In a Washington DC Court of Appeals decision United States v. Fokker Services B.V., a Dutch aerospace firm accused of making more than 1,000 illegal shipments of parts and components to Iran and other sanctioned countries from 2005 to 2010, the Executive Branch was handed dictatorial powers last month. It held that Federal judges have no authority to “second-guess” the discretion of federal prosecutors to cut deals with companies under criminal investigation. This was a unanimous ruling handing unimaginable power to the Justice Department which claims discretion to obey the law. This is why Hillary can escape prosecution because the government can deny equal protection of the law to its citizens be prosecution some people and not others for the very same offense.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. held that the Justice Department may engage in the often-controversial deals it uses to punish large companies without leaving the scar of a criminal conviction that might threaten their existence when it comes to things like a banking license. These deals are called “Deferred Prosecution Agreements” which allow companies to avoid criminal prosecution by paying a fine and submitting to certain conditions for a period of probation, after accepting responsibility for wrongdoing. Of course, who becomes the probation officer? Former US attorney’s such as Ashcroft who gets tens of millions of dollars in return for no criminal prosecution. Yes, NJ governor Chris Christie when he was a federal prosecutor, did such a deal where the company had to pay  $52 million to John Ashcroft former US Attorney General to monitor a firm in New Jersey. These types of deals are rotten to the core and for the US Court of Appeals to rule judges have no power to object, is handing prosecutors the ultimate blackmail card of all time.

The “discretion” in legal terms has been transformed into exactly what it was not suppose to be. The Supreme Court explained back in 1824 in the landmark case:

Osborn v. Bank of the United States
22 U.S. 738 (1824)

“When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law; and, when that is discerned, it is the duty of the court to follow it. Judicial power is never exercised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the judge, always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.”

id/22 US 866

When the President of the United States takes office, he takes his oath of office which has just become word they babble any more.

“Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: — “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

ARTICLE II, SECTION 1, CLAUSE 8

Nowhere within this oath is there the word “discretion” to execute what laws he likes or against only people he dislikes. This decision effectively nullifies that oath entirely and declares to the entire world to see that there is no rule of law, for the President and everything within the executive branch has the discretion to enforce the laws created by Congress. That bluntly means that the people have absolutely no say whatsoever in government for they pretend to elect “representatives” who can legislate but the President need not listen. Here is Congressional powers defined in the Constitution “To make all Laws which shall be necessary”. None of this means anything if the President has the “discretion” to enforce what laws he agrees with. That is a dictatorship and tyranny.

Section. 8.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

QUESTION: 

Dear Mr. Armstrong,
Re: The Ted Cruz/John Kasich Conspiracy and your comments about the Constitution and USC
In your opinion, might it be a crime to deny registered independents the right to vote in a primary?
Pennsylvania, one of only 11 states remaining with this law, is a prime example.
Thank you for a life devoted to the education of those with inquiring minds,
JS

ANSWER: Absolutely. Because we have created these “primary” elections even though they are for delegates, once the state creates such a right, it cannot deprive you of it without violating your civil rights. Now here is the REAL MONUMENTAL problem. Does the Supreme Court even act constitutionally or has it also denied citizens the right to absolutely behead as declared by the Constitution itself? We hear all this yelling about the Republicans blocking Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. I specialized not just in history, but the rise and fall of nations and how this unfolds. I also studied law intensely and lawyers will often call me on constitutional questions. Why? When you go to law school, you spend very little time on the Constitution. The bulk of law concerns statutory law which is everything written and passed by Congress from civil rights to Obamacare. Very little cases end up challenging the constitutionality of a statue – merely the unconstitutional acts of government’s agents such as police and politicians.

I am going to make a statement here I have made to Constitutional Lawyers that makes their eyes pop-out and say – OMG! The Supreme Court has ABSOLUTELY no right to exercise discretion to hear any case. They must in fact hear EVERY case presented to them for that is dictated by the Constitution and cannot be circumvented by either a statute written by Congress or by its own rule making practice. The Supreme Court receives approximately 7,000-8,000 petitions for a writ of certiorari each Term (year).  The Court grants and hears oral argument in about only 80 cases in a country of over 300 million. That is outrageous and denies the people the constitutional guarantee of a tripartite government with each branch acting as a check and balance against the others. Let’s review what the structure of government crafted by the Founding Fathers created.

Chief Justice Marshall held in the landmark case Marbury v Madison, 5 US 137 (1 Cranch) (1803) in which he declare the role of the Judiciary branch; “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” id/177. At the very beginning of the nation, the Supreme Court justices rode “circuits” meaning each justice heard cases in their assigned circuits traveling around the country. Article III, Section I of the Constitution expressly states: “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” The Constitution only guaranteed the Supreme Court no other! It gave the option to Congress to create inferior federal courts around the country, but this was by no means mandatory. The implications of this are quite profound for it means that Congress can close all the federal inferior district and appellate courts, but it cannot close the Supreme Court. The tripartite structure of government requires the Supreme Court – not inferior courts. Justice Reynolds explained this succinctly.

“The accepted doctrine is that the lower federal courts were created by the acts of Congress and their powers and duties depend upon the acts which called them into existence, or subsequent ones which extend or limit.”

Gillis v California, 293 US 52, 66 (1934)

Your absolute constitutional right to be heard is being DENIED. That right is being circumvented by demanding you go to a district court judge, then appeal to that circuit court, and then apply to be heard as one of the 7,000+ petitions when they only accept 80. What if a child cannot speak to their father who will only communicate to them by some nanny. Is there a relationship bond between the father and the child? Of course not. Inferior courts are under NO OBLIGATION to apply even a uniform legal code. Each have their own rules and precedents are unique to each circuit. There is absolutely no guarantee to EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW when these circuit courts are free to do as they like.

Chief Justice Marshall also held in 1821 a very important decision holding:

“If the constitution does not confer on the court, or on the federal judiciary, the power sought to be exercised, it is in vain that the act of Congress purports to confer it…” 

Cohen v Virgina, 19 US 264 (6 Wheat) (1821) id/324

Therefore, regardless of the fact that Congress reduced the power of the Supreme Court eliminating the constitutional status of the court by injecting their discretion to decide if they want to hear a case in the Judiciary Act of 1925, that act is totally unconstitutional for no statute can amend the constitution. Any statute or rule created by Congress, a political party (Republicans right now), or whatever, it cannot circumvent the Constitution – PERIOD!

The inferior federal courts have become a joke. They are there to defend the government, not the people. In my own case, I confronted perhaps the most corrupt judge in New York City; Richard Own. He had the audacity to actually alter the transcripts in court changing the words people would say to support the government. I submitted an affidavit outlining whole sections he removed. There were so many people who showed up in court that day and lawyers were telling me I was crazy because you cannot accuse a judge of a crime. I responded, they all say he does that. They replied; yes, but you cannot say that in public. There were so many people there he became nervous. He admitted changing my transcripts but denied he ever made any material changes. The whole place went silent. When he refused to step down I appealed and the Second Circuit refused to even hear the case. Like police, they just all protect each other. Without a circuit court taking that appeal, I was denied the right to even petition the Supreme Court on that issue.

There is no honest rule of law in the United States. We are no different from some backwater court or a third world country. This is in direct contradiction of the rule of law. The federal court exists to protect individual citizen’s rights under the federal constitution and laws for it has been acknowledged that this is in fact the core purpose of their creation. (see Bivens v Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 US 388 (1971); Bell v Hood, 327 US 678 (1946), Marbury v Madison, 5 US 137, 177 (1803). Good luck. There is absolutely no right to anything because the inferior courts all know the odds of you getting to the Supreme Court are virtually zero.

In Marbury v Madison, Chief Justice Marshall also stated bluntly: “The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws.” id/ 5 US at 163. Chief Justice Earl Warren  stated in 1967: “It is a judge’s duty to decide all cases within his jurisdiction that are brought before him, including controversial cases that arouse the most intense feelings in the litigants.” Pierson v Ray, 386 US 547, 554 (1967). None of this has any force of law unless the Supreme Court is returned to its constitutional role mandating that right to be heard.

We have no rule of law today all because of an unconstitutional Act of Congress known as the the Judiciary Act of 1925 (43 Stat. 936). This barbarous act reduced the workload of the Supreme Court of the United States and in effect denied the right to be heard by all citizens. From that moment on, your constitutional rights all became discretionary. Congress and the Supreme Court held you have the inferior courts. This is the same chaos created when Andrew Jackson closed the Bank of the United States and every bank began issuing their own money which all defaulted in the 1840s. Without a central bank controlling the inferior banks, we destroyed the financial system. The Judiciary Act of 1925 did the same to our constitutional rights. I was personally release ONLY because I won that lottery and the Supreme Court ordered the government to respond signally I made that cut – one of the 80 out of 7,000+.

The inferior courts are statutory, not constitutionally required, and as such exist at the pure discretion of Congress. We have 94 U.S. judicial districts which are organized into 12 regional circuits. They are not bound to a single unified rule of law or rules and that results in the denial of equal protection of the law. The ONLY court secured by the Constitution is the Supreme Court. That’s it folks! If you cannot be heard in that court, then you are denied your Constitutional right to Due Process of Law. Therefore, someone in the 9th circuit in California will be treated differently from the 2nd Circuit in New York. The Supreme Court is supposed to settle such differences, but it is not obligated to do so. This is what the Judiciary Act of 1925 pulled off – the undermining of our entire Constitution.

Previously, the Judiciary Act of 1891 created the United States courts of appeals and rendered a small part of the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction “discretionary” subject to grant of writ of certiorari. This began the process of reducing the workload of the Supreme Court, yet it remained obliged to rule. In December 1921, Chief Justice William Howard Taft appointed three justices to draw up a proposal to further reduce the obligation of the Supreme Court to hear cases. This became the Judiciary Act of 1925. It was Chief Justice Taft who pushed the passage of this bill in 1925, which rendered the majority of the Supreme Court’s workload discretionary.

The Judiciary Act or 1925 was clearly unconstitutional since Congress could not reduce the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Yet, William Howard Taft (1857 – 1930) served as the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and then became the 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1921–1930). It was Chief Justice Taft who lobbied with Congress to effectively reduce the role of the Supreme Court. This is up there with Goldman Sachs sending in Robert Rubin as Secretary of Treasury to eliminate Glass-Steagall which was enacted because Goldman Sachs lost more money than any public trust during the Great Depression. The Supreme Court was involved and has NEVER ruled on the constitutionality of the Judiciary Act of 1925.

QUESTION:

Dear Marty,

Whether in a Phase-transition or a Slingshot Move in the Dow, you made it very clear that such moves will be driven by capital inflows to the USA due to the alternative flight to quality to the private sector, both internationally and domestically. It is now just so obvious, it is unfolding in front of our eyes.

The question, however, will be whether capital will remain parked there for long time, or else leave abruptly to go elsewhere? For as high as it can go, that market sooner or later will eventually run out of steam, just like any other system. We are now focusing on the flows towards it, but can you please shed a light on what will come next? Will there be a trade to the downside too? Where will all that capital go at that point, simply repatriate, go to Asia? Your knowledge and wisdom on this would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
SB

ANSWER: What goes up must also come down. A Phase Transition is the culmination of a collapse in public confidence which is now rising before our eyes.. The question really becomes rather blunt. Will we simply readjust? Or will we crash and burn? This appears to be the end result of socialism. Therefore, we are more likely to see at this time a collapse of the world monetary system. A rise in the dollar will break the back of the US economy and that is what is needed to create the next step toward monetary reform.

We are most likely going to see a new monetary system where the dollar will no longer be the reserve currency. That will probably become some form of a basket. This is the collapse of the West just as Communism collapsed and altered the course of China and Russia. Therefore, we are looking at the shift of the financial capitol of the world from the West to the East dominated in India/China. As we can see, the financial Capitol of the World always migrates.  After Rome and the fall of Byzantium, the capital moved to India. It then moved to China. When Christopher Columbus set sail, he was trying to get to India because that was where all the money was. You do not set sail to be to a slum in a third world country. Europe was rising, but it had been reduced to a third world status.

The other side of a Phase Transition will be the fall of the West. That is just how things evolve. We are plagued with politicians who are incapable of making any changes to save the country because they are too busy grabbing the free soap in the hotel room. Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus responded to Donald Trump’s recent complaints that the nominating process is rigged against him by saying: “Give us all a break.” Priebus demonstrated by his response that the game is rigged. He said: “Nomination process known for a year + beyond. It’s the responsibility of the campaigns to understand it. Complaints now? Give us all a break.”  Priebus is an American attorney and politician so he is a trained and know how to lie when necessary. Note what he says: “Give me a Break”. He does not deny anything nor does he say Trump is wrong. He simply says they rigged the voting system more than one year ago so why complain now. This is a typical response designed to fool the majority as if Trump is wrong. All he is saying you knew this was the game so it is not fair to complain now after a year has passed. Priebus did not deny anything Trump had to say. He only said you did not complain soon enough. This is like someone who robs you and they justify keep your goods claiming you should have complained before. Yes, Priebus, give us a break from this clever double-talk. Unfortunately, this is the classic example of how dishonest politicians have become. There is no honor nor is there any accountability. They will distort and twist things around right before your eyes and do not care because the media will never analyze what they just said. This is why we just have to crash and burn. We cannot reform with people like this trying to maintain an unfair system.