August 16, 2022
GOP leaders need a plan to avoid unprecedented civil unrest
By Susan D. Harris
In a well-written yet disturbing article over at PJ Media, writer Athena Thorne tells readers, “Yes. They are going to arrest Donald Trump. Deal With it.” Presumably, this is advice for nearly 75 million people. There’s something inherently futile about that.
The writer tells folks not to get upset when this happens so as not to feed into the left’s “goading the United States into a civil war.” She adds that although Trump may end up in prison, he may still be able to govern. Rightfully warning supporters not to erupt in violence, she concludes with some sticky words about voting and volunteering at polls. What? It ended with an unsettling fizzle.
Right after reading the “Deal with it” article, I ran across Senator Rand Paul’s Tweet that contained a link to “Repeal the Espionage Act” by Jacob G. Hornberger. Originally written in relation to the prosecution of Julian Assange, it contained two paragraphs that seemed to answer Thorne’s article:
…[T]he problem is that they don’t go far enough. Their mindsets reflect the customary acceptance of the status quo. The mindset is that we Americans simply have to accept the way things are and plead with the government to go easy on us.
That’s just plain nonsense. It is incumbent on the American people to start thinking at a high level, one that doesn’t just accept the existence of tyrannical laws and instead calls for their repeal. After all, isn’t that what our Declaration of Independence says -- that when government becomes destructive of the legitimate ends for which it was formed, it is the right of the people to alter or even abolish it and form new government?
In other words, no, I’m not going to just accept that Donald Trump is going to be arrested. I am going to demand that GOP leaders -- including all elected officials as well as America’s culture leaders -- form a circle of protection around Trump and say, “You shall not pass!”
In whatever form that takes, it must be done right now to avoid unprecedented civil unrest.
There needs to be a plan, first and foremost one constructed by the GOP leadership. In a perfect world, they would have already considered different scenarios, thinking outside the box and anticipating Democrats’ tyrannical moves, not only against a beloved former president, but against his supporters and the country at large. Do we not have any GOP leadership that know how to play chess?
The person who first comes to mind as a possible leader in this noble fight is Sen. Rand Paul. His Tweet about repealing the espionage act came five days after the raid on Mar-a-Lago:
The espionage act was abused from the beginning to jail dissenters of WWI. It is long past time to repeal this egregious affront to the 1st Amendment.
more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/gop_leaders_need_a_plan_to_avoid_unprecedented_civil_unrest.html
