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I'm Judge Andrew Napolitano and I'm happy to have landed in the Gulch. Ask Me Anything.

Posted by JudgeNap 9 years, 5 months ago to Books
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I'm Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senior Judicial Analyst for Fox News Channel, and New York Times best selling author. I was the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey and I'll be here today from 1PM to 2PM ET to take your questions and to talk about my new book "Suicide Pact" (http://suicidepactbook.com/), a book exposing the alarming history of presidential power grabs performed in the name of national security.

Today through Wednesday, when you buy "Suicide Pact", you'll be eligible to get another one of my books, "The Freedom Answer Book", for free. Find details here: http://suicidepactbook.com/bookbomb.php

Gulch Producers get a third book of mine, "Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom", for free as well. Find details here: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/1a...

Alex will be helping me out with my today by reading me the questions over the phone and typing my responses. I look forward to your questions and comments. I'll be back at 1PM ET.

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EDIT 1: 12.08.14 1PM: The Judge is here. Here we go.

EDIT 2: 12.08.14 2PM: The Judge has left the building! Check out his farewell comment here: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/1b...

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PROOF: https://twitter.com/Judgenap/status/5419...

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  • Posted by PMulvey 9 years, 5 months ago
    Checks and balances are broken. Government branches don’t balance when corrupted. Our backstop was supposedly the media establishment. Yet they too have been corrupted. The only effective way to challenge the shielded media is to make it personal. Lamenting “the main stream media” is useless. But calling out Brian Williams, Scott Pelley, or David Muir, would actually get results. Why not have it start with Judge Napolitano, giving us the straight talk we deserve. Making it personal will make it effective, but that takes courage.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 5 months ago
    Hi Judge! While I rarely get to watch much TV (working two professions to feed my family) I do really enjoy your commentary when I see it. Just wanted you to know that. Have a great holiday season, sir.
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  • Posted by kealii8 9 years, 5 months ago
    The early revolutionary leaders' emphasis on Vattel as the authority on constitutional law, with his conception that a nation must choose the best constitution to ensure its perfection and happiness, had very fortunate consequences for the United States and the world!

    Does the Law of Nations still play that role and does it still have authority? If so How!
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  • Posted by ggiavelli 9 years, 5 months ago
    Since there was no amendment to allow non-dollar currency only a bill to establish the federal reserve, how legally can we spend FRNs and not be violating the constitution?
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  • Posted by caspibar 9 years, 5 months ago
    how do you as a pre-Vatican II traditional Catholic reconcile the teaching of Pope Pious IX on religious liberty, which forbids states to allow the public expression of any other religion which is not the true Catholic Faith? what would be the libertarian view point?
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  • Posted by tucjlt 9 years, 5 months ago
    Obama's decision for "suspending deportation" of 5 million "illegals" seems to be based upon the Constitutional authority of YOUNGSTOWN SHEET & TUBE CO v SAWYER 343 US 579 [1952]. Justice Jackson seems to have granted POTUS a "zone of twilight" to issue executive decisions. Comments?
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  • Posted by IceTrey 9 years, 5 months ago
    It seems that no one has realized that we can figure out how fast Mike Brown was moving during the shooting from the physical evidence. Brown moved towards Wilson 25'. The audio of the shots is 6.572 seconds long with a 3 second pause apparently when Brown paused. That means that Brown moved 25' in 3.572 seconds. That means that Brown was moving at 4.77 mph, hardly a charge, more like a brisk walk. Try it yourself. So was Brown charging full speed, head down as Wilson and some witnesses allege or was he stumbling forward with 4 gunshot wounds? This goes to the reasonableness of Wilson's fear and the accuracy of his testimony. It certainly seems like enough to indict.
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  • Posted by BobbyDJohnson 9 years, 5 months ago
    What is your opinion on whether the American People will ever be able to once again claim all rights once again now that our recent Federal Government from Eisenhower forward) has tried to take away through legislation and / or Executive Order? I am not confident that the voting booth is the solution. Especially with the electronic voting.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 5 months ago
    Hi, judge, whenever I see you on Fox News TV, I turn up the sound and listen.
    Do you think it will every be possible to get rid of the IRS and replace it with something better?
    Would you favor a flat tax or a consumption tax?
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  • Posted by Temlakos 9 years, 5 months ago
    Your Honor: Mr. James Corbett recently released an hour-and-a-half documentary, "Century of Enslavement," on the history of the Federal Reserve System. In reviewing the history he gave, I realized something Mr. Corbett failed to elucidate: every establishment of a central bank followed a major war. I apply this also to the Greenbacks following the War Between the States.

    I suggest, Your Honor, that the Banking Cartel behind the Federal Reserve, or their spiritual and legal ancestors, actively provoked the War of 1812, the War Between the States, the Spanish-American War, and maybe even the Mexican War, each in an effort to create a financial crisis to make people cry for a central bank. I also suspect them of having a hand in provoking the First and Second World Wars, with a view to creating not only a world central government, but a world central bank as well.

    I understand that correlation is not the same as causation. But: would you recommend that question for further investigation?

    (To be more specific: might an agent or agents of the Banking Cartel have engineered the destruction of USS Maine ACR-1 in Havana Harbor, the assassination of Archduke Franz Fernand of Austria-Hungary, and/or the John Brown Affair, among other provocative acts that at least some historians see as the final instigators of the wars that followed these acts?)
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  • Posted by candicea87 9 years, 5 months ago
    Hey judge! I watch Fox News every morning. I stop getting ready for work just to see what new things you have to add to the argument. I am currently one of those many Americans paying outrageous student loan debt. Does it take an act of congress for my state congress men to listen to me about my ideas for getting rid if this debt?
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 5 months ago
    From another contributor to my previous thread:
    Who do you think is the greatest capitalist, Carnegie or Rockefeller? If one these are not your pick then who.
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    • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 5 months ago
      Both of them were cronyists, too, as was JP Morgan. Kind of ironic, isn't it?
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      • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 5 months ago
        Well it is true that they all tried to influence government officials in their favor. However, in the scales of justice I would not fault them as much as those politicos that swore an oath and then took the money in a manner where a quid pro quo outcome could be determined. Those industrialists took no such oath and I would not expect them to be held to the same standard. In their day, in their dog eat dog world, they often had to pay to play. There were many in office, then as today, driven by envy and desire to wield tyrannical power that would destroy the wealthy and their businesses for their own redistribution goals. Many of the things those industrialists did were for self preservation. In the case of a protection racket who is the bigger villain? That is not to say that there were no excesses...
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        • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 5 months ago
          Literally they bought the election of William McKinley. It is poetic justice (Dare I say "karma" in the Gulch?) that McKinley was shot and replaced by the first progressive president (Teddy Roosevelt).
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          • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 5 months ago
            True enough and that was arguably unethical at the least, but in their defense William Jennings Bryan as the opposition was understandably seen as the harbinger of death to their existence as they knew it. He was a huge populist, progressive and believed in popular democracy (pure mob rule). It was almost a matter of self defense and survival. Unfortunately as you indicate Teddy was the booby prize they could not have foreseen. Ooops!
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            • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 5 months ago
              Quite correct, O.A., William Jennings Bryan as the opposition. The progressives did then what they have done ever since. They paint us into making a choice of the lesser of two evils. As AR so correctly pointed out, "In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
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  • Posted by jetgraphics 9 years, 5 months ago
    Under the republican form of government, the people are sovereign, absolutely owning themselves, their property, and their labor. . . unless they consent otherwise. Under the indirect democratic form of government, the consenting citizens are subjects, obligated to perform mandatory civic duties, in exchange for political liberties (voting and holding public office).

    Do you recognize that an American national / non-citizen / free inhabitant domiciled upon his private property within the boundaries of the united States of America is an American sovereign?

    But if you believe there is no such thing as an “American sovereign,” what is Ambrose Bierce referring to here:
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    ALIEN, n. An American sovereign in his probationary state.
    - - - - “The Devil’s Dictionary” (1906), by Ambrose Bierce
    (download available from gutenberg.org)
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