Wednesday, January 06, 2021

The First American Coup


I've lived through four major challenges to democracy in my country:
1) JFK's assassination
2)Nixon's resignation in light of Watergate affair August 9, 1974
3) 9-11
4) The coup/insurrection incited by the president of the U.S.  1/6/21

My friend Heather wrote, "As Trump lies and says he won an election, and encouraged people to march on Capitol Hill today, it is a good time to be reminded of Congressman Schiff's last remarks at the impeachment:"

Adam Schiff, last year:
If the truth doesn’t matter, we’re lost. Framers couldn’t protect us from ourselves, if right and truth don’t matter. And you know that what he did was not right. That’s what they do in the old country, that Colonel Vindman’s father came from. Or the old country that my great grandfather came from, or the old countries that your ancestors came from, or maybe you came from. But here, right is supposed to matter. It’s what’s made us the greatest nation on earth. No constitution can protect us, right doesn’t matter any more. And you know you can’t trust this President to do what’s right for this country. You can trust he will do what’s right for Donald Trump. He’ll do it now. He’s done it before. He’ll do it for the next several months. He’ll do it in the election if he’s allowed to. This is why if you find him guilty, you must find that he should be removed. Because right matters. Because right matters and the truth matters. Otherwise, we are lost.

 

1 comment:

Kent W. said...

Thumbs up! And yet, the people for whom right and wrong should matter most, the congressmen and senators who claim the name of Christ, are the ones who are least likely to condemn the actions of this man.