by Sam Faddis
A long time ago in Athens, Greece all political power was held by a small group of aristocratic families. These powerful monied interests believed only they had the right to rule. Everyone else should shut up, sit down, and do what they were told.
Then the people decided differently. They rose up. They seized power themselves. They created “demokratia”. We call in democracy and practice it in the form of a constitutional republic. The idea at its heart is pure and very simple.
It translates as “people power”.
The modern-day oligarchs who believe they own democracy want to turn the clock back a few thousand years. They want a rigged game, one in which they may give the people the illusion of choice but that is all it will be – an illusion.
Donald Trump threatens to destroy the system the oligarchs have built. He stands on the verge of returning to the White House and taking a wrecking ball to the Deep State, Permanent Washington, and the whole edifice created by the self-appointed “elite”. The oligarchs are terrified of meeting Trump at the polls. They are shaken by the thought of allowing the people to decide who rules.
And, so, the game must be fixed. Trump must be prosecuted. Trump must be smeared with false accusations. Trump must be stricken from the ballot entirely.
The latest abomination in this assault on democracy comes from Maine, where the Secretary of State, has taken it upon herself to decide that Donald Trump may not be on the ballot in her state. He will not be allowed to run for his party’s nomination.
Shenna Bellows is Maine’s Secretary of State. She was put in that position by the legislature. She was not elected by the people of Maine.
Prior to becoming Secretary of State Bellows was predictably enough on the payroll of a variety of left-wing non-governmental organizations. Bellows served as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine from 2005 to 2013, following her consulting work for other not-for-profit groups.
Bellows has dedicated her life to the pursuit of a whole slate of leftist causes. Predictably enough she opposes election security measures like voter ID. She is a close political ally of Joe Biden and has made any number of online posts branding Trump an insurrectionist and supporting Biden.
Two and a half years ago, within weeks of January 6, 2021, Bellows had made up her mind that Donald Trump was guilty of fomenting an insurrection against the United States. She stated as much in a public post on Twitter. Bellows has visited the Biden White House at least twice in the last six months.
A visit by Bellows to the White House in June of this year appears to have been organized by a group called Issue One. Issue One purports to be a non-partisan group focused on protecting democracy. Its current primary focus appears to be on branding anyone raising concerns about election security as a conspiracy theorist and a threat to democracy. It advocates regularly for more governmental oversight of social media and controls on what can be said online. It also pushes for the federal government to take more of a role in controlling and running elections across the country. It tells us that election officials would run our elections securely and fairly if only we would stop criticizing them and monitoring their behavior.
Sit down and shut up, in other words.
It pretty much goes without saying that these childish efforts to keep Trump off the ballot will fail before the Supreme Court. This is not because the majority is conservative but because the majority is NOT a group of reactionary activists that think they have the power to make law from the bench. However, I think those making these decisions should be prosecuted for election interference themselves. Every one of them is smart enough to know this effort has no foundation in law or truth. It is a desire to control who the citizens are allowed to vote for that drives their decisions, not a mistaken idea that someone merely accused by the most partisan of partisans of leading an insurrection that never even happened can be excluded from candidacy by the 14th Amendment. Of course you can’t disbar Bellows; she’s not even an attorney. But the Colorado judges can be disbarred and prosecuted, along with Bellows, for violating the Voting Rights Act.
She is whining about death threats while our people in Congress are being swatted multiple times. Calls cant be traced?
So why cant they find those swatting our elected servants?
Most likely she like so many of her types is making up the story of death threats. Good God who would want to risk prison to off this raving lunatic.
Maybe the type that doused MLKs birthplace with gas and was going to torch it.
Who would be blamed?
The Great Clarification – Kunstler
2024 portends to be a potentially chaotic year, perhaps a similar repeat of the summer of 2020. I would put nothing past the left in their efforts to remain in power both politically and bureaucratically.
President Trump may be the person to amplify the threat to the status quo, but the real threat is the American People are demanding accountability and are willing to dismantle the administrative state in order to save the Republic bequeathed to us.
Avoid large crowds. When you park your car, always remember where you parked it. Remember in which door you entered. Leave from that door, go directly back to your car. Look around as you leave a store or any other public place. Look around before you get to your car. Situational awareness is the key to survival. How many instances have we seen random attacks on innocent people minding their own business just going about their daily lives?