I just finished reading the Durham Report in full. If you haven’t done so, if you read this piece and think I’m crazy without first taking the time to read the entire thing for yourself – something that every single American needs to do – and are just relying on mainstream media reporting to tell you what’s in it: shame on you. Here is the link to the original document: DURHAM REPORT
To say that I’m outraged falls well short of the boiling anger of this moment. John Durham’s 316-page report on the FBI role in the so-called Trump-Russia Collusion scandal should – if there is any such thing as justice left in this country – result in numerous FBI and national intelligence leaders going to jail for a long time. If it doesn’t, and all indications are it won’t, it’s time for a revolution. I mean that literally. Time to water the Tree of Liberty ourselves, because it has become clear that our government agents no longer believe in anything other than their own power and enrichment, have perverted our system of justice, intend to continue doing so, and will not stop until the people rise up and do it for them.
What they did amounts to nothing less than crimes against the Constitution and people of the United States. Per Durham’s report, numerous senior FBI and government officials:
A) Contrived to create, propagate, publicly defend, and use their titles to confirm allegations that Donald Trump was engaged in collusion with Russia and Russian-controlled assets. They did this explicitly knowing that the allegations were entirely false, and for the express purpose of controlling the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election.
B) Continued to support this knowingly false narrative after President Trump was inaugurated for purposes of damaging his Presidency, supporting efforts to remove him as President, and – failing either of those things – to so damage him ahead of his re-election that the outcome would be largely foreordained.
Now, let’s look at the applicable laws surrounding treason; particularly sub-sections related to Seditious Conspiracy and Advocating Overthrow of Government
18. USC Ch. 115: TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
§2384. Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
§2385. Advocating overthrow of Government
Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or
Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or
Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.
As used in this section, the terms "organizes" and "organize", with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.
Given that the use of force is a condition for sedition, I don’t think any court will grant those charges, though I do think you can make a case that the conspirators use of official offices and titles is a use of force, and therefore should qualify. But the better argument – the very clear one – is under Advocating Overthrow of Government.
“Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States…”
As both a Presidential candidate, but then certainly while he was in office and acting as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive of the United States, Donald Trump was a direct representative of the government and people of the United States. Hence, an attack on him by agents of the government, designed to remove him from office under knowingly false pretenses, was an attack on the integrity and institutions of the United States. And between the revelations of the Durham report and the parallel disclosures of the Twitter Files, it is entirely clear that there has been a multi-year, multi-agency conspiracy engaged in by senior government officials in law enforcement and intelligence to organize a group of like-minded government officials to overthrow the President of the United States.
I don’t care what you think of Donald Trump. This is bigger than Donald Trump. This entire episode has been far, far beyond the pale, and another outraged op-ed in the Wall Street Journal is not the answer. There must be accountability in the form of significant jail time for everyone involved. Without that, we are no longer a Constitutional Republic. We are not governed by the Rule of Law. If those things are the case, then the conditions the Founding Fathers understood to be possible – the conditions that they specifically planned for in which the government they created no longer exists to serve the people, but instead solely pursues their own interests and accumulation of power and wealth – have been met, and it’s time for a second Revolution.
Note: the opinions expressed herein are those of Sam Stone only and not his co-host Chuck Warren or Breaking Battlegrounds’ staff.