Starting this week and running through at least Inauguration Day, armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol, according to an internal FBI bulletin obtained by ABC News.
The FBI has also received information in recent days on a group calling for ‘storming’ state, local and federal government courthouses and administrative buildings in the event President Donald Trump is removed from office prior to Inauguration Day. The group is also planning to ‘storm’ government offices in every state the day President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated, regardless of whether the states certified electoral votes for Biden or Trump.
(ABC News, January 11, 2021)
I’m sorry, but am I the only one who sees the manifest treachery inherent in this? Folks, Trump’s supporters are making clear not only their intent to do in every state in the coming days what they did in Washington, D.C., last week, but to do so with far more rampaging force and violence.
As a result, law-enforcement agencies feel so besieged by mere threats, and the fear of last week’s history repeating itself, they are enlisting the military to help turn state Capitols into medieval fortresses. And just think of the resources they’re having to use up to do so.
Meanwhile, politicians are debating whether tis better to
- impeach Trump;
- declare him unfit under the 25th Amendment; or
- let him ride out his term until January 20.
But frankly, this smacks of spending money like drunken sailors, and of marshaling forces like chickens with their heads cut off. Instead, everyone should simply be demanding that Trump call off his dogs.
Of course, the Republicans have shown time and again that they remain hostage to an acute form of Stockholm Syndrome. Therefore, given how these Proud Boys are looking to Trump for guidance, I urge President-elect Biden to do the following:
Deliver a prime-time address tonight to inform the American people that Donald Trump has played a leadership role with these insurrectionists from the outset. He should remind them how Trump responded to the seditious, white-supremacist violence that was rising up across the country last summer. Because, instead of denouncing it when pressed during their first presidential debate in September, Trump famously ordered “Proud Boys – stand back and stand by.” And so they stood until he gave them the order to storm the Capitol on Wednesday.
This is why Biden should say in this address that he is hereby admonishing Trump to order his Proud Boys to stand back, disband, and abort any plan to storm any state capitol. He should warn that, if Trump fails to do so, and violence ensues as feared, the Biden administration will regard him and his Proud Boys as even more treasonous than the Lincoln administration regarded Jefferson Davis and his Confederate secessionists. And that they will all be prosecuted accordingly.
All else is folly; or I should say this reeks of the Machiavellian antics of African despots, as iPINIONS has bemoaned in far too many commentaries, including:
Gbagbo was just the latest African leader who refused to cede power after losing a free and fair presidential election in November to challenger Alassane Ouattara. More to the point, despite ultimatums from the UN, EU, AU, and former colonial power France for him to step down or face military action, Gbagbo did exactly as I predicted: he unleashed still loyal military forces to defend his illegitimate regime.
(“Africa’s Democratic Despots Now Includes Gbagbo of Ivory Coast,” The iPINIONS Journal, December 15, 2010)
Granted, when it comes to the peaceful transfer of power, it should probably come as no surprise that projector-in-chief Trump has more in common with leaders in sh*thole countries than he does with any of his predecessors in the United States.
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