Park County’s Kevin Ennett is still plugging away…
I’ve written a lot about Tactical Civics, including highlighting the group’s Colorado coordinator, Kevin Ennett, who lives in Northeast Park County. Over the past year, Ennett appeared on The Sovereign Solution podcast, hosted and produced by Brad Boardman, a 70-something-year-old Everett, Washington, Medicaid-funded home health care provider. Boardman’s LinkedIn profile reveals he is the CAO (Chief Administrative Officer) for Tactical Civics. Not surprisingly, Boardman’s Facebook profile shares this: “The duly elected president is back in our White House now that he’s won THREE times.”
If you don’t know, Tactical Civics, much like MAGA, embraces Christian fundamentalism, even asserting a 6,000-year-old Earth with key dates marking events such as the flood and the law of Moses, as Kevin Ennett explains in conversation with Brad Boardman.
You’ll note Ennett is clearly reading this “Young Earth” scenario provided by James Ussher, a 17th-century Irish prelate, who said the creation of the world was on October 23, 4004 BC.
Romans 13 is the “lynchpin,” or the operating principle upon which TC posits we, the American people, are special amongst the world’s nations; we are the “collective sovereign” in America. We are Caesar. Our lineage is clearly from Adam to Abraham, from Abraham to Jesus, and from Jesus to us.
Therefore, the lineage of our Constitution is likewise Biblical, as Boardman explains. And to help institute exactly what the divinely inspired Constitution says (or what proponents of Tactical Civics believe it says), biblical remnants are gathering—the holy seed, the spiritual core of God’s message and commandments—under the banner of Tactical Civics.
Specific tenets of Tactical Civics are based on our sovereignty (lower case “s”) gifted from the Sovereign (upper case “S”), providing us with the authority to superintend the powers and duties of elected or appointed government officials to, among other things, create our own militias and grand juries which are completely separate from elected or appointed government functionaries and are beholding only to what proponents of Tactical Civics believe the Constitution says which, they believe, is a divinely inspired document given to Americans because, amongst the nations of the world, God chose us, Americans, to reflect his glory.
Tactical Civics Founder, David Zuniga, says their mission is “inspired by, and serves at the pleasure of the Creator of the Universe.” They cast aside the Framers’ intent to construct a constitutional republic, one that took pains to proclaim that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,” a sentiment that reflected their fear that any state-sponsored endorsement of any facet of any religion was dangerous and antithetical to the system of government they were establishing. Yet Tactical Civics focuses on “we, the people,” the lowercase sovereign ordained by the uppercase Sovereign to do God’s work within the parameters of what they believe is God’s gift (or edict) to America — the Constitution.
Those lofty words, we, the people resonate even today. But let’s be honest. Who are we, the people? Is it fifty-one percent of us? Or will only thirty percent suffice? Or, is one-half of one percent of the people the magic number? (This percentage is the stated membership goal of Tactical Civics for each county in the country. The goal in Park County would therefore be about 90 members.) The purest form of we, the people, is unbridled democracy. But even that doesn’t guarantee a society of like-minded intent.
For proponents of Tactical Civics, the people’s militia and the people’s grand jury are its most immediately important components. They are, I suspect, what these folks believe rural county commissioners would be most amenable to instituting via ordinance.
The people’s grand jury would likely comprise some or all of those 90 Tactical Civics members, who would have the authority to investigate and, if they believe or just suspect something is rotten in Park County, to subpoena documents and people, regardless of, separate from, and despite the elected sheriff or district attorney. And if the object of their investigation tells them to pound sand, or if the sheriff or DA objects to their methods, the people’s militia, again, most likely adherents of Tactical Civics, would hover in the background as the enforcement tool for the people’s grand jury.
I won’t delve more into the tenets of Tactical Civics, as I’ve already done that:
Park County Republican Leadership Embraces Tactical Civics
Tactical Civics in Park County
Engaging in Tactical Civics is then both a religious and a patriotic experience. But it is patriotism defined by We the People, the mob that attacked the Capitol and Congress on January 6, 2021.
Finally, I’ll leave you with words from David Zuniga, the founder of Tactical Civics, who admits in the video that it isn’t for everyone:
