I am listening to MSNBC’s coverage about what is happening in NYC and DC. I cannot fathom what is happening. Federal troops in DC?! Acting AGAINST Americans?!
My initial response is: our president has lost it. He needs to be removed immediately. He has now shown he is no longer capable of acting like the first American. He is acting distinctly unAmerican. He is acting distinctly against the solemn oath to protect and defend our country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. He is acting distinctly against his oath to protect and defend our laws.
I mean, does anyone remember what sparked revolutions across Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries? Does anyone remember what happened to spark the American Revolution? Our ancestors were all standing up for basic human rights. They were standing up for future generations so that we would no longer have to serve feudal lords, now those same forces are our modern mega-corporations. They laid down their lives so that future governments served the People.
We, as Americans, live in a country of the People, by the People and for the People. Our government, as represented by the office of the President, is supposed to represent ALL Americans. Not just the people the President feels like he needs to represent for his own political needs.
Posse comitatus is real. Forty-five has abrogated his oath of office and is now acting in a distictly unAmerican manner. We are not a dictatorship. We never gave our permission to be ruled by an authoritarian. Remember that 45 LOST the popular vote and he is impeached. He is both illegitimate (the Russian Federation, led by former KGB official Vladamir Putin, has been proven by numerous investigations by numerous intelligence agencies to have interferred in the American Presidential election of 2016) and impeached. He has no power to squelch or otherwise silence the American People. Any action he takes against us and against the U.S. is not valid and needs to be treated as illegitimate and unAmerican. The military leaders need to reject any order by this illegitimate and impeached Commander in Chief.
I fully support peaceful protests. I fully support the freedom to assemble and to speak out against our government, as protected and defended for over 200 years in our Constitution. Those who ride the coattails of those who peaceably assemble and voice their dissention should be prosecuted. But, using the American military against citizens of the United States is so far beyond the pale, I cannot find words to properly express how unAmerican it is.
This is also a positive affirmation that DC needs to be recognized as a State. No American, anywhere in this country, should ever be exposed to military force. No American, in any territory, in any state, should ever be silenced by military force. That is NOT American. That is not what our country represents. That is an act against our Constitution, our founding principles, what it means to be American.
For goodnes sake! Forty-five was photgraphed and videographed holding an UPSIDE-DOWN Bible! After ordering OUR military to move against OUR CITIZENS! Americans moving against Americans! What more proof does anyone in this country need to see that this regime is illegitimate? That the person currently holding the highest office in OUR country is NOT acting like an American?
Even the evangelical community must see some symbolism in an up-side down Bible? Surely, all Americans see the un-American act of ordering American troops to act against Americans?! Have we completely lost our sense of American community? Have we completely lost our sense of what it means to be American?