No Kings protest set for June 14 in Chester
The Chester Telegraph | Jun 09, 2025 | Comments 2
From 10:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 14, join the Chester Town Democratic Committee on the Chester Green to echo Benjamin Franklin’s response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question about the new Constitution in 1787, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A Republic,” Franklin replied, “if you can keep it.”
Organizations in more than 20 Vermont locations and more than 1,000 venues across America are saying, “We don’t do kings!” While the administration will celebrate Flag Day with an expensive military parade in Washington, No Kings nationwide gatherings will allow citizens to celebrate the simple but essential rights and liberties that Franklin hoped Americans could keep.
Come demonstrate America’s love of its freedoms with your friends and neighbors, and listen to local speakers and guests like well-known former Windsor County Sen. Dick McCormick who will remind us about what we must protect and what we must prevent.
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Mr. Lindberg may be right that Americans are ignorant of civics. Certainly, most Trump supporters seem unaware that the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech, but for Mr. Lindberg, this is all the fault of Democrats. According to VTDigger, “Sen. Dick McCormack, D-Windsor, guesses that he has been introducing bills requiring that high school students pass a civics course to graduate since the 1990s.” Note the “D” for “Democrat.”
Also, according to Wikipedia, a “civics test is part of the naturalization process for applicants seeking US citizenship. … For an oral exam, … the USCIS officer will ask up to 10 questions from a list of 100 civics test questions. To pass the 2008 civics exam, applicants must correctly answer six questions.” That is, these applicants may well know more about our civics than many people who were born here.
It’s hard to know what Mr. Lindberg means by saying “King Joe Biden was laying waste to the United States economic and social fabric with his autopen during the Covid lockdowns,” but it should be noted that Mr. Lindberg takes pride in his anti-vaccine and anti-global warming positions, despite his total ignorance of science, perhaps the result of getting a BA at some private school. Maybe they should teach a little science at those schools.
Finally, note that President Joe Biden (D) signed 162 executive orders in four years (BALLOTPEDIA), while Trump has issued at least 161 in 144 days (Federal Register). That’s a time-adjusted ratio of over 10. Let’s see, who is more king-like?
Since 2016 Democrats have been chanting “Save our Democracy” and now they are all of the sudden invoking Ben Franklin’s republic. Any American that is still thinking understands how Civics education in our nation was long ago abandoned by government run schools. Where was this Democratic mob when King Joe Biden was laying waste to the United States economic and social fabric with his autopen during the Covid lockdowns?