WHERE IS JOHN WILKES WHEN WE NEED HIM?
Not John Wilkes Booth… no, no, no, no, the lunatic who murdered Lincoln is the last person on earth needed now.
We need John Wilkes (1725-1797), the British Member of Parliament hated by King George III, hero to America’s Founders, and the inspiration for the Bill of Rights – particularly the Fourth Amendment.
Wilkes was a radical for liberty with such a lacerating wit George III called him "that Devil Wilkes." At a dinner party hosted by the king’s son and heir (who would later become George IV), Wilkes offered a toast to the king’s health. "Since when have you been so solicitous of my father’s health?" asked the Prince of Wales.
Wilkes instantly replied with a courteous smile, "Since I had the pleasure of making your Royal Highness’ acquaintance."
Wilkes published – anonymously but everyone knew it was him – a weekly newspaper brutally excoriating the king and his followers: The North Briton. It infuriated George and Issue No. 45 (full text in link), issued April 23, 1763 was the final straw, when Wilkes penned:
"I wish as much as any man in the kingdom to see the honor of the crown maintained in a manner truly becoming Royalty. I lament to see it sunk even to prostitution."
Although Wilkes clearly meant the king’s ministers and not the king himself were prostituting their power, George ordered Lord Halifax (his secretary of state) to issue a "general warrant" for the arrest of all those involved with the "seditious and treasonable" No. 45.
Such a warrant named the crime but not the suspects, allowing armed soldiers to arrest whom they pleased and trash their homes searching for evidence. Which is what the King’s Guards did to 49 people including Wilkes, whom they threw in a Tower of London prison cell.
At his court hearing with his followers packing the balcony and overflowing into the streets, he denounced his arrest as he had not been accused by name of any crime, and his home "ransacked and plundered" with no specific warrant to do so, only under the "tyranny" of a nameless general warrant.
"The question before the court is not simply my freedom," Wilkes testified, "but whether English liberty be a reality or a shadow."
He urged Lord Chief Justice Charles Pratt to rule so that "henceforth every innocent man, however poor and unsupported, may hope to sleep in peace and security in his own house, unviolated by the king’s messengers, and the arbitrary mandates of an overbearing secretary of state (Halifax)."
Pratt let Wilkes go on the grounds of immunity as an MP. So Wilkes promptly sued Halifax and his agents for illegal trespass, burglary, and theft of his possessions in his home. That is, he accused His Majesty’s government of a crime and demanded over a thousand pounds in damages.
In December 1763, Justice Pratt issued his ruling: that general warrants were "totally subversive of liberty for every man in this kingdom." Not only was Halifax ordered to pay Wilkes over 1,000 pounds (over $200,000 today), but the King was prohibited from issuing any general warrant ever again.
Wilkes became the hero of liberty for the British, especially those in New England. "Wilkes and 45!" was their rallying cry for freedom from King George’s multitude of tyrannies. Wilkes inspired Sam Adams, John Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, and especially James Madison, who inserted the Fourth Amendment into the Constitution thanks to him:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania is named after him, along with Irishman Isaac Barré who supported the American rebellion. Justice Pratt was lionized by the rebel colonials as well. As he became the 1st Earl of Camden, Camden New Jersey was named after him, and the railroad yards in Baltimore. Yes, Camden Yards where the Baltimore Orioles play, is named in his honor.
One can barely imagine the disgust and contempt that Wilkes, together with all of America’s Founders, would have for how our King George – President Zero – is destroying freedom in America today. They’d have even more disgust and contempt for the vast number of Americans who are letting him do it.
By contrast, one American Wilkes could relate to is Senator Rand Paul, who held the Senate floor for 10 hours yesterday (5/20) denouncing the Patriot Act for allowing the federalies to spy on Americans with no warrant (the Patriot Act is thus a "general warrant" which the 4th Amendment bans).
Yet Zero’s assault on freedom is a full-court press, not just in one area like spying on us . Where is a John Wilkes in our military, for example, with the courage to oppose its homosexualization? I’m going to show you a picture which may make you throw up. Try to stay calm and not let your blood pressure explode.
Last month, April, was designated by some libtard outfit as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The Pentagon got on board exclusively regarding male soldiers assaulting female soldiers – when, of course, the majority of sexual assaults now are homosexual men assaulting other men.
The Commandant of the US Army Cadet Command (ROTC), MG Peggy Combs ordered that ROTC male students on college campuses around the country participate in a "Walk A Mile In Her Shoes" stunt wearing cammies and red high heels.
Of course, MG Combs should be relieved of her command and court-martialed for forcing these young men into purposefully degrading behavior. For this is on purpose – to make fun of them, to degrade them, to turn them into pussies and poofters.
It resulted in a lot of outrage – afterwards. What didn’t happen is any of these red-heeled guys refusing to obey at the time, telling their officers to shove the shoes up their… noses. No, they put on the poofter shoes and degraded themselves. That’s what’s really disgusting.
Where’s the John Wilkes – one of the herd of the Pub prez candidates to denounce this and the entire emasculation strategy of our military by Zero and the Left?
Another example – where are the John Wilkeses among the parents of kids in the Fairfax County (Virginia) Public School System, which has just announced a "gender fluidity" program to promote transgenderism?
If parents and local citizens in every school district in which this is happening don’t put an end to this with whatever civil disobedience it takes to do so, then we deserve our cultural extinction.
We need John Wilkeses to denounce liberal tolerance. Try this headline: Gay Rodeo Tests Tolerance in Arkansas. I.e., "tolerance" is libtard code for moral acceptance for what non-liberals think is immoral.
The question to ask: When does the Left ever show tolerance for beliefs of normal Americans?
Never, of course – because they are fascists demanding everyone obey their edicts. Anyone who voices disagreement is guilty of "hate speech."
Yesterday (5/20), Zero gave a deranged commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy, claiming man-made "climate change" is responsible for the terrorism of Boko Haram in Nigeria and ISIS in Syria, and is such "a grave threat to our national security" that it’s "at the top of our agenda in diplomacy."
The speech is so riddled with lunatic lies about sea level rises and storms and Antarctic ice and on and on he’s like some hysterically crazed cult preacher demanding you believe him or you’ll burn in Hell. Zero’s nuts if he believes this claptrap. I personally think it’s a rationale for fascist power.
So where in the Coast Guard officer corps or the entire Pentagon Brass is a John Wilkes to loudly and publicly say, "What the President is saying is utter nonsense!"? Not a peep from the sheep in the Pentagon.
Australia has its John Wilkes – Maurice Newman, whom you learned about last week (5/14) in Exposing the Secret of the Warmist Hoax. Where’s ours? What Pub saying he deserves to be in the White House has the guts of Maurice Newman?
The answer is: we have to discover the John Wilkes inside ourselves. We have to stop tolerating liberal fascism – and demand that Pub politicians stop tolerating it too.
The time for tolerating liberal fascism has got to end – now. It keeps getting worse by the day. We’ve got to end it. Civil disobedience, whatever it takes. Have you had enough? Then look inside yourself – you’ll find a John Wilkes raring to go.