As the American Republic self-destructs...two theories, and a civil war?

Friends,

The Venetian Republic lasted 1100 years. The American one not so long. The Republic of Venice endured from 687 to 1797, when the French under Bonaparte, that, er, 'republican' revolutionary, snuffed it out. Many reasons exist, no doubt, for this temporal disparity, but I think a big one is the American Republic kept religion as far from having any formal say in the state as possible. The First Amendment, as far as the religious clause goes, wasn't to keep religion free from state interference (ask Mormons about that, or the 'Radio priest', Father Coughlin, or currently, Father James Altman); oh, no. It was to keep the state free from religious interference. The Catholic Church and the Venetian state, of course, weren't such strangers to one another.

Certainly the United States government seems to have an ethics problem. It is immoral as Hell. We can't seem to keep any moral men in power. We can't seem to keep an SANE men in power, as the Democrats, in this huge spending bill they just passed that will create a massive IRS to fleece the commoners, the Democrats refused to pass a Republican clause that only women can bear babies. (Insisting you believe in something manifestly not true is one of the control techniques and is an essential element to Biderman's Chart of Coercion, and THAT is what this is about.) 

Right now, this raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence is an opening of Pandora's Box (okay, okay, it was a bag, sheesh). President Trump – well, he is sort of president, as Biden isn't a real president both because the 2020 election was rigged and because he doesn't even know where he is most of the time, so I suppose Trump could still be considered president – is the Prometheus the American people need to fight a runaway U.S. federal government. Half the country sees him that way, the other, when not involved in an orgy to aquire monkey pox, seem to think Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell (technically a RINO and not a Demonrat) and Nancy Pelosi are actual people, and not Chinese mannequins. What can I say? Their supporters consist of the types who apparently think men can have babies.

About the raid, though, why it occurred, who is behind it, more information keeps coming out. One thing many are saying is this definitely appears to be a major change in just about everything relating to the American people and their government. This is just too egregious an outrage, so totally "unAmerican" on just too many levels, for it to be ignored or dismissed, as was the treatment of Roger Stone, for example, when that old man and his handicapped wife were hustled out of their house by federal agents in full battle gear, after the agents alerted the Leftist Washington Post to be there and film it all.

Donald Trump has been a target of endless investigations, official and unofficial harassment, and lies. "Russia-gate" was a fraud, then the two, TWO impeachments of Trump were frauds, and all the blather about the January 6 fiasco is dribbling madness fraud. I can usually bear reading, for a while at least, Leftist arguments about their favorite issues, but I just can't tolerate the "narrative" that January 6 was some sort of quasi coup-d'état. (Nancy Pelosi, you're lost soul is calling. Liz Cheney, in Hell you'll reside in your father's armpit – when stuck up his, er, well, ahem.)

I think the latest ideas going the internet rounds on the raid are two-fold. One theory is based exactly on all the lies about Trump. The Deep State lied about Trump and railroaded him over the course of his presidency (Russia-gate, first and second impeachment), and there is evidence of that. And Trump has this evidence, the theory goes. They are lividly desperate, therefore, to confiscate the evidence. It will truly exonerate him and also indict the Deep State. So, they pulled off this crazy raid –  keeping his lawyer out of the house, showing her the warrant only from ten feet away and not leaving her a copy, demanding security cameras to be turned off (which the staff didn't do, thankfully, so someday we may see them on vid going through stuff not on the warrant, like Melania's undies), and so on. This is a PR disaster for the Demonrats, that way, and more. Very few individuals tolerate well the idea of strangers going through their stuff.

The other idea is they want to plant evidence. Destroy Trump that way. That's a dangerous thing to try to do. And absolutely desperate. But as a sort of corollary to that, they might have re-classified documents that Trump himself declassified but didn't know they reclassified. The Conservative Treehouse, whom I often link to, has some extremely thorough articles on this. For a taste of that, here's a bit of commentary from someone with the right background to know wrote in a comment over at The Conservative Treehouse (obviously, I recommend the articles over there, and many of their comments):

In a professional organization, this is what happens. However, the reclassification of previously declassified material is a rare occurrence. In addition, material may be declassified but still have other restrictions placed on it such as Official Use Only (OUO) or Business Confidential.
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However, if a document containing such material is found to be in someone’s possession, it is technically possible to allege that the person holding said document is doing so without proper authorization in violation of law. But to make such an allegation against a person who has no criminal intent and who is unaware of the change in status of the document is clearly an egregious abuse of prosecutorial power.

AnP again: Compare all that to how they treated Hillary, who actually, willfully, destroyed evidence. We KNOW she did, but she was never remotely prosecuted for that. We must not forget that, or how Obama's people carried out crates off documents from the White House and stuffed them in a warehouse outside Chicago, to go through them at their leisure. No one raised an issue with that, and why should they? "Presidential library" and all that.

Personally, I don't think they'll be put off by it being an egregious abuse of prosecutorial power, do any of you? They seem absolutely desperate and without even a fig leaf of legal propriety.

I think we can all expect indictments to be brought against Trump very soon, now, regardless of the merits. Why? Because the Deep State clearly wants to start a civil war and everything they're doing aims to spark one. Obviously, they intend to win. But once you "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war", as Shakespeare had Antony roar in Julius Caesar, all best are off. This raid on Trump is the equivalent of Brutus and Cassius & Co.'s assassination of Caesar. They thought that "taking him down" would put them in the driver's seat, when it instead backfired totally on them. I know very well, however, that how this goes all depends who who Anthony turns out to be.

So, we'll have to see.

    An Préachán

Psalm 146 of the Douay-Rheims: verse 9:

Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon Him.