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Inward-Facing Standing Army Must Be Closed and Repealed

Purges by Progressives must be permanently prevented by disarming the national government.

James Anthony
November 19, 2021

Purges are underway.

People have of late been deprived of their rights to gather and worship [1], write in the public commons [2], work [3], own businesses [4], prescribe and sell medicines [5], choose health treatments [6], make votes that count [7], protest [8], receive constitutional due process [9], and serve honorably in the military [10].

People may soon also be deprived of their rights to financial privacy [11], to access financial services [12], to work as police [13], and to produce or purchase energy products [14] and the associated energy-using products [15].

These are only deprivations for people who would choose otherwise: the people who would worship, make their own health-treatment decisions, and assert their natural rights. These people are the constitutionalists.

Purges would leave in their wakes distinctly-Progressive armed forces, police, schools, medicine, banking, energy businesses, and other corporations and organizations.

This must be prevented.

Threatening and as necessary depriving and purging more than half of the population [16] takes a huge amount of organization and touch labor. All this Progressive organization should be closed and repealed, at once and immediately, and all these Progressives should be sent packing.

But above all we must resolve to eliminate the Progressives’ key hired guns: agencies that, without military, criminal, or civil due process, directly deprive persons of life, liberty, or property [17].

The DOJ was started as a continuation of the huge national-government expansion for the Civil War [18]. The FBI was started early in the Progressives’ century-plus. The CIA, after WWII. The DNI and National Intelligence Program, after 9/11.

Together these are a standing army [19] turned inward.

None of these government people substantially execute the only criminal laws enumerated for the national government: treason [20], counterfeiting [21], and the natural laws that bind national governments [22].

Compared to an internal standing army, a single decentralized bunch of local police forces [23] is far-more locally controllable and is far-more protective.

The only acceptable remedy to limit the Progressives’ current internal standing army is to not execute the enabling statutes [24] and to fully repeal those statutes. In other words, to get rid of this army fully, in the way that’s the fastest possible [25].

If covert actions are to be taken sometimes, then like all war, this should be decided by congresses [26]. Also, there’s no benefit in using a CIA. Rather than congresses creating and maintaining a standing army that can and will be turned on us, it’s safer for congresses to contract out using letters of marque and reprisal [27].

Regardless of a government agency’s mission statement [28], a government agency is a loaded gun. We must never leave loaded guns lying around [29] where children will pick them up and shoot us.

References

  1. “Big Religious Liberty Win for John MacArthur and Grace Church.” Thomas More Society, 1 Sep. 2021, thomasmoresociety.org/big-religious-liberty-win-for-john-macarthur-and-grace-church/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  2. Onge, Peter. “How to Limit Social Media’s Power without Growing Government.” Mises Wire, 27 Oct. 2020, mises.org/wire/how-limit-social-medias-power-without-growing-government. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  3. Kaplan, Talia. “DeSantis: We Are Actively Recruiting Out-of-State Police Officers Out of Job Due to Vaccine Mandates.” Fox News, 24 Oct. 2021, www.foxnews.com/media/florida-gov-desantis-vaccine-mandates-will-wreak-havoc-on-the-economy. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  4. Miltimore, Jon. “Study: Lockdowns Had Largest Impact in Destroying Economic Activity.” Foundation for Economic Education, 4 Feb. 2021, fee.org/articles/study-lockdowns-had-largest-impact-in-destroying-economic-activity/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  5. Anthony, James. “Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Fast Tests Suppressed. Attorneys General Can Fight Back.” rConstitution.us, 22 Oct. 2021, rconstitution.us/ivermectin-hydroxychloroquine-fast-tests-suppressed-attorneys-general-can-fight-back/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  6. Anthony, James. “Best Practices for Recovering from Novel Virus Infections.” rConstitution.us, 30 May 2021, rconstitution.us/best-practices-for-recovering-from-novel-virus-infections/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  7. Anthony, James. “Zero Tolerance for Election-Manner Violations.” rConstitution.us, 11 Dec. 2020, rconstitution.us/zero-tolerance-for-election-manner-violations/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  8. Kelly, Julie. “Was January 6 Part of the FBI’s ‘Operation Cold Snap’?” American Greatness, 14 Oct. 2021, amgreatness.com/2021/10/14/was-january-6-part-of-the-fbis-operation-cold-snap/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  9. Kelly, Julie. “Joe Biden’s Political Prisoners.” American Greatness, 17 Sep. 2021, amgreatness.com/2021/09/17/joe-bidens-political-prisoners/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  10. Shiver, Phil. “Biden Admin Opposes Move to Give Honorable Discharge to Troops Who Refuse the COVID-19 Vaccine, Demands Keeping Dishonorable Discharge on the Table.” TheBlaze, 23 Sep. 2021, www.theblaze.com/news/biden-admin-wants-dishonorable-discharge-for-vaccine-refusers. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  11. Akan, Emel. “Banks Oppose Biden’s New Proposal on IRS Reporting.” The Epoch Times, 28 Sep. 2021, www.theepochtimes.com/banks-oppose-bidens-new-proposal-on-irs-reporting_4007332.html. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  12. Bolar, Kelsey. “Biden Administration Prepares Way for Banks to Refuse Service to Democrats’ Enemies.” The Federalist, 19 Feb. 2021, thefederalist.com/2021/02/19/biden-administration-prepares-way-for-banks-to-refuse-service-to-democrats-enemies/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  13. Lucas, Fred. “Vaccine Mandates Decimating Police Forces across US.” The Daily Signal, 21 Oct. 2021, www.dailysignal.com/2021/10/21/vaccine-mandates-decimating-police-forces-across-us/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  14. Anderson, William L. “Yes, They Are Coming for the Oil Companies.” Mises Wire, 19 Oct. 2021, mises.org/wire/yes-they-are-coming-oil-companies. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  15. Shepardson, David, and Jeff Mason. “Biden Seeks to Make Half of New U.S. Auto Fleet Electric by 2030.” Reuters, 5 Aug. 2021, www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/biden-set-target-50-evs-by-2030-industry-backs-goal-2021-08-05/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  16. Anthony, James. rConstitution Papers: Offsetting Powers Secure Our Rights. Neuwoehner Press, 2020, pp. 2.1-10.
  17. USA Constitution, amend. 5.
  18. Rogers Hummel, Jeffrey. “America’s Turning Point.” The Freeman, Apr. 2011, pp. 8-10.
  19. USA Constitution, art. I, sec. 8, cl. 12.
  20. Anthony, James. “Treason Remedies.” rConstitution.us, 6 Aug. 2021, rconstitution.us/treason-remedies/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  21. USA Constitution, art. I, sec. 8, cl. 6.
  22. Morley, Michael T. “The Law of Nations and the Offenses Clause of the Constitution: A Defense of Federalism.” The Yale Law Journal, vol. 112, no. 1, Oct. 2002, pp. 109-43.
  23. Natelson, Robert. “The Enumerated Powers of States.” Nevada Law Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, Spring 2003, pp. 469-94.
  24. Anthony, James. “The First 1,461 Days of a Constitutionalist President.” rConstitution.us, 8 Jan. 2021, rconstitution.us/the-first-1461-days-of-a-constitutionalist-president/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  25. Anthony, James. “Changing Government by Stepping, Phasing, or Doing.” rConstitution.us, 23 Apr. 2021, rconstitution.us/changing-government-by-stepping-phasing-or-doing/. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.
  26. Lofgren, Charles. “War-Making under the Constitution: The Original Understanding.” The Yale Law Journal, vol. 81, no. 4, Mar. 1972, pp. 672-702.
  27. Lobel, Jules. “Covert War and Congressional Authority: Hidden War and Forgotten Power.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, vol. 134, no. 5, June 1986, pp. 1035-110.
  28. Anthony, James. rConstitution Papers: Offsetting Powers Secure Our Rights. Neuwoehner Press, 2020, pp. 7.1-14.
  29. “Chekhov’s Gun.” Wikipedia, 2 Nov. 2021, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun. Accessed 19 Nov. 2021.

James Anthony is the author of The Constitution Needs a Good Party and rConstitution Papers, has written in The Federalist, American Thinker, Foundation for Economic Education, and American Greatness, and publishes rConstitution.us. Mr. Anthony is an experienced chemical engineer with a master’s in mechanical engineering.

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