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history. They are soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coastguardsmen not Law Enforcement. Trump’s threat against the American people isn’t just disgraceful and dangerous, it is real and it looms over the nation in this hour of crisis. The crisis isn’t the protestors. (2)

It’s the President. He is a cowardly man who deserted the Oval Office and fled to an underground Bunker. Dolly Madison he was not. He desecrated a bible after doing violence to the American people. Lawfully assembled Americans were exercising their Constitutional rights to (3)

Speech and assembly when they were gassed, beaten, trampled and assaulted by the very Law Enforcement officers who were obligated by oath to protect them. This included an Episcopal Priest in a house of worship. The order was given by a lawless Attorney General who has assumed (4

the trappings of an Interior Minister in a decaying Thugocracy. He has flooded the streets with heavily armed Paramilitary forces lacking identification. It is in this moment when Trump has been declared a real threat to the Constitution by an army of Former Defense Secretaries 5

and Generals that we will know who is a friend of liberty and freedom. There are few friends of freedom and liberty in the GOP Senate. We all watched the GOP’s Geriatric shuffle past journalists wanting to get a reaction to Trump ordered domestic violence and the terrifying (6)

Warning of General Mattis. The American people were treated to an exposition of cowardice, cluelessness, complicity collaboration and moral decay that is shameful and deeply unfaithful to the American experiment. All of this is an affront to the ideas and ideals of the Country. 7

Trump is politically cornered and unhinged. Like a wounded raccoon, he is dangerous in this moment. He has failed this country and history’s test more thoroughly than any American leader in our long history. His incompetence has brought us a season of death from a disease 8

That has killed over 100,000 of us. His ineptitude has shattered the economy. His incitements have caused chaos in the streets. He has ordered violence against the American people and has created a full blown crisis in the American military over his threats to use it against us 9

This threat should be taken seriously. The drama around whether Trump’s violent fantasy will be carried out may be amongst the most important in any of our lifetimes. We must all demand that all combat forces be returned to their bases to resume their training which doesn’t (10)

Include attacking the citizens of the nation that filled their ranks. This is a despicable moment but also a hopeful hour as the American People have summoned their righteous fury to demand equal justice under the law for all. Dissent is American. Protest is essential (11)