Daily Verse | 1 Chronicles 25:1
David, together with the commanders of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals.

It’s Wednesday and we’re at midpoint of the workweek. Ginsu doesn’t cut it for me.

I used to think that anyone who thought our government would sell us out to foreign enemies was an extremist, that they needed to get a grip on reality. No one in our government would ever do that because we’re all Americans. We’re the land of the free and home of the brave. We’re that beacon of light shining on a hill before the rest of the world. Sure, we might have our disagreements about policy here and there but at the end of the day, we are all trying to do what is best for the country.

Right?

Wrong. It may have been that I was correct in that constituent moment, my naiveté and blind faith in our leaders notwithstanding, but the truth is that there are anti-Americans in great numbers today who, regrettably, have their hands on the levers of power in this country. And they are not only selling us out to our foreign enemies like China and Russia, but they are selling us out to our domestic enemies like antifa and BLM, Inc., and the Marxists that litter the faculties of schools and media and federal institutions like the FBI.

Now they’re going after Normal Americans, people like you and me who question the 2020 election or who protest or who voice their disagreement with the current occupants of the White House. Resident Biden signed an Executive Order on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation and, while it may sound like it’s directed at Russia, Leo Goldstein is worried.

Contrary to its title, this EO is not about Russia. It is designed to allow the Biden administration to deprive American citizens and organizations of their rights and property by arbitrarily linking those persons to real, imagined, or vaguely defined activities of the Russian government.

The Biden administration unilaterally makes the determination and requires neither criminal acts nor intent. The punishment is blocking assets and a prohibition on any dealing with the accused person. Spouses and adult children of individuals found guilty by accusation under this EO are punished, too.

It’s chilling to contemplate. Can this be true?

Over the past four years, the Democrat Party, Fake News, and Big Tech have been frequently portraying their opponents as Russian trolls or Russian misinformation operators. The Russian collusion narrative, initially invented to overthrow the Trump administration, has been used to smear many conservative movements. Now this effort has been crowned by an Executive Order.

That’s not hard to believe. Who can forget Russia! Russia! Russia! and the willing dupes in Congress and the media?

Section 1 of the EO enumerates prohibited activities and defines guilty persons as those “determined” by the Secretary of Treasury and/or Secretary of State in consultation with the Attorney General to be:

(a)(ii) responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, any of the following for or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, directly or indirectly, the Government of the Russian Federation:

(A)  malicious cyber-enabled activities;
(B)  interference in a United States or other foreign government election;
(C)  actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad;
(D)  transnational corruption;

Is a blog that criticizes the Democrats and their leadership a “malicious cyber-enabled activity” that “indirectly” benefits the Government of the Russian Federation?

In essence, what Goldstein is saying, is that this EO provides the federal government the legal room they need to conduct a massive purge of (presumably) conservatives without granting them due process or any means to fight it. Sarah Hoyt, a frequent contributor to Instapundit, wrote about this EO too. It’s a longer quote, but listen to her because she lived through what happened in Portugal.

All they have to do is make a list of those they consider to be Russian agents. The executive order itself says you can’t dispute your inclusion in this list.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

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Now, if they were sending goons to collect you, those of you who haven’t lost all your guns in a tragic boating accident would shoot, and it would be on like Donkey Kong.

But that’s not what will happen, and that’s why I’m writing this and asking everyone of you who has a blog and who knows they’re probably already on the list to share it. Or of course if you’re brave enough not to mind if you’re on the list. Note the “your spouse and adult children” too, which is intended to stop you doing anything, for the love of your kids.

I’ve seen this before. Very few people know that the “revolutionary” governments in Portugal froze bank accounts and assets of anyone who spoke out against them. One day you’d go to your bank to remove money, and you couldn’t. Your bank account was frozen as an enemy of the state.

Oh, you have a mortgage? Kids in school? Bills to pay? How terrible and sad it is that you are now functionally a pauper.

As for suddenly finding no one would give you a job, I never even figured out how word went out on that, and I don’t [sic] if anyone ever did.

Now, the times we’re living in? Will anyone notice a large number of people becoming suddenly unemployed, and/or having their house foreclosed upon? Help? Well, all they have to do is send a few people who look like government agents to your neighborhood and ask your neighbors (and friends, and associates) questions while strongly implied [sic] you’re a traitor working for a foreign power.

Your weapons? Well, then. Surely, you’ll sell them long before it comes time to …. well…. to starve I suppose.

Oh, but surely states will oppose this?

If it’s done the way it was in Portugal, most people won’t even be aware it is going on. Whatever the mechanisms are for flagging foreign enemies in the US — and they are there, and have been, from when our agencies were slightly less corrupt than they are now — will just be deployed, as they have always been, but against anyone who publicly and loudly disapproves of the Junta.

FYI that’s you and me. And anyone who believes in the Constitution and has made this clear in public at any time.

I’m no legal scholar, but there are people out there who carefully study these EOs. I’ve read it myself at the link above. It looks plausible to me and, if what Goldstein and Hoyt say is true, then this is obviously a cause for deep concern.

I’m no longer a naïve believer in the altruism of our government. We can no longer believe what they say. We live in a nation led by a corrupt oligarchy made up of ideologues who prefer power over the people rather than serving the people and upholding the Constitution of the United States of America as they swore to do.

At this point be praying, buy guns and ammo, and get ready for it to get a lot worse.