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Enemies of the State vs. Enemies of the People
By Frank Miele February 01, 2021

I didn’t declare war on the establishment; it declared war on me.

It declared war on me when it supported energy policies that could enrich Saudi Arabia and Russia and would cost me more money at the gas pump or on my power bill.

It declared war on me when it told me my ideas weren’t worthy of debate and discussion or that they were even so dangerous they couldn’t be shared publicly.

It declared war on me when it used the police powers of the FBI and CIA to first spy on a presidential candidate and then worked to undermine the administration of that candidate after he was elected.

It declared war on me when it told me my religious beliefs did not deserve the protection of the First Amendment.

It declared war on me when it told me boys could compete against girls in high school sports and that they could shower together afterwards.

It declared war on me when it offered citizenship to illegal aliens and shipped American jobs to China.

It declared war on me when it mocked the usefulness of a wall on the Mexican border and simultaneously put up a razor-wire fence around the Capitol.

It declared war on me when it tried to defund the police so that millions of Americans would be left defenseless against mobs from antifa and Black Lives Matter.

It declared war on me when it said America was never great.

It declared war on me when it told my children they are not good enough because they are white.

It declared war on me when it said that defending the Constitution’s rules on federal elections is sedition.

It declared war on me when it told me that I was a domestic terrorist if I didn’t believe the government’s official pronouncements about elections, about free speech, and about right and wrong.

Let’s just say it plainly: The establishment declared war on me and on all conservative Americans when it decided that leftist orthodoxy was more important than the Constitution.

Don’t believe me? Fine, why should you believe a Trump supporter? You’ve been indoctrinated by the national media, Big Tech oligarchs, the Democratic Party, and academic elites to believe without questioning that people like me can’t be trusted. But you don’t have to take my word for it.

Listen instead to John Brennan, the former CIA director under President Obama, who speaks authoritatively for the Deep State:
He said on MSNBC that “the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed, are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.”

This “guilt by labeling” is the antithesis of fair play or justice. It is a convenient mechanism for the ruling class to herd people into identity clusters so that individual rights can be supplanted by group responsibility. If this reminds you of China’s Cultural Revolution, you are not wrong. The ruling class wants you to conform, confirm and comply. If you step outside the lines, be prepared to be shamed, silenced and ostracized.

A shocking example was provided Wednesday when Douglass Mackey of Delray Beach, Fla., was arrested for creating memes that allegedly misled voters in 2016 to think they could vote by texting instead of by actually going to the polls. This is the equivalent of arresting Sacha Baron Cohen for exposing the gullibility of the rich and famous. The FBI offered no evidence that Mackey actually convinced anyone not to vote, but even if it did, so what? Would you rather live in a country where the FBI is hunting down pranksters — four years after the supposed transgression — or a country where voters are expected to be able to recognize a joke when they see one?

But nothing can be taken for granted any more. The people — and even their representatives and senators — are considered enemies of the state because they hold opinions that don’t meet the standards of Joe Biden or (this is even scarier!) Jake Tapper.

No wonder the people are starting to rise up and rebel against the plutocracy. It’s not “We the Oligarchs” who are the source of power in the Constitution, but “We the People,” yet the ruling establishment has forgotten that. If people like Donald Trump and Douglass Mackey are deemed to be “enemies of the state,” then those who would suppress them and their freedoms must be considered “enemies of the people.”

A house divided against itself cannot long stand, but if there is to be a truce it will not come from submission, but from a recognition that all people are created equal, that they all have certain inalienable rights, and that among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Those words were worth fighting for once. Are they worth fighting for today?

I don’t know, but I do know this: If Americans can’t have liberty, we can’t have America either — at least not one that is distinguishable from China. The time has come to make a choice.

Frank Miele, the retired editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell Mont.

Against all enemies

I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

By Lee Cary —— October 2, 2019

America’s domestic enemies are the Democratic Party and its allies

Those who’ve taken the oath remember it as a rite of passage.

Inside a military induction center, in the company of strangers in civilian clothes, with a few military personnel in uniform, a commanding voice orders the civilians to line up single file outside the door, to an empty room, displaying the national flag.

The door opens, the civilians file in, and, in equal increments, peel off to form a block of rows where they are called to attention for the first of many times to come.

When directed, they raise their right hands and repeat, phrase by phrase, these words:

I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

For many of the oath-takers, other important and memorable oaths will be taken in their lives. Like wedding vows, and their oath to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” in a court of law. But, for those who take this oath, no other will be more memorable.

The oath originated during the American Revolutionary War. It was altered in 1789. Then, later, it was amended, on 5 May 1960, during the Cold War.

On 5 October 1962, the newest words took effect. The oath-takers pledged to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic”.

The “enemies” are unnamed. For while the oath is fixed in place, the enemies change over time. 

The leading foreign enemies of the 20th Century were clear.  The Empire of Japan. The Third Reich. Then the USSR, the Peoples’ Republic of China and the Korean War. Followed by an episode of the Cold War turned hot in Vietnam.

The domestic enemies—those inside our borders—were Soviet spies, many known to exist but identified only by their code names, particularly in the era of nuclear arms development.  Later came spies from the Peoples’ Republic of China entering America as foreign students in U.S. universities, not just searching for state secrets but for industrial secrets enabling the theft of intellectual property.

Today, the leading domestic enemies of the U.S. Constitution are not dispatched to America from foreign shores. They were born in the USA.  English is their first language.

They include Government Service employees in the U.S. “intelligence community”— a soft moniker for a hard bunch.  Not all of them, of course. But enough to matter.

Some act openly, others are clandestine operators. They designed and staffed the Trump-Russian Hoax operation.  We know the field leaders, many of them, but we can’t yet prove who authorized their mission. And we may never be able to document who gave the “go,” and when. 

The field trade craft doesn’t appear to have relied on the standard pedestrian techniques like dead drops, brush passes, or one-time pads.

They used other espionage tools against the Executive Branch of their own government:  black propaganda, cut-outs, even a swallow—many of the standard tools were used one time or another during the Trump-Russian Hoax by GS-rated personnel and a few agency stringers, operating under the guise of the “intelligence community”. A harmless sounding label conveying the image of block parties, pot-luck suppers and book clubs. A family affair. 

In their efforts to overthrow a President, the “intelligence community” solidly earned the designation of a domestic enemy of the U.S. Constitution.

The role of liberal media newsrooms as domestic enemies is, also, well-established. Akin to the Nazi-controlled newspapers Vőlkischer Beobachter, Der Angriff and Boersen Zeitung, they toe the Democrat Party line under the banners of the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, et al. 

On the internet, they edit POLITICO, Daily Kos and Mother Jones where news means spreading each new narrative defined by the thought leaders of the American Left.  Facts and truth matter not. Today there is no “news”. 

The most modern invention in political propaganda is practiced by the censors, and with the logarithms, of big social media and search engine outlets: e.g., Facebook, Twitter and Google.  Domestics enemies of the U.S. Constitution.

Among their various campaigns are open borders, unhindered access to lethal drugs, unlimited abortions, unenforced laws, unbounded genders. 

Identity politics is a propaganda tool for torquing disorder leading toward the reformation of the old civil order by spreading incivility.

Their agenda, once heralded as fundamental transformation of America by a former U.S. President, is fundamental deformation of American society. Tear down the old to bring on the new.

Their end-game goal is the optimization of federal power – which they will control because they know best—over the citizenry.

Elsewhere in time and place, they’ve used other labels—Communism, Fascism, Socialism – but it always comes down to control over people.  How they live.  Where they work. What they read. What they think. What they own.

The Politburo, the Stasi, the Gestapo, the Communist Party, the Central Planning Committee—same play, different actors.

And now we have the newest rendition of control being directed from the hive of America’s leading domestic enemy—free stuff for everyone funded by confiscating the property of the rich.

Today, the domestic enemies of the U.S. Constitution live in our midst as the Democratic Party and its allies.

They put on a clown show, but we had better take them seriously.  For they are not joking.