Capitolburg Redress

Twelve score and four years ago, our forefathers ratified a Constitution, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all Americans are subject to, and are beneficiaries of, a Rule of legitimate and duly-promulgated Laws, and that every citizen is entitled to the protection of that Law, having Lawful Rights as a Citizen of the Republic. Not long ago, we found ourselves engaged in a confrontation, to repel and dispel a reprobate attack upon our Congress upon and our Capitol. . .

Such was their conscious and deliberate attempt to obstruct the Congressional reception and tabulation of Electoral Votes that had already been duly tabulated by the respective State Legislatures, as determined by their respective elections in the individual States. Now we are engaged in a magamaniacal cultural war, as foxes strive to chomp on the grapes of wrath and to spoil the vines of Constitutional Law . . . a Constitutional war, no less, testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a regrettable battlefield of that war, the US Capitol itself. We have come to dedicate a monument on these, our Capitol grounds, as a commemoration of those Capitol Police and duly-appointed Officers of the Law who gave their lives in the wake of the January 6, 2021 insurrection: Brian Sicknick, Howard C. Liebengood, Jeffrey Smith, Gunther Hashida. It is altogether fitting and proper that we acknowledge these officers who, having given their last full measure of devotion, succumbed to the tragedy of death. Furthermore, in this season of national confusion, in the wake of magamaniacal insurrection, we find it necessary—and even imperative— that our Rule of Constitutional Law and Congressional due process might be, recognized and strengthened, so that our Rule of Constitutional Law and the Congressional due process thereof will be reinforced, protected and preserved. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground that was previously hallowed for lo, these many years. The brave men, living and dead, who defended this Capitol and our Congress, have consecrated it, far and above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we blog here, but we must never forget what they did here. It is rather for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of devotion: Therefore, we here highly resolve that these men shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall reaffirm our long-held respect for the Rule of Law, and a reaffirmation of the sanctity and necessary functionality of our Congress, our duly elected Representatives and Senators, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Glass half-Full Glass half-Full