sicsempertyrannis | It appears to me that Schumer has in mind to try former President Trump in the senate with John Roberts presiding. IMO this is unconstitutional. As Alan Dershowitz said on the TeeVee today, the prospect of such a procedure should be horrifying to all. Why? If the congress can try a private citizen and bar him/her from holding federal office, then whichever party controls the congress can simply bar significant opposition figures from office by re-defining the meaning of statutes, imputing motive where there is none and through guilt by association. This all begins to smell like Stalin's show trials in the 30s in which he killed off his Old Bolshevik comrades and the leadership of the Red Army. Trump will always remain vulnerable to the civil courts. The Dems fear that Florida or federal courts in Florida will not extradite him? They should live with that in the interest of maintaining the Union.
We now have most of downtown Washington, DC transformed into a Green Zone on the Baghdad model. 25,000 federalized National Guard troops plus various kinds of cops occupy that zone. 25,000? How about 1,000? How about 2.000? What do they expect, an attack on the Biden inauguration platform from the other end of the Mall? The bridges from Virginia are closed by order of his majesty Ralph Northam. We live here under Ralph's imperial decrees in a vast outdoor prison. The ability of the imperial authorities to wall us up, each in our own crummy little domain bodes ill for the future.
Not for the first time am I disgusted by the susceptibility of those I thought my countrymen to waves of hysteria. German and then Communist spying in WW1, Prohibition, internment of Japanese descended citizens of the US in WW2, McCarthyism, the 2K fantasy in which people waited for the end of civilized life, 9/11, after which the whole country went into a profound funk and stumbled about terrified of the NEXT ATTACK. And now, we have the Left's desire to destroy opposition, the opposition of 75 million citizens and to do it through mass mobilization of political hysteria.
This will never be the same country again. We have lost the talent needed to maintain a federal republic.
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