State Of Maine Tyrant Disenfranchises Hundreds Of Thousands Of Republican Voters
Shenna Bellows, Secretary of State of Maine, a Democrat, decided on her own that Republican voters in Maine should not have the right to vote for Donald Trump in the primary election leading up to the November 2024 general election.
On the face of things, it’s a strange world where a Democrat can decide whom Republicans can vote for. Bellows’s action to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Republicans has been analyzed in technical legal terms, such as whether Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment applies to the President or whether what occurred on January 6, 2020, was an “insurrection” or merely a lawful and largely peaceful protest.
But these technical legal analyses miss the larger point. And that point is that what has occurred in Maine is pure tyranny. When a Democratic Party stooge can decide who Republicans can and cannot vote for, it’s no longer a democracy, it’s no longer a republic, it’s tyranny.
Shenna Bellows is America’s latest tyrant. In that capacity, she joins the four black-robed tyrannical justices in Colorado (all Democrats, of course) who usurped the rights of Republican voters in that state to vote for the Republican candidate of their choice.
America faced tyranny in 1776, and it is facing tyranny again. The Declaration of Independence states that “[t]he history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.”
In 1776, the efforts of Great Britain to establish an absolute tyranny over the Thirteen Colonies led to a long and bloody American Revolution in which America finally was able to rid itself of the tyrants who sought to subjugate it. The conflict later led the great Thomas Jefferson to state in 1787 that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
Almost 2000 years earlier, in 50 B.C., Cicero stated in De republica, “Only in states in which the power of the people is supreme has liberty any abode.”
But Shenna Bellows doesn’t want the power of Maine’s people to be supreme. Like any other of history’s tyrants, she wants that power for herself.
So what is the solution to these instances of usurpation and exercises of tyranny? Because we have the Constitution, no second American Revolution is necessary. Section 4 of Article IV of the Constitution provides that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a Republican Form of Government . . .” The Supreme Court of the United States should hold that the actions of Shenna Bellows and the Supreme Court of Colorado are totally inconsistent with a republican form of Government (and in fact cause Maine and Colorado to depart from a republican form of government) and should void and nullify them on that basis.
Once again, Thomas Jefferson is proven correct. Jefferson wrote, “Let us hear no more talk of confidence of men in power, but bind them up from mischief with the chains of the Constitution.”
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