What a topsy-turvy world in which rioting and mayhem is "peaceful" while gathering peacefully at the nation's capital for a redress of grievances is an "insurrection."

This may be my favorite P.J. O'Rourke quote.  ;-)

"There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."

P. J. O'Rourke always hits the nail on the head.

Every totalitarian regime has disarmed the populace.  An armed citizenry is the primary defense against servitude to the State.

Amen

Indeed.

This has not aged well...

That's a pretty broad brush.  It completely negates your statement.

But not from a lack of trying...

Spoken in the days when the People could acknowledge "that great and glorious Being Who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, or will be..."  The secularization of America has opened the doors to atheistic communism's religion of Power that has since hijacked the republican form of government. 

They have taken over the currency, switching from gold and silver money to interest bearing IOU's (a fundamental communist plank), the public schools have been turned into indoctrination camps to disempower children and to re-write history.  Urban plantation's vote in nearly every capital city overrides the working families in the rest of the country — and elections are increasingly fraudulent — as the communists say, "it's not the voting but the counting."

Government bureaus with no law making authority are imposing rules on the People, requiring they be injected with a brand new, never tested before on humans, "vaccine" that is not a vaccine but an experimental gene therapy that actually makes you sick forever to stimulate the immune system, when in fact it weakens immune systems considerably month after month.  And unlike any other vaccination, if there are adverse reactions, the pharma companies (and the government) have given themselves 100% immunity from suits for damages.

This is world war, plain and simple.  The Western nations are being brought to their knees by leftist governments.  My god, Hitler never had such a reach, and the USSR couldn't even pull this off.

It is a Chinese takeover, with all the Western politicians in their pockets doing the heavy lifting.  China is the biggest beneficiary of all this, and it is absolutely intentional.  They managed to fix the US election (hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots and phony IDs have been seized coming from China).  The Biden's have been helping China for decades — follow the money.

How can we get out of this if we continue to be dependent upon Chinese goods?  I went Christmas shopping the other day, and wondered how empty these stores would be if there were no Chinese products?  Every appliance, TV, plastic spoon, or toy would be gone.  These products are made with communist slave labor — not just the Ugyars but the majority of the population.

We must get back on track to defending Freedom and lawful Constitutional government — end the states of emergency which are long past due.  Tear down this wall!  

Let us stand up against these obvious power plays designed to destabilize American life and foment civil war. And in the words of George Washington, with the help of Divine Providence we will succeed.

Mike, I understand your argument, and I also agree.  I understand that 'law' from your perspective is Natural Law, unmovable by man.  Statutes are legislation, and I agree again, that man cannot make law but only rules — rules that are supposed to support and defend man's natural born rights — again, outside of the power of man to legislate.

So, I believe the argument that Welch is making is in that regard. If you actually look at the statutes being passed by legislation, most of these shouldn't apply directly to the people but to corporate fictions engaged in commerce and thus subject to the Interstate Commerce Clause.  These are commercial regulations to be applied to collective groups/companies to keep them in check as their power can easily roll over the rights of the individual.

In essence, governmental power must be kept in check because it's tendency is to pursue more power, and government has made a lot of ground over the last 100 years at the expense of the rights and freedom of the people.

This awakening is due, and the powers-that-should-not-be are doing everything in their power to keep us in the dark and disabled.  Wake up, please!

How, specifically, does following the Constitutional principles of a republican form of government lead to fascism?  As far as I can tell, fascism is what happens when a statist form of government is established — that is to say a government that grants 'rights' that it also can take away.  

It is unfortunate that so many Americans will not think, but merely react as per their conditioning.  All of America's ills can be traced to implementing statist (i.e. authoritarian, totalitarian, socialist) legislation that steals the power of the people and centralizes it into the hands of the ruling class.

Socialism is a con and a lie.  Taken to its eventual end, is total domination of the people by those that have the power to create money out of nothing — the only way to defeat private enterprise, is through gaming the system.  

Socialism leads to greater and greater control until there is only one political party and often a ruler is 'voted' into office for life — such is the direction of democratic socialism.  The big lie!

Well stated, Noah.  Hitler was elected by Germans that identified as socialist and the Nazi party was a socialist party.  Hitler killed off his other socialist contenders — does that disqualify him as a socialist?  I don't think so.  

A republican form of government is decentralized and has checks and balances — the primary foundation of which is the declaration that the People have inherent rights that cannot ever be legislated away.  

However, a statist form of government is centralized, and the head of state is sovereign, and all others subordinate — the State is supreme, and the people are its subjects.  'Rights' can be granted and taken away.  Statism has many forms — monarchy, socialism, fascism, communism, any top down pyramidal structure.  The key to power in politics is to preach socialism to get elected, then profit from the graft that comes with the corruption of that office. 

'Rules for thee but not for me' is the hallmark of socialism.

I read the article — yep, that's socialism, and no I'm not on board.  See, the problem with socialism is that you do not have a choice any more.  Personal responsibility is turned on its head.  You have to be conditioned in school for years to be made fit for society.  Blecch — imagine everything run like the DMV. 

Socialism is the centralization of power, ultimately creating a seat of power ripe for dictatorship.  Socialists seek power — others' power.  It is a mind f@ck, hive mind, Borg mentality — 21st century slaves.  Apologists for socialism usually hold positions of employment funded by the State, directly or indirectly.

Think Venezuela — same thing.  A rich and prosperous country brought to its knees via 'socialist democracy' — otherwise known as 'voting for money.'

The fatal flaw with an interest-bearing fiat currency is that the 'money' you exchange for labor and capital is a debt with rent due.  It's a leaky vase, eventually draining to nothing if you don't pass on the hot potato before it's worthless.

Essentially we are renting the poker chips needed to play the game, and the odds are fixed in favor of the house.

And all property is taxed, gold is forbidden at the cash register — in fact, real money like gold and silver coins are not permitted for purchasing of goods.  The entire economic system is designed to increase the level of debt obligations exponentially — the more you produce, the higher the rate of taxation. 

Ultimately a fiat currency's value is always approaching zero.  If the issuers of the currency were indeed wise and incorruptible, there could be a government that would not need to tax the people but merely issue the currency they needed interest-free. 

But power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and there is no other absolute power than the power to create money by simple decree.

Until we throw off this iniquitous system, there can be no real prosperity, justice, freedom, independence.  The goal is to keep people in crisis and in fear.  THAT is the currency of governments. 

It's not a bug but a feature.  ;-)

It is about POWER — nothing else.  Remember that.

You don't have to "get the jab" either to serve your country.  Protect the lives and liberty of your fellows by standing up to the draconian dictates of eugenicists in the name of public health and safety.  For them, you dying for your country is what they want.  What better gift to the over-populated world than to leave it.

Brilliant!!  The truth will set you free.

I lived in Central America for a few years — Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras — some of the nicest and hardest working people I have ever had the pleasure to know.  Their governments are all corrupt.  The heads of state steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the Treasury, and the countries are always broke.  Billions of aid from the US goes right into their pockets.  The drug trade overlaps all.

That's why you see millions trying to get into the US.  Their governments are teaming with corruption, and they don't have constitutions that protect their rights.  Their leaders repeatedly try to stay in power beyond their terms and command the army.

The people of Honduras successfully fended off a coup a few years ago.  Cuba and Venezuela always lend support to these despots trying to follow in their footsteps.

The only way we can help these people "pull themselves up by the bootstraps" is for there to be a movement from the people themselves.  We can play only a supporting role, they must find the way on their own.  And I have every confidence that they would.

There is no saving a people from themselves.  We can only aid and support the endeavor, because in the end, they'll need to run it themselves.  They can be free only if they want to be free and let others be free.  Americans are still learning that...

When a majority holds a lie as true, God help the minority!

When enough people benefit from the lie as to become a majority, they can justify it because everyone else is too.  Everyone agrees that stealing an election is evil, but if the outcome benefits us, it is OK because we are in the majority.  We must delude ourselves for the sake of a social cause.  A religious fervor soon follows with persecutions and public executions of the unbelievers.

Beware, you false majorities, because you do not have the real power, and once a lie is exposed, and the truth for all to see, the delusions will come crumbling down.

We are creatures of our culture.  Control the culture, control the people.  Likewise, destroy a culture, and destroy a people.  The law plays very little in my day to day actions.  I am generally dealing with other people and adjust accordingly, respecting them, without sacrificing myself to get along.  When I bump up against a rule or regulation, it is almost always an indicator of some sort of central planning and social engineering — often using the culture as a bludgeon.

The job remains the same: to raise the consciousness of the people, to be able to 'see,' to learn the 'way,' to know who you are, to take your stand, to have courage as the enemy faces off. 

The road to Truth and Liberty is so paved.

(!!) Here we are. (!!)

Amen! Take your stand and let the chips land where they may.