QOTD -- "Two Cities Under Siege"

 

"The Republicans’ veneration of the Founders is particularly rich at the moment because, of all the abuses England heaped on the colonies, nothing angered them more than the Crown’s deployment of soldiers on city streets — and the streets of Boston in particular. Anger, resentment, and violence simmered in Boston for years before the Boston Massacre in 1770. The Declaration of Independence Trump hangs in his office came six years later, followed by the American Revolution, then the birth of the United States.

"The rage from those pre-revolution clashes in Boston continued to linger for years into the Constitutional Convention, and then the debate over the Bill of Rights. The Founders were also students of history, and saw how the domestic use of the military led to the fall of the Roman Republic. This, in large part, is why we have the Second, Third, and Fourth Amendments, and why the Constitution splits control of the military between the president and Congress. You really can’t overstate how much the Founders worried about . . . exactly what we’re seeing in Minneapolis..." -- journalist Radley Balko, writing in his Substack "The Watch," on "Two Cities Under Siege" and the many parallels between pre-American revolution Boston and, particularly, Minneapolis today.  He really brings the receipts in text and photos of the multiple violations of the U.S. Constitution by the Malignant Fascist's private goon squad -- violations of a Constitution that was meant to safeguard Americans against the very abuses of the British Crown that their present day thug counterparts are engaging in today.