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Bill Cope - Siege the Day
Time to breach these radicals' barricadesHere's what should happen at the Capitol building. The one that belongs to every man, woman and child in America. The federal Capitol, which until relatively recently served as the national epicenter of citizen involvement in their own governance and that since 2010 has been commandeered by a lawless cabal determined to cut citizens out of the process of governance. Here's what should happen if these renegades do what they are threatening to do if President Barack Obama nominates anyone to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia:
1) Gather enough FBI agents, DEA agents, ATF agents, SWAT teams, local law enforcement officers, military police and any other available crime-fighting units to surround the Capitol entirely and make sure the outlaws know they are ready to move in at a moment's notice. In the first stages, the lawmen should maintain a low profile while the turncoats are allowed to conduct their press conferences and photo-ops, strutting out their anti-democratic, anti-government insurgency, and struggling to explain why they are justified in refusing to allow our duly-elected, twice-elected president to execute his constitutional mandate to keep the Supreme Court stocked with a full count of nine.
At the same time, the honorable individuals within Congress, within the news media and the general public should continue to point out that there is no justification whatsoeverlegal, historical or moralto the criminals' refusal to act.
2) At the first actual, concrete act of defiance, most likely to be a decision by the rebel leader Sen. Mitch McConnell to deny any hearings on a nominee, all access to and egress from the building should come to an end, except for Congress members willing to perform their constitutional obligation to give the president's nomination a fair hearing. If the mutineer riffraff persist in their efforts to subvert this 228-year-old process, the decent and law-abiding senators should be evacuated from the building and installed into another venue where they might perform their jobs unimpeded by sabotage and obstructionism.
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Bill Cope - Siege the Day (Original Post)
IDemo
Mar 2016
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FSogol
(45,488 posts)1. You forgot the sarcasm tag.
Sounds like feverish sovereign citizen movement tripe.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)2. Sorry, Cope is political satire
This was his take on the current situation regarding the Just Say No campaign of McConnell et al, done with a reflection of some who wanted the same treatment of the Bundy gang in Oregon. Bill Cope is quite liberal, but maybe he's no Borowitz.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)3. LOL. Sorry, must have been too subtle for me. n/t