What to discern about the “perfect storm” of who to blame about the failure to activate the National Guard to “suppress revolutions?”
The Chicago Tribune article titled: General details delay to deadly riot, reported the following statement”
“requesting help at 1:49 PM ………was sent at 5:08 PM….”
A previous article titled: The lost hours: How confusion and inaction at the Capitol delayed a troop deployment, reported:
“Twenty minutes later, (after a protestor was shot to death @ 2:44 PM) according to a Pentagon timetable, Miller gave verbal approval to dispatch National Guard troops to the Capitol.
The Purpose of This Post
Is to relate an ancient proverb to discern the root cause of the “insurrection,” to prevent another to occur for the same reasons.”
King Solomon
Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God. (Ecclesiastes 8:2)
What’s My Point?
The following Consttution verse titled: When to Call out the Militia
“The states as well as Congress may prescribe penalties for failure to obey the President’s call of the militia. They also have a concurrent power to aid the National Government by calls under their own authority, and in emergencies may use the militia to put down armed insurrection.”
If we discern the articles reporting the confusion based on politics and military bureaucracy which resulted in hours before the National Guard was finally deployed, it becomes apparent that both politicians and military leadership failed to deploy the militia in a timely manner during a contested election “perfect storm.”.
My point is not to discern the obvious bad decisions made by the military, but to point to the root cause in my opinion, of the Insurrection and blame the politicians for their lack of decision making and discernment abilities delay which would have prevented the insurrection in the first place.
In My Opinion
The root cause of the insurrection is Congress for delaying for over 20 years to pass legislation to place minimum voting requirements for voters to trust in the election results.
If we discern the confusion of the military who are appointed by politicians and subject to Congressional finger pointing committees’ hearings such as what is taking place now, it becomes apparent that opposite from ancient times, when a King was in total authority, that in a Democrat Republic, during an election time period of lame duck leadership after elections, that the “perfect storm” of the 2021 election is possible to be repeated.
If Interested
Read the Source Links below
You Decide
Should Congress be pointing their fingers in the right direction by looking in the mirror when they discern the root cause of the “insurrection.”
Regards and goodwill blogging
Source Links
Chicago Tribune AP
General: Pentagon hesitated on sending Guard to Capitol riot (apnews.com)
Chicago Tribune NY Times February 20, 2021
The Militia Clauses
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-1/section-8/clause-15-16/the-militia-clauses
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You conveniently failed to include in your “perfect storm” reasoning anything to do with Trump being in the picture. And.. no.. it has nothing to do with Congress failing for 20 years to make voting laws.
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Doug,
I wonder why they did then if it was not the the election results they went to Washington for in the first place?
Or was it because of Trump not liking that a lot of election laws were changed in States without State Congressional approvals perhaps?.
Or that States did not agree that mail in ballots signatures needed to be verified before being counted?.
ETc. etc, etc.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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or that Trump people didn’t give a hoot about the 60 Constitutionally presented challenges to the election were all tossed out, all reviews and investigations revealed no widespread fraud, and the Trumpians failed to believe it…. even from Trump appointed judges and Republican states?
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Doug,
Can you provide any evidence that the people “did not give a hoot” to a Court to be judged in a “Constitutionally presented challenge” that judges will not “throw out” because judges failed to believe you?.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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The very simple fact that the insurrectionists decided to be insurrectionists rather than pursue Constitutional means. Those judges found little if any evidence, and/or the presentation of same, to make a legal argument, as unfounded. It had nothing to do with judges not believing anyone. Now.. if you want to include everyone involved was in some grand conspiracy… which it seems the new Trumpian Q-Republicans prefer to promote, that’s on them.
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Doug.
I believe the reasons the courts couldn’t agree with Trump allegations is the same reason you cant prove your allegations are founded on facts when in fact some States changed their election laws illegally.
Regards and goodwill blogging
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Again… that would require evidence to be presented and the laws of that state carried forward to address those issues. To assume it’s illegal because some Conservative blog or media “news” reporting expresses some theory makes little sense. The greater question is more like… “the world thinks there’s fraud therefore fraud must exist” is bogus in a democracy…. or a democratic Republic. It amazes me how many Conservatives allegedly are some level of self-proclaimed “Constitutionalists” when they are always so ready to believe unfounded conspiracies… and all because of Trump.
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Doug.
How about we change the subject of Trump to the topic of my post. Do you agree the Nation needs more verifiable ways to convince people to trust the outcome of future elections?
Regards and goodwill blogging
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I believe it’s important to have faith in the electoral/election system as it’s the same as having faith in the Constitution itself.
I believe when election violations exist then the courts should be used to remedy those situations. I believe that if election violations become more prevalent and/or widespread as a result of changing technologies or social constructs then consideration should be given to ensure confidence in the election process is maintained through laws and approved changes in processes.
I believe that if the citizens of a given state feel their voting process is in doubt then they need to make their concerns known to their local elected officials… because the Constitution says elections are up to each state.
I also believe that it is the responsibility of each American to form opinions based on substance and evidence and without political affiliation or malice… but this will never happen because of the natural diversity of man.
Personally I have always leaned more toward federalizing the election process… and that control not be left up to individual states. A strong central control would provide far more voter confidence than 50+ different processes. Not sure that Constitutional change would pass.
I have far more concerns with gerrymandering districts.
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Doug,
Do you believe that mail in ballots without any means to verify are instill more or less trust in election results?
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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I was under the impression the verification process on mail-in ballots was being conducted by the code scanning done by computer processing. I received an absentee ballot specifically for me with the appropriate barcoding. I would think that once my ballot had been received that the barcode would verify that I was a voter by my name by comparing it to a master list of voters. Sounds ok to me. What more you need?
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Doug,
Wisconsin has no laws to compare and verify ballot signature to voter registration records, I do not believe every polling place in the Nation has a machine to verify either.
I wrote a post to give an examples what an unskilled poll worker is supposed to decide when he tries to verify a signature in seconds that a signature expert takes hours to verify.
The more details of how individual States verify ballots anyone will take the time to understand, the less they will ever trust an election outcome, in my opinion.
That is why I bring up a need for minimum standard procedures are needed before the next election for all States which is what the Carter study concluded 20 years ago.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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