Written by Ellen Elliott,  Dover-Foxcroft, Maine

My father and seven of my uncles fought in WWII. One, as a naval fighter pilot, another on the aircraft carrier, Yorktown, one, in the trenches at Normandy, another as a doctor on a tanker carrying petroleum to Africa and Europe, and my dad on a Coast Guard cutter in the South Pacific. They all came home. 

At the beginning of each school day when we were growing up, my siblings and I could stand with our teachers and classmates to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,  “one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” 

But the generation that fought for freedom in Europe, in North Africa, and in the Pacific theater is almost gone. Mercifully, it has been spared this day in America. The nation that was a beacon of liberty and justice is losing its own freedom. Not from outside forces but from within. It will have no shore for the oppressed, no shore for those seeking asylum from religious and political persecution, from death camps and civil wars for we may soon have these here. 

The federal presidential election, the core ingredient of a democracy,  has been compromised to the point of a fraudulence never witnessed in 244 years of our republic. Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, took full responsibility for this fraudulence himself when on October 24, 2020, two weeks before the election, he announced, “We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. “ Biden did not need to campaign or choose a vice president until two months before the election.  He had his victory already “sewn up!”

To this, the television, internet, radio and newspaper media have employed a censorship and falsehood akin to what was used in Germany to bring the Nazis to power. This tactic was also effectively used in Russia to bring The Great Purge under Stalin. What we see playing out before our eyes is what Germany and Russia and most recently, Venezuela,  experienced to their nation’s downfall.  

The news congratulates voters for electing Biden and spouts Trump’s loss. No, the people did not elect Biden and Trump did not lose. Biden elected Biden. 

“Will Trump run again in 2024?”  This question is worthless: if the massive abuse in the electoral process of the November 3^rd election is not addressed before January 20^th, there will be no 2024 election. Our right to a valid vote count will have been shredded in the voting machine of a rigged election. 

How could a thief who stole millions of votes from American citizens and blatantly announced his theft, put his hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America?  He will not be our legitimate president. He will be our “Commander-in-Thief.”