To be Free of Despots and Tyrants

Posted on August 19, 2018

I do not find it too surprising that an agent of a foreign government would take his next offensive strike against democracy and freedom by attacking a former intelligence officer, an officer who, for over 25 years, dedicated his career to protecting our Constitution and the liberties and freedoms it guarantees. It is just the type of action one would expect from someone who wants to thwart an investigation that might expose his illegal activities and alliances.  These are the desperate actions of a guilty man not an innocent man who seeks truth, justice and who has nothing to hide.

Ironic, isn’t it; that a President of the United States who is supposed to be protecting our Constitution would attack it so ruthlessly by employing such a thoughtless attempt at curtailing the very freedom our Constitution guarantees with such childlike vindictiveness?  Such an action openly violates his oath of office.  Not only is revoking Brennan’s security clearance offensive to the ideals of our founding fathers, it is the real treason.  It is a high crime. It is a tactic right out of the Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Putin handbook.  And to tolerate it would be to imply a complacency that no American who truly believes in liberty and freedom can ever accept.

Trump’s action to wield his position as a weapon against those who disagree with his policies threatens the very foundations of our democracy and that of our republic.  It shows a blatant disrespect for our republic, our democracy and the intent our forefathers had for our country to be free of despots and tyrants. The seriousness and the far reaching implications of these latest actions by the President to revoke security clearances of his perceived “enemies” can no longer just be excused as simple ignorance, nativity nor the bumbling incompetence of a harmless buffoon, but now must be considered as a calculated effort to circumvent and undermine the very institutions and checks and balances that our forefathers sought to establish to protect our nation against would be despots and tyrants.