D5 Advance Warnings

Steve, Sylvia, Tonawanda, Wolf,
You all make very cogent points.
Our situation is dire, not only for our nation, but for our entire civilization.
Tonawanda’s point about the “complicated business” involving “free and fair elections” (which the Dims have rabid enthusiasm, decades of experience, and professional expertise in stealing through Full Court Press methods,) reminds me of an issue from the English Civil Wars.
Oliver Cromwell, having curtailed, and eventually imprisoned, a king who was a would-be tyrant, found that this king was communicating secretly from his captivity with hostile foreign powers. (Mainly the Scots, but, iirc, also Spain and France.) They were plotting to overthrow Parliament, not just to restore Charles I to the throne, but to give him the kind of dictatorial powers Catholic monarchs of the time had, and to force the English Protestants to convert to the Catholicism that Charles secretly favored.
England was undergoing profound social, legal, and economic changes then, driven by the Puritan Protestants, whose political and military leader was Cromwell. For example, up to that time choir boys in England were routinely castrated, not as a punishment, but so that their pretty voices wouldn’t be damaged by normal deepening during puberty. The churches and courts were thus graced with the music of professionally trained adult male sopranos.
The Puritans cleaned up a lot of this disgusting medieval nonsense to build the kind of modern, decent nation that we have always thought of England as being, (that is, prior to its corruption by Communist traitors to turn it into the kind of Islamic hellhole that it is currently becoming.)
Anyway, Cromwell and the other Puritans in Parliament arranged a trial for the treacherous Charles I that resulted in the king’s conviction and a sentence of death.
But when the sentence was written up as an official death warrant, no one wanted to be the first one to sign it. If you put your name on a document calling for a king’s death, and the king, or someone from his dynasty, eventually came back into power, you and your whole family will be wiped out. Kings have long memories for that kind of thing.
Cromwell somehow managed to get enough to sign it to make it valid, and the king was in fact beheaded. But the moment trying to get the signatures had apparently been a bit of a fiasco, and an instant in which the Puritan Revolution could have failed utterly, as you can see in the movie Cromwell.
[Somewhat OT:
Our Founding Fathers were all very familiar with this history, which had occurred not much more than a century before their time.
A man who was very cognizant of the whole death warrant signature scene, despite not having seen the movie, was John Hancock. So when he signed the Declaration of Independence before anyone else, and very large, and made his joke about King George’s spectacles, he wasn’t just adding a bit of levity to the room. He was demonstrating the courage of his convictions, and setting an example for others to follow in signing, so that the American Revolution could succeed.
Recall that all of the Signers were pursued by the British, many lost everything they owned, and not a few lost their lives. So even with an eventual military victory, a signature was extremely risky. In defeat, it would certainly have been fatal. This makes John Hancock’s action one of the bravest single political acts on record.]
Cromwell did a tremendous amount to bring about the Puritan cultural revolution, including inventing totally new systems of military strategy, tactics, and training, leading to the creation of his New Model Army. He was able to promote democracy over royalty, win two civil wars, make England the most respected and feared military power in Europe (for the first time in history,) bring an unjust king to justice, solidify the position of Protestantism, create the basis for the British Empire, and achieve many other lasting results in English life.
But in doing these things, he and his fellow Puritans became so unpopular that winning elections would be problematic for them. The High Court of Justice that tried Charles I (an adhoc body created for that purpose,) was authorized by a parliament called the Rump Parliament, because it was what was left over after disloyal members had been purged. The parliament that lasted through much of Cromwell’s administration was called the Long Parliament, because it sat for a very long time, elections having been suspended.
For an England of respect for traditional authority, and universal horror at the idea of fighting royal power, Cromwell was able to shift the Overton Window far enough to bring down and behead a king.
But he was not able to keep it shifted in that direction for very long. When he died, the people lost confidence in the rule of his son, Richard Cromwell, and the Stuart kings were rapidly brought back to power.
In fact, Charles I’s son Charles II came to power with revenge in his heart, and cruelly wiped out the remaining Puritan leaders, and their families. Charles II is the king that the French writer Victor Hugo accused of bringing the hated comprachicos (Spanish: “buyers of little ones”) from the Continent to punish his enemies’ children with surgical alteration. Please read Hugo’s historical novel L’Homme Qui Rit (The Man Who Laughs) for more horrifying details on this incident.
Applying these lessons to today, we must remember that Mr. Trump cannot remain POTUS for more than eight years. Two of those years are almost up. Whatever EO has been signed, the Overton Window in American politics has not yet shifted far enough to allow public figures, however evil, and however much evidence is against them, to be brought to criminal trial before military tribunals, especially if the accused are left-wing Democrats.
IMO, if justice is to be done, DECLAS must happen before any trials of civilian members of the Soebarkah regime, and certainly well before any military tribunals. This goes double for celebrity Democrat members whom the public recognizes from TV.
Further, I would say that DECLAS must be followed by major controversial televised issues that wake up even luke-warm Trump supporters, independent voters, and low information Democrat voters, before any trials of publicly known leaders of the cabal.
The voters who are not on our side now must be shaken awake, and given time for learning, heated discussions, and red-pilling, so that they realize the dire predicament we are in, and the terrible responsibility that rests on Mr. Trump’s shoulders.
By “major controversial televised issues”, I’m thinking of something of the magnitude of the OJ trial or the George Zimmerman trial, that as many people as possible follow. The scenario I have in mind is DECLAS, then pedo trials of some lesser-known officials, or campaign figures of the big names. And hopefully of some Hollywood figures to add context, create outrage, and boost public interest.
It doesn’t matter in the big picture if the courts are not perfectly prepared, the yellowstreams are not fair in their coverage, and some trials wind up with acquittals like the OJ trial. The point is, they would be covered, and get people talking.
I mean, of course each unjust acquittal would be an outrage to the individual victims involved, But a series of big trials, or other events of that magnitude could shift the Overton Window far enough to make other things possible.
Then we could move forward against the facemen and big wheels in the Cabal.
All this takes time. It has to start soon, if the final act is to happen at all.