Editor’s NOTE: Today is June 29, 2025. In a matter of days, many of us will remember what the date July 4th once represented – Independence Day. There is little meaning of it anymore. In simple terms – America Must Be Cleansed and Purified Through the Fires of Civil War. Please join us on the Federal Observer for this very special column from Justin O. Smith. ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor

I hate like hell to always write what I myself see as such negative pieces, but as badly as I wanted to write something positive and hopeful to honor the 250th anniversary of America winning Her independence from Great Britain, there was very little for me to draw from over the past two or three decades even, to suggest our people were still aligned with those beautiful principles that made it all possible.

The American people have become so unbelievably weak, overall, from my perspective, that it blows one’s mind to think that these are descendants of people who took on superior forces and great odds to fight to be free. The vast majority can’t even put down the Cheeto bag or take their fat ass up and off the couch to take out the week’s garbage, much less make any real stand and fight for true freedom and liberty for all; the vast majority doesn’t even seem to really care if tyranny wins the day and a king takes hold, so long as they don’t have to truly be independent or do anything harder than push a few buttons on a cash register each day, or go to Walmart to use their EBT card to get a week’s worth of groceries.

Yes, I know there are still many great young people out there who have been taught at home by their parents, that there isn’t any substitute for self-reliance and real knowledge and skills. Many will suggest I am being far too critical, but I really don’t believe I am, not when we see so many way far left communists being put up today as candidates for many public offices across the nation and crowds of Millennials and GenZers are cheering them on as if it’s always been a totally normal thing to support communism in America. As this population grows and rises into an ascendant and ever more powerful position, it cannot bode anything other than one of the most unsettling, dangerous situations America will ever again face.

Win, lose or draw, no matter what MAGA and Trump do over the next three and a half years, this country is headed for civil war, because its enemies have grown too large and powerful, with backing and support from communists abroad too, that it will not be contained or properly restrained, in order that the country may function properly.

Our enemies-from-within have had a real taste of the power they craved under Obama and Biden, and they are not about to cease and desist or stand down now in regard to their well-known, oft stated agenda to fundamentally transform America and destroy our republic.

I’m actually not too much against ending the republic as it now stands, given that it is in such a miserable, bastardized state, just as long as something better is standing in the wings ready to take its place – a new way forward that places individual liberty above the needs and demands of government, where freedom actually means freedom and one’s home cannot be taken from them by anyone for any reason once it’s paid for in full – where states can’t pass illegal laws to erode and subvert our rights as set forth in the Bill of Rights – and where we truly are free to pursue life, liberty and happiness in every meaningful, righteous manner known to man.

Join me here on July 4th…

I was doing a bit of reflecting on my past and my overall life recently, and every time I fall into such a deep thought process, I always remember what an important role both my Grandmothers played in my life — my Grandfathers too, but it was the Grandmothers who gave me the love I ultimately needed.

I don’t know if there’s a place for such a piece at The Federal Observer or not, but This is a TRUE STORY and autobiographical in nature. Continue reading →

I do believe I will scream if I hear one more idiot tout the wonders of A.I. and the TransHuman, post-human world they intend to create.

Too many of the advocates of A.I. – now heavily invested and involved in all aspects of A.I. production and the U.S.’s military use of A.I. – are the very ones who have an idiotic ethereal, post-national, immoral and anti-American worldview, for the most part, and anything their hands are in must be held suspect. By and large, it is their already deployed A.I. technology that has essentially hollowed out the minds of millions of Americans and people around the globe, dissolving social bonds and encouraging pathological self-absorption.

A.I. is gaining more mastery over humanity with every advance it makes in serving our desires, as it degrades fundamental human capacities. The more humans use A.I. for anything, the less capable they themselves become in that realm of science, math, medicine, art, or literature and on down the line, as they are reduced to complete idiots. dependent on A.I. and search engines for everything. A.I. to adult humans is like a pacifier to a baby, ministering to humans’ inner emptiness and boredom – their lack of any real and meaningful direction – brought about by their own denial of God, and ultimately, if the world continues down this road full speed ahead it can only expect to see humans everywhere debilitated and enslaved by the very creation they insist will set them free. Continue reading →

BAM BAM Bam, Bam BAM BAM bam came the knock last night at 11:30. No one ever comes to my home after 11, so I promptly grabbed my .40 and headed toward the door, shouting “Who is it”?

One, two, three seconds – no answer. I switched on the porch light and swung the door open at the ready to see two Rutherford County Sheriff Deputies shining their flashlights in my face. Continue reading →

Too many Americans always assume that intelligent people have everyone’s best interests at heart and that any technologies and notions they advance and advocate in the name of “Progress” will solve all of the people’s difficulties and social ills without causing any pain, and yet over the past few decades the consequences of illiberal “liberalism” and the “progress” attained by it has reveal the exact opposite. If it their ideas bring great benefit to others, they really don’t care, just as they don’t care if they bring great harm, so long as their needs and agenda are ultimately met and fulfilled. Continue reading →

I cannot recall another time that has made me nearly so angry, as this past weekend after witnessing all these illegal alien invader rat bastards waving their foreign flags and trashing Los Angeles, not that I’m so fond of California or L.A. but just because it is still a part of America. And the level of arrogance and disrespect aimed at our country that would even make them believe for an instant that this was acceptable in any sense of the world is enough to make any normal patriotic American want to cut the lot of them down in a hail of .308 rounds, in my humble Tennessee ridge-runnin’ way of thinking.

The center is not holding, and the entire country is balancing along a razor’s edge, simply holding its breath and waiting for the next shoe to drop. Continue reading →

‘Modern Politigencia’

It’s hard to be optimistic about any large bill set forth by Congress, especially when the know detrimental effects make one also wonder what unintended consequences may also follow. But it’s a fairly simple thing to understand that massive government spending always creates high inflation down the road. Continue reading →

We do not mourn in silence now —
we speak in thunder,
for the dead who did not flee
when the hour was grave and the sky was red.

From Lexington’s frost to Kandahar’s dust,
they stood —
not for glory,
but for the man beside them
and the home they carried in their chest like a last breath.

They were farmers, welders, dreamers, sons —
mothers, lovers, daughters, friends —
and when the call came,
they became the unreturning tide
that washes freedom ashore

at a cost only the fallen truly know. Continue reading →

The debate surrounding Artificial Intelligence is extremely deep and broad from several different perspectives on a scientific, ethical and philosophical level that shows much hope for its future while glossing over the pitfalls it presents. As good as it has initially revealed itself to be for many areas of society, I tend to fall in the camp that notes, despite its initial benevolent success, it will ultimately become a tool to enslave all people wherever it is used and unleashed, no matter how much “oversight” its creators believe they have put in place to keep it under their control. Continue reading →

America may never go to war with China. But then again, with the way things stand at the moment, we could be at war with China any day now, simply through one small miscalculation on either country’s part. Most people know this, but they push it to the farthest reaches of their mind, because to really consider all that portends for the future of the world is purely mind numbingly horrific and a thing no one really wishes to see happen under any set of circumstances.

America is currently witnessing the early stages of what comes next — a China that not only seeks regional powers just as so many great powers do, but also a China that is preparing to shape the 21st Century in its image using social credit scores and an intrusive artificial intelligence operating its massive surveillance machine, totally different from the way the U.S. shaped the 20th Century, yet similar in the manner our leaders strived for dominance and superiority on the global stage, as we fought to preserve freedom and liberty both at home and abroad. Except China will be fighting for the rise of its power and the spread of Marxist-Maoist Communism and tyranny. Continue reading →

9:02 Central Time – April 19, 1995 ~ It’s been 30 years since Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols carried out their domestic terror attack, and no matter how righteous their cause in the beginning or how righteous their initial intent, somewhere along the line they got completely off track and lost their way, plotting out one of the most heinous attacks on America that is hard to imagine or really fathom.

Evil use to be not so obvious, and atrocities came seldom. But whether there is something in the water or humanity has simply taken destructive genetic path of late, evil seems to be prevalent and lurking just around the corner on any given day and any given moment. By and large, one can only surmise that it’s simply just a matter of the American people having lost their way and rejecting God and His righteous ways to their own detriment – leading the country down a path to Her own destruction. Continue reading →

                                           The Darkness at the Crucifixion (Gustave Doré)

Mankind has struggled with the notion of a higher power, an omnipotent all-powerful being we have all come to know as God, in one form or fashion, since the beginning of time when tiny “humans” emerged from the soup of the earth and began worshipping the stars, moon, sun and all the elements of Mother Earth, along with Her various and wondrous creatures – the wooly mammoths and bears and saber-tooths of the land. And today, as we Christians prepare to celebrate the defeat of death by Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, one cannot deny that we follow but one of several major religions on earth, and therefore, as much as we may know we have the Word of the One True God, it is and always has been a matter of faith, more than anything any one person can prove. Continue reading →

President Donald Trump’s terrible tariffs are terrific for America, and they are simply one segment of the Trump administration’s economic strategy to save America’s economy, supply chains and rebuild our production base, because he recognizes our current situation as a national security issue.

The goal is to ensure that the U.S. can stay dominant on the world stage without eventually being driven into oblivion by China and other trade cheats, who have taken advantage of our economic largesse for the past six decades, largely due to past presidents’ reluctance and cowardice to do the hard and necessary things to defend America’s interests. President Trump’s actions are his own reset of sorts and a long-needed move to re-balance the relationship between the United States and the rest of the world on trade and many other concerns. Continue reading →

This Is Me. THIS is What I Leave Behind

                       The Last Judgment – Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883)

I’ve lived my life with a vitality and an intensity, that I’m always in constant amazement that I haven’t burned and crashed like a moth that just flew into the flames. At times, it felt as though I was about to break myself apart, as I threw myself completely into every important battle on multiple fronts and every major issue of the day, but at least I fought – at least You fought, Jeff, along with so many other of our kindred spirits and fellow Americans. And I lived a life worth living – at least for me it was.

It should go without saying, each American has the freedom, the right and the obligation to rebel and fight against those evils that would destroy our freedom and rights, to fight against everything that is cruel in this world, but in today’s reality with education such as it is and in tatters, I find myself repeating this very thing at least once a week, if not each day, in order that some young person’s mind might grasp hold of the notion and grow to understand its meaning. For our freedom is meaningless, nothing in fact, without our right to fight for it and defend it intact.

And it’s a very personal thing for every American to choose at a time that may make their choice an easy thing – to rise up and hang the traitors from tall trees. Especially all those who had the slightest hand in the Biden regime’s Open Border treason against America. Continue reading →

“Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. . . . The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” ~ Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Abigail Adams, September 11th 1804

The U.S. Judiciary and our court system at every level has undergone a metamorphosis throughout the last six decades that has it resembling something one is more likely to find in a Third World Banana Republic or the old Soviet Union rather than in America, a country where Justice was once thought to be blind and our courts actually used to work to protect America and Her people instead of protecting Her enemies as we witness today. I am sickened to the depths of a country outhouse’s manure pit to know that there are thousands of men just like Judge James Boasberg who are all too willing to betray their oath to the Constitution [flawed and damaged at it already is] and America as if it is of no more consequence than their morning dump on the toilet.

The American people could make this change pretty damned quick, if they would only start exacting a real, meaningful, hard consequence from these rat bastards. And should they remain incalcitrant from doing the right thing for America, they should be made to suffer severe consequences, first by way of exhausting all legal means and finally dangling at the end of a rope handled by the rightfully angry American patriots who have long grown tired of witnessing their country taken apart little by little and piece by piece, while their own friends and family members are made to suffer by way of these traitors’ anti-American actions and Machiavellian mechanisms. Continue reading →

It would be beyond fantastic and amazing, if everyone in America could get along whether they have political differences or not, but unfortunately there have been a multitude of people in our country who have strived to divide and conquer by way of coalitions of minorities in all areas of all issues, and E Pluribus Unum be damned. It’s simply not our reality in modern day United States, and it looks like it’s going to remain this way for quite some time. Continue reading →

I hate war as much as anyone, probably more, especially when they are senseless wars conducted for no other reason than no one was around with the guts enough to stop them or those who started them. With that said, everyone has to know that some wars are simply unavoidable, because a tyrant intent on making war doesn’t give his victim a choice in the matter.

That’s where we find the world in regard to Ukraine and Russia. Putin wants what Ukraine has and so, Ukraine has no choice but fight or surrender and die and even slower death. Already we see prison camps in Russian occupied Eastern Ukraine and their torture chambers.

Tyranny is in the ascendant not just in Russia and China but even the European Union too, which makes it hard to want to side with them on anything; but we still have a chance to turn things around in Europe as the new alt right and populist movements are now taking hold to some degree in places like Germany and France [the U.K. appears it will present much more work]. Continue reading →