Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: If We Don't Act, 2% of the People Are About To Control the Other 98%

westernjournal.com ^ | 6/29/2020 | Michael Flynn

[rktman]

I was once told if we’re not careful, 2 percent of the passionate will control 98 percent of the indifferent 100 percent of the time.

The more I’ve thought about this phrase, the more I believe it. There is now a small group of passionate people working hard to destroy our American way of life. Treason and treachery are rampant and our rule of law and those law enforcement professionals who uphold our laws are under the gun more than at any time in our nation’s history. These passionate 2 percent appear to be winning.

Despite there being countless good people trying to come to grips with everything else on their plates, our silent majority (the indifferent) can no longer be silent.

If the United States wants to survive the onslaught of socialism, if we are to continue to enjoy self-government and the liberty of our hard-fought freedoms, we have to understand there are two opposing forces: One is the “children of light” and the other is the “children of darkness.”

As I recently wrote, the art and exercise of self-governance require active participation by every American. I wasn’t kidding! And voting is only part of that active participation. Time and again, the silent majority have been overwhelmed by the “audacity and resolve” of small, well-organized, passionate groups. It’s now time for us, the silent majority (the indifferent), to demonstrate both.

[edh]

“As we all know children get dirty and they leave their dirty (evidence.....ooopppps), I mean footprints and hand prints all over.”

I am hoping this is the reason for little action on the President’s part when it comes to these riots and ,heh heh, “autonomous zones”. I understand he is limited in what he can do w/o violating states rights.

However, I would have thought that he’d be a bit more vociferous on Twitter regarding this Communist revolution in motion (and that’s what it needs to be called ... all of the players on the field ... BLM and Antifa ... are Communist revolutionaires). Instead, he is playing a more subdued card ... and the jackals in the media are lapping that up.

Something big has to happen ... and soon ... if this garbage is continuing this fall, Trump’s entire campaign could be sidelined ... and he all but needs to talk directly to the people in person ... its his core strength.

[Lurkinanloomin]

That what his birth certificate jpg says.
I know it has never been examined and authenticated, but it’s what we have to go on.

[JohnnyP]

Maybe Trump is afraid Twitter will ban him if he calls a spade a spade.

(ducking)

[little jeremiah]

Who is “we”? Obvious in-your-face forgeries have no value.

[SanchoP]

"I'll show the Republican Party a thing or two," growled long-time Republican Bud Harper of Plano, Texas as he cleaned his AR-15. "If they can't get their act together, I'll go right to the ballot box and vote Republican again. Hard."

"If this doesn't show them we mean business, nothing will." He then shot his AR-15 into the air as a warning shot to the Republicans about his plan to keep voting Republican no matter what.

Some suggested Republicans vote third-party or abstain from voting to show they won't tolerate the failures of the Republican Party. These people were laughed out of public discourse for throwing their votes away. "Obviously, these people want Democrats to win and probably want babies to die," said an RNC spokesperson. "Just keep on voting for the party that betrays you at every opportunity, and things will turn around any day now."

[al_c]

2% is already in control. They’re called “Congress” and they’ve all worn out their welcome. I can’t stand career politicians ... it never was meant to be a career.

[BuddhaBrown]

"what can we do? ..."

I pledge $100 for the new DS D-Day statue. Featuring Gen Flynn and Trump.

They are both statue material, no doubt. Something Antifa Jr can dream about defacing someday.

Now that we have liberated our best general, we could help our statue allies to win this war. There is an awful lot of fed controlled property that would not need mayoral support to defend:

Clarence Thomas, Scalia, Admiral Rodgers, Ben Carson, Sydney Powell, Candace (or Burgess) Owens, Pat Tillman, Rush Limbaugh, Walter Williams, Ronald Reagan, the first black on Capitol Hill - Republican Sen Revels, the first several black Congressmen - Republicans of course, etc.

If we build them... they will come. Then we can arrest them... on federal charges.

[rktman]

Uh yeah. Shooting in the air qualifies you to be a moose limb. 😂

[EasySt]

"Americans are in charge and if push comes to shove. Some very unhappy power-mad people will find out.

Meanwhile there are hearts and minds to be won in order to avoid at least some of the bloodshed.

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Multi-Domain Operations, Digital Soldiers and Citizen Journalists:
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~Easy
#WWG1WGA

[Sam Gamgee]

I’m encouraged that the FBI has made 4 arrests. To be honest I never trusted the FBI has Trump’s back. The theme in season 3 of Man in the High Castle is spooky considering what is happening now. Their goal was to remove all legacies of America’s past and now the mob is actually succeeding in doing so. Argued this with the wife. I consider them property of the American people, but she feels they are property of the various cities and so only the cities can do anything. Does the EO cover anything say in Portland?

[little jeremiah]

The EO covers (paraphrasing from memory) any destruction, vandalism, removal (and attempts thereof) any memorial, statute or commemorative thingumbob. Federal crimes, AND retroactive. So it would cover any of these in Portland. It was already a crime on fed property. Now it’s any.

I can look it up.

[SheepWhisperer]

I’m surprised...no replies to your excellent post!

Citizenjournalist doesn’t return a guulag result as a web site.

It should be!

Pay a small sum to prove you’re a US citizen and post your citizen news on a site like that. Up votes up to the top of the displayed list

[boxlunch]

That’s his canned spam post that he puts on every single freaking thread on FR, as if we haven’t all heard it 1 bajillion times from him already, Preaching to the choir over and over and over. Its quite annoying and serves no purpose since the majority of us agree.

[Sacajaweau]

It's all about "get out the vote". Two states the R's will never take are NY and CA...that's just by the numbers. But we should be able to get every other state.

And we need the house, too.

[little jeremiah]

I guess I read the short summary. Here’s the entire EO.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-protecting-american-monuments-memorials-statues-combating-recent-criminal-violence/

EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Executive Order on Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence

Issued on: June 26, 2020

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. The first duty of government is to ensure domestic tranquility and defend the life, property, and rights of its citizens. Over the last 5 weeks, there has been a sustained assault on the life and property of civilians, law enforcement officers, government property, and revered American monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial. Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists who have carried out and supported these acts have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies — such as Marxism — that call for the destruction of the United States system of government.

Anarchists and left-wing extremists have sought to advance a fringe ideology that paints the United States of America as fundamentally unjust and have sought to impose that ideology on Americans through violence and mob intimidation. They have led riots in the streets, burned police vehicles, killed and assaulted government officers as well as business owners defending their property, and even seized an area within one city where law and order gave way to anarchy. During the unrest, innocent citizens also have been harmed and killed.

These criminal acts are frequently planned and supported by agitators who have traveled across State lines to promote their own violent agenda. These radicals shamelessly attack the legitimacy of our institutions and the very rule of law itself.

Key targets in the violent extremists’ campaign against our country are public monuments, memorials, and statues. Their selection of targets reveals a deep ignorance of our history, and is indicative of a desire to indiscriminately destroy anything that honors our past and to erase from the public mind any suggestion that our past may be worth honoring, cherishing, remembering, or understanding. In the last week, vandals toppled a statue of President Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco. To them, it made no difference that President Grant led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War, enforced Reconstruction, fought the Ku Klux Klan, and advocated for the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed freed slaves the right to vote. In Charlotte, North Carolina, the names of 507 veterans memorialized on a World War II monument were painted over with a symbol of communism. And earlier this month, in Boston, a memorial commemorating an African-American regiment that fought in the Civil War was defaced with graffiti. In Madison, Wisconsin, rioters knocked over the statue of an abolitionist immigrant who fought for the Union during the Civil War. Christian figures are now in the crosshairs, too. Recently, an influential activist for one movement that has been prominent in setting the agenda for demonstrations in recent weeks declared that many existing religious depictions of Jesus and the Holy Family should be purged from our places of worship.

Individuals and organizations have the right to peacefully advocate for either the removal or the construction of any monument. But no individual or group has the right to damage, deface, or remove any monument by use of force.

In the midst of these attacks, many State and local governments appear to have lost the ability to distinguish between the lawful exercise of rights to free speech and assembly and unvarnished vandalism. They have surrendered to mob rule, imperiling community safety, allowing for the wholesale violation of our laws, and privileging the violent impulses of the mob over the rights of law-abiding citizens. Worse, they apparently have lost the will or the desire to stand up to the radical fringe and defend the fundamental truth that America is good, her people are virtuous, and that justice prevails in this country to a far greater extent than anywhere else in the world. Some particularly misguided public officials even appear to have accepted the idea that violence can be virtuous and have prevented their police from enforcing the law and protecting public monuments, memorials, and statues from the mob’s ropes and graffiti.

My Administration will not allow violent mobs incited by a radical fringe to become the arbiters of the aspects of our history that can be celebrated in public spaces. State and local public officials’ abdication of their law enforcement responsibilities in deference to this violent assault must end.

Sec. 2. Policy. (a) It is the policy of the United States to prosecute to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law, and as appropriate, any person or any entity that destroys, damages, vandalizes, or desecrates a monument, memorial, or statue within the United States or otherwise vandalizes government property. The desire of the Congress to protect Federal property is clearly reflected in section 1361 of title 18, United States Code, which authorizes a penalty of up to 10 years’ imprisonment for the willful injury of Federal property. More recently, under the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act of 2003, section 1369 of title 18, United States Code, the Congress punished with the same penalties the destruction of Federal and in some cases State-maintained monuments that honor military veterans. Other criminal statutes, such as the Travel Act, section 1952 of title 18, United States Code, permit prosecutions of arson damaging monuments, memorials, and statues on State grounds in some cases. Civil statutes like the Public System Resource Protection Act, section 100722 of title 54, United States Code, also hold those who destroy certain Federal property accountable for their offenses. The Federal Government will not tolerate violations of these and other laws.

(b) It is the policy of the United States to prosecute to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law, and as appropriate, any person or any entity that participates in efforts to incite violence or other illegal activity in connection with the riots and acts of vandalism described in section 1 of this order. Numerous Federal laws, including section 2101 of title 18, United States Code, prohibit the violence that has typified the past few weeks in some cities. Other statutes punish those who participate in or assist the agitators who have coordinated these lawless acts. Such laws include section 371 of title 18, United States Code, which criminalizes certain conspiracies to violate Federal law, section 2 of title 18, United States Code, which punishes those who aid or abet the commission of Federal crimes, and section 2339A of title 18, United States Code, which prohibits as material support to terrorism efforts to support a defined set of Federal crimes. Those who have joined in recent violent acts around the United States will be held accountable.

(c) It is the policy of the United States to prosecute to the fullest extent permitted under Federal law, and as appropriate, any person or any entity that damages, defaces, or destroys religious property, including by attacking, removing, or defacing depictions of Jesus or other religious figures or religious art work. Federal laws prohibit, under certain circumstances, damage or defacement of religious property, including the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996, section 247 of title 18, United States Code, and section 371 of title 18, United States Code. The Federal Government will not tolerate violations of these laws designed to protect the free exercise of religion.

(d) It is the policy of the United States, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to withhold Federal support tied to public spaces from State and local governments that have failed to protect public monuments, memorials, and statues from destruction or vandalism. These jurisdictions’ recent abandonment of their law enforcement responsibilities with respect to public monuments, memorials, and statues casts doubt on their willingness to protect other public spaces and maintain the peace within them. These jurisdictions are not appropriate candidates for limited Federal funds that support public spaces.

(e) It is the policy of the United States, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to withhold Federal support from State and local law enforcement agencies that have failed to protect public monuments, memorials, and statues from destruction or vandalism. Unwillingness to enforce State and local laws in the face of attacks on our history, whether because of sympathy for the extremists behind this violence or some other improper reason, casts doubt on the management of these law enforcement agencies. These law enforcement agencies are not appropriate candidates for limited Federal funds that support State and local police.

Sec. 3. Enforcing Laws Prohibiting the Desecration of Public Monuments, the Vandalism of Government Property, and Recent Acts of Violence. (a) The Attorney General shall prioritize within the Department of Justice the investigation and prosecution of matters described in subsections 2(a), (b), and (c) of this order. The Attorney General shall take all appropriate enforcement action against individuals and organizations found to have violated Federal law through these investigations.

(b) The Attorney General shall, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, work with State and local law enforcement authorities and Federal agencies to ensure the Federal Government appropriately provides information and assistance to State and local law enforcement authorities in connection with their investigations or prosecutions for the desecration of monuments, memorials, and statues, regardless of whether such structures are situated on Federal property.

Sec. 4. Limiting Federal Grants for Jurisdictions and Law Enforcement Agencies that Permit the Desecration of Monuments, Memorials, or Statues. The heads of all executive departments and agencies shall examine their respective grant programs and apply the policies established by sections 2(d) and (e) of this order to all such programs to the extent that such application is both appropriate and consistent with applicable law.

Sec. 5. Providing Assistance for the Protection of Federal Monuments, Memorials, Statues, and Property. Upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Administrator of General Services, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, personnel to assist with the protection of Federal monuments, memorials, statues, or property. This section shall terminate 6 months from the date of this order unless extended by the President.

Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d) This order is not intended to, and does not, affect the prosecutorial discretion of the Department of Justice with respect to individual cases.

[little jeremiah]

Here are Trump's tweets about this:

I have authorized the Federal Government to arrest anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property in the U.S. with up to 10 years in prison, per the Veteran’s Memorial Preservation Act, or such other laws that may be pertinent.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2020

.....This action is taken effective immediately, but may also be used retroactively for destruction or vandalism already caused. There will be no exceptions!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2020

[old curmudgeon]

I am too old to do a lot, but I do send a check every month to Judicial Watch and a check to the state sheriff’s association

Sending it to the sheriff’s association avoids any accusations of undue influence with the local sheriff.

As for Judicial Watch, they have dug up information that is making a real change in government ethics.

[Yardstick]

Spot on. It’s no wonder Obama hated Flynn, and amazing that Flynn was ever part of the Obama administration.

[dforest]

This country will not be saved at the ballot box. That will be a fraud. So folks are going to have to figure out what will work.

[henkster]

The Bolsheviks were less than 2% of the Russian population.