Pre-insurrection speaker John Eastman goes full Calhoun, calling for restrictions on internal movement between states and the formation of mobs for "high intensity" demonstrations in cities.
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Eastman goes on to propose that states make payments in cryptocurrencies to subvert the US dollar.
Here's a call for nullification, to be invoked "if under color of the law the feds egregiously subvert individual civil rights," which Eastman admits would "produce the highest level of direct state-federal confrontation."
"...they might be seen as constituting stepping stones to complete severance."
Despite the violent ransacking of the US Capitol by Trump supporters, Eastman laments that "only one side of our cold civil war has thus far shown any real resolve" and threatens "the dissolution of our republic and its framework of freedom" if his demands aren't appeased.
Co-author Stephen Balch, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, wrote an extraordinary piece in November calling on Trump supporters to "stretch institutional bonds to a degree that genuinely alarms our conniving subverters."
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Balch: "Today, we’re back to the human default, wherein 'those who have the power take and those hold who can.'"
Balch: "even the most conscientious jurist will judge the wind as well as the law... our strategy must buttress legal arguments with formidable public acts."
Balch: "the president must now lead his followers into America's streets and squares. They must especially flock to the capitol complexes of all the critical states and register indignant protest... make midnight (and televised) arrests of top perps."
Balch: "And if we fail...we will have laid the necessary foundation for a continuing unconventional struggle..."
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