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US Sedition, Presidential Censure, and Impeachment

¹⁰/Jan 2021

Democracy is a process: this past Wednesday was another test of United States democracy and a reckoning of our current administration’s dangerous tactics to stay in power. This has been another disheartening, depressing, embarrassing week in our enduring COVID-19 imposed lock down, but an older threat, the disease of poor thinking, was evident.

A Support the President/#StopTheSteal rally where the President and his lawyer spoke spurred on a protest march to become a mob attack on and looting of the Capitol building. The design was planned to stop the Electoral College count and certification of the the 2020 United States Federal election results, but it turned deadly (four rioters and one Capitol Policeman have died) and delayed Congress a few hours. Early the next morning, President-elect Biden and VP-elect Harris were certified by Congress.

Simple Questions

There are so many simple questions:

For anyone who trespassed into the Capitol building this past Wednesday: how was your goal anything but violence?
- You changed from a peaceful protester (whom I would defend as a right) to one of the mob of rioters, shouldn’t you be prosecuted?
- You can’t claim revolution against and patriotism for the United States at the same time, are you loyal to the President and not the United States?
- Some were looking to find and hang the “traitorous” Vice President of the current administration, who led the Senate Electoral College session. How can you reconcile loyalty to the President and not the VP unless the election was the only factor in your decision?
For the Capitol Police who took selfie photos with the rioters in the building: is it hypocritical to support a criminal event in the place you protect?
For the Congress representatives in the mob, what was your motivation in attacking Congress, your current title and office, and your peers? Like the Capitol Policeman above, isn’t that hypocritical to your role?
For Congress: this President catalyzed an attack on our Republic to overturn the election guaranteed by our Constitution; why should he not be impeached now?
- What more could it take for an impeachment if not Wednesday’s events?
For the lawyer of the President, “Let’s have trial by combat” at the rally: how was your goal anything but violence?
For the Vice President: the President catalyzed a mob that threatened your life, Congress Representative lives, and sedition, how can you not lead the procedure to Censure the President under Constitutional Amendment 25?
For the President: during the second 2020 Presidential Debates, you claimed to be a “Law and Order” President:
- When your 60+ Election related lawsuits in courts across the nation and the Supreme Court have failed to have any merit to proceed, are you respecting the courts of law?
- When you incite your supporters to physical sedition by attacking Congress and the ensuing deaths, how did you support order?
  - The VP called for the National Guard to protect the Capitol and Congress because the President had not done so. Given the emergency, it is unlikely the President delegated the task and more likely the President was allowing the riot to continue for his benefit.
- How can you keep your conscious to stay in office, why won’t you resign instead of continuing to threaten our Republic?

Yes, I’ve learned how “Law and Order” is an epitaph for systematic racial oppression by the police in the United States, which historically arose from the previous attempt in Congress to overturn the election and creation of a committee that enacted Jim Crow laws.

Simple Answers

But I suspect, there are only simple answers:

This President values keeping and expanding his power above all else, he is the most dangerous President.
- Evidenced by the President asking a State Secretary to change the Election
As a public figure, he lied to his supporters about the Election to keep himself in power.
- Evidenced by Wednesday protest rally.

The other concerning problem is that 100+ Republican Congress Representatives continue to object to the Election, maintaining election fraud claims with no evidence. While some backed down from objecting when Congress resumed on Wednesday, because continuing that thread could lead to further sedition, many have not.

Make no mistake, all this subterfuge and chaos is designed to weaken United States citizens, our democracy, and our Constitution. It’s horrible that a minority of citizens are trying to rebuke a voting majority of citizens at the behest of this President, they are willing participants in undermining their own and our collective fortune, peace, and country. The appropriate authorities (the FBI and Congress) need to prosecute the rioters and those who supported them, including the Capitol Police and Congress people, for violent sedition while Congress impeaches and the Administration censures the President. I will hold objecting Republicans responsible at every election, I won’t forget Wednesday every time I vote in Texas.

Postscript: 2025-01-17

Harris-Waltz lost the 2024 Presidential election, but Trump-Vance did not win the majority (they came very close, but did not achieve over 50%) of the popular vote: the margin of loss was ~2.5 million votes. Suddenly, all of the Republican bluster about electron rigging, alternative slates of electoral college voters, and lawsuits disappeared; evidently, US elections are secure and fair.

It is a disgrace that Trump has pardoned 1500 convicted January 6, 2020 insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol and caused the death of law enforcement officers. This is political favor over law and order: a betrayal of law enforcement.

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