Putting the World on Notice, Trump Addresses the United Nations

Following up on a speech he delivered to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19^th, 2017 (http://www.drewnickell.com/?p=1481), President Donald Trump addressed the world body on Tuesday, September 25^th, 2018, reiterating the themes of last year’s address.

In this year’s address, he underscored the national sovereignty of the United States, rejecting the drift towards globalism and internationalism, saying that “the United States will never submit its sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy.” In doing so, he reiterated the United States’ rejection of the International Criminal Court, indicating that the United States does not and will not recognize the authority of this court in any matter coming before it.

It was a far cry from the last three decades, where a succession of U.S. Presidents, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, markedly pushed an agenda towards a “new world order,” where the United States would gradually surrender its authority to an international, one-world government. Trump’s rejection of that philosophy will no doubt find scorn amongst the elitist apparatchiks who have pushed such an agenda for decades, but this rejection is nevertheless an effort to put the world on notice, that the United States will maintain and assert its national sovereignty regardless of international attempts to do otherwise.

In the speech to the U.N., the President also laid out the following premises, specific to issues facing the world, today:

• With regards to North Korea, citing the real progress towards peace on the Korean Peninsula, the President stressed the need to maintain international sanctions until the goal of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula is achieved;

• With regards to the Middle East, the President cited the financial commitments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan to aid the people of Syria and Yemen caught in the horrific civil wars taking place in those two countries. He also put the Assad regime in Syria on notice, that the United States will intervene if and when chemical weapons are once again used against the Syrian people;

• Trump excoriated the corrupt leadership in Iran for their role in fomenting terrorism around the world, their pursuit of deliverable nuclear weapons and the regime’s efforts to destabilize the governments of their neighbors across the Middle East. He stressed that the United States’ withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal was backed by many of the nations in the Middle East, who know first hand of the dangers associated with Iran’s behavior, and he called on the world to support and augment economic sanctions in an effort to isolate the Iranian regime for as long as its aggression continues;

• Regarding international trade, the President reiterated that the days of capitulation by the United States, which favors the economies of its trading partners over U.S. interests, are over. Citing specifically China’s use of currency manipulation, trademark infringement, theft of technology and its unfair trade practices, he announced further implementation of punitive tariffs aimed at leveraging substantive change in China’s behavior;

• Trump also reinforced the tenants of the Monroe Doctrine, which rejects the interference of foreign nations in the Western Hemisphere. Specifically, he cited U.S. efforts to strengthen border security in an effort to combat illegal immigration and its related threats of drug smuggling, human trafficking and criminal gang activity. He also announced that the United States will not participate in the new Global Compact on Migration, stressing that “migration should not be governed by an international body unaccountable to our own citizens.” He bemoaned the human tragedy taking place in Venezuela- once the richest and most prosperous nation in South America- as the result of pursuing socialism which has impoverished its people. He called for the restoration of democracy in that country and announced new sanctions against the Maduro regime;

• Finally, he put the entire world on notice that, going forward, U.S. foreign aid and financial assistance will be limited to those countries who act in coordination with and in support of our own national interests. No longer will countries who oppose U.S. policies and who undermine U.S. efforts to combat terrorism enjoy the generosity of the American people. He also announced that the United States will cap its financial support for U.N. peacekeeping missions at 25%, encouraging its other member nations to more equitably share in this burden.

At last, we have an American President who dares to question a thirty-year pursuit of internationalism and globalism. At last, we have an American President who dares to place the interests of his own country ahead of the interests of other countries. At last, we have an American President who rejects the efforts by many domestic politicians in both parties, and foreign agents to subjugate our own national sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats in Europe who do not have our own best interests at heart…

…and it’s about time, isn’t it?

 

-Drew Nickell, 26 September 2018

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-Drew Nickell

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Dual Process- How Democrats Turn Justice on its Head and Deny Due Process

Due Process, the right of the accused to face one’s accuser, is tantamount to a free and fair judicial system, and essential to government of, by and for the people. It is the very basis of English Common Law, and by extension, the right of anyone accused of crime here in the United States.

It is as old as Clause 39 the Magna Carta of 1215, which stipulated that

“No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by lawful judgement of his equals or by the laws of the state.”

One hundred thirty-nine years later, during the reign of King Edward III the phrase “due process of law” first appeared, when restating Magna Carta’s concept that

“No man of what state or position he (may) be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements nor taken (imprisoned), nor disinherited, nor put to death, without he be brought to answer by due process of law.

The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights codified this concept, saying

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment of 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 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.”

One would think that such a concept, more than 800 years old, would be beyond scrutiny or debate in a United States built on the foundations of due process, where we are governed by the rule of law and not by the political whims of fancy.

Not anymore.

Due process has become “dual process,” where the rights of the accused just happen to coincide with, and are solely dependent upon political affiliation.

If, for instance, a Republican president appoints a conservative judge to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, it is considered to be fair game that any woman can come forth with a specious and unverified claim of sexual misconduct against the nominee, and that such a claim in and of itself are grounds to effectively derail the nomination without due process. Such is the case with Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

If, on the other hand, a Democrat Congressman representing Minnesota, who is also vice chair of the Democrat National Committee, savagely beats a woman who used to be his girlfriend, he should be allowed to retain his seat in Congress and pursue his campaign to be the Attorney General for the State of Minnesota. Such is the case with Congressman Keith Ellison.

Therefore, as dictated by Democrats in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, the guilt or innocence of any individual, thus accused of any crime or offense, shall be solely determined on the basis of their political affiliation, and the right of the accused to defend himself against any allegation shall be infringed if such a person is affiliated with or appointed by a Republican President. Republican members of the Senate and House of Representatives who, in any way, come to the defense of such an accused person, shall be scorned and censored by members of the opposition party, and their credentials as a duly-elected Senator or Representative, shall be called into question and are complicit in any sexual misconduct allegation, irrespective of whether or not such allegation is based in fact.

The Constitution of the United States and its Bill of Rights be damned.

 

-Drew Nickell, 24 September 2018

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Bipartisanship- The Biggest Lie of All

Washington, D.C., a town which thrives upon its arms-distance relationship with anything approaching the truth, is a town steeped in lies. Lies are to Washington, D.C. what neon lights are to Las Vegas, what steamed crabs are to Baltimore, what beer is to Milwaukee, and what music is to Nashville.

Whether it be Republican, Democrat or Independent, lies are the stock-in-trade of our nation’s capital. Politics, in and of itself, is the art of the lie and the bigger the lie, the greater of its propensity to pervade the pursuit of public policy. How a politician can look into his or her own mirror at the end of one day, or the beginning of another day, is one of the great mysteries of human existence.

The biggest lie in all of Washington, D.C. rears its ugly head each and every time a politician runs for office. We always hear the clarion calls for bipartisanship, in every election year, because politicians are well aware of the public’s desire that both parties work together to solve the nation’s problems…or so we have been led to believe…and that, my friends, is a truckload of crap.

Notice, for instance, how when Democrats are out of power, whether it be in the White House, or in either house of Congress, they speak of the need for Republicans to cross the aisle in the spirit of bipartisanship.  Republicans, being the spineless jellyfish that they are, accede to such requests in order to bear the appearance of bipartisanship, and usually get tromped upon as a result.

Flip the scenario where Democrats hold the majority in either, or both houses of Congress, or when a Democrat sits in the Oval Office, and calls for bipartisanship evaporate into thin air.

“Republicans need to know that elections have consequences.”

That is what the last Democrat President had to say when Republicans were locked out of any discussion whatsoever concerning his signature (and only) legislative achievement, that being ObamaCare. From the members of his own Democrat party, came the nodding heads and all-knowing smiles that accompanied his pronouncement, while their Republican counterparts sat silent, stewing in their own frustration and hoping for another day.

That day came in 2016 when Republicans, having retaken majorities in both the Senate and the House, saw the election of a Republican President, but we would be hard-pressed to see any such degree of partisan unity or support for the current President, given the back-stabbing he receives from far too many members of his own party. Perhaps this is why the late so-called Republican senator from Arizona, one John McCain, was so grotesquely lauded by Democrats during the extended week that was his funeral. Like no other senator in the history of the United States, McCain could be relied upon to consistently oppose a President of his own party, and cross the aisle to vote with his Democrat counterparts, time and time and time, again.

Can anyone imagine for one second, a President Trump acting with the unbridled arrogance of his immediate predecessor, by systematically locking out Democrats by saying, “Democrats need to know that elections have consequences,” when it comes to any issue before Congress? In each and every case, Donald Trump has called for Democrats to join with Republicans in forging a bipartisan coalition to address the problems which plague us, and his efforts to do so have been rewarded with condescension and derision from his Democrat (and, in some cases, Republican) opponents who are fixed upon one idea, and one idea only…to destroy his presidency and overturn an election.

Remember this, if you remember nothing else:

If Democrats succeed in their eleventh-hour ploy to derail and prevent Judge Brett Kavanaugh from taking his place as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, then no Republican President will ever be able to successfully nominate a Supreme Court justice, ever again, regardless of which party holds a majority in the United States Senate…

…and that is what the specious claims by a liberal professor in California are all about, truth be damned.

 

-Drew Nickell, 19 September 2018

 

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In the Extremely Unlikely Event of Our Own Nomination, I Confess…

Four dozen years ago, I found myself in my first year of parochial school.

My parents, reeling from a decision by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Merhige ordering the consolidation of Henrico and Chesterfield County public schools with the City of Richmond public schools, which would have entailed cross-town busing (a ruling, by the way, which was later overturned in the U.S. Supreme Court), yanked me out of my suburban public school and thrust me into a nearby Catholic school. It was a mixed year for yours truly.

On the one hand, the Baltimore Orioles won their second World Series, and the Baltimore Colts were on their way to a Super Bowl victory the following January. Not bad for a dyed-in-the-wool Baltimore fan, to say the least.

On the other hand, I found out the very meaning of the word “nemesis.” Another kid just like me- too much like me I should say- became my “mortal enemy,” as it were. We were like oil and water and we took to fisticuffs more often than I can remember- so often that for the next two years, the school made sure we were never in the same class, again. That was 1970, and I was in the sixth grade.

A half dozen years later, after walking a classmate to her class which was at the opposite end of a large high school in Henrico County, the bell rang and I took off at breakneck speed, trying to avoid being late for my own class. Wearing blue jeans and stirrup-strap boots, I ran as fast as I could towards the opposite end of the school building. Rounding a blind corner from the other direction strode a diminutive history teacher bearing an armful of books when we collided, with books and papers flying everywhere.

To the teacher’s credit, she kept the school principal from ending my young life, as he was bound and determined to do until, thankfully, she explained the full story. Accident though it was, I was still rewarded for my efforts with two weeks after-school detention. On retrospect, I suppose the punishment was just, as it is indeed unsafe for a six-foot, 200-pound young man to be running at full-speed down the corridor of a school building.

I offer these confessions in the extremely unlikely event that I am someday nominated to some position of import. After all, being an admitted conservative who tends to vote Republican, if a partisan rival were to learn of these occurrences I would be thus accused of having a “violent past,” with regards to my dealings with a fellow sixth-grade nemesis, or recklessly knocking down a helpless teacher in my senior year of high school. If, on the other hand, I was a liberal Democrat, then that would certainly be a different story, and who knows the heights to which I might have otherwise attained?

So, it is with these things in mind that I read the news of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh being accused of sexual improprieties when he was in prep school, three dozen years ago. Having gone through (count ‘em) six FBI investigations during his career, and two Senate Judiciary hearings (one for his current position as a circuit judge, and the other for his nomination to the Supreme Court), out of the blue an old classmate has now leveled accusations that the once and future judge pressed his advantage upon her at a house party, the kind of house party all of us who attended high school once, well, attended.

Never mind the fact that none of his other classmates have ever indicated that such an assault was within the normal behavior of a young Brett Kavanaugh, and at least one of his classmates who claimed to be at the party, said emphatically that the occurrence did not take place. For his own part, Kavanaugh himself has vehemently denied that such an assault ever took place upon his accuser, or any other woman, for that matter.

For her own part, his accuser is a university professor, one Christine Blasey Ford, with a doctorate in psychology, who has authored several papers and, presumably, a dissertation in order to earn her doctorate. That aside, she apparently required the assistance of Stanford law students to pen a letter to Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) recounting her sudden recall of the ‘til-then-repressed episode during her own marriage counseling session in 2012. Feinstein, who received the letter in early July of this year, chose to keep the letter to herself until the very week Kavanaugh’s nomination was to be put to the committee vote, when she decided to release it to the FBI.

So now it seems that the road towards Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court has met a snag, thanks to the shenanigans of Democrat senators who promised to do everything they can to prevent President Donald Trump from making a second Supreme Court appointment. Kavanaugh managed to survive the grueling hearings despite desperate efforts by Democrats to trip him up during the three-day inquisition of September 5-7, and despite the coordinated protests of partisan spectators in attendance…but that wasn’t quite good enough for Feinstein and her Democrat colleagues, who will stop at nothing to trip up Kavanaugh and, by proxy, the President they hate.

A fellow Trump-hater on the Republican caucus of that same Senate Judiciary Committee, one Jeff Flake (R-AZ) who would love nothing more that to throw one last dagger into the back of the President he hates prior to his retirement at year’s end, has now indicated that he will not vote to confirm Kavanaugh until he hears from the judge’s accuser, and similar sentiments have been heard from another on-the-way-out Republican Trump-hater, Bob Corker (R-TN), who desires to get his last digs in, as well.

It’s not the first time Democrats have pulled an eleventh-hour stunt on a Republican-appointed Supreme Court nominee. Lest we forget the “high-tech” lynching on Clarence Thomas, back in 1991, courtesy of accusations by Anita Hill that Thomas made inappropriate sexual comments toward her while she was in his employ, it seems to be a standard play when Democrats find themselves in an unenviable position of not being able to make their own nominations to the nation’s high court. Then, of course, was the disgusting character assassination of Robert Bork at the hands of the late Ted Kennedy (D-MA) during the Reagan administration, which coined the verb “bork,” which has come to mean a last-minute attempt to sabotage a nominee through specious and devious means. Judge Bork didn’t survive the assault on his character, the way Justice Thomas was able to do, but going back to a nominee’s high school years- three dozen years past no less, just to find some dirt that might stick is a new low, even for the “low-lifes” who now exist in the United States Senate. Whether he is ultimately seated to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court is now beside the point. His reputation has been trashed by opponents to his nomination for the mere fact that they couldn’t find any other way to stop him in his tracks- just to stick it to the President who nominated him in the first place…

…in a word, disgusting.

So, as I said, in the extremely unlikely event that yours truly is ever nominated to anything of consequence, let my confession be on the record for all to see.

 

-Drew Nickell, 17 September 2018

 

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9-11 Seventeen Years Later- a State of Emergency

While the country remembers that horrible day, September 11, 2001, another kind of menace looms on the southeastern horizon- one that has the potential of widespread suffering, damage and destruction.

Not the actions of Islamist fundamentalist terrorists, but rather the anger of Mother Nature who stirs her terrible tempest, yet again. Hurricane Florence approaches- inexorably, certainly and with dastardly intent on a waiting populace.

It has been sixty-four years since a hurricane of this magnitude struck the mid-Atlantic, when Hurricane Hazel came ashore near the coastal border between North- and South Carolina. Hazel resulted in as many as 1,191 deaths, mostly in Haiti, but including 95 here in the United States. An additional 81 souls were lost in Canada as the storm continued on a northern path, eventually making its way toward Hudson Bay. In Norfolk, Virginia wind gusts of 100 mph were recorded, while in Richmond, 200 storefronts were damaged and the steeple of the old Trinity Methodist Church was toppled. Damages amounted to $382 million- a considerable sum of money then and equivalent to $3.5 billion, today. Half of Virginia’s residents were without electricity for an entire week, and those who remember the storm- now well into their seventies at least- still remember cooking over candles and fireplaces in a very darkened Commonwealth of Virginia, at a time when residential emergency power generators simply didn’t exist.

Virginia would face its costliest hurricane in 2003, when Hurricane Isabel ravaged the state resulting in 22 deaths and more than $1.8 billion in damages. I remember the storm quite well, living as I still do in a house about a mile from the Virginia Beach oceanfront. The storm arrived here in the third week of September, and though merely a category 1 storm, with sustained winds of 72 mph when it hit, it would be eleven days before our electricity was restored.

Now, we are facing the prospect of a Hurricane Florence that might well reach category 5 status, prior to hitting landfall somewhere along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, some sixty miles due south. Worse, the contrivances of an angry Mother Nature have apparently conspired to make this storm stall, once making landfall- the perfect recipe for disaster as this area has never before seen. States of emergency have already been declared in Maryland, Virginia, North- and South Carolina, and this particular storm has the potential of redrawing coastal maps- especially along the Outer Banks, which begin in the Sandbridge section of Virginia Beach and extend southward to Cape Fear in the southern reaches of the North Carolina coast.

This “stalling” will also result in record amounts of rainfall throughout the interior sections of North Carolina and Virginia, with a potential to dwarf the amounts of rain that resulted from the aftermaths of Hurricanes Camille in August of 1969 and Agnes in June of 1972, resulting in hundreds of deaths here in the Commonwealth.

With nowhere to go (as the storm will adversely affect at least a hundred miles in every direction), we’ll have no choice but to ride out the storm where we are right now, at this very minute. With a case of bottled water, and two bathtubs filled to enable the flushing of toilets in the event water supply becomes disabled, we find ourselves somewhere between the emotions of dread, despair, denial and, in the end, prayer- prayer for a miracle that somehow, some way the storm decides to make a drastic U-turn, and head back towards the sea of its origin.

While the country observes the seventeenth anniversary of the horrible events of September 11, 2001, another national disaster looms large in our psyche. God willing, we’ll return to post yet another day, once the seas are calmed and a normal state of existence returns.

Fare thee well, my good friends, and may God help us all.

 

-Drew Nickell, 11 September 2018

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Lasting Impressions- Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearings

This week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in the end, proved to be predictable, mundane and largely a futile waste of time and purpose. Yet for those who invested the hours requisite to witness the hearings, there were nevertheless some lasting impressions that will remain with us for a considerable time to come.

First and foremost, President Donald Trump has selected a man eminently qualified to become his second appointment as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court- and that is quite an understatement.

Like Justice Neil Gorsuch before him, Judge Kavanaugh proved himself to be a jurist of uncommon wisdom and the breadth of his knowledge is, in a word, staggering. With an encyclopedic knowledge of history and the proper role of the judiciary as the essential third branch of our nation’s government, he showed a watching audience the sheer wisdom of his selection, and no one can argue that he is not qualified to don the robe of a Supreme Court associate justice. At age 53, Judge Kavanaugh can anticipate a long career on the nation’s highest court, and it is not unreasonable to suggest he might someday prove to become the eventual successor to Chief Justice John Roberts, ten years his senior. That he will be confirmed is just short of an absolute certainty and his confirmation hearings will prove to be nothing more than a pro forma exercise of the Senate’s “advice and consent” function, as delineated in the U.S. Constitution.

What’s more, Judge Kavanaugh outclassed everyone in the room- bar none.

Secondly, Republican Senators did a reasonably good job of examining the candidate for insights into his judicial philosophy. A self-described “textualist” whose approach to justice is based upon the language of the Constitution’s framers, Judge Kavanaugh responded to their questions with alacrity and prescience. In so doing, showed that he was well prepared for the intelligent questions posed to him by Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. With the exception of anti-Trump/NeverTrump Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) whose first three questions were not-so-veiled attempts to once again hurl insults toward the President who nominated Judge Kavanaugh, the remaining Republican interrogation was probative and, at times, even profound- best exemplified in Kavanaugh’s answer to Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) when he was asked about which of the Federalist Papers were his favorite. His answer to that question was nothing short of brilliant and, for anyone watching, a consummate lesson on the mindset of those who authored the Papers and the wisdom with which they established the foundation of the American government.

Thirdly, while the Republican Senators were largely probative, their Democrat counterparts were perfunctory at best, and petulant to say the least. Their puerile attempts to sabotage the hearings, in a coordinated succession of objections to the hearings right at the onset, showed themselves to be the south ends of northbound horses. The fact that every single member of the committee’s Democrat caucus had already made up their minds to oppose his nomination from the get-go, showed the disingenuousness of their protestations about the number of documents released concerning Judge Kavanaugh- a number approaching one half million- more than five times the number of his immediate predecessors, combined. Had 100% of the documents requested been provided, their votes to oppose his nomination would remain unchanged and this effort to sabotage his hearings was nothing more than an expression of sore losers who still cannot seem to wrap their heads around an election which took place almost two years ago.

Worse, the “Spartacus” self-analogy made by Senator Corey Booker (D-NJ), referring to his release of four documents that were originally designated “committee confidential” while attempting to throw himself on the altar of senatorial sacrifice, showed the New Jersey Senator to be nothing short of an ass-clown. He knew before-hand that the documents to which he referred had already been released for public consumption, but that didn’t keep him from displaying the histrionics that have become his stock-in-trade, all in an attempt to promote his candidacy for the 2020 Presidential Election. Not to be outdone, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) displayed similar tactics, again in an effort to promote herself as a presidential candidate, and nothing more. From their questioning, it was fairly easy to tell which of the Democrats on the committee have presidential aspirations, and their ulterior motives were as obvious as they were pathetic.

Finally, the protesters who at regular intervals attempted to disrupt the hearings with moronic and screaming outbursts, showed that they too were coordinated in their vocal objections and it was obvious that their actions were paid for by the likes of George Soros, and company, despite media reporting to the contrary. Their outbursts came at seventeen-minute intervals. Such precision is hardly the work of unplanned and spontaneous efforts. Sadly, such behavior will prove to be politically counter-productive at best, and a threat to the future of such hearings remaining open to the public, at worst.

Sad that the nomination of an eminently-qualified Associate Supreme Court Justice has come to this, but nevertheless comforting to all that a man of such high caliber will be there to take his rightful part on the nation’s highest court.

So, to Judge (and soon-to-be Justice) Brett Kavanaugh, we extend long life and best wishes.

 

-Drew Nickell, 7 September 2018

 

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