Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed
for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that
mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when
a long a train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for
their future security.
Declaration of Independence
America’s birth certificate begins with ideals—“all
men are created equal”; “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”; “the
consent of the governed.” Then comes a
list of grievances against King George III.
And it ends with a solemn oath.
Now, apparently, the Revolution has been
rejected, the list of grievances against kingship withdrawn. And so, the reactionaries set about ruin.
A republic, which derives its “just powers
from the consent of the governed,” creates institutions. A tyrant destroys them. The one is about the rule of law; the other,
power and the whims of an individual.
To accept what is, is not to acquiesce. To make a concession to reality is not to
surrender. To acknowledge the situation
is the first step toward victory. For
when failure is the result of timidity and cowardice, it is time to be bold and
courageous.
In 2016, he was the beneficiary of
Operation Crosscheck and the Russian Connection. They dovetailed. Thus began the feast on the fruit of the
poisonous tree by the gentleman from New York.
Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State of Kansas, was the commander. His
faulty list of approximately 7 million voters was used by GOP counterparts in
27 States to remove Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters from the rolls by
claiming they were voting in multiple States. A first and last name was
enough for a match. Jr. and Sr. did not matter, nor middle names, nor
different Social Security numbers.
“The program's method of identifying and purging
voters especially threatens the registrations of minority voters who are...67%
more likely than white voters to share America's most common names:
Jackson, Washington, Lee, Rodriguez and so on,” according to Greg Palast.
In the three crucial States that were supposed to be
the Democratic firewall, the gentleman from New York “won” by 44,000 in
Pennsylvania, 11,000 in Michigan, and 23,000 in Wisconsin. Crosscheck
removed up to 344,000 in the first and 449,000 in the second. In the
third, Photo ID, which is used to stop non-existent “voter fraud,” made the
difference by depressing turnout in Milwaukee. Thus, the 20 electoral
votes in Pennsylvania, 16 in Michigan, and 10 in Wisconsin went to the
Republican instead of Mrs. Clinton. And so, the legitimacy of the
gentleman from New York goes beyond the question of foreign influence.
The Russian Connection got all the attention, but what also had an impact on
the election was Operation Crosscheck. While that may sound like the
authorization included plausible denial—“As always, should you or any member of
the I.M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of
your actions”—it was an obvious effort to deny certain American citizens their
right to vote. And
that supposedly domestic covert operation against them was successful because
the self-styled “mainstream” press failed—and still fails—to cover this
story. But the falsehood about 3 million “illegal aliens” voting—circulated
by the Kobach crowd—was covered. Yet 7 million citizens on a list to deny
them the right to vote were ignored.
In 2020, the gentleman from New York prepared
the ground and sowed doubt—for the long con. In 2024, he played craps with loaded dice
and rolled a seven and “won” all the battleground States. The psyop paid off.
“There is no such thing as a coincidence,”
according to Gibbs’s Rule No. 39. Two
things tell the story, and they are the tell.
Professor Lichtman’s 13 keys were based upon the study of campaigns
going back to 1860. They have been
accurate since he began using them in 1984, although in 2000 his prediction was
thrown off by the intervention of the Supreme Court. Ann Selzer, Carnac the Magnificent of the
Midwest, has also been uncannily accurate.
She had Harris with a four point lead in Iowa three days before the election. The gentleman from New York “won” by 13%. What a…no such thing as…
The gentleman from New York and the GOP
had contingency plans to pull off the heist.
The loyal opposition needs a Plan B to thwart the theft.
In preparation for the Federal Convention,
James Madison gathered together the constitutions of the ancient republics.
They taught an important lesson. Foreign influence was the consistent cause of
their demise, and it is why we have an emoluments clause—a constitutional
conflict of interest provision; a requirement that the President be “a natural
born citizen”; and treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution because
it is a threat to the life of the Republic and, therefore, first on the list of
impeachable offenses. (Article I,
Section 9, Clause 8; Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 & Article III, Section
3, Clause 1) Fear of foreign influence
was such a deep concern for the Framers that it affected the method of choosing the President of the
United States.
The misunderstood, misrepresented, and
misused Electoral College has two functions. They are popular choice and national
security. Much attention has been
focused on the former and not enough on the latter. Popular choice was to be protected—for
reasons of national security.
“Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should
be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly
adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make
their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in
foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could
they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the Chief
Magistracy of the Union?” (Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist
Papers, No. 68)
“With all the infirmities incident to a
popular election, corrected by the particular mode of conducting it, as
directed under the present system, I think we may fairly calculate," said
James Madison in the House, "that the instances will be very rare in which
an unworthy man will receive that mark of the public confidence which is
required to designate the President of the United States.”
The Electoral College only appears to have
been neutered, because of apathy and ignorance.
But it can still perform its latter function and act as a final check on
demagogues and fraud. And in the present
unusual situation, it can thwart the theft.
“One advantage of Electors is,” according to James
Madison, “although generally the mere mouths of their constituents, they
may be intentionally left sometimes to their own judgment, guided by further
information that may be acquired by them: and finally, what is of material
importance, they will be able, when ascertaining, which may not be till a late
hour, that the first choice of their constituents is utterly hopeless, to
substitute in the electoral vote the name known to be their second choice.”
(The Electoral College by Lucius Wilmerding, Jr., 180-181)
In his Farewell Address, President
Washington reinforced the importance of the lesson Madison learned in his study
of the constitutions of the ancient republics.
“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you
to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy
of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience
prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful woes for republican
government.”
The Founders’ concern is validated by
remarks of Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Vladimir Putin.
“To achieve success in the elections,
Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. And as a responsible person, he will be
obliged to fulfill them.”
The loyal opposition must inform the
Electors of their duty.
The man who resides at Mar-a-Lago is
ineligible, as is his heir apparent. For
the list of grievances against King George III apply to him and the Hillbilly
Hypocrite dining at the same long table.
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act that may define a
tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” (Declaration of Independence)
On January 6, 2025, the first order of
business of the joint session of Congress—before counting the electoral votes—is enforcement of Section 3
of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits anyone who has taken an oath to support the
Constitution and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same” from holding
Federal or State office. The gentleman
from New York has violated that provision in plain sight. He can only be absolved if “Congress...by a
vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” Failure to act would bestow another veneer of
legitimacy on the man who has betrayed the Revolution.
The gentleman from New York wants to
change a government “long established”—for “light and transient causes”: his ego and the favor
of a cult. Prudence indeed will dictate
nothing until he grabs her by “the p_ _ _y” and must pay for an NDA. So, this is not as much a matter of “new
guards” for our “future security” as it is being true to the two oaths. The first is the final line of our country’s
birth certificate. “And for the support
of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and
our sacred honor.” The second is the
oath to support and defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Anyone who violates them is
illegitimate. And so, the answer to
despotism is no. Thus, instead of “the
deep state,” the man who would be king must fear all of us who meant it when we
said, “So help me God.”
(c)2024 Marvin D. Jones. All rights reserved.
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