Insurrection

A Congresswoman from Georgia is being grilled today over whether her attempts to raise questions about the 2020 elections -- which, to be clear, were clearly stolen, illegal, unconstitutional, and illegitimate -- amount to disqualifying insurrection under the 14th Amendment.

Now we all know that the elections featured as many ballots as necessary that were delivered by illegal means like dropboxes. These were not approved by state legislatures nor Congress, as the Constitution requires; and there is no way of knowing if any of them, let alone all of them, accurately represented the will of a real live citizen voter. Being illegal the election was also unconstitutional, and therefore the government of the United States* is illegitimate.

My Congressman, Madison Cawthorn, is under a similar cloud. He is an idiot, however, so I won't be too sorry if he doesn't make it. Still, the principle is important: one ought to be able to object to illegality and fraud without it being deemed 'insurrection.' One might also reasonably fight an insurrection, if necessary to prevent illegality and fraud by the powerful; but that is a separate matter.



* Excepting the 2/3rds of the Senate elected in a different year, and arguably also the President and Vice President, who were elected by the Electoral College. However, determining who the proper electors were was intensely connected to the illegal election, so one might argue that the Executive Branch is entirely illegitimate at this point. 

6 comments:

  1. Could we use this against government officials who publicly supported Antifa and their "autonomous zones"?

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  2. Apparently she was told not to mention 1776.

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  3. Apparently, one of the opposing attorneys asked her if she agreed that mentioning "1776" could incite violence, and she pointed out that it was on one of the seals in the courtroom.

    Eric Hines

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  4. Cawthorn is an example of why 'military service' is not necessarily a qualifier for legislative office. From up here in the North, that military background seemed to be what he ran on hardest.

    However, I think your term "idiot" is too kind. "Wacko" comes to mind here, but perhaps that's just a regional difference in culture.

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  5. He’s not even a veteran. He applied to the Naval Academy and was rejected, before his crippling injury. He’s somehow managed to convey that he’s done done sort of military service, but he’s never done a damn thing but get elected to Congress.

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  6. *some sort of…

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