Monday, June 06, 2022

Sedition

I am slightly concerned about the doubt placed over the indictments by the Department of Justice regarding it's charges of sedition conspiracy. There has been a history of these charges from time to time in the country when someone becomes concerned about militias and enormous numbers of guns. The indictments before this were mostly reversed in the courts. There are reasons for that. One of the reasons is that regardless of all the preparations by militias to destroy the USA government the prosecutors needed to prove the plans could succeed.

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy (click here)

It is one thing to prepare to climb Mount Everest and it is quite something else to actually accomplish it. That is a fairly good analogy of the previous charges of seditious conspiracy. 

This time it is different. 

The people charged with seditious conspiracy are also White Supremacists. They have a reason for their hatred. That reason is not a valid one, but, simply a belief system that is false but very powerful to motivate young men to find their identity within hate empowered by weapons of war. Standing alone White Supremacists are not sincerely a threat to a government regardless of their belief systems and armaments. 

The difference this time in the charges of seditious conspiracy is that the people who took part in the violent attempt to coupe the 2000 Presidential Elections actually could succeed. The groups and others outside the groups made their way into the Capitol when no one besides the US House and Senate and support staff were authorized to be there.

The mob made their way into the Capitol, caused harm to US Capitol Guards, caused the death of one directly and four others indirectly when they took their own lives. 

August 2, 2021
By Jan Wolfe

The District of Columbia's police department (click here) on Monday said two more police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have died by suicide, bringing to four the number of known suicides by officers who guarded the building that day....

...Four people died on the day of the violence.

A Capitol Police officer who had been attacked by protesters died the following day. More than 100 police officers were injured....

...During emotional testimony last week, four police officers told a House of Representatives special committee that they were beaten, threatened, taunted with racial insults, and thought they might die as they struggled to defend the Capitol against the mob.

This time on January 6, 2021 the well laid plans nearly succeeded with nooses at the ready to hang those that did not cooperate with the mob. The power within basically unarmed rebels was exceptional. It was organized. It even had a spiritual leader among the leaders that day. For all intents and purpose the mob took over the US Capitol and stopped the peaceful transition of power in counting the Electoral College Votes. 

Truly that day, it was the people within the legislature and the Vice President that thwarted the rebellion. The power structure within the USA Constitution was upheld, although the rebels would say they won because the Electoral College Vote was not completed until January 7th. The Former Vice President Pence never adjorned the session of Congress, but, simply delayed it until it was safe to return to the chamber. The count was within the Congressional session that began on January 6th and the USA Constitution was upheld and maintained the power of the USA Government.

We, as a country, now know it is possible to end the USA Constitution and we don't need a Constitutional Convention. If the rebels were armed it very well could have succeeded although when the National Guard arrived that ended the uprising. It is duly noted the conspriacy also included the inability to call up the National Guard. That is very high level cooperation with the mob. The organization of the ambitions could have been successful. Here again, it was Former Vice President Pence that was able to break through the log jam to call in the National Guard. If the National Guard had not arrived we might be looking at a very different scenario.

Those currently charged with seditious conspiracy were remarkably successful. It was the patriotic and loyal Congresswomen and Congressmen that stood their ground to complete the Electoral College count that protected the proceedings and upheld the USA Constitution.

So.

This time the charges of seditious conspiracy filed by the Garland Department of Justice may see a jury finding those charged as guilty. The circle was complete and their success had a very strong possibility. Because they did not succeed was due to another group of people that saw things differently. The USA Constitution was protected, the next time it might not be and those charged are definitely guilty of the crimes they were indicted with today.