Showing posts with label Alan Keyes. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

High Crimes And Misdemeanors


Benghazi Lies: High Crimes
and Misdemeanors?
Everything about Barack Obama, and the faction spawned by his political success, has been cut from a fabric of deceit.
The account of his birth and early life, including the self-confessed work of fiction passed off as an autobiography, was a fabrication. He as a lawyer "voluntarily" withdrew from the Illinois bar. Often described as a "moderate" when he campaigned in 2008, his education and early forays into politics were steeped in radical, Communist extremism.
Even the claim that his political success somehow represents an historic breakthrough for black Americans is belied by the fact that he claims his black heritage from a father who was not American; and his American identity from an anti-American mother whose life choices made him more at home with Islam than with his father's African nationality, or his mother's biologically American heritage.
As a political movement, the Obama faction is thus focused on a figure whose political persona is a fabrication.

Moreover, Obama has often stated his conviction that the U.S. Constitution is inadequate to deal with what he believes to be the goals and challenges of contemporary life. So when he swore the oath promising to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution, HE LIED.
Since the U.S. Constitution vests the executive power of the U.S. government in the person of the President, when the President's oath is spurious, every element of the Executive Branch is tainted as well. Root and branch, the whole Obama Administration is the offspring of deceit.
I have been thinking about this as I ponder the various reactions to the lies deployed by Obama; his Secretary of State Hilary Clinton; and his UN Ambassador Susan Rice, with respect to the murderous attack against the United States at Benghazi.
Why, I wonder, do so many people waste their time and energy indulging shocked, emotional reactions to the fact that Obama and his minions lied even when it tended to shield and excuse the despicable terrorists who assassinated an American Ambassador and several other American officials?
Obama lies when he asserts the so-called "right" to abortion, and America's posterity suffers death as a result. Obama lies when he asserts that his health care proposals don't involve "death panels", and Americans will prematurely suffer death as a result. Obama liesabout gun control legislation that aims to disarm the law-abiding inhabitants of the United States, and the American people's life in decent liberty may suffer death as a result.
Lies are the Obama faction's routinely deployed weapons of mass destruction. So where the fatal Benghazi debacle is concerned, we should waste little time wrestling with the fact that this is so. Instead, we should thoroughly examine the nature of their lies in order to ascertain and think through the ultimate purpose they served.
Were they deployed to hide something; and/or to distract attention from something else?

If another government deliberately launches a murderous attack on those who represent the government of the United States, that attack is, on the face of it, an act of war. If some organized entity other than a state does so, the formalities are different, but the essential nature of the act is the same.
By pretending that the deliberately murderous Benghazi attack was the spontaneous outcome of disorganized mob passion, Obama faction officials avoided the need to fix responsibility for the act of war, effectively shielding from harm the hostile entity or entities that launched the attack.
They also effectively distracted Americans from the fact that war is being waged against them.
Almost since the first moment Obama occupied the Oval Office, the Obama faction has consistently sought to dispel the notion that a state of war exists between the United States and the governments and other entities responsible for a global infrastructure for terrorism, an infrastructure energized by a violent commitment to establishing Islamic global hegemony.

Obama faction officials, and especially Obama himself, have been at pains to promote the idea that terrorist acts against Americans arise instead from a passionate reaction against America's alleged history of global wrongdoing and unjust military and economic domination.
This was the nature of the lie willfully fabricated about the source and nature of the Benghazi attack.
Is it just a coincidence that it corresponds with the party line, as it were, of the radical Communists Obama sought out as a student in his youth; and with whom he collaborated as a political activist up until it became strategically imperative to lie about his ideological identity?
If the lie is a weapon in their campaign to consolidate political power, what is the strategic import of the fact that it serves to hide and distract from terrorist threats that may be intended to destabilize and overthrow the government established by the Constitution of the United States (particularly in the context of the Benghazi episode's possible connection with the Obama faction's ongoing collaboration with anti-U.S. elements involved in Syria's civil war?)
Given his proven ideological background, Obama's infamously open ended slogan about change has always included the possibility that regime change is the main purpose of his faction's political program.
  • They are seeking to disarm the American people.
  • They are seeking to purge the U.S. military of the Christian elements most likely to resist being deployed against the people they are supposed to defend.
  • They are seeking to consolidate national control of state and local police forces, while persistently attempting to indoctrinate them to regard the lawful, normal political activism of American citizens as a threat.
  • They seek to hide and distract attention from their faction's collaboration with key elements of the global infrastructure of terrorism (including, in connection with Al-Qaeda, the very forces responsible for the 9-11 attacks in the U.S.)
  • Against the wishes of the majority of Americans, they seek to impose policies that effectively open America's borders to infiltration by terrorist cadre, now lying in wait for the order to attack Americans where they are most vulnerable.

Sen. John McCain cheerfully smiles upon Hilary Clinton despite the lies deployed at the behest of officials subject to her authority.
Cong. Darrell Issa inscrutably declares that neither Obama nor Clinton are targets of the search for truth about the Obama Administration's decision to leave an American Ambassador naked to our enemies.
This contributes to a "business as usual" atmosphere in which it is supposed to be unthinkable to consider the possibility the Ambassador's fate is a portent of that intended for the American people and our way of life.
Meanwhile, is the Obama Administration preparing for massive "civil disorder" throughout the United States – just the kind of disorder that would be produced by a coordinated series of terrorist attacks against soft civilian targets in the U.S.?
If those attacks are perpetrated by people who, at first glance, have no connection with the global infrastructure of Islamic terrorism, they could be portrayed as a spontaneous reaction to the hardship entailed by a suddenly deteriorating economy. In that scenario Americans would have no one to blame but each other.
As the nation descends into a frenzy of mutual recrimination, anger and fear the forces of order, focused on Obama and his elitist faction cohorts (from both wings of the elitist faction's sham party system) could rush forward to do, under martial law, what Obama claims the Constitution is inadequate to do: impose a new regime for government consistent with the proven exigencies of the times.

Seen against the backdrop of this synoptic view of the possibilities, lies we were told about the murderous attacks on Americans at Benghazi are all the more disturbing because of the strategic purpose those lies may have been deployed to advance.
That strategic purpose encompasses a result that more than qualifies as a high crime and misdemeanor, within the meaning of the provisions that justify impeaching those responsible, and removing them from office.
If an real opposition party were in fact controlling the U.S. House of Representatives, this would be their conscientious goal.
Keep Faith,
Alan Keyes Signature
Alan Keyes
www.DeclarationAlliance.org

Friday, November 30, 2012

Muslim Brotherhood: Criminal Enterprise


MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD FRONT GROUP
EXPOSED AS CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE!

Federal Lawsuit Condemns CAIR for
Fraud and More…

URGENT: CAIR, the notorious Muslim Brotherhood's Council on American Islamic Relations, is being sued as a criminal enterprise by five former clients for fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and breach of fiduciary duty. Introducing hundreds of pages of condemning evidence that exposes the faux 'civil rights' group as little more than a criminal front, is anyone going to keep defending these hate-mongering frauds? Obama and the Democrats will!


The lawsuit filed last week by the Law Offices of David Yerushalmi, P.C. and the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) has without-a-doubt exposed the nation's 'largest Muslim-American civil rights organization' for what it really is – a criminal organization funneling money from charitable donors, or those paying for misrepresented legal services, to networks like Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to further these terrorists groups' stealth jihad movements in the United States.

"The evidence has long suggested that CAIR is an organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to further its aims of stealth jihad in the United States," commented Yerushalmi, referring to the fact that CAIR was named by the federal government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial.

But instead of condemning the organization earlier this year when the administration clearly had the chance, Attorney General Eric Holder dropped ALL charges against CAIR and Omar Ahmad, one of CAIR's co-founders and its chairman emeritus who was named along with the organization itself in the terror finance indictments after FBI wiretaps exposed he and current CAIR executive director Nihad Awad attended a 1993 meeting of Hamas leaders in Philadelphia!

"According to the facts that are carefully laid out in our legal brief and fully supported by the record evidence," Yerushalmi explained, "CAIR has engaged in a massive criminal fraud in which numerous CAIR clients have been victimized, and because of the CAIR cover up many still don't realize it. The fact that CAIR has victimized Muslims and non-Muslims alike demonstrates that it is only looking out for itself and its ongoing efforts to bilk donors out of millions of dollars of charitable donations thinking they are supporting a legitimate organization."

Not only is CAIR racketeering for its own benefit – it is racketeering for Islamist extremists hellbent on transforming the United States from a free nation where there is no established state religion, freedom of worship, and equal civil rights regardless of color, gender or creed (to name a few) to an oppressed Islamist nation where there is only one sanctioned religion and Shariah is the law of the land!

According to the court filings, among the fraud and racketeering charges CAIR knew or should have known they were providing clients with illegitimate legal counsel for the purpose of lining their own pockets.

The Muslim Brotherhood satellite group perpetuated and then concealed that Morris Days, the "Resident Attorney" and "Civil Rights Manager" at the now defunct CAIR-MD/VA chapter was in fact NOT an attorney and was NOT legitimately handling cases for which CAIR had received fees!

To make matters worse, evidence shows that CAIR leadership knew about this fraud and then purposefully conspired with Days to cover it up, leading the five plaintiffs in this case to take legal action. Many more victims are revealed in the hundreds of pages of evidence.

Robert Muise, co-counsel in the lawsuit and Co-Founder and Senior Counsel of AFLC, commented: "The overwhelming evidence marshaled in this case will finally put to rest the myth fabricated by CAIR's PR machine and perpetrated by a complicit media that this is a legitimate Muslim-American civil rights organization. This lawsuit strips away CAIR's veil of legitimacy."

This extremist front organization for underground Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas movements right here in America has gotten off the hook during an earlier lawsuit against its fraudulent practices due to a technicality, but this time CAIR must be taken to task for violating our laws!

This is our opportunity to dismantle the largest Islamist terror-sponsoring network operating in America. We CAN stop the spread of unconstitutional, anti-republican and anti-American Shariah law in our communities and across the nation. But we MUST act with conviction against criminal activity – including acts of sedition against our ordered liberty.

If not stopped, the barbarism of Shariah law will take society back to the Middle Ages, just as in Pakistan where a 14 year-old girl can be shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating education for women and girls, while Washington in all its political correctness watches it happen rather than risk stepping on toes or offending their Islamist friends and political allies.

Rather than take action to reject and hold accountable the nefarious, repressive imams and their medieval totalitarian agenda, our federal government is selling out those who come here toescape such tyranny, AND the American people, to the terrorists. Just like this administration did by failing to take action againstjihadis in Benghazi when the consulate came under siege and abandoned Americans to die, the so-called elites REFUSE to defend American interests, principles and law right here in the United States! With the exception of a few key Members of Congress who are standing firm, jihadists and Muslim Brotherhood extremists have America playing defense all around the world – and even at home.

Pam Gellar at her Atlas Shrugged blog documents the infiltration of Islamic fundamentalism in America: "Take, for example, BIMA spokesman Jibril Hough. Hough's mosque, the Islamic Center of Charlotte, is owned by a Muslim Brotherhood group, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case… (Just like CAIR!)

Meanwhile, the "Grand Imam" for the Democrat Party National Convention's Islamic Jumah was none other than Siraj Wahhaj… Wahhaj was several years ago designated a 'potential unindicted co-conspirator' in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He himself has denounced this designation as essentially meaningless, but he didn't earn it by doing nothing. In the early 1990s he squired the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, all around New York City and New Jersey, sponsoring talks by him in area mosques. The Blind Sheikh, of course, is now serving a life sentence for his role in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, as well as in jihad plots to blow up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels."

As expert and analyst Robert Spencer diligently maps out, these unabashed jihadists are on the public record asserting that "if only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate," and "all Islamic movements oppose America's policies."

Jibril has also publicly admitted he is the North Carolina head of the Islamic Political Party of America (IPPA), based in Charlotte, who in a 2002 press release claimed the Jews were behind 9/11. IPPA is associated with Jamaat Al Muslimeen (JAM), The Islamic Peoples Movement, who are Holocaust deniers and vicious Jew-haters.

Jabril, like Wahhaj is linked to NAIT through membership in the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which was deemed by the U.S. courts to be a front for the terrorist HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood. Both Jabril and Wahhaj, the "stars" of the DNC Jumah, have repeatedly attacked Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-NC) another member of the House Intelligence Committee who has been vigilant about Islamist activity. They are closely and persistently connected to U.S. Representative Keith Ellison, first Muslim ever elected to Congress, and former associate of anti-Semite, black supremacist and hate-monger Louis Farrakhan.

Yet, despite its unrepentant jihadism, Shariah promotion, and ties to Jew-hating; despite its seditious record and subversive purposes, the entire program of the "Jumah at the DNC" production is being endorsed by the Democrat Party in vote pandering and fealty to rampant multi-culturalism. In pursuit of partisan gain, the DNC lavishly indulged Muslim victimhood-in-America-mongering, and falsely advertised the organized Islamic presence in America as a benign, apolitical religion of peace.

This false picture has, like Obama's administration generally, dealt with America-hating Islamist reality at the expense at the risk of national security. This is just as good little dhimmis (subjugated non-Muslims appeasing and surrendering to forms of Muslim conquest) are supposed to behave, but it is fundamentally un-American. By their own creed, "authentic" Islam and Shariah are incompatible with universal natural rights, and seek to overthrow the very foundation of the American republic.

Here are some hard facts:
Obama and the whole Democratic National Convention propaganda machinery joined in with Muslim political fronts to confuse and confound America – and while looking all "tolerant" they successfully pandered up most all of the Muslim-American vote! They will not tolerate ANY appropriate scrutiny upon the clear and present danger our nation faces from Middle East terrorist-associated penetration into the Obama administration, our federal government agencies, and our national security and defense apparatus.

A cavalcade of Islamic supremacy groups continue to pull out all the stops to defame the U.S. Congress "national security five" and lie about House member requests to federal inspectors general – in a CAIR-orchestrated campaign to bully Congress into repudiating valid demands for oversight! Bringing forward the truth about CAIR in the context of this federal court case is a vital national security imperative!

It has been a full-court press PR attacks on the five brave Congressional leaders. Along with the DNC Islam-athon, Obama used the occasion of remarks at his fourth annual White Houseiftar dinner to single out Huma Abedin for praise and protection from scrutiny. The international headlines were of Obama's "highly public and strong statement of presidential support" of his "good friend" Abedin.Obama pronounced:
"Huma is an American patriot, and an example of what we need in this country – more public servants with her sense of decency, her grace and her generosity of spirit. So, on behalf of all Americans, we thank you so much."

Then has followed a flood of disclosures of Abedin's documented personal and professional history of association with Muslim Brotherhood-funded fronts! Oops.

As former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney McCarthy has said, speaking directly to charges that Huma Abedin is being unfairly challenged about her various ties to the Muslim Brotherhood: "'Guilt by association' has nothing to do with fitness for high public office.High public office is a privilege, not a right. Access to classified information is a privilege, not a right. 
You need not have done anything wrong to be deemed unfit for these privileges… It is not a question of your patriotism or your trustworthiness. It is about whether you would be burdened by such obvious conflicts of interest that you would be tempted to act on those interests, rather than in the best interests of the United States."

Never mind that Obama's own Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, was compelled under oath to reveal in Congressional hearings that "from time to time" terrorists do IN FACT enter, and remain, in these United States!

Apparently, we are not allowed to inquire, or identify, or investigate who these infiltrators might be, or with whom they might be working. This is discriminatory profiling, a witch-hunt, McCarthyism no less!

Along with Huma Abedin, there are at least six other persons with Muslim Brotherhood ties whose involvement in Obama administration "Muslim outreach" and/or related policy-making also deserve investigation by the IGs and the Congress:
  • Rashad Hussain, Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation;

  • Dalia, a member of Homeland Security Department's Advisory Council;

  • Mohamed Magid, a member Mogahed, an advisor to President Obama;

  • Mohamed Elibiary of the Homeland Security Department's Countering-Violent Extremism Working Group;

  • Louay Safi, until recently the credentialing authority for Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military and now a leader of the Brotherhood-dominated Syrian National Council; and

  • Kifah Mustapha, a Hamas-fundraiser and graduate of the FBI's 'Citizens Academy'
The Islamists, their champion on Capitol Hill, Rep. Keith Ellison, (MI), the Left-wing blogosphere and their useful idiot Senator John McCain (AZ) pretty much came unhinged with ad hominem and scurrilous attacks on Reps. Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Tom Rooney and Lynn Westmoreland for letters they have rightly written seeking investigations by five federal inspectors general of this threat.

The letters say the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist movement that recently came to power in Egypt with help from the Obama administration, has made "deep penetration" within the U.S. government, and that an investigation of its influence within the five federal agencies is warranted.

To Keith Ellison, one of two Muslims members of the U.S. Congress and Obama buddy, influence in the U.S. government by the Muslim Brotherhood is just "nonsense, a phantom." But no actual refutation of the 16 pages of Congressional documentation outlining the problems warranting investigation has been offered by the Islamist apologists.

The Muslim Brotherhood is perhaps the world's most influential Islamist organization, and publicly has proclaimed a mission "to unite traditional Islam with modern democracy" in Middle Eastern nations.This may sound benign to Western ears, but the internal messaging is far more sinister – global caliphate, Shariah law, destruction of Israel, subordination of women, oppression of minorities and forced conversions…

"ALLAH IS OUR OBJECTIVE, MUHAMMAD IS OUR PROPHET, THE QUR'AN IS OUR LAW, JIHAD IS OUR WAY, AND DYING IN THE WAY OF ALLAH IS OUR HIGHEST ASPIRATION!"

That is the Muslim Brotherhood motto. And that is what Barack Hussein Obama is supporting in Egypt and throughout the Middle East – and AT HOME IN THE U.S.A. – with your tax dollars. We MUST STOP Obama and the left from facilitating the stealthy infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood and Shariah penetration of our country's institutions – and those of other Western countries, as well.

The Muslim Brotherhood's global influence has been growing for decades, and further increased when one of its candidates, Mohamed Morsi, was declared winner of Egypt's 2012 presidential election.

And the five Congress members, who sit on Congress' Intelligence Committee and receive frequent classified briefings about Jihad and the Islamic conflict with the West, see the Muslim Brotherhood as a growing domestic threat, given the Brotherhood's well-documented history of international terror-ties, violence and seditious global extremism.

The lawmakers singled out the movement last month in letters to federal defense, diplomatic, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, requesting investigations into whether – and through whom – the Muslim Brotherhood is exerting influence within the Barack Obama administration.
My good friend Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy has no doubts about the validity of the Congressional requests, despite the full-court press defense of Huma Abedin by the political establishment and 'witch-hunt' cries by the mainstream media:
"…former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, former Muslim Brother Walid Shoebat and other researchers established a direct tie between Huma Abedin and a Muslim Brotherhood front, the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs (IMMA). IMMA was established essentially as an Abedin family business by Abdullah Omar Naseef, an officially designated al Qaeda financier.

Shortly after IMMA was founded under his chairmanship, Naseef became the secretary general of the Muslim World League (MWL) which Mr. McCarthy described as: "the Saudi-financed global propagation enterprise by which the Muslim Brotherhood's virulently anti-Western brand of Islamist ideology is seeded throughout the world, very much including in the United States…. It happens that Huma Abedin was listed for twelve years on the masthead of the IMMA's journal as an associate editor. For at least seven of those years, Omar Naseef was also listed as a member of the editorial advisory board."
The questions continue to have great urgency, because of Ms. Abedin's role in the Department of State and the lead State has taken in promoting Muslim Brotherhood-friendly policies. It has never been controversial that having prior associations or having close family members in extremist foreign organizations is disqualifying for national security clearances. If this is no longer the case in the Obama administration, what now is the standard? Those assailing these legislators clearly hope to deflect attention from such questions in a larger inquiry or, if possible, suppress investigation entirely.

Reps. Louie Gohmert, Michele Bachmann and their colleagues are applying NEEDED pressure with the Inspectors General investigation demands for Congress to do its duty, and take responsibility for national security in a corrupt and compromised administration.

These Congressional champions are standing true to their oath of office and Constitutional principles, and demanding Congress do its sworn duty – DEFEND OUR NATION. They are taking the heat to STAND UP and fight for us. We need to STAND UP and support them, and DEMAND legislative action to protect and defend our nation!

Florida's U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams has sponsored H.R. 973 which forbids foreign law – including Shariah – from our United States court system.
As CAIR is, we may hope and pray, finally being exposed and brought to book in our courts, TODAY let's send a strong message to Congress that we DEMAND American principles and standards of justice to prevail in the land of the free and the home of the brave!

I say, let's PRESS a nationwide tidal wave of anti-Shariah, pro-Constitution action to battle against both open and stealth Islamic jihad in America.

Please send your fax Petition to the House and Senate leadership – or better, the entire Congress – demanding that they defend our God-given natural rights and our U.S. Constitution's foundational legal protections by supporting H.R. 973 to stop Shariah.

Please send your fax Petition to the House and Senate leadership – or better, the entire Congress – demanding that they defend our God-given natural rights and our U.S. Constitution's foundational legal protections by supporting H.R. 973 to stop Shariah.

If you are a patriotic, Constitution-loving American – as I know you are – your help in keeping the heat on Congress, and preserving our sovereign nation is desperately needed immediately.


My friend, don't delay. The forces of anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, anti-American Shariah are hard at work right now, to weaken and destroy all that is good and decent in our country. It is critically necessary that you respond today, before the Islamists further diminish your constitutional liberties… in pursuit of their plan to turn you and your children into a dhimmi subject or literal slave of an Islamic state.

This is a battle for America! And when you send your faxed petition, please don't forget to add a generous gift to help us expand our fight. Your donations enable us to pursue our many liberty-defending, freedom-promoting projects, including providing assistance to our friends at American Freedom Law Center in their legal pursuit of CAIR. A gift today of $25, $50, or $100 will go a long way to not only educate the public about the stealth jihad war being waged upon us by Shariah law, but to also help defray our costs as we lobby on Capitol Hill to stop the Islamization of America.


We CAN stop the Islamic jihadists who are, right this very moment, shredding the U.S. Constitution in their crazed attacks on freedom, liberty, security. But time is short to contain the damage to our great country. Shariah must be stopped today.

I need you to answer our nation's call without delay. Please send your fax NOW and support our courageous five Congress members who are standing up against Muslim Brotherhood influence, stealth Shariah, and the Islamization of America.
Keep Faith,

Alan Keyes
Americans United for Freedom

P.S. Islamism aggression and Shariah pose a threat to America's survival as a constitutional republic in an insidious fashion no penetrating alien ideology has ever posed before. In fact, through Islamic Shariah law, every last vestige of your freedom – and that of your children – could be stripped from you and shackles of bondage clamped upon your wrists. Now is the time to stand … now is the time to act. Please fax your petition to Congress today, and add a generous gift to enable us to reach more Americans, and better defend your rights and freedom from those – like the purveyors of Islamic Shariah – who are hard at work devising plans to steal your liberty for all time.
Alan Keyes has been involved in government, politics and citizen activism since his teens. He is Christian, Catholic, Pro-life and pro-liberty. Alan is sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and the republican form of government it establishes. He upholds and seeks to preserve the sovereignty of the American people and to restore respect for the principles set forth in the American Declaration of Independence. In light of those principles, Alan believes the top priority of our political life is to restore respect for the existence and authority of the Creator, God and to rebuild the moral conscience and character of the American people on the basis of that respect; For God, Liberty and the Constitution. The content Alan shares on his website Loyal To Liberty is offered in the hope that it will prove helpful to people trying to think through the challenges of faithful citizenship during this time of deep crisis for the republican form of government in the United States.