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Thursday, July 3, 2025

"Alligator Acatraz" Is TRAITOR Trump's First Concentration Camp!

The Holocaust Encyclopedia tells us that:
"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?

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Watching "Good Night And Good Luck" on CNN!

Last night, my wife and I watched the Broadway play "Good Night And Good Luck" which stars, and was written and produced by George Clooney. The play is about the impact the McCarthy Committee Hearings had on America as US Senator Joseph McCarthy ran amuck in the senate claiming America was being infiltrated by thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of commmunist party members and communist spies. I have writen on this blog in the past about a book by Lately Thomas, "When Even Angels Wept: A Story Without A Hero", which is about Senator McCarthy and terribly destructive impact he and his minions had on literally thousands of innocent victims of their effort to destroy anyone whose ideas they opposed. I have been blessed to know four people who were victims of Senator McCarthy who, to one degree or another, had their lives destroyed by the senator. None of the four people I knew ever wavered in their opposition to the senator, and all of them worked on a daily basis for the remainder of their lives to defend the US Constitution and Constitutional Rights. Clooney's play is now the only Broadway play ever to have a performance televised in its entirety. The play, and everything about the life and crimes of Joseph McCarthy, are a warning about just how fragile democracy is, even in what until January 29, 2025, was the most democratic country in the world. There is no difference in the morally degenerative nature of Senator McCarthy, his minions at the time, and TRAITOR Trump, and his minions today. America and American Democracy are under attack and that attack is directed, fomented, and led from the White House. That is why George Clooney, his business partners on Broadway, and the management team at CNN chose to take the unprecedented step of televising a full length Broadway play to America and the world wherever CNN is available. In today's world, nealry all of satellite based television is available worldwide except in a few of the most repressive countries. Without a doubt, it must have had an incredibly large viewership last night. In a stunning proof of just how dangerous TRAITOR Trump and his Criminal Syndicate are, just last night as the play was being televised and small demonstrations against his crimes were taking place in Los Angeles, he ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to go to California to quell the demonstrations over the public objections of California Governor Gavin Newome who stated that his administration and the police agencies in the areas of the demonstrations did not need the National Guard mobilization and that it would make matters worse. There can be no doubt that it did. This action by TRAITOR Trump is an escalation of the action he attempted to take in his previous illegal occupation of the White House against peacful demonstrators in Washington when he tried to order that those demonstrators be tear gassed despite their clearly peaceful intentions. These are the most dangerous times in America since at least the end of World War II, and they are dangerous solely because of TRAITOR Trump and his minions. Every American citizen should be standing up and voicing public opposition to TRAITOR Trump, his actions, his minions, and his continued occupation of the White House. But simply impeaching and removing him would not be the best answer since J. D. Vance, the Vice President of record, is just as criminal, just as evil, just as dangerous as TRAITOR Trump. If impeachment is to occur, it must be simultaneous impeachments of every person in the constitutional chain of command and succession until that chain of succession reaches a person who has not shown loyalty to TRAITOR Trump. The only person in the chain of succession at this time who can even be remotely believed to be capable of assuming leadership of the country without risk of further crimes is US Senator Chuck Grassley, the President Pro Tempore of the US Senate, who is second in line to the presidency. That means that only simultaneous impeachment of both TRAITOR Trump and J. D. Vance can hope to put an end to the ongoing attacks on democracy. It needs to happen today, might not be likely to happen until it is far too late, and the ultimate price could be the loss of Democracy in America if the other elected representatives in congress don't take the necessary actions as soon as possible. God Help Us All!

Sunday, November 3, 2024

"How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them" by Jason Stanley

 

The original edition of this book was published in 2018, The current edition of the book which I am discussing today was published in paperback format in 2020 due to the fact that it was a best seller and the upcoming election of 2020 made it both necessary and advantageous for the author and publisher to reissue the book in paperback due to the danger being presented to the country by TRAITOR Trump at that time.  Today, that danger still persists in even greater form than four years ago.  We now have major public figures who have worked closely with TRAITOR Trump actually using the words "Fascist" and "Facism" to describe him and his goals.  This version of the book was released with a new preface by Jason Stanley.  In the Preface on page IX, Stanley states that "I wrote this book as a warning against fascist politics, essentially the danger of rhetoric that encourages fear and anger as a means to foment ethnic and religious division, seeping into public discourse." (Jason Stanley, "How Fascism Works..." Page IX)    Later in the Preface on page XII, he writes: "A distinguishing mark of fascism is the targeting of ideological enemies and the freeing of all restraints in combating them."(Stanley, Ibid, Page XII). That is exactly what TRAITOR Trump has been doing in this 2024 election campaign when he has discussed jailing his political enemies if the tragedy of his actual election should occur. TRAITOR Trump has even exceeded his own previous levels of fascist speech this week by stating on multiple occasions that Liz Cheney, one of only two Republicans in the entire country fit to hold public office at any level, should be forced to face "nine rifles pointed at her face".  That kind of speech is not only fasicst, it is illegal in every state in the union and should be prosecuted to the highest level of the law. Even years before these kind of incredibly derogatory statements started coming regularly from TRAITOR Trump in 2024, Jason Stanley was seeing evidence of fascism in TRAITOR Trump's rhetoric: 

"In the United States, as Donald Trump's campaign against immigration intensifies, it is sweeping untold numbers of undocumented workers of all backgrounds into anonymously run private detention centers, where they are concealed form view and public concern." (Jason Stanley, "Ibid, Page XV.)

Throughout the book, Stanley, who is a professor of philosophy at Yale University in an endowed chair, documents and discusses actions, speeches, and threats by TRAITOR Trump which are clearly fascist in nature.  While this book was reissued in 2020, recent statements by several American generals who have worked closely with TRAITOR Trump about his fascist tendencies fully support what Stanley has to say about him and his danger to the country.  In Bob Woodward's new book, "War", he tells a story of meeting General Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at a party:

“We have got to stop him!” Milley said. “You have got to stop him!” By “you” he meant the press broadly. “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person to this country.” His eyes darted around the room filled with 200 guests of the Cohen Group, a global business consulting firm headed by former defense secretary William Cohen. Cohen and former defense secretary James Mattis spoke at the reception.  “A fascist to the core!” Milley repeated to me.  I will never forget the intensity of his worry."  (The Atlantic, October 16, 2024, "The General's Warning".  https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/10/the-generals-warning/680279/ ) 

 In the book, Stanley writes in chapters which are descriptive of the key elements of fascist thinking and acts including Propaganda, Anti-intellectual, Unreality, Hierarchy, Victimhood, Law and Order, Sexual Anxiety, and Sodom and Gomorrah.  In the 2003 issue of "Free Inquiry Magazine, Lawrence Britt discussed key elements of fascism under slightly different titles and I have written about that examination of fascism at this link six years ago.  The fascism of TRAITOR Trump is not a new thing just because several American generals and other staff members who worked under him have suddenly begun to use the word "Fascist" about him in public. It has been existent many years and many of us who have been aware of it have also been making frequent studious attempts to educate the rest of the world about his fascism.  Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright actually published a book "Fascism A Warning" in 2018 and I wrote about her book that same year.   Television personality Rachel Maddow, who also happens to be Dr. Rachel Maddow since she holds  a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Oxford wrote a book in 2023 entitled "Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism" which I have written about at this link.  In that interview, the two women actually read Stormy Daniels' testimony in her civil trial against TRAITOR Trump with Daniels playing herself and Maddow reading the parts of the several attorneys.  It is an enlightening show and was the first opportunity the general public had to actually see the testimony from the "Hush Money Trial" since it was held without television cameras present.  Let me suggest that you watch that interview after you have learned at least the basics of fascism which will make TRAITOR Trump's actions toward Daniels much more clearly understood for what they are: Fascism In Action.  I have made reference to all these discussions of fascism to help the reader understand that Donald Trump's devotion to and practice of fascism is nothing new and Jason Stanley and I are not the only people working diligently to make all of America aware of the problem it presents on a daily basis to the country and the world.  

 

In the epilogue to his book, Jason Stanley refers to the work of Yale professors Joshua Knobe and Adam Bear by saying that in a New York Times article they have found that "...Trump's continuing behavior-- actions and speech that used to be considered remarkable--have real and disturbing consequences:  "These actions are not simply coming to be regarded as more typical; they are coming to be seen as more normal.  As a result, they will come to be seen as less bad and hence less worthy of outrage."  (Jason Stanley, "How Fascism Works...", Page188.)


 

A case in point which perfectly illustrates what Stanley is saying about the change over time in the public perceptions of TRAITOR Traitor Trump's fascist statements and intentons is the famous statement he made in 2016 saying "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"(CBS News, January 23, 2016, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-i-wouldnt-lose-any-voters/ )  has now morphed into this death threat against Liz Cheney which is being investigated as a crime by the Attorney General of Arizona: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.” (Deseret News, November 2, 2024, https://www.deseret.com/politics/2024/11/02/donald-trump-liz-cheney-war-hawk/ ) That statement was not rhetorical, harmless, or "just politics".  It was intentional incitement of his most virulent and dangerous followers in the hope that one of them would do his bidding and assassinate Liz Cheney. It was  a crime and should be prosecuted to  the fullest extent of the law.  



Read Jason Stanley's book, GO VOTE if you have not already, and fight Donald Trump and his fascism until he can be convicted of at least part of his crimes, sentenced, and imprisoned as he should have been years ago.   
 

 

Monday, September 23, 2024

The Upcoming Second Insurrection!



The attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was an Insurrection, Domestic Terrorism, Sedition, and Treason.  It was fomented, led, and caused by TRAITOR Trump because, for the second time, he had lost an American election after having been installed in the White House by virtue of Russia having stolen enough votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to tilt the electoral vote count in their favor.  They failed in their attempt to do that in 2020, and TRAITOR Trump incited the attack on the US Capitol in order to try to stop the constitutionally mandated count of electoral votes which is the final step in the certification of an election in the United States.  January 6, 2021, was an attack against the United States by enemies of the United States, and incited by the second worst living enemy of the United States, TRAITOR Trump, in support of the absolute worst living enemy of the United States, Vladimir Putin, who owns and controls TRAITOR  Trump.  When the 2024 presidential election is over, the votes are counted, and the electoral counts are referred to the congress for certification proving that TRAITOR Trump has actually lost his third consecutive election in America, he will already have done the work of inciting that Second Insurrection, and he is actually engaged in setting the stage for it on a daily basis today since he knows full well that he cannot legally win an election in the United States.  TRAITOR Trump has already stated on May 2, 2024, that he will not commit to accept the results of the upcoming presidential election unless he is declared the winner.  TRAITOR Trump has already worked with the Right Wing Radical Repugnican Election Board in Georgia to have them institute a set of new rules for counting the votes which will allow them to bring about the unlawful counting of votes, the manipulation of the vote count, and the illegal declaration that TRAITOR Trump has won the election in Georgia.  He will also attempt to commit other acts of election sabotage in swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada.  He is now faced with the likelihood that he will also lose North Carolina since his hand picked candidate for governor in that state has been caught on an internet pornography website describing himself as "a black Nazi".  Their little ship of dreams is sinking fast in North Carolina.  When the November 5th election is over, the votes are counted, and the truth is out, TRAITOR Trump will once again incite an Insurrection against the legally constituted government of the United States of America. 




So, the question becomes what do we do to avoid the theft of another US election by TRAITOR Trump and his allies, both Russian Hackers and American Fascists?  First and foremost, every American must go to the polls and vote for Kamala Harris for president of the United States.  Secondly, between now and the election, we must confront the ignorance and TREASON of TRAITOR Trump and all his supporters every time we hear it no matter whom we hear it from or where we hear it.  We must get others registered as Democrats until the last day to register in the state in which these unregistered voters live.  We must then get those newly registered voters to the polls and be certain that they are voting for Kamala Harris for President.  And, when TRAITOR Trump begins his Second Insurrection, we must work with the legally  constituted government of the United States to hold TRAITOR Trump and every one of his supporters responsible for their crimes in any such Second Insurrection.  We must not allow any questionable acts in support of his Second Insurrection by TRAITOR Trump or any of his supporters to go unconfronted by the legal authorities of the United States of America.  When this Second Insurrection begins, we must demand that President Biden immediately order the arrest of TRAITOR Trump and any of his allies who engage in this Second Insurrection.  We must demand that they receive a constitutionally mandated and protected SPEEDY TRIAL, conviction, sentencing, and imprisonment for their crimes.  When such a Second Insurrection has been dealt with in this manner, it will be clearly understood for many years in America that such an insurrection by TRAITORS, Insurrectionists, Domestic Terrorists, and Enemies of The United States will not be tolerated, minimized, or swept under the rug.  IT WILL BE GREAT! 

Friday, July 19, 2024

"Enough" by Cassidy Hutchinsion, An 'Almost Mea Culpa'

 

 "I had started my job with the belief that my colleagues and I were doing something important for the country. But when the "president" I had served wholeheartedly persuaded his supporters to reject the legitimacy of a free and fair election, I knew he was leading a dangerous assault on our political ideals and governing institutions for no other purpose than to soothe his injured pride." (Cassidy Hutchinson, "Enough" pages 353-354)

When this book was initially released, I decided that I wouldn't bother to read it.  But after I read Liz Cheney's fine book, I changed my mind and ordered the book based on the numerous compliments Cheney gave to Hutchinson based on their multiple contacts during the work of the January 6 Committee. In another relatively minor "three degrees of separation" connection, I have a cousin who is an employee of Christopher Newport University where Hutchinson received her degree.  They say they never actually had any contact with her on campus but did remember her from her time there without any particular opinion of her, either good or bad.  As I read the book, I found myself disgusted pretty thoroughly during the first half or so of the book due to her persistent use of the adjective "President" in reference to TRAITOR Trump.  It is a word which I never have and never will use to refer to TRAITOR Trump who is the ultimate recipient of the self-centered largess of Vladimir Putin and Russia in the form of his hackers having helped steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton  with a total margin of just a little over 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan combined.  He is a TRAITOR, a Russian Agent, and a clear cut threat to democracy so long as he is alive and able to further incite his cult members.  It will take at least fifty years of good, honest, democratic government to undo the moral and ethical damage he and his supporters have done to America, American Democracy, and democracy worldwide.  

Finally, as I read further between several necessary breaks from the misled praise of TRAITOR Trump, I found that Hutchinson did gradually come to her senses while working in the White House and struggled in her soul with the necessary psychic shift which was required for her to finally realize just how much damage he and his cult were doing to the country.  The first occasion I remember when I began to believe that Hutchinson was actually in the process of making that psychic shift was when she says in the book that TRAITOR Trump "...lacked the empathy to deal with the Covid epidemic".  But, over the course of her time inside the White House, she reached a point in that shift to enable her to initially testify in camera to the committee and then to agree to the public testimony which has now made her famous.  She developed what seems to be a meaningful and mutually respectful relationship with Liz Cheney which gave her the courage to eventually take the big step and cut her ties to the attorney which what she calls "Trump World" had provided for her after the insurrection and domestic terrorism of January 6, and search until she found other high level attorneys who have guided her through her final testimony sessions with the committee, the isolation she suffered afterward from the people inside the White House and the Right Wing Radical Repugnican party who made her a pariah in the circles in which she had previously moved.  She is obviously an intelligent, hard working, loyal woman who found herself in a position where her heartfelt version of patriotism could not be reconciled with a group of TRAITORS, domestic terrorists, and insurrectionists who were willing to overthrow the US government and murder Mike Pence in order to satisfy their TREASONOUS leader, TRAITOR Trump.  She also developed a relationship with Alexander Butterfield, the elderly former Richard Nixon aide who had disclosed to investigators that a White House recording system existed which eventually led to the downfall of Nixon.  She describes reading Bob Woodward's book, "The Last of The President's Mean", which tells Butterfield's story, and being deeply affected by Butterfield's morals which led to his being able to take a step in 1973 which was very similar to the one she had to take in 2021to testify against the occupant of the White House in order for each of them to be able to face themselves in the mirror.  

In my title to this blog post, I used the phrase"An Almost Mea Culpa", and I believe that Hutchinson came up a bit short of actually admitting that while she worked in the White House she was also partially culpable with TRAITOR Trump and those who perpetrated the January 6 insurrection and domestic terrorism for the outcomes of that crime including the deaths of five people.  That is a long step which I doubt that she will ever take.  This is a book which is worth reading but only after the prospective reader has read Liz Cheney's fine book, reread the US Constitution, and carefully studied a high school civics book.  



Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Somebody Is Murdering Democracy


 

Somebody Is Murdering Democracy

Nobody sees their crimes on Pennsylvania Avenue

We don’t have fingerprints or the weapons Putin used

But they’re murdering democracy, cutting out its heart and soul

They’re getting away with murder on Embassy Row

 

The almighty dollar and the lust for worldwide fame

Are killing democracy and for that someone should hang

They all say not guilty but the evidence will show

That murder was committed on Embassy Row

 

Unfed children cry and the Puerto Ricans pray

Treason and Russian hackers are right up in our face

Hillary didn’t have a chance against criminal politics

Trump has murdered democracy and it makes me mighty sick

 

Trump thought no one would miss it once it was dead and gone

Putin told him no one will ever  know Just keep up the treason and sing a pretty song

Well there ain't no justice in it and the hard facts are cold

Murder's been committed down on Embassy row.

 

Unfed children cry and the Puerto Ricans pray

Treason and Russian hackers are right up in our face

Thomas Paine wouldn’t have a chance in today’s politics

Trump has murdered democracy and it makes me mighty sick

They’d even tell George Washington to pack up and go back home

Since Trump murdered democracy on Embassy Row.

Copyright 2018 by Roger D. Hicks with consideration to Larry Cordle


 

Thursday, February 25, 2021

The Moral Degeneration In America

 

Over the last five or so years, we have seen a steady downhill slide in the general public attitudes in America which has steadily drifted toward dishonesty, depravity, criminality, and general disrespect for morality, laws, and honesty in general.  This widespread shift in the moral behavior of large segments of the American population has included a shift in the overall morality of one of the segments of the population which had previously, for four centuries, been considered one of the bedrock institutions in the country.  That segment of the population includes much of the clergy and self-professed Christians in the country who had generally advertised themselves and often been accepted as being in the forefront of the moral arbiters of the country. In one way or another, I have written about this shift in the morals of the country at least since 2016.  I believe I first clearly addressed this shift in my writing on this blog in October of 2016 with this blog post.  From that point on, I have striven diligently to confront this deterioration of the morals of the country and have regularly written about various aspects of that deterioration.  But by beginning to confront the moral degeneration of the country at that date in October of 2016, I began the battle at least 16 months later than I should have.  

We can clearly point to the exact date this moral deterioration began, or at least began to worsen rapidly and which has led us to the point we are at today where we are attempting to recover from a domestic terrorist attack on the very seat of the US government for which many indicators point to the terrorists having been assisted by several members of congress and the capitol police force some of whom are already under arrest and indictment along with the domestic terrorists themselves. That attack was also encouraged, provoked, and incited by TRAITOR Trump in his appearance before the domestic terrorists only minutes before the attack began.  Amazingly, 43 members of the Right Wing Radical Repugnican contingent in the senate voted to allow TRAITOR Trump to escape punishment for another of his crimes in his long standing effort to destroy the country. They are also at the forefront of this moral degeneration in the country. The investigation by the FBI and the US Department of Justice is ongoing and the numbers of indictments and arrests are likely to expand over the next several months.  We are also at a point, and have been for at least five years, where we know that large segments of the clergy and their self-described "Christian" adherents are a part of the degeneration.  The date this deterioration began, or at least began to worsen, can be written in stone as having been June 16, 2015.  That is the date that the worst TRAITOR in American History and an accused Russian intelligence asset rode down an escalator and made the asinine and incredible announcement that he believed he was a fitting candidate to become President of the United States.  Russia managed to steal that election in three states and install their agent in the White House for four of the most criminal and miserable years in American History and that has rapidly accelerated this moral degeneration among the supporters of TRAITOR Trump and his TREASON. 

Since that date which will live infamy, we have seen a consistent chunk of the American electorate holding steady at about 35-40% which is willing to accept larceny, sexual deviance, criminality, TREASON, moral corruption, and a variety of other deviant and abhorrent behaviors as being outside the realm of disqualification for a candidate seeking election to the leadership of the free world.  These people have found it within themselves to accept nearly any crime from anyone who will express public acceptance of their most egregious hatreds and self-expressed desires.  These people generally fall within one of four groups as I described in this blog post on August 5, 2018.  These same people either participated in, encouraged, or were accepting of the January attack on the US Capitol.  They flatly refuse to admit they are ignoring nearly everything in the Holy Bible which they claim to hold dear.  They refuse to read, comprehend, and practice the teachings of Jesus Christ, whom they erroneously claim to worship, in order to actually worship the worst criminal in American History.  These people have watched more than 500,000 of their fellow Americans become innocent victims of a pandemic which their TRAITOROUS leader could have prevented during his Russian supported occupation of the White House if he had taken even the most basic scientific precautions against a new disease which both the scientific and intelligence communities informed him in January 2020 was coming and could destroy the country.  

As a nation, we will suffer from the damage perpetrated by that TRAITOR and his followers for the next fifty years.  With fifty years of solid, honest, committed, patriotic, political leadership, we might be able to undo the damage of these people and the TRAITOR they have chosen to follow in his efforts to destroy America and American Democracy.  These people are in the process of raising at least one more generation of children who are being fed the same lies which their parents have chosen to believe and support.  If those children cannot be rescued from the ignorance of their parents, they will also continue this effort to promote treason, racism, fascism, terrorism, and a multitude of lesser crimes.  The United States is greater danger today than it has been in since Pearl Harbor.  Simply because we have a highly moral and legally, legitimately elected President in office, we cannot rest in our effort to resist the ignorance which brought about the horrible four years from January 20, 2017, until January 20, 2021, which will be remembered as being four of the worst, most destructive years in the history of America.  We must work every day to continue to confront the ignorance, criminality, and TREASON which resulted in those four years until we have literally erased all memory of it from our history.  Most of us who are adults today cannot hope to live long enough to see the end of the damage that has been and will continue to be done to America because of that TRAITOR and his TREASONOUS followers.  



Saturday, October 10, 2020

Stochastic Terrorism In America!


 
Stochastic Terrorism is defined as "the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted".  Stochastic Terrorism is being committed in America every day and the source of the most serious portion of that terrorism is the illegal occupant of the White House.  Stochastic Terrorism results in hate crime attacks on members of targeted minorities all across this country.  Rampant ignorance about targets of Stochastic Terrorism is being spread like wildfire by the primary source of that terrorism, his appointed co-conspirators, and hundreds of  thousands of other voluntary co-conspirators who believe his lies.  
 
 

 
This week in Lansing, Michigan, at least 13 Domestic Terrorists were arrested in a plot to storm the state capitol, kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, place her on "trial for treason", and eventually kill her.  These people were known members of a group called "The Wolverine Watchmen" had conducted surveilance on the governor's vacation home and had, at one time, talked of using up to 200 men to attack the state capitol.  The group had been infiltrated by FBI agents and large numbers of recorded conversations and telephone calls had been obtained detailing the plot along with other acts of terrorism which the group wished to perpetrate.  The two leaders of this terrorist group had been involved in public protests with at least one elected county sheriff in Michigan.  Dar Leaf, the sheriff in question, has refused to disown the group and was a vocal opponent of Governor Whitmer's active interventions into the Covid 19 pandemic.  That action should tell you that this sheriff is also a Domestic Terrorist and should be charged. 
 

 
 
The question which  many people are asking about this incredibly treasonous and violent plot is "how could this happen in America" or "why are people in America engaging in such domestic terrorism".  There is a simple answer to such questions: a Domestic Terrorist has been allowed to live in the White House for nearly four years and, as a pubic figure, has been engaging in Stochastic Terrorism for at least 5 years.  At least since, Gretchen Whitmer began her run for governor of Michigan in 2018, TRAITOR Trump has often, randomly, unduly, and falsely attacked her because she has not only opposed him and his TREASON,she has publicly opposed him and always been correct and on target in her negative assessments of him.  Immediately after this plot was announced and the 13 people arrested by the FBI, TRAITOR Trump attacked Governor Whitmer again without saying one negative word about the Domestic Terrorists who had just been arrested for plotting her kidnapping and murder. TRAITOR Trump has variously attacked nearly every elected Democratic official in statewide offices, Democratic senators and congress members at the federal level, and even attacked retired Democratic officials in his efforts to incite such groups to acts of violence.  
 

 
 
The most often stated support of American Domestic Terrorists by TRAITOR Trump has always been the occasion after the Charlottesville, Virginia, murder of an innocent protestor when he stated that there were good people "on both sides of the protests".  Yet, somehow, a major portion of the American electorate was willing to ignore these blatant occasions of Stochastic Terrorism from TRAITOR Trump against non-violent protestors expressing their constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech, ongoing Stochastic Terrorism against Democratic office holders, candidates, and activists.  Anyone who utilizes their right to free speech, public assembly, or freedom of the press to question the motives, actions, or intentions of TRAITOR Trump has always been a target for his virulent rabble rousing and Stochastic Terrorism.  Finally, his TREASONOUS actions have reached a point in their consequences that only the most ignorant or uncaring Americans can ignore them any further.  It is long past time for the decent, law abiding citizens of this country to stand up against TRAITOR Trump and his Stochastic Terrorism, his TREASON with Russia, his burgeoning insanity, his crimes against humanity, and his complete incompetence in a job to which he was not legally elected.  Impeachment failed because he had 51 Right Wing Radical Repugnican co-conspirators in the US Senate.  Now, the only option is to vote STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC, elect Democratic officials nation wide, and support them in the necessary work to ensure that TRAITOR Trump is not allowed to incite civil war in the nation, ensure that he is removed by force if necessary from the White House on January 20, 2021, guarantee that he is indicted, convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned for life for his crimes against this nation and the entire human race. 



Thursday, June 4, 2020

Fascism In America, On Full Display

“Why, this far into the twenty-first century, are we once again talking about Fascism?  One reason, frankly, is Donald Trump.  If we think of Fascism as a wound from the past that had almost healed, putting Trump in the White House was like ripping off the bandage and picking at the scab.”  Madeleine Albright, “Fascism A Warning”, p. 5-6. 




The quotation above from former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's excellent book, "Fascism A Warning" is is one of several quotes which have been on my official e-mail signature since about December 2018 when I read the book and reviewed it at the link above.  I recommend the book highly and suggest that everyone in America should read it.  Over the last year, and most especially in the last month, we have seen that quotation proven absolutely true.  It is a chilling warning which I knew from reading Albright's book, along with several others which I have written about on this blog.  On a daily basis since the Corona Virus outbreak began in America and the absolute ignorance and lack of any appropriate actions to prevent it by the TRAITOR Donald Trump have become apparent, he has steadily become more abrasive, abusive, tyrannical, and fascistic in his actions and his efforts to suppress constitutionally guaranteed free press, free speech, and the right to peaceful protest.  His criminality, ignorance, and willingness to commit any crime have been steadily increasing in their illegality and outright evil.  This is exactly what Secretary Albright was warning us about in her book.  

America is now at a crossroads in the life and future of the nation.  TRAITOR Trump must be removed from office and, sadly, it appears that he will not be removed before he can do further damage to the country, to the US Constitution, and to the basic freedoms which that Constitution guarantees.  His recent willingness to have peaceful protestors tear gassed in order to proceed down the street for a photo opportunity at a church the usage of which he had not sought or been given permission is an action worthy of many of the heroes of TRAITOR Trump: Adolph Hitler, Vladimir Putin, Benito Mussolini, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, and every other tin horn dictator whom this domestic and international terrorist admires.  The Bishop in whose diocese the aforementioned church is located is publicly outraged at his crime and has said so very publicly both in television interviews and in the print media.  Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde had this to say in an article from CNN: 
"I am outraged. The President did not pray when he came to St. John's, nor as you just articulated, did he acknowledge the agony of our country right now," Budde told CNN's Anderson Cooper on "AC360."
"And in particular, that of the people of color in our nation, who wonder if anyone ever -- anyone in public power will ever acknowledge their sacred words. And who are rightfully demanding an end to 400 years of systemic racism and white supremacy in our country. And I just want the world to know, that we in the diocese of Washington, following Jesus and his way of love ... we distance ourselves from the incendiary language of this President. We follow someone who lived a life of nonviolence and sacrificial love." (Paul LeBlanc, CNN, June 2, 2020)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to struggle mightily to prevent himself from saying openly  what he really thinks about TRAITOR Trump and his criminal actions when questioned by a reporter.  He paused for nearly half a minute before answering, and was described as having "... opened his mouth, then shut it — twice. He softly groaned.  Finally, in a scene on Tuesday that has now spread wildly around the internet, Mr. Trudeau said: “We all watch in horror and consternation what’s going on in the United States.” (Catherine Porter, New York Times, June 3, 2020)  It is significant that Prime Minister Trudeau also leads a country which is our closest neighbor and, until the insanity of TRAITOR Trump, one of our closest allies, and also a key member of the G7 economic coalition whose other most important member, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had just publicly forced TRAITOR Trump to cancel a meeting of the G7 which he had been scheduled to host in the United States.  Chancellor Merkel, who is arguably the most important world leader today, had handled her refusal in a highly diplomatic manner, without publicly blaming TRAITOR Trump's actions and deliberate inactions regarding the Cornona Virus for her refusal to attend the meeting.  It is also unstated in the media just how much consultation took place between Chancellor Merkel and the other leaders of the six foreign member nations.  But you can bet that since none of the other leaders made any public statements about their intentions to attend or not attend they had consulted and Merkel was issuing a statement with which they agreed.  

It is also significant that the Governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, had also just refused to bend to TRAITOR Trump's will and agree to rescind Covid 19 restrictions in the state so a Republican convention could be held with 50,000 attendees jammed into a coliseum in blatant disregard for a virus which has already killed more than 110,000 innocent American victims, most of whose lives could have been saved with strong, decisive, scientifically based interventions from the White  House in January and February 2020 after both the intelligence and scientific communities had warned TRAITOR Trump that the pandemic was coming and could destroy the country.  Governor Cooper had issued a statement that "...the people of North Carolina do not know what the status of COVID-19 will be in August, so planning for a scaled down convention with fewer people, social distancing and face coverings is a necessity.” (Ted Johnson, Deadline, June 2, 2020)  In his statement regarding Governor Cooper's insistence on protecting public health TRAITOR Trump attempted to make it appear that he had decided to withdraw the convention from North Carolina because Cooper had refused to cooperate with him.  But the decision was not his.  Governor Cooper was doing exactly what a real leader does in a crisis and protecting the people of his state, standing up to a rogue lunatic, and acting in the best interests of the entire nation.  

As we progress toward the November 3, 2020 election, and as the Corona Virus continues to kill innocent Americans, the insanity and criminality of TRAITOR Trump will become more and more apparent and dangerous.  We are headed into the the worst, most dangerous days for America since Pearl Harbor.  Those days will become even more dangerous as it becomes more and more apparent that Former Vice President Joe Biden will win the election unless Vladimir Putin and his hackers can pull off another miracle crime just as they did in 2016.  When Joe Biden wins the White House, we will enter 78 days between November 3, 2020, and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021, in which the nation and the world will exist in rapidly increasing peril as this TRAITOR faces the fact that he will be removed from the scene of thousands of his crimes and will be investigated, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned for his TREASON.  

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