“Give a man rope enough and he will hang himself,” Thomas Fuller, The Holy War, 1639.
Stupidity and ignorance have been featured in the past two of three presidencies, but the growing criminal and mentally helpless political occult is still protected by the First Amendment.
But those suffering from this present-day mass psychosis, the political occult, have run afoul of the Insurrection Act of 1807.
This act of Congress protects the tranquility of the common man from belligerent asocial interference of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
This 1807 act has been used in national conflicts ranging from coal mining strikes, school segregations and suppression of rioting.
The act may also be used to contain those who incite political rhetoric proclaiming assassinations, enforceable by military action ordered by the president of the republic.
FDR, JFK and LBJ are but three who have used those powers.
The First Amendment may have to protect today’s deviant cowards, but the Insurrection Act doesn’t; it’s the Constitution’s ability to protect its foundation.
Jan Richardson
Sequim