Good ol’ conservatives going to be haunted by all those domestic spy state measures they so fervently cheered under George W. Bush. Lookin’ at you, Coulter, Carlson, Ingraham. “Well, if you’re not breaking any laws, what are you worried about? You and your silly concerns about civil liberties.” Yeah, let’s try that 2002 sentiment on again in a year. See how well it wears. And they never learn.

CNN is now lobbying cable providers to remove Fox News from their channel lineups. Not surprising.

No doubt Biden will make many long for the “good old days” of Barack Obama.

Congrats to the fourteen Patriots Alaska Airlines has banned! 

“Last night, a number of passengers on board Alaska Airlines Flight 1085 from Washington Dulles to Seattle were non-mask compliant, rowdy, argumentative and harassed our crew members,” an airline rep said in a statement.

What’s wrong with the other passengers? Why didn’t they tear their masks off in solidarity with the Freedom Fourteen? I swear, cowards that craven deserve all the misery that the Usurper can dish out.

But back to the airline’s spokesliar:

“At least 14 passengers could now be placed on our ban list for their actions, 

Unless those passengers boycott you first, you insufferable cattle-chute. When did commercial aviation stop being transportation and become Nanny Ratched? 

meaning they face the possibility of not being able to fly with us in the future. We will not tolerate any disturbance onboard our aircraft or at any of the airports we serve.”

Oh, stuff it. I bet you’d not only tolerate but encourage disturbance, were BLM or antifa onboard. 

Meanwhile, at Reagan National, more patriots dogged the disgusting and reprehensible Lindsey “Light in his Loafers” Graham Cracker with shouts of “Traitor to the country,” “Audit the vote,” and “You don’t represent us!” 

I nominate both cell-phone videos for “Best Picture”! You wanna laugh joyously, watch these Patriots declaring war on Our Rulers!

Leo Higgins was our man in DC this past Wednesday. He filed one report on his way home that night; I asked him for any reflections he might have once he’d recovered from the trip. Here, then, are further

impressions and comments about the day as a whole, and the  “afternoon events” of the DC rally… 

First, the good news.  The crowd which walked over to the Ellipse area was very upbeat and positive.  Yeah, there were people with flags and banners using various Anglo-Saxon profanities on them, but they were just letting off a little steam with that, and otherwise visibly having just a good time with people they had a spiritual bond with, from all over America.  Considering that the folks were there to begin with because they weren’t “happy” about the election, even the sloganeering going on was still just general-principles-venting, and absolutely nothing incendiary.  It was a coming together of the clans, with people taking pride in their states, displaying flags from Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, California, Guam (!) and pretty much everywhere else, even one guy from my own state of Massachusetts, if you can believe it.  It was fun fellowship!  The day was cloudy, cold and windy, but people standing there for hours bore it all well, and, if they were caught up in the moment, it was a moment of hope and trust that, somehow, the day would end with at least a sign that the results of the election would be properly addressed in an orderly and “through the process” manner.  And, after the speeches to the crowd at the Ellipse were finished, the people walked over to the Capitol in a positive, upbeat way, there was no hint that anything was about to bubble over.

When we got down Pennsylvania Avenue far enough to see the Capitol grounds, we could tell that there was no real crowd there yet (I’ll get back to why that was so later), so my group decided to go to Union Station, where some of us had arrived in DC that morning, to try to warm up a bit and maybe get a bite to eat, expecting to get back down to the Capitol shortly.   Almost as soon as we were heading out the door when we were finished, I got a call from a friend back home saying “They’re storming the Capitol!  You’ve got to get out of there right now!”  Just then, dozens of police cars and fire trucks, sirens blaring in “extra-loud mode,” went screaming toward the Capitol from all directions it seemed.  And thousands of people were streaming toward us, heading from the Capitol, looking grim, shell-shocked and very, very concerned.  So what did we do, with myself and the people I came down with averaging age 68?  Why, we headed straight for the Capitol, of course!

I estimate we were 10-15 minutes past the actual breeching of the Capitol when we arrived at the East Portico, so I can’t speak directly to what precipitated that.  But it was still an active situation inside the building at that point, and quite tense and volatile outside for the first 45-60 minutes after we arrived.  Five hundred people were on the East Portico stairs, and thousands were on the east grounds.  Even an hour later, when we made our way to the West Portico to see what was going on there, there were hundreds of people on the portico, and hundreds more on the temporary seating scaffolding on both sides of the portico.  Again, thousands of people were still on the grounds in front of them, even though it was close to 4 PM by then, I think. Since the situation had noticeably quieted by then, many of them were seated in chairs, just watching the whole thing unfold, as if watching a movie.  All they needed was the popcorn!  The positive outlook of the crowd earlier in the day was sufficient to bubble through to where there was almost no more yelling, just concern.

What was going on during this whole time?  When we first arrived, there were large numbers of police at the top of the East Portico stairs, forming a line to block the entire building frontage up there.  The entire span of all that was countered by Trump’s people, facing the police on the landing and top row or two of stairs, actively engaging them verbally.  But no pushing, shoving or further attempts to breech through the building.  Below them, the rest of the stairs were filled with people, facing the grounds, shouting slogans, with one or two trying to give bullhorn speeches.  The crowd on the ground was tense, with some shouting, most of them just talking among themselves with the people they were with, trying to figure out just what happened and was going on.  I must have talked with 50+ of such people. The consensus was that there was word quickly spreading through the crowd that Pence was going to drop the ball and do nothing.  Apparently, several hundred people made a rush to the entrances after hearing that.  It sounds to me almost too “organized” a push, which makes one wonder if a small contingent was just ready to do this, no matter the pretext.  As time went on, many people were starting to drop in the impression that the stormers were either Antifa, or at least sprinkled with Antifa.  The latter seems to have some evidence behind it.  At least several of the protesters turn out to have been Antifa.  The only question remaining is, did they incite the rest with a fake appeal to patriotic overreaction, or were the Trump supporters doing this entirely on their own?

Around 3:00, maybe 3:15, we started making our way around to the west side of the Capitol.  As we were doing so, we passed a group of 7 or 8 Antifa types in a huddle, talking quietly.  As an aside here, the crowd was aware that, around 2:30 or so, Antifa was supposed to be “on the way over,” identifiable as Antifa.   No great number ever materialized, but there were small groups, and even lone individuals with their bogus “Press” helmets, just wandering around.  Important point:  NO ONE engaged these people at all!  There was certainly no physical confrontation of them, and no verbal interaction at all; they were simply IGNORED!  Imagine if the scenario were reversed!  A relative handful of Trump supporters in a sea of thousands of Antifa.  Well, they would have been stomped flat into the earth.  Anyway, no sooner had we passed the huddle when they broke up and started semi-jogging up the right-hand side of the east staircase.  I watched them until there were too many people between them and me to see them clearly.  A few seconds later, there was a flash-bang set off.  Turning again to see what was going on, there were three more flash-bangs over the next 30-40 seconds, up at the top of the stairs.  This might have been a second breech attempt, but it was quashed.  Perhaps this might indicate, too, that, in fact, Antifa might have orchestrated, or had a hand instigating, the actual breech earlier.

When there was nothing more going on there, we continued over to the West Portico, still talking with people along the way.  As I said, thousands were still in the area and on the portico itself.  And the tension had lifted a lot by then, even though the police along the building wall were still in force, and the people nearest them were still apparently talking with them.  Nothing much was going on, until about 4:30 or so, when a group of 30 people tried to get in through a doorway on the right-hand side.  They were pulled back by both police and civilians.  I couldn’t tell if they were Trump supporters or not.  And that was the last direct confrontation I saw.  On our way back to Union Station, we saw three groups of 50 SWAT police marching to the Capitol, and a bunch of blackened window SUVs with flashing lights headed for the Capitol.  I imagine they were going to secure the area for the continuation of the farce once the Congress reassembled to complete The Steal.  They did not interact with the people leaving the Capitol, but let us just keep moving away with no heavyhanded threats and shouts to clear out.   The 6 PM curfew had long since been announced, and people were allowed to stay beyond 5 PM.  I found that interesting.  Don’t know if they were just trying to defuse things, or were perhaps looking to throw their weight around later, with the stragglers who too long to clear the area, playing the tough guys.  With a potential Storming of the Bastille unfolding, I have wondered ever since why they “allowed” us to mill around for hours in the first place.  Keeping the sheep in the fold for the slaughter occurred to me, but, I just don’t know, and I’m probably being over imaginative on this point.

Some thoughts on the stand-off between the police and the Trump people at the stairs and west side.  In spite of my concern for the development of sheepfolds, considering what was actually going on inside, I think the Capitol police handled themselves very well overall.  I am somewhat outspoken about many police and their overreaction to far too many incidents they themselves escalate, but I must say that it could have been a bloodbath, but wasn’t.  Ms. Babbit was flat-out murdered inside (Was the perp even a cop?  Do plainclothes police normally wear cufflinks to blend in?  The shooter sure looked like his cuffs were pinched, as a cufflink would do, rather than buttoned.  Was this guy a Congressman or staffer who panicked, and the police are publicly taking the fall for him?  Perhaps time will tell.), but apart from that, with 200 protesters running around in the hallways and chambers, the police could have blown them all away and have a rubber-stamp “investigation” clear them, yet they really worked hard, I think, to try to stabilize things with as little violent reaction as possible.  I think they did well, and it raises the question in my mind as to how much resistance the police would put up against real protesting against the election travesty.  Will the police “fire on their own people” en masse?  Based on the events of the 6th, I would guess: perhaps not very much at all.  Between the restraint of firepower, and the almost bantering going on an hour later on the stairs outside, more of them might be more sympathetic than I might have thought earlier.

Union Station was kind of like the deck of the Titanic, with people waiting to just get out of Dodge.  As with the events of the day outdoors, virtually no one was wearing masks, and they were getting away with it, despite the PSA every ten minutes that masks in the station were required.  A little taste of Freedom, even in a day whose events turned-out to be a set up for the abolition of Freedom not too far in our future.  As the crowd thinned out with people boarding for home, those of us who were left were getting a scaled down show of force with the explosives-sniffing dogs being marched slowly, three different times, past the feet of all of us sitting down.  This wasn’t in evidence that I could see when the crowd was bigger, and the situation actually more potentially dangerous, so this was probably just security theater.  “If we can’t enforce the masks, at least we can make the serfs and tax-aphids know ‘Who’s boss’ somehow!”  I guess I can’t make heads or tails about the overall police response, the extreme violence that could have manifested was, thankfully, not in evidence outside the Capitol building, but they still had to put on at least mild displays of pettiness, anyway.

Some other issues:  yet again, there were too many people, in too many separate groups, stepping on each other and creating confusion.  The original plan was to have the ENTIRE rally at the Capitol, via the Stop the Steal organization, with all of the speakers assembled there.  That would have been perfect, as the “optic” of hordes of people surrounding the Capitol was what Congress and Pence should have been forced to see upon arrival.  Instead, the Women for America group – good intentions notwithstanding – kind of co-opted the whole thing, creating a second rally venue at the Ellipse.   This is the second time they did this; the December 12 rally was divided in the same way.  Anyway, the set up was just plain bad.  There was one semi-large viewing screen, useless to 80% of the people assembled between the Ellipse-proper and the Washington Monument, and to say the rattling, staticky sound system was merely “terrible” is to be kind.  Few speakers were even audible at all, and the rest either were talking too fast, too quietly, or were swallowing the mic while they spoke, creating a sound system nightmare.  Even Trump, oftentimes, talked too fast, and most people could make out, at best, half of what he said.  At least there is a silver lining of sorts in that:  we can say that he definitely didn’t “incite” the people to riot, even if he wanted to, for the simple reason that few people could hear him clearly anyway!  And I’m just dismayed that there was zero interaction between the two main sponsoring groups.  Right to the minute I arrived, the Stop the Steal website indicated that their rally was to be at the Capitol, starting in the morning.  That never happened, and people only started arriving at or after 1 PM, when the Ellipse speeches were over.  The people inside the Capitol were already getting started by this point.  Terrible planning!  For an event that could have had historical import – beyond the violence that ensued! – no one thought through how to pull this off as “One for the ages”!  The chance to right that ship is now gone.

Bottom line:  the crowd was grim and just plain dazed, and it was obvious that there was a lot of introspection and soul-searching going on with everybody.  “What’s next?” was being worked on in real time.  These people came to DC to show their displeasure, and, in the end, the initial fears behind that were ratified in spades by the cowards and accommodationists on the Republican side, and traitors on the Democrat side.  The American people now know, if they didn’t before, that the ENTIRE political apparatus has broken down; there is no redress in state legislatures or court, and zero redress in Congress or the Federal judiciary.  And all of this is coupled with the fact that social media is actively pushing for our collective “cancelling,” while giving us no platform whatsoever in the meantime.  I hope and pray that this wasn’t a Ft. Sumter II, or a Boston Massacre II, but it is at least the dawn of a day when flag-waving innocence and naivete in flyover country go out the window, and people now have a small window of opportunity left to assert themselves before the total clampdown, hopefully, with a minimum of violence.  But, once the Second Amendment, is stripped away by the newly-packed “Supreme Court,” that window will close forever.  We have to walk a tightrope between a bloodbath and rolling over entirely.  There’s not much time to think it all through, and leaders need to emerge RIGHT NOW!  We’ve got one shot to get this right, and we can’t get bamboozled by a bunch of new grifters just replacing the old grifters.

The Opening Act of the New “War on Domestic Terror”

The Democommunists have now brazenly stolen two elections,

Likely way more than that, but who’s counting?

the presidency, the Senate, and the entire republic, and they think there’s no penalty for that.

They keep thinking that the courts they have on speed dial will always be the only ones in session.

Government, at every level, has been lawfully petitioned for a redress of grievances, and the response from each one has been unswervingly the same:

“Go f*** yourselves, peasants.”

Fair enough, public disservants, and flaming a**holes. We tried it your way. Now we know who the a**holes are, and it’s about time for a high colonic. The antics of our would-be overlords have now identified exactly where to insert the enema hose, and boy, howdy, this one’s coming straight outta the hot tap, at scalding temperature.

The queue forms here to turn on the faucet!

You’re all going to find out just how ungovernable an army of Deplorables is, when they revoke consent to be governed by such lawless bastards as what is about to be inflicted upon the entire body politic.

More along these delicious if profane lines at Raconteur Report. Thanks to Bill Martin for sending this thrilling call to arms.

Get ready for Mao Tse Harris’ Great Leap Backward.

What else can be expected from state police but failure?

Not a democracy, Peter, it resembled a republic at one time but contrary to Mr. Franklin, was not kept if it was even that. Trump is where he is in part because while he promised to drain the swamp, he then surrounded himself with it.

Labor unions are evil.

So is the TSA and the airlines that tolerate it (and why not? The TSA shifted their costs of complying with regulations to passengers). 

Combine the two, and the wickedness mounts beyond bearing. 

Exhibit A:

The country’s largest flight attendants union, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, called for the ban [(on) rioters who took part in the Wednesday siege of the U.S. Capitol from commercial flights] hours after the siege. Union President Sara Nelson said flight attendants on domestic flights encountered unruly passengers en masse Tuesday.

“The mob mentality behavior that took place on several flights to the D.C. area yesterday was unacceptable and threatened the safety and security of every single person onboard,” said Nelson, whose union represents 50,000 flight attendants across 17 airlines.

Good gracious. I nominate ol’ Nelson there for Hysteric of the Century.

When unfathomable iniquity is afoot, congresscritters can’t be far behind. Cue “U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS),” one of the more vacuous and absurd criminals in a nest full of ‘em. He

wants people involved in riots at the U.S. Capitol to be labeled as domestic terrorists.

Thompson, who is the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a statement Thursday calling on TSA and the FBI to add those involved in the unrest at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to be added to the no-fly list.

“Given the heinous domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol yesterday,

Whoa! Nelson may have to defend her title.

I am urging the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use their authorities to add the names of all identified individuals involved in the attack to the federal No-Fly List and keep them off planes.

No one’s as good as Marxists at taking revenge.

This should include all individuals identified as having entered the Capitol building—an intrusion which threatened the safety of Members of Congress and staff and served as an attack on our Nation.

Oh, the megalomania! To mistake the Swamp in general and Congress specifically for “our Nation”! No, you unspeakable imbecile, you and your fellow sociopaths are a cancer on the nation. You are a parasite, not the host. 

And we are about to excise you.

Take heart from John Clifton’s analysis of the Revolution’s start this past Wednesday; I did!

What the MAGA people are, are the Resistance. They are pro-liberty populists, nationalists and traditionalists who actively stand up to the elite deep state establishment, which Libertarians used to understand was the Cult of the Omnipotent State. They and their current leader Trump have flaws, but lack of patriotism and backbone is not one of them. And they are just getting started. If their code could be summed up, it would look like the below recent internet meme:

“IF YOU FIND YOUR SELF AGREEING WITH THE CORPORATE MEDIA, MILLIONAIRE CELEBRITIES, AND THE BILLIONAIRE TECH OLIGARCHS, THEN YOU ARE NOT THE RESISTANCE.”

Compare the excuses that Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, cites for submitting to the Mark of the Beast–sorry, vaccination with those that Focus on the Family offers. Then tell me these apostates aren’t reading from the same script. 

And we all know who wrote their lines, don’t we?

Thanks to each of you who sent me Pastor Baldwin’s magnificent condemnation of the “sheepish, sniveling, spineless ‘saints’” infesting American pulpits. And to Vinne Terranova for alerting me to Focus on the Family’s latest heresy.

Memorandum: How The 2020 Election Could Have Been Stolen, by  Claes G. Ryan

A political scientist examines the evidence and concludes that widespread fraud took place.

He’s one of 

six leading online “anti-vaxxers” — Barbara Loe Fisher, Joseph Mercola, Del Bigtree, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sherri Tenpenny and Andrew Wakefield–

whom the preposterously Orwellian “Centre for Countering Digital Hate” has smeared. Supposedly, these half-dozen humanitarians are

“an extremist group that pose [sic] a national security risk,” because “once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it’s easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism.”

Yeah, I laughed my head off, too. I’ll wait while you catch your breath.

Ready for more? The Centre’s slander and hysteria has infected “British and American intelligence agencies,” who’ve “labeled” our heroes as “a national security threat” because said spooks “are collaborating to eliminate ‘anti-vaccine propaganda’ from public discussion…”

Gotta say I love a “national security threat” that cured my migraines. I suffered from two or three per week, as well as lesser headaches, until I read Dr. Mercola on LRC and began following his advice. I’m eternally grateful to him for relieving my agony and to Lew Rockwell for bringing the good doctor to my attention.

I wonder what other blessings lurk in the hundreds of “national security threats” Our paranoid Rulers excoriate. 

The Lying Media Scum are breathlessly reporting that Pelosi, Schumer, and Schiff are “calling for the removal of President Trump from office.”  Can you spell “broken record”?

Gaslighting from the Harris administration will exponentially increase until that administration is coming after you based on what culture you celebrate; who you vote for; what web pages you surf; your level of obedience/compliance; and whether or not you are willing to turn your personal body and health over to the Medical-Government oligarchy for control and experimentation.

“Covid Pass” and social scoring will become a reality in order to control movement and individual access to services as the Communist coup clamps down on dissidents.

1981 Academy Award Winner for Best Short Documentary. Profile of Karl Hess – writer, community activist, technologist and all around genius.

“The Death of Politics,” originally published in the March 1969 issue of Playboy magazine, this milestone essay was written by the late Karl Hess and is read by Jeff Riggenbach.

David Mueller sent me this picture and captioned it:

These are some of America’s brave Senators and Representatives hiding in fear of their lives.  Mind you, these same people vote to bomb and destroy third world countries.  They can give, but they can’t take.

Gary from Central Florida responded to Ah, Poetic Justice!:

Guns for me. Not for thee. Funny how none of the elected creeps in  the Capitol were screaming about gun control yesterday.

Viewing the video of the public execution of the unarmed female Airforce veteran by what appears to be a suit-wearing secret service agent, a couple of things stand out to me:  1.  The woman was alone and not part of a “mob.” There were others standing around on another level, but they were not behind her and threatening to burst through the door.  2.  There were seven heavily-armed SWAT team guys right behind her and on her side. How could she pose a threat to anyone on the other side of the door with seven SWAT guys on her tail and in plain view of the shooter?  If she made it through the door, couldn’t all those cops just cuff her?  3.  There was no mob breaking down the doors.  The window was broken, she stuck her head through it, and the secret service-ish-looking murderer shot her in the neck at almost point blank range.  4.  One of the SWAT guys is then seen in the video as giving the shooter a thumbs up.

Joe Biden has said that police officers should be trained to shoot people they believe to be threatening them in the leg.  I guess the D.C. police have not yet revamped their police training to reflect the wishes of the new emperor.

>SIGH<

I’ve just read yet another article at a well-meaning “libertarian” website moaning that lockdowns “don’t work.” Our fellow-travellers therefore advise that since states with the most stringent stay-at-home orders also boast the highest incidence of infection, politicians should try other “solutions.” Plus, lockdowns’ unintended consequences have proven harmful.

Oh, please: we should never allow Leviathan to meddle with our health—or lack thereof—in the first place. And who says those adverse consequences are unintended? 

Why do libertarians, who supposedly understand the dangers of the State, assume that despots are hoping to curb disease rather than us? 

The lockdowns are “working” just fine, thank you. 

Ah, Poetic Justice! inspired Matt Laise to confess,

The part that resonated with me wasn’t the poetic justice of [Congresscritters] crying for the police.  It was that they are actively scared of the people.  What I see everywhere is stories about the powerful cowering in fear because what happened today reminded them that the power they possess is predicated on the people going along with it.

As Jefferson said long ago: “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny”.  Today was a perfect example that even in the face of the plandemic and countless other usurpations the flame of liberty is still smoldering.

Time for it to burst into flames so fierce they consume every despot from sea to shining sea.

In the final days of the Nixon administration, CBS News’ prime time feature 60 Minutes had a famous segment that aired each week. It was called Point/Counterpoint. It was a mini-debate between James Jackson Kilpatrick (on the right) and Nicholas von Hoffman (on the left). In perhaps the most notable episode of the program von Hoffman observed concerning President Nixon and Watergate that it had reached the point as if you found a dead mouse in your kitchen.

“The question,” he said of the president, “is who is going to pick it up by the tail and drop it in the trash. At this point it makes no difference whether he resigns, thereby depositing himself in a sanitary container, or whether Congress scoops him up in the dustpan of impeachment. But as an urgent national health measure, we’ve got to get that decomposing political corpse out of the White House.”

It has reached that unfortunate stage with President Donald Trump with his ghoulish salivating enemies seething and chomping at the bit clamoring for his utter destruction and ruin.

God save the United States and its Republic.

Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian “solutions” are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat. Glenn Greenwald Jan 7 Members of the Swat team patrol and secure the Statuary Hall before US Vice President makes his way into the House Chamber, at the US Capitol, on January 7, 2021 in Washington, DC (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) In the days and weeks after the 9/11 attack, Americans were largely united in emotional horror at what had been done to their country as well as in their willingness to endorse repression and violence in response. As a result, there was little room to raise concerns about the possible excesses or dangers of the American reaction, let alone to dissent from what political leaders were proposing in the name of vengeance and security. The psychological trauma from the carnage and the wreckage at the country’s most cherished symbols swamped rational faculties and thus rendered futile any attempts to urge restraint or caution. Nonetheless, a few tried. Scorn and sometimes worse were universally heaped upon them. On September 14 — while bodies were still buried under burning rubble in downtown Manhattan — Congresswoman Barbara Lee cast a lone vote against the Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF). “Some of us must urge the use of restraint,” she said seventy-two hours after the attack, adding: “our country is in a state of mourning” and thus “some of us must say: let’s step back for a moment, let’s pause just for a minute, and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control.” For simply urging caution and casting a single “no” vote against war, Lee’s Congressional office was deluged with threats of violence. Armed security was deployed to protect her, largely as a result of media attack suggesting that she was anti-American and sympathetic to terrorists. Yet twenty years later — with U.S. troops still fighting in Afghanistan under that same AUMF, with Iraq destroyed, ISIS spawned, and U.S. civil liberties and privacy rights permanently crippled — her solitary admonitions look far more like courage, prescience and wisdom than sedition or a desire to downplay the threat of Al Qaeda. Others also raised similar questions and issued similar warnings. On the left, people like Susan Sontag and Noam Chomsky, and on the right people such as Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan — in different ways and at different times — urged U.S. politicians and Americans generally to resist unleashing an orgy of domestic assaults on civil liberties, foreign invasions, and an endless war posture. They warned that such a cycle, once initiated, would be very difficult to control, even more difficult to reverse, and virtually guaranteed to provoke even greater violence. Subscribe now These few who dissented from the instant consensus were, like Congresswoman Lee, widely vilified. Both Sontag and Chomsky were branded anti-American Fifth Columnists, while David Frum, writing in National Review, denounced Buchanan and others questioning the excesses of the War on Terror from the right as “Unpatriotic Conservatives”: no different, proclaimed the neocon, than “Noam Chomsky, Ted Rall, Gore Vidal, Alexander Cockburn, and other anti-Americans of the far Left.”

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Then. On July 3, 1849, during a cholera epidemic that ravaged the United States, President Zachary Taylor proclaimed a National Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, stating:

It is recommended to persons of all denominations to abstain as far as practical from secular occupations and to assemble in their respective places of public worship, to acknowledge the Infinite Goodness which has watched over our existence as a nation, and so long crowned us with manifold blessings, and to implore the Almighty in His own good time to stay the destroying hand which is now lifted against us.

Now. Government makes it illegal to go to places of public worship and tells everyone to stay home.

I caught a few minutes of the beginning of the Rush Limbaugh show on the car radio today where Rush played a prediction that he made a few weeks before the 2016 election.  In essence, he said that if Trump is elected on a platform of transferring power from Washington, D.C. to the people, he — or anyone else like him — will be tormented, hounded, harassed, hated, smeared, lied about, threatened, and worse.  The primary reason for this, said Rush, is to let everyone else know that that is exactly what will happen to you, too, if you try to limit the powers and privileges of the D.C. establishment.

Rush then played the words of a from Congressman Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) this past Monday saying exactly that, even proclaiming that future Trumps should be handcuffed and hauled off to prison for even contemplating doing “what Trump did.”  They should be treated “like Negroes,” said Congressman Johnson, so that no one would ever be able to do what Trump has done in the past four years, i.e., speak the truth about the phony, corrupt, stupid, immoral, lying, deceiving, greedy pigs in Washington like Congressman Hank Johnson.  This is how the Party of Unity intends to proceed.  If everyone who disagrees with them has their lives destroyed then yes, there will be “unity” in Washington.

I didn’t hear Limbaugh’s original prediction, but I made the same prediction in my mind after hearing his first inaugural address in which he said:

“We are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American people.”

“[A] small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost.”

“Washington flourished — but the people did not share in its wealth.”

The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.”

He said this surrounded by the entire Washington establishment on inauguration day.  That is why they spent every waking hour of every day for the past four years spewing vitriolic hate at Trump and his supporters.  It doesn’t matter if he did not achieve the transfer of power to the people; merely saying such a thing in public was enough to ignite the everlasting hatred of the hordes of serpentine peons and psychopaths who populate the Washington swamp.