From the vault: July 18, 2022 (revised):
He has quartered large bodies of troops among us.
He has protected them…from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States.
The above are two of the reasons inscribed in the Declaration of Independence that the United States of America gave for rebelling against the King of England, George III.
Now, unfortunately, the citizens of the U.S. of A. find themselves being governed by a new King, one Donald I, who has resorted to placing large bodies of troops among us in order to “protect” us.
The Founding Fathers never envisioned a standing army for their new republic. They had centuries of European history to look back upon, informing them of how a standing army had been used – and abused – and they wanted no part of it. They did create, however, a navy and a marine corps to protect America’s coasts against invasion. But, for land-locked battles, they supported a citizen’s militia – men armed with muskets/rifles – which could be called out at a minute’s notice and organized for the duration of the emergency and no more. This was the basis of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Unfortunately, the Second has too often been misinterpreted – deliberately so in many cases – until it has become meaningless.
The first instance of a standing army occurred in 1798 when president George Washington sent troops out to put down the so-called “Whiskey Rebellion” in which farmers protested against a new tax on “spirits” passed by the Congress. Since then, the U.S. Army has been used repeatedly for various purposes, from “pacifying” Native Americans to fighting civil and international wars. During the 20th Century, American armies have been used for regime change in countries not friendly to U.S. interests. Our standing army has acted as “hired guns” due to a foreign policy gone completely awry.
Lately, however, our standing army has been called out to protect us from ourselves.
Bela Suhayda’s opinion piece September 18, was most enlightening. He had almost been completely right, except that he left out the identity of the person who has been the cause of all of the bad things which now plague America: One Donald J. Trump, the man who would be King of the United States.
The Chas is reminded of a children’s program he watched daily in the 1940s on a Chicago TV station. The program was Garfield Goose which featured a hand puppet (the goose) and his human translator. Mr. Goose claimed he was the King of the United States, and he insisted that everyone acknowledge that fact. All in all, he was a most enjoyable sort, not like the present pretender to the throne.
But I digress.
The man who would be King of the United States has put soldiers on the streets of several cities (it is rumored that nearby Elgin has been one of them) in order to bring “law and order” to those lawless cities. It made no difference whether or not those rounded up had committed any crimes; they just looked suspicious, and so off they went to one foreign country or another, leaving their loved ones behind to fend for themselves. Joe Biden did not put soldiers into the streets, nor did Barack Obama, as the King (or B.S.) would have us believe.
Those who will not believe – newspaper and TV reporters, university staff, late night TV celebrities, a few billionaires, etc. – are now targeted for prosecution – prosecution! – by a power-hungry low-life.
Oh, dear! Dear, oh, dear, dear reader! The Chas has crossed the red line, hasn’t he? Soon, Trump’s soldiers will be breaking down his door and sending him off to parts unknown, never to be seen again. And B.S. will be laughing all the while.
As a “super-power,” America, like all super-powers before it, has become too full of itself and gone completely off the rails. Through misinformation and disinformation, we have saddled ourselves with a tyrant who knows no limits to his perfidy (in for a penny, in for a pound, as the Brits say). We must correct this error by penning a new “declaration of independence” and firing the man who would be King of the United States.
Just a thought. And how!