by Stephen Lendman In response to what happened, President Paul von Hindenburg signed an emergency decree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Civil liberties were suspended. Weimar Republic democracy died, and Hitler assumed power after enough Nazis were elected to assure it.<\/p>\n As the saying goes, the rest is history.<\/p>\n The fullness of time will tell what\u2019s unclear now about Wednesday\u2019s Capitol Hill riot while Congress was debating whether or not to certify November\u2019s stolen election for Biden\/Harris over Trump.<\/p>\n Make no mistake. Overwhelming evidence showed that he won. Dem challengers lost, but things didn\u2019t turn out that way.<\/p>\n Was Wednesday\u2019s Capitol Hill riot an orchestrated scheme by dark forces to undermine congressional debate to elevate Biden\/Harris to power, case closed?<\/p>\n Was what happened Wednesday an American Reichstag fire \u2014 a false flag \u2014 or an incident staged by over-the-top Trump supporters?<\/p>\n Note the unacceptable aftermath so far.<\/p>\n Twitter locked Trump\u2019s account for 12 hours, threatening permanent blockage if his \u201coffending\u201d tweets aren\u2019t removed.<\/p>\n Its unprecedented action against a head of state \u2014 perhaps urged by hostile-to-Trump dark forces \u2014 is a flagrant First Amendment right to free expression breach, without which all other rights are threatened.<\/p>\n Voltaire understood, saying: \u201cI disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.\u201d<\/p>\n Will the aftermath of what happened on Capitol Hill Wednesday one day be remembered as the beginning of the end of speech, media and academic freedom in the US?<\/p>\n What Trump tweets did Twitter consider offensive and remove? Here they are, saying:<\/p>\n \u201cI know how you feel, but go home and go home in peace. I know you\u2019re in pain. I know you\u2019re hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe had an election that was stolen from us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIt was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBut you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have to respect our great people in law and order. We don\u2019t want anybody hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGo home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!\u201d<\/p>\n Facebook acted in unison with Twitter, removing Trump\u2019s video and blocking him from posting for 24 hours \u2014 based on a Big Lie, claiming:<\/p>\n It was for \u201cinciting violence\u201d \u2014 polar opposite what Trump said in a videotaped message and tweets.<\/p>\n Instagram \u2014 owned by Facebook \u2014 responded the same way, instituting a 24-hour ban on postings by Trump.<\/p>\n Three of America\u2019s most popular social media acted in cahoots to unconstitutionally silence Trump short-term, perhaps with longer-term aims in mind for others.<\/p>\n The anti-Trump NYT falsely accused him of \u201cpublish(ing) a string of inaccurate and inflammatory messages on a day of violence in the nation\u2019s capital.\u201d<\/p>\n Calls are growing to ban Trump from tweeting permanently. Notably he has 88.7 million followers.<\/p>\n With two weeks remaining in his tenure, over two dozen undemocratic Dems on Wednesday called for impeaching him again for reasons as unjustifiable as a year ago December.<\/p>\n Rep. Illhan Omar tweeted:<\/p>\n \u201cDonald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am drawing up articles of impeachment.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cDonald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t allow him to remain in office. It\u2019s a matter of preserving our republic and we need to fulfill our oath (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n Did she unwittingly call for destroying the republic to save it?<\/p>\n Along with Omar, the following House Dems also support impeachment:<\/p>\n Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Kai Kahele, David Cicilline, Seth Moulton, Jamaal Bowman, Mark Takano, Mondaire Jones, Bonnie Coleman, Earl Blumenauer, Steve Cohen, Pramila Jayapal, and Jennifer Wexton.<\/p>\n Dem Reps. Ted Lieu, Mark Pocan, and others called for invoking the 25th Amendment that states:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.\u201d<\/p>\n The Constitution\u2019s Article II, Section 4 states that \u201c(t)he President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.\u201d<\/p>\n Were Trump\u2019s Wednesday tweets and video message against Capitol Hill violence an impeachable offense?<\/p>\n Clearly not! Will he be impeached again with days remaining in his term and become the first sitting US president to be removed from office this way?<\/p>\n John Adams once said that impeaching and removing a US president from office would cause a national convulsion.<\/p>\n Trump impeachment 2.0, if occurs, is highly likely to fail like the year-ago attempt for invented reasons.<\/p>\n What\u2019s most important is the threat of where things may be heading.<\/p>\n Already an increasingly totalitarian police state, will full-blown tyranny follow?<\/p>\n Challenging a US president\u2019s constitutionally guaranteed right of free expression threatens it for all Americans.<\/p>\n Will speech, media, and academic free expression that US ruling authorities find offensive henceforth be declared unlawful?<\/p>\n According to the Constitution, publicly stated views on all issues aren\u2019t impeachable offenses \u2014 no matter how extreme, offensive or different from most others in government.<\/p>\n Will that standard be abolished ahead?<\/p>\n Were pro-Trump supporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday infiltrated by disruptive rioters to blame Trump for what happened, smoothing the was for Biden\/Harris to assume power unobstructed by a legitimate GOP congressional challenge?<\/p>\n In response to what happened, establishment media blamed Trump and his supporters for attempting to destroy American values.<\/p>\n Unverified reports suggested that anti-Trump elements infiltrated Capitol Hill to incite violence for this purpose.<\/p>\n According to Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry, an unnamed former FBI special agent texted him to say that at least one \u201cbus load\u201d of anti-Trump elements were sent to Capitol Hill Wednesday as part of a planned false flag that unfolded.<\/p>\n One America News correspondent Jack Posobiec reported what he called eyewitness accounts of anti-government chants by elements, inciting the crowd of at least largely nonviolent Trump supporters.<\/p>\n False flags are a US tradition since the mid-19th century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 9\/11 was the mother of them all until events of last year \u2014 what I call 9\/11 2.0.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Seasonal flu\/influenza renamed covid last year and what followed was responsible for economic collapse \u2014 the Greatest US Main Street Depression.<\/p>\n It caused unprecedented unemployment, under-employment, food insecurity, hunger, and overall deprivation with no end of it in prospect.<\/p>\n It\u2019s part of a new millennium New World Order Great Reset, aiming to create ruler-serf societies in the US and worldwide if successful.<\/p>\n Trump apparantly was considered an obstacle to what dark forces have in mind so he had to go.<\/p>\n What may have been orchestrated Capitol Hill violence appears to have been the coup de grace to his tenure.<\/p>\n Anti-Trump NYT editors blamed him for Wednesday\u2019s violence.<\/p>\n They falsely accused him of \u201cincit(ing) his followers (sic),\u201d adding:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThere must be consequences (sic)\u2026(He) needs to be held accountable (sic) \u2014 through impeachment proceedings or criminal prosecution (sic).\u201d<\/p>\n The Times and other hostile-to-Trump media \u2014 along with Dems \u2014 ignored the message his tweets and video urging nonviolence, reinventing his remarks.<\/p>\n After Dems Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff were declared winners of Georgia\u2019s US Senate run-off elections \u2014 giving the party White House, Senate and House control later this month, Biden said the following:<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s Capitol Hill violence \u201cborders on sedition (sic)\u2026It\u2019s not protest (sic). It\u2019s insurrection (sic)\u201d \u2014 demand(ing) (Trump) end\u201d what he didn\u2019t incite.<\/p>\n What may have been orchestrated violence on Wednesday perhaps indeed was a coup de grace to make Trump a one-term president.<\/p>\n As of now, it\u2019s virtually certain \u2014 even though he legitimately won. Biden\/Harris lost.<\/p>\n Yet on January 20, he\u2019ll return to private life after they\u2019re illegitimately inaugurated to replace him.<\/p>\n It\u2019s further evidence of fantasy US democracy, never the real thing from inception.<\/p>\n A Final Comment<\/p>\n Overnight, Election 2020 officially ended after Congress \u201ccertified\u201d Biden\/Harris\u2019 win (sic).<\/p>\n Over half of Republicans joined with Dems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Events on Capitol Hill Wednesday shifted uncertainty to there never was any doubt.<\/p>\n ___ Capitol Hill Violence: America\u2019s Reichstag Fire? by Stephen Lendman A week before 1933 German general elections, a strategically timed Reichstag fire was falsely blamed on communists.\u00a0 In response to what happened, President Paul von Hindenburg signed an emergency decree.\u00a0 Civil … Continue reading
\nA week before 1933 German general elections, a strategically timed Reichstag fire was falsely blamed on communists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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