Re: Americans are so divided politically that a foreign enemy

wouldn't get us together to save our own sorry #####!

Well, it more than appears that we have an evader within our gates, the Leftists who are pushing Globalism, Woke Ideology that pushes the norms of rational reasoning towards sex & gender, believes blatantly in using Marxist & Communist tactics to rile up, confuse $ divide the populace.,

and it got to this point thru their slowly infiltrating for decades our universities who taught our future journalists, politicians, doctors, scientists, etc their brand of un-American & hate-America indoctrination & hatred.

Now, our DOJ, FBI, CIA, Media, Big Tech, local & federal judges and politicians AND even our present DEM administration run by DEMs are ALL now politicized and alarmingly have gone to the militarization stage of arresting the opposition that simply didn't vote or side with them..

including politicians, religious people, laymen, journalists and maybe YOU next.

Oh, here''s an excellent example of what a Lefty, Marxist or Communist leader would do to put down the opposition.

True story ~> When a sitting U.S. President just before an important mid-term election (particularly for his party to retain control of the congress for power & the purse string) used a Communist Red Background with a military Guard on each side behind him for a chilling & visual affect and ranted against 48% of the electorate that they were bad people & misguided Americans and they were Racists, White Supremacists & Ultra-MAGA..

then one has to know how far Left Ameruca has gone and sadly 50% of Americans deny or approve of it.

Fair warning: May the buyer of this sort of ideology and behavior please think again what tgey're buying into, what sorrow & devastation and loss of freedom it's brought hundreds of millions of people across tge globe and come to America to get away from what's now stewing here in the pot.

Lastly, our Founders knew we'd get off the track thus leaving us a go-to guideline called the Constitution and a Bill of Rights..much like Moses gave the Israelites the 12 Commandants to live by..

but Sinners don't like life-saving guidelines thus they sin and concoct their own rules & guidelines.

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I see an unsuccessful appeal. Following Rhodes 20 min rant

May 26, 2023, 12:41 PM

in the courtroom prior to his sentencing Judge Mehta stated:

“I dare say, Mr. Rhodes – and I never have said this to anyone I have sentenced – you pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country,” Mehta said.

“I dare say we all now hold our collective breaths when an election is approaching. Will we have another January 6 again? That remains to be seen.”

“You are not a political prisoner, Mr. Rhodes. That is not why you are here. It is not because of your beliefs. It is not because Joe Biden is the president right now.”

“A seditious conspiracy, when you take those two concepts and put it together, is among the most serious crimes an American can commit. It is an offense against the government to use force. It is an offense against the people of our country,” the judge said.

“It is a series of acts in which you and others committed to use force, including potentially with weapons, against the government of the United States as it transitioned from one president to another. And what was the motive? You didn’t like the new guy.”

“Let me be clear about one thing to you, Mr. Rhodes, and anybody who else that is listening. In this country we don’t paint with a broad brush, and shame on you if you do. Just because somebody supports the former president, it doesn’t mean they are a White supremacist, a White nationalist. It just means they voted for the other guy.”

“What we absolutely cannot have is a group of citizens who – because they did not like the outcome of an election, who did not believe the law was followed as it should be – foment revolution.”

“It would be one thing, Mr. Rhodes, if after January 6 you had looked at what happened that day and said … that was not a good day for our democracy. But you celebrated it, you thought it was a good thing,” the judge said.

“Even as you have been incarcerated you have continued to allude to violence as an acceptable means to address grievances.”

Nothing has changed, Mr. Rhodes, nothing has changed. And the reality is as you sit here today and as we heard you speak, the moment you are released you will be prepared to take up arms against our government. And not because you are a political prisoner, not because of the 2020 election, because you think this is a valid way to address grievances.”

“American democracy doesn’t work, Mr. Rhodes, if when you think the Constitution has not been complied with it puts you in a bad place, because from what I’m hearing, when you think you are in a bad place, the rest of us are too. We are all the objects of your plans to – and your willingness to – engage in violence.”

Mehta granted a Justice Department request to enhance the potential sentence against Rhodes, ruling that his actions amounted to domestic terrorism.

“He was the one giving the orders,” Mehta said. “He was the one organizing the teams that day. He was the reason they were in fact in Washington, DC. Oath Keepers wouldn’t have been there but for Stewart Rhodes, I don’t think anyone contends otherwise. He was the one who gave the order to go, and they went.”

Mehta echoed these warnings later Thursday, when addressing a second Oath Keepers defendant, Kelly Meggs.

“You don’t take to the streets with rifles,” he said. “You don’t hope that the president invokes the insurrection act so you can start a war in the streets… You don’t rush into the US Capitol with the hope to stop the electoral vote count.”

“It is astonishing to me how average Americans somehow transformed into criminals in the weeks before and on January 6,” the judge said.