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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 10 years, 4 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.

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The people in government, their ideas, and their banks are already bankrupt. Moreover, they know it, but they are hanging on to power by their fingernails and will continue to do so for a long time to come. That was the message of Atlas Shrugged.
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  • Posted by $ dballing 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Only 1/3rd of the States ratified the Declaration of Independence. It doesn't even have a majority vote behind it.
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  • Posted by bills72lt1 10 years, 4 months ago
    If there were a constitutional convention, what is the chance of things getting worse instead of better?
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  • Posted by europa3962 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks Judge,

    I am hopeful that Article 5 would provide the best avenue to correct and reverse the onset of tyranny but given that the 3 original branches have been wholly compromised I am afraid that a peaceful solution is becoming scarcer by the day.
    Thank you for your efforts in arguing for liberty and freedom
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    Posted by JudgeNap 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, I would think that if someone with the value judgment and mindset of Senator Rand Paul became President, he could invalidate the regulatory agencies by appointing people to them whose purpose would be to neuter them - and, if enough people in the Congress shared his view, then yes, it would be possible to deregulate.
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  • Posted by xthinker88 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree completely. It's a statement of principles which form the foundation for our right to exist as a nation. And, as a result, informs the right of any future group of people that determine that it is necessary to go their own way.
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  • Posted by ewv 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A closely related question concerns the power of tax agencies operating administrative law without regard to the common protections afforded even the worst actual criminals, like the IRS's "guilty until proven innocent".
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  • Posted by Temlakos 10 years, 4 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 ewv 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The real question is not a runaway convention, which would still require support from the vast majority of states, but

    1. the extent of the kind of "compromise" that is all too typical today further undermining the constitution and the rights and freedom of the individual, and

    2. how can the kind of statist culture we have today be expected to accomplish anything good in Constitutional amendments in contrast to all signs that it does the opposite in every other realm.
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  • Posted by $ dballing 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually, it's not. It's a declaration of war from a bunch of colonies that don't exist any more to their parent nation. Nothing more.
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    Posted by JudgeNap 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think we are already beyond the point for a second American revolution.

    I speak of a peaceful one of course.

    In terms of when a peaceful revolution becomes bloody, there is no rule of thumb.
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  • Posted by $ lstitzinger 10 years, 4 months ago
    How should a person go about online when the government is able to collect their data, and can piece together seemingly irrelevant data in order to build cases against you. How should one proceed with the internet? Should we move over to bitcoin, online browse using TOR, become hermits in holes under the ground?
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    Posted by JudgeNap 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The Constitution is only as valid an instrument for the preservation of personal liberty as the fidelity of those whose hands it is placed for safe keeping.

    The instruments of the safe keeping of liberty are there, provided the American public, Congress, and courts have the courage and intellect to use them.

    Often the creation of an imperialist Presidency has come about because in war time people are afraid and are willing to surrender their liberty and wealth to a government promising to take care of them.

    Only when people realize such surrenders are a one way street and enable succeeding generations of imperialists Presidents to yield even more power over their grandchildren can this be reversed.

    Stated another way, Congress and the courts are as much to blame for an imperialist Presidency as are the Presidents who have made this job imperial.
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  • Posted by ewv 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The anti-private property rights pressure groups such as the viro lobby in this country and entrenched in government agencies is the force behind the agenda. The UN is a distant second.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Judging by the last two elections, the Tea Party Movement is unfortunately now a matter of history. Even in relatively conservative areas like my own, Tea Party candidates can only get 40% of the primary vote.
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  • Posted by candicea87 10 years, 4 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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