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Open Letter to Spencer Morgan, Accomack County Commonwealth’s Attorney

January 17, 2021 by Wayne Creed 7 Comments

The following letter was sent to Spencer Morgan, Accomack County Commonwealth’s Attorney by local citizen Charles Landis. Landis has been accused by Ralph Northam’s Jay C. Ford of making seditious comments.

You have publicly endorsed  a charge  by Mr. Jay C. Ford that I have published “seditious” comments/opinions on social media. And, further, that I should be taken off the “internet”(FB). Below, I have republished offending commentaries and I proudly plead guilty.

I request that you formally charge me with sedition and explain what I have published that is not protected as free speech by the US Constitution or the Virginia Constitution. And why I should be censured from the internet.

Note. Mr. Morgan consistently  hits the like button on FB for everything Jay Ford posts; including charges (as noted) against personally  me by Ford.  As Commonwealth’s Attorney, he could be  required to recuse himself when prosecuting any defendant who is a Trump supporter  for any alleged crime.  Any defendant prosecuted by Morgan need only cite postings of Ford and his endorsement as a prejudice/bias. As officer of court he should not do this..

Charles A. Landis. Resident. Onancock, Va. An d citizen of USA.

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When more than half of the people, including 17% of Democrats, do not believe Biden was legitimately elected, everyone should want to address those concerns. Senator Cruz  simply wants to address those concerns by inquiry into  the causes that gave rise to these concerns. Only by this will there be resolution. Anyone who objects to this resolution confirms illegitimacy and have no interest in integrity of electoral process..  Res Publica.

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Prior to the Nov. 3 election, I published a commentary on constitutional issues that may arise if electoral votes were contested. This was based upon a study by constitutional  scholars  at the Hover/Stanford. Specifically, Article 2   Sec. 1  (role of state legislatures.) and Twelfth Amendment (role of Vice President). Authority of Vice President (Pence) in  “counting” provision is not defined in the Constitution . Twelfth Amendment only mandates Pence open ballots, it does not say who counts or by what process. Supreme Court would have to interpret if Pence decided to not count a states(s) electoral votes as certified if contested.  Arizona’s  electoral vote certification was   contested by a representative of Arizona and joined by a senator as required (Cruz). .Until counting is interpreted/defined by SCOTUS, the issue remains. I believe Pence correctly decided to avoid the Constitutional challenge because, SCOTUS, probably, would not rule in his favor.  Res Publica.

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Nothing Trump has said or done is seditious or  insurrectionary. Right of free speech, assembly, and to petition government to address gradiences are guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. His address to  the many thousands that gathered in Washington, and many millions who watched from elsewhere, spoke to their beliefs. The right to contest the certification of any electoral votes is guaranteed by the Constitution and no member of Congress contested that right. Article 2. Sec . 1 of Constitution was violated by  the several states where certification  was contested.  That is not sedition. At no time  did he incite violence. By employing National Guard, ipso facto, he invoked provisions of Insurrection Act to suppress agent provocateurs at Capitol.

It is a sad day when the Comrade Fords of this world are so filled with ignorance and hate.  Trump is a profile in courage. Res Publica

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Note. The following comment was first published I n November ,2020.

he Electoral Vote Count Act of 1887establishes  December 8 as the deadline date for states to submit certified lists of electors to Congress. If there are any contests or controversies remaining unresolved, the Act provides for Congress to decide which electors, if any, will cast heir state’s ballots. Then the Electoral College  meets Dec.14. Further, if a state is not able  to certify votes by December 8, , because of  contested after time ballots or other litigation, as opined in SCOTUS decision in Bush v Gore, the state legislatures may take back appointment of elector decision from voters and vest in  the  legislative branch. This would require special superseding legislation which would again entail time and litigation, especially  if legislative bodies are split.

 Again, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act,  the decision will be passed to Congress (House) where each state has one vote and Republicans have a 26-23 majority (Pennsylvania is split). The12th Amendment, however, requires all certificates of electors be opened publicly by the President of the Senate, Vice President  Pence, in presence of House and Senate and shall be counted. Constitutional issue arises because Act does not say who is to do the counting and the issue has not previously been brought before the Court. It logically follows the Vice president does but this requires him to also  decide if some state’s electors should be counted if controversies and litigation are still not resolved. Democrats would certainly object to a Republican deciding  in case of a closely contested battle ground state.

A new House is seated on January 3, President assumes office Jan. 21.,. but the members elected in 2020 will vote not those elected in 2018.  Some may also be contested or require run offs. One new Democrat representative in Pennsylvania and  a flip in one other state  and the House could be divided 25-25.   Therefore, the Electoral System fails.  Res Publica.

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Op-Ed: To Heal the Nation, Biden Must Apologize

January 17, 2021 by Wayne Creed 23 Comments

Special Opinion to the Mirror submitted by Paul Plante

So, the anarchy at the capitol is over, mass arrests are taking place, the House of Representatives under Nancy Pelosi is demanding the the vice president remove the president and install himself in his place, and the nation is split even further than it was back in 1968 when Eugene McCarthy, a little-known Democratic senator from Minnesota, announced on November 20, 1967, that he would seek the party’s nomination for president, being very straightforward about his political goals —rehabilitating the American political system and getting the antiwar protests off the streets:

“There is growing evidence of a deepening moral crisis in America — discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest.”

“I am hopeful that this challenge…may alleviate at least in some degree this sense of political hopelessness and restore to many people a belief in the process of American politics and of American government…[and] that it may counter the growing sense of alienation from politics, which I think is currently reflected in a tendency to withdraw from political action, to talk of nonparticipation, to become cynical and to make threats of support for third parties or fourth parties or other irregular political movements.”

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That deepening moral crisis McCarthy spoke about in 1968 — the discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest, were as a direct result of the policies of Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson who had been elected in 1964 with the greatest majority since Franklin Roosevelt’s reelection triumph in 1936, and four years later, on the eve of the 1968 election, had become the most hated man in America.

“I feel like a hitchhiker caught in a hailstorm on a Texas highway,” he told his press secretary.

“I can’t run.”

“I can’t hide.”

“And I can’t make it stop.”

So, yes, people in the United States of America, one single man, in that case, Lyndon Baines Johnson, can split the nation asunder and bring us to the brink of a civil war, which thought takes us to a Yahoo News article entitled “Joe Biden, now president-elect, declares it is ‘time to heal in America'” by David Knowles, Brittany Shepherd and Hunter Walker on November 7, 2020, where we had as follows:

In his first speech as president-elect on Saturday, Joe Biden said he hoped to unify the nation after an especially bitter campaign with President Trump, who has so far refused to concede defeat in the race.

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Now, when I read that part about Joe Biden of all people saying he hoped to “unify” the nation, my first thought was, yeah, right, Joe, and how exactly do you propose to do that after working so hard to divide it?

Yes, people, like Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson before him, Joe Biden has done more to divide this nation than has Donald Trump, which proposition is before us in this essay.

As to really healing this nation after he and Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Charley “Chuck” Schumer have done so much to divide it, does Joe Biden plan to apologize to all those people in America he previously called the “dregs of society” as in The Daily Wire story “Joe Biden Calls Trump Supporters ‘Virulent People,’ The ‘Dregs Of Society'” by Joseph Curl on September 17, 2018, as follows:

Joe Biden just had his “deplorables” moment.

Biden, who says he’ll decided in January whether to run for president in 2020 but who is making all the moves of a presidential candidate, used a pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign annual dinner on Saturday to rip President Trump.

And in so doing, Biden had a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton, when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”

Biden did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about.

“Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made,” he said.

“This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.”

“This time they have an ally.”

“They’re a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society.”

“God forgive me,” he added, making the sign of the cross as the audience applauded.

“Our work is not yet done by any stretch of the imagination.”

“The stakes are much too high.”

And then he went even further. “This is deadly earnest, we are in a fight for America’s soul,” Biden said.

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So what now does Joe Biden plan to do with those “forces of intolerance,” those virulent people, some of them the dregs of society?

If he is going to unify the nation, where does he envision those forces of intolerance, those virulent people, some of them the dregs of society, fitting into his scheme?

Or is he going to pull a Lenin or Stalin act and simply eliminate them from society to clear the path for the better world Joe Biden and the Democrats are promising to those who are his followers?

Getting back to the Yahoo News article while we wait for that answer from Team Biden, it continues as follows:

The former vice president repeatedly sought to reinforce his message during the campaign that he would seek to be a president for all Americans, regardless of whether they had voted for him.

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He would “seek” to be a president for all Americans?

What the **** is that?

Doesn’t the Constitution make it incandescently clear that the president is supposed to be the president for all Americans by taking care that OUR laws be faithfully executed?

So what is up with this talk of “seeking,” which is defined as an attempt or desire to obtain or achieve something?

If Joe Biden has to “seek” to be a president for all Americans, then in my estimation as an American citizen, he is not fit to be the president of a free people.

Getting back to the story:

“I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify.”

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All well and good, Joe Biden, but dude, by calling American citizens dregs of society, you were seeking to divide us for partisan political gain for yourself and the Democrat party, which represents only a third of the American people at best, so how can you now possibly unite us, those of us in the 70% who never were Democrats and don’t want to be?

Getting back to it one more time, we have:

“We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies,” Biden told the crowd.

“They’re not our enemies.”

“They’re Americans.”

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Yes, Joe Biden, they are Americans, aren’t they.

And they were Americans when you called them “dregs of society,” and you encouraged your followers to treat them as enemies.

So when you tell us, “This is the time to heal in America,” what now is your plan for doing so?

The candid world that watches and waits would like to know!

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Deplorables: You Know Who You Are

January 10, 2021 by Wayne Creed 6 Comments

You know who you are.

For years now, the billionaire and millionaire elites who control academia, the mainstream media, politics, popular culture, and the sports world have put you, conservative or Trump supporters in a box. You know, you are a racist deplorable and should be purged from polite society.

These are the same folks that have immortalized Michael Brown, George Floyd, Jacob Blake, Rayshard Brooks, Eric Garner, and other resisting criminal suspects.

They also worked to raise bail money for protesters willing to riot, loot, burn, and vandalize your homes and businesses in the name of racial justice.

So while those on the left, especially in the leftist media have been clutching pearls over the Bastille storming on Wednesday, where a few windows were broken and the furniture rearranged, I understand it. I get it.

I said last week in the podcast that the country was a powder keg, ready to explode.

You cannot ignore the desires, concerns of 74 million citizens. You can’t write them off as Nazis and answer all their complaints with allegations of racism or sexism. 

President Trump had a lot to do with the violence the happened Wednesday, and he knows it–but he hardly gets all the blame. Let’s not forget the major and cable news and sports networks, the players in the NFL and NBA. Don’t forget about the people in Hollywood, at Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

These same people sanctioned, financed, and promoted political violence throughout all of 2020 and for much of the past decade.

Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg know this. That’s why they rushed to silence Trump on their respective platforms, Twitter and Facebook.

We know the effort to paint Trump supporters as racist deplorables is all crap.

Skin color does not explain why people were passionate about Trump. Trump understood his supporters, understood their rejection of the elitism and secularism pervasive in modern, metropolitan American. Mainly, he did not hate them the way liberal America does.

If Trumpism is anything, it is the call of the working class who believe the Big Tech billionaires and liberal elites are building an America that cuts them out of the American Dream. Trumpism is the cry of Americans who value authenticity over the fraudulence of social politics. Blacks and minorities of the working have just as much at stake here as to any whites.

Ignore the deplorables at your peril.

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New Yorker Cover sums up the state of America

December 6, 2020 by Wayne Creed 20 Comments

On the cover of the latest New Yorker Magazine, we find a young woman, hair pulled back tight in a bun, with a smile on her face. She has make-up on with a blouse and appears to be on a virtual date as she’s drinking a cocktail and trying to look her best.

If you’re the guy, this woman looks hot. Put together, sophisticated, and happy. She is perfectly framed for the camera. Her face is proud and smiling.

Dec. 7 cover of the New Yorker Magazine

But what’s the reality??

She lives in a tiny, shoebox room with a bunch of cats, and their litter box.

The room is filthy. Trash is thrown everywhere, used masks and gloves on the floor, take out containers are lying about, and many wine bottles on top of the fridge.

A closer examination finds prescription pill bottles. You see hairy legs. You see soccer shorts and slippers on to go with that pretty shirt, Amazon boxes, some remain un-opened. You see Cheetos bags, a bed that hasn’t been slept in.

Everywhere around her is distress, symbols of waste, decadence, dependence on drugs, alcohol, fake appearances, and the ‘conveniences’ of modern life.

In her mind, she probably thinks she is a strong independent female. However, she is ignoring the isolation, the dependence, self-medicating, delusion.

She’s living a disgusting and empty life but puts on that pretty face for an unsuspecting dude on the call.

The cover of the New Yorker has summed up our current state of affairs perfectly. Modernity is killing us. And modern men and women are a disgrace.

Actually, the men are much worse.

If the New Yorker cover were a man, he’d be skinny fat, or just plain obese. He’d have no muscles. He would have trash and junk around him just the same. But instead of cats and wine there’d be soda, fast food, and video games. Today’s men are soft and ambitionless. They’re manipulated man-children who haven’t built a thing in their lives, which is why they flock to Democrats and their pathetic policies.

Soy boys. Weak, isolated, unproductive masturbation machines. No kids, no future, no legacy.

Welcome to the Machine.

So it goes.

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Opinion: Re-Education during the Great Reset

November 29, 2020 by Wayne Creed 6 Comments

Special Opinion by Charles Landis.

On Thanksgiving eve, I received a notice from FaceBook that their independent fact-checker, Politifact, has determined that I posted a quotation of Patrick Henry that was partly false as to his position on limited government. Specifically, I posted a picture of Patrick Henry upon which was written the famous quote “give me liberty or give me death.” Also was written. “Not give me free college, free healthcare, free housing, and make my neighbors pay for it.” My crime, apparently, was thinking Patrick Henry would not be supportive of giving a lot of free stuff or, worse, was not a Socialist Democrat.

The famous quote of Henry was reported as given in a speech he gave at the Second Virginia Convention in 1775 . Historians have said there is no record of Henry actually saying  “Give me liberty give me death.” However, there has never been any dispute that Henry spoke about the tyranny of England and that he would fight and die for freedom. A distinction without a difference.

All of this is only an assumption because Face Book did not tell me what  was false or partly false, or why. It is a kind of Mao Tse-Tung thing when he ruled Communist China and said “let a thousand thoughts contend as a thousand flowers bloom”; he then established re-education camps to ensure correct thinking. A refugee from one of these camps explained it to me this way: In the dead of night she was arrested and taken from her home in Beijing  and confined in a “re-education” camp in a remote rural area. She was not charged with a crime other than she had been reported as having false thoughts. That is, thinking as one would as in the old cultural norms of China; not in accordance with the truthful and correct thinking of the cultural revolution.

In the camp, with others, she was re- educated in how to think correctly. There was no sentence for a certain period of time. To be released, you had to convince your leader that you understood what your false thinking was  and what the correct thinking was. Eventually she was released, escaped to Hong Kong, and became an exchange student at a university in Washington.. Another day, the rest of the story.

Being educated in politically correct thinking is not only in communist/socialist countries; we have, for example the NY Times 1619 Project which rewrites all of our history since the founding.  Also, schools from elementary to college level teach revisionist history with abandon.  Even here on the Eastern Shore there are those who think my book “An Introduction to the History of Virginia’s Eastern Shore. A collection of Essays on Important Persons and Events”, was “fake” history. (As opined by a social justice warrior).[CL1] . They do not say what was fake or false, but I have otherwise learned that they believe the “real” history of the Shore was of social injustice and economic oppression of Black people. Here again I was left to figure out what crime of false or incorrect thinking I was guilty of.

In the final banality and commonality of it all, Face Book, Mao, and the social justice warriors on the Shore assert I am guilty of false or incorrect thinking, I must figure  out what my crime is, confess, and do penance for redemption.

Note. In  links provided by FB fact checkers, I am informed both “mechanical and human” means are used to determine whether a post is true or false. It appears that both are programmed to identify and link certain words to flag as untrue or false. In my case, Patrick Henry (patriot)  linked with free stuff (limited government) alarmed/alerted the fact t checker people/thing and thus decided false or not true. Insidious. Perfidious.

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Opinion: Banality of Evil

November 22, 2020 by Wayne Creed 1 Comment

Special Opinion to the Mirror by Charles Landis

In 1951, Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism which is considered the most important book written on the subject in the 20th century. In 1963, after attending the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Israel for Nazi war crimes, she wrote a book about him and coined the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her thesis was the evil of Nazism under Hitler and communism in Russia under Stalin, did not happen because of the fanaticism of one dominating man but by ordinary people blindly following orders (or propaganda as of Joseph Goebbels).

While I was familiar with Arendt, I did not understand the importance until, while living in Geneva, a German friend who worked in a Swiss bank, invited me to visit his family’s home in a small village near the Zurich border.

My friend’s father had been a general in WW II and fought on both Eastern and Western fronts in both WWI and WW II . After the War, he was taken to Fort Dix for interrogation where he learned English.

Shortly after arrival, the General took me outside and pointed at a massive chimney on the side of the house which was embossed with a giant Russian white bear. He pointed at the bear and emphatically insisted that WW II was really all about the Versailles settlement after WW I, Russia, and communism. The General grew up in Silesia and was raised in the Prussian military and cultural tradition; a soldier who only followed orders and knew nothing of atrocities.

That evening I was invited to meet the mayor at the local beer hall attached to the mayor’s home. Here I was introduced to a man who offered me a ride to Heidelberg which I intended to visit the next day. While driving through the Black Forest, the man explained he also had learned English at Fort Dix where he had been taken for interrogation after the War. The reason, he said, was because he was in the SS and in charge of the special security unit that guarded Hitler. I asked him to tell me about Hitler and he responded that “Hitler was good old man” and that all the bad things that were done were done by the bad people around him, not ordered by Hitler. Note. In the years since, studies have been done that show there are no written orders given by Hitler to do all the horrendous things that were done. Hitler simply made it clear what he thought and others gave orders believing what Hitler thought was as orders and penalties would be severe for failure to do. Ordinary people followed blindly.

After arrival in Heidelberg, I met a young Jewish couple from Brooklyn who were returning from Israel after working for a year on a Kibbutz (a collective farm). We decided to have a beer at a cave near the University where I had heard students gathered. Note. Heidelberg University was the Nazi university during the Nazi reign. Upon descending into the cave via a spiral stair case into several candlelit rooms, we were invited to join a half dozen students; all tall, blond, and Nordic looking, which contrasted sharply with my black bearded Jewish friend who looked much like an orthodox Rabbi. Shortly, the conversation turned to whether what happened under Hitler could happen again. My Jewish friends said they believed the cultural history of the German people argued against and what happened under Hitler was that a criminal element had taken over the government and Nazism would never happen again. Th e students said yes, it could and in any country and referenced Hanna Arendt and her book The” Origins of Totalitarianism. ”

Over the years I have often reflected on those conversations and my own experience before that visit to Germany when I was assigned as a young 2nd lieutenant to a special mission activity under Headquarters Command at what is now Joint Base Andrews. Initially, I worked at what was then called Suitland Hall, which sounded like a private girls school, but was in fact headquarters of OSI (Office of Special Investigations). At this time, pursuant to an executive order of President Truman in 1947, a requirement was established requiring everyone working for the federal government to report the names of all organizations they were a member of or attended meetings of. These were checked against lists of organizations considered subversive by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Department of Justice. If there was a match, a background check was ordered and visits were made to the subject’s neighbors homes and inquires made of neighbors and associates to assess loyalty.

On the HCUA list was the church I belonged to and the United World Federalists, a world peace advocacy group which a friend had invited me to one of their meetings. Under the executive order, anyone could accuse you of being subversive, you could be relieved of duty or discharged, and you would never know what the charge was or who made it. I was then assigned to a special operations group at Andrews as a adjutant to the group commander with a top secret clearance. The commanding General instituted a program which required officers to arrange invitation to subordinates’ homes during a social occasion for purpose of getting to know family members, neighbors, and friends of subordinates to assess loyalty. While I was under an order, required to obey, and not question, I protested as violation of constitutional rights. The order was subsequently suspended. Why did everyone else follow blindly?

As Arendt says totalitarianism/authoritarianisms can come from the right and the left. However it is noted that socialism is the common denominator; Nazism was national socialism, Russian USSR was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China is the Peoples Republic (certainly not a republican form of government as required of every state in our Constitution). One could as well add Cambodia under Pol Pot, Castro’s Cuba, and others that want-to-be.

Today, the left considers conservatives and Republicans authoritarian/totalitarian fascist Nazis and white supremist. The more convincing argument is the Democrat Socialist Party is where the threat of authoritarianism/ totalitarianism. Is most evident.

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s masterful minister of propaganda said, if you repeat a big lie over and over again, people will believe it, and “think of the press as a great keyboard the government can play.” This is what the MSN does 24-7. Think also of the lefts suppression of free speech on college campuses, in news reporting, and the intolerance of any opinions other than what fits the narrative of the left. Think of the cancel culture and the efforts to rewrite our history and destroy monuments thereto. Think of all the free stuff they promise and people will blindly follow.

Above all, think of the fundamental changes in or governance the Democrat Socialists strive: control of both houses of Congress that will permit adding two more Democrat states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, with 4 more senators and control for 50 years; elimination of the electoral college and of protection of minorities by reduction of rural areas to fly over; and, think of packing the Supreme Court, which would give one party control of all branches government and a one party country.

Yes, Hannah Arendt was right. The promise of the Democrat Socialist Party will lead to a totalitarian regime wrought by ordinary people persuaded by propaganda and the banality of evil.

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Opinion: It’s Time to Act

November 15, 2020 by Wayne Creed 11 Comments

This opinion is special to the Mirror by Bill Payne of Cape Charles.

I am delighted the Northampton County Board of Supervisors have taken up the question regarding the Old Courthouse Green Confederate Monument.  After conducting a public hearing on October 13, 2020, the Supervisors discussed the substance of the controversy at their November 10, 2020 regular meeting.

The Board was collectively hesitant in their assessment of the issue and frankly raised more unanswered questions than possible resolutions.  Their reluctance to suggest one or more potential remedies is understandable – this is a “hot potato”.

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Supervisor Bennett suggested to his colleagues that they must hear more from our citizens, but lamented the community is largely uncomfortable presenting their opinions.  The fact is there probably are as many solutions out there as there are community alliances.

It was encouraging to hear Supervisor Dixon express, “I think we have an opportunity to be different”, and then add, “We can’t do nothing.”  But still the discussion largely centered around calls for further study and the need to “wait and see”.

Some have urged the Board to convene a facilitated group of citizens who would propose a nonbinding resolution.  However, at the end of the day, it is unlikely our leaders will be presented with an answer that will please everyone.  Therefore, I conclude it’s time for our Board of Supervisors to demonstrate leadership and deliberately act.

If the State of Mississippi’s leadership can navigate politically troubled waters and embrace a 21st century state flag absent the stigma of the “Stars and Bars”, Northampton County’s managers can certainly realize the fulfillment of all that is right and fair for our community.

I urge our Supervisors to give this daunting task high priority until every Northampton County citizen can pridefully walk the Old Courthouse Green free of its symbolic reminder of social injustice and inequity.

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Opinion: And the winner is….? to be decided.…? by….?

November 1, 2020 by Wayne Creed Leave a Comment

Note. This commentary is by Charles Landis and is largely based on recent studies by the Hover Institute and the Heritage Foundation.

It is very probable we will not know who was elected President on No v.4.  Because Trump supporters prefer in person voting  over mail in  ballots, Democrats prefer mail in, and as much as 50 % of electorate will vote absentee, it is probable Trump will   declare victory based on the count at that time.  However, Democrats predict a “blue wave” from mailed in ballots, some of which may not be mailed until days after Nov. 3.

 Some states do not permit verification of signatures of millions of mail -in ballots to begin until Nov. 3., for example such key states as Pennsylvania. Michigan, and Wisconsin. Verification is very time consuming and there will be many contested ballots and demands for recounts based on allegations of fraud or inability to accurately count ballots. It is very possible some states may not be able to certify results by the Dec. 8 deadline. Consider, also, nearly  300 counties have dirty lists where there are more on registrar roll than residents.

Note. The Heritage Foundation study shows 1,300 convictions for voter fraud and related issues since 2016 elections. These are convictions, not allegations, of which there are many more. Hover Institute study reports there are already  279 law suits  filed in 2020 in 45 states.

The Electoral Vote Count Act of 1887establishes  December 8 as the deadline date for states to submit certified lists of electors to Congress. If there are any contests or controversies remaining unresolved, the Act provides for Congress to decide which electors, if any, will cast heir state’s ballots. Then the Electoral College  meets Dec.14. Further, if a state is not able  to certify votes by December 8, , because of  contested after time ballots or other litigation, as opined in SCOTUS decision in Bush v Gore, the state legislatures may take back appointment of elector decision from voters and vest in  the  legislative branch. This would require special superseding legislation which would again entail time and litigation, especially  if legislative bodies are split.

 Again, pursuant to the Electoral Count Act,  the decision will be passed to Congress (House) where each state has one vote and Republicans have a 26-23 majority (Pennsylvania is split). The12th Amendment, however, requires all certificates of electors be opened publicly by the President of the Senate, Vice President  Pence, in presence of House and Senate and shall be counted. Constitutional issue arises because Act does not say who is to do the counting and the issue has not previously been brought before the Court. It logically follows the Vice president does but this requires him to also  decide if some state’s electors should be counted if controversies and litigation are still not resolved. Democrats would certainly object to a Republican deciding  in case of a closely contested battle ground state.

A new House is seated on January 3, President assumes office Jan. 21.,. but the members elected in 2020 will vote not those elected in 2018.  Some may also be contested or require run offs. One new Democrat representative in Pennsylvania and  a flip in one other state  and the House could be divided 25-25.   Therefore, the Electoral System fails. 

If the Electoral system fails in House, the 12th Amendment says the Senate must immediately elect a Vice President. The Republicans with 53-47current vote majority would chose Pence Vice President. However, it will be the Senators chosen in the 2020 election not the Senators chosen in 2018. If the Senate is split 50-50, VP Pence decides and he can cast the deciding vote and thus he is elected Vice President. On January 20, 2021, he then become President because of inability of House to break its own deadlock.

However if it is decided Pence should not cast tie breaking vote, then the Presidential Succession Act. Of 1947, amended 2006, comes into play where Speaker Pelosi is first in line, President pro tem,  Senator. Grasley, follows, and then cabinet officers beginning with Secretary of State Pompeo. However, the Act is also considered unconstitutional because neither Pelosi or Grasley are Officers as required and succession falls to Pompeo.

All of this suggests a Constitutional crisis as never before or as imagined by Founders. Just as in 2016 election, Democrats will not accept Trump as President again. Whereas in 2016 there was much weeping, wailing, and thumping of the chest by Democrats, a 2020 re-election of Trump, promises to be met by much civil disturbance in the large blue urban areas. As the Democrat Socialist party has said, the movement is a revolution and  it has started.

These is reason why Republicans/Trump thought it imperative there be a 9th Supreme Court judge before the Nov. 3 election. A 4-4 Court would mean a return to the appellate court or Congress. Then the confusion really begins.

Have a nice day. MAGA. Res Publica.

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Letter: White Men Don’t Matter

November 1, 2020 by Wayne Creed 35 Comments

To the Editor:

At a time when Metty Pellicer is releasing a book about growing up black in Cape Charles, we are watching the continuing systemic prejudice against the white male in America, and it matters to hardly anyone. 


In fact the law allows it, the law promotes it, and our media is shoving it down our throats.


Affirmative Action has been a government sponsored racist program from it’s very inception about 50 years ago. It is a federal government program that scoffs at the concept where we are all supposedly created equal. Quotas were created where women, minorities, the disabled and veterans were all given quotas of explicit preferential treatment for hiring, housing and government run social programs. 


I myself was told several times I could not be hired, federal quotas had to be filled, and I needed to look elsewhere for work. This federal law continues to be enforced to this day. In a very real sense it is the exact same thing as the attitude that put up a “whites only” sign over a public water fountain. I also cannot fix it. I cannot change the color of my skin.


Does the passage of time fix all such dilemmas ? Who knows ? What I do know is that our media and advertising beat such drums and subtly drive the message home. Want some support for that theory ? L.L. Bean. I bet I am not the only person on The Shore who is on their catalogue mailing list. Open it. Look at it. 64 pages. The models inside ? Full body shots head to toe ? Several oriental women, men and women of color, and some white women. There are zero full body shots of white men. There are some white men in the catalogue modeling pants that are headless, and their entire upper torso cut right off. 


If you don’t think a statement is being made you are quite blissfully naïve.

Me? I am vociferously fighting back. You can follow my F150 to Church or the boat ramp. It’s the one with the new bumper sticker that “White Boots Matter” on the back.

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Opinion: On Queen Kamala Harris and the Future of Our America

October 25, 2020 by Wayne Creed 7 Comments

Special to the Mirror by Paul Plante.

In the “Caesar, Letter II” political essay 233 years ago on October 17, 1787, the author stated thusly with respect to where it is we again find ourselves in this country, as designing politicians divide us up into “dregs of society,” in the case of Democrat Joseph “Corn Pop” Biden, or a “basket of deplorables,” in the case of Democrat Queen Hillary Rodham Clinton, versus their followers who are not only perfect in every way, but even more so, to wit:

“I am not one of those who gain an influence by cajoling the unthinking mass (tho’ I pity their delusions), and ringing in their ears the gracious sound of their absolute Sovereignty.”

“I despise the trick of such dirty policy.”

“I know there are Citizens, who, to gain their own private ends, enflame the minds of the well-meaning, tho’ less intelligent parts of the community, by sating their vanity with that cordial and unfailing specific, that all power is seated in the people.”

“There are always men in society of some talents, but more ambition, in quest of that which it would be impossible for them to obtain in any other way than by working on the passions and prejudices of the less discerning classes of citizens and yeomanry.”

“It is the plan of men of this stamp to frighten the people with ideal bugbears, in order to mould them to their own purposes.”

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And what a segue that gives us, especially the last sentence about “ideal bugbears,” to a recent article in the Des Moines Register by Brianne Pfannenstiel on 18 October 2020 entitled “Iowa Democrats’ 2020 virtual Liberty and Justice dinner is more subdued than spectacle,” where we were treated to the following concerning the demagogue Queen Empress Kamala Harris, the first of her name, to wit:

A year after U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris brought Iowa Democrats to their feet with an impassioned speech at the state party’s Liberty and Justice dinner, the now-vice presidential candidate delivered a far more subdued message Sunday at this year’s event.

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Now, let me say here that I heard Queen Empress Kamala speaking on the radio news at that event, and what I heard was hardly subdued, which is what brought to my mind the words of Caesar above here about citizens, who, to gain their own private ends, enflame the minds of the well-meaning, tho’ less intelligent parts of the community, as Queen Empress Kamala was clearly doing at the Iowa State Democrats’ recent Liberty and Justice dinner, along with there always being men, and now women like Hillary Clinton and Queen Empress Kamala Harris, in society of some talents, but more ambition, in quest of that which it would be impossible for them to obtain in any other way than by working on the passions and prejudices of the less discerning classes of citizens and yeomanry, which takes us back to the Des Moines Register article as follows:.

“All at the same time, we’re experiencing the worst public health crisis in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, a reckoning on racial justice, a changing climate that is battering our coastlines setting the west on fire and devastating farmers in Iowa,” she said in virtual remarks streamed at Sunday’s Liberty and Justice dinner.

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But are we really facing the worst public health crisis in a century?

As of the time of this writing (20 October 2020), there are 1.12 million COVID deaths across the world, and 220,000 COVID deaths here in the USA.

One hundred years ago, President Woodrow Wilson had to face the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 that killed 20 million to 50 million people around the world while it killed 675,000 Americans, so there is the benchmark COVID must be measured by in terms of public health crises.

And then, in my lifetime, we had during the Eisenhower administration the H2N2 virus which was first reported in Singapore in February 1957 and reached the United States that summer.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the number of deaths from H2N2 at 1.1 million worldwide and 116,000 in the United States.

And then during the Gerald Ford administration, we had the Swine Flu to deal with.

During the Ronald Reagan administration, of course, we had AIDS, which Reagan called the “gay plague.”

By the end of Reagan’s presidency in 1989, the United States had suffered 89,343 AIDS-related deaths.

George W. Bush had AIDS and SARS to deal with, and Hussein Obama had a trifecta of H1N1, Zika and Ebola and the CDC estimated that from April 2009 to April 2010, there were 60.8 million cases of swine flu and 12,469 deaths from it in the United States.

So what exact point was Queen Empress Kamala trying to make here with her shrill screeching about “we’re experiencing the worst public health crisis in a century?”

Doesn’t she realize from our own history (Democrat Franklyn Roosevelt had polio) that we are facing public health issues all the time, and have been all through my lifetime, which is longer than hers?

So what is she getting all hysterical about, other than the fact that she is scared ******** of the immensity of reality and her obvious inadequacy to deal with it, which raises the question of why on earth we would want her in the White House, where the rubber has to meet the road without spinning off into a ditch somewhere?

More to the point, if this is in fact the worst public health crisis in a century that we are now facing, what is it that she plans on doing about it, other than panicking and getting all shrill and hysterical?

And then we come to her shrieking about “the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”

Oh, really, Queen Empress Kamala!

Since the Great Depression, we have had recessions in 1945, 1949, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1970, 1973-1975, 1980-82, 1990-91, 2001, and the Great Recession, which was a severe financial crisis combined with a deep recession and while the recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, it took many years for the economy to recover to pre-crisis levels of employment and output.

As the the Great Recession, and you would think someone running for vice president of America would be as familiar with this history as I am, although obviously if you thought that about Queen Empress Kamala, you would be dead wrong, the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission reported its findings in January 2011 and it concluded that “the crisis was avoidable and was caused by: Widespread failures in financial regulation, including the Federal Reserve’s failure to stem the tide of toxic mortgages; Dramatic breakdowns in corporate governance including too many financial firms acting recklessly and taking on too much risk; An explosive mix of excessive borrowing and risk by households and Wall Street that put the financial system on a collision course with crisis; Key policy makers ill prepared for the crisis, lacking a full understanding of the financial system they oversaw; and systemic breaches in accountability and ethics at all levels.”

According to the Department of Labor, roughly 8.7 million jobs (about 7%) were shed from February 2008 to February 2010, and real GDP contracted by 4.2% between Q4 2007 and Q2 2009, making the Great Recession the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

So again, people, why the hysteria-mongering?

What message is Queen Empress Kamala trying to send here, other than that she is ignorant of our history, which doesn’t surprise me, and she is too emotionally unstable to be trusted with a position of responsibility in the executive branch of OUR national government?

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