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Insurrection Chirps

I have combined my Chirps on the events of the January 6, 2021, ‘Insurrection’, and the events thereafter, in the order in which I posted them. Hopefully, this will illuminate the actions of the ‘Insurrectionists’ and the inappropriate conduct of the government during and after this event.

08/31/20 Insurrection

The current mob actions of rioting, looting, assaults, and arson in many cities are well passed the limits of a peaceable assembly to protest injustices in America. They have become insurrections against the legal and lawful authority of the State and local governments, and indeed, are directed at the legal and lawful authority of the Federal government. They no longer wish to correct injustices but to overthrow our republican government. And they must stop, and Law and Order restored, and the Constitutional rights of all the citizens are protected. The question is how to best end these mob actions within the Constitution and the Laws of the Land.

The “Insurrection Act of 1807”, is a United States federal law (10 U.S.C. §§ 251–255; prior to 2016, 10 U.S.C. §§ 331–335; amended 2006, 2007) that empowers the President of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection and rebellion.

The Insurrection Act provides a "statutory exception" to the “Posse Comitatus Act” of 1878, which limits the use of military personnel under federal command for law enforcement purposes within the United States. Before invoking the powers under the Act, 10 U.S.C. § 254 requires the President to first publish a proclamation ordering the insurgents to disperse. The Insurrection Act has been invoked twenty-two times throughout United States history.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, as explained in my Article “The Meaning to the Thirteenth through Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution”, was intended to assure the Constitutional rights of the citizens within a State. With the mob actions that infringe upon the Constitutional rights of the citizens of these States, the mob actions, and the inaction of the local and State governments, are violating the 14th Amendment, as well as other parts of the Constitution.

Article IV Section 4 of the United States Constitution states:

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.”

In addition, Article IV Section 1 of the United States Constitution states:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Under the Constitution, all levels of government have a duty and responsibility to Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution of the United States. They also have the duty and responsibility to assure “the equal protection of the laws” for all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States. As the mob does not have a Republican Form of Government, their actions are a form of succession or rebellion from the United States, and the people within the mobs' sphere of actions are not equally protected under the law, the actions of the mob are Unconstitutional. The words and deeds, and the inactions of the Mayors and the Governors where mob actions are occurring demonstrate their lack of fealty to the Constitution and, therefore, require a response from the Federal government. This lack of fealty to the Constitution should also be the basis for the removal from office of the Mayor and Governor under Amendment XIV, Section 3 of the Constitution:

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

Therefore, all levels of government have the duty and responsibility under Article IV Section 4 of the Constitutional to end the actions of the mob forthwith, and to remove such persons from office who did not meet their duty and responsibility to Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution of the United States under Amendment XIV, Section 3 of the Constitution.

The mob, if peaceable, can pressure Legislators to make, amend, or rescind laws that it thinks are needed to assure justice in America. They can also challenge laws in a Court of Law if they think that such laws are unconstitutional. This is the republican way of effecting change in America. Rioting, looting, assaults, and arson by a mob are unacceptable means of effecting change in America.

It is well past time for the President of the United States to invoke the Insurrection Act and enforce the 14th Amendment protections of the Constitutional rights of the citizens within a State. To not do so is to fuel the insurrection and endanger our republican form of government.

02/15/21 Insurrection and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution

With the second Impeachment of President Trump resulting in the acquittal on charges of inciting insurrection in the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, you may think that it is over. But is it over? My new Article, “Insurrection and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution,” examines the possibility of utilizing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution for further actions the Democrat Party is considering against former President Trump.

04/19/21 Insurrection

There has been much rhetoric about the ‘insurrection’ that occurred in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. Troops were brought in, and fences were constructed to prevent a further insurrection. Justice Department investigations have begun, and there has been a proposed Congressional Commission to investigate this insurrection. There is no doubt that those people involved violated the law and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. There is also no doubt that as an ‘insurrection’, it was one of the feeblest attempts of an insurrection in history. So feeble it is almost laughable if it were not for the five people who died during or after the event: one was a Capitol Police officer, and four were among those who stormed or protested, including one stormer shot by a Capitol Police officer. Minor damage was sustained to the Capitol building, and some property was damaged or looted.

Meanwhile, previous too and since then, in 2020 and 2021, we have seen much rioting and looting by mobs in many cities. Rioting and looting that has cost many more lives, and much more property destruction and damage, and extensive looting. Yet no one has called these action insurrections, indeed, may have labeled them ‘mostly peaceful’ demonstrations or actions justified by the events that sparked them. But these events pose more of a threat to our Republic than the ‘insurrection’ in Washington D.C., as these events were and are an assault on our “Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All”. The deaths, injuries, destruction, damage, and looting of these events are far greater than what occurred in Washington, D.C. And these events were in defiance to local governments' lawful and proper authority to maintain peaceable assemblies, and as such, they were and are an insurrection.

Yet Justice Department investigations and proposed Congressional Commission to investigate these insurrections are feeble or non-existent. Apparently, Democrats and "Progressives/Leftists" believe that it is only an insurrection if it occurs in Washington D.C., and only if it is instigated by those to the right of themselves. This is but another example of the double standard that Democrats and Progressives/Leftists utilize when describing America and Americans. And this double standard divides Americans and further leads to further erosion of "A Civil Society".

Update: On the day I posted this Chirp, it was announced that the Capital Police officer who died the day after the ‘insurrection’ had died of natural causes. The was no forensic evidence of any external or internal injuries to this Police officer and no other contributing factors to his death by natural causes. In addition, three of the civilians who died also died of natural causes, while one civilian died of gunshot wounds inflicted by a Capitol Police Officer. No details were posted about the death of the civilian who died of gunshot wounds, and no details are expected to be released. This is an outrage, as any civilian who died because of law enforcement actions should be fully explained so that the American public makes a judgment on the propriety of the law enforcement actions that led to the death of a civilian.

05/11/21 Intimidation and Fraud

Today, in America, the “Progressives/Leftists” and the Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) have often utilized intimidation to achieve their political goals and policy agendas. With the 2020 Presidential election and their attempts to pass the ‘For the People Act of 2021’ (as I have posted on "03/22/21 How H.R. 1 Would Change Elections"), they have refined the art of voter fraud to win elections. They have also refined their election campaigns to misdirect or obscure their candidate’s policy agenda by the utilization of sophistry to achieve victory in elections. This was prominently displayed with candidate Biden’s non-campaign in the 2020 Presidential elections from his basement and the Georgia Senate runoff election of 2021. And this sophistry constitutes a fraud on the American electorate.

This intimidation and fraud are done with the cooperation of the Mainstream Cultural Media, Mainstream Media, Modern Big Business, Modern Education, and Social Media, and by the tactics of Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Doxing, Wokeness, Identity Politics, and Greater Good versus the Common Good, as I have written in the “Terminology” webpage. And it is done because the Democrat Party realizes that they cannot achieve election victory if they do not utilize these tactics.

With the 2020 elections placing a slim control of the House of Representatives with the Democrats, a tie in the Senate (with Democrat Vice-President Harris breaking any tie votes), and a Democrat Presidency, they are revealing their true colors with their Legislative and Executive actions. A true color that is not supported by the majority of Americans. They are in a rush to radically transform America, while they have this control, to achieve their political goals and policy agendas.

In the process of doing this, they are not bringing America together, as I have Chirped on "08/21/20 Bringing Us Together", but are, indeed, pulling us apart. They are radically changing America to fit their vision of America without the support of the American people. A radical change from individualism to collectivism, as I have written in my Article, “A Republican Constitution or a Democratic Constitution”. A radical change that will impact all of our society, and in my opinion, have negative consequences for all Americans.

These negative consequences include, but are not limited to; establishing one-party rule by Democrats, morphing capitalism to state-controlled capitalism, redistribution of wealth by confiscatory taxes, favoritisms for groups of Americans at the expense of other groups of Americans, and other infringements on our "Natural, Human, and Civil Rights" as I have written in the ‘Particulars’ section of my Article, "A New Declaration of Independence”.

The Democrat Party is taking America down a road that it may not be possible to undo without an insurrection. An insurrection that could be bloody and scar America for decades to come. For those that would respond that a majority of American people will not support this insurrection, I would retort that the majority does not get to violate our rights and impose its will on the minority, for that is antithetical to Natural and Constitutional Rights. I would also remind you that during the American Revolution, John Adams, one of the leading proponents of the Declaration of Independence, a founder of the Constitution, and the second President of the United States, said about majority support. When asked how many of the colonists supported the American Revolution, he stated that about one-third supported it, one-third opposed it, and one-third had no opinion on it. Clearly not a majority in support of the American Revolution. The same could be said for the Civil War. Should we have not fought the American Revolution or the Civil War as it did not have majority support? Absolutely not – as revolutions and civil wars are often fought by a minority that feels oppressed by the majority. So, it should be for those that are resisting governmental actions that disregarded or abrogated our Freedoms and Liberties by the government. They are standing up for our Natural and Constitutional rights, and although they may be in the minority, they have the right to stand up for our Natural and Constitutional Rights

Whether this insurrection would be a good or bad thing for America, I am reminded that Thomas Jefferson expressed the view that "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical". It may be a good thing if it reestablishes our American ideals of “Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All”, but it may be a bad thing if it devolves into despotism or tyranny. But our current course, as envisioned by the modern Democrat Party, is a course to despotism.

06/03/21 Insurrectionists

A recent article, “Who in America is Entitled to Call Who an Insurrectionist These Days?” by Cliff Nichols has posited:

“If fraud and other means of chicanery were found to have been employed by insurrectionists to unlawfully upend the results of our nation’s 2020 election process, would that unlawful regime of insurrectionists have the moral authority to prosecute patriots for exactly that of which their regime is itself guilty — insurrection?”

To the question of ‘What constitutes an insurrection?’, the answer is ‘When it is an insurrection to establish Natural Rights or preserve Freedoms and Liberties’. Insurrections are only justified and necessary to accomplish these objectives. It was an insurrection against British rule by the American Colonists, defined by The Declaration of Independence, that established Natural Rights and the Freedoms and Liberties of Americans. And to preserve these Freedoms and Liberties, we established The Constitution of the United States. As long as our "Natural, Human, and Civil Rights" are retained, and our Constitutional ideals of “Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All” are preserved, then any actions against the United States government is unnecessary and unjustified, and these actions would not be a legitimate insurrection.

In America, we have preserved our Freedoms and Liberties through the Soap Box, the Ballot Box, the Jury Box, and the Ammo Box, in that order, as I have written in my Article "The Four Boxes of Liberty". However, in America of the late 20th century and the 21st century, we have seen the corruption of the Soap Box, the Ballot Box, and the Jury Box. A corruption by the Mainstream Cultural Media, Mainstream Media, Modern Big Business, Modern Education, Social Media, Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Doxing, Wokeness, Identity Politics, and Greater Good versus the Common Good, led by Progressives/Leftists and the Democrat Party. A corruption that is destructive to our American ideals of Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All. A corruption that, hopefully, can be corrected by the Ballot Box but may become an insurrection instituted through the Ammo Box.

My new Article, "The Liberal Manifesto Major Principles" examines the political goals and policy agendas of the modern Progressives and Leftists and the Democrat Party. These political goals and policy agendas are antithetical to our American Ideals and should frighten any person who believes in Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All. Consequently, the implementation of these political goals and policy agendas are a basis for an insurrection to preserve our Liberties and Freedoms.

If a government oppresses your Natural Rights, then, as The Declaration of Independence states, “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” Those that believe that there should not be an insurrection to reinstitute Natural Rights are in opposition to Natural Rights. Those people who believe that no insurrection is justified would have been loyalist supporters of the British Crown during the American Revolution, and if they had succeeded, there would have been no United States of America dedicated to Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All. And insurrections do not need majority support to be justified, as a large minority that believes that they are being oppressed is sufficient, just as it was during the American Revolution, for an insurrection to be morally justified.

Therefore, unless we can right our course, an insurrection may be necessary to restore our American ideals. If so, then it is incumbent upon the insurrectionists to state their grievances against the current government of the United States. To this end, I have written "A New Declaration of Independence" to state these grievances and "A New U.S. Constitution" to correct these problems.

06/15/21 Was January 6th a Reichstag Fire?

Was January 6th assault on the Capitol building an insurrection or a Reichstag fire, an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Hitler's government stated that Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the culprit, and it attributed the fire to communist agitators. A German court decided later that year that Van der Lubbe had acted alone, as he had claimed. The day after the fire, the Reichstag Fire Decree was passed. The Nazi Party used the fire as a pretext to claim that communists were plotting against the German government, which made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.

If January 6th was an insurrection, it was most certainly the most enfeeble and incompetent insurrection in history. Very few people were involved in this ‘insurrection’, and none of them had weapons nor explosive devices. The only person who died during this ‘insurrection’ was a protestor shot to death by a Capitol policeman. Minor damage was done to the Capitol building, and some property was looted or destroyed, for which the persons involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. A few of the ‘insurrectionists’ have been arrested and detained on charges of trespassing, for which they have not been released on bail nor allowed to publicly speak of their actions. This appears to be a violation of their habeas corpus rights, which would be a violation of their Constitutional Rights.

Much of the evidence about the events surrounding January 6th has been withheld by government agencies for various reasons of national security. Reasons that are dubious at best and at worst a cover-up of the government involvement in the January 6th ‘insurrection’. It has now been revealed that the FBI had informants, and perhaps operatives, within the groups responsible for the January 6th ‘insurrection’. Informants and Operatives that not only informed the FBI, but they may have instigated the violence. If so, then the FBI is complicit in the January 6th ‘insurrection’. A complicity that may negate any criminal charges against the January 6th ‘insurrectionists.

More nefarious is that our Legislators and President are utilizing the January 6th ‘insurrection’ as a pretext to create laws against ‘insurrection’. Laws that may be crafted that would be a violation or constriction of our First Amendment rights of ‘the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances’. Laws that may violate or constrict our Fourth Amendment rights to ‘be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures’. Laws that could violate or constrict our Fifth Amendment rights of prosecution ‘unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury’ and ‘nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law’.

If Congress does indeed pass these laws that violate or constrict our Constitutional Rights, and the President signs them into law, then the January 6th ‘insurrection’ will become the American Reichstag Fire. An American Reichstag Fire that would constrict our Natural Rights and that could begin the slippery slope toward Despotism. Americans must be made aware of this and halt the crafting of these laws, for if we do not, then:

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- George Santayana

07/07/21 A Speedy Trial?

Amendment VI of the United States Constitution states:

“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.”

It has now been six months since the notorious ‘insurrection’ of January 6, 2021, of which I Chirped on, “06/15/21 Was January 6th a Reichstag Fire?”. If January 6th was an insurrection, it was most certainly the most enfeeble and incompetent insurrection in history. Very few people were involved in this ‘insurrection’, and none of them had weapons nor explosive devices. The only person who died during this ‘insurrection’ was a protestor shot to death by a Capitol policeman. Minor damage was done to the Capitol building, and some property was looted or destroyed, for which the persons involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. A few of the ‘insurrectionists’ have been arrested and detained on charges of trespassing, for which they have not been released on bail nor allowed to publicly speak of their actions. Much of the evidence surrounding this event has been withheld from the public, but speculation, falsehoods, and untruths abound.

Six months have passed without a ‘speedy and public trial’ occurring, which in my opinion, is a violation of the Sixth Amendment rights of the accused. A Public Trial would also answer many of the questions and illuminate the facts surrounding this event, which would allow Americans to discover the truths of this ‘insurrection’. It is passed time that the Sixth Amendment rights of the accused be enforced. Let us have this public trial forthwith and allow the American people the ascertain the truths of this ‘insurrection’.

07/31/21 A Two-Tiered Justice and Governmental System

Increasingly, there seems to be a two-tiered justice and governmental system in which enforcement of laws, rules, and regulations apply to most Americans but not so much to the rich and powerful, politically connected, and protected identity groups. We have also seen the politicization of government agencies along ideological lines. The Judicial branch and the FBI, the intelligence branches, and now the Defense Department are all saturated with Political Correctness, Virtue Signaling, Cancel Culture, Doxing, Wokeness, Identity Politics, and Equity and Equality as I have written in the "Terminology" webpage.

Democrat politicians and special interest groups have few investigations nor prosecutions taken against them, but Republican politicians and Conservative activists are being actively investigated and prosecuted. Examples of this two-tiered justice are the Nursing home deaths from placing COVID-19 infected patients in the nursing homes, election irregularities if not outright violations of election laws, the perpetrators of the mob violence of 2020 vs. the January 6th, 2021, Capitol ‘insurrectionists’, and the political influence-peddling of Hunter Biden and the Biden family. This can also be seen in the selective prosecutions of the violators of COVID-19 restrictions, such as protest groups violations being allowed, while Religious or other groups of people violations being prosecuted.

Democrat Governors, Attorney Generals, Mayors, District Attorneys, and legislators regularly flaunt the law or refuse to enforce or prosecute persons or groups of persons who violate the law. Police officers are being demonized and defunded, which has a direct negative effect on the middle and lower class but has little impact on the upper class, which can afford their own protection. Add to this list the southern border policies of the Biden Administration, which allow hundreds of thousands of persons to illegally immigrate into America, some of which are drug runners, gang members, human traffickers, and other criminal elements, as well as many being COVID-19 infected for which they face no COVID-19 restrictions that Americans must endure.

Government agencies are instituting ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusiveness’ training, which is more indoctrination of "Progressives/Leftists" ideologies and ideas than diversity or inclusiveness, and it is often is based on White Privilege blaming and shaming. In some cases, they are purging employees that do not acquiesce or conform to their ‘training’. In law enforcement and the military, they are rooting out officers and servicepersons who do not share their Progressives/Leftists viewpoints. Critical Race Theory and The 1619 Project are being taught in our public schools, which demonize and denigrate white people and disparage our American history. Government officials and agencies are labeling those that disagree with their Progressives/Leftists ideologies and ideas as extremists or domestic terrorists. They are also investigating them for possible, rather than actual, criminal actions, and often in violation of their "Natural, Human, and Civil Rights", as I have written in my Article, “It Appears that I am a Domestic ATerrorist”.

All of this begs the question of how much further they will go, or as Victor Davis Hanson has written, “How Much Ruin Do We Have Left?” before the American people stand up and put an end to this nonsense. However, putting an end to this nonsense may require more than just elections, for when a large minority of a population believes that they are being oppressed, they often arise into civil disobedience or civil unrest, which can easily lead to an insurrection.

08/01/21 Justifiable Insurrection

As I have Chirped on, “07/10/21 The Disillusionment of the Deplorables” and “07/30/21 A Two-Tiered Justice and Governmental System”, more Americans are losing faith in our government to protect our "Natural, Human, and Civil Rights" and assure our "Freedoms, Liberties, Equalities, and Equal Justice for All”. Consequently, we may be approaching the possibility of an insurrection to retain our American ideals and Ideas. If this should happen, it would be a justified and necessary insurrection, as it would be for the purposes of retaining our Natural Rights and our Freedoms and Liberties. Almost all insurrections are bloody affairs as they sow death, dismemberment, disease, and destruction on all. But not having an insurrection to preserve our Natural Rights and our Freedoms and Liberties would be bloodier and longer-lasting, as a result of a despotic America, as I have written in my Article, “Despotism in America”.

Despotism always begets poverty, hunger, stagnation, and other ills for all who live under despotism, and it is only beneficial to the despots. And despotism eventually results in insurrection as all people have a natural yearning for Freedom and Liberty. If this insurrection should arise in America, it should only be done under the banner of A New Declaration of Independence and A New U.S. Constitution to end these corruptions and reestablish our American ideals and Ideas.

08/08/21 A True Insurrection

The Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, has often been described as an ‘Insurrection’ as I have Chirped on, “04/19/21 Insurrection” and has resulted in the consequence as I Chirped on, "06/15/21 Was January 6th a Reichstag Fire?" and "07/07/21 A Speedy Trial?". As feeble as this ‘Insurrection’ was, a not so feeble and quieter insurrection is occurring in Washington D.C... A slew of Executive Orders that have a dubious constitutional basis, the COVID-19 mandates, the non-enforcement of our immigration laws, the ignoring of Constitutional issues by the Supreme Court, and the supineness of Congress to these actions is all an insurrection against the Constitution.

Our Constitution was drafted to preserve our Liberties and Freedoms by creating a ‘Limited and Enumerated’ government, reined in by the ‘Checks and Balances’ of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of government. When these things no longer occur, then our Constitution collapses, and we have a transmogrification into another form of governance.

When Congress exceeds its ‘Limited and Enumerated’ lawmaking powers and the Supreme Court defers to this excess; when Congress delegates its duties and responsibilities to the Executive Branch in the creation of rules and regulations; when the Executive branch issues Executive orders beyond its Constitutional powers or ignores or reshape laws passed by Congress; when the Supreme Court will not undertake nor rule on contentious constitutional issues; and when each branch of government takes no actions to prevent these excesses of the other branch, then each branch of the Federal government is not exercising the ‘Checks and Balances’ needed to preserve our Liberties and Freedoms. When the American people allow this to happen, they are allowing for the erosions of their Liberties and Freedoms.

The history of 20th and 21st century America has seen this slow transmogrification of America, but the last several months have seen the rapid transmogrification of America. One particular incidence has been highly illuminative and egregious. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a Tenant Eviction Moratoria, the Supreme Court ruled that this moratorium was unconstitutional, and shortly thereafter, the CDC extended the moratoria in a blatant exercise of raw power without a constitutional basis. The Supreme Court should have immediately reconvened and vacated this moratorium, members of Congress should have been outspoken and threaten action against the CDC, and the President should have immediately withdrawn this moratorium. As Rob Natelson has stated in his article, “Tenant Eviction Moratoria Are More Than Unconstitutional; They’re Insurrectionary”, “State and federal tenant eviction moratoria go beyond “unconstitutional.” They’re a direct assault on the constitutional order itself. They represent insurrection from above.”, and “These orders, federal and state, and not merely unconstitutional. They are fundamentally anti-constitutional. They are at war with a fundamental reason the Constitution was adopted. The framers never would have drafted a constitution permitting eviction moratoria. And if they had, the American people never would have ratified it.” Consequently, this moratorium and the non-reactions by the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of government is a governmental insurrection against the Constitution.

Another insurrection against the Constitution is the arbitrary mandates that were imposed by Governors’ and local officials to control the COVID-19 Pandemic and force involuntary vaccinations by both government and businesses as I have Chirped on, “07/29/21 Proof of Immunity”. Not only were these mandates medically dubious, but they constricted our Liberties, Freedoms, and Constitutional Rights, and they were not crafted nor enforced in accordance with Constitutional processes.

An even larger insurrection against the Constitution is the illegal immigration that is occurring on our southern border. Our immigration laws are not being enforced, the Coronavirus Pandemic restrictions on these illegal immigrants are being ignored, and the illegal immigrants are being dispersed across America, which spreads disease and crime, as well as additional costs for social services. And the non-reactions by the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of government to this situation is a governmental insurrection against the Constitution.

The fact that many elected politicians, appointed officials, bureaucrats, and activists prefer these end results is not a sufficient reason to ignore the Constitution. If you prefer these results, you should be utilizing the Constitutional process of changing our laws to achieve these results and not ignoring the Constitution to achieve these results. And in changing any laws, such changes to the laws must be Constitutional.

Given that elected politicians and appointed officials take an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”, it may well be time to have an insurrection for the Constitution and against the government that is not upholding the Constitution.

08/28/21 Theater of the Absurd

Recently, Reuters reported that the events of the January 6, 2021 ‘Insurrection’ at the U.S. Capitol were not "the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result," according to officials quoted in an exclusive Reuters report. More specifically, sources report to Reuters that the "FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump." More to the point, Reuters reports that "the FBI has so far found no evidence that he [President Trump] or people directly around him were involved in organizing the violence, according to the four current and former law enforcement officials".

If this is true, what is the House Commission on the January 6th ‘Insurrection’ investigating? The answer is that it is not investigating anything; it is simply a political theater of the absurd. An absurdity for the purposes of "Demonize, Denigrate, Disparage (The Three D's)" of President Trump and his supporters for electioneering purposes. It has also been reported that this House Commission plans on subpoenaing the communication records of several (Republican) House members to determine if they were in any way involved. If this is true, then this House Commission will become dangerous to democracy, as Congressperson’s communications should not be subject to public scrutiny until there is some veracity to the allegations of criminal activities. Otherwise, these communications simply become political fodder for electioneering purposes and potential intimidation for political power purposes. It is also antithetical to our Judicial system ethos that we investigate criminal actions rather than people.

As I have Chirped on "04/19/21 Insurrection", ‘There is also no doubt that as an ‘insurrection’, it was one of the feeblest attempts of an insurrection in history’. Yet this event has created a partisan commission that will achieve nothing but biased rhetoric and divisiveness in America. Meanwhile, from the crisis at our southern border to the fall of Afghanistan, to the truth of the threats of Russia, China, and Terrorism, to the Coronavirus Pandemic science, origination, and responses, to the increase of crime in our streets, to voting reform and illegal immigration, to the state of our economy, and to a host of other issues there seems to be little action but many words, and no Congressional investigations, of these serious problems.

This is yet another reason that the American people have such a low opinion of Congress and hold government in such derision. And it is this derision that may lead to an actual insurrection, as I have Chirped on, “08/08/21 A True Insurrection”.

09/07/21 Theater of the Dangerous

In my Chirp on “08/28/21 Theater of the Absurd”, I commented on the House Commission investigation on the January 6th ‘Insurrection’ as absurd. This House Commission is now evolving from absurd to dangerous. With their plan to subpoena communications of House members that may have had communications from any suspected ‘insurrectionist’ or any House member that has commented on the absurdity of this investigation, they are becoming dangerous to our democracy.

Dangerous to our democracy as any person can communicate to any elected representative on any subject, topic, issue, or concern, and the elected representative may respond as appropriate. If these communications were open to Congressional review, and possible public scrutiny from leaks or revelations, then the public may be less forthcoming in their communications to their elected representatives. This would de facto constrict their Free Speech Rights and limit their Redress of Grievances Rights through fear of retribution or retaliation by those that disagree with them.

It would also hamper our elected representatives in the performance of their duties and responsibilities. The political gamesmanship that would occur with the revelation of their communications would fuel the bitter partisanship in America. Congressional investigations could become witch hunts against the minority party representatives in which guilt by association (i.e., communication) would be practiced. This is also antithetical to our American ideals of investigating criminal actions and not persons. Only if there is veracity to the allegations of wrongdoing by a representative should their communications be open to investigation. To do otherwise is to violate the privacy rights of both the representative and the constituent that communicate with each other. A constituent and a representative have the expectation of privacy in their communications, and this privacy should be respected by all. This is different than when you post something on "Social Media", as you have no expectation of privacy, and indeed, do not want privacy on Social Media.

This points out the need for the privacy protection of your web surfing, e-mail messages, voice communications, and text messaging, such as we have for postal communications. These voice and text messages are your private communications to another and should not be available for any other party, both governmental and commercial, for perusal purposes. Indeed, the issue of privacy in modern electronic communications and databases needs to be examined and legislated to assure our Liberties and Freedoms.

The proposed subpoenaing of Congressional Representative communications is, therefore, an assault on our Democracy and must never come to fruition. The very thought of the "Democrat Party Leaders" to do so is another example of how they do not respect our American ideas and ideals. It also demonstrates that they are unfit to lead a people dedicated to Liberty and Freedom.

10/19/21 The Insurrection Hoax

For many years I have been an avid reader of Imprimis, a free monthly speech digest of Hillsdale College that is dedicated to educating citizens and promoting civil and religious liberty by covering cultural, economic, political, and educational issues. The content of Imprimis is drawn from speeches delivered at Hillsdale College events. First published in 1972, Imprimis is one of the most widely circulated opinion publications in the nation with over six million subscribers.

A new article in Imprimis, “The January 6 Insurrection Hoax”, by Roger Kimball, the Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion, examines this topic:

“Of course, it is absolutely critical to the Democratic Party narrative that the January 6 incident be made to seem as violent and crazed as possible. Hence the comparisons to 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the Civil War. Only thus can pro-Trump Americans be excluded from “our democracy” by being branded as “domestic extremists” if not, indeed, “domestic terrorists.”

Imprimis articles are always rational and reasonable, and they are an excellent source of truthful information about current events. I would recommend that you explore the back issues of Imprimis to obtain factual and truthful information on a variety of topics.

01/06/22 Insurrection Day

It’s January 6th, the first anniversary of the notorious insurrection at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C... A day that will live in infamy, our Guy Fawkes Day, our Bastille Day, our Beer Hall Putsch, and our October Revolution. An insurrection of which I have written about in my Chirps on, "04/19/21 Insurrection", "06/03/21 Insurrectionists", "06/15/21 Was January 6th a Reichstag Fire?", "07/07/21 A Speedy Trial?", "08/08/21 A True Insurrection", and "10/19/21 The Insurrection Hoax".

If January 6th was an insurrection, it was most certainly the most enfeeble and incompetent insurrection in history. Very few people were involved in this ‘insurrection’, and none of them had weapons or explosive devices. The only person who died during this ‘insurrection’ was a protestor shot to death by a Capitol policeman, and most of the injuries sustained were the injuries to the ‘insurrectionist’. Minor damage was done to the Capitol building, and some property was looted or destroyed, for which the persons involved should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

A few of the ‘insurrectionists’ have been arrested and detained on charges such as trespassing and destruction of property, for which they have not been released on bail nor allowed to publicly speak of their actions. A detention that, according to some reports, appears to be of a cruel and unusual nature. This detention also appears to be a violation of their Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Constitutional Rights. A detention in which the courts seem to be indifferent or complicitous. The Justice Department is continuing its investigation, but a number of people who were videoed instigating the ‘insurrectionist’ have not been captured nor detained. Indeed, it appears that they are no longer being pursued by the FBI, as there are allegations that these people have FBI ties that could be embarrassing to the FBI and may be detrimental to the prosecution of the 'insurrectionist'.

By a vote in the House of Representatives, a House Committee was formed to investigate this insurrection. A House committee that was to be of a certain number and representation appointed by the Speaker of the House and the Republican Minority Leader. A House Committee that never had this number and was appointed solely by the Speaker of the House. In doing so, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi negated the will of the House of Representatives and thus created an unlawful committee.

Yet, this 'insurrection' rhetoric is being proclaimed throughout the land today. Rhetoric based on a misrepresentation and misinterpretation of the events of January 6th, rather than a recital of the actual events that occurred on January 6th. Rhetoric that is for the purposes of politics rather than for the purpose of enlightenment. The purposes of politics that are explained in an article in Imprimis, “The January 6 Insurrection Hoax”, by Roger Kimball, the Editor, and Publisher of The New Criterion, that examines the events and politics of this 'insurrection':

There was, however, a real insurrection on January 6th. It was an insurrection against our Constitutional protections against government overreach that is occurring within the Justice Department, the House of Representatives, and the Courts. The actions by the Justice Department, the House of Representatives, and the Courts are contrary to our "American Ideals and Ideas" and a violation of our Constitutional Rights. This is the insurrection of January 6th that all Americans should be wary of and concerned about.

01/07/22 Words of Wisdom and Warning

Some words of wisdom and warning from President Abraham Lincoln that are apropos today:

On Jan. 27, 1838, Abraham Lincoln spoke before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, about "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions." During that address, he said: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

"Citizens," Lincoln also said in this address, "seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose."
- Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln also stated:

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
- Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
- Abraham Lincoln

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
- Abraham Lincoln

The events of January 6th of last year were not an insurrection but a warning. A warning of the rising tide of discontent in America. A discontent brought forth by the despotic actions of government and the men who pervert the Constitution. The American people are awaking to the danger to our Liberties and Freedoms and to our Constitution by those that seek and weld power to direct our lives. Those people who would disregard or subvert the Constitution for their own political goals and policy agendas. And those people are Progressives/Leftists and Democrat Party Leaders. Let us hope that we can counter this by the soap box, the ballot box, and the jury box, rather than having to resort to the ammo box, as I have written in my Article, “The Four Boxes of Liberty”.

02/19/22 Limited Forcible Resistance

As I have Chirped on the January 6th, 2020 Capitol “Insurrection” many times at here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, this “insurrection” was anything but an insurrection. In an article by Rob Natelson, What the Jan. 6 Capitol Incursion Really Was, he examines the January 6th “Insurrection” in a historical context. He states that “The Capitol incursion was wrong, but it was not an “insurrection.” It was a very different kind of event with deep roots in our Anglo-American heritage.” He explains that these deep roots as:

“The late Pauline Maier was a distinguished historian of colonial and Revolutionary America. She identified an Anglo-American tradition of “limited forcible resistance.” Although different kinds of actions fit this description, they all have four characteristics:

Limited forcible resistance is not scattershot, like the looting propagated by leftist demonstrators. It’s focused on the source of political grievance. It is, Maier wrote, “remarkably single-minded and discriminating … [T]argets [are] characteristically related to grievances.”
When the resistance includes riots or other disorder, it may cause significant property damage, but results in very few casualties. Usually more casualties are inflicted on the protesters than by them.
Participants include not merely the mobile vulgus (mob or rabble) but community leaders who see themselves as protecting the constitutional order.
When participants engage in disorder they do so only because they perceive that all legal means of redress have been foreclosed.”

He then goes on to explain how the Capital incursion fits into the definition of a “limited forcible resistance.” One of his conclusions was, “All of that having been said, it’s wrongheaded to classify the Jan. 6 riot as an “insurrection” rather than what it was: limited forcible resistance undertaken by people convinced they had no other remedy.”

Many of the insurrections were of a limited forcible resistance mob, while some were just Wackadoodles. Any political leader who believes this was an insurrection is simply politically pandering, or they believe resistance to their authority is an insurrection. This posturing and belief are dangerous to the body politic, as it does not illuminate the concerns of these “insurrectionists” and is being used to demonize those Americans who have concerns about the 2020 election irregularities, thus pitting one group of Americans against another. To simply dismiss these concerns is to dismiss a large percentage of Americans who believe that their votes were compromised. This dismissive attitude further divides Americans and disenchants many Americans about the legitimacy of our government.

This disenchantment is one of the seeds of civil unrest, which can grow to civil disobedience and potentially civil war. Therefore, these concerns need to be investigated and addressed properly for all Americans to be satisfied as to the legitimacy of the 2020 elections. The House select committee on the January 6th, 2020, Capitol “Insurrection” is not doing this, and indeed, is furthering the divisions and disenchants in America. Indeed, this committee bears a resemblance to the House Un-American Activities Committee of the mid-twentieth century, and McCarthyism, which should never again happen in America.

Two other articles by Rob Natelson, Weren’t the Capitol Hill Protesters “Mostly Peaceful?” and The Undeniable Irregularity That May Have Cost Trump the Election, also examine this “Insurrection” and its causes.

03/10/22 The Writ of Habeas Corpus

In Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, a Writ of Habeas Corpus was established that could be issued to bring a party before a court to prevent unlawful restraint (i.e., the Latin term for you should have the body). Since the time of the Magna Carta, a Writ of Habeas Corpus was considered essential to preserve the Liberties and Freedoms of all persons. The basic premise behind habeas corpus is that you cannot be held against your will without just cause. To put it another way, you cannot be jailed if there are no charges against you. If you are being held, and you demand it, the courts must issue a writ of habeas corpus, which forces those holding you to answer as to why you are being held. If there is no good or compelling reason for your being held, then you must be set free. It is important to note that of all the civil liberties we take for granted today as a part of the Bill of Rights, the importance of The Writ of Habeas Corpus is illustrated by the fact that it was the sole liberty thought important enough to be included in the original text of the Constitution.

As such, what is happening to those arrested for the January 6th, 2020 ‘Insurrection’ is a violation of their Writ of Habeas Corpus right, as it appears that they have not been informed of the charges against them, nor has there been any compelling reason for them being held. The government response that there is a need for secrecy for security purposes does not outweigh the violation of their Writ of Habeas Corpus rights. Nor should secrecy be utilized to shroud these proceedings from public view, as anything that the government does judicially that is shrouded in secrecy is suspect, as it may involve the violation of the rights of Americans. As Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas has said, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” We need sunlight on these judicial proceedings against the ‘Insurgents’ to assure that their rights as Americans are not being violated in these proceedings.

Their Fifth Amendment rights to not be deprived of liberty without due process of law are also being violated, as well as their Sixth Amendment rights to a speedy and public trial are also being violated along with other Sixth Amendment rights. Their Eight Amendment Right to no cruel and unusual punishments inflicted may have also been violated, given the reporting of the conditions in which they are being held. They are also not being permitted to be set free on reasonable bail while they are awaiting trial. Again, these actions by the government need to be laid bare to determine if the government is violating their rights.

While all these actions by the government may fall within the letter of the law, they certainly fall outside the spirit of the law. Without the spirit of the law, the letter of the law rings hollow, and the letter of the law can be manipulated for nefarious purposes. All Liberty and Freedom-loving Americans need to be alarmed and appalled by these government actions, and all Americans should demand that these actions be open to the disinfectant of sunshine.

It is past time that all Constitutional Scholars dedicated to our Liberties and Freedoms, our Natural, Constitutional, and Civil Rights, and The Rule of Law arise and condemn these actions by the Government. And these condemnations must not only be of written and verbal commentaries but of a peaceable public protest at the doors of the Supreme Court. Such a peaceable public protest would inform and alert the American public as to the violation of our rights by the government. For them to not publicly protest is for them to remain paper chasers rather than spirited defenders of American rights and privileges, and it would also demonstrate that they are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

05/19/22 The Lawless Party

The “rioters” of 2020 and the ‘Insurrectionists” of January 6, 2021, have been treated quite differently by the law and by the words and deeds of the Democrat Party Leaders. Equality under the law requires that:

“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.”
- President Theodore Roosevelt

This different treatment of the “rioters” and the “insurrectionist” is but one example of a two-tiered system of justice by the Biden Administration. Attorney General Merrick Garland of the Department of Justice and Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security has consistently ignored laws that they disagree with and only enforced laws against their opponents but have not enforced laws against their supporters. Their inactions in enforcing immigration laws on our southern border are the most egregious example of their ignoring laws that they do not support. Ignoring a law that you disagree with or ignoring the law until you can change the law to something you agree with is not enforcement of duly enacted laws but a subterfuge to justify lawlessness. Selectively enforcing laws is not the Rule of Law but rather the Rule by Men and Women. In this, they have exhibited that they wish to be rulers rather than leaders, as I have written in my Article, "To Be Rulers or to Be Leaders".

The most recent example is the Biden Administration's inactions against the protesters of the draft opinion of the Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade. A current law, 18 U.S. Code § 1507 - Picketing or parading, is very clear on what is acceptable protests against judicial officials:

“Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”

The inactions of the Biden Administration in enforcing this law are a telling example of their two-tiered system of justice. Legal inactions for their supporters, and legal actions against their opponents, are modus operandi for the Biden Administration. Thus, we have a two-tiered system of justice under the Biden Administration, and Prosecutorial Discretion is not a valid excuse for inaction, as I have Chirped on "03/29/22 Prosecutorial Discretion".

This is no aberration, as the Democrat Party in the last several decades has resorted to "Divisiveness in America" and verbal support of mob actions. Consequently, The Democrat Party has become the party of rulership, threats, intimidations, mob rule, and ignoring the law, and hence the party of lawlessness in America.

06/12/22 A Kangaroo Congressional Committee Hearing

A Kangaroo Court is a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides, and is typically convened ad hoc. A kangaroo court may ignore due process and come to a predetermined conclusion. The term may also apply to a court held by a legitimate judicial authority that intentionally disregards the court's legal or ethical obligations (i.e., a show trial).

On Thursday night, June 9th, 2022, we saw an example of a Kangaroo Congressional Committee hearing. The deck was stacked against former President Trump in that all the committee members were political opponents of President Trump, no testimony of or for the ‘insurgents’ was allowed, and a predetermined conclusion is inevitable. Counsel for President Trump was not allowed, no evidence in his favor was allowed, and testimony was edited and tailored against President Trump. The words and deeds of President Trump prior to and on January 6th, 2021, were taken out of context and were often misrepresentative or tailored by omission. The actions of President Trump and the inactions of Congressional leaders prior to January 6th, 2021, to prepare for possible riots were ignored.

The hiring of Ex-ABC News executive James Goldston to produce the committee’s primetime hearing is further evidence of a Kangaroo Congressional Committee hearing, and it may have been illegal on several counts. Mr. Goldston was once responsible for quashing a news story about the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton connection, which calls into question his ethics and objectivity. Many assertions and allegations were leveled that the words and deeds of President Trump and the ‘insurrectionists’ were an assault on our democracy. As I have written in many Chirps on "01/06/22 Insurrection Day", "10/19/21 The Insurrection Hoax", "08/08/21 A True Insurrection", "08/01/21 Justifiable Insurrection", "07/07/21 A Speedy Trial?", "06/15/21 Was January 6th a Reichstag Fire?", "06/03/21 Insurrectionists", "04/19/21 Insurrection", "02/15/21 Insurrection and the 14th Amendment to the Constitution", "08/31/20 Insurrection" (which I have combined into a new article “Insurrections Chirps”), this ‘insurrection’ was a tepid and ineffectual ‘insurrection’ if indeed it can be labeled an insurrection at all. This was indeed a show trial for political purposes of damaging President Trump, rather than a Congressional investigation for the purposes of potential legislation to prevent these riots in the future.

As such, this Kangaroo Congressional Committee hearing has done more harm to our democracy than anything the ‘insurrections’ did, as it is an assault on "The Rule of Law in Non-Judicial Proceedings" for the accused (President Trump and the ‘Insurrectionists’). It has turned Congressional Hearings into a Witch-Hunt to persecute political opponents. It is also in violation of the Congressional authorization for this select committee, as the minority Republican Leader was not allowed to appoint members of this select committee as the authorization required. As a result, this select committee is being run as a Kangaroo Congressional Committee hearing. Indeed, they are becoming a form of the House Un-American Activities Committee that plagued America in its past, and the words of the committee members are reminiscent of McCarthyism.

There is a need for a Congressional Hearing to determine the causes and preventive measures that were not undertaken prior to and on January 6th, 2021, for the purposes of preventing these occurrences in the future. However, this Congressional hearing is not structured nor administered to achieve this purpose. Its only purpose appears to be a witch-hunt to persecute President Trump and to deny or stultify any attempt that he may make to run for President in 2024.

If this Kangaroo Congressional Committee is allowed to proceed in this manner and it influences an election, then we can expect other such Kangaroo Congressional Committees in the future. This, more than the actions of President Trump and the ‘Insurrections’ on January 6th, 2021, would be more damaging to our democracy than any of their words and deeds on January 6th, 2021.

07/02/22 Hearsay Evidence

The January 6th, 2001 ‘Insurrection” committee has once again shown that they are a Kangaroo Court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, as I have Chirp on, "06/12/22 A Kangaroo Congressional Committee Hearing". The testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson was explosive but consisted of nothing but uncorroborated allegations and no firsthand accounts of events, including that of Ms. Hutchinson. As such, it was hearsay evidence. Hearsay evidence that is never permissible in a court of law and should not be permissible in other governmental actions, as I have written in my Article, "The Rule of Law in Non-Judicial Proceedings". To allow hearsay evidence in a public hearing is to engage in a smear campaign against the target, and not to allow contravening testimony is to compound the smear campaign. And this is what the January 6th, 2001 ‘Insurrection” committee has become – a smear campaign.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would not allow Republican members on this committee that would support and defend President Trump. Instead, she has stacked this committee with Republican members that opposed President Trump. This is another example of a Kangaroo Court that has a predetermined outcome. The Democrat Leaders proclaim that this committee was formed to ‘preserve our democracy’, but you cannot preserve that which you infringe.

As such, this Kangaroo Congressional Committee hearing has done more harm to our democracy than anything the ‘insurrections’ did, as it is an assault on The Rule of Law in Non-Judicial Proceedings for the accused (President Trump and the ‘Insurrectionists’). It has turned Congressional Hearings into a Witch-Hunt to persecute political opponents. It is also in violation of the Congressional authorization for this select committee, as the minority Republican Leader was not allowed to appoint members of this select committee as the authorization required. As a result, this select committee is being run as a Kangaroo Congressional Committee hearing. Indeed, they are becoming a form of the House Un-American Activities Committee that plagued America in its past, and the words of the committee members are reminiscent of McCarthyism.

As we celebrate Independence Day, we should remember our "American Ideals and Ideas" and reaffirm them. One of the reasons for the American Revolution was to end the practice of Kangaroo Courts that the British often utilized against American Colonists that opposed their actions in America. As such, this committee is antithetic to our American Ideals and Ideas, and all Americans that support these ideas and ideals should oppose this committee.

03/14/24 Insurrection Cover-Up

It has been claimed by the House Committee investigating the January 6, 2001 “Insurrection” that President Trump took no actions to suppress the “Insurrection” that he instigated. An “Insurrection” of which I have extensively Chirped, which can be reviewed in my collected Chirps on "Insurrection Chirps".

What was not revealed by the committee, as they didn’t want it to be widely publicized, was the Trump administration’s security plans, which included 10,000 National Guard troops to protect Washington, DC., and that the city rejected his offer to provide these troops. These revelations were gleaned from an interview with Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato, who heard conversations between White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. Meadows wanted the city to request whatever they needed to keep the city secure. Rep. Liz Cheney’s Cheney was reportedly present for these interviews, and as The Federalist journalist Mollie Hemingway has reported:

“Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital, a previously hidden transcript obtained by The Federalist shows.

Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.”

My question is, why would anyone who would instigate an “insurrection” want to use armed troops to suppress said “insurrection”? They wouldn’t—and it is oxymoronic (or political chicanery) to claim otherwise.

Thus, the members of the January 6, 2001, House Investigative Committee were either moronic or they were being deceptive. I doubt very much that they are moronic, but I have no doubts that they were being deceptive. A deception upon the American people that continues and is being utilized by Democrat politicians and the Democrat Party to advance their electioneering.

A deception that strikes at the heart of America, as it is based on disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation being propagated upon the American public, thereby creating an ill-informed electorate. Such deceptions are not uncommon among Democrat politicians and the Democrat Party, as facts and truths are a hindrance to the election of Democrats, not to mention an impediment to the enactment of social policies and political goals of Democrat Party Leaders and Progressives/Leftists.

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