The Need for Sua Sponte Judicial Review Laws For Pro Se Litigants’ Lawsuits

Many Americans are still reeling from the horrific killings of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, committed by their mentally disturbed and drug addicted son Nick Reiner, along with news reports of a dozen or so other tragic killings and attacks committed by mentally unstable people. 

As part of my research for my book Fighting for Justice:  Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order, I delved into the entities responsible for the dismantling of mental health laws and both private and state-run mental health facilities, and, more importantly, why those entities destroyed the ability for individuals and families to obtain necessary mental health treatment for the severely mentally disturbed.  Undeniably, many private and state-run mental health facilities were abysmal hell holes.  But I stand by my argument presented in my book:  We currently have many poorly run nursing homes and hospitals, but we don’t eliminate all nursing homes and hospitals and pass laws to throw medically needy people out onto the streets.  The solution to badly managed mental health facilities was to reform them, not eliminate them. 

The entities at the forefront of changing mental health commitment laws and the shuttering mental health facilities?  The American Civil Liberties Union and its comrades in the leftist-leaning medical organizations influenced and pressured legislators to abolish long-term and permanent mental health commitment laws and shut down both private and state-run mental health facilities.  They argued that if residents of mental health facilities were “set free” then their mental health would improve and they would become productive citizens.  And in case they needed supportive care, the ACLU and its cronies advocated for the creation of “community mental health centers” where the mentally ill could, on their own initiative, receive all the medications and counseling they needed.  Legislators were further enticed by the ACLU’s claims that closing down state-run mental health facilities would save hundreds of thousand of dollars.  I encourage people to read the following links that help explain all the actors that worked to deny the severely mentally ill the long-term and permanent housing and treatment they need:

• https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/hall-shame-who-failing-severely-ill
• https://www.aclu.org/documents/aclu-history-mental-institutions
• “To a large extent it was the courts, at the behest of civil libertarian groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), that had a significant role to play in deinstitutionalization, through public interest litigation.” https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1497&context=pilr
• https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2021.160404
• https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/422/563
• https://ia802306.us.archive.org/3/items/reagan-mental-hospitals/Reagan%20Didn%E2%80%99t%20Close%20Down%20Mental%20Hospitals.pdf
• https://everything.explained.today/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980/

The reality is, those who have organically malfunctioning brains, either by genetics, drug use, or both, are simply unable to think and reason properly and function in society.  Past and current medicines have proved they are not very effective in helping those with severe schizophrenia and other degenerative mental conditions.  For the ACLU lawyers and their like-minded medical “professionals” and supportive legislators, telling us that the severely mentally ill are not all that dangerous to themselves and other people is like trying to convince us that people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, terminal cancer, and any other progressively degenerative disease are really going to be perfectly fine and just need to be “set free” from nursing homes and hospitals — we must stop “stigmatizing” them by pointing out the grim reality of their condition and calling for appropriate compassionate care for them. 

How callous, cold-hearted, and how, well … crazy is this decades’ long gaslighting by the ACLU and their equally cruel supporters against our society and against the severely mentally ill.

A few years back I asked a psychiatrist what he thought about our current mental health system.  He looked burned out as he answered that it is frustrating for him when he knows that severely mentally ill patients who’ve been involuntarily committed to a mere week or ten days in a mental health ward of a hospital will continue to be self destructive and endanger other people upon release.  But a week or two of involuntary commitment is all that the law in all states allow.  He agreed with me that our legislators need a reality check, that bills must be proposed, passed, and enacted into law that allow doctors to involuntarily commit severely mentally disturbed individuals into either long-term or permanent mental health facilities.  A probate attorney I spoke to echoed much of this same concern.  He told me that, in the case of my death threatening, stalking, and clearly mentally unstable cultist brother who calls himself “Pastor,” he could kill me, be put in prison, and probably still never receive any kind of mental health treatment.  If we had sensible and necessary involuntary long-term and permanent commitment laws and competent mental health facilities, my husband and I would have been spared the decades of hell my stalking brother has subjected us and many of his other victims to due to his out-of-control mental disturbances.  It is horrifically reprehensible that the only “solution” that our states have regarding the severely mentally ill is to wait until they kill someone before tossing them into prison.  Prisons are not mental health facilities (of course, the ACLU also advocates for getting rid of prisons, too).  How much death and devastation could have been prevented over the past half century if we had sane and compassionate mental health commitment laws and well-monitored facilities?    

Every year my husband and I ask our state representative and senator, along with other legislators in our state, to propose, pass, and enact into law involuntary long-term and permanent mental health housing and treatment for the severely mentally ill.  In 2025, a couple of our legislators in Tennessee proposed a bill that would allow testimony before a judge by law enforcement officers and medical personnel to request the judge to extend indefinitely a mentally disturbed person’s time in a mental health treatment facility, but sadly that bill didn’t get the support it needed. 

How many more thousands of deaths due to mental illness will it take before our legislators and governors practice basic human decency and compassion by enacting very necessary involuntary long-term and permanent mental health commitment laws, and work with private medical care organizations to create competent mental health facilities, much like we have nursing homes and hospitals?

This insanity of failing to prevent the severely mentally ill from harming themselves and others must end NOW.  I urge everyone reading this blog article to contact your state legislators and tell them they must deal with reality and get enacted an involuntary long-term and permanent mental health commitment law for the severely mentally ill and see to that competent privately-run, state-monitored mental health facilities are created.          

Occurring very soon after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, there has been a surge of people either going back to church after a prolonged absence or attending church for the first time.  Literally thousands of mostly young people are filling up the pews largely in Evangelical Protestant churches, in some Catholic churches, and apparently in some Orthodox churches as well.  Joe Rogan is among one of the more notable people publicizing his attendance at church and his fascination with Jesus Christ and the Bible (https://www.newsnationnow.com/religion/joe-rogan-religion-church-christianity/).

I truly hope this surge of church attendance — predominantly in churches professing historically traditional Christian beliefs rather than in the more “liberal” denominations — greatly benefits our society.  We’ve had several generations of lost souls rejecting what are in many cases distortions of God’s character and of Christianity as a whole, and in their quest for meaning and value they have fallen for pseudo-Christian ideas, or other bizarre religious or self-improvement cults/manipulative, harmful high-demand groups, or bought into the empty promises of cultic utopian radical leftism only to find themselves in the abyss of nihilism.  Little wonder the suicide rate among teens and young adults is so tragically high.

I remember after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that there was a similar surge in church attendance.  But sadly, after a relatively short period of time, people stopped attending church.  There were any number of reasons why this happened, but as a nearly lifelong church attendee I would bet that one of those reasons is that a certain percentage of people witnessed obnoxious, unstable church leaders and their lackeys being overbearing, mean spirited, Scripture-twisting, and downright abusive verbally, emotionally, and possibly even physically (including sexual abuse).

And so I titled this blog article on this latest resurgence of church attendance “Trick or Treat” because, soon enough, people will find out when they attend church Sunday after Sunday what the real character of that church truly is — a trick or a treat.  A pseudo-Christian assembly that is toxic or a church that is nurturing.  A pseudo-Christian assembly that, despite claiming to be “Bible believing”, acts in direct opposition to the Scriptures, or a church that clearly teaches and practices the foundational precepts of Scripture — the essential defining truths that St. Vincent of Lerins described as believed everywhere, at all times, by all Christians.

The same “trick or treat” criteria applies to groups, “ministries,” and characters on the Internet advertising themselves as true believers in Jesus Christ.  My cult leader brother “Pastor” Ken “Max” Parks is only one of a gazillion religious frauds crawling all over the Internet.  If this most recent surge in church attendance is going to have any substance then people must exercise discretion and be very cautious so as to not give willy-nilly trust to someone who knows how to spout off Scripture quotes and who makes all kinds of claims about themselves, their group, or their “ministry.”   Any church leader who reacts defensively or evasively to questions about that leader’s education, ordination, system of accountability within the church, and the overall beliefs and practices of both the church leader and the church’s other leaders and their congregation is simply one to be avoided like the plague.

Those carrying on the legacy of Charlie Kirk continue to encourage people to check out the claims of Jesus Christ and find a church committed to the historically traditional teachings of Christianity.  To use a pastoral analogy, there is a significantly higher number of sheep flocking in large groups in specific locations since Charlie Kirk’s assassination.  Large flocks attract large packs of wolves.  Older sheep and the shepherds need to be on the look out for those wolves and actively provide protection to the young sheep joining their fold from the very coy attacks of the wolves.  This requires the older sheep and the shepherds to exercise competence in guarding and living out the truths of our faith in Christ with a sense of mutual accountability to each other, and to the world at large.

For the sake of the spiritual health of our country and with the hope that the destructive nihilism so dangerously prevalent in our culture can be overcome, I pray this resurgence of attendance in historically traditional churches will have a lasting, saving effect.  We have been long overdue for the “treat” of true, enduring spiritual revival. 

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

John Adams              

This blog article is addressed to college students, parents, grandparents, guardians, college professors, and college administrators:  Beware of cults operating on or near college campuses!

These cults can be religious/spiritual, political, self-help/improvement, and sex cults/sex trafficking cults. And no, warning about the ubiquitous presence of cults on college campuses isn’t anything new, and it is certainly not some wild conspiracy theory. There are dozens of websites devoted to warning people about the reality of cults on campus and, in too many cases, the lifelong damage cults do to people. Here are just three examples of websites:   

https://www.theskylineview.com/opinions/2024/04/14/religious-cults-stalk-college-campuses-i-was-in-one/

https://archive.attn.com/stories/1176/are-colleges-doing-enough-protect-students-campus-cults

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-of-mind/202308/navigating-college-life-cult-free

For especially freshman or transfer students, college can be a lonely place.  Many young people come from unstable, unsupportive families, and they never had good moral examples;  consequently they lack a moral compass and feel anchorless.  Cult leaders and their followers know how to scope out, track down, and prey upon lonely, vulnerable, insecure, and indecisive people on college campuses (and in other parts of society).  Cultists are literally hunters, and they know how to read people fairly well. 

Here are some ways students can guard themselves against cultists:

1. Beware of overly friendly strangers and love-bombing by individuals and groups — and this includes by college/university faculty members! Remember, cultists are predatory and very manipulative.  They hit on our instinctual need for social interactions and sense of belonging — perfectly normal needs, but which can be twisted and used as a weapon by control freak cultists.  Beware of ANY group or types of people who think they are “special” and better than others, even if they cloak those sentiments in fake humility.  Also, cultists know how to make people feel guilt and shame for saying “no” to increasingly more aggressive and intrusive demands — such as putting aside college studies, avoiding family and friends, quitting jobs — all for a “greater mission” for the cult.  Cultists often portray themselves as the victim while bullying and accusing their actual victims of being insensitive, stupid, “fascists,” “racists,” “uncommitted to the cause”, “sinning”, and “missing out on blessings” and the such.
2. Cult leaders, and some of their followers, especially the cult leaders’ immediate inner circle of sycophants, can be funny, witty, physically attractive, decisive, and charismatic. Again, this description includes narcissistic college professors who are propagandists and disdain debating opposite opinions. Charismatic cultic figures can seemingly exemplify what an insecure person wishes they had, and therein lies the danger. As with all of our interactions with other people, look beyond the superficial and NEVER put anyone on a pedestal. Everyone puts their pants on the same way and everyone has bowel movements. There are no gods and goddesses among us, although there are some mentally unstable people who think they are deities. 
3. Cultists HATE pin-pointed questions about precise beliefs, behaviors (“Who are you to judge?!”), and especially financial accountability. They often waffle, gaslight, and outright lie about their actual beliefs and practices. Cultists put pressure on people to “stop being so distrustful. We’re your friends! We’re on your side! Trust us, we know what’s best for you!” Worse, since they can’t defend their beliefs they’ll resort to bullying and extreme defamation against anyone even slightly disagreeing with them. Any belief — religious, political, what-have-you — is not worth having if it cannot withstand reasonable, probing questions, and any group that shows instantaneous defensiveness toward and deflection of reasonable questions not presented in a snarky rude manner is not worth further involvement. Ask wisely, and take the higher road by not sinking to the same rude, disdainful level as the cultist leaders and their followers.
4. Keep in mind that cultic manipulative leaders and their followers can be found in “mainstream” religious denominations and associations, as well as in “mainstream” political organizations, and, of course, as “professional” college professors. Simply put, anyone, regardless of title or affiliation, who acts like a rude, overbearing, pompous self-righteous jackass who has no respect for personal boundaries should be avoided. There are religious and political groups on and off college campuses which are healthy and safe in that they are not run by those who are manipulative, all-controlling, and deceitful. Their leaders and others in the group (with some exceptions) will not get offended at someone simply asking about who and what they are. Healthy groups will not hound, dox, stalk, or defame anyone who decides not to join or associate with them. Cultists are infamous for using these tactics to “punish” those who have left them, those who warn other people about them, and those who simply disagree with them. Cultists often use these psychopath tactics to intimidate others from exposing them for the dangerous predators they are. Students, and the general population, interested in religious or political issues need to be discerning in figuring out which groups are healthy and which groups are all-controlling and deceitful.
5. Loneliness, insecurity, depression, withdrawal into oneself, anger and grief, and other overwhelming feelings can be addressed through mental health services on or off campus.  And yes, discernment is needed there too!  Sometimes reading reputable authors’ books and websites which address certain difficult personal issues can be of better help than trying to find a counselor.  Or, a skilled counselor and reputable books and websites may be the right combination to help people work through difficult feelings and situations.  

These helpful tips are not exclusive; these and other tips can be found in many websites warning about the characteristics and dangers of cults/high demand groups on college campuses, and in our general communities.

College life can offer a world of experiences and opportunities that can greatly benefit oneself and other people.  We’re on this earth for however long to do as much good as humanly possible.  We cannot prevent earthquakes, hurricanes, other natural disasters, or bad people bent on making other people’s lives miserable, but we can be an influence for good and practice basic kindness toward ourselves, other people, and creation in general.  Doing truly good, kind things includes warning other people with FACTS about dangerous people and groups!  Remember the old Golden Rule: “Do to others what you want them to do to you,” and its corollary — “Don’t do to someone what you wouldn’t want them to do to you.”  Whether on college campuses or throughout life in general, it’s important to develop a healthy curiosity about the world around us and seek out healthy-minded people, being sure to give ourselves the benefit of time to truly get to know our own selves and other people.  And from a heart of true concern and care for others, we must use our voices to speak up when people or groups have proven that they are harmful so as to do all we can to prevent other people from becoming their next victim.       

The low percentage of voters who showed up to vote in New York City’s recent Democrat mayoral primary gave Zohran Mamdani, a radical leftist jihadist, the winning vote.  According to Mamdani’s statements and promises, should he become New York City’s next mayor, he’ll slice and dice the Big Apple by closing down prisons and making private grocery stores state run. He’s on record saying he opposes private ownership of homes, thereby inferring that he thinks it’s perfectly okay for government to seize those homes and open them up to anyone and everyone, which presumably would include the severely mentally ill and illegal aliens.  Mamdani and his Columbia professor father have also made it clear how much they want to eliminate the Jewish people not only from NYC but also from the face of the earth.  Oh, yes, such a wonderful guy.  Hmmm…maybe he’ll turn those vacant emptied-out prisons into re-education camps — or better yet extermination camps — for everyone opposed to his oppressive policies?

One of Forbes’ articles on Mamdani demonstrates how abundantly hypocritical the avowed self-proclaimed “democratic” socialist is:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2025/06/24/heres-how-much-new-york-city-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-is-worth/ .  No big surprise there.  Yet another gaslighting moniker he and other radical leftists use for themselves — “Democratic” socialist.  “Democrat” comes from the Greek roots “people” and “power”, indicating that government rests with the power of the people.  Mamdani, like all other radical leftists, has made statements that demonstrate beyond doubt that he believes in the power of the state, not the people.  Radical leftists have always used nice sounding gaslighting terms on the largely gullible populace, like democratic or people’s republic, to cloak their dictatorial anti-democratic, anti-republican, anti-social statist totalitarianism.

Mamdani has only been a U.S. citizen for seven years.  Ilhan Omar, another radical leftist jihadist, became a U.S. citizen in 2000 at the age of seventeen, under questionable circumstances related to the truthfulness of her documents.  Here’s what angers me about these people, and their acquisition of political offices in our country should both enrage and alarm everyone.  In order to become U.S. citizens they took the following oath:

 “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”

So then, it becomes quite evident that Mamdani and Omar outright LIED when they took this oath.  They brazenly advocate for the overthrow of our Constitution and constitutional form of government and the freedoms guaranteed in our form of government by advancing statist totalitarian communist principles (socialism is, in fact, another form of communism) as well as totalitarian jihadism, which is based on Islamic theocratic government ideology.   

Mamdani, Omar, and all other naturalized citizens who zealously, dangerously espouse the overthrow of our U.S. Constitution and attack our constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms should have their citizenship rescinded, with their own statements and actions being used in evidence against them, and they should be deported immediately from our country.  I have recently emailed our Tennessee federal legislators to ask them to propose a bill that does just that.  No one should be granted U.S. citizenship, or keep U.S. citizenship after swearing an oath to become a U.S. citizen, when it becomes abundantly obvious that they hate this country, our Constitution, our freedoms, and our rule of law.  Our First Amendment does not protect treason and sedition.  Period.  We need better laws, and better enforcement of existing laws, to keep out people who hate our country and who hate loyal U.S. citizens and our guaranteed rights.  And I say this as the paternal granddaughter of immigrants who fled the oppression of pre-communist Ukraine and became grateful U.S. citizens.

Anyone — U.S.-born or naturalized citizen — who wants to run for local, state, and federal offices should be required to pass a basic test on our Constitution — similar to the test that immigrants seeking to become U.S. citizens must pass — before they can even register to run for any office.  No one should hold an elected or appointed office in our country if they adhere to anti-American and anti-Constitution beliefs and actions.  How can elected officials uphold the U.S. Constitution, and perform the duties of their office based on the Constitution, if they don’t even know what’s in the Constitution?

As our country devolves into escalating violence committed by radical leftists, and the intentional protection of criminals by radical leftist prosecutors and judges persists, we must make our voices heard to our federal legislators, urging them to take strong efforts to propose bills and enact into law good sense policies to remove dangers to our country and to each and every one of us.  They can start by impeaching radical leftist judges who are breaking our laws and endangering the public. 

Think of it this problem this way:  Suppose we rented out a room to someone who signed a rental agreement that clearly outlined that they would not do anything to destroy our home.  We took them at their word — both verbal and written — that they would uphold and respect our home.  Then, right after they move in, they bash the walls, destroy our furniture, burn down sections of our home, ransack our refrigerator and steal our possessions, and then threaten to kill us if we get in their way from completely taking over our home and kicking us out.  That is what radical leftists, U.S. born citizens as well as illegal aliens, and their office-holding advocates are doing to our country and to all of us.  We must put an end to this anarchy and we must hold accountable — by imprisonment or deportation — those office holders who are inciting the violent overthrow of our Constitution, our rule of law, and our right to live as a free people in peace and safety.

As I wrote in my book, Fighting for Justice: Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order, my husband and I have suffered the consequences of both state and federal radical leftist officials refusing to enforce written laws against my stalking, death threatening cult leader brother, Ken “Pastor Max” Parks, telling us “When someone commits a crime it’s a crime against the state, not against the individual.  If the state doesn’t call it as a crime then it’s not a crime,” and “We have discretionary powers to determine when or if we’ll enforce the law.”  That is the end result of totalitarian statism, and it is a direct violation of both our Constitutional rights and our most basic human rights.  That is why we moved out of Connecticut (ironically enough called “The Constitution State”) to Tennessee, where we have seen better enforcement of law, and therefore a decrease in my brother’s criminal attacks against us.  And this same radical leftist ideology is causing so many other people, like ourselves, to move out of states being destroyed by radical leftists authorities who not only protect anarchic criminals but promote their war against America and her citizens. 

For several decades now, anti-American radical leftists have taken over our education system at all levels.  As I wrote in my book, as our education system goes, so goes our country.  A New York Post article states that six out of ten Gen Zers are enamored with socialism and are therefore easy prey when it comes to selling their souls to the likes of Zohran Mamdani (https://nypost.com/2025/07/22/us-news/6-in-10-zoomers-like-socialism-no-wonder-theyre-hoodwinked-by-zohran-mamdani/ ).  Having a “nanny state” give you everything — housing, food, money without having to work — really appeals to Gen Zers, especially after they’ve been thoroughly marinated in all the untenable utopian promises of Marxism in their schools and colleges.  Of course, radical leftist teachers and professors never tell their students the truth about the apocalyptic devastation wreaked upon people in every single socialist/communist country.  Lies and gaslighting are the only things radical leftists know to do to peddle their poison.  If you have children, get them out of these public and private sewers masquerading as educational institutions, and beware of some online schools and colleges as well. 

If our governors and president, our state and federal legislators, and our judges do not call to account these anti-American, anti-Constitution totalitarian statists and their army of rioting, vandalizing, murderous anarchists, then we can expect our country to further collapse into the same deadly morass evidenced in Germany’s leftist Third Reich (National Socialism), Russia’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and all other totalitarian statist regimes.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  Make your voices heard!  Or you and I will have our voices silenced.     

Nearly 600 bills were passed by the Tennessee legislature this year!  Many of them were good sense reactions to and preventative measures against the leftist, anarchist radicalism sweeping certain parts of our country and our state.  One bill in particular that has passed into law this year is rather comical — establishing Nashville’s hot chicken as an official state food!

As victims of stalking committed by my brother, “Pastor” Ken “Max” Parks (and by some of his cult goons), my husband and I were very pleased to see the passage and signing into law of SB0335/HB0602, the Voyeurism Victims Act, which adds protections for victims being recorded or photographed without their consent.  Similarly, the passage into law of SB1346/HB1299’s Preventing Deepfake Images Act empowers victims to pursue both civil and criminal actions against those who publish without consent intimate digital depictions of their victims.  Also, of additional protection to stalked and “doxed” victims was the passage into law of SB1296/HB1314, which creates additional penalties against those who post online people’s addresses and phone numbers, especially for the purpose of inciting harassment.  This has been a tactic used by my brother “Pastor” Ken both when we lived in Connecticut and since we’ve lived in Tennessee.

My husband and I were basically forced to leave Connecticut almost twelve years ago because, as crime victims of my cult leader brother “Pastor” Ken Parks’ stalking, death threats, and aggressive harassment, we could not get the state’s attorneys (similar to other states’ district attorneys) to enforce clearly written laws.  In Tennessee our voices calling for protection were heard, in conjunction with other victims’ voices, in the 2018 enactment of the Abuse of Civil Action law that finally put a stop to my brother “Pastor” Ken and other stalkers like him weaponizing the courts by filing abusive, meritless lawsuits pro se (without a lawyer).  Tennessee’s 2019 enactment of the Public Participation Act — an anti-SLAPP law — has further protected us as we’ve exercised our free speech right, as attorneys advised us to do, to post public court and police records and other factual documents about “Pastor” Ken, who has made himself a public figure, so as to fight against his extreme online defamation against us and other people, and to warn the public of the danger he poses to people.  The good sense bills that our Tennessee legislators have passed and that our governors have signed into law in the nearly twelve years we’ve lived in Tennessee would have never seen the light of day in the leftist, corrupt legislature in Connecticut.

Here are some other very good bills that were proposed and passed by our Tennessee legislators and signed into law this year by Governor Lee that protect both our US Constitutional rights and our Tennessee State Constitutional rights to live in safety and without totalitarian tactics imposed by the federal government:

• SB0845/HB1097 — Requires the Attorney General’s office to investigate and penalize any local state governments that pass ordinances, laws, or policies that violate the Tennessee State Constitution.
• SB0263/HB0318 — Prohibits the enforcement and recognition of requirements or mandates issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, or World Economic Forum in this state or its political subdivisions.
• SB1084 / HB0923 — The Dismantling DEI Departments Act bans all state agencies, local governments, and public education entities from promoting or requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
• SB0030 / HB0055 — Makes it a misdemeanor for someone to intentionally refuse to give one’s name or give a false name to a law enforcement officer who has lawfully detained or arrested a person and requested the information.
• SB0227/HB0811 — Allows a charitable organization that provides housing to a person whom the charitable organization knows is unlawfully present in the United States to be held liable for a loss, damages, injury, or death resulting from a criminal offense committed by the person who is unlawfully present in the United States while the person is receiving housing services from the charitable organization if the charitable organization’s conduct in providing housing constitutes negligence, gross negligence, or willful and wanton misconduct.
• SB0392/HB0322 — Creates the offense of human smuggling; creates the offense of harboring or hiding, or assisting another in harboring or hiding, within this state an individual who the person knows or should have known has illegally entered or remained in the United States; authorizes the attorney general to take certain actions against a person or organization who commits or is about to commit a human trafficking offense or an aggravated human trafficking offense.
• SB1086/HB0749 — Creates the Class B misdemeanor offense of operating a motor vehicle in this state with an invalid driver license; designates out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens as invalid driver licenses in this state.

As a retired educator, I was very pleased to see the following bills passed and enacted into law:

• SB6001/HB6004 — The Education Freedom Act, or School Voucher Bill, allows parents or other caregivers to tap into the state’s education freedom scholarship program so their children can attend a private school.
• SB0897/HB0932 — Requires local boards of education and public charter school governing bodies to adopt a policy to prohibit students from using wireless communication devices during instructional time, except in certain circumstances.
• SB0811/HB0825 — Requires Tennessee’s Education Department to develop social media and internet safety curricula for students in grades 6-12, and requires schools to use that curricula to instruct students.
• SB0471/HB0178 — Establishes that family life curriculum must include age-appropriate instruction and evidence regarding the positive personal and societal outcomes associated with the method by which a person completes the following in sequential order: obtains a high school diploma or high school equivalency credential; enters into the workforce or pursues a postsecondary degree or credential; enters into marriage; and has children.

There was one proposed bill that I wished had passed and become law.  That proposed bill was SB0241/HB0206, “As introduced, requires the chief officer of an inpatient mental health treatment resource to notify the committing court if a patient who was involuntarily committed for mental health treatment becomes eligible for discharge; permits the court to hold a hearing to determine whether to order the person’s return to the hospital under the original commitment or order the person’s release from involuntary commitment in accordance with the recommendations of the chief officer.”  If this bill had been passed and enacted into law, it would have allowed the courts to involuntarily commit someone with severe mental health problems to long-term or even permanent mental health treatment.  This has been a crucial public safety issue that I dealt with extensively in my book Fighting for Justice:  Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order, particularly in Chapter 7, “What the Collapse of the Mental Health System Looks Like.”  We need sane long-term and permanent mental health commitment laws, and competent and compassionate privately-run state-monitored mental health facilities!

There are a couple of other bills we’re still working on with our legislators to get proposed, and hopefully get passed into law.  One such bill is requiring judges to practice sua sponte judicial review of pro se litigants’ lawsuits before those lawsuits are given docket numbers and before defendants are notified.  If judges would just practice judicial review, as is already their right and responsibility, then a significant number of meritless and abusive pro se lawsuits would be instantaneously dismissed, and the intended victims would be spared the distress and expense of having to defend their innocence.  Our tax dollars would also not be wasted in hearings for meritless, abusive lawsuits brought by pro se litigants, nor in paying for increased court security when a pro se litigant gives every impression of being dangerously mentally unstable.

Another bill that needs to be proposed and enacted is a Clergy Authentication law that requires anyone using a religious title such as pastor, reverend, bishop, imam, rabbi, guru, etc., to have educational training from a United States accredited religious institution in order to qualify for a required state license to use such religious titles.  Religious titles often evoke instantaneous trust from people, who can then reveal very personal, intimate details to those figures using those religious titles.  With all the dangers and destructive behaviors from bad religious leaders that have become all too frequent, requiring accredited training and a license to call oneself by a religious title is really a no brainer and can provide a possible layer of protection worth having.  Tennessee already enacted into law strict penalties specifically against clergy and others in positions of authority who abuse children (TCA 39-13-527).  We require training and licensing for plumbers, electricians, and many other professionals, so requiring clergy to have valid training and licensing in order to use a religious title just makes good sense.  It’s long past time to require those calling themselves by a religious title to put their money where their mouths are, show proof that they’re validly trained and licensed, and essentially put up or shut up when it comes to using any religious title.

The passage of good bills into law is good news!  I emphasize yet again that the passage of good sense bills into law is a huge encouragement for us to continue to make our voices heard to our legislators! 

Injustice has a funny way of uniting people of varying political persuasions.  Such is the case with Joe Biden’s pardons.  Or, more accurately, the radical leftists who have been propping up the senile Biden and who rubber stamped these pardons.

As a crime victim I know what it’s like to be denied justice because of systemic corruption on both the state and federal level.  But as onerous as the crimes are that have been committed against me and my husband (and many others) by my cyberstalking, death-threatening, religious fraud brother Ken Parks, I cannot imagine the rage and grief that victims and their families who have suffered loss of life and other heinously violent crimes against them must feel after Biden’s handlers used his name to pardon some of the most vicious beasts of hell to walk this earth.  That description of these criminals is no exaggeration.

And Biden’s radical leftist handlers using his name to rubber stamp pardons for Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milley?  Their Freudian slip is showing big time.  How can pardons be granted for someone not (yet?) convicted of any crime?!  What are they being pardoned for, if not for crimes that these radical lefts KNOW they committed yet for which there has still been no investigation for all the substantial and very damning evidence against them — as demonstrated in their own written words?!

Joe Biden has demonstrated beyond any doubt that he has had no clue about much of anything going on both before and after he took the office of president, a fact for which both Republicans and some Democrats express agreement.  Consequently, if Biden has no idea who he has pardoned and for what, then those pardons must be nullified. 

As I’ve written in my book, on my websites, and in some of my other blog articles, and as I frequently discuss with others, whenever such blatant injustice occurs there is a screaming need to contact our federal legislators — Republican and Democrat alike, especially now, since both have likewise voiced their anger over these unjust and unethical pardons.  Each federal legislator has an email form on their legislative website in which we the people can voice our outrage and petition them to do everything in their power to nullify many of these pardons, these travesties against justice and against the American people.  We have emailed our Tennessee representative and our two senators urging them to do everything in their power to have many of those pardons nullified.  I urge others to likewise email their federal legislators and ask them to do whatever it takes to nullify most of those pardons.  Justice demands it.  Thankfully, I have read recent news reports that indicate there is a primarily Republican, but some Democrat, effort to investigate these pardons with the intention of nullifying them.  And our legislators have expressed their determination to further their investigations into Fauci as well.  We need to hold our legislators’ feet to the fire to ensure that these investigations result in law being upheld and justice being done.

To be fair, I’m not entirely in favor of some of Trump’s pardons either.  As regards the January 6 pardons, the truth of the matter is that a good number, not all, of the January 6 people did not break any laws and did not commit any violence, but some did and those who were violent and broke the law should be punished not pardoned.  What is frequently forgotten is that the Capitol is a public building, so there were no trespassing laws violated, especially since Capitol police acted as escorts in letting people into that public building on January 6.  That stated, I have nonetheless made it clear in my other blog posts that I have never been in favor of the protesters who swarmed the Capitol building, and I do believe that the deliberate denial of extra security indicated a set up.  Some protesters did, in fact, violate the law and were violent, while others were mere bystanders who were, as video evidence has shown, actually escorted into the Capitol by Capitol police.  Even some Democrats have conceded to admitting that some January 6 people were initially arrested by the (In)Justice Department and imprisoned without being charged with any crimes, and denied access to legal counsel.  Those are the tactics practiced solely by totalitarians who have no regard for basic human rights, never mind our Constitutional rights.  Some January 6 people were arrested for simply following the lead of Capitol police who escorted them into the rotunda, took a few brochures available to the public, and left the Capitol.  Judges did acquit some January 6 people who were wrongfully arrested, charged, and incarcerated by the (In)Justice Department.   

Keep in mind, this is the same (In)Justice Department that labeled as “domestic terrorists” angry parents voicing their outrage in school board meetings because some of their daughters had been sexually assaulted in schools’ girls bathroom by a teenage boy being allowed and encouraged to call himself a girl.  So much for following the DNA science on that one.  Someone can call themselves a Cadillac and live in a garage and make “va-rooom va-rooom” noises, but that will never make them a car.  This is the same (In)Justice Department that “put out the money” to send out helicopters to swarm over the houses of some of these same parents voicing their anger over the publicly-funded schools that so callously endangered the safety of students, primarily girls.  This is the same (In)Justice Department that conducted an early morning armed raid on and arrest of an innocent pro-life man, Mark Houck, while his traumatized wife and children trembled in fear in their own home.  The court found Houck innocent, and he and his wife are now suing the (In)Justice Department for violations of civil rights and for trauma.  This is the same (In)Justice Department that labeled Catholics and other Christian adherents “domestic terrorists” and went so far as to walk into church services to quite literally spy on and surveil people who were in no way, shape, or form “domestic terrorists.”  But Tren de Aragua, human traffickers, drug dealers, and other dangerous illegals streaming across our borders, as well as violent, death-threatening, destructive, and obstructive antisemitic protesters, can operate free of any fear from either state or federal law enforcement for the actual crimes of terrorism they’re continuing to commit in virtually every state in our country.  All the while, this same (In)Justice Department has tried to dupe the American people into believing their “official” report that under the Biden Administration crime was down fifty percent, a propaganda lie now reported for what it is.  And this is also the same (In)Justice Department that informed me, “Yes, your brother is committing crimes, but we’re not going to put out the money to prosecute him.”

When a crime is committed against you, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat, or if you have no political leanings at all.  You want, and deserve, the enforcement of law.  You want, and deserve, justice.

There is quite literally a hell of a lot of corruption in our government offices, and it has existed and festered for decades during both Republican and Democrat administrations.  Now, national figures and private citizens alike have incurred the unmitigated and escalating arrogance and unaccountable abuse of power into which the (In)Justice Department and other unelected government departments have devolved.  If Trump and his administration come through on their promises to the American people, I can only hope and pray that at least some of the filth in positions of power is finally flushed out and that true law and order can be restored.  Investigations, prosecutions, and incarcerations need to be the appropriate end for those totalitarians who abused the power of their positions to violate innocent people’s basic human rights and Constitutional rights.  Every citizen deserves that.  Our nation’s survival depends on it.

I know many people — too many people — look at Donald Trump as a messiah who can do no wrong, but the reality is that he and the rest of his staff and department leaders are mere fallible human beings.  I used to teach my students that it is extremely dangerous to put so much faith in any leader to the point of cultic idol worship.  We must have the mindset that our elected leaders are our employees!  We hire these elected officials with our tax dollars to do a good job protecting our country from foreign and domestic threats and to pursue policies that respect our written Constitution and encourage prosperity for every law abiding citizen.

We have before us a fortuitous opportunity, a reprieve if you will, for our three branches of government to work to restore law and order in this country.  I hope and pray that is accomplished.

My brother Ken Parks (aka, “Pastor Ken Parks”, “Pastor Max Parks”, etc.) is in good company when it comes to filing abusive, meritless, and utterly irrational lawsuits against innocent people — and always filing these lawsuits pro se (without an attorney).

On August 15, 2024, Amanda Anne Keller filed a lawsuit in Alabama Northern District Federal Court against Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin, Donald Trump, Jr., Ivanka Trump, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance (whom Keller refers to as the governor of Florida), and others (https://dockets.justia.com/docket/alabama/alndce/2:2024cv01120/190959 and https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alabama-woman-sues-lane-kiffin-jd-vance-donald-trump-jr-for-6-gazillion-for-what-who-knows/ar-AA1oVF8l).  Keller’s handwritten complaint is largely illegible, but what little can be discerned from her scribblings is that she’s filing for several “gazillion” dollars, claiming that the defendants stole “gazillion” amounts of money from her, and that her brain is being monitored by them or by the government entities she claims they represent. 

Previously, on September 1, 2023, Keller filed a lawsuit, also in Alabama Northern District Federal Court against the Department of Homeland Security, HSIN, Bubba Weems, Kelly Foster, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr, Shana Blaisden Snyder, Amy Daniel and Rachel Daniel (https://dockets.justia.com/docket/alabama/alndce/2:2023cv01157/186852). 

Prior to that lawsuit, on March 3, 2023, Keller filed a lawsuit in Alabama Northern District Federal Court against the National Security Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency (https://dockets.justia.com/docket/alabama/alndce/2:2023cv00266/184653).  Lo and behold, this case was dismissed by the court with prejudice (it can’t be filed again) and without leave to amend on April 11, 2023.

Amanda Anne Keller filed all these lawsuits pro se and, better yet, in forma pauperis, which means US taxpayers pay all her filing fees and all related court costs.  Isn’t that just grand? 

Yep, that’s what our country’s Founders intended our courts to be used for — playgrounds for those with mental disturbances who portray themselves as the biggest victims in the world and who subject innocent people to defamatory, meritless lawsuits, and in most instances make innocent people put out their own money to hire attorneys to get these idiotic lawsuits dismissed because the judges fail to dismiss them right on the spot.  As with my brother Ken, Keller is a stalker-through-the-courts.  But who is more mentally disturbed — the people who file these lawsuits, or the judges who fail to exercise their duty to perform sua sponte review and dismissals of these time-consuming lawsuits that waste everyone’s tax dollars?  (Sua sponte means a judge initiates a ruling without any motions filed by the defendant or plaintiff.)

Keller’s actions would be amusing . . . but who can find anything amusing by the waste of our tax dollars used to pay all of Keller’s filing fees and all other court costs?  Multiply Keller’s lawsuit expenses by all the other equally meritless lawsuits filed by in forma pauperis pro se litigants across the country and we’re not talking mere chump change.  O legislators, YOUR tax dollars are also being gobbled up paying for these lawsuits, so put a stop to this insanity!  NOW! 

And surprise, surprise, like my brother “Pastor” Ken Parks, Keller has an arrest and prison history (“Inmate Detail – KELLER, AMANDA ANNE; Name KELLER, AMANDA ANNE. Subject Number 902467. Date of Birth 05/08/1982. Age 42. Gender Female. Race W. Height 5′ 7″. Weight 165.0 lbs. Address BIRMINGHAM, Alabama 35206”; further information can be found here: https://recentlybooked.com/AL/Jefferson/AMANDA-KELLER~764_2024-00004467)

Keller’s criminal trespass could have resulted in the property owner using deadly force against her, as Alabama law allows (https://judicial.alabama.gov/docs/library/docs/13A-3-25.pdf). 

In years past, many if not most old school judges would have been notified by the court clerk who were handed a lawsuit like Keller filed pro se (or like the dozens of lawsuits my brother has filed pro se) and those judges would have instructed the clerk instantaneously not to accept the filing, never mind giving the filing a docket number.  But, as with so much in our government and society that has been so badly mangled by leftist ideologies, today’s law schools and, of course, the judges who came out of those law schools, give free rein to these time-consuming and costly repeat pro se litigants to abuse and use the court system as their stalking playgrounds to commit defamation, harassment, and financial damage against innocent people.  Defendants have to pay attorneys to dismiss these ape-crazy lawsuits and they don’t usually get awarded any financial compensation against the abusive litigants, or even if they do it is virtually impossible to get abusive litigants to pay up.  

In years past, Keller (and my brother “Pastor” Ken) would have been, more likely than not, involuntarily and permanently committed into a mental health facility.  But, thanks to the ACLU and other leftist influencers on our legislative, executive, and judicial branches, we now have suffered through decades in which virtually no commitment laws or mental health facilities exist to house people like Keller and my brother Ken to keep them from endangering themselves and other people.  This is not to say that Ken (or Keller) don’t know the difference between right and wrong.  I can state with confidence that Ken is not, by and large, delusional such as a genuinely psychotic person is.  Rather, I have substantive reason to believe that based on Ken’s own words and actions he is pathological in that he shows he is fully cognizant of what is right and wrong, and he gives every impression that he greatly enjoys doing as much wrong to others as he can.  We should all wonder if Keller, like my brother Ken, possesses a nice little arsenal of guns. 

My husband and I are still calling on our state and federal legislators to hold the judicial branch accountable for their failure to exercise justice in the form of quick sua sponte reviews and dismissals, and their related failure to use public funds responsibly.  We are also still calling on our legislators to enact responsible mental health commitment laws and work with private healthcare companies to open privately-run state-monitored mental health facilities.  Join with us by contacting your own state and federal legislators and tell them to put a stop to this costly abuse of our court system, and take the government assistance monies most if not all of these mentally disturbed individuals receive to pay for long-term or permanent housing in must-have mental health facilities.  Our three-branch system of government is supposed to be mutually accountable, and it’s high time the judicial branch gets held accountable by our legislators and our governors and president.  No taxpayer should have their hard-earned monies squandered on paying the filing fees and related expenses for judges to give docket numbers and hearings to these court stalkers and their ridiculous filings.  I’d much rather see my tax dollars go to pay to house mentally disturbed people in competently managed mental health facilities than have these people running around free as rabid animals doing damage to themselves and to the general population.

Thankfully, we received in 2020 permanent court injunctions against my stalking-through-the-courts brother “Pastor” Ken Parks which prohibit him from filing pro se against us, and we’ve had those court injunctions domesticated in the counties where Ken has lived and where he currently lives.  He also had a similar permanent injunction placed against him by Georgia Northern District Federal Court in 2021. 

On July 31, 2024 the Fulton County, Georgia court held a Zoom hearing for our garnishment lawsuit against Ken so that we could be awarded $90,000 seized from the sale of his second ex-wife’s house (Ken’s portion of the sale was $90,000 per their divorce agreement) and held in trust by the court to pay us for our judgments against him.  Very quickly Ken threw a screaming fit at the judge, at us and me in particular, and against our attorney, threatening to sue me for “fraud” in Gwinnett County, Georgia court (he currently lives in that county).  Just as quickly, the judge booted Ken off Zoom mid-way through his screaming fit, and the judge ordered the monies the court seized from Ken to be awarded to us.  Since our Tennessee state court injunction is domesticated in Fulton County and is currently being domesticated in Gwinnett County, Ken can be most assured that if he dares to defy the court injunction against him that prohibits him from filing any kind of pro se action against us, we will immediately file for both civil and criminal contempt of court charges against him.  A contempt of court order charge against him can result in him serving up to twenty days in jail, and we’ll also pursue asking the court to keep him in jail longer until he pays us additional attorney fees for having to dismiss whatever pro se action he files and for the expense of a hearing for contempt of a court order against him.

One of the statements Ken screamed out during the July 31 Zoom court hearing before being booted off was “SHE’S WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT ME!!!”  I must thank Ken for giving me free advertising for my book among the court staff and a good number of other parties and their attorneys listening in on the Zoom hearing.  Ken certainly provided an incentive for the rest of the court audience to buy and read my true crime psychological thriller Fighting for Justice:  Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order that details the facts about all of Ken’s other lovely activities down through the decades.  Interestingly, I recently made another online book sale soon after Ken’s free advertisement of my book at the court hearing.  Coincidence?

In August 2025 we obtained another $4,500 from the garnishment of a settlement that Ken would have received from his auto insurance company.

As regards the “scammer” aspect of my brother Ken’s activities and his danger to the public at large, a short time after the July 31 hearing, Ken boasted on Facebook that he has been ordained a pastor by the National Association of Christian Ministers.  The NACM is yet another mail order ordination entity, although they claim that they can bestow “in person” ordination rather than just through the mail.  After I sent an email to the NACM about my brother Ken, I received back rather quickly from the NACM a short email response stating that they have no record of Ken or of ever having ordained Ken.

Now since Ken is such a clever fellow on the computer keyboard, it wouldn’t surprise me if he posts up on Facebook some official-looking “certificate” he manufactured making it appear that he’s been ordained by the NACM or any other similar organization.  Of course, anyone can make up any kind of official-looking “document”, such as this off-the-cuff one I made:

As I point out in my book, the only way we can affect the necessary changes in our government and our society in the hopes of preserving and creating some degree of sanity is to make our voices heard to our legislators and at the voting booth.  We may not have the best options when it comes time to vote, but we have to do all that we can in our own local areas and for the best of our state and our country to stand up against every form of destructive policies and practices.  And please, people, and especially those who call themselves Christians — don’t allow yourselves to be duped by someone just because they quote the Bible.  Be discerning.  Thoroughly investigate those who claim to be “ministers” or “pastors” by paying professionals to do a deep-dive criminal and civil background check on these individuals and by contacting the supposed institutions that they claim ordained them.  Do you really want to put yourself or children at risk from a “pastor” who’s a convicted criminal or serial pro se litigant and who’s trying to hide these facts from you?  Be persistent in both the secular and religious spheres in trying to make our country and our world a better place for everyone and especially for our future generations.

As I write this blog article, many Americans are still reeling from the near-fatal assassination attempt on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.  Trump, and other people, are calling this millimeter-close brush with death miraculous.  Since I don’t believe in mere coincidences I can believe it was certainly an act of tremendous divine grace.  But what Trump does with that act of grace will determine his actions from here on out.  As he himself said a day after the assassination attempt, “I should be dead”, so, then, I can only hope that this near death experience gives him, and all Americans, pause to consider that there’s more to life than just this life and to prepare for where one may be for all eternity after death based upon our earthly choices.  For the person who is an atheist or doesn’t believe in hell, there is wisdom found in Blaise Pascal’s Wager — that he’d rather believe in an afterlife with fair and just rewards and punishments and have nothing to lose if he’s wrong than to not believe in those things yet end up finding out after dying that he was wrong. 

I’m not writing this blog article as a die-hard, unquestioning, devoted Trump fan, because I’m not.  I do support a lot of what Trump accomplished as president and promises to accomplish if he’s in the White House again.  But I know too much about history and human nature to paint Trump or anyone else as the messiah that so many people in lockstep fashion do with their leaders, on both the right and the left.  Trump is just a mere man with human frailties, peccadillos, and really big faults which include his crass hot mike boasts about grabbing women’s crotches, his juvenile name-calling (okay, referring to Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” was funny), his 3:00 AM obsessive tweets, his actual and rumored affairs, and his overall unpresidential brash demeanor.  Much of my father’s family was from NYC so I’m familiar with that demeanor, but I expect a president to be a bit more dignified, and, well, presidential.  I hope that if Trump wins the presidency that he takes stock of what he can choose to do better in both his personal life and as a public servant in our government’s highest office.  As for Biden, his own arrogance, faults, failures, and crimes as a person and as a career politician are well documented and therefore undeniable, and he — or whatever behind-the-scenes team is making the decisions — has significantly, perhaps permanently, jeopardized our country.  In any event, Trump and Biden are the best we can do at present.  Our leaders are a reflection of who we are as a people.  I’m not expecting perfection, but I think if we as a people were to have higher behavior standards for ourselves then we could demand our political candidates mirror those same standards.   

This one act of grace evident in Trump literally dodging a bullet is no guarantee that he will survive any other assassination attempts in the days going forward and every day thereafter if he wins the presidential election.  This shot heard and seen ‘round the world has heated up our American Cold Civil War, as demonstrated by how many people took to social media with utterly disgusting and shameless comments about how they wish the bullet had taken out Trump.  I have to wonder how many more people thought the same without saying so.  And as assassination attempts go, no political figure, either Republican or Democrat, is at this point immune from being shot at or blown up in our ever-increasingly divided and violence-prone environment.  Any additional acts of violence could very easily be the Franz Ferdinand tipping point that turns our present cold civil war into a full blown actual civil war.  And don’t think certain foreign powers won’t take full advantage of that.

Years ago I contacted a civil rights attorney to discuss with her all the crimes my cult leader brother was committing against me, our mother, and many other people, and how both state and federal authorities admitted that he was breaking the law but that they wouldn’t “put out the money” to investigate or arrest him.  This civil rights attorney told me of similar and worse cases of corruption, and she encouraged me to write a book about all the injustice that I had experienced because so many other crime victims were also being denied justice and the public needed to know that this systemic corruption endangers everyone.  Her prompting resulted in me publishing over a decade later my book Fighting for Justice:  Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order.  As I tried for years to pursue simple basic law enforcement to ensure justice for myself and others, my experience with my criminal brother the cult leader exposed me to witnessing firsthand the insidious leftist ideology pervasive in too many of our state and federal authorities’ offices that directly resulted in their arrogant refusal to enforce laws.  During Trump’s first presidential bid in which he promised to “drain the swamp”, my immediate response was that it was no mere swamp but rather a vast, deep ocean of corruption that needed to be drained.  During Trump’s 2016 campaign and then throughout his presidency he demonstrated that he had no concept of just how entrenched and ubiquitous the corruption really was.  He now seems to have a clearer picture of just how radically left too many judges, career politicians, and unelected alphabet department authoritarians are.  But how will that translate into action if he wins the presidency?  Does he realize how many federal prosecutors and judges and state/district attorneys and judges need to be removed from their offices for the obvious reason that their social Darwinian radical leftist ideology is the driving force for why they will not prosecute, never mind convict, dangerous criminals, thus putting all of us at risk of being victimized with no hope of justice?  What will Trump and a Republican-dominated legislative branch do against the many civil rights violations committed by the Department of (In)Justice?  Will he and Republicans in Congress (our representatives and senators) admonish their respective state legislators to stop failing in their Constitutional duties to remove by their impeachment powers the law-breaking judges who violate the civil rights of every law-abiding citizen by their refusal to uphold written laws against criminals who break those written laws?

Non-Roman tribal groups knew all too well how the Roman Empire was collapsing from within.  It wasn’t just the corrupt, inept politicians, judges, and Rome’s “diverse” military that brought down that great empire.  It was also a fractious, savage, and morally bankrupt Roman citizenry that led to the empire’s demise.  How similar the United States is to the final days of the Roman Empire.  Far too many of today’s young people don’t even want to work, never mind defend their country.  Far too many people in general have no personal or work ethics, and far too many people young and old alike have been so easily seduced by the destructive leftist America-hating cult propaganda that has for decades overtaken our entire education system.  China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are keenly aware of our fatal weaknesses, and they are the modern-day Goths and Vandals at our borders (and inside our borders) ready to take down our American Empire by any means possible.  What can Trump, a Republican-dominated Congress, and our military — numerically decimated and morally deficient — really do against these marauding techno-savvy hordes?  Biden’s puppet masters’ treasonous and seditious open borders policy has resulted in multiple 9/11-level fentanyl deaths (China’s revenge for the Opium Wars) and God knows how many terrorist got-aways.  How long before we experience terrorist attacks within our country the likes of which we’ve never seen before, and how long before our power grid gets knocked out for months (years?) on end by enemies within or outside our country, leading to more actual cold war anarchy and outright cannibalism (yeah, don’t think that wouldn’t happen)?  What could even the best president do in such a dire and all too plausible scenario?              

Conservative Rod Dreher, an American expat living in Hungary, has published an extensive  thought provoking article not only about recent events but which is also an encapsulation of many things that have gone so terribly wrong in our culture and in government policies wrought by both Republicans and Democrats.  I read his article after I had already formulated in my mind what I was going to write about in my blog, so I found the timing of his article serendipitous.  Agree with him or not, Dreher nonetheless makes salient points that anyone concerned about the state of our society and our politics must take into consideration (https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/american-hero-or-american-nero).

Most people I talk to, even some who lean politically center or left of center, have an ominous feeling that some cataclysmically destructive and life-altering event or events will most likely happen to our country in the near future.  Is there anything Trump or any other mere human or collection of humans-in-charge can do at this point to stop our decline and save our country from domestic and foreign threats?  In my book that I published near the end of 2021 I pondered about whether enough people can pull our country out of this death spiral.  Sadly, I’m even more pessimistic about that happening than I was nearly three years ago, especially after the events of the last few years.  Even if a presidential administration exerts herculean efforts to ensure law and order, cleans out the corruption and incompetency in the vast alphabet departments, and tries to build up our military and beefs up our vital infrastructure, the people who fill up those positions of power are only as good as our current culture’s population is.  I’d like to hope and pray for the best, and there’s a better chance of nation-saving policies being implemented under Trump than could ever happen under Biden (or the next radical leftist who may take his place), but I think it’s wise to prepare for the worst. 

We can all hope and pray that as a nation we’ll be gifted with the same divine grace that Trump got and dodge a deadly bullet coming our way, giving us a little more time to get our personal and collective acts together.  Time will tell.    

Over the years, especially in more recent years, I have encountered way too many people who have come out of spiritually abusive churches, or what most refer to as cults or cultic groups.  Many of these “churches” claim to adhere to traditional Christian beliefs, so on the surface they can appear to be within mainline Christianity.  But these apparent “Christian” groups can hide dark behaviors and unorthodox beliefs that are antithetical to historic Christianity, and this true nature of the group is what leads to spiritual abuse, which goes hand-in-hand with emotional and even physical and sexual abuse of both children and adults. 

People shouldn’t underestimate how many cults are in our country, as well as around the world.  Many college campuses are hunting grounds for all kinds of dangerous, manipulative religious and non-religious groups, taking advantage of young impressionable people feeling lonely and vulnerable.  The Internet is also a very active hunting ground for cults.  There are disturbing statistics which show that a startlingly large number of people belong to cults, or they once were involved in destructive, traumatic religious or non-religious groups, or they have family or friends who either once were or are still involved in cults.  The organization People Leave Cults cites statistics on both the large number of various cults and the high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder experienced by people as a result of having once been in a cult (https://www.peopleleavecults.com/post/statistics-on-cults).  Another informative webpage is found at https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/clinical-update-cults.  A more recent publication on cults is found at https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1280&context=jj_etds. 

Aside from the emotional, spiritual, physical, and financial damage my brother “Pastor” Ken Parks has done to me to “punish” me for my refusal to believe that he receives “dreams and visions from Jesus,” I have also had to leave so-called “Bible believing” churches because of pervasive spiritual abuse committed by power-lusting church leaders.  Every single church I left, of various denominations (and “non-denominational”), exhibited inexcusable and completely unbiblical meanness committed by men and women alike, and overt misogyny — especially against women abused by their husbands.  Without shame, church leaders and “Christian” counselors twisted Scripture to try to manipulate and pressure those they deemed non-compliant, and they used (abused) God’s name to justify their own evil behavior and the perpetrators’ evil behavior.

Many people who have experienced spiritual abuse from unhealthy churches can no longer step foot in a church or read the Bible without being triggered and re-traumatized.  Many people have lost any faith in the existence of a good, loving, just God because spiritual abusers twisted Scripture and distorted God to make Him in their own cruel pathological image.  Compounding that problem is the all too common fact that the abusers not only get away with the damage they’ve caused but they continue to flourish in either the same church where the abuse occurred or have succeeded in being welcomed and established in new churches.

Thankfully, I have known good, caring pastors in churches, some of whom have themselves experienced the brutal tactics typical of spiritual abusers.  I’m grateful for these fellow battle-scarred warriors, and thankful that out of their own painful experiences they have developed an even stronger, empathetic shepherd’s heart than they had when they first began their ministries.  But, sadly, for those of us who have been on the receiving end of spiritual abuse it seems sometimes that the wolves outnumber the shepherds.

One example of such a wolf, a long-time religious fraudster, is a man who was abusive to his first wife.  They met and married at church.  A few years after they were married she discovered that he had a short fling with another woman when he attended an out-of-town training program for his occupation.  His wife discovered later into their marriage that he had been unfaithful just weeks before he took his marriage vows.  This man had a long string of sexual encounters prior to his relationship with his wife, including with a married woman whom he paid to have their unborn child aborted. This man also “confessed” to his wife during the end of their marriage that he had a “sort of” homosexual relationship with a friend of his who had been his best man at their wedding.  During all of these times prior to and during their marriage this man professed to be a “devout Christian” and spoke of how he “witnessed to” and “prayed with” the women he bedded, as well as with the man with whom he had a “sort of” homosexual relationship.  During the time this man was dating the woman who became his wife she kept her virginity in accordance with her religious beliefs and despite temptations.  Toward the end of their marriage the man “confessed” to his wife that if they had engaged in sex before marriage he wouldn’t have married her because, as he told the woman, “I would’ve gotten out you what I wanted and moved on.”  Not surprising, then, immediately after they married this religious fraudster showed his true colors and was emotionally and at times physically abusive to his wife.

This religious fraudster frequently flirted with and ogled women.  He also acted creepy around children, especially young boys.  Once during their marriage the man presented his wife with what she thought was a glass of water but which was filled with hydrogen peroxide.  The man’s passive aggressive abuse against his wife included throwing out his wife’s birth certificate and “losing” other important papers.  He would also consistently say and do things to upset his wife before she was to attend important events related to her job, such as award ceremonies or social get-togethers with her co-workers.  He acted the same way when, during her college studies, she had important tests to study for or she had assignment deadlines.

Toward the end of their marriage this religious fraudster told his wife about a “joke” he played as a teenager on a motorcyclist in his neighborhood.  He was amused at himself as he described how he had strung a wire across the road that the motorcyclist traveled daily out of the neighborhood on his way to work.  When his wife expressed horror not only at what he had done that could have potentially killed the motorcyclist but also that this man thought this “prank” was humorous, the man quickly dropped his amused demeanor and “confessed” he “now knew it was wrong.”     

The wife initiated several separations in their marriage, and most of the years of their marriage were spent in multiple sessions of pointless and even destructive marriage counseling with “Christian” counselors.  In marriage counseling the man would come across as sincerely trying to change yet complaining that his wife just expected too much from him.  He always tried to paint the wife as the cause of their marital problems despite his prettied-up “confessions” of the “mistakes” he made consistently.  This man’s “prayers” during such counseling sessions were manipulative against his wife and were nothing but a show for the counselors.  Added to the mental and at times physical abuse this man did to his wife was the spiritual and psychological abuse perpetrated by so-called “Christian” counselors and male church leaders who told the woman that if she would just be submissive and trusting of her (untrustworthy) husband then she would be happy.  One “Christian” counselor went so far as to call this woman a “demanding bitch.”  One of the church leaders, while in church, called the woman a “wench” to her face.  The woman point blank confronted these “Christian” counselors and church leaders with the question of what if their wives did and said the exact same things to them as this man “confessed” he had done and said to her.  Defensively, they deflected her question by telling this woman her expectations were unrealistic, that “men will be men,” and again insisted that her “problem” was that she refused to be submissive.  This woman countered their unbiblical, unethical, and misogynist deflection attempt by bringing them right back to her question and telling them they would call their wives mentally unstable abusive sluts if their wives acted against them the same exact way her husband acted against her.  The church leaders resorted to smearing this woman’s name during “sermons.”   Recognizing how mentally unstable these so-called church leaders were and how enabling they were with her abusive husband, she left that spiritually abusive church.

For dramatic effect, this religious fraudster admitted himself into the psychiatric ward of a local hospital toward the end of his marriage.  He was diagnosed as bipolar/manic-depressive, and he was given medication that was supposed to treat his condition.  But his wife knew this was a ruse to give himself an “official” diagnosis that he would then use to get him off the hook for his own selfish manipulative choices.  This man could act irrational and mean-spirited toward his wife, but as soon as the phone rang he was calm and jovial with the person on the other end of the phone.  He would rush to help people with household projects and church projects, but he wouldn’t mow the lawn or take care of his own property despite his wife pleading for help.  This man came across as so caring toward others, especially at church, but treated his wife too many times like trash on every level.  He was addicted to getting attention and accolades from others, all at his wife’s expense.  The wife didn’t buy the bipolar/manic-depressive diagnosis.  She saw too many times where he chose to turn on and then turn off his charm and fake righteousness.

The wife tried very hard to keep her marriage together with this man, desperately wanting to believe his claims that “this time” he was a “changed man.” This man faked a few “born again” episodes in their marriage, claiming that he hadn’t really meant his previous conversions prior to knowing his wife and prior to their marriage.  All the while, this man was active in attending and at times leading Bible studies and giving guest sermons from the pulpit.  This man would be on his best behavior with his wife for a short while, but then he would revert right back to who he really was.  During their final separation this man “confessed” to his wife that he only acted his best with her to win her trust again so he could then break her trust.  He told her that her problem was that she just wouldn’t “accept me the way I am.”

Just prior to the last separation that led to the woman divorcing this man, he tried to hook up with a married woman who had been his girlfriend back in high school.  In the midst of this final straw leading up to the last separation in their marriage, he manipulatively tried to fake having a stroke in the bathroom as his wife got herself ready to go to work.  He jerked himself around on the bathroom floor making incoherent grunts and garbled “I’m ‘aving a stroke.”  Some may judge the woman as being calloused, but she continued getting herself ready for work because her gut instincts told her he was faking.  Sure enough, a few minutes later, the man got up off the floor and resumed his own preparations for work.  When the woman asked how his stroke was going, he responded “it got better.”

During a nearly two-year separation followed by the divorce process — a process that took thirteen months from filing to finalization because the man kept putting in for extensions of time for the final divorce hearing— the woman found out that he was attending another church and conning men and women alike into believing that he was being victimized by his wife who was divorcing him.  He played the victim act very convincingly and smeared his wife’s name to everyone.  He did this so convincingly that a woman that his divorcing wife got to know went on and on about what a great guy this man was, without realizing that this man was the soon-to-be ex-husband of the woman.  The woman gave this other woman a blow-by-blow account of all that this religious fraudster had done to her throughout their marriage.  The other woman’s accolades and praise of the man ceased.   

All throughout the long separation and divorce period (a total of almost three years), the woman received multiple sporadic late night and early morning obscene phone calls.  The night before the final divorce hearing, which the man could no longer stop as he had accomplished in his previous delay tactics, he phoned the woman very late at night pleading to come to her house.  She refused him and asked him if he had called her numerous times before and made obscene noises.  Regardless of whatever answer he gave, she knew this man was behind the obscene phone calls.  In his typical way of making warped “confessions” he told her that he had made “some” of those phone calls, “but not all of them.”  “See, I’m being honest with you,” was the way he tried to manipulate her, as if such “honesty” would assuage her justifiable outrage.  She knew from previous similar “confessions” he had made all throughout their failed marriage that he had made every single one of those obscene phone calls.  She told him to never call her again and that she would see him for the last time in court the next day and thereafter he was to stay out of her life.

Some time later, when the woman was engaged to marry another man, they saw the religious fraudster in a store where they were shopping.  The ex-husband followed (stalked) the woman and her fiancé around the store.  A few months after they were married the fraudster ex-husband mailed to the woman a commemorative ink pen that had belonged to her father — an item that the man had stolen from her years before. 

The woman found out through the grapevine that this religious fraudster pursued a woman who was dating another man at his church.  He succeeded in seducing that woman away from her then-boyfriend and they ended up getting married.  Some years later the man was apparently fired from one of his jobs.  Fast forward to present day: The religious fraudster is now one of three leaders of a very small “church” in a converted building that once served as a business location.  This religious fraudster — addicted to putting on a religious con job and getting attention and accolades — was (and apparently still is) a real charmer, a skilled chameleon who passes himself off as a scholar in all things biblical.  Interestingly, on that assembly’s website, the last name of this man is not included (nor is the last name of a second leader in this “church”), and this man’s second wife’s name is altered from her real name (if they “correct” this omission and name alteration I’ll assume it’s because one of their leaders has read this blog).  This omission of last names is strange and seems to indicate they both have something to hide (and it can be safely assumed that the third leader without a listed last name may also have something to hide).  This religious fraudster and his apparently enabling co-dependent second wife are following in the unoriginal footsteps of so many other con artists who re-create themselves in some new religious setting, taking their full bags of tricks with them.  Apparently there is mutual enablement occurring in this “church” among its leaders, their spouses, and the few people who attend that assembly.  Not one of the three leaders of this “church” list any credentials qualifying them in any way to be teaching or leading a religious assembly.

What are the lessons to be learned from this account of a religious fraudster?  First, what kind of church fails to list the last names of any of its leaders?  That should sound alarm bells in and by itself.  Second, what kind of religious schooling, training, and qualifications do those setting themselves up as church leaders have?  Third, what kind of personal and professional references do church leaders have, not just in the past few years but stretching back over decades’ time?  Fourth, how are these church leaders held accountable?  Too many times church leaders establish themselves as unaccountable and infallible pontiffs, and the blame for them being able to do so rests squarely with people who fail to practice any level of discernment and who fail to conduct even the most basic background checks on those setting themselves up as leaders within a religious assembly.          

Without exception, those of us who’ve experienced spiritual abuse or who have witnessed others being spiritually abused have varying levels of enduring anger and pain that rarely get resolved in this lifetime because so few of us ever see the abusers face any justice for the damage they’ve done.  In the case of crimes committed by religious fraudsters, victims witness far too many times the failures of our law enforcement and court system.  Consequently, a number of charlatan church leaders who abused children, teens, or adults (or all three) never face any arrests, never mind convictions, due mostly to their crimes being beyond statutes of limitation.  But the indescribable crippling pain experienced by their victims has no statute of limitation.  Added to the soul-dragging weight of the initial offense, victims then get hit with church members and other church leaders actually coming to the defense of the abuser(s).  Defamatory gossip against victims’ characters and reputations are common tactics used by abusive church leaders and their defenders.  They denounce the victims as being demon possessed or mentally unstable or “unforgiving,” and exclaim that God is going to send the victims straight to hell for speaking truthful warnings against their beloved (yet guilty as sin) church leaders.  I probably shouldn’t be surprised, but it is amazing how vigorously co-dependent enabling church members — who have qualified themselves for hell by defending the indefensible — loudly and rabidly cast damnation to hell upon those who speak the truth about the brutally hellish behavior of abusive church leaders.  These cultish defenders of spiritually abusive church leaders oftentimes proclaim how many people have been “saved” by the spiritually abusive church leaders, or how “spiritual” and “righteous” their leaders are, all the while ignoring their inexcusable, dismal failure to have saved their church leaders’ past victims and save any current or potential victims from the spiritually abusive church leaders.

Scripture verses such as Luke 17:3 and Acts 3:19 make it clear that we are not commanded or obligated to forgive an unrepentant offender when that person does not show any “fruit in keeping with repentance” (Matthew 3:8).  Someone who is genuinely repentant does not continue to engage in those activities that have proved to be their downfall, such as being addicted to presenting a false image so as to achieve power, prestige, attention, and accolades.  God does not forgive those who are unrepentant, and we’re not better than God.  But for our own sanity sake, we have to keep entrusting that unrepentant offender to God’s ultimate justice, and continue to pray that those offenders will not harm anyone else, and even pray that they will have a true, enduring “come to Jesus” conversion moment.  Entrusting to God the unrepentant religious fraudster is not a “one and done” event.  It’s ongoing, whenever the overwhelming rush of painful memories of those fraudsters assault our minds or whenever we see them actively deceiving, and therefore abusing, other people.

In conclusion, we must follow the teachings of Scripture by researching the backgrounds of people presenting themselves as religious leaders.  We must practice careful discernment and demand that a reliable, trustworthy system of accountability exists in churches.  The health and well-being of souls depend upon us doing so.

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

So begins our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. Tragically, too much of our corrupted and debauched “education” system has failed for many years to teach about the issues that compelled our colonies’ elected delegates to convene and develop the Declaration of Independence. Many other important historical events and general knowledge in all vital subjects are no longer taught in too many public and private schools and universities. I taught at university, and I can assure you that there is not only an astounding and terrifying level of young people’s ignorance of our country’s history, and of world history, but a dangerous level of cult-like devotion to anti-American indoctrination, with all its distortion of historical facts, that they received from the previous generations of brainwashed leftist cultist “teachers.” Sigh… it’s impossible for these willfully ignorant generations to teach what they don’t know. As I write in my book Fighting for Justice: Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order, as our education system goes, so goes our nation. But perhaps at least a section of our country might be able to be saved by those who know and understand our history and endeavor to establish independent state governments that uphold principles guaranteeing law and order by respecting our God-given dignity and rights.

Yes, you read that right. As our federal government is characterized by increasingly pervasive forms of leftist totalitarianism and tyranny, it is up to we the people and our elected legislators and governors in individual states to exert our God-given right to reject the illegitimate power exerted on us by such a government. I use the word illegitimate because when our federal government, corrupted by generations of anti-Americans who have embraced Marxist-influenced totalitarianism and anti-Judeo-Christian beliefs and morals, rejects and trashes the US Constitution and the moral sensibilities of much of its citizenry, it becomes the God-given right of people to live free of that nihilistic tyranny. A consortium of states has every right, and a responsibility to its own citizens, to form their own independent government based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence and of our U.S. Constitution.

What exactly justified the colonists and their elected delegates to go so far as to renounce their British citizenship, break all connection to and rule under the British government, and endeavor to build an entirely new nation state? A handful of the colonists’ delegates were born in Great Britain. But a great deal of the problem came from the fact that colonists had no real representation in Parliament, and in many ways were being treated as a conquered nation, not as fellow British citizens with rights of protection under British law. A good deal of colonists were aware on at least some rudimentary level that British governance was supposed to be based on the Magna Carta, a document unique to its time that made the monarch accountable to representatives of the people. The Magna Carta didn’t provide full-fledged democracy, but it was a far cry from unwritten “rules” practiced by the absolute monarchies prevalent throughout Europe and in other cultures. Yet during the 18th century, from a distance of at least three months’ sea journey, Great Britain ruled with increasingly oppressive measures against its North American citizens. The rallying cry, “No taxation without representation!” actually began in Great Britain among her own native soil middle class that demanded to have a voice in government. That rallying cry soon crossed the Atlantic and took root in Britain’s citizens in North America, and was expressly included as part of the numerous oppressive measures outlined in the Declaration as “the causes” which compelled the colonists’ elected delegates to declare separation from Great Britain.

So, then, let’s apply the Declaration of Independence’s statements to our own time and circumstances:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Legitimate governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” How many times have states’ citizens, whether through direct vote or through the votes of their elected legislators and governors, passed laws on an issue — whether it’s rejecting same sex marriage, rejecting or limiting on-demand abortion, rejecting sex change operations and puberty blockers for minors, rejecting drag queen shows in children’s libraries and schools — and one single state or federal judge, citing a twisted view of “rights”, declares the will of the people and their legislators null and void, thereby foisting upon we the people a law that is completely repulsive to the majority’s moral sensibilities and our right to have those moral sensibilities respected? Think about the striking of mental health commitment laws and the closure of mental health facilities and how these abhorrent decisions by our legislatures and by the courts have for decades endangered the mentally ill and the general public. As the above quote from the Declaration states, people have a right to reject and separate themselves from “any Form of Government” which “becomes destructive” to our rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” and which violates people’s “Safety and Happiness.” One police officer who follows the leftist party line told me, “People have a right to be mentally ill and live on the streets and not take medication.” People have a “right” to be mentally ill?! That’s like saying people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, or ALS have a “right” to be afflicted with those deadly, progressive conditions. In reality, a compassionate civilization that protects everyone’s actual rights to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” sees to it that those with debilitating diseases have the right to appropriate medical treatment upheld and respected, especially if the afflicted person is unable to make that decision for themselves. This compassionate, civilized response to those in need not only protects the dignity of the afflicted person but the safety and well-being of the general public. The mentally ill have a “right” to live on the streets?! We the taxpayers pay for the construction and upkeep of those streets. Those streets belong to us, we the people, not to elected or state-appointed, unaccountable “authorities.” If the majority of taxpaying people don’t want to see the mentally ill living, defecating, urinating, and injecting themselves with, inhaling, or ingesting destructive drugs on OUR streets, then we the people don’t grant them any “rights” to ruin our public properties. Our current totalitarian government has unjustly usurped the power of we the people, does not have the consent of the governed, and is therefore illegitimate. We owe no allegiance to any institution that violates the U.S. Constitution and our basic God-given rights.

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Human nature tends to not want to “rock the boat” and will put up with enormous, repeated injustices . . . until there is a breaking point. Most revolutions have come about due to accumulated and worsening injustices that can no longer be tolerated by the people. The writers of the Declaration recognized this reality. Declaring severance from Great Britain was not seen by these educated representatives of the people as some impulsive, reckless, and hasty act but must occur only after “a long train of abuses and usurpations . . . to reduce them under absolute Despotism”. For that reason, the people’s delegates asserted “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” Currently, we have a questionably elected president and vice president and unelected alphabet departments that are actively violating state and federal laws. Day after day for months, Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters destroyed private businesses and residences, set fires to state and federal buildings, and occupied and trashed streets so that taxpaying citizens were impeded from using those streets for commerce or transportation. Where are the arrests, convictions, and prison sentences for these terrorist insurrectionists? Instead, for the very few actually arrested for these felonies Vice President Kamala Harris and her elite radical leftist cronies paid the bail amounts of these criminals and terrorists, and urged others to do likewise. But protesters who were escorted by Capitol police to go inside the Capitol building on January 6th and who simply looked around, perhaps took a free brochure commonly found in the Capitol, and then left the building without doing any damage whatsoever are arrested as domestic terrorists.

The radical leftists in our Department of InJustice used our tax dollars for all the hours they spent manufacturing “evidence” to present to a federal judge, who then signed an arrest warrant, against a peaceful pro-life demonstrator, Mark Houck. Based on that fraudulently-obtained arrest warrant, our tax dollars then paid for a 20+ person FBI SWAT team to swarm the neighborhood in front of the Houck residence around 6:45 AM, invade the Houck’s home, terrify their young children, and drag off Mark Houck in cuffs. Houck was exonerated of all the baseless charges the corrupt DoIJ/FBI leveled at him. Houck is now running for public office, in part because he doesn’t want to see the feds do this traumatic damage to any other innocent people. This corrupt, unaccountable “law enforcement” federal entity acts increasingly more like the KGB and Stasi. Does anyone see such take-downs of drug dealers? A plane load of people die EVERY DAY from drug overdoses, much of it spilling over our borders due to the feds violating federal immigration laws by their refusal to enforce those laws. Blue state leaders and their federal legislators aggressively pursue using citizens’ tax dollars to pay “reparations” to black people for the horrible slavery that once existed in this country, while they simultaneously commit mind-numbing hypocrisy by enabling present-day human traffickers to enslave thousands of children and adults illegally brought across our borders. But the DoIJ directs its FBI to send 20+ agents to violate the civil rights of a peaceful pro-life demonstrator who had not violated any laws. The same DoIJ sics its ever so compliant radical leftist lackey FBI agents on angry parents protesting school boards’ endangerment of their children, labeling those justifiably angry parents “domestic terrorists.” The same DoIJ sics its FBI agents on Catholics (and probably Protestants, Orthodox, and conservative Jews), commissioning their agents to weasel their way into houses of worship to spy on all those dangerous “religious terrorists.” But drug dealers, human traffickers, gang members, administrators of Chinese prisons in our country and all other actual Chinese threats in our country — they all get a free pass from the DoIJ. If any actual criminals are being arrested, I’d sure love to see proof of it.

But question the validity of very questionable election results? Conservatives and right-of-center liberals alike risk arrest or at bare minimum targeted harassment from the feds and from their social media cohorts. But be a radical leftist and question elections of conservative candidates, and even throw some riots protesting conservatives’ elections, or declare yourself the “actual” governor or president, as Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton did, and that’s okay. Question the origin of COVID-19 and the efficaciousness and safety of COVID “vaccines” with hard-core statistical facts and the same totalitarian tyrants will see to it you get fired, lose your professional license, and get besmirched as a half-wit conspiracy nut job.

As a crime victim/survivor, I know full well the outrage at having my constitutional rights violated by radical leftist statist authorities on both the state and federal level when they refused, repeatedly, to enforce written law. Similarly, Kash Patel, being on the wrong ideological side, also knows full well what it’s like to be death-threatened yet witnessing, as did I, the feds not “putting out the money” to enforce the law against those making those death threats. We are all living with the consequences of especially our federal authorities refusing to protect our basic human rights by simply enforcing written laws against lawbreakers. Our country is purposefully being turned into a lawless wasteland by radical leftists, because creating chaos has always enabled authoritarians to seize more control. It also accomplishes the goal of every radical leftist: reduce the human population because fewer people are easier to control. As leftist Rahm Emanuel, former Obama Chief of Staff and former Chicago mayor, has exclaimed, “Never let a crisis go to waste,” whether its a natural crisis or a man-made crisis. Emanuel is part of the reason why the war zone known as Chicago is now being called “Chi-raq”. Actually, Iraq has a lower murder and crime rate than Chicago has.

When the government violates written law, it loses its legitimacy and its authority to govern or impose its will on the people. The radical leftist, anti-Constitution members of unaccountable federal alphabet departments, the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch routinely violate our basic human rights due to their refusal to abide by the social contract outlined in the Constitution and by our written laws. Consequently, those in government positions abuse their power to violate our basic human rights to live undisturbed lives free of arbitrary tyrannical actions. “Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”

The longer this federal radical leftist tyranny is tolerated, the more of us will experience intolerable injustices. It is the duty and responsibility of our elected red state leaders to protect our citizens from federal government overreach and tyranny. The lawbreaking actions of the DC regime demand that red state leaders act NOW to peacefully but firmly protect ourselves from this ever-worsening tyranny.

At present, our tax dollars are being used to finance the construction of a major FBI training facility in Huntsville, Alabama. Taking into consideration that a disturbingly high number of FBI candidates and agents who comprise the FBI hate — yes, HATE — conservatives and constitutional principles of government, I can’t see how this bodes well for the red state of Alabama and other nearby red states. So much of our last few generations have been successfully brainwashed with anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-white, and anti-religious screeds by public and private “educators”, and this is the pool from which our current and future FBI agents emerge. Of added concern, a good deal of our military bases are in red states, or at least in purple states. Additionally, what would happen to the pensions of retired military personnel who choose to support their red state declaring independence from the federal government? These are all huge concerns when it comes to the issue of red states throwing off the control of the federal government.

This is why I lean toward supporting red states declaring a peaceful autonomy from the federal government. The UK’s independent commonwealth nations of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand can serve as examples. Great Britain learned a costly lesson from our American War for Independence, and did not repeat the same mistake with Canada especially. Red states must insist on declaring and protecting the freedom to set boundaries against federal violations of constitutional law and against federal impingement of policies that the people of red states declare by vote to be repugnant and unacceptable. For example, since the feds are determined to violate federal immigration laws to the detriment of our whole nation, Texas and other border states should be able to erect their own border walls and employ all other defensive, protective measures to keep illegal immigrants from crossing into their states, without interference or lawsuits filed by the feds. Using another example, if the feds are determined to ram down our throats digital currencies so unaccountable federal alphabet departments can track our bank accounts and every little purchase, we the people of red states should have protection from the feds’ overreach by having our own tangible currency consisting of combined precious metals and monetary notes backed by our red states’ precious metals standard. A number of red and purple states have already passed laws recognizing gold and silver as legal tender, and other states are currently working on bills to declare the same. Since the feds keep printing the equivalent of Monopoly money, it is a wise protective measure for states to rely upon precious metals as substantive legal tender.

Just as red states already have their own bureaus or departments that conduct criminal investigations (similar to what the FBI should be doing), red states should now begin forming their own militaries. One important military branch that red states should form immediately is a cyber force to protect against foreign and domestic cyber attacks to its infrastructures, government offices, private businesses, and its citizens. Likewise, red states should begin immediate efforts to combine with private businesses to develop commercial, weather, and military satellites. Red states such as my new home state of Tennessee have sizable budgetary surpluses that should be used to finance these important programs to ensure our autonomy from the federal government. Red states must also now develop domestically made products, especially essential products, and end dependence on China and other foreign nations to meet our supply needs. Many red states have already put the kibosh on China and CCP-connected entities from buying real estate and agricultural land, and even more similarly protective laws must be enacted. In short, red states must become as politically, militarily, technologically, and economically independent as possible from the DC regime.

As for federal court judges whose rulings violate the principles of red state citizens and their elected representatives, the will of the people as expressed in their state representatives’ votes should prevail. For example, in 2014, the majority of Tennessee citizens voted in favor of marriage being between one man and one woman. Other states’ citizens voted the same on this issue. But, just as the abominable 1857 Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court declared that black people are not citizens and could never become citizens, the equally abominable U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision threw out millennia of secular and religious sensibilities regarding the institution of marriage and attacked the historical religious teachings on marriage of three major religions. In doing so, Obergefell attacked the First Amendment of the Constitution by prohibiting the free exercise of religion — an exercise of individuals not limited to houses of worship but which includes every aspect of one’s life. Both the Dred Scott and the Obergefell decisions defied ancient biological/scientific, religious, and moral principles, and basic good sense. The Dred Scott decision played a significant role in causing the American Civil War. Thus far, red states have enacted laws circumventing the Obergefell decision, such as giving legal protections to clergy, private businesses, private adoption services, and town clerks from conducting same sex “marriage” ceremonies, hosting such events, refusing adoption of children, or granting marriage licenses to same sex couples. But how long before just one judge or a panel of judges overrules the collective moral sensibilities and constitutionally guaranteed rights of religious expression of the states’ citizens by voiding those laws? Public schools have zealously banned Bibles, Bible studies, prayer groups, the Ten Commandments, and any mention of Moses or Jesus, but fanatically expose children to drag queens, satanists, and pornographic “lessons” and materials. If the majority of red states’ voting citizens reject these as historically offensive and destructive then the will of the people should be upheld and protected.

Barely a day goes by when we don’t witness the success of the radical leftists’ agenda to overrule the rights of those who hold to traditional religious and moral beliefs, as protected by our U.S. Constitution. Good and beneficial federal laws are violated by the DoIJ and other unaccountable, unelected alphabet departments in favor of law-breaking radical leftists in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, yet these same entities use draconian means to abuse their federal authority every time they baselessly accuse law-abiding citizens of violating “laws” which either don’t exist or don’t apply to these innocent citizens. If our red state governors and legislators do not make it an immediate A-1 priority to peacefully break ties with the federal government, neither they nor we should be surprised to see, at worst, our Republican/conservative leaders arrested by the feds on bogus charges, or at best witness the ever-worsening corrupted election process result in red states being turned blue, despite the majority of the states’ people being conservative. Action must be taken now to pursue a peaceful plan to distance ourselves and protect ourselves from the radical leftist DC regime and its lackey blue states. We must express to our state legislators and governors the urgent need to work on such a plan. Our survival as a free people depends upon doing so.