Our “Rights”?

Where are these children getting their information on our “Rights”? I am pretty familiar with our founding documents—the Preamble, the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights; the only place where I find a listing of our rights. I find nowhere that we have a “right” to a college education. About 18% of us receive a baccalaureate. Generally speaking, this demographic is largely from middle to upper middle income group. Why would this 18% get the idea that they should receive special treatment to a free college education? Where is it written; in our founding documents or anywhere for that matter? It is not even in the Magna Carta. Our Founders were quite familiar with that document. Where do these mindless nymphs find that healthcare is a right? Where is that written, anywhere? The rights granted to us are Natural Rights, bestowed by our Creator. Healthcare is not “free” in any system of government, under any economic system. Either we pay for it individually or we pay the government to provide it through taxation. That seems to be a concept not understood by these upstarts. WE, YOU AND I, pay for it one way or the other. Proponents of a government managed healthcare system seem unable to understand that their idea of “free healthcare” simply adds an unnecessary middle man to administer healthcare, the federal government. Our founding documents provide Art 1 Sect 8, spelling out what our federal government can provide. Neither a college education nor healthcare is listed. Anything not on that list is left to the States and to the People. The rights we are provided are not commercial goods or services having a price tag. So, where do they get this nonsense? Now we have charlatans and snake oil salesmen selling this nonsense as candidates for public office, humoring these spoiled rotten children. Poppycock!

I simply cannot find written anywhere that we have a “right” to anything even remotely related to a “free” anything.

White People Socialism

I am pretty sure that AOC and her genre have no idea what it is exactly but it does have a classical definition:
socialism noun
so·​cial·​ism | \ ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm \
Definition of socialism
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
All in favor, say "AYE" :-)
It is clear to me that most of her genre are willing to give it all up as long as the government is her nanny. I think they do need a babysitter. JS

White People Socialism
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-want-white-people-socialism?fbclid=IwAR0mF0LlpeQe7jJJR-kSUcIMklHQDaCs0xS6axB6C6ugEM9lqJ_H1FFUfvc

Falsies

The argument, now being employed by Republican Senators to oppose the Declaration of a National Emergency is a false argument and is as transparent as are they. They stipulate that it sets a bad precedent, further stipulating that the next president may be a fruitcake and follow that precedent. They know better.

From Abraham Lincoln’s decision to suspend habeas corpus in 1861 to Harry Truman’s ordering the Secretary of Commerce to seize control of the steel mills amid a 1952 wartime strike, presidents have occasionally seen fit to step outside the bounds of normal government. By proclaiming a national emergency, the President “may seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute martial law, seize and control all transportation and communication, regulate the operation of private enterprise, restrict travel, and, in a variety of ways, control the lives of United States citizens.”

Since Congress further legislated on the matter in 1976, EVERY President has asserted a National Emergency and most have been rather silly, unlike this one, which goes to the very heart of the Constitution and this Sovereign Republic—Provide for the Common Defense and Insure Domestic Tranquility, two of the three prongs guaranteed in our original document. I listed here previously the 31 National Emergencies just since 1976, under President Jimmy Carter.

Declaration of Emergency in the Constitution

Article II, which vests the Executive Power in the President, also specifically makes her/ him Commander in Chief of the army and navy, as well as of the militia when called into actual federal service (§ 2), and charges her, among other things, with taking care that the laws be faithfully executed (§ 3). In addition to these allocations of responsibility to particular branches of the federal government, the Constitution contains one other empowering provision relating to similar circumstances, namely Article IV § 4, the so-called "guaranty clause", which calls on the federal government not only to guarantee to every state a republican form of government, but also to protect it against invasion and (when asked) domestic violence.

First, the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus (permitting a person to obtain judicial review of the validity of his detention, in a proceeding independent of that, if any, in which the detention was ordered) cannot be suspended, "unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." [Art 1 Section 9 Clause 2].

Second, no one may be charged with a capital or otherwise infamous crime without an indictment by a grand jury, "except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger." [5^th Amendment Clause 1].

Third, no state may engage in war, "unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay." [Art 1 Sect 10 Clause Para 3].

Finally, one other provision of similar, if less specifically military character may be mentioned: that which allows the President "on extraordinary Occasions" to convene one or both houses of Congress. [Art 2 Section 3 Clause 2].

In summary, the President of the United States has ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY, under the Constitution, notwithstanding the 1976 statute.

These US Senators are perpetuating a false argument.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1X43iWbGgUpb0N35iLwx7WNmO4bC54lqs

Green New Deal Cost

The estimate of cost is in a range of between $55 Trillion and $93 Trillion over 10 years.

Thus, the annual cost is in a range of between $5.5 Trillion and $9.3 Trillion.

The annual federal budget in the US is $4 Trillion.

Thus, at the lower estimate of $5.5 Trillion for the Green New Deal [GND] would more than double our budget. At the higher estimate, would more than quadruple our budget.

Keep in mind too; we already have a Debt of $22 Trillion.

Below is a list of the GDP of the top Industrial Nations. Note the top which shows the World GDP is just over $80 Trillion, nowhere near $93 Trillion. GDP is the total output of goods and services in the economy. The top 10 GDP does not reach $55 Trillion.

If all the countries of the world pooled their resources, each paying their pro rata share, the World could not pay for this program.

I want to hear nothing else from this fruitcake about a Green New ANYTHING. She’s crazy and so are those even entertaining the idea; that would be the entire party of Nincompoops!

McConnell Pledge

I heard and saw, with my own ears and eyes, Mitch McConnell assert that, if a House measure passes, but Trump won't sign it, he will not even bring it up in the Senate. Gonna hold you to your word Mr. Majority Leader.

Last US Slave Ship

The Seminole Producer

February 10, 2019

I posted yesterday of a summary of a story in this same issue regarding Elizabeth Herring Warren. This story of the last known slave ship is no less interesting. I have no idea, once again, who wrote the story since there is no Byline provided.

The last known slave ship was the schooner Clotilda. This schooner was commissioned by a local Mobile County, AL, land owner, Timothy Mearer, on a “gentleman’s bet”. The schooner arrived in Mobile, AL in 1860 and quickly burned and scuttled in delta waters north of Mobile Bay. That was necessary to remove any evidence of the voyage. A U.S. law banned the importation of slaves had taken effect in 1808, 103 years following the enslavement of Africans in N America. That was the bet; Southern resentment of federal control stirred Alabama Plantation owner Timothy Mearer to bring a shipload of Africans across the ocean.

Relatives of the 110 people who were kidnapped in W Africa are now organizing a get-together called the “Spirit of Our Ancestors”. Jocelyn Davis is the organizer of this event. She is the 6th generation granddaughter of African captive, Charles Lewis. These Africans spent the next 5 years as slaves, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Unable to return home to Africa, 30 of them used money earned working in the fields, homes and vessels to purchase land from the Meaher family and settled Africatown USA. “They resolved they would build their Africa in America”. They built their own self sufficient society with a Chief, a court system, churches and a school that became Mobile County Training School, where the festival will be held.

Africatown’s peak population was 10,000. Today, lying about 3 miles north of Mobile, the unincorporated area has about 1,800 residents. There are few signs of the original residents, just some graves and a chimney [Pictured here] from a home of Peter Lee or “Gumpa”, who was the first elected chief. There is a bust of Cudjo Lewis, the last survivor of the Clotilda. He died in 1935. His African name was Kazoola.

Africatown was placed on the Registry of Historic Places in 2012. The hope of the organizers is to make Africatown a tourist destination. They continue to find remnants of the ship to no avail. I do hope their venture is a success. It is part of our history, like it or not.

See also:

"The First Jamestown Ships and the First Africans to America"

The First Jamestown Ships and the First Africans to America

On December 20, 1606, three merchant ships...Discovery, Godspeed and Susan Constant...set sail from England loaded with 104 men and boys charged with starting a settlement in the New World. On May 14, 1607, the three small ships arrived in Virginia, the place chosen was James Island, and set the course of American history.

NOTE:

The term "Ancient Planter" is applied to those persons who arrived in Virginia before 1616, remained for a period of three years, paid their passage, and survived the massacre of 1622. They received the first patents of land in the new world as authorized by Sir Thomas Dale in 1618 for their personal adventure.

There is the real history and there is the history you learned in school and they aren’t even close. You will not know the real history unless/ until you research your own family who were part of that original settlement. The history and records are quite clear what actually happened and that does not fit the narrative of academia. Too bad for them but they simply spun and continue to perpetuate a yarn worthy of a Peter Pan novel.

First Africans to America

In 1619, the Virginia House of Burgesses met; the first representative assembly in the New World. Also, in 1619, the first Africans arrived on a Dutch trade ship that had run low on food and traded the Africans for food supplies. These Africans became indentured servants, as slavery did not develop in Virginia for another 85 plus years. Prior to 1700, many indentured women had children with African fathers. These mulatto children were born free.

Around 1700 a law was passed that punished white women who had children by African men. After 1700, the children of these women were often taken away from their mothers and sold as "indentured servants" until they were of age 21. Many if not most of the non-gentlemen colonists also arrived as indentured servants. Indentured servitude generally lasted seven to eight years and was usually ended with payment in the form of land and a stipend of the local currency. Most of our ancestors arrived as indentures.

For most of the 1600s, white indentured servants worked the colony's tobacco fields, but by 1705 the Virginia colony had become a slave society.

1619--The ship Treasurer arrived in Bermuda from Virginia, with Africans brought via Jamestown by Captain Daniel Elfrith (sic). It was reported that acting Governor Miles Kendall had about 29 Africans from that ship locked up because he believed they were stolen from a Spanish ship in the West Indies. It was later discovered they came originally from Angola.

In 1650, there were about 300 "Africans" living in Virginia, about 1% of an estimated 30,000 population. They were not slaves; any more than were the approximately 4,000 white indentured servants working out their loans for passage money to Virginia. Many had earned their freedom, and they were each granted 50 acres (200,000 m²) of land when freed from their indentures, so they could raise their own tobacco or other crops. Although they were at a disadvantage in that they had to pay to have their newly acquired land surveyed in order to patent it, white indentured servants found themselves in the same predicament.

Some black indentured servants, however, went on to patent and buy land. Anthony Johnson, a black man who settled on the Eastern Shore following the end of indenture, even bought African slaves of his own. George Dillard, a white indentured servant who settled in New Kent County after his servitude ended, held at least 79 acres (320,000 m²) of his own land and was able to marry despite a dearth of women in the colonies at that time.

Between 1618 and early 1619, the governor of the Portuguese colony of Angola, Luis Mendes Vascelos, captured thousands of Africans from the kingdom of Ndongo. These captives were likely the cargo for six slave ships that sailed from Angola to Mexico between 1619 and mid-1620. In early 1619, one of those slave ships, Sao Joao Bautista, left Angola to sail for Vera Cruz. In its cargo were 350 African slaves. While en route to Vera Cruz, the Sao Joao Bautista was intercepted by two Dutch ships, theWhite Lion and the Treasurer, off the coast of Mexico. Roughly fifty slaves were stolen by the Dutch ships that then set their sails for Virginia with the intent to sell their recently ascertained cargo.

The White Lion arrived in Virginia in late August 1619. John Colyn Jope, the White Lion’s captain, sold 20-and-some-odd Negroes in exchange for food. These were the first Africans to enter the Virginia colony, indentured as servants for a period of 7-8 years. In 1623, Anthony and Isabella, who arrived on the White Lion in 1619, gave birth to William Tucker, the first documented child of African descent born in English North America.

See also:

http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/african-americans-at-jamestown.htm

Melungeons:

http://www.eclectica.org/v5n3/hashaw.html

See also:

Last US Slave Ship