#1 2020-08-13 18:09:51

https://www.thisislowermerion.com/haver … mp-letter/

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Dear General Milley:

As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you are well aware of your duties in ordinary times: to serve as principal military advisor to the president of the United States, and to transmit the lawful orders of the president and Secretary of Defense to combatant commanders. In ordinary times, these duties are entirely consistent with your oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…”

We do not live in ordinary times. The president of the United States is actively subverting our electoral system, threatening to remain in office in defiance of our Constitution. In a few months’ time, you may have to choose between defying a lawless president or betraying your Constitutional oath. We write to assist you in thinking clearly about that choice. If Donald Trump refuses to leave office at the expiration of his constitutional term, the United States military must remove him by force, and you must give that order.

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#2 2020-08-17 15:33:09

I'm pretty sure the Chairman, JCS, isn't going to listen to a retired light colonel about what he "must" do.

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#3 2020-08-17 16:43:52

Oh gawd, I know Haverford school well, very well. The leaders of this institution used to say and do much more relevant things. And even managed to bring down a corrupt American regime once.

Davidon’s “calmness and courage” during those tense moments kept the group from abandoning their plot, she remembered. “Without his spirit, we wouldn’t have done it.”

On Saturday morning, March 6, 1971, Haverford College physics professor Bill Davidon and two fellow anti-Vietnam-War activists were welcomed to the White House for a 75-minute conversation with President Richard Nixon’s national security adviser, Henry Kissinger. The appointment was especially incongruous because less than two months earlier, Davidon was named as an unindicted co-conspirator by a federal grand jury, which alleged that six peace activists, most of them Catholic, had plotted to kidnap Kissinger to protest his role in directing the war effort. Kissinger made light of the supposed scheme, joking that “sex-starved nuns” must be after him, then apologized for his poor taste.

The private Saturday conversation received no immediate press coverage, but six days later Kissinger told Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger that “it was very pleasant,” and Davidon commended Kissinger as “an excellent listener.”

One thing Davidon did not tell Kissinger during their meeting was that since December, he had been organizing a real plot aimed at unmasking the FBI’s unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens by stealing the bureau’s secret files — the story told by Medsger in her rich and valuable new book, “The Burglary.” Davidon hurried back to Pennsylvania directly from the White House because he and seven colleagues had scheduled their break-in at a small FBI office in the Philadelphia suburbs for that Monday night.

Much to the burglars’ surprise, the FBI’s intensive effort to identify the perpetrators never homed in on them; instead, agents ineptly targeted other activists who had had nothing to do with the break-in. Only now, with the publication of Medsger’s book, years after the statute of limitations for their crimes expired, have five of the eight burglars stepped forward. One explained to Medsger that “it was a funny thing to be in a situation where you have done something that was against the law and yet you are proud of it” — and rightly so.

Davidon died at age 86 last November, but his daughter Sarah Davidon Hoover correctly voiced the most important lesson from her father and his friends’ courageous contribution to American liberty: “Pretty typical people can do atypical things and make a difference.”

The plan was conceivedby William C. Davidon, whom Medsger describes as "a mild-mannered physics professor" at Haverford College. A Navy veteran, he was horrified by the use of nuclear bombs against Japan and feared their use in Vietnam. He gradually shifted from simple protest to civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance, participating in some of the dozens of draft board burglaries by Catholic activists to destroy draft records. He decided to adapt the technique to the FBI after persistent rumors that the bureau was suppressing the antiwar movement through the use of informers and intimidation.

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