Jesus Christ’s Remnants and their plans for We the People
I posted about Tactical Civics (TC) not long ago. To summarize that post, Tactical Civics is a specious recounting of American history. It teaches that our country is corrupt and communist and has been that way since the unholy triumvirate of Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, and Charles Darwin arrived on the scene. It declares We the People must take our government back. Return it to the perfect union God intended when He provided the Framers the wherewithal to develop the Declaration and Constitution. TC’s agenda includes the essential first steps of peppering American counties with cells of folks who will form TC chapters. The blueprint for taking our country back will be activated from those chapters. The blueprint is provided primarily by one of the founders of TC, David Zuniga, in a series of books available on Amazon from $3.99 to $15.00. Those who believe the TC hype are likely gullible enough to buy the books. So too, they’re likely to open their own county chapters. And, yes, eventually attempt to take their country back.
TC teaches that anyone who doesn’t believe their specious portrayal of American history (the Civil War was only a smokescreen for the introduction of unconstitutional counterfeiting, the replacement of gold and silver with paper, for example) has been deluded by our “national insanity.” We suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, loving the tyrants (the federal government) who began enslaving us during the Civil War. In fact, TC tells us, “This insanity affects Hillary’s and Bernie Sander’s socialist snowflakes of the Millenial Generation (born 1980-95) but also millions in Generation X (1965-79), the Baby Boom Generation (1946-64) and the Silent Generation (1925-45).” And how do we crawl out from all this insanity? Well, a rhetorical study question TC asks gives us the answer. “Do you believe that God will not let anyone but Christians restore America and the first step and only way back to sanity and restoration of our Republic is through repentance?”
To understand the mindset of TC enthusiasts, you must first know that it is a Christian Nationalistic endeavor that believes the Bible is inviolable and infallible. Therefore, it naturally follows that since God ordained the Constitution (if not actually writing it), it, too, is sacrosanct and infallible. Indeed, in David Zuniga’s words, “Bring America back under King Jesus. We are God’s solution.”
This is Originalism, both Biblical and Constitutional. To be sure, TC promoters glide effortlessly from Bible to Constitution, and back again. Like all good preachers, they marvel with Chapter and Verse, Article, and Clause.
TC organizers preach that only those who perceive a calling to their teachings are the ones who will respond with action. Those who respond are the “Remnant,” or that portion of the evil world who remain righteously within the Christian God’s grace. And those who remain so are We the People. Indeed, those who believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior can take comfort that they are the “Remnant.” TC says it will accept non-believers in their ranks, but not Muslims. However, non-believers may not question the believer’s faith. That’ll get you kicked out of the program.
Here’s Zuniga on the John B. Wells podcast.
Engaging oneself in Tactical Civics, then, is both a religious experience and a patriotic one. The kind of patriotism defined by We the People, the mob who attacked the Capitol and the Congress on January 6, 2021.
TC describes the 2020 presidential election as “The most brazen crime since 9/11. But everybody knows that the election of 2020 and our entire republic was highjacked by enemies of the Constitution and don’t think for one second that We the People will sit by as communists and organized crime transmogrify America into a cheap imitation of Europe. …The Bible tells us to resist evil, and it will flee from you. It instructs us to glorify God and to do works of repentance…”
Tactical Civics is engaged in the “Great We-Set,” using the incredible power of the internet to achieve “Tactical Force Massing.” Their goal is to establish 3,000 TC chapters in counties throughout the country. Their first two initiatives are People’s Grand Juries and Militias, the former necessarily preceding the latter because grand juries will be the legal foundation for creating county militias.
Indeed–Heads Up, Tom McGraw!–TC proposes that the People’s Grand Jury and Militia will “superintend” state prosecutors, judges, and county sheriffs (these people are after all the People’s servants) to assure they understand their subservient role in TC’s perception of reality.
The South Park Outsiders offer Tactical Civics learning experiences in Fairplay. And others nearby are doing the same.
In Jefferson County, the Mountain Republicans, led by Rich Wyatt, sponsor events featuring Tactical Civics introductions and speakers. One of those speakers, Kevin Ennett, lives in Pine, Park County, Colorado. According to David Zuniga, Ennett is the Colorado coordinator for Tactical Civics. Zuniga also says Ennett will soon write a book (Zuniga editing) to add to the TC Amazon offerings.
Here’s David Zuniga discussing Kevin Ennett’s participation in TC with Michael Jaco, David Rodriguez, and Scott McKay.
Michael Jaco (upper right) is a former Navy Seal. He believes in reincarnation. In one of his books, Awakening of a Warrior, he recounts his lifetimes before the present. He lived as Gerar, who allied with Abraham in the creation of a new religion called Judaism; Cyrus the Great, who unified all of Persia and implemented Zoroastrianism as the state religion; and Marcus Furius Camillus, who came to be considered the second founder of Rome.
David Rodriguez (bottom) is a former heavyweight boxer. He believes, among other things, Hollywood elites and others are bottling and drinking adrenochrome, a substance oxidized from the adrenaline taken from children who are trafficked by, yes, the elites.
Scott McKay, The Patriot Streetfighter, (upper left) believes among many, many other things, that they are fighting the same people Hitler did. He believes in the Khazar Myth, basically an antisemite belief that world elites have been infested by Jews or Jewish pretenders. Even the British Royal Family are Khazars.
These three gentlemen welcomed David Zuniga to their podcast, praising the Tactical Civics plan of action, and declaring they’re all on the same page.
Ahem…
(I occasionally think about why I didn’t think of it first. Why didn’t I realize I could write entire books, a series of revisionist tomes that bastardize historical facts to suit the Christian Nationalist Constitutional Conservative mindset? I’d tell the gullible that you’ve got to buy and read the books, but you’ve also got to join the TC program at five bucks a month and get all your friends and neighbors to do the same thing. I don’t know if I’d be rich today, but I’d be getting there.)
What do we know about Wyatt and Ennett?
Rich Wyatt, you may recall, was the proprietor of Gunsmoke, a Wheatridge gun shop. In 2018 he was convicted and sentenced to 78 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for dealing in firearms without a license and tax fraud. He appealed the conviction and was resentenced to one year in prison and one year of supervised release, which ended in 2021. (It is a bizarre story, further recounted here and here.)
Wyatt was ordered to forfeit nearly 500 firearms at sentencing. And he unsuccessfully appealed to former President Donald Trump for a pardon in December 2020, which would have restored his firearms rights. He is a resident of Evergreen and operates a pizza joint in that community.
More recently, Wyatt appeared on the Chuck (Bonniwell) and Julie (Hayden) podcast, where he said, “It’s almost time to switch from ballots to bullets. Because that’s what wins the heart and minds. And there’s no arguing with a bullet. You can argue about ballots, but you can’t argue with bullets.”
(Chuck Bonniwell and Julie Hayden, “The Chuck and Julie Show,” welcomed District 3 Commissioner Dave Wissel to their show on several occasions when Wissel was campaigning for the position. I wrote about that here.)
Kevin Ennett, who recently moved to Pine, proudly displays his cause on social media. Nothing wrong with that.
While a Marine CWO 3 (Chief Warrant Officer), Ennett took to the Marine Corps official Facebook and or Twitter page in 2019 to respond to those who objected to Donald Trump’s desire to have tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in a Washington, D.C. July 4th parade.
Here’s the post: “Here’s to any complaints about tanks and a [middle finger] to anyone who says anything about PTSD!” he wrote. “Happy 4th. Blow your fingers off, get black out drunk, engage in risky behavior that offends snow flakes. If you die, then you didn’t deserve to live! If you wine, hurry and become a ’22’ statistic today!”
Ennett was directing his remarks to his fellow Marines. It appears he was telling them to man up and stop relying on PTSD as an excuse for bad behavior. Engage in aggressive, anti-social behavior; if you die doing it, you deserve to die. If you whine about tanks and PTSD, hurry up and commit suicide. (The “…hurry and become a ‘22’ statistic today” refers to the inexact statistic that 22 veterans commit suicide daily.)
Ennett apologized for the post, calling it an attempt at satire intended for a small niche of people. Well, actually he apologized for how the post was perceived, not necessarily for what it said.
Anyone, Rich Wyatt, Kevin Ennett, the South Park Outsiders, Dave Wissel, anyone can believe and support anything they want to. But, does what they believe miraculously identify them as We the People? Not just in their minds, but pursuant to the intent of the Constitution? In a constitutional republic, how does a minority of the populace, those described as Remnants, assume it is they, and only they who constitute We the People?
For whatever it’s worth, a couple of Tactical Civics endgame’s 19 points include these gems:
Tactical Civics is proselytizing “…one county at a time.” The far-right understands that their minority strength lies in capturing the small stuff–school boards, county commissioners, dog catchers, county clerks, etc. And, I don’t doubt their creep into Colorado, Park County in particular will become more evident. Frankly, I’m surprised we haven’t seen the Tactical Civics boilerplate ordinances for a people’s grand jury, and militia on the BOCC agenda already.
But, hell, what do I know? In fact, I’ll bet there are a few folks who’ve read this and thrown their hands in the air: “Hallelujah! Praise God! I’m gonna buy me some books so I can take my country back.”
Finally, some who read this will say, “Oh my goodness, he’s spewing hate again.” If well-researched, readily available evidence of facts constitutes hate, then I wonder what truth is. The Tactical Civis folks know what their truth is. I think it’s dangerous for our Republic, for our county, for the beautiful place we call home. But again, what the hell do I know?
