"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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Thursday, July 3, 2025
"Alligator Acatraz" Is TRAITOR Trump's First Concentration Camp!
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Watching "Good Night And Good Luck" on CNN!
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.
Monday, September 23, 2024
The Upcoming Second Insurrection!
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!
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Fascism In America, On Full Display
"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)
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