Posted on 12/01/2020 1:37:35 PM PST by Signalman
Akron, OH: Today, Tom Zawistowski, President of the TEA Party affiliated We the People Convention (WTPC) and Executive Director of the Portage County TEA Party, published a full page ad in the Washington Times newspaper demanding that President Trump Invoke limited Martial law in order to allow the U.S. Military to oversee a new free and fair federal election if Legislators, Courts and the Congress do not follow the Constitution.
Zawistowski said, "We wanted to express our concerns to the President, to the legislators, courts and Congress that We the People will NOT cede our exclusive Constitutional right to elect our Representatives to judges, lawyers, courts, Governors, Secretary’s of State, Congress, corrupt election officials and local politicians, the corrupt media - or Leftist threats of violence! It is OUR EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to elect our President and that sacred right has been infringed by the massive, planned, illegal election fraud conducted by corrupt Democrat/Socialist Party operatives across our nation to steal our vote. We will NOT stand for it."
The Ad compares the Extraordinary Executive actions implemented by President Abraham Lincoln in his efforts to save the Union during the Civil War and the literal civil war that is dividing our nation today. Without full confidence that our courts or Congress will indeed follow the 12th Amendment of the Constitution and defend our electoral process, the ad calls upon President Trump, like Lincoln, to exercise the Extraordinary Powers of his office and declare limited Martial Law to temporarily suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections in order to have the military implement a national re-vote that reflects the true will of the people. Federal candidates only. Paper ballots. No computers. Hand-counted with both parties watching every vote. Only registered voters. Photo ID to prove residence. Conducted safely with everyone wearing masks and six feet apart, just like we did in Ohio.
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Here is the full text of the Ad:
Exercising Extraordinary Authority in Defense of Our Vote May be Required because Martial Law is better than Civil War!
In the months following the start of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln struggled to preserve the Union. Many objected to Lincoln’s extraordinary use of Presidential authority, in particular his suspension of the right of “Habeas Corpus”. On June 12, 1863 Lincoln defended his extreme measures in a letter published in the New York Times. Citing Article I of the Constitution he argued: “Ours is a case of rebellion…in fact, a clear, flagrant, and gigantic case of rebellion; and the provision of the Constitution that ‘the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it’, is the provision which specifically applies to our present case.” Lincoln used the same reasoning in justifying a series of extraordinary Presidential Orders:
Lincoln ordered hundreds of Northern newspapers that spoke against him to be shut down and their owners and editors arrested. Lincoln ordered the arrest of Ohio Congressman Clement Vallandigham for the crime of speaking out against him. Chief Justice of the US Roger Taney ruled that Lincoln had violated the US Constitution when he illegally suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus. After hearing this Lincoln signed an arrest warrant to have the Chief Justice of the U.S. arrested. Lincoln ordered the arrest of thousands in Maryland for the crime of “suspected Southern sympathies” including ordering the arrest of US Congressman Henry May from Maryland. These people were arrested and held in military prisons, without trial, some of them for years.
While some debate these measures still today, no one disagrees that Lincoln and his use of Presidential power were responsible for saving the Republic. While History, and even former President Obama, has judged Lincoln as perhaps our greatest President, few would have agreed at the time he took those actions. Then, as now, a President with courage and determination was needed to preserve the Union. Today, the current threat to our United States by the international and domestic socialist/communist left is much more serious than anything Lincoln or our nation has faced in its history - including the civil war.
We have well-funded, armed and trained marxists in ANTIFA and BLM strategically positioned in our major cities acting openly with violence to silence opposition to their anti-American agenda. Attacking federal buildings and police, cowardly punching innocent people in the back of the head, assaulting people just eating in restaurants, and burning minority-owned businesses to the ground. All with elected officials in Democrat/Socialist-controlled cities openly encouraging this planned violence against civilians and businesses. Then, to advance their cause, these socialists are acting to “Defund the Police,” creating chaos and suspending the rule of law that protects millions of average, and particularly minority, Americans. The results being massive increases in violent crime and deaths in our cities and the destruction of small businesses orchestrated by those politicians and leftist groups, many funded by domestic and international communists. We are literally under attack from within!
Then there are admitted Democrat/Socialist federal officials plotting to finish gutting the US Constitution after 100 years of trying. They promise to take away critical individual rights like free speech, religious freedom and the 2nd Amendment; destroy states rights by eliminating the electoral college and more; pack the Supreme Court with activist anti-constitutionalist judges who will make law from the bench; give the right to vote to tens of millions of non-Americans; and open our borders to more illegals which will reduce wages. No one voted for these things that were hidden from the majority of Americans by the corrupt media. Not only do we have corrupt media, like in Lincoln’s day, we have a new and more sinister form of media in Big Tech, actively censoring free speech and promoting leftist propaganda to blind our citizens to their real goals and the real consequences of their actions - the end of America as we have known it.
The Socialist Left has been openly working to destroy the United States since Obama promised and tried to “transform” America in 2008-16, and having been stopped by the will of the American people, they openly staged a four year long coup attempt to remove the duly elected President. Culminating in this corrupt and provably fraudulent current election planned to illegally and un-constitutionally deny the American people their most sacred honor, right and privilege - which is the right to elect their Representatives! How can we have a Representative Republic if we cannot hold fair elections to elect our Representatives? There is no doubt that this attempted stealing of these elections again “is a case of rebellion…in fact, a clear, flagrant, and gigantic case of rebellion” that requires exercising extraordinary authority to preserve our Union.
President Trump, you and every other official in our local, state and federal governments, and everyone in law enforcement and in our military have sworn an oath that says “I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” It is time for everyone who swore that oath to act upon it. The enemies are within our gates and our Constitution and Nation are in real risk of being lost to this socialist/communist invasion unless you act decisively.
At least half of all Americans do not and will not accept this fraudulent election because of the eyewitness testimony, and the material, statistical and mathematical evidence of OVERWHELMING fraud. The other half will not accept the outcome if the courts see the evidence of fraud and rightfully overturn the election! The Left has literally been planning riots just for that occasion for months. We the People must not and WILL NOT cede our exclusive Constitutional right to elect our Representatives to judges, lawyers, courts, Governors, Secretary’s of State, Congress, corrupt election officials and local politicians, the corrupt media - or Leftist threats of violence! It is OUR EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to decide our Representatives not theirs! Therefore, We the People MUST demand a NEW and fair national vote, a vote that all Americans can trust and live by regardless of the winner! Without a fair vote, we fear, with good reason, the threat of a shooting civil war is imminent. Gun sales are at an all time high and 40% are first time gun owners looking to defend themselves, their property, and their rights. Therefore, Mr. President you must act now before there is no peaceful way left to preserve our Union.
When the legislators, courts and/or Congress fail to do their duty under the 12th Amendment, you must be ready Mr. President to immediately declare a limited form of Martial Law, and temporarily suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections, for the sole purpose of having the military oversee a national re-vote. A vote that assures a fair election in every jurisdiction and reflects the true will of the people. Federal candidates only. Paper ballots. No computers. Hand-counted with both parties watching every vote. Only registered voters. Photo ID to prove residence. Conducted safely with everyone wearing masks and six feet apart, just like we did in Ohio. Only then can the winning candidate be accepted as legitimate by a true majority of We the People who must give our consent to be justly governed! Unfortunately we are at a point where we can only trust our military to do this because our corrupt political class and courts have proven their inability to act fairly and within the law.
You must also act, like Lincoln did, to silence the destructive media’s one-sided propaganda designed and proven to influence the election outcome, and end the unlawful censorship of Big Tech, to restore the confidence of the American People in our electoral process or we cannot continue as a nation. Failure to do so could result in massive violence and destruction on a level not seen since the Civil War. Limited Martial Law is clearly a better option than Civil War!
Many will object to these actions, as they did in Lincoln’s day, but we assure you that We the People understand that no less action will suffice to prevent the loss of our Constitutional right to vote and preserve our Republic. It is time to honor your oath, Mr. President. It is time for you to boldly act to save our nation as Lincoln did. We the People will support a national re-vote. We will also have no other choice but to take matters into our own hands, and defend our rights on our own, if you do not act within your powers to defend us.
Do you think the Dems will not begin to use force as soon as they can get away with it? They're already arresting and fining Christians and Jews for violating bogus COVID restrictions and trying to force Christian businesses to celebrate sodomy. The "hate speech" charges for expressing opposition to Dem policies will start shortly, along with employers being sued for "harassment" should any employee contradict Dem orthodoxy in public.
That's what the future holds if His Fraudulency is inaugurated.
If you decide to go the route of force, the police will likely be arresting you shortly. The police performing the arrest probably all voted for President Trump.
We endured 8 years of Obama. Was he a bad president with complete failures of foreign policy and unconstitutional domestic agendas that did nothing good for people? Sure. But the country was still standing for President Trump to improve greatly. I would say President Trump made huge progress during his time in office. I’ve heard these claims of existential threat for 30+ years and honestly, I haven’t seen it yet. Now if it were AOC being elected as president? I’d probably be right there with you predicting the end times. But at least for now, there’s large parts of even the Democrats that she’s too extreme for.
I strongly suspect that a lot of the people in the middle who voted for Biden this time around are going to start to miss the good old days with President Trump real quick. And I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Biden ends up a one-term president.
If the Dem elite and their allies in the business communities can do this now, what's to stop them from just doing it again? They're already setup to do another fraudulent election in the GA runoffs.
The only way Biden does not win a second term is if he dies in office or if the 25th Amendment is used to remove him first. It doesn't matter how much he is hated or if we have another depression: the Dems can just stuff the ballot boxes in every large city they control and he wins. It's that simple.
I believe there was fraud, just as I believe there is always fraud taking place. It’s why I always favor voter ID laws and other protections to reduce the risk of fraud. It’s why I hate the electronic voting machines with all their software glitches and security flaws.
But if it were as cut and dried as you claim, the GOP would be perpetually the minority party across the board. Yet here we are with a wave of Republican victories up and down the ballots and it’s highly likely (if the Libertarians can get their heads out of their ...) we retain the Senate. Was there fraud? Yes. Did it have a level of influence over the outcome? Sure. Do the Democrats have total control over the voting process? Clearly not. Or, if they do, they’re so incompetent that it doesn’t matter.
President Trump won handily in 2016. He, or someone like him, is absolutely able to win again as well. 2020 has been a screwed up year for everybody. And the people who chose to vote for Biden will soon see the consequences of that mistake.
Some Republican lackeys like Romney and an 'official' but tiny opposition press like National Review will provide the useful fiction that we still in a free country.
If Trump did this literally no leader of any other country in the free world will acknowledge him as legitimate. So what, you might say. None of their business.
Well... North Korea, Hungary, China and Russia) - in fact every election-robbing, judge-suppressing, theocratic, tax evading loiter despot on the planet - is dying for the opportunity say “Yo Donny, welcome to our club.”
They are willing the President to go all out for revenge against everyone who’s ever p155ed him off, after shutting down all Washington dissent, ddfanging the judiciary, giving his family and friends lifetime immunity...
I’m not convinced even Israel would regard it as a “preservation” of the USA as constitutional Republic with federal democracy, if Trump did all of that.
So, burning down the village in order to save it needs more thought than the Convention’s call to action offers.
. If Trump does what they want, to the extent that Lincoln did, he would go into the history books not as the savior of the USA, but as its destroyer. He would be remembered as the man who stole the election, tore up the Constitution, Balkanized the USA, ended States rights, put all the powers of Washington in the hands of his family and close friends, and did all of that with the endorsement of everybody who simply wanted a free Republic...
I might hate everything a rival political ideology stands for, but not so much that I would sign away the political freedom of my kids to wipe it off the political map.
Fortunately I think Trump is honourable enough to read this...
http://wethepeopleconvention.org/articles/WTPC-Urges-Limited-Martial-Law
And think these people are completely off their trolleys.
No way is Trump going to be the President who sends the message to Iran, Russia and China “sorry, turns out you guys all had the right idea when you drained your swamps of all organised political dissent, we get it now.”
Still, it was an amusing thought.
Yes. I do.
I’m not. It’s unconstitutional. And it sets a precedent for a radical progressive/Marxist to do the same thing.
This would be the death of our constitutional republic and would bring us down to being a banana republic that used to be free.
This is true. This would be a disaster and open the door to every tin-pot Marxist (D)ictator to do the same.
It’s also unconstitutional and cannot affect the election. And the military does not have the constitutional right to administer 50 statewide elections.
No, no, no, no, no.
What gets suspended? Fourth Amendment? Second Amendment, First Amendment?
Habeas corpus?
Insanity.
I agree 100%. This would be an unmitigated disaster when the other guys see this as an open door to do the same thing. This is why we have rule of law, not rule of man.
Exactly.
There’s already some posts on FR about President Trump using martial law for “score settling”.
Re: 90 - Of course, you realize that for not advocating for martial law, we are part of the Deep State, cowards, patsies, etc.
Lin Wood, lifetime Democrat donor and voter? The same one who is suppressing Republican votes in Georgia? Sure.
Madness. And exactly what the Framers sought to prevent. Apparently, we've learned nothing when it comes to our own political idols.
Wow...so....Winred, Grennell, Doug Collins AND POTUS are ALL Dems, now?
FAIL post.
No one is suppressing GA votes, btw.....except maybe the two candidates who REFUSE to fight the fraud that took place, in GA...and, all across the country, on Election Day.
Troll elsewhere....rather than two day old threads.
Of course. I can live with that. Given the choice of adhering to our founding principles and PO'd people online, the choice is easy. Thanks, friend.
Two whole days? Wow. That’s ancient. Especially when I started posting on it yesterday. I’ve been busy.
Look at his voting and donation records from the GA Sec of State.
Sources, to make it easy:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3911678/posts
https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/im-sorry-i-was-wrong-the-deep-state
You’re welcome.
Oh, and did you happen to notice that Breitbart completely scrubbed their splash hit pieces, on Lin Wood? They INCORRECTLY called him a strictly DEM donor, too. They realized their FAIL, and scrubbed it. Maybe you should, too.
Bathe yourself....
No, YOU're welcome, troll.
It’s no one’s business but my own how often I post. I’ve been here since before the Buckhead revelation and have been in many an in-person Freep. I’ve got family stuff to take care of.
So, he’s not strictly a Dem donor... that’s not an issue.
And please back off on the personal attacks. I’m no troll. Ask anyone here.
Have a good day.
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