TRIUMPH OVER EVIL
In their unprecedented recall of the nation’s top military brass for an hours-long tirade, Defense Secretary Hegseth and Donald T**** inadvertently tipped their hand: they plan to suspend the Constitution.
Hegseth went on and on about the “warrior” ethic, which he gets from his White Supremacy beliefs. “Your job is to kill people and destroy things,” he told the generals and admirals who sat mute. He said nothing about preserving, protecting or defending the Constitution.
And when it was Donald’s turn, he rambled on for over an hour in his standard garbled idiocy. But it was when he came to talking about America’s enemies, that’s when he gave it away.
He did not mention Russia. He did not mention China, North Korea or any other foreign threat. Instead, in a speech reminiscent of Stalin, Hitler or Castro, only this: “America is under invasion from within. No difference than a foreign enemy but more difficult because they don’t wear uniforms. At least when they’re wearing a uniform, you can take them out.” Note here that “the enemy within” are the exact same words Hitler used to describe the Jews in Germany.
T**** told our military leaders that sending combat troops into American cities “is a big part of war, now.” He said that “We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military,” and that American soldiers will be deployed to American cities to ”quell” disfavored groups by force.
Clearly, what T**** wants to do and clearly what he and Hegseth were attempting to prepare the generals for is the implementation of marshal law and a military takeover of America. T****’s call for a “rapid response force” sounds like nothing less than preparation for the provocation of strife and chaos.
But in order to do that, he needs a pretext. He needs a reason. Thus his referral to Portland, Oregon as a ‘war zone.” The fact that this is not true is of no consequence and is no impediment to his plans for a coup.
In his phone call with Oregon Governor Tina Kotek about sending the National Guard to Portland he said, in apparent dismay, “Wait a minute, am I watching things on TV that are different from what is really happening?” Our president makes decisions not based on facts, evidence or briefings from expert sources, but on what he sees on TV outlets like Fox News.
But in the end none of this really matters. T**** has already asserted that, in his own words, “I am the President of the United States of America. I can do what I want.”
In order to carry out his coup, T**** needs civic strife directed at him. And if it’s not happening, he will simply pretend it is or make it happen. The truth will not interfere with his plans to flood the nations’s cities with uniformed and armed, soldiers and un-uniformed, unidentifiable, armed and masked ICE agents, his own private army,
Donald T****’s plan is to deploy “his” military into the streets of large and predominantly Democratic cities and provoke violence. This will give him the excuse he needs to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution, including national elections. There is no question that he has no plans to leave office on January 21, 2029 no matter what the election results are.
So how does a patriotic American respond to this assault on the Republic? In many of my posts I have advised resistance as a viable strategy. And I believe that to be true. But that strategy must be nuanced by T****’s ability to carry out his plans. No strategy against him can include violence. We cannot give the tyrant what he wants.
I come back again to the words of Mario Savio in Berkeley back in 1964. Spoken from atop a police car containing an arrested demonstrator and surrounded by hundreds of protestors: “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who own it, to the people who run it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”
In opposition to Donald T****, I believe we must channel the soul and conscience of one of our country’s greatest moral leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Not violence; non-violence. Not violence; non-compliance. The ANTIFA anarchists must suck it up. They cannot play into T****’s hands.
We must show our countrymen and women, and the rest of the world, that if we are not allowed to govern ourselves as free men under the rule of law and our Constitution, then Donald T**** will not be able to govern as a tyrant. And we must do it without resorting to violence, nor should we respond to his violence in kind. Those of us who stand with the Constitution must not give Donald T**** the excuse he needs to unleash his dogs of war and reign of terror on our people and our freedom.
As I have said before, there is risk involved, here. Make no mistake, these will be wrenchingly difficult times. The nation will suffer, people will suffer. There will be violence. Some will be hurt. Inevitably, some will die. As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1787, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots.” The country will survive.
Freedom isn’t free.
Our generals and admirals already know that eventually they will have to choose between loyalty to Donald T**** or to the oaths they took to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. They have pledged not to follow illegal orders. These are men and women of uncommon honor who hold their oaths and vows sacred.
Our task will be to take our country back from a small, soulless man who believes it belongs to him. Unable to do more than rant, rage and throw stones, T**** will be left on his own. He will have no country over which to rule. And then, following the guidance and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, we welcome back into our country’s loving arms his lied-to and wholly misguided MAGA followers.
Resistance. That is how we beat him.
On strike. Shut it down.
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