'They must be punished, and punished severely, both at the ballot box and in the courts.'
"I have said that any man who attempted by force or unparliamentary disorder to obstruct or interfere with the lawful count of the electoral vote should be lashed to the muzzle of a twelve-pounder gun and fired out of a window." —General Winfield Scott, 1861
Technically, to commit treason requires that a country be at war."Giving aid and comfort to the enemy during time of war" is as bad as it gets. It's the worst possible crime against your country. Multiple Proud Boys and other white supremacist militias have been charged with conspiracy to commit sedition, and now we know why. Assembling near the Washington monument at 10 o'clock in the morning and then marching from there to the Capitol without even attending Trump's rally to lead the assault on that building is clearly sedition.
Five people died that day, and soon thereafter three police officers died as a result of its violence. Sedition, attempted murder, destruction of property, assault on police officers: all these crimes were committed in an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States.
And there are those in the media and their allies in Congress who are committed to an ongoing cover-up of the crime.
"[I]t is of infinite moment," Washington warned us,"that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity…"
In service of their overlords, Republicans have frozen Congress and forward movement for forty years now. It's gotten so bad we can't even deal with the ongoing slaughter of our own children or the climate change threat to all life on Earth.
"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts." Trump's allies tried to steal the electoral college ballots, murder the Vice President and Speaker of the House, and stop the installation of Joe Biden as President. Again, President Washington and Treasury Secretary Hamilton were prescient:
As if they had dreamed of Donald Trump rising to power in the United States, Alexander Hamilton and George Washington told us:
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