By Harold Pease, Ph.D.
Underlining the 20th Century was the threat of socialism and almost all wars dealt with destroying it. Even within the United States it can be seen: in the anarchist bombings and Red Scare of the 1920’s; the Cold War and McCarthyism of the 1950’s; the socialist Weather Underground and anti war movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s; and finally in 2020, the fall of the United States to Democratic Socialism. A hundred years have passed under the threat of socialism.
Today the Biden Administration, with open arms, welcomes socialists from all over the world but decidedly tells those fleeing socialism in Cuba that we will send them back to Communist tyranny. Why? Because they are rejecting socialism. Socialism remains America’s greatest internal threat and, for the moment, occupies the White House.
From the 1950’s-1980’s Congress published numerous studies showing communists (all communists are socialists) in high places in our society. I gathered several hundred of these studies sharing them in the classroom. Senator Joseph McCarthy was the most vocal about those then in our government resulting in the word McCarthyism becoming the most foul word in the English language and weaponized to put down anyone suggesting the same to this day—so successful were the socialists in the media nearly seventy years ago. Most American’s then believed Nikita Khrushchev’s threat, “We will bury you!!” Today they seem to have done just that.
We know that President Dwight D. Eisenhower was very concerned about the Cold War as one country after another fell to socialism and millions died. To not have provided against a socialist takeover of the United States from within through a socialist victory at the polls, would have been irresponsible—it would be the death of the Constitution, freedom, and a victory for Americas most powerful and dangerous enemy. Every soldier had sworn to protect the Constitution from enemies “foreign and domestic,” and they were the ones who had sacrificed their lives opposing the socialism of Nazism (National Socialism) and stood against the socialism of Joseph Stalin, Mao ZeDong and Chu En-Lai.
The origin of Devolution is believed to have come under Eisenhower as he was the World War II general most responsible for the destruction of NAZI socialism. It is believed that he, with ranking members of Congress, came to the conclusion that the military must protect the Constitution as first responsibility—even from an elected socialist commander in chief. This obviously would have been highly classified but now could be an issue since Democratic Socialists presently occupy the White House, more especially if the election was fraudulent.
Devolution is related to presidential succession. What if all the Constitutional successors were incapacitated? This could be through nuclear or pandemic attack, a coup, domestic or foreign election interference or other means that could disrupt the continuity of government. What circumstances or point could and should the military intervene to restore the republic, the Constitution, and the rightfully elected?
When America developed a bomb that could destroy an entire city, as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending World War II, and the USSR followed with its first nuclear explosion in 1949 after the theft of nuclear technology from American traitors Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Robert Oppenheimer, “continuity of government” (COG) became a critical issue. Washington D.C. was presumed to be the first target by Americas’ socialist enemies and Eisenhower knew this well. Could the continuity of government (COG) be destroyed all at once? If so, the military would have to take charge.
Ronald Reagan’s Executive Order 12656 gave clarity and expanded what constituted a national security emergency. Issued on November 18, 1988 and called Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities, it defined a national security emergency as “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attacks, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”
Newsweek March 18, 2020, wrote of top secret contingency plans already in existence “for what the military is supposed to do” should uncertainty surround this issue. “According to new documents and interviews with military experts, the various plans—codenamed Octagon, Freejack and Zodiac—are the underground laws to ensure government continuity. They are so secret that under these extraordinary plans, ‘devolution’ could circumvent the normal Constitutional provisions for government succession, and military commanders could be placed in control around America.”
Devolution was again acknowledged by Barack Obama when he ordered agencies in July of 2016 “to have not just a line of succession but also one of ‘devolution,’ a duplicate chain of individuals secreted outside Washington available in a catastrophic emergency.” As inferred Devolution involves “procedures to transfer statutory authority and responsibilities” to this secondary designated staff to sustain essential functions” (Presidential Policy Directive 40).
Why is any of this important? If the Arizona forensic audit, and forensic audits to follow, show indisputably that Biden and Harris were NOT elected then no continuity of government exists. This, even more so, if Democrat leadership committed treason by colluding with China either by weaponizing the Wuhan China Virus or by electronically manipulating the vote count to throw the election to them. And, according to the ultra liberal news magazine Newsweek, “military commanders could be placed in control around America.”
EXCEPT, THERE EXISTS AN ACTUAL WINNER OF THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION and the military, not deceived by socialism or the inflated or altered vote count, as military intelligence captured it all in real time, will remain loyal to him and the Constitution.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.