An Elephant Never Forgets: The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant. As the saying goes elephants never forget. I beg to differ. Romney finally came out of hiding under his rock to take a bath in the Never Trump luxury liner now that the Republican Party rats are leaving the sinking Titanic Trump ship. Romney decided to campaign and give a rousing cheer for some guy named Heck running for the Senate in Nevaaaada or as Trump likes to taunt or perhaps he forgot and pronounced it in eastern snobbery lingo Nevaaaaahhhhda. Nevada, a state Trump needs, does not like it pronounced that way. They get really mad but what does Trump care? He does not even care if one talks about his parts private or otherwise!
The reasons Romney gives you to support the Senate candidate Heck are the same old tired RepublCON claptrap reasons against the big bad liberals and their big bad government specifically, of course, the Darth Vader in Republican land of our first black president Obama they simply could not stand to look at no matter if he shrank the deficit to zero.
Romney railed against the big bad liberals who gave us, he should say, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, won World War II, snatched the nation from the depths of the 1930’s Great Depression and I might add rescued the nation from the Great Recession of 2007 G.W. Bush’s contribution to success. Last but not least the big bad liberal Obama, who in reality was not so liberal, gave us so called Obamacare saving 20 million or more human beings from medical catastrophes and/or death. The good ole Republicans who gave us Horatio Alger/Ayn Rand’s sink or swim, live or die, all for me and nothing for you trickle down lies not to be forgotten the comment of collective Republicons in response to the question what if a 25 year old who does not have health insurance got sick? Let him die, they said. Nice crowd--NOT
It took some time for Republicon politicos to consistently pull the wool over those who have, as my mother used to say, a two inch memory. Moreover, Obama killed enemy No. one, Osama bin Laden. If Bush had killed him one would never have heard the end of it proclaiming only Republcons know how to fight wars. I suspect they know how to put costly wars on the world's biggest credit card of US debt sinking us into the Middle East in perpetuity. Who cares? It’s all for a good cause – showing how great the US war machine is and giving your tax bucks to their friends in the military/industrial complex. Instead, though, Osama bin Laden’s death well heard and cheered by all at the time, is easily forgotten the day after yesterday. Sad.
The way I see it, the Republican mantra is NOT small government although they say it is except when they want government to have a say over a woman's body or with whom one sleeps. This elephant remembers (no I’m not Republican but I love elephants) trickle down economics failed and it failed over 30 years of Republican deregulation and Wall Street fraud. Republican policies fail and when they do it takes Democrats to pull them out of the ditch and back into the big top!
Saturday, October 08, 2016
Friday, October 07, 2016
Donald Trump brags in vulgar terms about groping women in a 2005 recording, saying, "When you're a star they let you do it"
As if anyone needed any more proof that Trump
is a sick man and as proof there are the myriad of ugly racist,
misogynistic, rude, crude, lewd, and hateful things he has said not to
mention his ugly background as a "successful" businessman as if he were
so. I think NOT. There is PLENTY of encyclopedic evidence that proves
he is not.
This man will NEVER on
this planet be president of the United States. Can you say welcome to
the White House, Madam President? It cannot happen fast enough for me!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-women-comments_us_57f8016de4b0e655eab4148d
Thursday, October 06, 2016
Pence, Hands Off My Body
"Mike Pence is so obsessed with shutting down Planned Parenthood, he was willing to shut down the government over it" Link below.
These religious fanatics are a cancer on the body politic. RepubliCONS are so concerned with big government but they want to invade a women's freedom to choose and allow big government to make one's personal decisions about one's own life. It is heinous.
The decision to go through with a pregnancy or to terminate a fetus -- yes a fetus because that is what it is -- is a woman's right alone. The fetus is NOT a full term child. It cannot be without its attachment to the mother to sustain it. The mother is the one who should be making serious decisions about her own body rather than in years before the SCOTUS Roe decision going to a butcher abortionist to have then an illegal abortion where she often suffered blood poisoning, infertility or worse death if the medical hack used unsterilized inappropriate medical equipment and procedures to perform one. It happened often.
This nation will NOT go back to those not-so-glorious days of yesteryear. We cannot because the life of the full term mother is at stake. If you do not want an abortion by all means DON'T HAVE ONE but get government out of the bedrooms and lives of women who need to make their own decisions about their own bodies. Besides that, Planned Parenthood does MUCH more than offer abortion services. It offers a host of medical procedures such as family planning, cancer screenings and SDI treatments.
The religious extremists are consummately wrong and need to get their hands off a women's body! Believe what you want but leave the decisions about it to her!
https://www.facebook.com/PlannedParenthoodAction/videos/10153987869664639/
These religious fanatics are a cancer on the body politic. RepubliCONS are so concerned with big government but they want to invade a women's freedom to choose and allow big government to make one's personal decisions about one's own life. It is heinous.
The decision to go through with a pregnancy or to terminate a fetus -- yes a fetus because that is what it is -- is a woman's right alone. The fetus is NOT a full term child. It cannot be without its attachment to the mother to sustain it. The mother is the one who should be making serious decisions about her own body rather than in years before the SCOTUS Roe decision going to a butcher abortionist to have then an illegal abortion where she often suffered blood poisoning, infertility or worse death if the medical hack used unsterilized inappropriate medical equipment and procedures to perform one. It happened often.
This nation will NOT go back to those not-so-glorious days of yesteryear. We cannot because the life of the full term mother is at stake. If you do not want an abortion by all means DON'T HAVE ONE but get government out of the bedrooms and lives of women who need to make their own decisions about their own bodies. Besides that, Planned Parenthood does MUCH more than offer abortion services. It offers a host of medical procedures such as family planning, cancer screenings and SDI treatments.
The religious extremists are consummately wrong and need to get their hands off a women's body! Believe what you want but leave the decisions about it to her!
https://www.facebook.com/PlannedParenthoodAction/videos/10153987869664639/
Wednesday, October 05, 2016
Thou Shat Not Bear False Witness
Frank Bruni's opinion in the NYT's link below is masterful. In my opinion Pence did NOT win the debate if the debate win is only characterized by style. Pence never, not once, in Trumpian fashion addressed the targeted criticism of Trump by Kaine. Accusations by Kaine of Trump's own anti Muslim, anti immigrant, misogynistic, mocking the handicapped, PTSD suffering soldier and stone cold statements impugning just about everyone else with a vulnerability cannot be denied in the era of videotape. That, in my opinion, makes Pence the most unChristian essence of what Pence says he does not want to be--a liar too.
Thou shall not bear false witness i.e. thou shalt not lie. Pence did plenty of that bobbing, weaving around and lying about the character of the man with whom he shares the ticket. One wonders how the moral Pence lives with himself. Probably he does so by saying to himself he is doing all this for a reason -- ushering in the 2020 presidency for himself that in his mind finally will, in totality, Christianize the nation saving it for white men only.
http://www.nytimes.com/…/…/mike-pences-galling-amnesia.html…
Thou shall not bear false witness i.e. thou shalt not lie. Pence did plenty of that bobbing, weaving around and lying about the character of the man with whom he shares the ticket. One wonders how the moral Pence lives with himself. Probably he does so by saying to himself he is doing all this for a reason -- ushering in the 2020 presidency for himself that in his mind finally will, in totality, Christianize the nation saving it for white men only.
http://www.nytimes.com/…/…/mike-pences-galling-amnesia.html…
Monday, October 03, 2016
MANDATORY VIEWING
By Paul Papanek: I
try to stay as far away from politics on Facebook as possible. That
said, I just cut together a few of my favorite scenes from Elia Kazan's
1957 classic "A Face in the Crowd" with Andy Griffith. The entire film should be required
viewing for everyone during this election. FORWARD TO ANYONE YOU CHOOSE.
The BEAST speaks
The
BEAST speaks -- vile, ruinous, sickening, profane and awful beyond
belief. He is nation killing! The bad words are camouflaged. The
article is from the "Daily Kos."
He's
impugning Hillary for HER bad marriages? WOW is that the pot calling
the kettle ... He has had THREE wives and cheated on at least two. He
is a serial adulterer and told Howard Stern he is. In a 1997 interview
with shock jock Howard Stern, Trump talked about how he had been
“lucky” not to have contracted diseases when he was sleeping around.and
soon to be sued for allegedly child rape. Nice representative of our
nation -- NOTForgive the Trump explicitly profane quotes that are made by writers who have endured his low life assaults. Then forward to anyone you choose. This man has to be chewed up and flattened before he ever is allowed one inch near the White House.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/2/1576865/-Trump-Called-Her-A-C-nt-And-Sh-t-For-Brains-For-Writing-Story-A-Story-He-Didn-t-Like?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=ea7a82e12e8e6d519ea471f1107c4381&source=email-trump-called-reporter-a-cnt-and-sht-for-brains-for-writing-a-story-he-didnt-like-2&email_referrer=trump-called-reporter-a-cnt-and-sht-for-brains-for-writing-a-story-he-didnt-like-2&email_subject=trump-called-reporter-a-cnt-and-sht-for-brains-for-writing-a-story-he-didnt-like
Sunday, October 02, 2016
INFERORITY
Trump has welcomed into his racist arms Eugenicists, present day American Nazis (National Alliance), Grand High Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan who believe in the genetic superiority of whites over all others which has been the rationale for discrimination and death to a group who had no control of their transportation in chains into the pit of hell that was for them America -- a land of misery and a land to them of the UNfree.
Trump is peddling his wares to a supply of deplorables never before given much credence in the American political arena except on the fringes of Republican politics now are front and center. All who have an intelligent spot in one synapse of their brain know the theory of Eugenics has been discredited long ago. That thinking produced the rotten strange fruit hanging from the Poplar Trees as it did the Holocaust.
I refer one to the millions of great African Americans and other persons of color around the globe who have contributed SO much to the culture of our nation and the world despite the Herculean odds against them. Google great African Americans and persons of color in other lands who are the superior poets, writers, artists, sportsmen, musicians, play writes, directors, writers of music, singers, historians, journalists, scientists and so much more. The names of Jackie Robinson, Husain Bolt, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Willie Mays, Jessie Owens, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Oprah, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Marion Anderson, Billie Holiday, Maya Angelou, James Alan McPherson, Lester Holt, Eugene Robinson, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltraine, Louis Armstrong, Denzel Washington, Hattie McDaniel, Morgan Freeman, Viola Davis, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, John Lewis, Elijah Cummings, John McWhartor, Ed Brook, Frederick Douglas, Colin Powell, Henry Lewis Gates, Joy Reed, Melissa Harris Perry, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maxine Waters, Shirley Chislohm, Barbara Jordan and last but by no means least the president of the United States Barack Obama. There is not enough time for me to list an encyclopedic gargantuan enumeration of INFINITELY more African American brilliance.
More are superior to the white ORANGE orangutan TRUMP who is GREAT at the CON and STUPID as hell when it comes to making money. He is GREAT at bankruptcies though, milking the system, not paying his fair share and GREAT at pulling the wool over all those inferior white guy's eyes. Trump is in short the great con man of superior proportions. What a legacy. I can only hope his corporation, if you want to call it that, melts down into the dust and his offspring and Hussein-like sons go down with him. They ALL should IF the system were, in fact, fair.
Trump can counter all he likes there are those journalists who said they would go to jail to expose his taxes and his tax returns of 1995 can be seen and deduce he has paid NO taxes for a very long time. He rides on middle class backs. His base will, of course, immoral scoundrels that they are, still support him. But unless ones brain is frozen in time most, one would hope, of those who know finance and tax law will go after him like a tiger goes after its prey and not let go until it is brought down and crushed placing him into the outhouse of American history!
Thursday, September 29, 2016
‘I Guess I’m Having an Aleppo Moment’: Gary Johnson Can’t Name a Single Foreign Leader -- link below
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/politics/gary-johnson-aleppo-moment.html
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, could not name one single foreign leader when asked who his favorite was by the great Chris Matthews on MSNBC. I saw the segment and nearly choked on my lentil soup. The sad state of the American intellect is, to say the least, depressing. Besides interspersing 50 million "likes" in a sentence many cannot speak, write or think in complexity. Nor do many know the simplest facts about our government or of American history let alone world history. Simply stand on a corner in Anywhere, USA and ask the simplest questions about our system of government or of our historical past and one will be amazed at the blank stares one gets. How did it get to be this way? I do not know but we are populated by Gary Johnsons galore. Fortunately they are NOT running for president but he and another ignoramus named Trump are.
Weld should bow out to make sure Drumpf does not slide into the oval office. Johnson may be a nice guy who should be flipping burgers at McDonalds or working at Walmart but running for President of the United States I don't think so. Frankly, no Republican either in government or out has, in my opinion, the intellectual gravitas and the cajones to tell the truth about what they stand for. Republican Speaker Paul Ryan is, admittedly, a smart Republican but, truthfully, why is he in the this game? Answer: MONEY. He wants the top 1% to pay the least amount of taxes or even no taxes like Drumpf so he can make the most from them and he wants the lower classes to pay for the Capitol roof or the roof of his home over his head.
I'll go out on a limb here to say most Republicons could not care less about those who have the least but vote more goodies for those who have the most selling us trickle down fakenomics that chokes us. Will Ryan tell voters that? Of course not. He will role out the Phony Baloney Dog and Pony Show of how small government and deregulation of, for example, banking and environmental protection are so wonderful and overspending Democrats are so evil. It is the example of failed, cruel and abusive no taxes policy. All for me and nothing for anyone else. Then, surprise, there is lead in the water or sludge in Lake Superior. An ignorant populous buys it because it sounds so good BUT history shows their vision of government does not work. It does not work as this nation's no cure economic viral infections over decades from Harding to Bush have proven over and over and over again. The nation calls upon Democrats to pull it out of the economic sinkholes that deregulated laissez-faire capitalism from from Panics galore, to the Great Depression, the many Recessions and polluted waters it created.
The nation does the best when the middle classes do well and we all pay equitable taxes to run a nation. Government spending creates jobs which creates tax revenue and reduces the debt. Wars, by the way, are VERY expensive.
Gary Johnson cannot name a foreign nation's leader he likes but he wants to reduce government to the size of a Grover Norqustian postage stamp. Without regulation, free enterprise runs amok as it pollutes and poisons when it is economically advantageous for it to do so the rest of the nation be damned. So, okay Gary Johnson did not know he should have said Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau (my pick), Germany's Angela Merkel, Australia 's Tony Abbott, Turnbull, or King Abdullah of Jordan. We could forgive him that but we cannot forgive that the Republican moral compass is broken and if Drumpf if elected the nation will not be able to find its way out of a paper bag!
Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, could not name one single foreign leader when asked who his favorite was by the great Chris Matthews on MSNBC. I saw the segment and nearly choked on my lentil soup. The sad state of the American intellect is, to say the least, depressing. Besides interspersing 50 million "likes" in a sentence many cannot speak, write or think in complexity. Nor do many know the simplest facts about our government or of American history let alone world history. Simply stand on a corner in Anywhere, USA and ask the simplest questions about our system of government or of our historical past and one will be amazed at the blank stares one gets. How did it get to be this way? I do not know but we are populated by Gary Johnsons galore. Fortunately they are NOT running for president but he and another ignoramus named Trump are.
Weld should bow out to make sure Drumpf does not slide into the oval office. Johnson may be a nice guy who should be flipping burgers at McDonalds or working at Walmart but running for President of the United States I don't think so. Frankly, no Republican either in government or out has, in my opinion, the intellectual gravitas and the cajones to tell the truth about what they stand for. Republican Speaker Paul Ryan is, admittedly, a smart Republican but, truthfully, why is he in the this game? Answer: MONEY. He wants the top 1% to pay the least amount of taxes or even no taxes like Drumpf so he can make the most from them and he wants the lower classes to pay for the Capitol roof or the roof of his home over his head.
I'll go out on a limb here to say most Republicons could not care less about those who have the least but vote more goodies for those who have the most selling us trickle down fakenomics that chokes us. Will Ryan tell voters that? Of course not. He will role out the Phony Baloney Dog and Pony Show of how small government and deregulation of, for example, banking and environmental protection are so wonderful and overspending Democrats are so evil. It is the example of failed, cruel and abusive no taxes policy. All for me and nothing for anyone else. Then, surprise, there is lead in the water or sludge in Lake Superior. An ignorant populous buys it because it sounds so good BUT history shows their vision of government does not work. It does not work as this nation's no cure economic viral infections over decades from Harding to Bush have proven over and over and over again. The nation calls upon Democrats to pull it out of the economic sinkholes that deregulated laissez-faire capitalism from from Panics galore, to the Great Depression, the many Recessions and polluted waters it created.
The nation does the best when the middle classes do well and we all pay equitable taxes to run a nation. Government spending creates jobs which creates tax revenue and reduces the debt. Wars, by the way, are VERY expensive.
Gary Johnson cannot name a foreign nation's leader he likes but he wants to reduce government to the size of a Grover Norqustian postage stamp. Without regulation, free enterprise runs amok as it pollutes and poisons when it is economically advantageous for it to do so the rest of the nation be damned. So, okay Gary Johnson did not know he should have said Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau (my pick), Germany's Angela Merkel, Australia 's Tony Abbott, Turnbull, or King Abdullah of Jordan. We could forgive him that but we cannot forgive that the Republican moral compass is broken and if Drumpf if elected the nation will not be able to find its way out of a paper bag!
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
New York Times Brutally Subtweets Trump With Hitler Biography Review--NOT NOW NOT EVER
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nyt-hitler-review-trump_us_57ebecc9e4b024a52d2bf804?section=&
My comment: I hate, loathe and detest Trump. I cannot even look at the orange-faced orangutan without muting the TV every time he speaks because I cannot stand his ugly voice sniffing away. It nauseates me.
Having said all of that I am leery of all Hitler comparisons because there truthfully has not been a saturated with evil man like he yet. The difference in our nation is that no one will keep silent. If he so much as tried dragging someone off in a train to deportation he and his goons will face resistance.
I am Jewish. The worst thing about the Holocaust, in my opinion, is that Jews went to the slaughter pretty much without resistance. They had no guns. When they did resist like in the Warsaw Ghetto of Poland it proved effective because the Nazis did not expect it. Now, in our time in our Republic NO ONE but NO ONE will be carted off to the slaughter without receiving resistance times 10. It is a different time, a different place and a different people.
Moreover all this talk, in my opinion, will be moot as he is NOT going to take the presidency. People of color and Hispanics are enrolling to vote en masse and will NOT be denied. There are plenty of whites like me who stand with them side by side. It simply ain't gonna happen that this orangutan clown with his vile entourage will walk into the oval office... NEVER not now or not EVER!
My comment: I hate, loathe and detest Trump. I cannot even look at the orange-faced orangutan without muting the TV every time he speaks because I cannot stand his ugly voice sniffing away. It nauseates me.
Having said all of that I am leery of all Hitler comparisons because there truthfully has not been a saturated with evil man like he yet. The difference in our nation is that no one will keep silent. If he so much as tried dragging someone off in a train to deportation he and his goons will face resistance.
I am Jewish. The worst thing about the Holocaust, in my opinion, is that Jews went to the slaughter pretty much without resistance. They had no guns. When they did resist like in the Warsaw Ghetto of Poland it proved effective because the Nazis did not expect it. Now, in our time in our Republic NO ONE but NO ONE will be carted off to the slaughter without receiving resistance times 10. It is a different time, a different place and a different people.
Moreover all this talk, in my opinion, will be moot as he is NOT going to take the presidency. People of color and Hispanics are enrolling to vote en masse and will NOT be denied. There are plenty of whites like me who stand with them side by side. It simply ain't gonna happen that this orangutan clown with his vile entourage will walk into the oval office... NEVER not now or not EVER!
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
The Pot Calling the Kettle
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/donald-trump-alicia-machado…&
Trump Doubles Down On Attacking Former Miss Universe's Weight
"We had a real problem with her," “She was the worst we ever had,” he said. “She was the winner, and she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem." He called her Miss Housekeeping because she was Latina
Alicia Machado the former Miss Venezuela and Miss Universe is lovely but that is not the issue. The issue is Trump is a beast with no character! What kind of man would say in front of millions of viewers or really in front of anyone that "We had a real problem with her," “She was the worst we ever had,” he said. “She was the winner, and she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem." He called her Miss Housekeeping because she was Latina?
Donald Trump has absolutely ZERO humanity and ZERO empathy. I hate that man more than I have ever hated anyone in the political sphere and there have been a number of disgusting know nothing politicos that have trod the path of deplorables but he, without question, to me, is, perhaps, one of the worst!
I will stoop to his level and say he is one of the ugliest men inside and out I have seen with his comb-over bleached orange hair. Not only is he ugly but he is hugely overweight. How about someone telling that jerk that fact and see how he likes it? He is truly the pot calling the kettle fat!
Poor Melania Trump in four years she will be 50. God forbid she gain any weight or her skin shows signs of aging or what if she becomes disabled from the ravages of disease? The serial philanderer Trump will trade her in for someone younger, skinnier and a healthy woman in a nanosecond as if a woman were just a car one can exchange for a new model.
What do his statements say to those of us who do not measure up to his Miss Universe standards? Should we retire from life, suffer from self-hatred and commit suicide or should we kick sand in the bully's face, fight back and not let him get away with hurling insults that pierce our psychological armor?
Donald Trump, you are truly the pot calling the kettle fat. I believe in justice and fair play. Trump has done many unjust egregious things to the less powerful among us. He is the consummate bully whose insults land as broken glass piercing our hearts. Sometimes, I believe in revenge toward the bully so that the weakest among us who is hurt by him becomes the most powerful and helps those who have been stymied by life's tragedies. That is justice.
Matthew 16:26 says "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?" Donald, you have forfeited your soul a long time ago. We need, as an electorate, to make sure he does not, through the presidency of this nation, gain the whole world.
A quick debate review--off the top--BABE RUTH
I was SO very sick with a cold/sinus infection but I did everything I could to watch it all while sneezing, coughing and using up boxes of Kleenex. I did watch the whole thing and 1/2 hour of the analysis. I wanted to kick that rude lying excuse for a human Trump. He is so sickening, so awful, so utterly VILE and a pathological liar. I knew Hillary had won big.
Hillary was EVERYTHING she should be. Most of all she was prepared while Trump wasted the day. She looked beautiful, strong, smiling and utterly put together. It was like watching Babe Ruth in comparison to youth little league. I was SO happy. I had the worst absolute worst rhino virus of my life but if I was on my death bed I would not have missed it.
He is the worst piece of humanity to ever sadly cross our political paths. The reviews are coming in very good for her I think. She was SO prepared, the consummate professional and when he ever said she did not have the stamina the audience even laughed -- 12 hours in front of the Benghazi Committee, travel to 126 countries, Secretary of State she helped to make major agreements that were solid agreements, had two terms in the Senate yeah right she had no stamina. He is an IDIOT!
Trump was ugly and the split screen did him NO justice. His facial expressions were off putting. The guy never smiled--never. He sounded nervous with a very dry mouth drinking water profusely and the lies kept piling up. Oh by the way what is with that sniff? He sounded at times like he needed an oxygen mask. Okay, I know it's a low blow but since he is the king of the low blows he deserves it.
Last I saw in the middle of the debate it was Trump 11 lies and Hillary 0. I rest my case.
Monday, September 26, 2016
A Day at the Office
The opinion by Doug Bandow at the link below is excellent in its brevity but wise in its scope. It makes a compelling case in precise fashion against eternal war waged by the US. I urge you to read it in view of our upcoming election and US policies of continual war and the Wharton Business School fantastic Trump's risk of beginning a nuclear one. My comments are below the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/clinton-and-trump-call-yo_b_12172340.html?
Comment
It is truly amazing the nations we have hit and/or invaded in a century or more of invasive war. Post WWII we have waged permanent war all around the globe most of which were unsuccessful and all to advance US interests and, oh yes, fed to us through the faux line of democratizing and freeing the nations we invade.
Yes, every nation state has interests but our invasions are exceptional -- what else for an exceptional nation, perpetual and never ending. Often it does not win friends nor influence people. Our geographical blessing has kept us free from invasion but has not saved us from nation state condemnation and rage of those we attack. People get angry when you drop bombs on their heads and kill those attending a wedding, family reception, friends that they love and not to be forgotten the innocent children who do not know the why of any of it or what collateral damage means.
60 Minutes last evening showed a segment on the growing threat of nuclear war especially between Putin's Russia and us. It gave us a snapshot of our nuclear arsenal and the planes that will drop the nuclear bombs. It was chilling enough to freeze the toes off a polar bear. Those interviewed talked about it like they were making a ham sandwich or taking you through a tour of a Fritos factory. It was, indeed, one of the most frightening 60 minute segments I have watched.
Oh yes, Russia is prepared to drop a nuke and we are surely prepared to drop one on them or two or three. Whatever we have, of course, Russia has more encouraging our military industrial complex to salivate and prompt a desire to add more to our arsenal making those who own those companies very very very rich;1% rich. Ho hum, just another day at the office.
The cavalier attitude of both nations to fight a nuclear war albeit a small one was bone chilling frightening. So let's keep up never ending war and see who will be first to drop the bomb and begin a cavalcade of mutual and global destruction. If climate change does not kill you then nukes surely will!
Sure, elect Donald Drumpf who knows nothing about anything and see how fast he can jet propel the globe into annihilative nuclear war. Since he asks so many questions about the nukes he knows nothing about one can almost be assured if, god forbid, he is elected to the presidency he will love to try a few out! You know, like a new car. Simply take it out for a spin and while he is at it take the planet and us out with it What a guy!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/clinton-and-trump-call-yo_b_12172340.html?
Comment
It is truly amazing the nations we have hit and/or invaded in a century or more of invasive war. Post WWII we have waged permanent war all around the globe most of which were unsuccessful and all to advance US interests and, oh yes, fed to us through the faux line of democratizing and freeing the nations we invade.
Yes, every nation state has interests but our invasions are exceptional -- what else for an exceptional nation, perpetual and never ending. Often it does not win friends nor influence people. Our geographical blessing has kept us free from invasion but has not saved us from nation state condemnation and rage of those we attack. People get angry when you drop bombs on their heads and kill those attending a wedding, family reception, friends that they love and not to be forgotten the innocent children who do not know the why of any of it or what collateral damage means.
60 Minutes last evening showed a segment on the growing threat of nuclear war especially between Putin's Russia and us. It gave us a snapshot of our nuclear arsenal and the planes that will drop the nuclear bombs. It was chilling enough to freeze the toes off a polar bear. Those interviewed talked about it like they were making a ham sandwich or taking you through a tour of a Fritos factory. It was, indeed, one of the most frightening 60 minute segments I have watched.
Oh yes, Russia is prepared to drop a nuke and we are surely prepared to drop one on them or two or three. Whatever we have, of course, Russia has more encouraging our military industrial complex to salivate and prompt a desire to add more to our arsenal making those who own those companies very very very rich;1% rich. Ho hum, just another day at the office.
The cavalier attitude of both nations to fight a nuclear war albeit a small one was bone chilling frightening. So let's keep up never ending war and see who will be first to drop the bomb and begin a cavalcade of mutual and global destruction. If climate change does not kill you then nukes surely will!
Sure, elect Donald Drumpf who knows nothing about anything and see how fast he can jet propel the globe into annihilative nuclear war. Since he asks so many questions about the nukes he knows nothing about one can almost be assured if, god forbid, he is elected to the presidency he will love to try a few out! You know, like a new car. Simply take it out for a spin and while he is at it take the planet and us out with it What a guy!
Sunday, September 25, 2016
For Whom to vote or not to vote that is the question
It is beyond far beyond my comprehension how anyone who calls themselves human with a human big brain cannot see the CON in this Republican con man, Donald Trump. His corruption is so obvious if one is following the campaign it could hit one in one's face.
Hillary's emails pale by comparison to Trump's incessant lying, Foundation illegalities taking allegedly charitable money and pumping it in to personal purchases, Trump Corporation's foreign megga conflicts of interest vis a vie China, Russia and other hostile nation states. Add to it the fact that attorneys general will go after Trump for perjury with respect to the Jeb Bush attempted bribe to make Florida casino land. Bush did NOT bite and Trump got mad, had his henchman working on it but fell flat. Jeb Bush told the 100% truth on the Republican debate stage. Trump either flat out lied to Republicans in the primary debate or perjured himself in a deposition about it. Oh yes, one more thing that $20,000 alleged buck bribe to Florida Attorney General Bondi for her NOT to pursue the multiparty lawsuit against the allegedly fraudulent Trump University.
Think on the many blue collar workers who said they did not get paid for work on Trump's buildings and the plagiarism and alleged fraud of Trump Institute. It is mind exploding how anyone on planet earth USA would vote for such a liar, con man and fool. Think on the many authors and noteworthy persons who know him and have worked with him like the ghost writer of Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," Tony Schwartz, in his lengthy interview with the New Yorker said: "I helped to paint Trump as a vastly more appealing human being than he actually is. And I have no pride about that. ... I did it for the money. It's certainly weighed on me over the years. "Now, since he's ... in a position to potentially become president, it makes my decision back then look very different than it did at the time." "One of the chief things I'm concerned about is the limits of his attention span, which are as severe as any person I think I've ever met," Schwartz says. "No matter what question I asked, he would become impatient with it pretty quickly, and literally, from the very first time I sat down to start interviewing him, after about 10 or 15 minutes, he said, 'You know, I don't really wanna talk about this stuff, I'm not interested in it, I mean it's over, it's the past, I'm done with it, what else have you got?' "
Then there is what David Cay Johnson writes in his book "The Making of Trump." Johnson is an expert in tax law and has studied Trump for 30 years. He has little good to say and a lot of bad.
Finally, Trump's ever present taxes which would tell so much but he refuses to reveal them. An audit makes no difference he still could release them or at least release other tax returns from years where his taxes were final. If they proved him right he would reveal them but they do not and releasing them would nail him as the liar he is. He paid little to no taxes and made few charitable contributions of worth. I rest my case. For whom to vote? That's easy. Without question it should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Hillary's emails pale by comparison to Trump's incessant lying, Foundation illegalities taking allegedly charitable money and pumping it in to personal purchases, Trump Corporation's foreign megga conflicts of interest vis a vie China, Russia and other hostile nation states. Add to it the fact that attorneys general will go after Trump for perjury with respect to the Jeb Bush attempted bribe to make Florida casino land. Bush did NOT bite and Trump got mad, had his henchman working on it but fell flat. Jeb Bush told the 100% truth on the Republican debate stage. Trump either flat out lied to Republicans in the primary debate or perjured himself in a deposition about it. Oh yes, one more thing that $20,000 alleged buck bribe to Florida Attorney General Bondi for her NOT to pursue the multiparty lawsuit against the allegedly fraudulent Trump University.
Think on the many blue collar workers who said they did not get paid for work on Trump's buildings and the plagiarism and alleged fraud of Trump Institute. It is mind exploding how anyone on planet earth USA would vote for such a liar, con man and fool. Think on the many authors and noteworthy persons who know him and have worked with him like the ghost writer of Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," Tony Schwartz, in his lengthy interview with the New Yorker said: "I helped to paint Trump as a vastly more appealing human being than he actually is. And I have no pride about that. ... I did it for the money. It's certainly weighed on me over the years. "Now, since he's ... in a position to potentially become president, it makes my decision back then look very different than it did at the time." "One of the chief things I'm concerned about is the limits of his attention span, which are as severe as any person I think I've ever met," Schwartz says. "No matter what question I asked, he would become impatient with it pretty quickly, and literally, from the very first time I sat down to start interviewing him, after about 10 or 15 minutes, he said, 'You know, I don't really wanna talk about this stuff, I'm not interested in it, I mean it's over, it's the past, I'm done with it, what else have you got?' "
Then there is what David Cay Johnson writes in his book "The Making of Trump." Johnson is an expert in tax law and has studied Trump for 30 years. He has little good to say and a lot of bad.
Finally, Trump's ever present taxes which would tell so much but he refuses to reveal them. An audit makes no difference he still could release them or at least release other tax returns from years where his taxes were final. If they proved him right he would reveal them but they do not and releasing them would nail him as the liar he is. He paid little to no taxes and made few charitable contributions of worth. I rest my case. For whom to vote? That's easy. Without question it should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Road Ahead -- by the 100 year old Kirk Douglas
It is short and beautiful essay and the essence of who I hope we are!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-road-ahead_us_57e03be4e4b08cb1409749f2
Friday, September 23, 2016
What a President can do -- Thoughts on my good news--my shadow
I am rethinking my ebullience of
last night after listening to Rachel Maddow’s very hopeful unique summary of
election events. I begin to reflect and
the pessimism that has a front seat on my shoulder takes over the view. I begin to think I will look less than analytically
stellar if Republicans mount an effort on election day and God forbid win. The correctness of
my analytics means nothing but all of our futures do, indeed, mean something.
Before
Rachel’s show last night I listened to WGBH which had a segment that discussed
what would happen in a Trump presidency.
The damage that low life could do to our social fabric is heart
stopping. My heart sank. Trump, if elected, could do IMMENSE harm to
all the positive things those who, over centuries, were dedicated. Many gave their lives so justice could prevail.
All of the positive social change can be overturned in a near nanosecond
by a narcissistic always mendacious blob of humanity Trump who could occupy the
most powerful position in the world – the American presidency.
What could a
president Trump do especially if he carries a Republican Congress with him and
even if he doesn’t? Answer: TONS. Some things include the obliteration of the nuclear
deal with Iran which would allow Iran to immediately begin building nukes stopped
under the agreement. Iran directly has
stated just that. A president Trump
could change the face of SCOTUS backwards into prior centuries stopping a woman
from controlling her own body or gaining equal pay for equal work, nullify the world's climate change agreement, eradicating
the Affordable Care Act placing 20 million without health insurance, lowering an
already painfully low minimum wage, an immigration round up of 11 million human
beings many of whom built law abiding lives over decades having children born
here who are Constitutionally citizens,
building a wall costing billions to keep humanity out, and not allowing Muslims
to immigrate or Syrian and other Muslim refugees in at all. The policy on Muslims is particularly odious
since this nation began an Iraq War that resulted in the breakup of an entire
Middle East. The mayhem the Bush
presidency created by that war Trump SAID he was for and the horrific Syrian
Civil War we see today are ramifications of it.
We will close the doors to those people in desperate life and death situations
which in large part were created by our own malevolent war based on lies.
Moreover, The
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (a truly bipartisan group) came out
with their report saying Trump's revised economic plan would add $5.3 TRILLION
to our debt (his original program would have added more than $11 trillion),
while HRC will add only an additional 200 billion dollars to the budget and get
more bang for the buck because most of Hillary’s
increased spending will be paid for by higher taxes on the rich.
Trump has
already profited more than $8 million by charging expenses to his
campaign. He collects rent from
having his national HQ in the Trump Tower, charging for his plane and putting up
his entourage at Trump hotels. Yes, he
is the essence of unethical conduct and also the king of self-dealers. Self-dealing using other people’s money
gleaned from one’s own supposedly charitable foundation to pay one’s own bills is
illegal and Trump has done that.
If one looks
at it semi rationally (well I try) the Republican Party is in a shambles. It is split right down the middle and then
some. Many so called "establishment”
Republicans with all the power they enjoy will not vote for the crackpot
Trump and some will even vote Democratic. The Never Trumps meant exactly
that – Never Trump.
Hispanics by
Trump’s vow to round them up and persons of color who are witnessing an attempt
to shoot them down guilty or not are realizing hope resides only within the Democratic
Party. Third parties, in our time, are NOT
the vehicle to solidify social changes that have been earned over centuries through
blood, sweat and plenty of tears. I am
hoping what happened in Charlotte, North Carolina and Tulsa, Oklahoma will bring
out the black vote even though Obama is not on the ballot as their future is at
stake. Hillary Rodham Clinton will
expand human rights not curtail them and will ensure Obama’s legacy and not
obliterate it.
Yes, the
president can do immense damage to humanity hence my happy volcanic eruption
when I heard a positive assessment for Hillary. I
hope the happiness lasts and that shadow which sits on my shoulder does not
perfect a hostile takeover.
GET OUT THE
DEMOCRATIC VOTE!
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Some good news!
SOME VERY GOOD EARLY POLLING DATA OUT OF SWING STATE OF NORTH
CAROLINA. IF YOU TAPE RACHEL MADDOW SHE WILL EXPLAIN OR GOOGLE THE
RACHEL MADDOW
SHOW FROM TONIGHT. TRUMP ON TRACK TO LOSE AND LOSE BADLY!!!! MOST
IMPORTANTLY GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE VOTE, AND MOST ESPECIALLY
THE HISPANIC AND AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTE AND STILL
PRAY BECAUSE THIS IS MERELY A SNAP SHOT BY NBC NEWS PARTNERED WITH
ANOTHER ENTITY THAT TRACKS EARLY POLLS.
THIS IS THE
FIRST GOOD NEWS I HAVE HEARD AND I AM SAVORING IT BUT IT IS NOT A DONE
DEAL BY A LONG SHOT. WHAT IT SHOWS THOUGH IS THAT LIKE ROMNEY WHO LOST
THE HISPANIC VOTE BY A LOT TRUMP IS POISED TO LOSE IT BY MORE AND THAT
MAY i SAY MAY SPELL DOOM FOR THE WORST MOST SICKENING, RACIST BEAST
CANDIDATE TO EVER HAVE STAR CROSSED OUR PATHS. IF HE LOSES MAY HE ROT
IN TRUMP TOWER AND FILE FOR COMPLETE BANKRUPTCY. HE'S GOOD AT THAT. HE
DOES IT ALL THE TIME. HE LIES EVEN BETTER. THIS CRETAN I PREDICT NOW
IS GOING DOWN. MAY HE ROT IN HELL!
"The most thorough, profound and moving defense of Hillary Clinton I have ever seen"
It's long but it's worth the read and surely reinforces why
I'M WITH HER!
http://www.dailykos.com/…/-The-most-thorough-profound-and-m…
I'M WITH HER!
http://www.dailykos.com/…/-The-most-thorough-profound-and-m…
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Holocaust II -- How many Trump wants to kick out -- 11 Million human beings--See my thoughts below the pic
My thoughts are below the pic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
11.1 million, according to the most recent estimate.
My thoughts:
Forget all the stats and the rationale for this Nazi-like policy Trumpet thinks will go so swimmingly. Just how is one going to get 11 million rounded up and out of the country without those people you are doing that to AND I might add millions of others who support their cause (like I do) and think this is the most inhumane Nazi-like policy since the round up of Jews of Europe to the camps, resisting it. The estimate of Jews who died in Europe during that fateful time is now 11 million and NOT 6. 6 is an understatement. It is a HUGE amount of humanity.
For Germans of that era to round up all the Jews of Europe it took a MASSIVE attempt with a complicity of, as the historian Daniel Goldhagen put it, "Hitler's willing executioners." In other words not only must you get all that humanity rounded up you must have the let's call them the nativists of this nation to assist in the roundup.
Thank God I believe in this nation people ARE, as Anne Frank put it, basically good. It will be if attempted a blood bath not only of so called undocumented workers who will not go quietly into the night but those with a smidgen of morality who say NO to it as well.
I suspect Christian churches even many Fundamentalist Christians en masse will say NO as will most especially Jews and other minorities like Muslims, Hispanics, native Americans and many others in this nation who know what a round up of human beings means, have a hint of humanity and will rise up. There WILL be violence of that one can be assured that is IF Trumpet wins which I believe he will not because in the final analysis the rationality and humanity of the American people will, I surely hope, prevail. A people who fought a World War with hundreds of thousands of Americans dead will NOT enact Nazi-like policy and have that war mean nothing.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Think Again
If one thinks it does not matter who is elected president I would advise them to think again.
Historically review events and learn what one man can do to the nation and to the world. He/she (I will use the generic he) can plunge us both into war or he can plunge the nation and the world into a negotiated peace. The latter, of course, is much more difficult. It is easy to drop bombs to resolve disputes as this nation has dropped many of them but it is much harder to pick up the pieces after the bombs have dropped. As Colin Powell famously said of Iraq "If you break it you own it." The president can, through his advisors, negotiate to avoid the possibility of war or even, perish the thought, nuclear war and through his advisors can avoid all the destruction, mayhem and death war inevitably brings but it is the Commander-in-Chief--the President--who will make the final decision since Congress has not done its Constitutional duty in a very long time. War can last, as Iraq II surely shows, and it can last a very long time costing thousands of lives and trillions in treasure.
The profound effect the American presidency has on all of mankind is, in our common era and before, staggering. The selection of a president is serious, perhaps, even the most serious thing one can do in one's lifetime because it is life bestowing and/or it is a life taking choice. It can mean the life and death of you, your children, your grandchildren and beyond. It is why you must make altogether sure that the president selected can calmly and coolly occupy an office not only able to take that 3:00 a.m. phone call but to take all calls in an office that does not lend itself to calmness and serenity. The office of the American presidency has by its very nature life and death global consequences.
Historical examples: Think on World War II. Think on the volcanic destruction of it, the refugees, the death camps, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs dropped and ask what if FDR had not made the choices he did and Germany won that war? I, a Jew, would not be writing this today. All of Europe and perhaps even you would be marching to totalitarian jackboots. What if a North Korea threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on us today? What would it take for the president to act calmly if such an event threatened? Jack Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis knew how close this nation came to nuclear war. It took a man who was willing to act against the advice of his generals to avoid the potential catastrophe. We live today because of the coolness of Jack Kennedy. I can assure you Donald J. Trump is NO Jack Kennedy but the coolness, steadiness and vast foreign policy experience of Hillary Clinton says that she is. War and nuclear war is not a Trump Tower or golf course business deal nor will it conform to the contents of Trump's ghost written book "The Art of the Deal." War and the avoidance of war is serious business for those who are experienced at that business.
Iraq II has been assessed by some foreign policy experts to be the worst foreign policy blunder in US history made by a president "elected" under questionable circumstances who had neither the knowledge nor the savvy and skill to wage such a war after the destruction of the World Trade Center. He waged war, dropped thousands of tonnage of bombs on a nation that did nothing to us, created civil war in that country, created Al Qaeda in Iraq never there before which created its offshoot ISIS. War continues to this day as our 13 year slog is not over yet. Iraq II fractured a Middle East creating never ending civil war and changed the course of global history. It created the Middle East refugees we encounter today and this nation still cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together again if it ever will. The consequences of Iraq have been enormous. We have one candidate, Trump, who is trigger finger happy and wants to shoot from the hip to easily (he thinks) obliterate the problem. That will never happen because our nation is not alone in this fight and has angered many in that Middle East arena causing a cacophony of complexity. This nation will NEVER obliterate the problem certainly not by, god forbid, the naivete of a Trump presidency.
When you vote for president and before you pull the lever for a thin skinned con and bombastic bully that is named Trump choose wisely by choosing the most experienced, the most competent, the most calm and collected person for that office. I believe there can be no doubt your choice should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
If you think it matters not who one votes into the office of the American presidency think again. The life you save may truly be your own.
Historically review events and learn what one man can do to the nation and to the world. He/she (I will use the generic he) can plunge us both into war or he can plunge the nation and the world into a negotiated peace. The latter, of course, is much more difficult. It is easy to drop bombs to resolve disputes as this nation has dropped many of them but it is much harder to pick up the pieces after the bombs have dropped. As Colin Powell famously said of Iraq "If you break it you own it." The president can, through his advisors, negotiate to avoid the possibility of war or even, perish the thought, nuclear war and through his advisors can avoid all the destruction, mayhem and death war inevitably brings but it is the Commander-in-Chief--the President--who will make the final decision since Congress has not done its Constitutional duty in a very long time. War can last, as Iraq II surely shows, and it can last a very long time costing thousands of lives and trillions in treasure.
The profound effect the American presidency has on all of mankind is, in our common era and before, staggering. The selection of a president is serious, perhaps, even the most serious thing one can do in one's lifetime because it is life bestowing and/or it is a life taking choice. It can mean the life and death of you, your children, your grandchildren and beyond. It is why you must make altogether sure that the president selected can calmly and coolly occupy an office not only able to take that 3:00 a.m. phone call but to take all calls in an office that does not lend itself to calmness and serenity. The office of the American presidency has by its very nature life and death global consequences.
Historical examples: Think on World War II. Think on the volcanic destruction of it, the refugees, the death camps, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs dropped and ask what if FDR had not made the choices he did and Germany won that war? I, a Jew, would not be writing this today. All of Europe and perhaps even you would be marching to totalitarian jackboots. What if a North Korea threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on us today? What would it take for the president to act calmly if such an event threatened? Jack Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis knew how close this nation came to nuclear war. It took a man who was willing to act against the advice of his generals to avoid the potential catastrophe. We live today because of the coolness of Jack Kennedy. I can assure you Donald J. Trump is NO Jack Kennedy but the coolness, steadiness and vast foreign policy experience of Hillary Clinton says that she is. War and nuclear war is not a Trump Tower or golf course business deal nor will it conform to the contents of Trump's ghost written book "The Art of the Deal." War and the avoidance of war is serious business for those who are experienced at that business.
Iraq II has been assessed by some foreign policy experts to be the worst foreign policy blunder in US history made by a president "elected" under questionable circumstances who had neither the knowledge nor the savvy and skill to wage such a war after the destruction of the World Trade Center. He waged war, dropped thousands of tonnage of bombs on a nation that did nothing to us, created civil war in that country, created Al Qaeda in Iraq never there before which created its offshoot ISIS. War continues to this day as our 13 year slog is not over yet. Iraq II fractured a Middle East creating never ending civil war and changed the course of global history. It created the Middle East refugees we encounter today and this nation still cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together again if it ever will. The consequences of Iraq have been enormous. We have one candidate, Trump, who is trigger finger happy and wants to shoot from the hip to easily (he thinks) obliterate the problem. That will never happen because our nation is not alone in this fight and has angered many in that Middle East arena causing a cacophony of complexity. This nation will NEVER obliterate the problem certainly not by, god forbid, the naivete of a Trump presidency.
When you vote for president and before you pull the lever for a thin skinned con and bombastic bully that is named Trump choose wisely by choosing the most experienced, the most competent, the most calm and collected person for that office. I believe there can be no doubt your choice should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
If you think it matters not who one votes into the office of the American presidency think again. The life you save may truly be your own.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Profiling Donald Trump -- Who are we?
The malevolent Trump advocates profiling. Would YOU like to be profiled? Would you want your children to be profiled? Would I want to be profiled because I may, for example, look Middle Eastern or wear a hijab, the head covering for some Muslim women.
If one could time travel back to the era of WWII, I aver Trump would himself be one to be profiled as he looks so German and his right wing views are so extreme. He, like the American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh of that time, may have cheered what was happening in Germany and like Trump does now wanted to keep America First. I think he could have been followed during that dangerous time. How would he have liked it? The state can profile anyone even one who has done nothing wrong.
Diversity is our strength. The danger, and our Founders knew it, is the power of the state to do nearly anything it wants no matter how intimidating or brutal and to do so on a whim albeit profiling someone if the state thinks that someone looks dangerous. The state has that power. Our Founders' goal in constructing our republic, I think, was to restrain the power of the state and to empower the individual with certain rights that put a check on the state as to what it can or cannot do to deem and detain someone who may be thought to dangerous or be guilty of a crime he may not have committed. The worry is for the state to be able to apprehend and do whatever it wants because it has the power to use force against those who may and most especially MAY NOT be guilty of anything simply because the state can.
The danger here is rounding up those who are guilty of no crime merely because they look like they could be or are of a race, religion and culture that is not accepted by the majority. Charging, punishing and jailing those who have committed no crime is the greatest fear. THAT is our challenge and that is what some groups face merely because they were born into a certain group that is different from the majority or which the majority does not approve. We must NOT empower the state to do this no matter how imperiled the time in which we live. We must obey those Constitutional civil liberties our Founders emblazoned into our national holy grail. These rights are accorded to each individual even when it is the most difficult to observe those rights.
One cannot help those ascribed statuses into which one was born and may give him great disadvantage because the majority can impugn to him or her apriori guilt with no evidence and therefore no proof. The first 10 Amendments to our Constitution or the Bill of Rights are our greatest strength. Let us not lose that as Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly said in his First Inaugural Address because "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes ... ." Even Donald Trump deserves those rights. Profiling anyone even Donald Trump and even if another democratic nation does it should be verboten even in our dangerous time lest we lose the essence of who we are.
If one could time travel back to the era of WWII, I aver Trump would himself be one to be profiled as he looks so German and his right wing views are so extreme. He, like the American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh of that time, may have cheered what was happening in Germany and like Trump does now wanted to keep America First. I think he could have been followed during that dangerous time. How would he have liked it? The state can profile anyone even one who has done nothing wrong.
Diversity is our strength. The danger, and our Founders knew it, is the power of the state to do nearly anything it wants no matter how intimidating or brutal and to do so on a whim albeit profiling someone if the state thinks that someone looks dangerous. The state has that power. Our Founders' goal in constructing our republic, I think, was to restrain the power of the state and to empower the individual with certain rights that put a check on the state as to what it can or cannot do to deem and detain someone who may be thought to dangerous or be guilty of a crime he may not have committed. The worry is for the state to be able to apprehend and do whatever it wants because it has the power to use force against those who may and most especially MAY NOT be guilty of anything simply because the state can.
The danger here is rounding up those who are guilty of no crime merely because they look like they could be or are of a race, religion and culture that is not accepted by the majority. Charging, punishing and jailing those who have committed no crime is the greatest fear. THAT is our challenge and that is what some groups face merely because they were born into a certain group that is different from the majority or which the majority does not approve. We must NOT empower the state to do this no matter how imperiled the time in which we live. We must obey those Constitutional civil liberties our Founders emblazoned into our national holy grail. These rights are accorded to each individual even when it is the most difficult to observe those rights.
One cannot help those ascribed statuses into which one was born and may give him great disadvantage because the majority can impugn to him or her apriori guilt with no evidence and therefore no proof. The first 10 Amendments to our Constitution or the Bill of Rights are our greatest strength. Let us not lose that as Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly said in his First Inaugural Address because "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes ... ." Even Donald Trump deserves those rights. Profiling anyone even Donald Trump and even if another democratic nation does it should be verboten even in our dangerous time lest we lose the essence of who we are.
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