We Won't Forget!

. . ." for my mind misgives some conseqence, yet hanging in the stars . . . shall bitterly begin with this night's revels. . ." Romeo Montague, in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Contemporary version: . . . for our nation suspects some consequence, yet hanging in our stars and stripes . . . did bitterly begin, in that day's rebellion, January 6, 2021. Now the magamaniacs and the foxes who did strive to steal the vines of our American governance may insist, with irrelevant nitpicking, that the Capitol guards did, during the Jan6 insurrection (wait for it) . . . "let the rioters in." But this American citizens responds: So what? if they let 'em in! What would you do if a gang of violent attackers had you surrounded while they were wielding, in overpowering mobs, weapons, riotous destruction and nooses hanging outside? If I had been one of our Capitol police on that day, I do believe I would have stepped aside while my life was being threatened by an angry, violent mob, rather than offer myself as a victim of their violent rage.

But whether the gangsters were allowed in, or not, is not the point! The point is, . . . We have a Constitution, in which the process of electing a President is laid out in plain English, in Article 2: "Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature may direct, a number of Electors. . . The President of the Senate (Vice President of the United States) shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the (States') certificates, and the votes shall be counted." It was this Constitutionally ordained process that our founding fathers had laid out for the selection of our President. Thus did they establish what we refer to as a "Rule of Law." This Rule of Law is the Law of the land. Mob rule is not!

What the Jan6 insurrectionists were trying to provoke was an overthrow of the government of the United States, instigated by the chief insurrectionist, who happened to be sitting in the oval eating a cheesburger at about that same time.  Now you may ask, why can't you just forget about all that stuff? Here's my response. I was raised as a child in the Deep South, back in the day, where we would see, every now and then, a license plate image of an old southern soldier proclaiming, "Hell no!! I won't ever forget!" And now that the chief instigator of the Jan6 insurrection is, like it or not, in the Oval, the word on the street among us law-abiding citizens, be they democrats or republicans, is this: We are watching you! and. . . remembering the riot that you instigated on January 6, 2021. That law-despising insurrection is not dust that you can just sweep under the rug. We will not let the chief insurrectionist of that fateful day get away with stealing our Rule of Law, even if he is sitting in the Oval, and even if he has the richest men in the world to scatter his power around with.

Now, at long last, this good ole deep-south boy ( me, at age 73) can identify with that old rebel on the license plate. 

Bottom line: We are watching you, donald, and we will not allow our Constitution-mandated Rule of Law to be obliterated by the chief insurrectionist! Glass half-Full