Dakota Beacon

Following the violence which disrupted the peaceful protest being held last Wednesday the President made a brief speech.  It was a disturbing and tragic day.  It could be said to have broken America irreparably.  That remains to be seen.  What we know will not work is to simply do as Congress was willing to do - use the violence to give cover to rubber stamp a fraudulent, corrupt election perpetrated by a combination of hostile foreign powers and criminals here in the United States acting in concert - in other words, the definition of a conspiracy.

The social media is in full attack on our Constitution in general and the First Amendment in particular.  This must also be challenged.  We cannot allow an entity to abridge our rights.  Our mainstream media has gone from “slanted” toward the left to a full-blown propaganda organ, obvious from the very words it uses - “baseless claims”, for example.  “Unproven claims” might be accurate until they are officially proven, but “baseless” blatantly characterizes them and this is not journalism.  Only when they are disproven should anyone allege them to be “baseless”, at least in the media, at least as “news”.  If a news organization wishes to do this it should be openly noted that it is “opinion” and not “news”.  But they don’t, so what people hear - people whose news is limited to what the major networks provide (including Fox) have no idea what is really going on.  More people are turning to independent sources, it’s true, but perhaps not yet a majority.  So the media must have a correction also.  The very idea that a platform can use its resources to silence a sitting president, especially in such critical times, is evidence that our country has been shattered.

The question is, what’s next?  Trump delivered a terse, two-and-a-half minute message to the public following the action taken by Congress to affirm the fraudulent votes for Joe Biden.  No one who heard it really understood it.  This seems to have been by design.  He assured the public that calm “must be restored”, that America is a nation of “law and order”, that the seat of American government had “been defiled”.  He also noted that he had called out the National Guard (not the mayor, who should have, by the way).  He said some very carefully worded statements - his campaign “vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results”, that his “only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote” and to “defend American democracy”.  He went on to stress the need for election reform and means of identifying the eligible voters.  If we pause for a moment here we must be asking ourselves exactly how this could happen if a Biden administration is sworn in.  There will be no such reform under an administration which came into power under the very fraudulent election process Trump cites here.  And Trump is a realist - he is not just saying words here that don’t have a meaning.  Between the lines he is not - repeat, not - conceding this election.  He is calling for restoration of confidence in “all future elections”.  This is a contradiction with the idea of a concession.

“Now Congress has certified the results,” he continued, “and a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th.”  Note that he says “now”.  This would seem to indicate that a process has been completed, a required obligation has been met which suggests a next step.  How is a “smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power” accomplished in the wake of the foregoing disastrous election replete with enormous claims of fraud and the streets of Washington full of at least one million supporters of the “defeated” candidate?  With evidence of treason and fraud unfolding before our eyes in real time, with foreign nations participating in manipulation of the fundamental function of the government of our republic?  Seamless?  

He made a call for unity and a refocus on family, community, healing - all of which sounds fairly “normal” and he says that serving as America’s president has been the honor of his lifetime.  And then he finished up with a cryptic message to his supporters that the fight “has only begun”.  In other words, I cannot call this a concession speech by any normal definition.

What is next?  If we listen closely to the words of Trump it is not going to be a Biden administration.  Either that or he is a terrible communicator.  He could be playing games  as in “nothing to lose at this point” or he could be giving a message to those who listen closely that he is taking a different approach - not conceding.

I think the latter is the case.  Something else is likely to occur here.  It could be martial law.  It could be the end of the republic or an interruption in the life of the republic.  Either is a shocking development.  Here is what I think should happen.  

1.  The election as certified cannot be accepted by a majority of Americans - Trump garnered a landslide vote across the nation.  His support is not only wide but it is deep and enthusiastic.  He is a charismatic leader to many, even if not all, of those who supported him.

2. Martial law is abhorrent to a free people. Yet it now appears the only option because both the courts have failed in refusing to hear the mountain of evidence against the results as counted and Congress has failed in a craven attempt to hide behind an orchestrated attack on January 6, as they were set to call for an investigation of these charges.

3. Michael Flynn, exonerated of the false charges against him, set aside significantly through efforts of his attorney, Sidney Powell, has proposed a week or so ago that Trump declare martial law for the limited purpose of holding the elections over again in the disputed districts.  This is what I hope will happen now.  In this way Biden’s legitimate supporters can vote for him again.  If he still has enough support in these districts to make him president and sustain the electoral college vote, so be it.  He will then have won legitimately and without foreign or criminal interference.  If Trump wins, he wins.  I hope that Flynn’s approach is taken because it would ensure the continuation of the republic under a duly elected president, whoever that may be.  And the people must - MUST - then accept the result, whether for Biden or for Trump.  Anyone who would object to this is not interested in “democracy” or in elections or in the integrity of our vote but rather in outcome alone.  

4. The dire “last” alternative would be to suspend the republic entirely and institute some sort of dictatorship.  Let us hope this is not the course that is taken here.  

The bottom line is that as of this point in time we have lost our vote, our self-government, to people who took control of the election outside of the law, whether foreign or domestic.  It cannot stand if America is to survive.  If Biden actually won in these disputed districts let me be the first to accept it and congratulate the winner.  If not, we will either need to explore one of the other options or say goodby to America as a free and self-governing nation.  

Let’s all pray for a rerun of the election where it is in dispute, leave it undisturbed where it is not in dispute and try our best to bridge this terrible divide without breaking apart or falling into tyranny.  

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