I've been quiet. What am I supposed to do or say when federal forces are operating as an army of occupation in a major metropolitan area? When they are shooting people and spinning tales about the circumstances, narrative not corroborated by video recordings of the same events?
These are bad times. And they are not improved by a never-ending litany of distortions, sneaky language and outright lies from the federal government -- especially the Executive Branch. They're arresting, abusing and killing protestors, despite a stated intent to round up illegal immigrants, supposedly concentrating on "the worst of the worst," a category that apparently includes five-year-old children.
If the idea was to go after people in this country without due authorization, why wouldn't the effort start in a red state with a large population of such people, like Texas or Florida? With a cooperative state government and a population that voted them in, wouldn't the process run much more smoothly? And would it not a be a model program they could use to demonstrate their predicted benign effects to the entire county? Instead, immigration enforcement has been deployed as a kind of punishment, in a state under the governorship of a former opposition party Vice-Presidential candidate, in a city that previously erupted into violence in the wake of a suspicious police killing. It appears to be intended to create exactly the kind of chaos and harm that is making daily headlines.
It's an authoritarian display, one that does the country no good and one that, despite press conferences increasingly askew from reality, appears to be backfiring on the President's party. And yet it looks like their plan is to continue and intensify the beatings until things improve for them.
I wouldn't bet on that happening.
Here's a little more on the topic from The Bulwark.
Update
1 year ago
10 comments:
Suck off you withered lesbo ho. We voted for this. Get the illegals out.
You're certainly very brave as an anonymous commenter.
Constitutional rights are not subject to a popular vote -- things like the right to due process, specific warrants, the right to keep an bear arms, the right to speak freely and protest peacefully. Nor is the kind of "collateral damage" happening in Minnesota acceptable. Summary execution of protestors by government agents is the kind of thing this country was formed to put a stop to.
As for "we voted for this," Mr. Trump won the popular vote by a narrow margin, a couple of million, a few percent. Not every eligible voter cast a ballot, and not every Trump voter expected government thugs killing people in the street as a result. So no, "we" did not vote for this. Perhaps you did -- you do appear to have the kind of personality that would enjoy it.
Gosh, what if the reality is that most people are not the same kind of asshole as you?
Anon's mom must be really proud of his treatment of women. I hope he makes him useful and crawls out of her basement every once in a while and takes out her trash. But probably not.
One more step towards an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and cancel the 2026 mid-terms.
Tsk, tsk, Anon. You truly need educating in civility. After I wash your mouth out with grandma's lye soap I shall give you the opportunity to sign my petition that the felon in the Whitehouse be relieved of duty for our loss of confidence in his ability to command.
It (can't call he or she) undoubtedly happy get you to post Its screed. Unfortunate behaviour.
What strikes me if the number of people saying yes I voted for him
now I wish I hadn't, or am loosing my shirt/farm. I feel for them
having believed a man that was a proven liar. Now we work to
get past this, if we can.
Eck!
While invoking the Insurrection Act is a very real possibility, elections are run by the individual states, and cannot be cancelled by the Federal government. Individual states might choose to -- but if they do, what happens to their Representatives and Senators (if any) whose terms have expired? Would those seats remain vacant? There's no provision for filling them under such circumstances and I don't think any state would be willing to give up their voices in Congress.
U. S. elections are a largely volunteer and amateur affair, despite fancy equipment. The running of them is a state-led but grassroots enterprise. Various political powers might like to cancel 'em, but we didn't even do so during the Civil War.
I'd feel more hopeful if it were not for the fact that so many of those I've known for the past few decade--with the Gadsten flags and the Molon Labe stickers, the promised resistance--weren't marching in lockstep with the government forces they swore to oppose.
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”
― John Adams
I said "Don't tread on me."
You can get treaded on.
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