Fascist kings behead you

Let’s acknowledge we have no beef with — as Amendment 1 to the Constitution says — “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”

And as the saying also goes: Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. 

But everyone with a half-functioning brain knows when you see videos of violence — throwing rocks, fire Molotov cocktails, stomping on police cars, lighting Wayz cars on fire, engaging in physical melees with local and federal law enforcement officers — that is not peaceable assembly.

It makes you sick that George Soros thinks that funding all those ignorant thugs and hooligans is contributing to the betterment of our country and society. 

If anyone should be deported or jailed, he should be at the top of the list — for aiding and abetting. If you hate the United States so much, then leave.

That goes for all of them.

But here’s another part of all this that gets into your craw. It’s obvious that many of the sign wavers along Tamiami Trail and elsewhere Saturday have no clue of history and are gullible, social media-influenced sheep.

Photo by Matt Walsh

“IN AMERICA, WE DON’T DO KINGS! They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights and slashed our services. THE CORRUPTION HAS GONE TOO FAR! NO THRONES! NO CROWNS. NO KINGS! … “We’re raising our flags for liberation … ”

So said the Democratic Party of Sarasota County on its website before Saturday’s protests.

King Donald Trump? 

This obviously is the Democratic Party’s new messaging — to make the malleable masses think we have regressed and degenerated so far that we’re back in the Revolutionary War days. That we’re enduring, under Trump, the same “abuses,” “usurpations” and “despotism” of King George.

Remember those? Jefferson listed 27 of them, among them:

• “He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
• “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
• “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
• “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
• “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

“For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

“For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

“For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

“For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

“For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

• “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people.
• “He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation … ”

Sound like Trump?

If only the protesters knew what real kings did in France. From Robert Darnton’s “The Revolutionary Temper, Paris, 1748-1789:”

In 1750, with much of Paris in economic misery, the king’s police were ordered to round up beggars, confine them to prison or ship them off to Tobago. The police also kidnapped children, from age 5 to 10, snatching them off the streets and holding them for ransom. The kidnappings were so pervasive they ignited riots. 

Public executions were common.  Condemned men and women would be paraded in a cart past gawkers, then climb the stairs of the scaffold. Executioners would place the noose around the convicted soul’s neck, remove the support on which he or she stood, leaving the man or woman dangling in the air. Death would come in 10 to 20 minutes, but the body would be left hanging long enough for everyone to see.

If the convicted criminal were a nobleman, he was privileged enough to have a choice — the noose or beheading by ax. At one site in northern Paris, hanged corpses’ “remained exposed to the public for months while their flesh rotted off.” This was to remind the people of the king’s authority.

Indeed, French monarchs truly believed God anointed them. King Louis XIV’s preacher wrote that French kings “have received from God himself the greatest and most absolute power to make laws for improvement, administration to control them, judicial authority to punish and compensate.”

Is that Trump? 

We all cringe at times when Trump goes beyond the norms of past (do-nothing) presidents. But Trump rightly scoffed after a reporter asked him what he thought of the upcoming No King protests: 

“I don’t feel like a king. I have to go through hell to get stuff approved. The king would have never had the California mandate. He wouldn’t have to call up Mike Johnson and John Thune say, ‘Fellas, you have got to pull this off.’ And after years, we get it done. No, no, we’re not a king.”

Is he a fascist? That, too, is the common refrain. 

It’s likely most of the protesters cannot recite what fascism really is. Definition: “A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.”

That was Hitler. That was Mussolini. Trump? C’mon. 

What is so puzzling and disturbing is this: For the past four years, Americans were disgusted how the people directing Joe Biden’s presidency opened the U.S. borders to an invasion — yes, invasion — of 10 million illegal aliens. They just walked in unchecked — among them killers, rapists and human and drug traffickers, likely millions oblivious to and uninterested in following the laws that we American citizens are expected to abide and to which we are held accountable.

Exasperated at losing our country, Americans elected Trump to stop the flow and approved deporting the worst of the invaders. But now the Democrats — the same people who preached “No one is above the law” and ordered authoritarian lockdowns during COVID — are protesting against upholding our laws and claiming Trump is the  authoritarian dictator. 

This just gushes with irony, hypocrisy and stupidity.  

Trump haters, try this: the Arthur Laffer Rule of One. Say a group of 10 illegal migrants from all over the world, unable to speak English, simply walks through your front door uninvited and starts living with you — crowding your bedrooms; sleeping on the living room floor; dirtying your bathrooms, consuming your food, leaving trash and debris all over the house. 

They brought children who are sick; women who have been raped. They have no money. They expect you to feed them, even though you already are struggling to feed your own children. One of them, a male, has molested your child.

What would you do?

You know darn well what you would do.

As these protesters scoffed at Trump’s parade honoring the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, as they waved their vulgar signs or burned their cities, they triggered the following thought: Where were they on D-Day, June 6? Did they give an inkling of thought, respect or gratitude to the sacrifices their forebearers made for them on Omaha Beach or Iwo Jima?

Sadly, these pliant, pitiful protesters haven’t a clue what a fascist dictator king really is.