EDITORIAL and COMMENTARY
Lockdown the criminal meister to save the Republic
If the US Department Of Justice does not indict, convict, and imprison the 45th president for planning, inciting, and calling for the Jan. 6 insurrection at the nation's Capitol, it's the beginning of the end for the USA. Perhaps this is why America is not mentioned in prophecy in the Book of Revelation of the Holy Bible. Students of the Bible know what I mean.
America, the mightiest nation in history, is conspicuously absent from the prophetic final and greatest military battle in world history—Armageddon; the Battle of Megiddo, a coming great war campaign between the forces of good and evil at the end of time, when the Kings of the East march on Israel. Revelation 16:16.
Many Bible scholars believe the Kings of the East are Russia and China. Those familiar with geo-politics know the USA is Israel's staunchest ally of any nation on Earth, and would never allow Russia or China to attack her without intervening—unless America is severely weakened by some kind of implosion from within.
Remember the oft-quoted phrase, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." The origin of the phrase is a warning to the scribes and Pharisees in Matthew, 12:25:
“And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”
America is severely divided. It escalated in 2016 when the 45th POTUS was sworn in, and deepened when he was defeated in a re-election bid in 2020, after which he plotted to overturn the election with a scurrilous scheme of lies and deceit that exploded with a violent seizure of the Capitol.
The DOJ must shackle and lockdown this criminal meister if this democratic republic is to survive.
America the Imperiled!
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military juggernaut on the scale of the US arsenal.
The might of the US navy alone is unfathomable.
But, as the nation bears witness today, a house divided against itself will crumble. No one ever believed that chilling scenario could happen here—
until Jan. 6, 2021.
An angry mob incited by an irrational, unhinged defeated incumbent president stormed and attacked
merica's defeat in a full-scale conflict has never been a pressing concern for the nation's military leaders. Never in world history has there been a
the capitol in a failed coup to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which was fairly and decisively won by Joseph R. Biden by a 7 million vote margin to make him the nation's 46th president. He won the Electoral College 306 to 232. The reverse of the margin Donald Trump won by in 2016. He called that a "massive landslide victory."
Trump didn't call President Biden's victory a landslide. Instead, he lied—calling it a "stolen" election. "The Big Steal," as it has infamously come to be known, fueled by Trump's petulant incessant drone, has created ever-widening fissures in the land along political, social, racial and gender lines.
Factions in Trump's camp—namely the ultra-radical Proud Boys and Oath-Keepers advocate blood in the streets; a civil war with race as a catalyst.
These are perilous times in America. We have witnessed a number of senseless tragic mass murders inspired by Trump's caustic rhetoric, fueling massacres of 9 Black Americans at a Charleston, SC church; 10 others at a Buffalo, NY supermarket; and 23 Latino Americans at an El Paso, Texas Walmart.
These people are not patriots, as they claim to be. Patriots don't seek the blood of fellow Americans. These people are the enemy—willing to destroy the nation in the name of white supremacy, white nationalism, and racial purity. More than 74 million of the US electorate with views like these or views that correlate to radically conservative beliefs, voted for Donald Trump.
This demographic also believes the Trump lie that the 2020 election was stolen by Blue-leaning poll workers and ballot tabulators. A deranged Trump, detached from reality and sound reasoning encouraged thousands of his followers—many armed, to descend on the Capitol and stop the Electoral College certification of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America.
The belligerent mob overcame a grossly outnumbered Capitol police force and barnstormed the Capitol build- ing, shattering windows and compromising entrance points with many senators, congress persons and staff still at work. The rioters—who earlier chanted, "Hang Mike Pence," for refusing to bend to Trump's will to de-certify the Biden victory—failed to seize the proceedings in the Capitol chambers where there could have been bloodshed against certain Democratic lawmakers.
Evidence presented at the Jan. 6 Hearings have shown that the former president played a measured role in the violence that permeated the Capitol.
Trump mocks a second run at the highest office in the land in 2024. But, if United States Attorney Merrick Garland and the US Justice Department have a modicum of a sense of justice, they will levy charges against Trump and his co-conspirators to subvert a fair and legal presidential election with a coup that fell all so short.
We believed Donald J. Trump should see the inside of a prison for his recalcitrance, effort to malign the US Constitution, his decades of blatant tax evasion—and most of all, his clear evidentiary role in the violent Capitol insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.
Should none of the aforementioned be brought to bear, the least that should occur, is this very dangerous demagogue should be branded and legally barred from ever again holding public office.