Judge Andrew Napolitano: "What if..." Gerald Celente's Peace and Freedom Rally, Kingston NY 9/27/25

KINGSTON, NY, September 27, 2025: Retired New Jersey state supreme court judge Andrew Napolitano speaks at Gerald Celente's Occupy Peace and Freedom event in Kingston, New York on September 27, 2025.

Napolitano is a hard-core, no-nonsense libertarian. He is introduced by publisher of the Trends Journal, Gerald Celente.

Find Gerald at trendsjournal.com. Find Judge Napolitano at judgenap.com

Both have very popular YouTube channels (Gerald Celente and Judge Andrew Napolitano).

Celente and Napolitano each have their own very popular podcasts. In fact, Napolitano does several podcasts each day (Monday to Friday) speaking to guests around the world about matters of the constitution and liberty here in the United States and foreign affairs abroad.

After the speech, your humble correspondent (through his AI bot voiceovers) discuss the extreme danger posed by the recent militarization in the big cities, and the danger they will pose to conservatives the next time a Democrat takes office.

Partial transcript of Judge Napolitano's remarks:

I did not write the introduction. Thank you dear Gerald, my, my comrade in arms as we fight for
freedom.

What if the consta- for Gerald. What if the Constitution is a fraud? What if the whole
purpose of the Constitution is to limit the government, but in reality it unleashes it?

What if the President of the United States is supposed to be equal to the Congress, but instead he
has become a democratically elected term-limited monarch? What if the President assumes
that everything he does is legal just because he's the President? What if he can interrupt your
radio and television programming and your surfing on the web, your use of the internet whenever
he wants without a warrant and at his whim? What if he can declare war on his own?

What if he can read your emails and your texts without a search warrant?

What if he can kill without a judicial order?

What if Supreme Court justices interpreting the law and the Constitution don't care
what the Constitution says, they only look at what their predecessors wrote?

What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 250 years that they'd be unrecognized by the framers?

What if our once revered Bill of Rights has become a bill of temporary privileges?

What if the 50 states that are no longer sovereign entities equal to each other and are the parents of the federal
government now are subservient to it?

What if the Constitution was amended stealthily, not
by the states ratifying amendments but by Congress continuing to increase its power and the
President's power and the courts have looked the other way?

What if the federal government alone decided if its power was properly exercised?

What if you need a license from the government to gather and speak and be critical of it?

What if the government can deny you that license if it doesn't want what you're going to say?

What if federal law prohibits troops in the streets for any purpose, but nobody follows the law anymore?

What if the troops and the police wear such substantially similar garb that you can't tell the cops from the troops?

What if some of them wear masks so you don't know who they are? What if you're no longer secure
in your persons, your body, your house, your papers or your effects because the courts have
trampled the Fourth Amendment?

What if federal agents can write their own search warrants
and authorize themselves to search the records that you keep and that your banker, your doctor,
and your lawyer have for you?

What if masked federal agents can stop you in the street and demand
to see your papers?

What if you don't have any papers and they can arrest you for it? What if the
government can decide whether or not you get a jury trial when it accuses you of your crime?

What if the government can take your property from you against your will? What if the government
could continue prosecuting you after you've been acquitted until it gets the conviction it
wants? What if the government can torture you until you say what it wants to hear?

What if people running for president openly support the government torturing?

What if the government can torture your children in your presence until you say what it wants to hear?

What if government judges and lawyers intimidate juries into convicting
the innocent?

What if the government could send you to your death even if you are actually innocent
so long as the government can claim it follows its own procedures? What if America's prison
population, the largest in the world, is a cruel and unusual way to say, "We are the land of the
free"?

What if half the prison population in America never harmed anybody but themselves?

What if the people have no rights except those the government lets us exercise?

What if the states have no powers except those the federal government permits them to have?