February 18^th 2017 Blog

President Trump continues to be an example on how to be a leader of a nation and to use a term usually exemplified for a computer program—“user friendly”.  It was rather surprising that Melania Trump gave an invocation to give recognition to Our Creator; kick-starting today’s rally.  This is quite unusual for beginning a rally, but I believe this magnifies the general feelings of those in attendance and refreshing.  There is no doubt that Melania Trump is setting an example of what it means to be the wife of the leader of the free world.

There was one time that President Lincoln declared a day of fasting and prayer for our nation, when it was politically polarized, mobilized troops as a “police action” against those who destroyed Federal Property, namely Fort Sumter, for which we know morphed into a war.  One might suppose that such a violent act could be construed as a “protest”.  We are currently not too far off from that very sad period of time in our history and one can only hope that this polarization will not morph into a type of “civil war”.  The following is an excerpt from my book titled: “What Difference Does It Make?!”

“It must be clearly understood as to the “why” President Lincoln sent troops to capture and punish those who protested violently and attacked Fort Sumter.  First we need to bring in the background.  Since the 1840’s there were controversies within the newly formed ‘States’ as to chose between being either a “free” or a “slave” State.  Without getting into the sorted details of this rather sad time in our history, for which many were needlessly killed for such a controversial political stand.  Lincoln during his bid for the Presidency had to deal with this issue.  He won the election, but at the same time the Southern States threatened cession if Lincoln were elected.  That threat became a reality when the Congressional Representatives of those States did not show up on the first Monday in December, as prescribed in Article I, Section 4, and Clause 2 of our Constitution.

Since there was no legislative branch of the government to provide protection for Federal Property, such as Fort Sumter; Lincoln executed the “Emergency War Powers Act” to provide that protection.  By the way, what Lincoln did was by ‘executive order’, which is only used for emergencies, when the legislative branch is absent.  The Confederacy started a shooting war, when they were engaged in a violent attack upon Fort Sumter.  Despite the fact the only causality was one horse, the “Emergency War Powers Act” gave Lincoln the authority to order troops to capture and punish the perpetrators.”

We and the courts should not be so quick to render President Trump’s Executive Order to ban immigration from certain terrorist harboring nations, as an act of discrimination.  The Statute is very clear as to President Trump’s action was sanctified by law from the legislature back in 1952, for which President Trump brought a copy of that statute; read it verbatim to his audience and declared that the courts had no standing in their outrageous ruling.  President Trump has all the intelligence from the various agencies, who supply him with information that deals specifically with the security of our nation—the courts have no such privilege, which is why the legislature gave that power to the President of the United States and act with impunity when applicable.

President Trump continues to blast the media for their impeachable bias and withstanding the mentioning the Demoncrats for dragging their feet when considering our President’s selections for uncompleted cabinet positions.  In regards to the media—perhaps President Trump could be a little more magnanimous towards the press and say to them that it would not be necessary to bad mouth them and just do their job, without the bias commentary… simple!