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refusenick's avatar

As I've written many times, these policies were unconstitutional not because they were not "necessary" (actually, "compelling") but because the authorities failed to meet THEIR burden to prove them so. Had this burden been properly understood and demanded, things might have gone differently.

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David Cashion's avatar

These grandstanders need to name names. Who infringed on our rights, by breaking the law. Law breakers can be held liable. Everyone knows what went wrong and what not to do again.

We want retribution, not in the form of tax rebates, but in the form of jail terms.

Un punished crimes get repeated.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

10-4 on that one. I'm happy to see any hearing and a statement like this, but ultimately the proof will be in the actions. But at least this is a start. My thought is to shower them with thanks and show them the voters want more actions.

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David Cashion's avatar

Money talks bullshit walks

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NeverForget1776's avatar

Sadly politicians and even bureaucrats empty this unconstitutional prioveldge called qualified immunity. It means they can act a fool even going so far as to cause deaths and you can't hold them liable because the were working as a state actor at the time. The only way to penalize them beyond booting them from Congress is by proving they intended to do harm and that's no easy thing to do. It's as difficult as proven someone intentionally wanted to defame you which is why defamation cases are hard to win. Additionally these pricks always have enough friends and party cohorts who will help ensure nothing is done to them. Look at what Adam Schiff has been proven to have done with the fake Russia-Gate operation and he's still not been held to account for anything. The Republicans are now trying to do something but ONLY because of teh handful of Reps like Josh Hawley who forced Kevin McCarthy to commit/agree to do his job the way he's supposed to and not to slip back into business as usual as past Republican lead sessions have.

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SteelJ's avatar

Missing is any mention of consequences for abuse of power. If there is no incentive to act responsibly, we can expect power-hungry politicians to do the same thing 100 times out of 100. Simply stating what they did was wrong, and they shouldn't do it again will have no effect, whatsoever. I'm glad this conversation is occurring, it's a necessary first step. But without forceful, very forceful followup, it won't matter.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

That's true. I don't know how much power one branch of Congress has just acting on its own. To have real teeth, you'd need some kind of serious tribunal, which would require votes from both houses of Congress. The Senate isn't going to do one thing to raise any awareness of any Covid scandals. Nor is "Joe Biden."

But, like you say, this is a "start." Or it's "something." The Committee can subpoena witnesses and get people on the record. It would be nice if the mainstream press covered this, but we know that won't happen either.

It shouldn't have taken 40 months to hold even an ignored hearing on the U.S. Constitution being discarded. But, again, better late than never ... and the Republicans weren't in control of the House until January 2023.

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SteelJ's avatar

If Trump were to win in 2024, you could add "Nor is Trump". It's his baby, not only the jabs (not the mandates at least), but the lockdowns and all the resulting destruction. With democrats in lockstep against accountability, and plenty of uniparty Republicans to join them, consequences seem close to impossible at the moment. The future can be full of surprises though,

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

"Consequences seem close to impossible at the moment." I think that explains why there will never be anyone who suffers consequences from inflicting this madness on the world. There's TOO MANY "stakeholders" in the false narratives. Strength/protection in great numbers.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

This is what always happens - meaning, people get distracted by the democrats vs. republicans thing. It doesn’t matter. Congress has repeatedly demonstrated, especially by their silence and INaction over the past three years, that they’re corrupted to the core. They did NOTHING over the past 3+ years to protect our rights. Nothing.

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Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0's avatar

I predicted the would use "Presidential Directives" and would be "Unconstitutional" back on December 16th 2019 at 1AM on my Rise of the Jedi Podcast. https://facebook.com/riseofthejedi. And, I predicted the mandatory vaccines, vaccine bio-weapon, masks and mind control with "fake news" (and, everything else). https://bitchute.com/video/R3VsRlNYd4YZ/ -- ''CHIEF JUSTICE PREDICTS 33 PARTS OF COVID HOAX 12/26/19 1AM https://bitchute.com/video/CoYNr5FxEQrQ/ -- RISE OF THE JEDI PODCAST EPISODE 1 - https://bitchute.com/video/CeO3MHiPvKJz/

Rise of the Jedi Podcast Facebook Page began on December 22nd 2019. Episode 1 launched on December 26th 2019 at 1AM, within hours of the pneumonia-like illness that was given the name "SARS-Cov2" on December 27th 2019 in China. https://nurembergtrials.net/nuremberg-trials-2-0/f/chief-justice-predicts-covid-rise-of-the-jedi-podcast-122619

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

You nailed it ... EARLY. Come here any time and keep making your predictions. I've always said we should listen to people whose predictions come true. Instead, we keep listening to dunces who have never made an accurate prediction.

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Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0's avatar

Absolutely. I knew this was "It". It was time... However, unfortunately, it was spoken in code with riddles with an artificial voice from the perspective of Yoda... Since Star Wars was just released. Like using the words "phantom menace" instead of "the virus", because the virus wasn't even named yet... At the time, I invited my 33,000 followers to that page; but they probably had no idea what I was talking about. Remember, this was December 26th 2019 at 1AM, the night after Christmas, when George Washington was crossing the delaware, and everyone on Earth was dreaming about Santa Clause! Then, by January 5th 2021, the admin account that was posting on the podcast, was deleted by Facebook. All 10,000 posts disappeared. That's why many of the posts on that facebook page are blank... It had 1000+ likes and 1000+ shares across Facebook, before all the reposts and group posts were deleted.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

A chilling anecdote there.

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Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0's avatar

Covid Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup Confirms Restrictions Were "Unconstitutional" https://www.bitchute.com/video/IBe17jpiWgPc/

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Duchess's avatar

So when are they gonna write a law that says AT NO TIME SHOULD THE CONSTITUTION BE SUSPENDED?

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I love it. You've got the email address to reach the Committee chairman. Ask him that great question. I also bet some Committee members might be reading this Substack since it might be the only news source covering this hearing.

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Duchess's avatar

I might. Although the reply (or non reply with gobbledygook) might prompt me to reach through the ether and strangle him/her...and if I do, I might well ask where is the law that the government cannot borrow, but live within their means?

Sigh.

Time for a new party.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Better not send an email then!

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Victoria's avatar

I agree wholeheartedly with Rep. Wenstrup with one single but important exception. While many people did not know anything about Coronavirus and were understandably frightened (thank you, MSM), there were enough people who DID know about Coronavirus, thanks to SARS-CoV-1, which was prevalent in the very early ‘00s. There were scientific studies and numerous journal articles addressing this virus, including the transmissibility and the effective treatment of said virus. If only they could have gotten the word out somehow...

Other people who should have known how to do simple research should have done so, and if they had bothered, they would have found a few simple facts. First and foremost, that this virus is easily cured with inexpensive and well tolerated medications (Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, Quercetin, etc) and the vaccine they had developed was neither safe nor effective. If only they had bothered to look...

If only TPTB would have allowed THAT info to reach the general population, the fear would have abated, and who knows how many lives would have been saved.

But that wasn’t the point of this entire exercise in mass manipulation of the population, was it?

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

That little nugget of info would have scuttled the whole mRNA project and that was "the most important thing." Great quibble and point!

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Annie Walker's avatar

Exactly this. This wasn’t the first coronavirus and we had plenty of information to know how things would go. Except they used that garbage Lancet study to fuel the flames of fear and here we are *years* later. Our family was harassed, threatened, my husband lost his job, because he dared point this out at the beginning of the chaos in March 2020. He watched the senior staff of his company go from calmly and scientifically showing how to treat the virus (with drugs that shall not be named) to changing their stance for the sake of political narratives nearly overnight. It was actually terrifying to watch it unfold. We knew they would string it out, dangle freedom like carrots, and countless would unnecessarily die whether from isolation/suicide, from not being able to choose treatments, or from having treatments forced upon them that would harm instead of help... It pains me how many people are still so lukewarm about it or don’t truly understand how horribly wrong it all went.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Great comment, Annie. Thank you.

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Leanne C's avatar

🎯

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Te Smith's avatar

This IS encouraging and a timely reminder that elections and our votes matter. Thank you for posting this and indeed, thank you, Rep. Wenstrup!

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Carrie Rice's avatar

Wow! Could he be an “adult in the room”?

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

The post of the week! From my beautiful wife!

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Mrs. McFarland's avatar

Sharing on FB..let’s see what hapoens! Thanks Bill!

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Thanks, Mrs. McFarland. Surely Facebook can't censor a press release about a Congressional hearing ... right?

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I shared this article on my Facebook page 90 minutes ago. So far I've gotten a grand total of zero "likes" (and I supposedly have 1,500 FB followers). Somehow I don't think they are letting my posts reach many of my followers.

There ought to be a Congressional hearing!

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David Cashion's avatar

There ain't no fish in your pond.

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Cindi's avatar

I will never, ever get over the malevolent & deliberate evil of what was done to us & will never forgive it, either. Blood boils all over again every time I see the litany spelled out, as you do so well here, Bill.

And yet the Peterson-Kennedy interview was just thrown off YouTube for so-called vaccine “misinformation”. And despite the plethora of new, incontrovertible & SCIENTIFIC evidence of the damage &/or death from masking, the jabs, lockdowns, distancing ad nauseum & the efficacy of safe & cheap Iver & Hydroxy - not to mention failure to promote such measures as exercise, vitamins & sunshine - the smart set refuse to admit they were wrong, or apologize, or promise “never again” & that includes the egotistical Trump, who STILL claims warp speed was the greatest gift to mankind. Plenty of others just like him & worse who remain in positions of power.

They aren’t done w/ us, whether it’s the next scamdemic or “climate change” or CBDC or global digital “passports”.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I wish you had your own Substack. I'd subscribe!

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Cindi's avatar

Wow Bill, what a compliment from a real professional! I could never compete in your league & am just happy to follow & engage!

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Your last post - about all of the coming agendas - sounds like something I would write. Well, something I have already written - about 200 times.

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Cindi's avatar

We never get tired of hearing it. The same fools who bought into all of it now just want to forget it & move on. We need to hold onto & channel our righteous anger

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Well said, Cindi. And it doesn’t matter which politician does or says whatever. We can’t rely on any one of them to be our ‘savior’. It is up to us.

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Transcriber B's avatar

Thank you for reporting this, I am mighty glad to see it.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

If I'm the only journalist reporting this - or one of just a few - that's kind of a giant "tell" about our society and "democracy" right there. I mean, you can suspend the Constitution for years ... and it's not even a story.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Here's how you could re-state this story:

So we threw the Constitution in the trash for four years. About 8 of those first Bill of Rights don't really count. What's the big deal?

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Chief Justice of Nuremberg 2.0's avatar

Thanks Mr. Knight of Columbus? But, what do you think they do to prove "transmission" of "virus"? Me cough on you, you get "Covid". Sure! Never been done!! That goes for HIV too... "no evidence of transmission" of HIV, Anthony Fauci, 1988 https://www.bitchute.com/video/TEPbjQMTqddZ/

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Gilgamech's avatar

"Neither liberty nor safety"

Yes. We had neither. Increasingly less of either.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Which SHOULD be a matter appropriate for Congress to correct. I didn't go to law school but isn't the Constitution the "law of the land?" If it is, and the legal violations affected 330 million Americans ... that's no parking-ticket crime.

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Cindi's avatar

Don’t hold your breath about the “law of the land”. The 2 tiered system of “justice” for the powerful vs the little people is on obscene display w/ the Hunter Biden sweetheart deal....

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

How many more examples of this do we have to get before people take matters into their own hands?

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Cindi's avatar

*Sigh* I wish I knew. I think the world is in such a state of idiocracy right now that most of society & institutions will need to be wiped out in order to start over, frankly. Example A - with threats of ongoing scamdemic a, national suicide over “climate change” policies, Davos ongoing depopulation plans, CBDC & global passports, threats of a nuclear WWIII…the hysteria is over pronouns, trannies, childhood hormonal & genital mutilation, abortion on demand including up to birth & after & whether all of those are “rights”. IDIOCRACY

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alwayscurious's avatar

Shame it took three years to speak the truth with courage.

Now, the pudding is in the: will there be consequences?

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

This event falls into the "Better Late than Never" Category. Let's see if they put some teeth into these hearings. House Republicans are no doubt hamstrung by "Joe Biden" being in the White House and the Democrats still having control of the Senate. My thought is we need to encourage them, thank them, etc. and maybe they will see there is more support for "doing something" than they thought.

Use honey instead of the proverbial vinegar.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I will never again comply with what I deem to be ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’ rules. We only lost our civil liberties because we sat back and ALLOWED them to be taken away. And by the way, I don’t believe that these (so-called) ‘pandemics’ are real, anyway. Fear is a powerful emotion, and they’ve used it against us with extreme success. Let’s please not LET them do this to us, ever again!

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NeverForget1776's avatar

Bill - Rep Wenstrup isn't the only member in Congress who has fought against the tyrannical actions and constitutional violations committed by governments at every level. Senator Rand Paul son of the legendary Ron Paul (the most pro-Constitutional member of congress in our lifetime) , Rep Marjorie Greene Taylor. Rep Josh Hawley, Rep Chip Roy and in particular, Kentucky Rep Thomas Massie who is very pro-Constitution. As hated and as much as he deserves it, Thomas Massie voted against fining Rep Adam Schiff because the House does not have the Constitutional authority to do that. As much as this prick deserves being fined Massie knows they don't have the authority to do that and we can't behave like teh Democrats and ignore Constitutional restrictions.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

thanks for mentioning these Congressional voices of sanity. Also, don't forget Sen. Johnson. He's the only senator or representative who organized and held multiple panels of whistleblowers.

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NeverForget1776's avatar

I should have said "just to name a few" after listing those names. Those are just the ones that stand out the most to me. There are certainly more than just a handful of Reps who are there to genuinely represent their constituents. In the senate it may be just a handful since there's just 100 of them. The problem is the longer they stay the harder it becomes for them to be effective if they don't give in and or they are too tempted to resist and do give in to the corruption. I have to give to Massey, he's been there for a decade and is still voting against unconstitutional actions like finning Schiff. The legendary Ron Paul was there for a very long time and while he was effective in getting the word out to those in teh public listening, he wasn't able to really do anything in government because the percentage of the public who knew there was rampant corruption in the system was too small; most we're happy to act like there was only a little corruption and that most of the dumb and incompetent looking things politicians did was due to incompetence. The system rode that "it's just incompetency" horse HARD for many years, until it was thoroughly worn out. They probably could have kept riding it had they not screwed up in 2016 by allowing the election to go without their "election reinforcement" because they foolishly believed Clinton would win by a large percentage. And if we look at it globally in that same year they also foolishly allowed the Brexit vote to go uninterred with because they also believed that teh REMAIN side had a large margin of victory. It was a most glorious year seeing the elite loose both of those battles because of their own arrogance. We'll probably never see such a wonderful thing again. After Kennedy & Regan I was certain they'd make sure that in every US presidential election either both candidates were controlled or the one they controlled would win. In both cases of Trump and Brexit we now know it was due to bad data, their putting too much faith in polling when in both cases a large percent of those polled lied about how they'd vote because of the Elites efforts to soo strongly shame those who voted the wrong way. They were the architects of their own defeat in both cases and it was glorious to watch.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I still think I'm the only journalist who wrote a story about this Subcommittee hearing. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I am.

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NeverForget1776's avatar

I doubt you are the only one but it's probably certain that those who did are either independent like yourself and or who work for smaller setups like One news America or even a middle of teh road startup like Timmcast news run by Tim Poole.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

All I know is that Congress sat back and did nothing to protect our civil liberties. A couple of outliers that we can count on one hand can’t do anything. Their silence was deafening during all of this. And now some are talking a little bit, perhaps because they are seeing which way the wind blows right now? Maybe someone could provide a list of what Congress ACTUALLY DID (real action) during all this?

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NeverForget1776's avatar

Rand Paul put Fauci through the ringer and is quite possibly the reason Fauci is finally leaving .

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