For the past four years, we have been constantly reminded of “the insurrection,” a brief moment on January 6, 2021 when a couple hundred unarmed people — some of them demonstrators, some of them FBI plants, some of them tourists going with the flow — were let into the United States Capitol without gallery tickets, and have been prosecuted and vilified for it ever since.
They weren’t politicians or soldiers; they didn’t try to take over the government. So, whatever they may have been, they most certainly did not constitute an “insurrection.”
That being said, however, that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been an insurrection in the United States.
The legal authority of the federal government of the United States is rooted in two things: elections and the Constitution. That’s it. There is nothing else.
Your local street lights may be controlled by local ordinances; your doctor’s medical license may be granted by your individual state. Your local park district runs the corner play lot and tennis courts, and may be operated by an elected park board or a commission appointed by the mayor. There are countless such configurations for our cities and villages, towns and townships, counties, parishes and states.
But the federal government is simple. The Constitution lays out the three branches, allocates their authority, and declares how the individual federal officeholders are elected.
Disobeying the Constitution — by refusing to perform the duties it requires, by exceeding the clear limits it places on government itself, or by meddling with those aforementioned elections, constitutes an assault on our constitutional government, and would therefore be an actual takeover of the government — a substitution of lawless tyranny for the legitimate government our Framers intended for us.
Now, that would be an insurrection.
On January 6, 2021, following months of coordinated decisions by partisan and/or corrupted judges to dismiss legitimate suits concerning credible proof of election fraud, the Democrat leadership of Congress cut short the constitutionally mandated one-by-one consideration of the several states’ electoral college count under the supervision of the Vice President, the last chance to stop an illegitimate transfer of power in the executive branch, claiming that a group of unarmed tourists forced them to flee one of the most potentially securable public buildings in America, intentionally allowing that last possible safeguard to be skipped.
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