Can the Military Intervene When the Government is Overthrown? Yes!!
Recent columns have documented that November 3, 2020 was a successful coup to overthrow the government of the United States. Some knew this when it happened but for most it was just too hard to accept initially but are moving to this conclusion more slowly—all will be there eventually. It happened. Elon Musk told us what we must do to escape decades of programing, “The only way to escape the matrix is to unlearn everything that you have been taught and rebuild your entire belief system based on critical thought and analysis.”
But the magnitude of the insurrection which included past and present presidents, contenders, and trusted iconic organizations like the FBI, DOJ, DHS, CDC, and seemingly at least 75% of all Internet and media news outlets knowingly plotting and carrying out such a thing was, and still is for some, impossible to comprehend. But the flood of documentation cannot be ignored. The matrix got us.
We learned in “With Treason Documented, When Do the Arrests Begin? NOT YET,”LibertyUnderFire.org, that the criminals will never turn themselves in. The FBI will never arrest itself. The DOJ will never prosecute itself. And the news and Internet platforms will never fire themselves. The penalty for treason must be severe enough that overthrowing the government would be unthinkable for many generations to come. Otherwise justice will never result.
We have to have an outside force, one that has not been a part of the coups of 2016 or 2020, and one that is set up to hold tribunals separate from our present corrupted judicial system. The military is our only recourse. Yes we have a few woke TV generals elevated by the Biden Administration, who wish to feminize the military, but quickly fled the battlefield in disgrace in Afghanistan. But nobody really believes that in this present war between patriots and globalists that they run anything major or have the actual nuclear football. Otherwise, we would presently have troops in Ukraine and war with Russia to cover-up the coups mentioned.
The military is the most patriotic element of our society. They are already MAGA in uniform for several reasons. First, they put their lives on the line for our freedom. Second, they know the enemy, for the last 100 years they have fought socialism (whether fascist or communist, whether Europe, Asia or now in the homeland) and see / know the difference. Third, the military is the only group in America (outside politicians), who, to be a part must swear an oath of allegiance to protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. Fourth, they are disciplined (a quality normally absent in gangs or thugs organizations like Antifa). Fifth, the Left, as a group, is traditionally anti military. But most importantly, sixth, now that Donald Trump has been decidedly exonerated from the Russia Collusion scheme and they know him to have been the REAL elected president—absent the 2020 coup— and the likely winner of 2024 as well, will follow his lead now so long as it isn’t against the Constitution. This, largely because he is innocent and follows the rule of law. Philosophically, as a body, the military is as far away from Joe Biden as it is possible to be.
But how do we get to tribunals from here? It is happening now. As the evidence of treason by the Deep State transcends from drips to a flood, Americans will flock to Trump even more. The raid on his home last summer for classified documents he was entitled to have, the 27-year-old E. Jean Carroll rape case that lacked any real evidence, the present indictment for espionage from his classified documents and probable arrest on this “trumped-up” charge —all frivolous and political motivated election interference charges—will bring droves to him. Biden has weaponized his DOJ to imprison his only real opponent at the height of a presidential election, something that happens in third world countries. More so as people see nothing ever happening to those on the Left like the Clintons and the Biden’s. When America concludes that there is no justice for the Right side of the political spectrum, they will welcome military tribunals.
Actually the Constitution allows military intervention under unusual circumstances—notably insurrection. George Washington used the Calling Forth Act of 1792 (“original statute for the Insurrection Act”) as authority “to quell the Whiskey Rebellion in 1792.” Gradually it came to be called the Militia Act and was next used by President John Adams “to put down the Fries rebellion in 1799 in eastern Pennsylvania after landowners rose up in opposition to a federal property tax.” Thomas Jefferson “signed the Insurrection Act in 1807 to foil a plot by Aaron Burr” to seize lands in Texas and presumably form a new government. President Abraham Lincoln used it in 1862 to authorize “a draft to increase the number of soldiers in state militias.”
In 1871 the Ku Klux Klan’s terroristic activities against blacks in the south required “the use of federal troops during the reconstruction period after the Civil War.” Its overuse, “led to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which restricts the use of federal forces in domestic and civil cases except when specifically authorized by law”—but not insurrection. It was used by presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy during the 1950’s and 1960’ segregation issues (“What is the Insurrection Act?,” By Brad Dress, The Hill, Oct. 6, 2022).
President Trump used great restraint in not using it against the Antifa / BLM led demonstrations of destruction and violence in the summer of 2020. In 2024 and 2025 this will not be tolerated.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 has been generally applied to insurrection at the state level. Insurrection at the federal level—the overthrow of the entire executive branch of government—which impacts the other two branches is untested waters but undoubtedly treason. Treason is defined in Article III section 3, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies giving them aid and comfort.” Those charged will be tried in military tribunals as soon as enough realize justice can’t happen any other way.
Dr. Harold W. Pease is an expert on the United States Consitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years.
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