by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
One of the many things that Marjorie Taylor Greene could not "remember" or "recollect" at her court appearance in Atlanta last Friday was a request - or at least a suggestion - to Trump's people that he declare martial law in order to keep Joe Biden from taking office. That's a fairly significant lapse of memory.
Almost right on cue, a collection of text messages to Trump's last chief of staff, Mark Meadows, were released yesterday, at least one of which was from Greene, and that message did approach the notion of Trump using martial law (or "Marshall" law, as Marge put it) as a way to "save our Republic."
Unfortunately, Greene's almost comic misuse of the word "Marshall" for "martial" served to distract from the seriousness of the words she actually uttered. Her text to Meadows, which would have been written during her first day or two as a member of Congress, read:
"In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall law. I don't know on those things. I just wanted to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else."
Clearly Greene's text to Mark Meadows was steeped in paranoia and intended to support the notion of Trump remaining in power regardless of what was needed to make that happen. It was not the type of communication that most people would forget. In fact, Marge forgot so much last Friday that voters in her district should have serious concerns about her cognitive functioning and ability to represent them effectively in Congress.
A comprehensive psychiatric evaluation might be in order.
(Related note: My hometown of Noel, Missouri, had a city marshal by the name of Marshall for many years. The town had a peaceful nature - usually - and Marshal Marshall never had to be called on to impose martial law.)
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