The Amorality Industrial Complex, part three

Amorality has defined the life and work of most of those who have served in public life in the United States of America since its beginnings nearly two hundred fifty years ago. Those who live in light of First and Last Things and thus do not fear the moment when they face Christ the King and His Divine judgment on their immortal souls will come to believe that all laws, including the Divine Positive Law, the Natural Law, and the just laws of men, can be ignored if it suits their utilitarian ends.

To wit, the outgoing administration of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala Harris Emhoff, which is so associated with its amoral violation of the laws of God and the just laws of men that it  would no surprise and see Biden’s photograph (preferably one that shows the empty look that has come to signify his lack of cognitive abilities) next to a dictionary entry for the with United States Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE), doing so just after the conviction of Venezuelan criminal Jose Ibarra for the brutal murder of college student Laken Riley after he and his brother had been flown to Georgia free of charge by the Alejandro Mayorkas’s United States Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement once they had been arrested—and, of course, released—after being charged with criminal acts in the City of New York but permitted by lawfare warrior Alvin Bragg to walk free and clear:

President Biden and Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas seem to think their border policies haven’t done enough damage to the country, so they’re racing to ensure even more harm after they leave.

With just two months to go before Team Trump takes over, the Biden crew is getting set to roll out an ICE app — starting in New York in December — that’ll let illegal migrants skip periodic, in-person check-ins that are required while they wait for court dates that could be years off.

Right now, those who miss in-person check-ins are subject to deportation. But those who “check in” by app won’t be, making it harder to deport (or even find) them.

Think about it: Migrants will be able to “check in” from anywhere, yet the software is reportedly unreliable on their locations, making them harder to find and track.

Yet those who fib about their location will nonetheless be considered “here” legally, since they’ve reported in virtually.

Team Biden will also let migrants appeal their ankle monitor requirements. Gee, what a great way to further clog the system, boost migrant crime and increase the odds of losing track of potential terrorists.

Worse: Experts say President-elect Donald Trump may find it hard to reverse these moves because of procedural and legal hurdles. Though he’ll certainly try, and quickly.

What could possibly be the goal here, other than to ensure that as many border-jumpers as possible can remain here after the Biden-Mayorkas crew is gone?

It’s a monstrous insult to the tens of millions of voters who re-elected Donald Trump in large part because of his vows to crack down and deport illegal border-crashers.

And it’ll just make a horrific situation worse.

Remember: Biden and Mayorkas have already allowed 10 million to 12 million migrants to flood the nation on their watch, nearly all illegal and without Congress’ OK.

They brought crime, drugs, sex trafficking and even the possibility of a terror attack along with them.

Cities and towns have scrambled to accommodate them, shelling out tens of billions of taxpayer dollars and surrendering hotels and valuable public space for the cause.

On Tuesday, one illegal migrant, Jose Ibarra, was convicted of murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.

Yet the White House can’t get enough of this madness.

If there’s ever been a more arrogant, lawless administration, we can’t think of one. (Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas race to lock in their migrant damage. Also see: Trafficking expert recounts migrant girl's abuse under Biden-Harris policies that lost track of 300K kids: 'Not an isolated case'.)

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., Kamala Harris Emhoff, Merrick Garland, and Alejandro Mayorkas are so contemptuous of the United States Code and Congress’s constitutional authority to oversee its enforcement that Mayorkas and Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray have decided not to give the end-of-the-year security findings to the United States House of Representatives:

The Democratic chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee blasted the heads of the FBI and Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, issuing a rare but sharp rebuke of the two officials for failing to appear for a public hearing.

Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) said both Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray “refused to appear” before the panel for its annual hearing about threats to the homeland, saying it was the first time in 15 years officials have done so.

“Americans deserve transparent, public answers about the threats we face. Secretary Mayorkas and Director Wray’s refusal to speak publicly about their department’s work will only increase the concerns that many Americans have about our nation’s security at a challenging time, flout the Committee’s efforts to conduct responsible oversight, and will deal a serious blow to trust in our government. Their claims that they can only relay such information and respond to questions in a classified setting are entirely without merit,” Peters said in a statement.

“It cannot be the practice of the Executive Branch to deny the public critical information and disregard Congress’ constitutionally recognized right to conduct oversight.”

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), in an interview on Fox News, also criticized the officials for not appearing at the public hearing. Lankford said the only reason given was that the officials did not want to offer the testimony in public.

In a statement to The Hill, the FBI also said Wray would have appeared in a classified setting for the hearing but did not want to testify in a public setting.

“The FBI has repeatedly demonstrated our commitment to responding to Congressional oversight and being transparent with the American people,” the FBI’s statement said.

“We remain committed to sharing information about the continuously evolving threat environment facing our nation and the extraordinary work the men and women of the FBI are doing — here at home and around the world — to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States. FBI leaders have testified extensively in public settings about the current threat environment and believe the Committee would benefit most from further substantive discussions and additional information that can only be provided in a classified setting.”

A spokesperson for DHS also said it had offered to discuss threats in a classified briefing.

“DHS and the FBI already have shared with the Committee and other Committees, and with the American public, extensive unclassified information about the current threat environment, including the recently published Homeland Threat Assessment. DHS takes seriously its obligation to respond to Congressional requests for testimony; in fact, Secretary Mayorkas has testified 30 times during his tenure,” the spokesperson said.

Speaking with reporters later Thursday, Peters said he “vigorously pursued them to be here,” noting that the panel would have kept the traditional closed session that follows the open hearing.

“Both of them said they did not want to testify in an open setting. That was unacceptable. The American people have a right to hear from them…. The Department of Homeland Security put out a 40-page document talking about threats to the homeland. There would be questions surrounding that document that members would want to ask,” Peters said, referring to DHS’s annual threat assessment.

“They are in key positions in the federal government, and their job is to respond to congressional oversight.”

Intelligence agencies in recent weeks have also issued a number of assessments warning about possible violence leading into and surrounding the inauguration that have not been as widely discussed.

Still, intelligence leaders often choose to offer more detailed responses on threats posed by China and Iran, as well as cybersecurity risks, in a classified setting.

The postponement of the hearing comes after the companion House panel likewise canceled its annual threats hearing.

But the Senate hearing remained on the calendar, even as Mayorkas’s public schedule for the week failed to indicate any testimony.

The hearing would have been Wray’s first congressional appearance since Vice President-elect JD Vance indicated the Trump transition team is meeting with candidates to oversee the FBI – an indication President-elect Trump plans to fire Wray before the end of his 10-year term in 2027. (Democratic chair blasts Mayorkas, Wray for failure to testify; threats hearing postponed.)

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., Kamala Harris Emhoff, Alejandro Mayorkas, Merrick Garland, and Christopher Wray, who is total captive of the politicized Federal Bureau of Investigation, care nothing for the brutal murders of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Lizbeth Medina, Kate Steinle, Jeremy Poou Caceres, Shannon Patricia Jungwirth, “her son, 20-year-old Jorge Alexander Reyes-Jungwirth, and her husband, 39-year-old Alberto Trejo Estrad,” “Melissa Powell, 47, and her son, 16-year-old Riordan Powell,” very notoriously, Joycelyn Nungary, among many, many others (see Laken Riley murder: Five other times illegal immigrants were charged with murder). Why should these statist ideologues care for the deaths of innocent human beings at the hands of illegal immigrants when they fully support the chemical and surgical slaughter of the innocent preborn?

Indeed, in this regard, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., who sold his soul to the devil over fifty years ago to support, albeit with “personal misgivings,” you understand, chemical and surgical baby slaughter before transforming himself into a full-fledged supporter of child-killing, child-mutilation, and every manner of perversity whose immoral bounds seeming are limitless in scope, stealthily presented Ceile Richards, the former director of the country’s largest baby-killing factory, Planned Barrenhood, the “Presidential Medal of Freedom”:

"Carrying her parents’ torch for justice, she’s led some of our Nation’s most important civil rights causes - to lift up the dignity of workers, defend and advance women’s reproductive rights and equality, and mobilize Americans to exercise their power to vote," the commendation stated. "A leader of utmost character, she has carved an inspiring legacy that endures in her incredible family, the countless lives she has made better, and a Nation seeking the light of equality, justice, and freedom.” (Biden awards Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. Biden has had a busy few days as he issued a statement about a made-up celebration of human mutilation called “transgender remembrance day: Statement by President Joe Biden on Transgender Day of Remembrance.)

The likes of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro, Joseph Robinette Biden. Jr., Janet Reno, Alberto Gonzales (who was pro-abortion, by the way), Eric Himpton Holder, Loretta Lynch, James Brien Comey, Christopher Wray, Alejandro Mayorkas, Xavier Becerra, Miguel Cardona, Kathleen Hochul, Philip Murphy, et. al. are all going to have to reckon for their amoral support of grave evils and the injustices that they have done to the administration of natural justice by their Soviet-style prosecutorial methods and secret police surveillance of ordinary citizens worthy of the old German Democratic Republic’s (East Germany’s) Stasi:

Those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority by appropriate laws and sanctions to defend the lives of the innocent, and this all the more so since those whose lives are endangered and assailed cannot defend themselves. Among whom we must mention in the first place infants hidden in the mother's womb. And if the public magistrates not only do not defend them, but by their laws and ordinances betray them to death at the hands of doctors or of others, let them remember that God is the Judge and Avenger of innocent blood which cried from earth to Heaven. (Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii, December 31, 1930. I know that I have cited this quotation several hundreds time before, but I am going to keep on using it as I am always aware that there might be a reader of two who accesses this site for the first time and then comes across this quotation.)

Furthermore, the amorality of the United States Department of Justice under luminaries as the late Janet Reno (who started the Violence Against Abortion Providers task force that has been discussed several times on this site in the past), Anthony Gonzales (who justified torture as a “enhanced interrogation), Eric Himpton Holder, Loretta Lynch, and Merrick Garland has been epic, perhaps surpassed only by the lawlessness by various Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Robert Mueller, James Brien Comey, and Christopher Wray), is thoroughly institutionalized in what the swamp calls “Main Justice, the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Administration (NSA) that the mere thought of former United States Representative Matthew Gaetz, who has been licentious in his personal life (something that was not impediment for William Jefferson Blythe Clinton), serving as the Attorney General of the United States of America has sent many key apparatchiks within the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation burnishing their resumes and seeking trips overseas:

As I reported last week, former and current apparatchiks for the Department of Justice are making plans to resign in advance of Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January.

Those headed for exits include Special Counsel Jack Smith and his top team of prosecutors, who just withdrew their appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s order dismissing the classified documents indictment in Florida and asked for a halt to the proceedings in the January 6-related case pending in Washington.

The resume-burnishing appears to extend to main Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (housed under the DOJ), and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia office, which oversees the government’s ongoing prosecution of January 6 protesters. Anonymous “sedition hunters” who have aided the FBI in targeting and identifying hundreds of J6ers deleted their social media accounts over the weekend for fear of reprisal; the FBI reportedly paid the “sedition hunters” as FBI informants to help their pursuit of Trump supporters.

But the corrupt operatives in the DOJ are doing more than just looking for new jobs—some are looking for attorneys. The surprising nomination of former Representative Matt Gaetz as attorney general sent terror waves throughout the DOJ; Gaetz resigned his Florida House seat last week to prepare for a nasty confirmation fight and avoid release of a House Ethics report into debunked allegations about Gaetz’s conduct.

“Inside the Justice Department, some employees who had braced for the possibility of other names that had surfaced early in the transition were appalled when Trump made the Gaetz announcement,” CNN reported on Sunday. “One career official described hearing audible cries of ‘oh my God’ echoing down the hallway inside DOJ’s headquarters.”

NBC News also revealed that DOJ officials “wept” over Trump’s resounding victory. Why? Because they know their turn under the harsh lights of federal interrogators is coming next. “Multiple current and former senior Justice Department and FBI officials have begun reaching out to lawyers in anticipation of being criminally investigated by the Trump administration. The selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz…to lead the department has sharply increased the sense of alarm.” One unnamed former top DOJ official admitted he “is bracing for a potentially long and costly legal battle, as well as the possibility of protracted congressional investigations.”

Creepy NeverTrumper and faux conservative Matt Lewis told MSNBC this morning reports that DOJ/FBI staffers are lawyering up demonstrates Trump’s desire to “weaponize” the department. “I think it’s real,” Lewis said about the likelihood of charges against corrupt government officials.

In fact, their criminal exposure is so serious that one longtime Democratic operative is advising top targets to leave the country. Mark Zaid, an attorney who represented self-described Ukrainian “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella, prompting the first impeachment of Trump in 2019, just told both CNN and Politico magazine that government officials worried they will be pursued by a Trump DOJ or Republican Congress should travel “outside of the country” right around Inauguration Day.

That appears to be the advice Zaid also is giving to Ciaramella, now a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

Further, anyone dismissing Trump’s threat to bring criminal elements inside the federal bureaucracy to justice are “naive and foolish,” Zaid said. Other retaliatory measures aside from prosecution, Zaid speculated, could include the revocation of security clearances or transfers to undesirable outposts such as Alaska.

The fear is so intense that Zaid also recommends that his clients seek mental health and other related services to deal with the stress of a potential prosecution. His team is “making sure we have lawyers, CPAs, psychiatrists and other experts in their fields ready and willing to volunteer their time for free to represent anyone who faces retaliation directly.”

Watching the Inauguration from The Hague? How Appropriate

So, who might flee the country? Smith and his top prosecutor, David Harbach, could return to the Hague in the Netherlands under the ruse of rejoining the war crimes trial against former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci. Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Smith in November 2022 to leave that case and take on the special counsel’s role.

But why would anyone else leave the country around Inauguration Day? To wait and see if Trump signs an executive order authorizing an investigation of everything from the Russian collusion hoax and the Ukrainian impeachment operation to the coverup of the Biden family corruption ring? To wait and see if the acting attorney general appoints a special counsel to investigate Smith’s team as well as the events of January 6?

And therein lies the justified panic within the DOJ and national security state. The ground is fertile for multiple investigations with legitimate criminal liability for top officials including Smith, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and DC US Attorney Matthew Graves in addition to line prosecutors and investigators.

On the flip side, the same officials and talking heads who’ve insisted Trump should not have feared going to trial for any one of his politically-motivated indictments if he did nothing wrong certainly are singing a different tune now. (DOJ Apparatchiks Told to Lawyer Up and Flee the Country. Why?)

Well, the Matt Gaetz comet has come and gone. Although President-elect Donald John Trump’s second pick for Attorney General of the United States of America, former Florida Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi, would probably be more effective than the ethically challenged Gaetz if she gets confirmed by the Senate of the United States of America (she has a few ethical questions about favors for donors while attorney general of Florida that Democrats are bound to raise during her confirmation hearings).

Alas, even though investigations of one sort or another might be worthwhile, it should be remembered that  criminal trials of DOJ and FBI lawbreakers would nowhere if tried in or around the District of Columbia, where juries have consistently acquitted relatively low-level officials of criminal conduct concerning the fake Russian dossier, the Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton email scandal, the covering up of the Biden Family Crime Syndicate’s crimes, and the endless efforts to criminally charge former and now President-elected Donald John Trump. The likes of Jack Smith (see Christ the King Alone Has One Set of Laws That He Will Apply to Everyone When They Die) will slither back to The Netherlands at the International Court of Justice to plod along to do what he does best: persecute whomever he targets for prosecution.

We can never expect justice from those who are personally unjust, and we must always remember that what seems “settled” in one era can be unsettled in another as even though Donald John Trump won a significant victory everywhere excepting the coastal states, Minnesota. New Mexico, and Colorado, and increased his share of the vote from 2020 even the “blue” states he lost, victories come and go.

After all, the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson thought that his War on Poverty and Great Society programs could solve the problems of urban and rural poverty. However, the only people who were enriched financially by Johnson’s panoply of statist programs were the government bureaucrats who administered them and had a vested interest to maintain their positions and power by making sure that nothing of substance got done other than to issue grants to localities and states by conditioning them to conform to Federal policy lest these entities lose the grants. The goal of this was to create a de facto unitary system of national governance that would eclipse legitimate states’ rights and make authentic Federalism a thing of the past. And this is to say nothing about the fact  that most social problems extent then and now have been caused by the destruction of family stability in urban areas, especially among the families of black Americans, as a result of easy divorce in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, contraception in the early Twentieth Century, each of which contributed to men abandoning their families and the feminization of poverty so that women would be forced into the workplace and/or become reliant upon the “largesse” of the taxpayers.

Cardinal Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto saw this trend in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century and responded to it as follows:

In August 1896 in Padua, the second Congress of the Catholic Union for Social Studies took place. We have already seen that this organization had been created seven years before by Professor Giuseppe Toniolo, in the presence of the Bishop of Mantua [Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto]. This time, eight bishops were present and several directors of the Opera del Congressi took part. All the eminent representatives of the Italian Catholic Movement were present (Medolago Pagnuzzi, Alessi and others). Cardinal Sarto's address attracted considerable notice. Faced with "ardent enemies" (unbelief and revolution) "...menacing and trying to destroy the social fabric," the Patriarch of Venice invited the participants to make Jesus Christ the foundation of the their work: "the only peace treaty is the Gospel." He warned them against what is now called the "welfare state," the state which provides everything and provides all socialization: "substituting public almsgiving for private almsgiving involves the complete destruction of Christianity and it is a terrible attack on the principle of ownership. Christianity cannot exist without charity, and the difference between charity and justice is that justice may have recourse to laws and even to force, depending on the circumstances, whereas charity can only be imposed by the tribunal of God and of conscience." If public assistance and the redistribution of wealth are institutionalized, "poverty becomes a function, a way of life, a public trade..." (Yves Chiron, Saint Pius X: Restorer of the Church. Translated by Graham Harrison. Angelus Press, 2002, p. 100)

Those were and remain prophetic words.

Writing at the height of the Great Depression, Pope Pius XI explained in Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931, explained that government assistance programs must conform to the Natural Law principle of Subsidiarity, which teaches us that human problems are to be remedied at the lowest levels of life, starting with the family:

The supreme authority of the State ought, therefore, to let subordinate groups handle matters and concerns of lesser importance, which would otherwise dissipate its efforts greatly. Thereby the State will more freely, powerfully, and effectively do all those things that belong to it alone because it alone can do them: directing, watching, urging, restraining, as occasion requires and necessity demands. Therefore, those in power should be sure that the more perfectly a graduated order is kept among the various associations, in observance of the principle of “subsidiary function,” the stronger social authority and effectiveness will be the happier and more prosperous the condition of the State. (Pope Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931.)

Father Edward Cahill provided a history lesson about how subsidiarity was the guiding principle for the organization of social and economic life during the Middle Ages:

The guilds made it possible for those with needs that could not be meet by their families to receive assistance without the “strings” attached by the monster civil state of Modernity and without bankrupting the entire body politic: 

The greatest spirit of solidarity and mutual help animated the whole guild organisation. Thus money was advanced on easy terms to members who needed it. Those suffering from sickness, old age, accidents, etc., were liberally provided for. Even a guildman who might get into trouble with the municipal or state authorities had a right to the protection of the guild. If, after investigation by the council, his case was considered a deserving one he was defended in the courts at the common expense. Sick members were visited; and wine and food were sent from the public banquets to those whom illness or weakness prevent from attending. The dead, if the family was poor, was buried at the expense of their guild with all the honours befitting their position, and their daughters dowered for marriage or the convent. 

The Religious Character of the Guilds.–Another peculiarly Christian characteristic of—these guilds was their practical recognition of the intimate connection of religion with commercial relations and with all the activities of life. Although the primary object of the associations was economic, the guilds made every effort to secure good conduct and fidelity to religious duties on the part of the members. Individuals were punished or sometimes expelled from the guilds for immoral or irreligious conduct. 

Every guild was under the protection of a patron saint or was specially dedicated to the Holy Trinity or to the Blessed Mother of God under one of her titles. The portrait of the guild patron was painted on the banner of the guild which was borne in the public processions. Thus the guild of wood-workers was under the protection of St. Joseph. The shoemakers usually had on their banner paintings of SS. Crispin and Crispinian. Bakers were often under the patronage of St. Honorius, and so on. The association of the heavenly patron with the grade that belonged to the guild intensified the craftsmen’s pride in their work and the men’s esteem for the nobility of manual labour. The Church Feast of the patron was always the occasion of the great annual banquet of the guild. 

Many guilds had their own special chapels; and we commonly find provision made in the guild statutes for the support of a chaplain and sometimes of several chaplains. Some of the most beautiful mediaeval churches belonged to or were built by the guilds. Provision was also regularly made for the celebration of Masses for the intentions of the guild, and for the offering of candles at holy shrines. On the death of a member care was taken to have Masses offered and alms given for his eternal rest. Almsgiving, which was practiced even towards the poor outside the guild, was an important item of the ordinary guild expenditure. Oftentimes a guild gave feasts in its buildings to the poor of the whole town. (Father Edward Cahill, The Framework of a Christian State, pp. 79-80.) 

The British and American utilitarians of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, inspired in large measure by the social engineering of the Chancellor of the German Empire (the second Reich) from 1871 to 1890, Otto von Bismarck, began movements that borrowed from biological evolutionism and socialism to lay the foundation for the state as the replacement for religion in general, especially Catholicism, and for the family. Thus, these utilitarians paved the way for Thomas Woodrow Wilson’s “New Freedoms,” which were nothing other than “freedom” for the Federal government to enslave citizens by means of confiscatory taxes and regulation, which paved the way for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” which paved the way one of Roosevelt’s proteges, Lyndon Baines Johnson, to create what his 1964 Republican presidential opponent, United States Senator Barry Goldwater, to call the “Big Daddy” approach to controlling the masses:

One thing we all know—and I assure you I do: That's a much easier way to get votes than my way. It always has been. It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

You want something for nothing ? The Federal Government will give it to you.

You want to avoid responsibility for bringing up your children and educating them? The Federal Government will take over.

You want to duck the job of facing your local problems and solving them? The Federal Government will do it for you.

Never mind the fact that the power and the money to do these things has to be taken from you before the Federal Government can do them for you. Every step in this direction is a loss of freedom for you!

Relax. Don't worry. The Federal Government will do for you all those things you find unpleasant to do for youselves. And daily that government will grow more powerful. Daily it will enter new businesses and practices, new areas of private enterprise. where it has no place.

And daily its leaders will expand their power over you, the people, far beyond anything ever dreamed of by the framers of our Constitution. And daily freedom goes down the drain.

And always, they are driving and confusing you with the basic dishonesty that permeates so much political campaigning. (Text of Senator Goldwater's Address at Madison Sq. Garden in Only Campaign Appearance in city.)

Mind you, this is not to indemnify Barry Goldwater, whose first wife, Peggy, helped Maragaret Sanger establish the first “birth control clinic” in Arizona (see Sandra Day O'Connor: A Judge Whose Sangerite Background Meant Nothing to Ronald Wilson Reagan), only to show that even a secularist such as Goldwater understood that Lyndon Baines Johnson’s programs, which were not reversed by Republican Presidents Richard Milhous Nixon, Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr./Leslie Lynch King, Jr., Ronald Wilson Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, George Walker Bush, nor even by Donald John Trump in his first term, would erode legitimate freedoms and, once established, would be neigh-well impossible to reverse.

This is a long, long way of saying that it is one thing to say, as Ronald Wilson Reagan did, that “government is not the solution; government is the problem” (and the “nine most scary words in the English language are, “I am from the government; I am here to help”), or that, as even William Jefferson Blythe Clinton said in his 1996 State of the Union address that the era of big government is over” (see President Clinton's 1996 State of the Union Address as delivered), but it is quite another retard its use of amorality by means merely natural as what is rejected by one generation of voters can be undone by another generation of voters. There is nothing in a system based upon false principles that is stable or enduring.

While President-elect Donald John Trumps’s efforts to crack the Deep State are commendable, to be sure, it must be remembered that the United States of America remains divided by error, which can never be a guarantor of just system of limited government whose leaders are informed by and conform themselves and their policies to the binding precepts of the Divine and Natural Laws as entrusted to Holy Mother Church in all that pertains to the good of souls. Given the vagaries of fallen human nature, anything not but on the rock-solid foundation of the Holy Faith is built upon sand and will always be subject to the vicissitudes of subjectivity and relativism.

Moreover, no country whose citizens sin wantonly and, mostly, without any understanding that they are doing so, can only enjoy the illusion of respites now and again as there can legitimate order and justice in the world if people do not first order their souls to all that is contained in the Sacred Deposit of Faith and seek to be at peace with the Most Blessed Trinity by striving to be and to remain in a state of Sanctifying Grace.

Even the pagan Plato said that “Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”

But if our fraternal charity is to be Chrisitan, its prime motive must be the love of Christ. That is why theologians do not distinguish essentially a double precept of charity, one for God, and one for our neighbor; they only recognize one, the love of God. And that is why Saint John writes:

If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not . . . . If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us. In this we know that we abide in him and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.   (I John iv, 12, 13,,20) Let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knowth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is charity. (I John iv, 7, 8.)

Volumes could be written on these texts. One thing is clear: that to abide in God, one must love one's neighbor; fraternal charity is a necessary manifestation of love of God, which does not exist without it. In the practical part of this book we shall discuss the working of fraternal charity. Let it be noted here that charity does not compel us to like people, but to love them. And love is an act of the will wishing one well. Further what passes for fraternal charity is often not really Christian. Modern civilization is full of a humanitarianism which is not Christian charity, for its motive is not love of God, It may be a love of man, though it is more often a love of management. Whatever be its motive, unless it be derived from the love of God, it profiteth nothing. It is on this point that many Catholics -- even many Catholic religious -- make a fatal mistake that renders much of their works for their neighbor sterile and unprofitable; for their motives are human. To them can be applied that threefold warning of our Lord: Amen, I say unto you, they have received their reward. (Cf. Matt. vi, 2) Still we must not be too general in our condemnation, for when a man works according to what he believes to be his duty, God will not fail to have compassion on him, and will give  him the grace to rectify his outlook. But for a healthy Chrisitan life, all a man's work must be done with God for Gode, and in God; the love of God is at once its source, its end, and its principal value.

For the whole spiritual life is a love affair with God, and if that expression has associations that are out of place here, it is because of the abuse of it, not because of its proper use. As we shall see, God Himself uses human love to teach us the secrets of divine love. The love of God for us is shown forth in the Life and Passion and Death of our Lord. Our return is the influence of love for God in our own life, and that is especially shown by our fraternal charity. God not only gives us the power to love Him, He also gives us the opportunity of exercising that power. God is completely self-sufficient, and as we can add nothing to Him, our love at times seems hopeless and helpless. But God has so identified Himself with the needs of our neighbor, that what we do to others for God's sake, is done to God Himself.

The love of God then, and the love of our neighbor are one and the same virtue. This virtue is the effect of our incorporation in Christ, but it is also the means of fulfilling the law of our life in Christ. It is God who works in us both to love and to do the works of love. These works are many; and for their performance God has given us other virtues called the moral virtues, which depend upon the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. These we need to regulate all our actions, to be honest with our neighbor, to control our lower appetites, and to overcome our weakness and fear, so that all actions which we perform may belong to the life of the Body of Christ.

In addition to these virtues, and to the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, our life in Christ needs a continual series of helps called actual graces, by which we are moved to do good, and we are sustained in all our actions. We cannot begin a single good act with the help of God. Without me, you can do nothing, said our Lord. (John xv, 5) But God is our Father, and He does not fail His children, and Christ is the Head of His Body and as the Church teaches: He constantly pours forth His grace (virtutem) upon those who have been justified as the head exercises its influence on the members and the vine on its branches; and this grace ever precedes, accompanies, and follows their good actions. (Council of Trent, Sess. vi, cap. xvi.) There is, so to speak a complete nervous system in the Mystical Body, which controls the actions of all its members, and without that vital initiation and guidance, they are paralyzed. the working of actual grace is of great importance in the spiritual life, but to examine the virtues of the different graces in greater detail here would make the treatment too theoretical, and would put us in danger of losing sight of the main outline of the Christian life, which is lived through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for the glory of the Eternal God. (Father Eugene Boylan, O. Cist. R., This Tremendous Lover, published by The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, 1948, pp. 67-73.The entire passage from the cited pages can be found in the Appendix below.)

I think that is quite appropriate to highlight one paragraph from the text above:

Volumes could be written on these texts. One thing is clear: that to abide in God, one must love one's neighbor; fraternal charity is a necessary manifestation of love of God, which does not exist without it. In the practical part of this book we shall discuss the working of fraternal charity. Let it be noted here that charity does not compel us to like people, but to love them. And love is an act of the will wishing one well. Further what passes for fraternal charity is often not really Christian. Modern civilization is full of a humanitarianism which is not Christian charity, for its motive is not love of God, It may be a love of man, though it is more often a love of management. Whatever be its motive, unless it be derived from the love of God, it profiteth nothing. It is on this point that many Catholics -- even many Catholic religious -- make a fatal mistake that renders much of their works for their neighbor sterile and unprofitable; for their motives are human. To them can be applied that threefold warning of our Lord: Amen, I say unto you, they have received their reward. (Cf. Matt. vi, 2) Still we must not be too general in our condemnation, for when a man works according to what he believes to be his duty, God will not fail to have compassion on him, and will give  him the grace to rectify his outlook. But for a healthy Chrisitan life, all a man's work must be done with God for Gode, and in God; the love of God is at once its source, its end, and its principal value.

Father Frederick William Faber had written in a similar vain and so did Pope Saint Pius X in Notre Charge Apostolique and Pope Pius XI in Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio as Father Eugene Boylan was only reiterating a truth that had been taught by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and by numerous Fathers and Doctors of the Church: Anything that is not done for the love of God and in His Holy Name will come to nothing and is not meritorius for those who live as citizens of this life below and not as citizens of Heaven. True progress is the progress of the interior life within our souls for love of God, and what is done by the members of the false opposite of the naturalist right and the naturalist left is done either in the name of ideology or the perversion of true patriotism that is nationalism.

True peace and happiness comes only from Christ the King through His Holy Catholic Church.

Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., used a sermon for Low Sunday to discuss what Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ meant when He said to be Apostles, “Pax vobiscum,” “Peace be unto you”:

I say that the peace which Christ wishes us and which He imparts to us, is true peace; it is that peace which He alone is able to bestow. “My peace I give unto you! ” says the Lord; “not as the world giveth, do I give unto you.” No, it is a peace of which the world has no idea; it is a peace which the world can never bestow. It is that peace which we lost by the fall of our first parents, and which could not be restored to us but by the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and Saviour.

Man, as he came from the hands of the Creator, was endowed with sanctifying grace, was at peace with God, at peace with himself, at peace with the whole outer world; but sin destroyed all this, and instead of peace came war, and instead of spiritual life came spiritual death. By sin man was set at variance with God, with himself, and with the outer world. As Holy Writ assures us: “There is no peace for the wicked,” at least no peace of soul. Though a man be on good terms with his fellow-men, yet as long as he lives in a state of sin he will enjoy no peace; for sin is a revolt against God, and every revolt brings with it trouble, anxiety, and war. Without Christ there is no true peace; no peace with God, the only peace which is worthy of the name, and which alone is able to calm our agitated hearts.

Listen to the warning of the prophet: “They cry: Peace, peace! and there is no peace.” There is no communion between light and darkness, between Christ and Belial. There is no place where the banner of Christ and that of antichrist wave together, nor where men desire to serve God and the devil at the same time.

Moreover, the peace which man enjoys with the world is not complete. But the peace, which Christ gives unto his own, is perfect. We shall understand this, if we regard one by one the results of the first sin and of all individual sin, and the relation in which soul and body stand to God. By his very nature man has a soul, reason, will, and heart. He thinks, he wills, he suffers or enjoys. Now, the fall ot Adam darkened the understanding of man, weakened his will, made his heart suffer; and but one can free him from the anxiety which all this causes: one alone, Christ Jesus our Lord.

I have said that understanding, and will, and heart, each has suffered: man’s understanding is beset with doubts in regard to his existence and to his relations to God; his will is weakened, and he frequently feels its moral feebleness and impotence. But, above all, it is the heart of man which is exposed to the stripes of adversity and to the stings of suffering; nor can it anywhere find comfort but in Christ but in Him Whom Holy Writ emphatically styles: “The Prince of peace!”

Before Him, before His Word and example, every cloud of anxiety vanishes, and perfect peace makes its dwelling in the soul.

I have already said that when the soul is left to itself it is disquieted in regard to its relations with God and concerning its fate for eternity; it is darkened by ignorance and beset with doubts. “Pax vobis!” “Peace be to you!” says Christ to all men. It is He who spoke through Moses and the prophets; it is He who came Himself into the world, and opening His mouth preached to us the Word of salvation, explaining all those questions and doubts in regard to the other world, which excite, frighten, and harass the mind of man.

He calls himself the Light of the world; and as the sun sends forth his rays, so Christ sent forth His Apostles, that by the light of their teaching day might break for all the nations upon earth; that all might open their hearts to the sweet influence of truth. And great, indeed, is the peace which is instilled into believing hearts with the word of faith spoken by the mouth of the infallible Church; it is felt by all her truly believing children.

The will of man also is enfeebled by the fall of Adam; hence he feels his weakness, his impotence in the light with temptation. Hence the anxiety which excites and torments him. How differently man feels when Christ greets him and calls to him “Pax vobis” Peace be to you! When the power of divine grace enters his heart, and he can say with St. Paul: “I can do all things in Him who strengthened me.” A calm conscience comforts his heart, from which all anxiety has lied; yes, all that anxiety which, the consequence of his sins, had for years tormented him.

After the fall of Adam the heart of man felt the burden of suffering and the insufficiency of every merely human consolation. How often a friend can only say: I can weep with you, but I can not console you! How differently a child of the Church feels when Christ who has Himself suffered upon earth calls to Him from the cross: “Pax vobis!” and when he recollects that the Lord Himself said to His disciples: “Ought not Christ to have suffered these things and so enter into His Glory.” How inexpressibly great was the consolation which fell from the five wounds into the hearts of the disciples when Jesus suddenly appearing among them, gave them that Easter greeting: ” Pax vobis!” All truly believing children of the Church partake of this consolation in the midst of all the cares and sorrows of this life. For whatever we may suffer, one glance at Christ risen from the dead and marked with His wounds will cause us to cry out with St. Paul: “I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation.”

But far more grievous does the anxiety of man’s heart become, if he has the misfortune to turn from the path of virtue, to precipitate himself into the abyss of sin, and if he is tormented day and night by the reproaches of his conscience. No one but Jesus can give him calmness and peace. He alone redeemed us, sinners! He alone gave His Apostles and their followers the power to forgive the repentant! a power which Christ bestowed upon His Church until the end of time, and of which we are solemnly reminded by the words of the Apostolic creed: “I believe in the holy Catholic Church, the forgiveness of sins.”

Into the breast of the greatest sinner there enters an inexpressible peace, if he receives the Sacrament of Penance as Christ has instituted it in His holy Church. Ah! what joy when the priest, the representative of Christ, says to his troubled soul: “My son, my daughter, your sins are forgiven!” Pax tibi! Peace be with you! Oh, the happy peace which then through Christ enters the heart reconciled to its God!

Finally, the heart of man is frequently pained by the fear: Shall I continue to the end? and what will become of me if Satan, in my last hour, should beset me with temptation, and place all the sins of my life before my eyes in order to drive me to despair? “Pax tibi,” says our Lord to the loving child of His Church. I shall complete in you my work of mercy. Trust!

Never can your own heart desire your salvation so ardently as I desire it: Peace be to you! Nor must we forget the consoling inspirations which Christ sends to all who bow, in suffering, to His holy will, and unite themselves to Him. Yes, yes, “Pax vobis!” I call in the name of the risen Christ to every soul here present.

“Pax vobis” the peace of Christ be and remain with you now, and for evermore! Amen! (3)

The one and only answer to the amorality industrial complex is Catholicism, noting else, and to is pray and work for its restoration as the guiding light in both our personal lives and in the larger life of a nation so that, at peace with Our Lord and each other, can know a measure of justice and good order in this passing, mortal vale of tears and thus be prepared for the glories of Heaven in the Beatific Vision of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost for all eternity.

Entrusting ourselves to Christ the King through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary as we pray as many Rosaries each day as our state-in-life permits, may with not be unduly distracted from making a good Advent, which begins one week from this evening at First Vespers for the First Sunday of Advent, by the events of this world and remain confident in, without being the least bit presumptuous of, the abiding help of Our Lady, Queen of Mercy, now, and at the hour of our death.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement I, pray for us.

Saint Felicity, pray for us.

Appendix

From Father Eugene Boylan's This Tremendous Lover

The necessary variety of members leads to a variety of operations, and Saint Paul enumerates a number of different offices that were found in the Church: apostles, prophets, doctors, workers of miracles, those gifted with tongues, those with the power of healing and with other remarkable gifts which were of great service in the building up of the church. But despite the value and the wonder of these gifts, Saint Paul exhorts the Corinthians in an address that is classical:

Be zealous for better gifts. And I show you a more excellent way. He then bursts into a paean of praise for charity, which is the best gift and the most excellent way, and finishes with the assertion And now there remain faith hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. {But not only is charity the most excellent, it is also the one essential virtue and way;for he writes:} If I speak with the tongues of angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. 
And if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing! And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Cf. I Cor. xiii. 1-3

Those are Saint Paul's words; they are also the words of  God, who is the author of all the inspired Scripture. There is no evading their meaning; it is quite clear. No matter what we do, unless we do it in the love of God, it profits us nothing. God wants our love, He will be satisfied with nothing else. That is what He principally looks for in our works. The things we do or achieve are not of primary value to God, for He can create them by a mere thought; or with just as much ease He can raise up other free agents to do what we do. But the love of our hearts is something unique, something no one else can give Him.True, He could create other hearts to love Him, but once He has created us and given us free will, the love of our particular heart is something unique and in a way irreplaceable. In any case, it is not for His own sake that He wants our love, but because He desires to make us happy with Him for ever, and He can only do that if we are in love with Him.

It might seem that is something beyond our power or choice. One seaks in human relationship of "falling in love"; it is not, as it were, something deliberate, something that can be done at will. That peculiar acquiring of a new and special interest in another person, and the development of a new power to love that person, which raises the whole level of the life of a man or woman and opens the door to the highest form of human happiness, seems to be something fortuitous, and accident, a stroke of luck. Whether, that be so or not, there is a very close analogy between the human and the divine, which we intend to stress in this book. But there is one important difference in regard to the love of God. there, instead of speaking of a soul falling in love, it would be nearer the truth if one spoke of love falling into the soul. For God gives us the love with which we are to love Him; more than that, He gives us the gift of wisdom, by which we acquire a taste and a relish for God and for His friendship and His ways. Both the love and the wisdom come from God; this will help us to understand the otherwise seemingly harsh treatment of the guest who, in the Gospel parable, came to the wedding-feast, without the ceremonial garment. Unless one realizes that such garments were provided by the host, one will not understand the host's resentment at the guest's refusal to avail of his kindness, and one will completely miss the parallel with the man who comes to the service of God without love in his heart. For if there is one gift that is to be had for the asking-- and there are many-- it is the gift of love of God.

There is only one source of true happiness in this life or in the next, and that is to love and to be loved. Knowledge that does not lead to love is worse than vain and sterile. It is of course quite true that love expresses itself in many ways, and it is true that its reality can be questioned if it does not seek expression in some way; but for all that, it is love, and love alone, that matters. Saint Paul and all the saints knew that; our Lady knew that; our Lord knows that, and God Himself knows if and tells it to us in the Scripture. I have loved thee with an everlasting love.(Jer. xxxi, 3.) My son, give me thy heart.(Prov. xxiii, 26) Love is the culmination of the law. (Rom. xiii. 10)

But when we examine the Scriptures, we notice that God does not confine His commandment of love to love for Himself; He insists that we must also love our neighbor, and it soon appears that He speaks as if the two loves were inseparable, and, in fact, one and the same. We read such texts as: Thou shalt love thy neighbor for God, (Cf. Luke x, 28) All the other commandments are comprised in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, (Cf. Rom. xiii, 9.) and the final exhortation of our Lord to His disciples was "His own commandment" to love one another as I have loved you (John xv, 12) This insistence on fraternal love and its identification with divine love seems surprising at first sight, but its significance becomes obvious if we remember the principles that govern the membership of the Mystical Body.

The organs of a human body are mutually dependent and operate for the benefit of each other and thereby for the good of the whole organism. Foreign matter lodged in the organism is distinguished from that in living union with the whole, by its failure to interact beneficially with the rest of the system. It is at best a nuisance. If we then do not interact beneficially with the rest of the members of Christ's body, our title to living membership is immediately compromised. And cannot distinguish completely between Christ and His members; we cannot love Crhist without being willing to love the whole Christ -- Head and members. What we do to our fellow members is done to Him -- for they are His Body. We have His own word for it: Amen, Amen, I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren -- you did it to me. (Cf. Matt. xxv, 40) It is Christ whom we serve, or injure, in the person of our neighbor.

But if our fraternal charity is to be Chrisitan, its prime motive must be the love of Christ. That is why theologians do not distinguish essentially a double precept of charity, one for God, and one for our neighbor; they only recognize one, the love of God. And that is why Saint John writes:

If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love 
God, whom he seeth not . . . . If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us. In this we know that we abide in him and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.   (I John iv, 12, 13,,20) Let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knowth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is charity. (I John iv, 7, 8.)

Volumes could be written on these texts. One thing is clear: that to abide in God, one must love one's neighbor; fraternal charity is a necessary manifestation of love of God, which does not exist without it. In the practical part of this book we shall discuss the working of fraternal charity. Let it be noted here that charity does not compel us to like people, but to love them. And love is an act of the will wishing one well. Further what passes for fraternal charity is often not really Christian. Modern civilization is full of a humanitarianism which is not Christian charity, for its motive is not love of God, It may be a love of man, though it is more often a love of management. Whatever be its motive, unless it be derived from the love of God, it profiteth nothing. It is on this point that many Catholics -- even many Catholic religious -- make a fatal mistake that renders much of their works for their neighbor sterile and unprofitable; for their motives are human. To them can be applied that threefold warning of our Lord: Amen, I say unto you, they have received their reward. (Cf. Matt. vi, 2) Still we must not be too general in our condemnation, for when a man works according to what he believes to be his duty, God will not fail to have compassion on him, and will give  him the grace to rectify his outlook. But for a healthy Chrisitan life, all a man's work must be done with God for Gode, and in God; the love of God is at once its source, its end, and its principal value.

For the whole spiritual life is a love affair with God, and if that expression has associations that are out of place here, it is because of the abuse of it, not because of its proper use. As we shall see, God Himself uses human love to teach us the secrets of divine love. The love of God for us is shown forth in the Life and Passion and Death of our Lord. Our return is the influence of love for God in our own life, and that is especially shown by our fraternal charity. God not only gives us the power to love Him, He also gives us the opportunity of exercising that power. God is completely self-sufficient, and as we can add nothing to Him, our love at times seems hopeless and helpless. But God has so identified Himself with the needs of our neighbor, that what we do to others for God's sake, is done to God Himself.

The love of God then, and the love of our neighbor are one and the same virtue. This virtue is the effect of our incorporation in Christ, but it is also the means of fulfilling the law of our life in Christ. It is God who works in us both to love and to do the works of love. These works are many; and for their performance God has given us other virtues called the moral virtues, which depend upon the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. These we need to regulate all our actions, to be honest with our neighbor, to control our lower appetites, and to overcome our weakness and fear, so that all actions which we perform may belong to the life of the Body of Christ.

In addition to these virtues, and to the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost, our life in Christ needs a continual series of helps called actual graces, by which we are moved to do good, and we are sustained in all our actions. We cannot begin a single good act with the help of God. Without me, you can do nothing, said our Lord. (John xv, 5) But God is our Father, and He does not fail His children, and Christ is the Head of His Body and as the Church teaches: He constantly pours forth His grace (virtutem) upon those who have been justified as the head exercises its influence on the members and the vine on its branches; and this grace ever precedes, accompanies, and follows their good actions. (Council of Trent, Sess. vi, cap. xvi.) There is, so to speak a complete nervous system in the Mystical Body, which controls the actions of all its members, and without that vital initiation and guidance, they are paralyzed. the working of actual grace is of great importance in the spiritual life, but to examine the virtues of the different graces in greater detail here would make the treatment too theoretical, and would put us in danger of losing sight of the main outline of the Christian life, which is lived through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for the glory of the Eternal God. (Father Eugene Boylan, O. Cist. R., This Tremendous Lover, published by The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, 1948, pp. 67-73.)