"The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, the SA (Sturmabteilung; commonly known as the Storm Troopers), the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons—the elite guard of the Nazi party), the police, and local civilian authorities organized numerous detention camps to incarcerate real and perceived political opponents of Nazi policy."TRAITOR Trump's first concentation camp, known as "Alligator Alcatraz" was opened in South Florida on July 1, 2025, in South Florida with TRAITOR Trump and Rod DeSantis present and happily touting its existence as if they had just funded an actual day care center, community college, or hospital. The only term I find adequate to describe TRAITOR Trump's emotional response to this concentration camp is "masturbatory glee". This isa term I have used once or twice before in reference to some of his most egregious and criminal acts. When TRAITOR Trump is able to do anything which creates havoc,makes the world a more dangerous place, or worsening the living conditions for a major segment of America's population, his responses are always a public exhibition of strutting like a rooster in a chicken lot in which he is the only male of the species. His face becomes exactly like of the high school bully who has just slapped a non-consenting freshman girl on the hindquartes and gotten away with it. When he stood in front of the press at the opening of this hell hole,his experssion was exactly like that of an insecure 13 year old boy who has suddenly discovered that he has one black hair on his chest or crotch. TRAITOR Trump delights in the suffering of others, especially if he is the perpetrator of that suffering. There is no word or expression in the English language that better describes his reactions in these instances than masturbatory glee. We are teetering on the edge of the greatest disaster any civilized country can perpetrate or ignore as it is being perpetrated. We are facing the onset of what will become an American Holocaust if TRAITOR Trump is not stopped by the US House, Senate, and Supreme Court. It is unlikelyh at this time that any of the three are willing or morally able to do that. The razor slim margins which votes on his "Big Vicious, Ugly Bill" is being defeated by are not based on strength or moral courage. They are based on the dissent of a small handful of the worst elected officials in America whose oppostion is due to their desire to make that "Big, Vicious, Ugly Bill" even bigger, more visious, and uglier. The United States is sitting at the cusp of being host to a Second Holocaust. More concentration camps are going to be built. More people will be incarcerated unjustly, denied due process, deported, suffer from inhumane treatment, and many of them will die in the process or because of hte long term effects of that process. The question has now become "what will you as an idividual citizen do in response to this sought after Second Holocaust? Will you sit silent or even assist as thousands of German citizens did in World War II? Will you simply stick your head deep within your shell of compliance while blaming other under your breath as many other German citizens did in World War II? Will you ignore this Second Holocaust as much of the so-called civilized world did in World War II? Or will you be a real participant in the resistance to this Tyrann, this Racism, this Second Holocaust? Will you even join TRAITOR Trump in his masturbatory glee?
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"Alligator Acatraz" Is TRAITOR Trump's First Concentration Camp!
Monday, September 16, 2024
Did America's Kristallnacht Begin At Arlington?
On August 26, 2024, TRAITOR Trump, a collection of his staff, and a film crew connected to the campaign made a visit to Arlington National Cemetery, specifically in Section 60, and made an attempt to film his laying of flowers at a grave of one of the US military personnel who was killed during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Filming of any political action is prohibited at Arlington and has been for many years. During their attempt to film, an Arlington employee approached the group to inform them of the rules about political activity and was verbally and physically abused according to the US Army information provided later about the incident. The employee decided not to pursue criminal charges against the staff members who assaulted them. It is safe to assume that the decision not to prosecute was influenced by other incidents around TRAITOR Trump and his co-conspirators such as the rabid harassment of two female African American election workers in Georgia. Since the incident at Arlington, the campaign of TRAITOR Trump has refused to release any video they have of the incident. I have little doubt that the withheld video would prove that the fault was with TRAITOR Trump and his staff. We could naively choose to believe that this was an isolated incident in which one particular staff member became overzealous and caused the incident. But such incidents of disrespect for others, whomever they may be, and whatever they represent, are routine around TRAITOR Trump and those who support him. That Arlington Employee represented both the federal government of the United States of America as an employee of the US Army and those hallowed dead heroes and heroines who are buried at Arlington. The question we are examining in this blog post is this: "Did America's Kristallnacht begin on August 26, 2024, at Arlington National Cemetery?"
I sincerely hope that everyone who reads this blog post understands fully already exactly what Kristallncacht was and the important place it holds in the history of both World War II and The Holocaust. The rough translation of the German phrase "kristallnacht" is "night of broken glass". It refers to the night of November 9-10, 1938, and a horrific series of events which took place in Germany on that night. On the night of November 7, 1938, a low level German diplomat was shot and killed by a German/Jewish student. German Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, after conferring with Hitler, harangued a gathering of old storm troopers, urging violent reprisals staged to appear as “spontaneous demonstrations.” Telephone orders from Munich triggered pogroms throughout Germany, which then included Austria. It is also appropriate here to explain that "pogroms" were "an organized, often officially encouraged massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews". The pogroms of Kristallnacht were "organized" by Joseph Goebbels and "officially encouraged" by Adolph Hitler and all of his high command. The pogroms of Kristallnacht resulted in two days and nights of extreme violence and destruction directed against German Jews. During Kristallnacht more than 1,000 synagogues were burned or vandalized. Rioters ransacked and looted about 7,500 Jewish businesses burning many to the ground, destroying key assets of others, and rendering it impossible for Jewish business owners to continue in business. These officially sanctioned criminals killed at least 91 Jews, and vandalized Jewish hospitals, homes, schools, and cemeteries. About 30,000 Jewish males aged 16 to 60 were arrested. To accommodate so many new prisoners, the concentration camps at Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen were expanded. After this night, the Holocaust had officially begun in Germany which would result in the deaths by various means of more than 6 million Jews. Arguably, however, the Holocaust in Germany began on the day Adolph Hitler was first elected to public office.
In his excellent article on the Time website, Timothy Ryback writes
Adolf Hitler never won a majority in a free and open national election. He never received more than 37% of the vote in a free and open national election, but he argued that 37% represented 75% of 51%, and demanded political power. It was the political calculus by which the Nazi leader disabled, then dismantled, the Weimar Republic. Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures. When Hitler had vowed in court, in September 1930, to destroy democracy through the democratic process, a judge asked, “So, only through constitutional means?” Hitler replied crisply, “Jawohl.” (Timothy Ryback, "How Hitler Used Democracy To Take Power", April 26, 2024, https://time.com/6971088/adolf-hitler-take-power-democracy/)
So, I hear you asking, what does this have to do with TRAITOR Trump and his incident at Arlington National Cemetery. It has everything to do with it. One incident, when officially sanctioned, resulted in all the crimes aforementioned in Germany. Admittedly, that one incident was followed by hundreds of others. But no such incident of public hatred, criminality, violence, and ostracism ever goes unnoticed, especially by those who have been holding the same ideas in their souls and minds. One incident made it clearly understood by every citizen of Germany that it was now acceptable to commit any crime of violence against a Jewish citizen of Germany. It officially sanctioned hatred and all the various evils it can produce, and ultimately resulted in the murder of more than 6 million innocent men, women, and children.
Now, that brings us back to the incident at Arlington National Cemetery which was not actually an isolated incident in the life and crimes of TRAITOR Trump. It is one of a long string of such incidents, public endorsements of violence and crime both in America and the world, and public endorsement of hatred, racism, criminality, insurrection, domestic terrorism, and even murder by TRAITOR Trump. As we go back in the public life of TRAITOR Trump, there is a long trail of such public statements, actions, and actual physical acts by TRAITOR Trump in which he has copied the types of actions, statements, and physical acts which culminated in the extermination of 6million Jewish men, women, and children, along with the deaths of about 3% of the total global population in 1940 . One of the earliest, but perhaps not the first, such action by TRAITOR Trump occurred in 1989 when he took out full page ads in New York newspapers calling for the execution of five young black men who had been accused in the assault of a female jogger in Central Park. Those young men were imprisoned for several years before being exonerated and released. On some levels another famous incident by Traitor Trump was his public mockery of a physically disabled reporter which took place in 2015. Despite that the incident was so egregious that Meryl Streep spoke out about it at the Golden Globes ceremonies that year, TRAITOR Trump has never admitted his actions were mockery or that they constituted any kind of belittling or derogatory actions.
Looking back at the Timothy Ryback article cited and linked above, we see that Adolph Hitler never won a free and open election. He simply stated in open court that he would "destroy democracy through the democratic process". From June 16, 2015, to the present day of September 16, 2024, we have seen TRAITOR Trump doing the same thing without ever having acknowledged it as Hitler did. He lost the 2016 election of Hillary Clinton by nearly 3million votes but managed to destroy democracy through the democratic process just as Adolph Hitler did. In 2020, the popular vote margin was even greater and President Biden also won the electoral vote total despite TRAITOR Trump's persistent espousal of The Big Lie. The vote margin was slightly more than 7million votes at 7,060,347. In response to the vote totals, TRAITOR Trump then incited the insurrection of January 6, 2021, in an attempt to overthrow the legally constituted government of the United States for which more than a thousand of his co-conspirators have been convicted. Still The Big Lie will not die and TRAITOR Trump is now disparaging, threatening, and defaming more than 10,000 legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, to the point that the Republican governor of the state, Mike DeWine, has found it necessary to publicly contradict TRAITOR Trump and support the city, its immigrant population, and the community at large.
So, it should be apparent to all that the Kristallnacht of the United States of America did not begin at Arlington National Cemetery on August 26, 2024. It is quite possible that it did not begin on that day in 1989 when TRAITOR Trump advertised in favor of the execution of five innocent young black men. If the Kritallnacht of the United States is averted by the voters on November 5, 2024, we might not ever decide on what day it began or, perhaps, would have begun. But we have been more than sufficiently warned of the potential of that night coming to America by both the actions and words of TRAITOR Trump and those around him. If we accept quietly a long and persistent string of attacks against the innocent, the disabled, the immigrants in our country and allow TRAITOR Trump once again to occupy the White House in defiance of all that is holy and just, we will surely see Kritallnacht come to fruition in America, and the greatest democracy on earth will be destroyed.
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