Did Matt Gaetz and 134 Other Republican Congressmen Just Swear Allegiance to the Taliban?
No. What they did was actually worse.

I know that the past few years have been crazy. As in โripped from the pages of an end-times novel typed single-spaced in a double-wide, self-published, then sold only at gunshowsโ kind of crazy. But I think weโre not quite so jaded, gaslit, or stunned by learned helplessness like beagles tortured by Fauci that we wouldnโt react if the following happened.
Visualize 135 GOP members of Congress apostatizing from America on CSPAN. Standing up in the Capitol and renouncing their U.S. citizenship. Then swearing allegiance to the imams of the Taliban. Or to the Republic of North Korea. Or (egads!) Vladimir Putin.
Weโd notice something like that. Weโd stir from our couches, hit โpauseโ on our football games, and furrow our brows. Some of us might text our friends. If we noticed people on that list whom we had supported, weโd resolve now to oppose them. Donโt you think?
The Bill of Rights in the Shredder
Well, that just happened. What happened might be worse. Because thatโs the number of Republican congressmen who just voted to tear up Americansโ fundamental rights. If the new bill that gang of apostates backed makes it through the Senate, a new system takes root in our country.
Instead of the rule of law, fair trials, and the presumption of innocence, Americans will face the kangaroo courts, guilt-by-suspicion, and arbitrary โcancelling,โ that prevail on social media. Instead of rights weโll have privileges, revocable at the whim of unelected strangers. Life will be one big Facebook, governed by โcommunity standardsโ that shift with popular hysteria.
A Fundamental Right, Reduced to a Privilege
I’m warning about the โRed Flagโ bill that Democrats (of course) supported en masse, which passed overwhelmingly thanks to Republican cowardice. The Supreme Court has rightly ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right โ to bear arms in self-defense.
It is not a โsecond-classโ right (as Clarence Thomas noted during the Heller case), nor a privilege like driving a car on public roads. Itโs not a license, like the one to practice law or medicine. It is a fundamental right, like freely exercising oneโs religion, speaking freely, or getting speedy justice. If Americans donโt believe that, theyโre free to amend the Constitution, and repeal the Second Amendment. But we havenโt, and wonโt.
Jim Crow, Part 2
Since we wonโt, our elites โ who want only their own private security guards bearing arms โ have poured money into corrupting our legislators and brainwashing the public, to pass laws that strip away this basic right. In much the same way, Southern legislators who couldnโt repeal the 14th and 15th Amendments made them effectively null and void via Jim Crow workarounds.
Thatโs what Red Flag laws are. Currently, federal firearms laws correctly ban convicted felons and the mentally defective (those whoโve been committed against their will) from purchasing firearms. No supporter of gun rights has any problem with such laws. We support them, and wish to see them enforced even-handedly โ by which we mean, even against Hunter Biden.
Any Karen Can Call in a SWAT Team on You
Red Flag laws are a sleazy, insidious, lawless attempt to treat every American gun-owner like a felon or mental defective. Donโt take it from me. Read what the Biden White House says about such legislation: โRed flag laws allow family members or law enforcement to petition for a court order temporarily barring people in crisis from accessing firearms if they present a danger to themselves or others.โ
In fact, such laws are not restricted to family members โ any neighbor, disgruntled ex-spouse or employee, or political enemy can phone in a โred flagโ warning to police. The same people who get Americans banned from social media for making them โfeel unsafeโ by disagreeing with them? They will now be able to call in police raids on our homes. Got a Trump sign in your yard? A neighbor who hates Trump now has a weapon to use against you. Did you speak up at a school board meeting against Critical Race Theory? Expect the cops to knock on your door, guns drawn, demanding yours.
The Burden of Proof Is on the Defendant
Thatโs right. Under Red Flag laws, based on a single unsubstantiated accusation, police can raid an Americanโs home, and seize his weapons. The police hold those weapons until the accused can convince a judge that he is โsafeโ to own them. The burden of proof? Itโs on the accused. Keep in mind that a high percentage of judges oppose all private firearms, and think that nobody ought to have them. Youโll have to hire a lawyer and fight for months, if you even win. Imagine having to do that to reclaim your right to attend your church, or express your political views. Of course, the left has attacked those freedoms too, both via COVID panic orders and social media censorship.
Do you think the people who want you fired, and banned from shopping or traveling for refusing the Dead Baby vaccine, will balk at making phony โcrisisโ calls to the cops? Red Flag laws effectively privatize the destruction of our Second Amendment rights, subcontracting that process out to Americaโs Karens, evicted tenants, and nosy, intolerant neighbors.
The GOP Caves Again
The Democrats cleverly set up Republicans for surrender, by putting the Red Flag provision in the defense authorization act. Thatโs no excuse. Better our troops guarding Germany miss a paycheck while we fight this, than come home to a country transformed, where fundamental rights are temporary privileges. Here are just a few of the Republicans who sold out the Bill of Rights:
- Matt Gaetz.
- Madison Cawthorn.
- Elise Stefanik.
- Devin Nunes.
- Ronny Jackson.
- Greg Pence.
- Kevin McCarthy.
For a complete list click here. Then get in touch with these people who claim to represent us. Let them know what you think of them. Tell them that fundamental rights, and the presumption of innocence, are not negotiable.
If this un-American bill should actually pass the Senate, and be signed by the Secret Committee Formerly Known As Joe Biden, the Supreme Court ought to take up the first legal challenge that arises, and toss it on the trash heap of history alongside the Dred Scott decision and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or co-author of ten books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of “God, Guns, & the Government.”