vowing not to vote for her to be Speaker, they broke their promises on the very first roll call vote of this Congress. Despite “dozens who originally pledged to oppose her return to power,” only 15 kept their word, probably only because their votes were not needed for their party to break faith with their voters. During the next two years, I urge all Americans to scrutinize the performance of these people and ask: “Is this what I voted for?”
As president, in the face of bitter resistance, I have worked very hard to keep my promises. The refusal of professional politicians to keep their word is now a major threat to representative self-government. Were today’s politicians in business, they would be sent to jail for violation of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. When citizens cannot know what those for whom they vote are going to do once elected, the right to vote is meaningless. (Incidentally, the punishment of private citizens but not politicians, for false advertising and labeling, is just one of countless scandalous examples of how hypocritical out-of-touch legislators exempt themselves from the very laws, rules and regulations they impose upon ordinary Americans.)
Returning to the ferocious and hateful opposition to me for keeping my promises, my staff has found no prior examples of major media outlets having suggesting the assassination of a president. Yet major TV networks, such as CBS and CNN, repeatedly (p. 205) have suggested that about me. So too has the New York Times, which used to be considered the most influential newspaper in the country; and still has influence among many people. Also, most regrettably, officials of a prior administration have advocated a coup d’etat.
I was not a professional politician and had a good life before I sought the presidency. I ran for president because I was appalled by the utter contempt the Washington establishment has for both the American people and the Constitution they cherish. This establishment consists of most in the media, many members of the Congress, including most Democrats, as well as holdover Deep State bureaucrats who daily violate the law and their oaths of office. Their war is not just against me but against the people and their constitutionally prescribed right to choose who governs them.
Regrettably, the establishment, with utter contempt self-government, also includes unelected federal judges who arrogantly abuse their authority by issuing orders against the entire country rather than confining them to their own local districts and to the parties in the cases before them. These judges have caused great harm. Their abuses have resulted in barbaric murders of American citizens by foreign criminals who have no right to be here; and are a continuing threat to public safety.
Once rare, federal judge-shopping is now rampant. What authority to make nationwide immigration policy does an unelected local judge have in Hawaii, which is nowhere close to the southern border where an organized massive invasion by illegal immigrants is a major problem? Why is a judge in the Northern District of California asked to decide an immigration case rather than a judge in the Southern District, which is right on the border?
Make no mistake. Although we are not in a shooting war, we are in a war nevertheless — a war against American values, a war against American culture, a war against the American way of life and, above all, a war against constitutionally-protected freedoms, the rule of law and representative self-government. For short-term political gain, many current members of Congress would abolish the basic hard-won rights of freedom of speech and due process of law.
For elections to mean anything, voters need information upon which to base their choices. But not many Americans know what the fake news media has refused to report: Four years ago, every single Democrat senator voted to abolish First Amendment free speech protection, ceding to Deep State Swamp officials the power to prohibit speech they considered “unreasonable.” Tellingly, the anti-freedom Democrats made an exception for their allies, the fake news media. (The official roll call vote and official Democrat amendment to mutilate the sacred First Amendment are now posted on the WhiteHouse.gov website.)
My obligation as president is to do the best I can. I have lived most of my life and I do not fear assassination regularly advocated by leftist fanatics. However, I do fear the prospect of what would happen if citizens conclude that they have been cheated out of what they voted for in a constitutionally legitimate election. This is made all the more ominous when the leaders of a major political party no longer accept the results of elections they lose.
Just recently, a defeated Democrat presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, declared that there is no reason to be civil when Democrats lose. This is in stark contrast to Richard M. Nixon, another president whose legitimacy leftist Democrats refused to accept, despite his having won re-election by a landslide in 1972. Just 12 years earlier, in 1960, Nixon lost a very close election. But he rejected pleas by his supporters to contest disputed vote counts in Illinois and Texas. Instead, in his constitutional role as Vice President presiding over a joint session of Congress, he delivered one of the most eloquent forgotten brief statements in American history. For the benefit of today’s impatient sore losers who never have accepted the constitutional results of the 2016 election and are unable to wait until next year to vote me out of office, it is worth quoting Nixon’s eloquence 58 years ago:
This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the Presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated and announced the victory of his opponent. I do not think we could have a more striking and eloquent example of the stability of our constitutional system and of the proud tradition of the American people of developing, respecting, and honoring the institutions of self-government.
In our campaigns, no matter how hard-fought they may be, no matter how close the election may turn out to be, those who lose accept the verdict, and support those who win … [I]t is indeed a very great honor … to extend to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson … my heartfelt best wishes [as they] work in a cause … bigger than any man’s ambition, greater than any party. It is the cause of freedom, of justice and peace for all mankind.
Tragically, many now seated here scornfully reject Nixon’s gracious wisdom. They and their corrupt, dishonorable and disloyal Deep State cronies pose a monumental threat to the United States Constitution. I urge all Americans who love our country and the great Constitution bequeathed to us over 200 years ago to resist the resistance to constitutional self-government. Only the American people can stop them from getting away with their tactics of stealing elections, vote fraud, speech suppression, intimidation and seeking to overturn elections they lose.
One of the most deplorable tactics of the Deep State and FNM resistance is to accuse their opponents of the very sins of which they are guilty. A group called Antifa regularly smear proponents of freedom as fascists. In truth, it is the left that today is fascist as witnessed by repeated actual and attempted suppression of free expression of any opposing views.
Many decent American citizens are rightly concerned about the radical left Democrat assault on the Second Amendment. But we must not forget that that amendment is second for a reason. Without freedom of speech and the right to petition for redress of grievances secured by the First Amendment, there will be no right to defend and safeguard the Second Amendment. The right to petition already has been seriously undermined. As noted,just four and one-half years ago, every Democrat Senator voted to abolish First Amendment protection for their political opponents. These U.S. senators – all Democrats – supported government regulation of speech critical of the government, or, as they put it, the power to “reasonably limit” money spent to “influence elections.” Do you want the deep state swamp to decide if what you say is “reasonable”?
The 54 anti-free speech Democrats included 35 still in the senate. They should be exposed for the freedom they seek to suppress: Baldwin (WI), Bennet (CO), Blumenthal (CT), Booker (NJ), Brown (OH), Cantwell (WA), Cardin (MD), Carper (DE), Casey (PA), Coons (DE), Durbin (IL), Feinstein (CA), Heinrich (NM), Hirono (HI), Kaine (VA), King (ME), Klobuchar (MN), Leahy (VT), Manchin (WV) Markey (MA), Menendez (NJ), Merkley (OR), Murphy (CT), Murray (WA), Reed (RI), Sanders (VT), Schumer (NY), Shaheen (NH), Stabenow (MI), Tester (MT), Udall (NM), Warner (VA), Warren (MA), Whitehouse (RI), Wyden (OR).
Leftist contempt for the freedoms provided by the Constitution does not end with the First and Second Amendments. This contempt extends to elimination of due process for their opponents. For Senators such as Feinstein, self-proclaimed “Spartacus” Booker, Harris, Hirono, Gillibrand, Klobochar, to name just a few of the worst, the mere making of a charge against one of their political opponents is proof of its truth. This is the stuff of the Inquisition of the middle ages, where torture extracted false confessions or the old English Star Chamber, which the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were intended to protect against. And if false charges does not work, harassment and intimidation of Storm Trooper days are advocated by the likes of Senator Spartacus Booker, Represenative Maxine Waters and hate-filled Hillary Clinton.
These are perilous times. After Jan. 20, 2025, I will no longer be president. Therefore, it is ultimately up to the American people to decide whether to fight for their freedom or to allow it to be destroyed by the very fascists who smear as fascists all decent Americans who oppose their march toward tyranny. As demonstrated by many examples of book-burning throughout history, one of the keys to totalitarianism is the elimination of any and all persuasive opposing ideas. President Ronald Reagan often pointed out that “[f]reedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Reagan echoed another famous warning: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
Finally, it is long overdue for people who have never discriminated against anyone because of race, religion or sex and do not believe in such discrimination to fight back against the libels against them by those fanatically devoted to these practices. In particular, for many years, leftist Democrats have been libeling and defaming as racist and sexist anyone who disagrees with them or opposes them in any way.
And yet, it is the Democrat Party that has a long history of defending slavery, racial discrimination and even lynching. It was the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who ended slavery. Just a year ago and six weeks after smearing me as a racist, the Democrat Leader of the Senate explicitly voted against a judicial nominee solely based on the nominee’s race and sex. And just a year ago, shamelessly and publicly, Democrats refused to applaud low minority and female unemployment; and they showed complete disrespect for the grieving parents of black rape and murder victims. Right now leftists are warning the Democrat Party not to nominate a presidential candidate next year who is of the “wrong” race or sex.
Long ago, the Democrat Party and its leftist allies abandoned the late Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream that people “will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” They are almost exclusively fixated on racial and sexual identity rather than on actual qualifications and the policies the candidates represent. They don’t care what’s best for the country but, instead, focus on the race and sex of those who hold office. They don’t care if minority unemployment is high rather than low if the president is of a politically correct race or sex. They don’t care if innocent people are raped and murdered as long as officeholders are in lockstep with preferred identity politics.
In closing, I sincerely hope that God grants all liberty-loving Americans the will and the strength to resist a resistance fanatically devoted to denying all that has made America great: its history, traditions, values and Constitution. God bless America.
Lester Jackson is author of numerous articles about capital punishment, the Supreme Court, and American politics. His recent book is Equal Justice for Victims: A Blueprint for the Rightful Restoration of Capital Punishment. Reviews are here, here, here. Copyright © 2019 by Lester Jackson, Ph.D. The foregoing has been updated and revised; originally at westernjournal.com and enterstageright.com.
