Recognize an insurrection when there is one

Something happened on Wednesday, something that would be a stretch a year ago for anyone to believe. A howling mob of fascistic terrorists stormed our Capitol in Washington while the legislators were confirming the election of a man for whom the voters has chosen. They broke windows, smashed locked doors, left blood smeared over statuary of our country’s most respected and admired forefathers, rifled desks of some of the legislators, read their private papers and stole what they could carry away as souvenirs and memorials of their attack and destruction.

What was the terrorists’ purpose? It was to stop the election of America’s legally elected President and replace him with a Dictator. Who led the terrorist revolt? Their leader of course; the man who would be king, or dictator. He was a man that had gained office by what some believe was an illegally skewed election.

This was a person that had decided the will of the people was not his will and wished to have his followers overturn a righteous American election; to take away our vote and replace it with himself. The leader of the sedition was also a man whose friends on the world stage were two of the world’s most ruthless dictators. He may have had plans to copy their style thus sabotaging the political system of a free society and Constitutional political system forever.

He was stopped at the last moment and the mob was driven out. The democratic leaders completed the business of recognizing the legal president American Democracy so many millions on foreign shores admire, watch and hope for themselves.

Like a broken humpty dumpty what happened cannot be undone. What can be done is to recognize an insurrection when there is one and recognize sedition when one man is the cause. The guilty must be made to pay and until that happens there can be no healing.

— Gene Paleno and Cleo, Witter Springs