Posted on 10/05/2025 5:01:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
For almost five years, Democrats and NeverTrumpers have insisted that events on January 6, 2021, were “an insurrection” justifying the biggest crackdown in federal criminal history. In fact, those events were not an insurrection by any definition. However, the violent Democrat attacks against ICE facilities across America are as close to an insurrection as we’ve seen since the Civil War itself.
The word “insurrection” appears four times in the Constitution. Under Art. 1, sec. 8 (ratified in 1788), Congress has the power “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.” At that time, the Founders, many of whom had attended law school in the 1760s, would have been familiar with English common law, which defined an “insurrection” as people deliberately banding together to use violence to oppose lawful authority.
Eighty years later, in 1868, Congress ratified the 14th Amendment on the heels of a four-year-long war that pitted a successionist South against the federal government, leaving 600,000 dead Americans in its wake.
Sections 3 and 4 effectively said that if you held a government office, elected or not, took an oath to defend the Constitution, and then betrayed that oath by fighting for the Confederacy (i.e., engaged in an “insurrection,”) you can’t hold another federal office, elected or not. Additionally, authorized debts for the Union side of the war were valid, but the government wouldn’t back debts incurred for the Confederacy (i.e., the “insurrection”). The point was that Confederates had forfeited their right to hold office and couldn’t come crying to the federal government for their debts.
For the next 150 years, insurrection was a politically obscure term, but it suddenly gained prominence in 2021.
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Why aren’t ANTIFA being arrested?
That looks absolutely terrifying.
Note: there were no law schools in the 18th century.
Let’s all go to the lobby
Let’s all go to the lobby
Let’s all go to the lobby
And get ourselves a treat
Divinity schools.
Apparently that photo slipped through the cracks. Democrats have destroyed all the other evidence of what really occurred on Jan. 6.
“secessionist”, NOT “ successionist”, where is the editor?
I find it hard to believe that AI is any better than “auto-correct”...
Neither one is much of an insurrection.
Now the Civil War, that was an insurrection. Huge organized armies equipped with a full range of military weapons - and that insurrection was still defeated in the end.
That insurrection was a threat to the Communist Utopia.
At great cost
Terrorism is hard to defeat
And rarely ever mentioned is the reason for that huge protest.
Americans believed the democrats committed a coup on November 5, 2020.
Subsequent events evidence that they were right.
They are committing treason, sedition and insurrection today.
The activities outside the Federal Building in Portland are without doubt insurrection. The actual involvement of the nebulous Antifa might be in question but the presence of the same individuals night after night after night is not.
Several anti protest individuals have been repeatedly accosted. The failure of the Portland police to act when the action takes plain view is recorded on video. The Portland police are unquestionably complicit in the support of the insurrection.
The mayor of Portland must be detained in a location far removed from Portland and Oregon. There must be no face to face contact with insurrection abetting lawyers. The time for the action against Oregon insurrection leaders is now.
You know, it wouldn’t be difficult to come to the conclusion that some of the people running those “blue cities” are indeed members of the Antifa Terrorist grope. Maybe law enforce should start taking a closer look at these.....Traitors.
VDH calls the blue state officials enabling Antifa neo confederate nullification insurrectionists. Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act and arrest them all.
The citizens are missing out on a golden opportunity to for the 2nd amendment clause of forming militias and get the job done. No politician or court can overrule what is clearly written in black and white.
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