Three years ago, a new holiday was born. About a half-million or maybe even a million Americans peacefully gathered in Washington DC to say that they did not approve of a stolen election that had taken place that November. Congress was gathered to certify the election that day, but significant irregularities existed in the election which made the election impossible to properly certify.
You see, for some time, the concept of election certification is that elections were uncertifiable unless proven certifiable. Instead, some people insist that uncertifiability be proven. That is simply not how elections work. Legitimacy must also be proven.
So there was a problem afoot. There were questions of election legitimacy. How would the deliberative body of the United States handle it?
How would the US Congress handle a coup? How would it handle a stolen election? Would it be able to act with the agility needed to protect the vote in the midst of such widespread irregularity?
The answer was no.
January 6 was a gift of generosity from a civil people to let bygones be bygones and to handle this all as free of tension as possible. No such thing would happen. Instead, power would be greedily seized and greedily held onto and greedily wielded.
And by January 20, a coup ensued, as an illegitimate president was sworn in after an illegitimate election.
The thieves have done their work well. They had worked their way into positions of influence in power and subverted the free and fair elections that they had long claimed were the centerpiece of American governance.
By mid-February, Molly Ball writing for Time (https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/) was so bold as to publish the scoop on aspects of how that coup took place, a coup to ensure that the American people could not have their voice heard in the ballot box. This will forever be the very best contemporary account of what took place, for Ball in her writing unashamedly approves of the legitimacy of the coup and therefore lets sensitive details slip that would not usually be shared. She was apparently witness to it and party to it throughout, an “embedded reporter” pretending to be unbiased. On the other side of the discussion, Peter Navarro effectively lays out the areas of illegality that led to the steal in his three volume Navarro Report (https://peternavarro.com/the-navarro-report/) made available in the weeks after the November 2020 election. Both accounts are required reading for living through this era as a person informed on the details of contemporary affairs. Anyone who has not read and understood both should be unwelcome as a voice on the topic.
Three years into the coup, how clear it is that the illegitimate Biden is not the CEO of the United States government, for the man can hardly deliver a speech without losing his wherewithal, and the role of President is so much more. But that was clear in the months leading up to the November 2020 elections, too, as Joe Biden hid in his basement rather than campaign. Yet that also took place down to the most micro levels in the lives of individuals, in my life for example, businesses that I run tangential to the political process faced a new assault as they were prevented from even mentioning Donald Trump in ads. Something new and dangerous was afoot.
Have there been other coups in US history? Certainly. But this was a coup my generation was witness to, one that I now held a responsibility for stopping.
I already mentioned the thousands or half million or million or three million present in DC that day who sought to gather and make their voices heard. There is no agreement on that total number.
About a hundred violent attendees and agent provocateurs cajoled another several thousand to get out of hand. Among those who “got out of hand,” were overwhelmingly those who walked peacefully into the Capitol building, had a look around and then left. That peacefulness was under fire from police officers and while subject to extreme danger. Many other days of the year, that exact behavior would have been allowed — peacefully walking in to the building. That day it was criminalized and in ways that used the justice system as a biased tool to silence or otherwise discourage political opposition.
Immediately, the usual cucks took to the airwaves to denounce the horrors of what had taken place. It is not very easy to know whether the usual cucks are willing and happy to play the role of useful idiots or if they really are that gullible. Either way, the regularity and predictableness of the usual cucks is something to be admired in such an unpredictable world.
If you need Lindsey Graham to go on a media tour, there are 4 or 5 useful triggers that you can say in front of him, and before you know it, he will be on Fox, MSNBC, and CSPAN. That regularity is useful.
As the Washington DC January 6, 2021 happenings were going down, I contacted my trusty friend who is better read on the media than any other American I know. He sent me a list of ten or fifteen links with reliable live J6 coverage.
That week, I had almost hopped in a car for Washington DC, but instead I stayed home to continue organizing the Inauguration Day bus trips that I was gathering people together for. We were going to be there in DC to celebrate the inauguration of Trump a second time. After decades of intimacy with the political process, I knew what a useful weapon Donald Trump was for liberty lovers. The noise of the media about him and his mean tweets were not distractions for me. Never had my lifetime seen a President like this, which was such an effective mouthpiece for the American dinner table. He was unique and my life was quantifiable better because of his time in office, a thing I have never been able to say about a US President. And you do not have to feel that way to be a lover of liberty, but that is exactly what I saw with my years of experience.
By the end of the day, I knew something miserable had happened, watching the death of Ashli Babbitt for example as soon as it was streamed. Yes, something horrible had happened.
But I knew this most: that good men and good women had gone to DC that day, and that no matter how out of hand it may have gotten, all that and more was deserved in the face of a stolen election.
Many were manipulated by our government that day, conned into doing the illegal, gamed into being a pawn for a day that the media would make stink in the nostrils of many Americans.
Yet all that happened and more was deserved for he who believes the election was stolen. A coup is never to be allowed. A coup is never to be allowed.
You see, in February 1948, Czechoslovakia, the model interwar democracy, crossed an ugly threshold that would allow it to turn into a communist hellhole for the next 41years. It awarded significant control of its government to the communist party. Except for one big problem — the election was stolen. It was stolen by a sinister foreign power and its intelligence service.
Sometimes when I am giving a talk, I stress that detail to help people understand what is happening. In February 1948 a communist takeover of a free country took place through a STOLEN ELECTION.
The fallout of that stolen election was not prevented.
41 years of misery ensued.
A lot of people just got used to that new normal in communist Czechoslovakia.
While some may say Donald Trump is a selfish, whiny, and petulant child, I am as grateful as can be that someone with a platform to speak refuses to shut up about the fact that the November 2020 election was stolen. For more than two decades I have watched credible reports of stolen national elections and for more than that, as a youngster growing up in Chicagoland politics, I watched ways local elections were stolen. I thought I always just had to accept that nonsense. I thought it would never become a topic for serious conversation.
And yet it now has.
January 6 was the day that men and women cared enough about their country to come from all over to let their elected officials know that they would no longer stand for stolen elections.
Students 300 years from now will gloss over the details of the time we are living through as if a protest took place, then with immediacy, the outcome of the stolen elections were reversed, and things were made right again in America.
They will never know, absent their own involvement in such a struggle, how costly and tedious the securing of liberty in one’s own life can be.
The reality of political and cultural change is very different than how it tends to look from a distance: opportunity is lost for greater freedom, fortunes are lost for greater freedom, lives are lost for greater freedom.
Long years are spent making that happen.
And then suddenly things are a little more free.
That is the nature of freedom and tyranny: constant struggle is required of he who will be free. If that struggle sounds tiring, you may be happier to live a totalitarian or soon-to-be-totalitarian existence. Any liberty lover will find that totalitarian life far more tiring than the constant struggle freedom requires. We have the blessing right now of being able to fight back the tyranny with such useful tools — tolls never before at the disposal of common people of any era and seldom at the disposal of the elites in any era: cryptography, global communication infrastructure, and printing presses in every pocket are among them. We also have the blessing right now of countries like Czechoslovakia (41 years of tyranny) or the USSR (74 years of tyranny) or Poland (42 years), East Germany (41 years), Hungary (40 years), Romania (41 years), Bulgaria (44 years), Yugoslavia (47 years), Cuba (65 years), China (75 years), North Korea (76 years) that we can look back on and see how enduring tyranny can be once it forms a root and is allowed to grow. (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/02/allan-stevo/the-cleansing-of-the-american-people/)
In our present era, with the tools around us, those who are leading the coup will be most eager to lock America down for a good long time. Technology can make the job of population control far more effective than it has ever been. All that is needed is the cooperation of Silicon Valley and the US government with each other, as the American people let down their guard.
I am not letting down my guard. The price of liberty in my life is eternal vigilance as long as I walk the earth. The price of liberty in your life is the same.
Murray Rothbard, in his excellent history of the US revolutionary period, Conceived in Liberty, mentions how the word patriot began the revolutionary period defined as “lover of country,” and came to mean “lover of liberty.” The same transition in the meaning of that word is presently taking place in the English language.
There is a struggle for country. But there is a more important struggle taking place: a struggle for liberty. That indomitable spirit will not lose this day. I do not know what will happen to our country in the process, but liberty will be had.
On January 6, 2021, a million or so patriots — a million or so lovers of liberty — dropped what they were doing in life, walked into Washington DC, and said “We see what you are doing and we will not let it stand.” For more than one thousand days, that message has been repeated over and again. “We see what you are doing and we will not let it stand.” The moment that sentence is no longer spoken, is the day that the regime becomes legitimized. I speak that sentence in my own life and I live my life accordingly. I see what you are doing and I will not let it stand.
Today is the day to speak that sentence loudly and clearly and to resolve that this year ahead, your life will be lived in a way that is even more resolute in its devotion to liberty in your life and by extension in this land.
January 6 is that day. Happy Patriots Day.
-Allan Stevo
Happy Patriots Day, Allan.
Just so you know.... Compliments you for this excellent work. I found this to be inspiring.
As a result, I am choosing to commemorate this day in history (1/6/21) and going forward as the day American Patriots protested peacefully in Washington DC regarding their concerns over the stolen election (11/3/20).