Former Director Robert Mueller, after September 11, 2001, lead intense investigation of potential (the word is potential) terrorists. The FBI aggressively used undercover agents to provide whatever the terrorists wanted to carry out violence against the Americans. He didn’t allow the violence but provided “the belief” the violence could happen so the terrorists would go forward with their plans.
If the group walked away from their plan or refused to plan at all Former Director Mueller would not have any reason to arrest and try the terrorists. The terrorists Director Mueller arrested were willing to plan the violence when the components of their plan were within reach or they believed were in their reach.
I believe there are two such entries about those arrests on this blog. They were completely unrelated to the attacks of September 11, 2001. They were men that had the intention of killing Americans. I thought it was over reach, but, these were terrorists. Their ideals in killing mattered when the weight of the USA Rule of Law held them as criminals.
I think the terrorists have a different status no different than killers that plan to kill children in their classrooms. The crime is so heinous and the inability to protect the innocent from the violence so obvious that some standard rules and ethics do not matter. The FBI, under Mueller, came to value PREVENTION and not just facts to intervene and prosecute.
As to the statement in the title, a violent coup and/or insurrection falls into that same dynamic as terrorist acts and killers of school children in that no one can wait to act. To act after the fact is to allow a collapse of the US Constitution. A coup of the presidency would, I believe, result in a dictator. If a man could end peaceful transfer of power to the presidency he could do anything by the same violent methods that gave him power.
So, what about the truths about Trump and his minions coming out in the Hearings of the January 6th Committee? Do we simply laugh it off and figure the Committee headed if off at the pass or is there something else to be PREVENTED?
As with the power terrorists seek and the power killers of school children obtain, the people promoting the “Big Lie” are still a clear and present danger to the US Constitution. In that lies a very different reality for the people if the US Constitution falls. In realizing our very quality of life can be lost and people could be scapegoated, arrested, tried and executed; ie: no different than the plan to ultimately execute Governor Whitmer; this power thirst needs to end now.
So, in my estimation, the DOJ has no alternative but to prosecute those espousing the “ Big Lie” as the truth. Now, is the time to act, not later, and yes that includes Trump.
