Try 'em and fry 'em for their failed Gulag America putsch.

[Kid Berwyn]

Right-wing media and Trump supporters encourage secession, martial law after Supreme Court defeat

WRITTEN BY ZACHARY PLEAT
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BRENDAN KARET & JANE LEE
MEDIA MATTERS, PUBLISHED 12/13/20 1:53 PM EST

After the Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to overturn the election, many far-right pro-Trump media figures, social media personalities, Republican Party officials, and former congressional candidates expressed support for secession from the United States or the use of the military to overturn the election which President Donald Trump lost.

The lawsuit sought, in a “seditious abuse of judicial process,” to invalidate the election results from several swing states that contributed to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. This extreme attempt to overthrow our democracy garnered mainstream Republican support, with 17 GOP state attorneys general and more than half of House Republicans signing on in support of it.

The Supreme Court’s rejection of the lawsuit did not end Trump supporters’ calls to overturn the election results. While treason talk -- fueled by Rush Limbaugh -- had already begun in the right-wing circles before the Supreme Court announced its decision, it really took off afterward.

Texas GOP Chairman Allen West, a former member of Congress and a former Fox News contributor, helped lead the way with a call for secession, writing in a press release: “Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution.”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-and-trump-supporters-encourage-secession-martial-law-after-supreme-court

These turds wanted to overthrow the Constitution and re-install Stupid Agolf President.

Going by how they have allowed 300,000 Americans to die from Coronavirus, it’s a good bet they wouldn’t have minded creaming out their political opposition to make it stick.

This is NOT the time for Mr. Nice Guy.

[empedocles]

1. My concern is riot instigation

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Due Process. Three Branches. All Good.

If we don’t punish these treasonous bastards, they’ll try their treasons again.

It’s how fascists, kleptocrats and the criminally insane operate.

[brooklynite]

3. So, you support the death penalty?

(I’ll repeat what I stated previously: nobody will be charged with sedition)

[Kid Berwyn]

4. For theatrical effect, you know, Broadway.

Gets attention of the guilty like nothing else, Justice.

[spooky3]

5. Let them secede and try to survive without blue states' tax subsidies. Nt

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Look how they treat public education.

They’ll as soon get off on a technicality, a holdover DA misspelled a proper name from AON.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. That's the plan for us, if their Putsch is successful.

No do-overs.....

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Explains the push for ethnic boxes on the census.

From Christopher Hedges...

The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Arendt wrote in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.” And because Americans’ emails, phone conversations, Web searches and geographical movements are recorded and stored in perpetuity in government databases, there will be more than enough “evidence” to seize us should the state deem it necessary. This information waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.

The object of efficient totalitarian states, as George Orwell understood, is to create a climate in which people do not think of rebelling, a climate in which government killing and torture are used against only a handful of unmanageable renegades. The totalitarian state achieves this control, Arendt wrote, by systematically crushing human spontaneity, and by extension human freedom. It ceaselessly peddles fear to keep a population traumatized and immobilized. It turns the courts, along with legislative bodies, into mechanisms to legalize the crimes of state.

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https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-last-gasp-of-american-democracy/