Biden And Power By Force
Written by Thierry MEYSSAN on 14/01/2021
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The US Might Require Decades To Clear The Whole Mess12/01/2021
In every presidential election in the United States, we are told that the
incumbent was a monster, that we are sorry for the crimes he committed, but
that a new day is dawning for humanity with the rise of a new leader. The only
exception is the election of Donald Trump in 2016. At that time and even before
he was sworn in, we were told that this billionaire was elected following a
regrettable mistake, that he was misogynistic, homophobic, racist, that he did
not embody the “country of freedom”, but the supremacism of the “little whites”
and the interests of the rich. For four years, we were constantly being
convinced that this diagnosis was right. He was called a liar and his ideas and
achievements were ignored.
For “The West Australian”, for his last days, Donald Trump, like Adolf
Hitler, wishes for “the twilight of the gods”.
This time, the insurrection on Capitol Hill allowed the dominant news
agencies to add a layer to it. The outgoing president, Donald Trump, is
unanimously accused of destroying democracy, which the incoming president, Joe
Biden, will of course restore. Are those who remember the elections of George
H. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama ready to be fooled
again?
Yes, because the shock caused by the capture of the Capitol is such that
one is willing to believe anything. If the United States is inexorably
heading towards civil war,
what will become of us Westerners?
For “Milliyet” (Turkey), the virtuous America has gone mad.
This is why we did not want to see the crisis that is beginning to unfold.
Only a few Greek newspapers had recently explained the reasons for the anger,
which we have been dealing with for five years already (i.e. before Trump’s
election).
This is also why we don’t want to look it in the face and we are satisfied
with the blind comments that this shameful episode will not have a tomorrow.
But who can believe it? It is true that things will calm down for a while and
the repressive machine will crush the January 6 demonstrators, but it will only
be a postponement and the civil war will not be long in coming.
Non-Westerners have already understood that the United States has such
internal problems that it will no longer be able to set itself up as a model
for the world, let alone give lessons in democracy to those it wants to
subjugate.
Undemocratic elections
In the 2000 presidential election, the bewildered world watched as the
Supreme Court chose to ignore the recount of the Florida ballots. In accordance
with the Constitution, it declared that it had no business interfering with a
state’s ballot and was constrained only by Governor Jeb Bush’s decision that
his brother George W. Bush had been elected by his constituents. Twenty years
later, the world is watching the dismissal of 60 appeals filed by Donald Trump
alleging massive fraud in many states.
According to “La Razon” (Spain), the insurgency in the United States was
the Trumpeters taking Capitol Hill.
As I wrote earlier, from a US legal perspective, Al Gore and then Donald
Trump lost. But from a democratic point of view, they probably won. To tell the
truth, it is impossible to know exactly, but given the results of the other
elections that were held at the same time, there is little doubt about that.
The only thing that can be said is that there is nothing democratic about this
election: the counting of the votes is done by the governors, who in many
federal states choose the civil servants or private companies that will do the
counting. On the contrary, if the system were democratic, the counting would be
done by citizens in public. Everyone could see ballot boxes being taken from
the polling stations to a counting centre where officials opened them and then
closed the curtains to prevent citizens from finding out more. No one can
question the sincerity of these officials, but no one can guarantee it either.
A democratic election can only exist in transparency. Therefore, this election
is legal under US law, but simply not democratic.
Turnarounds
To understand the events, we must observe two reversals of the situation
that preceded the attack on the Capitol.According to the “Corriere della Sera”
(Italy), Trump’s fury is the assault on the Capitol.
In mid-December 2020, President Trump organised a meeting at the Oval
Office with the participation of General Michael Flynn. Flynn outlined his idea
of martial law for transparent elections. Most of the
councillors present were opposed, despite the change of leadership in the
Pentagon. Two weeks later, on 4 January 2021, the 10 former defence secretaries
still alive signed a brief op-ed in the Washington Post. They assured that all
those who tried to introduce martial law would have to answer to the Justice
Department. The unanimity of the former Secretaries of Defense attests that
martial law was feasible and real. According to the Post, which reconstructed
the meeting on the basis of the confidences of the former defence secretaries
(who did not attend but were informed), President Trump never contemplated
staying in power through the use of violence. On the contrary, he filed
complaints and supported various legal actions to have the election annulled.
He was preparing to campaign to return to the White House in 2025.
For the Hindustan Times (India), the states of the Americas are no longer
united, but on fire.
Vice-President Mike Pence, who was under heavy pressure from the
Jacksonians, made his position known on January 6, the day the two
congressional assemblies met in joint session. He noted that his role as
presiding officer was purely ceremonial and that it was not his job to decide
the dispute, even though a certain reading of the Constitution theoretically
gives him the right to do so. He therefore deferred to the parliamentarians. To
do otherwise would have opened the smouldering civil war. At times like these,
everyone knows what he or she can lose, and few people, particularly among the
notables, are willing to take such a risk. As soon as this position became
known, several important members of the Trump team resigned. The Jacksonians
experienced these reversals as cowardice and betrayal of their ideals and their
homeland.
A few hours later, Donald Trump held a meeting, not far from Congress, to
denounce once again a “stolen election” and announce his return for the 2024
campaign. He never called on his supporters to take Capitol Hill, although some
may have understood it that way.
Taking the Capitol
Some groups that were marginalized during the meeting tried to enter the
Capitol. According to the videos, the Capitol police let them in without any
real resistance. The demonstrators initially behaved deferentially in this
place, which is sacred to them. However, they had been infiltrated by a group
of Antifas. Without knowing why or how, things suddenly got out of hand. The
hemicycle was invaded and parliamentarians’ offices were ransacked.
According to “Dawn” (Greece), “Trumpism is here and it threatens us”.
Anyone who has lived through a civil war knows that this is the worst thing
that can happen. Like the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who lived through
the first English civil war, they all believe that it is better to suffer a
tyrannical state than to be deprived of a state (The Leviathan). Taking the Capitol and
eventually overthrowing the US “order” is an act with terrible consequences. It
has not gone that far. The police who had allowed the demonstrators to enter
the building suddenly and successfully pushed them back.
President Donald Trump himself called for calm, but without his wife.
According to the US national religion, God’s blessing – and thus peace and
prosperity – must descend through the president and first lady on the
“chosen people”. By choosing to speak on his own, Donald Trump has challenged
the national religion.
Reactions in the US
Democratic congressmen, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, immediately
accused President Trump of having launched his troops on an assault on
Congress. They proposed to impeach President Trump, even though he had only 13
days left in his term, through the 25th Amendment, paragraph 4 of the
Constitution. This move, which they had previously discussed, would remove his
right to stand for re-election.
According to the “Daily Mirror” (UK), now in the United States, it is now
government by the mob.
However, the text invoked should not apply in this case: it concerns a
disability attributable to the health of the President. The debates at the time
of its adoption concerned the heart attack which prevented President Woodrow
Wilson from fulfilling his duties at the end of his term of office (2 October
1919 to 4 March 1921) and the stroke – less serious – of President Dwight
Eisenhower (24 September 1955 to 20 January 1961) which temporarily deprived
him of some of his faculties and led him to share his powers with his
vice-president Richard Nixon.
The ruling class felt the wind of the cannonball blowing. Whether the
capture of Capitol Hill was a failure of its police force, as they try to
persuade us, or whether it was organized under a false flag by Donald Trump’s
enemies, those who conceived it have the capacity to overthrow institutions and
sack their entire staff.
Reactions abroad
For the “Boston Herald” (USA), this is chaos.
After a century of US domination, the rest of the world still doesn’t know
what they are. It doesn’t know that the Constitution was written to establish a
regime inspired by the British monarchy and that it was rebalanced by 10
amendments that guarantee people’s rights. The country that Alexis de
Tocqueville describes in Democracy in America is the
country of this compromise, a country of freedom, but this balance was upset
during the Obama years. Blinded, the rest of the world did not see that the
United States has reverted to what it was in the first four years of its
foundation: an oligarchic system, this time in the service of a class of
international billionaires. It deliberately ignored the plight of the former
middle classes, the grouping of the population by cultural affinity and the
preparation of two-thirds of the population for civil war.
The Chinese media cannot help but notice the double standard when comparing
photos of the Hong Kong assembly being taken by a high-voltage crowd with those
from Washington. While the Russian media, busy with the Orthodox Christmas
party, smiled disillusioned at their historic rival on land.
The “Chicago Tribune” (USA) does not denounce sedition, but sees
insurrection.
For their part, the Western media have embraced without reservation the
neo-Puritan “cancel culture” that destroys all republican symbols and replaces
them with others glorifying minorities, not for what they do, but because they
are minorities. In doing so, they have identified a little more with the
ideology that oppresses “America”.
As submissive vassals, they presented the US election as if their readers were
going to participate and Joe Biden as their new master.
Reacting to the events on Capitol Hill, European leaders are taking their
dreams for granted: German President and former head of the secret service,
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said that armed pro-Trump protesters had taken Capitol
Hill; while the French President and former secretary to a well-known
philosopher, Emmanuel Macron, denounced an attack on the fundamental principle
of democracy “One man, one vote”.
,0“God help us! “proclaims the Philadephia Daily News
(USA). “The non-civil war has co
me to this point: rioters have taken the Capitol”.
No. With few exceptions, the Capitol demonstrators were unarmed.
No. The U.S. Constitution does not provide for equality among citizens of any
state.
Yes. It is the US ruling class that despises democracy and the Jacksonians who
defend it.
Already the very great fortunes that stand behind Joe Biden have seized
power. They have put an end to freedom of expression. They “preventively”
closed the Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitch accounts of the
White House, President Trump and his supporters in order to “prevent them from
calling for further violence” (sic). In doing so, they have arrogated to
themselves the powers of Justice and have escaped the Trump decree of 28 June
2020 enjoining them to choose between the status of neutral carrier of
information or that of committed producer of information.
Source: Voltaire Network
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