The Deepening American Constitutional Crisis

Recently, after the treasonous and felonious installation of Brett Kavanaugh on the US Supreme Court, I signed an online petition calling for his impeachment and also posted it to my Facebook timeline and sent the message on a large group e-mail to nearly every person on my e-mail list with whom I have a personal relationship.  I received back two responses from people who had also signed the petition and passed it on.  I also received two responses stating the senders' desire to be removed from any future political messages I might send out.  The first came from a distant cousin with whom I renewed a relationship a year or two ago after years without seeing each other.  That person had this to say about the petition and my choice to send it out.   

  

"Roger, please remove my name from political requests like this.  You’re not going to get anywhere except have your name identified as a radical. I would rather not be labeled in their perilous times. I am very much afraid. You are very brave."

Included below is my response to that person:

Hello,

I will not put your name on any more politically directed messages but having you say that you are fearful because I exercise my constitutional right to free speech tells me that I have always been correct in my assessment of the damage that is being done to America on a daily basis by the Russian Owned Criminal Syndicate which illegally occupies the White House after having committed TREASON with Putin.  As for being labeled as a radical, I sincerely hope that you understand that the true “radicals” in America today are the Right Wing Repugnican Radicals who support the TRAITOR, International Terrorist, Russian Agent, Unconvicted Sex Offender, Pathological Liar, and Quisling Trump and the Russian Plan to destroy America.  If you would like, I can give you a short list of the names and contact information of several retired US Intelligence Agents and Retired Military who will tell you the same things I am telling you.  This country is embroiled in the worst constitutional crisis since 1861 and it is far more dangerous than any of the previous crises.  Jefferson Davis, the Confederate Generals, and Richard Nixon all were less dangerous because none of them committed TREASON.  This gang of Russian Owned Criminals have committed TREASON and must be held responsible for their crimes.  Unless TRAITOR Trump dies in a federal prison cell, this will be the greatest miscarriage of justice in American History.  As for bravery, I have no idea if it is bravery or just my deep seated fear that America is in very grave danger of becoming a Third World Dictatorship.  What is happening in America today is exactly what happened in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and for the very same reasons.  A psychiatrically unstable megalomaniac by virtue of his TREASON has achieved every megalomaniac’s ultimate dream and gotten some ill gotten power.  But don’t worry about the idea of my being labeled.  I was proudly standing in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue on May Day in 1971 protesting against Nixon and I was proudly standing at the front of the protestors in Huntington, WV, giving a television interview in 2017 when TRAITOR Trump came to town.  Whatever labels might have been placed on me were earned over the last 50 plus years.  I will be in Owingsville on Friday with Amy McGrath and Joe Biden and, if not for the KCHS Reunion, I would be in Richmond on Saturday protesting when TRAITOR Trump comes to town. I was mentored by at least 4 people who were hauled in front of Senator Joseph McCarthy during the witch hunts, one of whom wrote the union song “Which Side Are You On”,  and another had three homes burned down and never ever stopped speaking out.  If you have enough courage to find out what is actually happening in America today here is a short list of books you can read.  Notice two things, please, about the list.  The authors include a former US Presidential nominee, a former US prosecutor & FBI Director, a former US Director of National Intelligence, 27 of the best psychiatrists in America, a former US Secretary of State, and the man who broke the Watergate story.  The second thing to notice is that two of the titles from two of the most experienced people on the list use the word “Fear”. 

The Restless Wave by John McCain

Facts And Fears by James Clapper

A Higher Loyalty by James Comey

Fire And Fury by Michael Wolf

Collusion Secret Meetings, Dirty Money And How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding

The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump Edited by Bandy Lee, M. D.

Fascism by Madeleine Albright

Trump/Russia by Seth Hettena

The Plot To Destroy America by Malcolm Nance

Russian Roulette by Michael Issikoff & David Corn

Fear by Bob Woodward

The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy by Greg Miller

Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson

House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger

I hope you read at least a few of these and choose to speak out afterward.

I have learned several things from this interchange.  Not everyone, not nearly enough intelligent, literate American citizens are sufficiently alarmed about the current constitutional crisis which is working on a daily basis to destroy our country.  Many of those who are, to any degree, aware of how serious this problem is are unwilling or afraid to speak out about it.  As I said in my response to the e-mail above, I know that I am correct in my assessment about the damage that is being done to America by the TRAITOR Trump.  I am also correct in saying that "what is happening in America today is exactly what happened in Germany from 1933 to 1945 and for the very same reasons.  A psychiatrically unstable megalomaniac, by virtue of his TREASON, has achieved every megalomaniac’s ultimate dream and gotten some ill gotten power."  I know that I am also correct in saying that the plan being carried out is rooted in the mind of Vladimir Putin and in Russian espionage which has worked since 1987 to bring TRAITOR Trump into their fold and under their control.  Numerous acts which he has perpetrated in support of Putin and Russia have made it absolutely clear that he is controlled by Russia and working daily to repay his debt to them.   

1. Almost immediately after being sworn in, TRAITOR Trump brought Russian Ambassador Kislyak to the Oval Office accompanied by a purely Russian "film crew" and bragged about firing FBI Director James Comey and putting an end to the Russia investigation.  This was an incredibly egregious failure of both security and diplomacy.  The fact that no American journalists were allowed in the meeting was a blatant insult to the American press.  It was also an incredible violation of security protocol to allow a so-called "film crew" from Russia inside the Oval Office.  Beyond a shadow of a doubt, every person in that entourage around Kisylak was either an FSB agent or under the influence and direction of the FSB.  God only knows what was learned by Russian intelligence by virtue of this act. 
2. Congress had allocated $120M dollars to fight Russian hacking and to prevent further security breeches of the US election system such as those which made it possible for Russia to steal the 2016 election.  To this day, not one dollar of that money has been spent by TRAITOR Trump.  That is not negligence.  It is TREASON and clearly intended to prevent the full truth of Russia's crimes in support of TRAITOR Trump from ever being found out and to prevent TRAITOR Trump, Russia and Putin from ever being held responsible for their crimes against the United States of America.
3. TRAITOR Trump has held two meetings, and only two so far as we know, face to face with Vladimir Putin and neither was attended by US security personnel or journalists.  One was attended by an American translator and TRAITOR Trump stopped all congressional attempts to have her testify to what was said in the meeting by claiming "executive privilege".  These meetings were both absolutely incredible and indefensible breeches of both diplomatic and security protocols.  I am certain that every trained, professional diplomatic and security expert in the world not in the employment of Russia shuddered in their boots at the thought of these meetings and what American secrets and TRAITOR Trump promises were given up.  They left absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind about which of the two men was in charge at these meetings.  
4. In January 2018, TRAITOR Trump proposed at the G7 meetings that Russia be allowed to rejoin the G7(8).  This was a direct insult to every other member of the G7 and the free world at large.  It was also an act that clearly showed his loyalty once again to Russia. 
   
   

 After this long and ever growing list of demonstrations of TRAITOR Trump's loyalty to Putin and Russia, no rational person of average intelligence should be conned into thinking that he is speaking for the United States or willing to defend her.  We can only hope that the Mueller Investigation reaches the point as soon as possible that TRAITOR Trump and his entire band of Russian agents can be indicted, convicted, impeached, and imprisoned.  We also must hope that no irreparable damage has been done to the security of the United States and our diplomatic partners.  We must shudder when we think of the secrets which have been passed directly to Putin by TRAITOR Trump.  We must work, as loyal citizens, to help educate the sheep who follow in his path and believe his lies and to try to bring about the day when the prison door finally closes behind this worst TRAITOR in world history.  

I choose to end this blog post with these quotations from loyal, patriotic Americans which are found on the bottom of nearly every e-mail I send and which were on the bottom of the one which prompted this post.  They are highly accurate and timely quotations. 

“I have lived my life and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and poor—but against power, injustice, and oppression.”  Clarence Darrow 

“Worse misfits have not been seen inside a White House since William Taft got stuck in his bathtub.” John McCain, “The Restless Wave, p. 327

“I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written: Yes We Can. Yes We Did.  Yes We Can.”  President Barack Obama

“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” Thomas Paine

“All people should have free health care.  Every man, regardless of who he is, should be trained to do skilled labor.” Dr. Mark Dempsey