Steve Rossiter

A Short Message to All Elected Officials in America

I am an American veteran who served two years in the Southeast Asian country of Vietnam. At that time I served under the same oath of office that most of you have committed to. I’m now past the mid-point of my eighth decade of life and have been a keen observer of your kind since the 1980s. In the overall scheme of things many folks would consider me a nobody, just one of the huddled masses. However, I consider myself an American patriot and I am damn sure an engaged citizen and voter.

6th Amendment—Then and Now

As we have seen earlier in this series, times have changed. To a great extent this is due to the reality that honesty and integrity are, sadly, no longer highly valued character traits in America today. I fear the 6^th Amendment has fallen victim to that reality.

5th Amendment—Then and Now

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of 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; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. The 5th Amendment is talked about almost as much as the 2nd Amendment, yet most people only focus on one clause of the amendment. Let’s take a closer look.

4th Amendment—Then and Now

This third in my “Then and Now” series will address the 4^th Amendment to the United States Constitution. We know that the ratification of the original Constitution was done with a gentlemen’s agreement that limitations would be developed to define citizen’s right and government limitations, thus the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

2nd Amendment - Then and Now

I know, the 2^nd Amendment is low hanging fruit as the subject being examined in modern times, but none the less appropriate for my second article in this series. In 1787, when the Bill of Rights was ratified, the new nation had just finished sending an oppressive government back to its home island. In 1787, gun ownership was virtually universal in the United States of America, and for the next 140 years, there were no federal regulation on guns or gun ownership.

1st Amendment Then and Now

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

This is the first of a series of articles looking at aspects of the United States Constitution to examine how well it has held up through the test of time. I suspect many readers will find that nearly 250 years of human foibles have tweaked some things in, heretofore, unacknowledged ways.

What We Can Expect

In my AFP/CFP article The What If Game, I identified a number of “what if” issues We the People may face as this year progresses. However, there are some very high probability events on the horizon when Donald Trump wins the 2024 election. I say high probability because high profile, mentally deranged, Marxist Democrat extremists have told us exactly what they plan to do, and they have actually done so in the past.

Are You Afraid of Your Government?

Are you afraid that you could say something, write something, or publish something and you might have to face negative consequences from your government? Sadly, if you have answered yes to this question, you have acknowledged that the free world you grew up in has collapsed and there is no such thing anymore.

The What If Game

There is a game I learned when I first started learning how to fly. My instructor called it the “What If” game. All pilots play this game during training whether they know it or not. The most common version is what are you going to do if you engine quits right now? For the rest of my 60-year aviation career, I played an expanded version of the what if game for situations besides engine failures both in the air and for non-aviation activities on the ground. I can tell you for sure that the what if game has saved my bacon many times over.

When Good People Do Nothing

For the record, this phrase is most often attributed to Edmund Burke. My research found that this is probably not the case, and the actual originator has not been identified. However, no matter who first uttered this phase, there is a tremendous amount of wisdom and truth contained therein. For the purpose of this article, I’m going to paraphrase the above to better reflect our times.

This Is A Republic, Not A Democracy: Marxist Democrat Party Lies When They Call The American Federal Government A Democracy

The Marxist Democrat Party lies when they tell American citizens that the American federal government is a democracy. IT IS NOT! IT NEVER HAS BEEN! The Founding Fathers emphatically established the government of the United States of America as a representative democratic republic and defined the duties and limitations of that government in the United States Constitution.

Good or Evil—You Choose

American and Canadian patriots have some very serious, life-changing decisions that need to be made in the very near future. To intelligently make those decisions every one of us needs to be crystal clear as to where we stand morally and ethically, even if we hold beliefs that are not in line with a majority of our fellow citizens.

Then There Is This Other Problem

Up to now we have been focusing on the corruption in the legislative branches of our governments, the administrative branches of our governments, and even some judges in the judicial branches of our governments. There is one other group that also poses an existential threat to our country and our individual freedoms, and that is the soft corruption of some attorneys, the master manipulators.

The Velvet Gulag

In my last several AFP/CFP articles, I have tried to draw attention to the reality that the American government, and by the same token, the Canadian government, are thoroughly and deeply infested by corrupt criminals who are working to destroy our respective nations. 

Reality We Must Face

To paraphrase one of my favorite fictional characters, Sgt. Striker (John Wayne in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima): Life is tough and life is tougher if you don’t face reality.

Sparkly Things—The Distractions

In my recent article, Time to Refocus Our Attention, I emphasized that the primary existential threats to the future of the United States of America and the free world were the individuals and entities funding the corruption of public government officials, the corrupt elected officials that are accepting compensation other than their official salaries, and the Deep State corruptocrats. All who fall into these categories are part of a massive criminal conspiracy to defraud American taxpayers.

Time to Refocus Our Attention

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~John Adams

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom." ~ Benjamin Franklin

These words spoken by founding fathers John Adams and Benjamin Franklin may be the most profound words ever spoken in American history. Here we are in 2024 with America focused on what we call a tyrannical United States government. That is the wrong focus. The government created and described in the Constitution of the United States of America is the most perfect government ever created on the planet.

This ‘N’ That

Don’t fear the next “PLANdemic.” Plandemic X, the 2024 version of COVID-19, is on the horizon. Both the World Health Organization and the World Economic Form and their acolytes have told us so. It is anticipated that Plandemic X might kill as many as 20 times the number of people that COVID-19 killed. Even if that’s the case, no worries. COVID didn’t kill but a very, very minor fraction of those killed by the malpractice medical protocol used treating COVID and the experimental chemical concoction that was called a vaccine, which is still killing people who took the jab.

Yes, It Is A Binary World

It seems that most human beings have a problem. They inevitably over think nearly everything. Life and the world are much simpler than they think. In its simplest form, a human’s relationship to life, the world, and the universe is a binary relationship.

The John Galt Solution

In my CFP article Who is John Galt (October 8, 2021) I completed a comparison of our modern day America and the America of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. It is spooky how much of a parallel there is. In her book, Rand basically outline a solution—the John Galt solution.

In the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, the time has come to acknowledge that the government of the United States of America has collapsed, and to do something about it. It is now a bureaucracy far too big to be adequately controlled under the U.S. Constitution as designed by the Founding Fathers.