Former Guy: sedition and treason

By Guest  echo opinion published in the Canton Citizen
Dear Editor:

#FormerGuy- All enemies foreign and domestic = sedition

On January 6, 2021, #formerguy Trump betrayed our country by attempting a coup with 40,000, of his paramilitary militia against our government, inciting an insurrection, at the U.S. Capitol. 

Based on the big lies over the past four years, he encouraged an angry and unruly crowd of 40,000 people to march on the Capitol and confront our lawmakers, who were just ceremonially certifying the results of a fairly conducted presidential election. Surely a recipe for violence! Worse, where are the mass arrests — 40,000 people felt that they got away with a violent insurrection.

As of the writing of this letter, five people, including a Capitol Police officer, have perished as a result of this invasion. This cannot stand! I believe that social media platforms that allowed Trump and his followers to foment this attempted coup should be held accountable. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) does not defend hate speech that leads to violence.

Over the past four years, I have felt that I was living in an occupied country in which Trump and his supporters are acting like a modern fascist party inspired by the Nazi movement in Germany and other fascist movements throughout the world. What is worse is that too many Republicans went along with this out of self-aggrandizement and cowardice. Every person who believes in democratic rule should ask for President Trump’s removal by either having his cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment, or by having Congress impeach and remove him from office so that this unfit, insane madman is not in a position to rule our country ever again! Now Trump is lying that he will support an orderly transfer of power, and that he condemns the invasion that he perpetrated. 

Any reasonable person should see that Trump is still lying about this! Trump is no longer president. He must be arrested and put on trial for sedition and treason against our country!

As a person who believes in the rule of law and in democracy, I cannot have a civil discussion with people who believe in dictatorship rule by a madman. Where is the Canton Republican Town Committee on this? Do they live in a fantasy universe perpetrated by Trump’s big lie and support this insurrection? If they do, they are not capable of having a civil discussion on issues, as even Governor Charlie Baker supports removal of Trump from office as a result of the events of Wednesday, January 6.

Moreover, all of those people who participated in this invasion of our Capitol should be arrested and put on trial for insurrection. We must be wary of those of our own people who actively believe in the conspiracies of Trump. We must drive out this cancer before we lose our democratic freedoms!

Allen Karon posted in One Citizen to Another