Kary Love, Author at ZNetwork
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3232America Has One Birthday, the USA Was Born on Another
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/america-has-one-birthday-the-usa-was-born-on-another/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/america-has-one-birthday-the-usa-was-born-on-another/#respondTue, 07 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296614America was formally born on July 4, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, but the USA was not born until September 17, 1787 when the Constitution was adopted. America was born of revolution and a claim that god created human rights and government’s job was to preserve those rights, and any government that violated the [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/america-has-one-birthday-the-usa-was-born-on-another/feed/0Stephen Miller: Trump Aide, Iron Laws of the World, and Human Rights
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stephen-miller-trump-aide-iron-laws-of-the-world-and-human-rights/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stephen-miller-trump-aide-iron-laws-of-the-world-and-human-rights/#respondMon, 19 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293662President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.” What Miller said is resonant with declarations by tyrants: “Political power grows out [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/stephen-miller-trump-aide-iron-laws-of-the-world-and-human-rights/feed/0‘Justified’ and the Killing of Renee Nicole Good
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/justified-and-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/justified-and-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good/#respondMon, 12 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293376One of my kids recommended to me that I watch the program titled Justified. I was prejudiced against it because it appeared to be one of those Clint Eastwood “cops as killers” programs that have so warped American culture into one celebrating violence and war while somehow pretending to preach the gospel of Jesus, though [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/justified-and-the-killing-of-renee-nicole-good/feed/0$1776 Tax-free V July 4, 1776–Free
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1776-tax-free-v-july-4-1776-free/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1776-tax-free-v-july-4-1776-free/#respondFri, 02 Jan 2026 17:01:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293018Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon and marching his legion on Rome did not destroy the Roman Republic all by himself. The erosion of the republic and rise of the Empire occurred over decades, if not centuries, and built upon many little cuts and changes, often touted as necessary and proper, needed and good, that all [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/1776-tax-free-v-july-4-1776-free/feed/0A Christmas Story: The Courage Jesus Learned as a Refugee
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-christmas-story-the-courage-jesus-learned-as-a-refugee/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-christmas-story-the-courage-jesus-learned-as-a-refugee/#respondTue, 23 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292685Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the lesson of Christmas. This context gives insight into why Jesus taught what he later taught. It was a time of foment, rebellion, near civil war, with fake news, [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-christmas-story-the-courage-jesus-learned-as-a-refugee/feed/0Harry Truman, Hiroshima and the Necessity Defense
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/harry-truman-hiroshima-and-the-necessity-defense/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/harry-truman-hiroshima-and-the-necessity-defense/#respondFri, 28 Nov 2025 18:02:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291724“How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child.” So King Lear teaches parents. I, unlike Lear, have been blessed with thankful children. One of my daughters rented for her mother’s birthday a “place” (so she said) in Key West, Florida, also known as the “Conch Republic” for its aspirational secession [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/harry-truman-hiroshima-and-the-necessity-defense/feed/0ICE, a Standing Army Inside the USA, Defies American History, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-a-standing-army-inside-the-usa-defies-american-history-the-constitution-and-the-bill-of-rights/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-a-standing-army-inside-the-usa-defies-american-history-the-constitution-and-the-bill-of-rights/#respondWed, 20 Aug 2025 18:30:52 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287551Patrick Henry was the American Spartacus, his “give me liberty or give me death speech,” rejecting perpetual slavery under his own government, the English Empire, ignited resistance in the hearts and minds of Americans. Henry later turned down the offer to be a representative writing the Constitution of the United States saying, “I smell a [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-a-standing-army-inside-the-usa-defies-american-history-the-constitution-and-the-bill-of-rights/feed/0Curbing Federal Overreach? Start With the Most Critical — Power to Declare War
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/curbing-federal-overreach-start-with-the-most-critical-power-to-declare-war/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/curbing-federal-overreach-start-with-the-most-critical-power-to-declare-war/#respondWed, 05 Mar 2025 18:38:21 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280571I almost never agree with Mr. Trump. However, having wasted a life as a lawyer trying to resurrect the Constitution of “limited, specifically enumerated powers” and checks and balances to avoid tyranny, I found myself reading his February 19, 2025, executive order proclaiming that, “ending Federal overreach and restoring the constitutional separation of powers is [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/curbing-federal-overreach-start-with-the-most-critical-power-to-declare-war/feed/0Are We All Soon to Be ‘Fugitive Slaves’ If Birthright Citizenship Is Killed?”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-we-all-soon-to-be-fugitive-slaves-if-birthright-citizenship-is-killed/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-we-all-soon-to-be-fugitive-slaves-if-birthright-citizenship-is-killed/#respondTue, 25 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280227Soon unelected co-President Musk may “own” us all as he buys elections with his “free speech” (money is speech per Citizens United). After his “investment” in the Presidency in 2024, Musk now moves into states: “Musk’s attempt to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is a red alert that his attack on democracy isn’t limited to gutting [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/are-we-all-soon-to-be-fugitive-slaves-if-birthright-citizenship-is-killed/feed/0Tyrannicide: An American Value?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyrannicide-an-american-value/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyrannicide-an-american-value/#respondTue, 16 Jul 2024 16:30:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269383The US has a long, chequered relationship with assassination. On one hand, the myths of 1776 recount of a nation born through resistance to the tyranny that it holds at the core of its identity. Values legitimizing tyrannicide can be imputed from the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, the US [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tyrannicide-an-american-value/feed/0No Holy Day: July 1, 2024 Negated July 4, 1776
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-holy-day-july-1-2024-negated-july-4-1776/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-holy-day-july-1-2024-negated-july-4-1776/#respondTue, 02 Jul 2024 16:25:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268720The Declaration of Independence (“DOI”) died July 1, 2024. The King lives. God save the King! Yep, the president, or King of the US, now has official, legal immunity! It’s about time. It took 248 years to get rid of that pesky idea that, “in America Law Is King” promulgated by that traitor Tom Paine! [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-holy-day-july-1-2024-negated-july-4-1776/feed/0Aaron Bushnell US Air Force Consecrated Hero
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/aaron-bushnell-us-air-force-consecrated-hero/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/aaron-bushnell-us-air-force-consecrated-hero/#respondFri, 01 Mar 2024 17:38:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262942Aaron Bushnell the 25-year-old USAF active duty member who set himself on fire to renounce “aiding and abetting genocide” in Gaza, was “one of the most principled comrades I’ve ever known” according to a friend who worked with him to support the homeless community in San Antonio, Texas. The moral courage of Airman Bushnell stands [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/aaron-bushnell-us-air-force-consecrated-hero/feed/0Upside Down Freedom
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/upside-down-freedom/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/upside-down-freedom/#respondWed, 05 Jul 2023 15:39:21 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248899Written upon learning… …that a federal appeals court in Louisiana (5th Circuit) ruled that a cop can sue a protest organizer for injuries caused by another person during a demonstration, ratifying a novel legal theory that threatens to further suppress protests and First Amendment rights more broadly. When the British Army marched out of Yorktown to surrender to the [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/upside-down-freedom/feed/0Planning for War Crimes Trials Post-Nuclear War
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/planning-for-war-crimes-trials-post-nuclear-war/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/planning-for-war-crimes-trials-post-nuclear-war/#respondMon, 19 Dec 2022 14:37:36 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1234918Threshold question: should we hold trials or join Joe Stalin like he proposed after WWII for Hitler and his Hit Men, and just lynch those responsible, their crimes being so outrageous as to annihilate law, so they ought not benefit from law? Some may agree. I think if post-nuclear war humanity is going to climb [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/planning-for-war-crimes-trials-post-nuclear-war/feed/0Uvalde World?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uvalde-world/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uvalde-world/#respondTue, 04 Oct 2022 14:37:32 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1222160https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/uvalde-world/feed/0Boomer remover
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomer-remover/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomer-remover/#respondSat, 21 Mar 2020 09:02:52 +0000https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1030997https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/boomer-remover/feed/0Christmas Letter to Jesus
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/christmas-letter-to-jesus/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/christmas-letter-to-jesus/#respondFri, 15 Dec 2017 09:00:17 +0000https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1005272https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/christmas-letter-to-jesus/feed/0The fourth branch
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fourth-branch-2/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fourth-branch-2/#respondFri, 18 Aug 2017 09:02:49 +0000https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1001252https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-fourth-branch-2/feed/0
America was formally born on July 4, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, but the USA was not born until September 17, 1787 when the Constitution was adopted. America was born of revolution and a claim that god created human rights and government’s job was to preserve those rights, and any government that violated the [...]]]>
President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.” What Miller said is resonant with declarations by tyrants: “Political power grows out [...]]]>
One of my kids recommended to me that I watch the program titled Justified. I was prejudiced against it because it appeared to be one of those Clint Eastwood “cops as killers” programs that have so warped American culture into one celebrating violence and war while somehow pretending to preach the gospel of Jesus, though [...]]]>
Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon and marching his legion on Rome did not destroy the Roman Republic all by himself. The erosion of the republic and rise of the Empire occurred over decades, if not centuries, and built upon many little cuts and changes, often touted as necessary and proper, needed and good, that all [...]]]>
Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the lesson of Christmas. This context gives insight into why Jesus taught what he later taught. It was a time of foment, rebellion, near civil war, with fake news, [...]]]>
“How sharper than a serpents tooth it is to have a thankless child.” So King Lear teaches parents. I, unlike Lear, have been blessed with thankful children. One of my daughters rented for her mother’s birthday a “place” (so she said) in Key West, Florida, also known as the “Conch Republic” for its aspirational secession [...]]]>
Patrick Henry was the American Spartacus, his “give me liberty or give me death speech,” rejecting perpetual slavery under his own government, the English Empire, ignited resistance in the hearts and minds of Americans. Henry later turned down the offer to be a representative writing the Constitution of the United States saying, “I smell a [...]]]>
I almost never agree with Mr. Trump. However, having wasted a life as a lawyer trying to resurrect the Constitution of “limited, specifically enumerated powers” and checks and balances to avoid tyranny, I found myself reading his February 19, 2025, executive order proclaiming that, “ending Federal overreach and restoring the constitutional separation of powers is [...]]]>
Soon unelected co-President Musk may “own” us all as he buys elections with his “free speech” (money is speech per Citizens United). After his “investment” in the Presidency in 2024, Musk now moves into states: “Musk’s attempt to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is a red alert that his attack on democracy isn’t limited to gutting [...]]]>
The US has a long, chequered relationship with assassination. On one hand, the myths of 1776 recount of a nation born through resistance to the tyranny that it holds at the core of its identity. Values legitimizing tyrannicide can be imputed from the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. On the other hand, the US [...]]]>
The Declaration of Independence (“DOI”) died July 1, 2024. The King lives. God save the King! Yep, the president, or King of the US, now has official, legal immunity! It’s about time. It took 248 years to get rid of that pesky idea that, “in America Law Is King” promulgated by that traitor Tom Paine! [...]]]>
Aaron Bushnell the 25-year-old USAF active duty member who set himself on fire to renounce “aiding and abetting genocide” in Gaza, was “one of the most principled comrades I’ve ever known” according to a friend who worked with him to support the homeless community in San Antonio, Texas. The moral courage of Airman Bushnell stands [...]]]>
Written upon learning… …that a federal appeals court in Louisiana (5th Circuit) ruled that a cop can sue a protest organizer for injuries caused by another person during a demonstration, ratifying a novel legal theory that threatens to further suppress protests and First Amendment rights more broadly. When the British Army marched out of Yorktown to surrender to the [...]]]>
Threshold question: should we hold trials or join Joe Stalin like he proposed after WWII for Hitler and his Hit Men, and just lynch those responsible, their crimes being so outrageous as to annihilate law, so they ought not benefit from law? Some may agree. I think if post-nuclear war humanity is going to climb [...]]]>