Episode 201 What James Madison Said About the Alien Acts of 1798 (transcript

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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. Today is Wednesday, March 19th, the day after the birthday of the greatest president in U. S. history, Grover Cleveland. Unfortunately, I was not able to get on the mic on his birthday. So I say happy belated birthday to our best president who shares the distinction of having been elected to non consecutive terms.

So he, he actually won the popular vote in three straight elections in 1888, 1892 I'm sorry, in 1884. 1888 and 1892. But in 1888, [00:01:00] he lost the electoral college to a Republican who came in and screwed everything up as Republicans are want to do. You know, now the Democrats of course have leapfrogged them and doing even worse when they get in there.

But back then the Democrats were the free market party the party of limited government, individual liberty Grover Cleveland was a veto machine. What about this for the veterans for now? Forget it. Vetoed. You know, so, and also you know, the war with Spain that. The conservatives in America, and I'm going to do a podcast that's generally some bullet points about my 2015 book, where do conservatives and liberals come from to me, and I think I, I prove it in that book the conservatives in 19th century America were the federalists, then the wigs, then the new Republican party that [00:02:00] started in in the 1850s.

Not to be confused with the Jeffersonian Republicans who were originally opponents of the Federalists, and they were really the Libertarian Party. And that's what the Democratic Party was for most of the the 19th century up until William Jennings Bryant. Of course, they had that slavery issue. Now, not all the Democrats were pro slavery or.

Or signed on to the white man's party, which is what the democratic party marketed itself as at some point. But in any case you know, Grover Cleveland was a free market guy. He was anti war and he resisted under heavy pressure going to war with Spain, a war that the conservatives had wanted all the way since Alexander Hamilton had wrote, you know, we should raise an army and.

Basically just grab all of Spain's possessions because we can you know, perceiving them as weak and [00:03:00] past their prime. You know, Hamilton felt, you know, why don't we just take, and eventually that's what a future U. S. president did. You know, he cooked up some pretense but those are subjects for another day.

I want to talk today about. This whole bruhaha about judges who are telling Trump that he can't use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport, I know the members of a criminal gang called Trend de ua. That's 670 days of Duolingo, which I know the word terrain means train. Spelled differently.

As far as I can tell, Aragua is just a proper name. I couldn't find a translation for that. So it's the train of Aragua, but this is a gang, I guess that was formed in prison. Some people that, you know. not too many people would [00:04:00] disagree. They don't want them around. Right. And of course I am You know, all for a lot of Trump's efforts to control immigration, at least under the present circumstances where we don't have Property rights as we should in the United States.

We don't have the freedom to associate with whomever we want or not associate whom with whom, wherever we want the unqualified right to kick anybody out of our property that we want. And most importantly most of the land in the United States, well, I shouldn't say most. Way too large a percentage of the land of the United States is owned by the government, like 27 percent overall, and west of the Mississippi, I believe it's in the 40s, so it's technically owned by the government, so under their theory, since we're the government, you know, we the people we all own this land collectively, you know, I don't want any part of owning it [00:05:00] neither the responsibility or the cost.

Or the implications, but I'm dragooned into owning it along with you and everybody else. Because the federal government cannot abide, you know, unowned land unsettled land, which could be homesteaded by people who need a house, by the way or can't afford housing in the vastly overpriced coastal areas, thanks to regulation, the Fed, and many other factors so, you know, any land that's not Owned by somebody and I'm doing the air quotes now owned because, you know, none of us really own our land.

We have to pay rent to the government. They call them property taxes and school taxes, but if we don't pay them they take our land away. So we're really just renting it which is not right either. But so in any case, yeah Until the time when we have a private property system and virtually all land is [00:06:00] privately owned.