In my previous article “Lawlessness”, I referred to the first amendment to the Constitution and, specifically, the right of peaceable assembly. The current questions are what defines peaceable assembly and what happens when peaceable assembly loses its constitutional meaning?
The election of Donald J. Trump for President has caused an eruption of protests in cities around the country. Arguably unprecedented in scope, these protests have been mainly peaceable or, when violent, manageable by local authorities. However, are these the peaceable protests covered by the first amendment and are they within the boundaries of peaceable protest as understood and intended by the founders?
When asked what type of government the founders had created, Ben Franklin replied, “A Republic. If you can keep it.” Are these protests affecting our ability to preserve and protect the republic?
Beyond the street protests, other higher technology protest efforts are underway to undo the election. Electors, dutifully legalized to enforce the result of the election via the Electoral College, are being threatened with violence if they don’t change their vote. In addition, there are plans to create massive disruptions of the presidential inauguration.
Does anyone recognize that if these protesters were to succeed in overturning the election of a President, no part of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would be safe from the anarchy of reinterpretation and the lawlessness of the mob?
Ultimately, the protesters have threatened to kill the President and his key appointees. They have involved illegal immigrants, business executives and workers, educators, entertainers, college and high school students, and even elementary school children in such threats. Of note, Donald Trump was subject to a number of attempted physical assaults while campaigning. (These supposedly peaceful protesters are setting up the President and his key appointees for assassination, something that has not happened since the Lincoln assassination over 150 years ago.)
FBI and Secret Service are checking out the threats to kill the President. Unfortunately, they are numerous in number and all too often anonymous. Are these threats encompassed within the meaning of peaceable assembly? Obviously not, but they are part of the mosaic of anti-election lawlessness that is unfolding all across America.
What is beyond lawlessness? Are these the ignorant protests of useful idiots led by professional social justice anarchists? Is this a form of coup being staged by socialists and communists to undermine the nation and impose tyrannical control? Is this the progressive revolution assaulting the Constitution and advocating for a global government? What part of this activity is constitutional and what part is unconstitutional? We the People should reflect upon our own history where peaceable assembly and protest against the King of England led to violence among the citizenry, war with England, and the eventual establishment of a new nation of free men and women!
Does the constant stream of protests and threats against a legal election and citizens who support that election meet the peaceable assembly intended by the founders? One wonders what the historians will have to say? More importantly, what will We the People have to say?!
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Speaking of lawlessness:
SEIG HEIL!!!
In something that could’ve been scripted by Joseph Goebbels, President-elect Donald Trump just has pretty much every major
media personality and/or outlet over to Trump Tower for a closed-door
meeting.
The NY Post stated:
“The hour-long session included top execs from network and cable
news channels. Among the attendees were NBC’s Deborah Turness, Lester
Holt and Chuck Todd, ABC’s James Goldston, George Stephanopoulos, David
Muir and Martha Raddatz,
Also, CBS’ Norah O’Donnell John Dickerson, Charlie Rose, Christopher
Isham and King, Fox News’ Bill Shine, Jack Abernethy, Jay Wallace,
Suzanne Scott, MSNBC’s Phil Griffin and CNN’s Jeff Zucker and Erin
Burnett.”
According to one source who confided in the NY Post:
“It was like a f–ing firing squad…Trump started with Jeff Zucker
and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should
be ashamed.”
Adding:
“The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in
there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the
Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing
down.”
It was basically Trump throwing a hissy fit and talking down to
everyone in the media to tell them how very awful they are to him. Even
though they were pretty soft on him throughout the course of his
campaign, often given him an open forum and hours of free airtime to
tout his craziness.
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Obama’s entire destructive presidency was protected by the “news” people who went to visit with Trump. If anything negative was said about obama, the racist label was immediately used.
During the campaign, the only valid source of news came from Wikileaks, and the MSM avoided that information as if it were the plague. During the debates, it was obvious that the moderators, almost entirely leftist journalists, did everything they could to undermine Trump and prop up Clinton.
Trump’s middle working class voters were demeaned as uneducated and stupid – that in the face of Clinton voters who were welfare users and yet to be educated college students.
The MSM had a dressing down coming and it looks like Trump delivered it. However, the MSM, increasingly discredited and shameful, will only double down on their dishonesty. This is bad for America but the MSM will destroy themselves in their blind obedience to global NWO totalitarianism. A new and more honest news media is rising, that is the good news.
Stupid constitution granting people inalienable rights. Donald Trump will make fixxng that a top priority.
3 more cops were murdered today, when is enough going to be enough? That question is getting tiresome.
Could easily be ISIS as well as some black thug. Saw only one picture and the media cleverly avoids the truth about race and Islamic connection. Now if the shooters were white, the story would be page 1 on lefty newspapers and we would know his history back to the civil war at a niminum.
All we have to do fix the media is to unionize consumers, and stop buying the products that are advertised by offenders of the truth. Why isn’t Limbaugh telling you that?
Because he doesn’t have to tell any thinking person what to think – unlike obama and the SJW thugs that beat up opponents and destroy their property.
Election Fraud
Is someone going to investigate this fraud or not?
In 2012, this is what they claim:
Barack Obama had spent four years with the worst economy we had ever seen + he implemented Obamacare that nobody liked.
What we were told. He lost 5 million votes. Oh so, he lost then? Nope. Even though he lost 5 million votes, MORE BLACK PEOPLE voted for him than in 2008.
Wait, that doesn’t make sense? Black people who stayed home and didn’t vote the time when they were creating history by electing a black guy, decided to come out and vote in 2012 because he was sucking so bad? Yup. That is what happened…why they set a record for turnout for no good reason at all!
In 2016:
Hillary Clinton was so unpopular, that her own party abandoned her to select an unknown black guy to be their candidate.
Then Hillary Clinton was busted lying to Congress about her use of an email server, and to the public about Benghazi.
Then she was so unpopular that her own party tried to abandon her for a Jewish Socialist, but they had rigged the party system to use superdelegates to override the popular vote.
Then it was discovered her cronies controlling the party had cheated for her, and they all had to resign the week of her convention.
Then she was under FBI investigation.
Then she started fainting and coughing in public, and started lying about the cause of her ill-health.
Then Wikileaks came out and showed that her crooked cronies cheated, lied, insulted minorities, traded State Department access for Clinton Foundation donations, and other serious ethical embarrassments.
Then we all watched as she went state to state, having tiny half-empty rallies, whilst her opponent filled large venues with enthusiastic supporters.
What we were told: She was leading the entire time. What? Nobody wants her or likes her! Nope..enthusiasm gets trumped by her ground game. She won the popular vote! What? Nobody likes her, she is sickly criminal and the other guy is packing houses with people that love him. Sorry…she got more votes than him.
Maybe it’s illegal voters.
Maybe it’s a massive cohesive fraud.
All I know is this is bullshit and doesn’t make sense, and somebody needs to get to the bottom of it.
Maybe you need to pull your head out of Rush Limbaugh’s ass.
Maybe you need to pull your whole body and soul out of Hillary’s ass?
Limbaugh doesn’t use mind control and emotional diatribe, he uses fact and reason. You might try facts and reason sometime. It is quite refreshing although hard work.
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Americans will tolerate this disorder only up to a point. The massive wave that elected Donald Trump, is likely to turn on the disgruntled, especially as they beat peaceful Trump supporters, or hinder automobile traffic. Local authorities with their thumbs up their backsides may get some grief as well.
Soros is funding this attempted coup of our will of The People. MSM and Democrat leadership are treasonously aiding.
These lawless rioters/anarchists do NOT have the right to block traffic, destroy private property etc.
Ok, so you know who is funding the uproar and riots over the Trump victory, and you are outraged.
Well, who funded the transfer of our entire manufacturing base to communist China? Who funded the move of the entire call center/customer support industry off shore? Who funded the lawlessness that allows Mexicans and South Americans to just walk in the US and take somebody’s job for peanuts, and then get government subsidization in the form of welfare? Who is funding the corporate ripoff student loan program? Who is funding the overpriced healthcare/drugs ripoff, and the refusal to put free market reforms on Obama’s desk? Who is funding fake news?
Why are YOU not outraged over these issues? The punks will get over the Trump election soon enough. I say lock em’ up. However, the other issues are apparently here to stay?
Why are you not complaining about these issues? Why aren’t people rioting in the streets to get their jobs back? Or, get affordable healthcare? Or, affordable education?
You people only hark to the Limbaugh whistle. He will tell you who is paying for the riots. But, what he doesn’t “spoon” feed his flock is the far bigger problem.
Trump was elected because of the very issues your raise. The idea of putting America First is an old one. It actually goes back almost 250 years. It is only within the past few decades that we elected politicians who forgot that the People rule and the politicians and bureaucrats are the servants. The politicians who forgot come from both parties and both find the power of globalism an aphrodisiac. Unfortunately, globalism is essentially totalitarian in nature and Americans in particular value their liberty..
By the way, why do you think folks are buying guns in record numbers.
Well, I can’t tell you why people are buying guns in record numbers, but, I can tell you why I pulled my S&W M1911 .45 out of the gun safe and put it under the front seat of my truck:
Because one of your people saw my “Proud to be a Democrat” bumper sticker and threatened to shoot me.
Then, when another one of your people pulled the same stunt, I put my S&W M&P-15 behind the seat, with 150 rounds in 5 30-round magazines.
You see, I’m a big believer in overwhelming firepower.
There have been so many hate crime hoaxes, that I would not put it past you or any other Democrat to have made up your little story. Just like your friends from the Congressional Black Caucus you made up slander against the Tea Party.
Is this at the same time as when you wrote about Northern Neck American Legion “President” and Supervisors being racist? (Which we are still looking into, by the way.)
When I see “Proud to be a Democrat”, I realize I am dealing with someone who is mentally unstable and likely to be violent. So, being intelligent, I give them and their beat up truck covered in stickers a wide berth. Now if they try to intimidate or assault me, I grab my gun and call the cops to report the incident. And, per your comment, it is prudent to do so as you are prepared to commit violence base on mere insult. By the way, conservatives are constantly insulted by people like you just because we disagree with your insanity.
Why don’t you drive your truck into the South side of Chicago, home of the original hope and change? Take a vacation there asshole… you can’t bring your gun though.. no gun zone. When the natives beat your ass for real, you’ll be hoping for those fake Trump thugs you are making up.
Here are a couple of points.
Unless Soros gave that money AFTER the election, it is misleading and deceptive to imply that he funded the riots. Hate radio lies.
My point is Limbaugh and the rest of his little elfs are the very ones who let America go down the toilet since 1987. Did that bunch say or do anything to stop exportation of our jobs? NO.
No, they were to busy pissing Whitewaster and other BS in yours ears to get you to vote Republican, and filling their own pockets. They supported the very ones who raped this country.
Limbaugh and that bunch of liars hasn’t done a dam thing for the middle-class.
You seem to think that I liked the results of the Bush presidencies. I certainly did not as they gave away the Reagan legacy to a bunch of global socialists that now control the entire Democrat Party. We haven’t had an America first president since Reagan and he worked miracles while face with democrat control of Congress and a bunch of internationalist RINOs.
There was absolutely no pressure put on Republicans by Limbaugh, or the rest of the lying, blood sucking, hate radio bunch to expose the issues that have wiped out middle-class America. They have without question supported, and been part of the corporate takeover of America.
And, people can complain about the totally absurd number of people on welfare. However, what that tells us is that minimum wage is far to low, and the need to have a southern border. It also shows the damage that has been done to this country by the millions of jobs that have, and still are being shipped to communist China and Mexico or anywhere else cheap labor can be found. Ryan or McConnell never lifted a finger to fix America’s problems. They have been, and will continue to be corporate puppets.
You want to take people’s jobs, and then complain about them being broke, and not being able to survive? Get real.
And, people say we need to move this country back to God, that this country has forgotten about God. But yet, the person who is supposedly going to move this country back to God, and what it used to be, doesn’t even take a day off to go to church, and those around him don’t have the balls to tell him they are taking some time off to go to church.
Take Mike Pence. He has time to support a left wing, make believe, pretend, con job, by attending “Hamilton”, and yet he apparently doesn’t have time to attend church.
Liberal BS like “Hamilton” are part of what is wrong with this country. What did he expect, a “person of the year” award from the BS liberals who put on “Hamilton”?
And you have proof of this “Soros funding?”
Catherine Crabill is not a reliable source.