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“I Didn’t Declare War on the Establishment; It Declared War on Me” – Frank Miele Puts to Paper on What We All Are Thinking
By Joe Hoft
Published February 2, 2021 at 8:15am
In today’s America everything is upside down. American
patriots are labeled ‘enemies of the state.’ Their accusers prove they
are ‘enemies of the people.’
Published with permission from RealClearPolitics “Enemies of the State vs. Enemies of the People” Commentary by Frank Miele
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., is a columnist for RealClearPolitics. His new book “How
We Got Here: The Left’s Assault on the Constitution” is available from
his Amazon author page. Visit him at HeartlandDiaryUSA.com to read his daily commentary or follow him on Facebook @HeartlandDiaryUSA or on Twitter or Parler @HeartlandDiary.
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