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Are We Nearing Civil War?
Townhall.com ^ | June 13, 2017 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 06/13/2017 7:18:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

President Trump may be chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, but his administration is shot through with disloyalists plotting to bring him down.

We are approaching something of a civil war where the capital city seeks the overthrow of the sovereign and its own restoration.

Thus far, it is a nonviolent struggle, though street clashes between pro- and anti-Trump forces are increasingly marked by fistfights and brawls. Police are having difficulty keeping people apart. A few have been arrested carrying concealed weapons.

That the objective of this city is to bring Trump down via a deep state-media coup is no secret. Few deny it.

Last week, fired Director of the FBI James Comey, a successor to J. Edgar Hoover, admitted under oath that he used a cutout to leak to The New York Times an Oval Office conversation with the president.

Goal: have the Times story trigger the appointment of a special prosecutor to bring down the president.

Comey wanted a special prosecutor to target Trump, despite his knowledge, from his own FBI investigation, that Trump was innocent of the pervasive charge that he colluded with the Kremlin in the hacking of the DNC.

Comey's deceit was designed to enlist the police powers of the state to bring down his president. And it worked. For the special counsel named, with broad powers to pursue Trump, is Comey's friend and predecessor at the FBI, Robert Mueller.

As Newt Gingrich said Sunday: "Look at who Mueller's starting to hire. ... (T)hese are people that ... look to me like they're ... setting up to go after Trump ... including people, by the way, who have been reprimanded for hiding from the defense information into major cases. ...

"This is going to be a witch hunt."

Another example. According to Daily Kos, Trump planned a swift lifting of sanctions on Russia after inauguration and a summit meeting with Vladimir Putin to prevent a second Cold War.

The State Department was tasked with working out the details.

Instead, says Daniel Fried, the coordinator for sanctions policy, he received "panicky" calls of "Please, my God, can you stop this?"

Operatives at State, disloyal to the president and hostile to the Russia policy on which he had been elected, collaborated with elements in Congress to sabotage any detente. They succeeded.

"It would have been a win-win for Moscow," said Tom Malinowski of State, who boasted last week of his role in blocking a rapprochement with Russia. State employees sabotaged one of the principal policies for which Americans had voted, and they substituted their own.

Not in memory have there been so many leaks to injure a president from within his own government, and not just political leaks, but leaks of confidential, classified and secret documents. The leaks are coming out of the supposedly secure investigative and intelligence agencies of the U.S. government. The media, the beneficiaries of these leaks, are giving cover to those breaking the law. The real criminal "collusion" in Washington is between Big Media and the deep state, colluding to destroy a president they detest and to sink the policies they oppose.

Yet another example is the unfolding "unmasking" scandal.

While all the evidence is not yet in, it appears an abnormal number of conversations between Trump associates and Russians were intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies.

On orders higher up, the conversations were transcribed, and, contrary to law, the names of Trump associates unmasked.

Then those transcripts, with names revealed, were spread to all 16 agencies of the intel community at the direction of Susan Rice, and with the possible knowledge of Barack Obama, assuring some would be leaked after Trump became president.

The leak of Gen. Michael Flynn's conversation with the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, after Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for the hacking of the DNC, may have been a product of the unmasking operation. The media hit on Flynn cost him the National Security Council post.

Trump has had many accomplishments since his election. Yet his enemies in the media and their deep state allies have often made a purgatory of his presidency.

What he and his White House need to understand is that this is not going to end, that this is a fight to the finish, that his enemies will not relent until they see him impeached or resigning in disgrace.

To prevail, Trump will have to campaign across this country and wage guerrilla war in this capital, using the legal and political weapons at his disposal to ferret out the enemies within his own government.

Not only is this battle essential, if Trump hopes to realize his agenda, it is winnable. For the people sense that the Beltway elites are cynically engaged in preserving their own privileges, positions and power.

If the president cannot rewrite Obamacare or achieve tax reform, he should not go around the country in 2018 wailing about Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer. They are not the real adversaries. They are but interchangeable parts.

He should campaign against the real enemies of America First by promising to purge the deep state and flog its media collaborators.

Time to burn down the Bastille.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: comeyhearings; coup; cwii; cwiiping; deepstate; fbi; investigation; jamescomey; patbuchanan; presidenttrumpadmin; russia; shtf; trumprussia
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To: GOPJ

// We should not kill liberal elites... //

No we should not.

On the other hand, throwing them off a roof, chaining a cinder block to them and throwing them in a river, hanging them on a rope from a lamppost...

oh, wait. Sorry, that would kill them. We shouldn’t do that.


21 posted on 06/13/2017 7:32:56 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Kaslin

When do states start forming infantry regiments?


22 posted on 06/13/2017 7:33:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jimmy The Snake

I’m in. Bring pitchforks.


23 posted on 06/13/2017 7:33:58 AM PDT by smartymarty (How a mountain girl can love.)
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To: Jimmy The Snake

The rancid media will show a pic of 12 (white, hetero) people milling about.


24 posted on 06/13/2017 7:34:31 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Starboard

They WERE boss. Donald is sapping their power.


25 posted on 06/13/2017 7:34:59 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jimmy The Snake

“Time for a Forgotten Man March on Washington. Pack the Bus, and get 1 million people”

And bring rope


26 posted on 06/13/2017 7:35:18 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: i_robot73

The ‘silent majority’ didn’t stay so silent, to the benefit of 90% of the populace.

************

During our war for independence its been said that one third of the population were loyalists, one third were indifferent, and one third were patriots. Once again, the populace as a whole stands to benefit from the actions and commitment of something less than a majority who took a stand.


27 posted on 06/13/2017 7:35:26 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: PGR88

The poorest are now the most likely to be obese. Can’t see anything major happening as far as sustained widespread civil unrest until something happens to change that.

Freegards


28 posted on 06/13/2017 7:36:04 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Stormdog

A good suggestion whose time has come. We get the government we deserve.


29 posted on 06/13/2017 7:36:40 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: bigtoona

/// In some of the bigger liberal cities and places like Berkley I think we are on the civil war brink. The police are completely corrupt and in cahoots with the democrat mayors in those places. They don’t enforce the laws that prevent people from rioting, and in some videos appear to actually attempt to cause riots by dropping tear gas canisters in crowds and giving support to the antifa bastards.

In other places there are not so many protests and liberals seem to be starting to accept the election. ///

There should be a 10,000 man armed march at Berkeley and an ultimatum issue to the mayor of Berkeley and the police that if the police assault or arrest the marchers, that deadly force will be initiated and continue until the mayor of Berkeley is gone and any police that refuse to surrender are also gone.


30 posted on 06/13/2017 7:37:20 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Stormdog

To do what, hang yourselves in frustration when Donald refuses a counter putsch?


31 posted on 06/13/2017 7:37:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Starboard

“We get the government we deserve.”

Ain’t that the truth.


32 posted on 06/13/2017 7:39:24 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: baltimorepoet

Donald has neither asked for this nor would support it. I suggest do not try.


33 posted on 06/13/2017 7:40:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jagdgewehr

YEP. This is a cold war if ever I saw one.


34 posted on 06/13/2017 7:40:41 AM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Kaslin

About the only thing remaining is for someone to finally have enough and go into John Brown mode.


35 posted on 06/13/2017 7:40:57 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Kaslin

No primarily because the vast majority of the left are pu$$ies.

All talk, little action.


36 posted on 06/13/2017 7:41:51 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Stormdog

By the grace of God, fallen we are not serving pure Satan now. That is what we deserve!


37 posted on 06/13/2017 7:42:12 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Kaslin
Are We Nearing Civil War?

As another FReeper wrote me, "We have the 'WHY', we know the 'WHERE', all we need is the 'WHEN'.

38 posted on 06/13/2017 7:42:14 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Kaslin

Either Civil War or a totalitarian state; one or the other.

Question is - have we the resolve to preserve what this nation was founded upon?


39 posted on 06/13/2017 7:43:08 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: Kaslin

We’ve been sitting around our tv’s - waiting to see our utterly corrupt government fix ITSELF.

It’s not.


40 posted on 06/13/2017 7:44:32 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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