Dealing with Leviathan
Remove the power, remove the money.
The last few years have revealed an astonishing level of corruption and malfeasance on the part of institutions supposedly working for our best interests.
Our health institutions are now controlled by the profit-driven pharmaceutical companies they are supposed to oversee, and the medical journals are critically dependent on income from those same companies.
Our national law enforcement agencies have been weaponized against the President’s political opponents.
The press, protected by the First Amendment, has enlisted as the public relations department of one political party.
Our Constitutional limits on the federal government are being aggressively violated, and those in power are destroying our national sovereignty.
As protectors of a free people, those national institutions we trusted have betrayed us, and the emerging evidence indicates that the betrayal is long-standing and runs deep.
The good news: all this is being revealed, as those with broad power have used such things as the fear of Covid, the insanity of mass lockdowns, and the gold rush of the Covid “vaccines” to move boldly … and thereby show their true intentions.
The bad news: we have been naïve. As Jeffrey A. Tucker wrote so eloquently a year ago:
“The institutions on which we used to depend to defend our liberties and rights—nonprofits, courts, intellectuals, academia, tech, and media—have failed spectacularly. … When the intellectuals and nonprofits went silent when lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates came along, we thought that they were merely afraid to speak. We hadn’t considered that their silence was evidence of a much deeper corruption…” (1)
Our difficulties are much broader than the institutional ones, of course. A recent episode of the “Theology Pugcast” (2) outlined four major causes that have brought down entire civilizations in the past, and the list graphically describes America today:
Mass migration combined with corrupt and ineffectual government;
Sexual license;
Loss of belief in society and its values; and
Massive deficit spending.
I would add one more: an epidemic of cowardice. There are many examples.
The “Covid papers” being released under court order show that Pfizer knew many awful things before the “vaccines” were released, but no one ever spoke up. (3)
Dr. Fauci’s agency briefed 15 government agencies in 2018 about their plans to create a virus in the Wuhan lab that sounds just like Covid-19, but we only know that because of one brave man now coming forth. No one else ever spoke up. (4)
We first learned about the rapid, unexplained, worldwide rise in “excess deaths” and disabilities from an investment analyst reading insurance company data (5), not the medical industry; now, years into an ongoing epidemic of unexplained deaths, no one at the CDC will yet discuss, release, or analyze the needed data, and the drug apparently causing all that damage is still on the market.
As thousands were dying from the lack of early treatment for Covid and the ineffectiveness of the required hospital protocols, doctors and pharmacies were bullied into not using the known, proven, and widely used antivirals that saved many lives in the third-world countries who used them. (6)
The framers of our nation understood well how the accumulation of power leads to moral failure and governmental corruption. One strength of the Constitution is that it distributes power in multiple directions. Our fundamental political failure is that in ignoring that principle we have allowed immense power, and therefore immense amounts of money, to accumulate in one place. To quote Thomas Jefferson,
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” (7)
President James Garfield, looking forward to our time, offered a precise diagnosis:
“Now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature.… If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.” (8)
As our country has rejected both the safeguards provided by the Constitution and the guiding Judeo-Christian principles of our founding, we are reaping the harvest of that negligence. We have become a culture determined to “call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness…” (9)
When Paul wrote to the early Roman church, “All have turned aside, together they have gone wrong; no one does good, not even one,”(10) he was quoting King David’s Psalm 14, in which David lamented the lack of righteousness in his world. It appears to be a long-standing indictment of mankind throughout history! Why are we surprised, when it blossoms in our place and time? And why have we let the guardrails be dismantled?
What is the solution? How do we restore those guardrails? The answer is simple, but difficult to achieve. It’s a long trip home, but the alternative is worse.
To quote James Garfield again,
"Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate."(11)
By allowing the functions of the federal government to expand far beyond its Constitutional bounds, we have invited so much money to flow through Washington that it has become the center of corruption as well as governance. A brief review of that document will make it clear that the new “general” government was given absolutely no authority to be involved in manufacturing, healthcare, technology (other than issuing patents), education, energy, or a thousand other things they “regulate” today. All of those things belong to you and your state, not to Washington DC.
As we passively watch the federal tentacles reach deeper into our lives, new extra-Constitutional bureaucracies emerge to manage them, since the Congress - the representative of the people - cannot directly deal with so much. So Congress delegates authority they do not have — to bodies that are not accountable to the people, as they are — and the violations multiply. And with those bureaucracies come the money, as all the parties affected try to influence all the decision-makers and expand their own increasing power.
The solution? “Leviathan must be stopped,” as Mr. Tucker concluded. (1)
How?
Just what Jefferson said. The framers knew that men will be corrupted, and they created protection against that problem … which we have ignored. But if we don’t know what those “chains of the Constitution” are, how can we enforce them?
The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Jay, spelled out the discipline that we as a free people must have:
“Every member of the State ought diligently to read and to study the constitution of his country, and teach the rising generation to be free. By knowing their rights, they will sooner perceive when they are violated, and be the better prepared to defend and assert them.”(12)
Whether America as we know it survives the current attack on its very foundations, or some other entity emerges to take its place, the principles embedded in that Constitution under God’s guidance are still the best model for the government of a free people that the world has ever seen. They are very much worth learning and defending.
What can you do?
As a patriot, ie, someone who loves your country and wants her freedoms and benefits to the world to continue for your children and their children:
Get in touch with Patriot Academy (13), register as a Constitution Coach, and begin teaching your family and those in your circles of influence, using excellent material already provided by Patriot Academy and Wallbuilders. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3: invite people to come, push “Play”, and discuss with the group.
Put your support behind the move to rein in Congress and the Judiciary using Article V of the Constitution — a “Constitutional solution big enough for our Constitutional problem.” (14)
Do everything you can to insist that your representatives, whether political or law enforcement, whether in local, state, or national roles, live up to their oath to “protect and defend the Constitution.”
And insist on truth, in every arena. We must challenge the foolishness and the lies. Assertions of unreality are all around us, and we must speak — or truth will die. Heather Mac Donald eloquently dismantles one of those lies in a recent Imprimis article, “Disparate Impact Thinking is Destroying Our Civilization” (15).
As a Christian:
Give up stewing in anger, “because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.” (16) Those perpetrating the fraud, abuse, and unlawful actions are in need of meeting the King, just as you were. He gave His life for them, as He did for you. As John said, "God so loved the world …” (17), not just those who behave the way you wish they would.
Realize that none of this is new, and none of it surprises God. “In the world you will have trouble” … remember? … “but I have overcome the world.” So what do we do? Did He provide instructions? Yes. “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations … teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” We call it the “Great Commission,” and it is still one of the primary keys to setting the captives free, seeing lives changed, and impacting the world for good. (18)
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Footnotes:
1) Jeffrey A. Tucker, “Leviathan Must Be Stopped”, February 3, 2023.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/leviathan-must-be-stopped-5032634
2) “How Civilizations Collapse”,
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pugcast/id1523781227
3) https://behindthefdacurtain.substack.com/p/what-is-medical-truth-worth-in-2024; the opening summarizes well what has been revealed so far.
4) https://www.foxnews.com/video/6350579731112
6) Dr. Pierre Kory, “War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic”
7) Thomas Jefferson, fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
8) President James Garfield, https://www.azquotes.com/quote/606290
9) Isaiah 5:20, Revised Standard Version
10) Romans 3:12, Revised Standard Version
11) President James Garfield, https://www.azquotes.com/quote/417896
12) Chief Justice John Jay, quoted by Patriot Academy, https://www.patriotacademy.com/dyk-032/
13) https://www.patriotacademy.com/constitution-coach
14) https://conventionofstates.com/
15) Heather Mac Donald, “Disparate Impact Thinking is Destroying Our Civilization”, Imprimis, February 2024, Volume 53, Number 2, Hillsdale College.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/disparate-impact-thinking-is-destroying-our-civilization/
16) James 1:20, New International Version
17) John 3:16, Revised Standard Version
18) John 16:3, Matthew 28:19-20, Revised Standard Version
Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash.
If you need to catch up:
The price of freedom is active diligence and self-education; unfortunately, with our mostly comfortable lives, the temptation is always to ignore what’s unpleasant. We must remember … the ostrich’s normal defense against danger never ends well for the ostrich. Here are a few background reading and viewing recommendations, for those unfamiliar with the level of malfeasance currently being revealed particularly in our medical institutions:
Ed Dowd,
“Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022”
CHD TV interview when the death statistics began emerging:
Steve Kirsch, A summary of the evidence against the COVID vaccines, Jan 07, 2024
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/a-summary-of-the-evidence-against
Robert F. Kennedy Jr,
“The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health”
“The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race”
Dr. Pierre Kory, “War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the Pandemic”
Dr. Robert W. Malone, “Lies My Government Told Me”
Naomi Wolf,
“Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age”
“The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and the War Against the Human”
Jessica Rose, Analyzing the 1.6 Million Adverse Event Reports Regarding the Covid Vaccines
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/jessica-rose-breaks-down-1-6-million-adverse-event-reports-in-vaers-definitive-evidence-of-causality-5603019
Brownstone Institute: What We Knew in the Early Days
https://brownstone.org/articles/what-we-knew-in-the-early-days/
Substack sites — among many others:
Illusion of Concensus
Brownstone Insights
Courageous Discourse
Meryl’s Covid Newsletter
Unacceptable Jessica
Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter
Unreported Truths
Human Flourishing
Who is Robert Malone
Pierre Kory’s Medical Musings
Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf
The Vigilant Fox
Welcome to Absurdistan