Orwell warned us, but here we are. Surveillance baptized as patriotism, cruelty disguised as law, and truth waterboarded until it confesses to lies. Blessed be the ones who refuse the script and remember what freedom really means.
AND some stood-up during the first go-round, because we knew what was going to happen to Roe. We knew he was a criminal. We knew what he had done to women.
Now men know what he will do to them and their ability to afford a home, health care, education, and a family. Plenty of men at the No Kings.
Every day and in every way Trump and his followers are architypal tyrants and our only hope is to expand our sphere of influence. Steve Bannon, "the pro-Trump podcaster and convicted fraudster who briefly served as President Trump’s White House chief strategist in his first term, publicly threw his support behind the president’s talk of seeking a third term, in defiance of a constitutionally mandated two-term limit.
"In an interview with The Economist, Mr. Bannon vaguely asserted that there was “a plan” to circumvent the 22nd Amendment, which states that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice,” regardless of whether the terms are consecutive. He also suggested that he was part of a team developing that plan."
Trumpepstein may be the vehicle to bring Congressional Republicans to their senses. Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) tweeted about an "Epstein bomb" about to drop; over 100 Republican members might "jailbreak" from Trump.
Thanks Daniel. Saw that interview too. People need to watch it.
Bannon said they created an entrepreneurial Capitalism paradise for citizens, victory begets victory for them, and they are never going to stop. All delusion. He believes that bullsh*t, but the second he started talking about the third term, he started lying.
He absolutely knows how iffy the Psycho is mentally, physically, and politically.
So the ability to defend America from Der Fuhrer Trump depends on a couple of Republicans in congress who are already terrified of and controlled by Trump.
If they haven't broken from him by now, what makes any one think that they will break from him over Epstein files or anything.?
If not afraid for their careers and incomer they are afraid for the safety of themselves and their families, as MAGA has proven to be extremely violent, haven't they?
No the solution is in our hands, Oct 18th was a start, now it has to beginin earnest, a national intifida, general strike, boy cott, denial of labor, hit the powers that be where it hurts, the pocket book,. It is effective the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel did it, not only with Paramount, but with Nexstar and Sinclair.
Yes Elizabeth but the very idea makes a lot of people cringe, because it is risky and someone will get hurt. We are soft and conditioned. A you go first society.
We are a victim, perpetuated by the powers that be,of the myth of non violence.
They hold up the myth that Ghandi convinced the Brits to leave India, but it wasn't Ghandi, the PTB loves non violence, it is a pressure relief valve.
Bose created the India Legion which served alongside the Wehrmacht and he Subhas Chandra Bose met Adolf Hitler in May 1942 in Berlin. Bose sought assistance from the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—in his fight for India's independence from British rule.
and the Indian National Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Army. The Indian National Army fought alongside the Japanese to liberate India from the Brits, Most died in combat, the rest were hung as traitors.
But combined their memory (or ghosts) and their anti colonial fervor scared the Brits out of India, not Ghandi.
Swalwell is one of them doing yeoman work, one of the fewm the proud.
Don't take me personally, except that I object to your attempt to put us to sleep, a state of somnolence
You aren't doing it on purpose, it is your nature, or as Voltaire would have it, your character, and also your occupational background and training.
I do not think that you are really in touch with reality, and believe in the institutions,the very ones that Trump is destroying and has destroyed.
I analogize you to the Pied Piper of Hamlin, only he was doing it on purpose, while with you it is your training and experience.
Here is why I consider the hope that your friends are pushing is dangerous.
Hope is an anesthetic, it can be a motivator, but hoping that the pain will end, that a savior will arrive to save the day, is forlorn hope and dangerous.
Hoping that a Republican congressman will bolt his party and incur Trump's wrath, is a vain hope, a forlorn hope.
Hoping that a congress critter that takes up with you on one issue, is foolish and a forlorn hope, as you well know that jumping the fence means the end of their career and possibly dangerous to self and family..
MAGA goes after their enemies. As a couple of legislators in Minnesota sadly discovered and as Gretchen Whitmer discovered. There is an uptick in personal security business since Trump. What would happen to any Republican that jumped fence?
You are left with elections. Good luck with that, Redistricting is in the Republican favor, unless there is a miracle and a majority of Republican voters,are disgusted and vote Democrat. There is voter caging, voter suppression laws, messing with ballot boxes, mail in votes, and Dominion voting machines just sold to a GOP official who is an associate of Ed Martin., then there are armed poll watchers,in red States with a high percentage of black voters.
And it is intifada Daniel not infatata. The word means uprising, and I understand that the very word will evoke a reaction from those that have a particular affection and concern for the state of Israel.
Mamdani called for a global uprising (intifada) and AIPAC and the ADL have gone ballistic, and pouring money into the NYC campaign to defeat him.
"It's gonna get worse."-Dr. John Gartner. IMHO, TRump had a mild stroke in September, and they recently did brain scans at Walter Reed to make sure it was safe for him to fly. Someone knows. Isn't it ironic that ethics are protecting him?
I don't know how it can be done but somehow 'we the people' have to stop this! Back in the day when my daughter was in high school she had to read Orwell for a book report. She has always been hypersensitive so she asked me to read it for her. I remember it to this day, something I can never forget. Then I read "Atlas Shrugged" fairly recently because the right wing pod caster kept talking about it. One thousand pages of gobbled y-gook but don't think it can't happen. I fear that is why we are where we are today. We watch and we listen and we consider it entertainment, like "The Housemaid" which I could only struggle about three-quarters of because by then I was so very soul-sick I couldn't go further. People that is NOT entertainment, that is evil creeping into our lives. I think we have to recognize it as that, compare it to what is happening and what is being said today and if you are like me, read it and weep but don't stop there. You can't stop there. At 78 years old with a history of 40 years being an RN and taking care of people, finding resources, holding hands as they died, helping physicians and, yes, loving it but then when I came home to my hometown, a small town of less than 1000 souls, I was hated because I am a blue dot in an ocean of red. No one wants to help me anymore, no one wants to talk to me anymore and that includes my relatives. One of the reasons is because I don't dance around them, I can't. It started with the pandemic, which I knew having been a nurse, could devastate our largely older community. I masked, I isolated, I got vaccinated and I told them if they didn't fine, just stay away from me...mostly they did and many times they died but they still don't trust me even though I told the truth. I will never tell anything but Truth but I will tell it no matter the cost.
Stay blue, stay angry, stay strong, stay bonded with others who believe in the Truth.
Yours is the second heart-breaking nursing story I have heard about the pandemic, Sydney.
I live in a beautiful vacation area and a nurse told me she had driven non-stop to get here to clear her head and soul. The patients she was taking care of were dying from covid while they were denying that it exists. She just wanted to love and care for them, but couldn't stop resenting them.
A sense of purpose and commitment is vital. Much thanks for sharing.
It is scary when it appears that there is no more functioning GOP, simply an echo of its Supreme Leader, willingly surrendering its role under the Constitution without even a whimper.
And Venezuela, and California, and Colombia, and Chicago, and Gaza, and the West Bank, and New York City, and Democrats, and the East Wing, and Black people, and Brown people, and gay people, and atheists, and environmentalists, and SPLC, and journalists, and everyone and everything not explicitly allegiant to the GOP and their rodeo protection athlete, Donald J Trump.
My take on Trump's Ministry of Mayhem is that it is a non-official but operable agency meant to offer flashy and horrifying theater, performances, meant to distract from his true agenda. It is like a circus sideshow full of grotesque freaks meant to keep people's attention while the bloodbath is being prepared for the main arena, i.e., the entire country. I wrote "The ballroom, the threatening all caps posts, the blowing up men in boats, all are sideshows to the Trump damnatio ad bestias planned for main arena. This is the entire country." I asked "How many of us will end up like Ignatius of Antioch?" I suggested that if Trump has his way it could be all of us Read here: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/the-ballroom-the-threatening-all
I watched the movie "2073" for the year 2073. It was a part fiction, part non fiction movie. The film illustrated a futuristic, biometrics surveillance police state where citizens lived either in object poverty in subterranean societies or in complete luxury high rise apartments in the year 2073. If the poor people were caught by the police, they were arrested interrogated or worse. The fictional future scenes were interspersed with non fictional stories about present day tyrants, despots and dictators such as; Victor Orban and China's enslavement of the Uyghurs. Interestingly, one of the futuristic scenes shows a subterranean girl walking above ground and you see a large sign on a building above her that says "PALANTIR" Is this art imitating life or life imitating art, only time will tell...clearly Orwellian
To counter future bogus federal legal actions, every state & local law-enforcement officer should publicly state, "Federal officers must be permitted to conduct lawful activities. However, unlawful activities will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
Now it's the Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which in itself is a cabal of Federally funded terrorist organizations. At the insistence of our Glorious King, the Omniscient and Serene etc, etc, etc... these organizations operate above the law with impunity. Their mandate operates outside of, and is impervious to, the limitations imposed by the Constitution. The masks make it clear that their thugs are America's secret police, that the law flows relentlessly downhill, without checks or balances. For many, citizens aren't even afforded the Star Chamber: why bother when a criterion for warrantless arrest and extrajudicial conviction is skin color. We have now reached that threshold for creating a dictatorship where speaking out against a "government" is necessarily a crime and arrest the admission of culpability. Stalin at least had show trials.
Osama bin Laden wanted to lay waste to the United States. It seems he succeeded.
Just taught some people that it starts with what is called the "fusion centers" gathering info and incidents, then they give it to the Joint Terrorism and Task Forces to investigate. It's in all the states.
Ain’t we got fun! At some point in the not-too-distant future, November 1st for many, those red hats will first dimly glow, then incandesce, then suddenly burst into flame. I foresee a Great Awakening, stronger than any occurring in the Megachurches, people grabbing pitchforks, tar and feathers, and marching down the the local GOP precinct office. I hope, I hope.
I get maybe twenty requests for donations per day. Donating is imperative, but I think we are not sufficiently attending to the organizational work that will support real, meaningful, structural change in this country. Recently, Move to Amend published a position statement that referred to the four stages necessary to meaningful change. (I may paraphrase) They are: 1. Set up an organizational struction. We already have Indivisible and the wide, wide coalition they have put together, though we may want to add one specifically directed to action, but that also connects to the the coalition. 2. Attract people to the organization by providing services. This will be imperative shortly as the economy continuies to tank and people are without necessities. We should be setting up alternative ways to help each other through this. 3. Education. The article referred specifically to the educational projects of the Grange movement of the late 19th Century. People traveled widely throughout the country giving lectures out of wagons and particularly working to increase rural people's sense of self esteme so they would feel they had a right to expect and demand better. 4. Politicization. Mobilization to replace the current corrupt political establishment. Included running candidates and challenging the old, entrenched ones. I feel so encouraged by this plan. We can do this. Let's get busy.
Here is the four stage program for social change that Move to Amend put out as an article. I may paraphrase. 1) Set up an organizational structure. We already have Indivisible and the wide, wide coalition they have put together, though we may want to start another that attends just to action for change but uites with the Indivisible coalition. 2) Provide services. This is particularly appropo right now as we probably enter a dark period of economic collapse and deprevation when it will be necessary to find ways to provide services to assist ourselves. 3. Education. The article makes reference to the Grange movemewnt of the late 19th Century when lecture tours out of traveling wagons traveled widely thoughout the countryside. One big focus was on increasing the self esteme of the people so they would realize the had the right to demand better. 4. Politicization. Includes actions which directly challenge and effect the political establishment. Includes running candidates and challenging the entrenched ones. I love this. It is a blueprint for change. Let's get busy.
You've inspired me to reread Orwell! This comment is undoubtedly considered a "seditious conspiracy," especially when added to most of what I've been posting recently, but the truth needs to be spoken—besides, as it turns out, I'm already in prison illegally. Trump is doing what he was elected to do. Initially it can be difficult to fathom that many Americans are more than willing to forfeit their freedoms if it means achieving a white-christian-ethnocentric-America. Which is going to bring us to a dilemma: how are we supposed to compromise, self-govern, or coexist with people who do not want freedom for everyone?
Maybe the topic of secession is anti-American, but if America ceases to be free, then what is that we're really trying to save?
Orwell warned us, but here we are. Surveillance baptized as patriotism, cruelty disguised as law, and truth waterboarded until it confesses to lies. Blessed be the ones who refuse the script and remember what freedom really means.
I'd bet 90% of the general population see through it. But who will stand up?
7 million did on the 18th of October
AND some stood-up during the first go-round, because we knew what was going to happen to Roe. We knew he was a criminal. We knew what he had done to women.
Now men know what he will do to them and their ability to afford a home, health care, education, and a family. Plenty of men at the No Kings.
Unfortuantely, too many bend the knee. We appreciate those still in the fight. We need to do a full court press.
Every day and in every way Trump and his followers are architypal tyrants and our only hope is to expand our sphere of influence. Steve Bannon, "the pro-Trump podcaster and convicted fraudster who briefly served as President Trump’s White House chief strategist in his first term, publicly threw his support behind the president’s talk of seeking a third term, in defiance of a constitutionally mandated two-term limit.
"In an interview with The Economist, Mr. Bannon vaguely asserted that there was “a plan” to circumvent the 22nd Amendment, which states that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice,” regardless of whether the terms are consecutive. He also suggested that he was part of a team developing that plan."
NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/president-trump-2028-steve-bannon.html
“Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that,” he said.
What do Congressional Republicans say?
It only takes a few Congressional Republicans to stop him. See Jerry Weiss https://jerryweiss.substack.com/
Trumpepstein may be the vehicle to bring Congressional Republicans to their senses. Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) tweeted about an "Epstein bomb" about to drop; over 100 Republican members might "jailbreak" from Trump.
Massive Congressional visits November 18.
https://www.instagram.com/flare.usa/p/DP_mdOyjdiG/
Visit Congressional Republicans.https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/851451/
The diaper dan will be about 85 yrs old. Hopefully he won't make it that far, with all his McDonald's eats
E.G. Only you can prevent fascist liars. https://chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-carry-water-1024-278?r=fqsxl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
Thanks Daniel. Saw that interview too. People need to watch it.
Bannon said they created an entrepreneurial Capitalism paradise for citizens, victory begets victory for them, and they are never going to stop. All delusion. He believes that bullsh*t, but the second he started talking about the third term, he started lying.
He absolutely knows how iffy the Psycho is mentally, physically, and politically.
So the ability to defend America from Der Fuhrer Trump depends on a couple of Republicans in congress who are already terrified of and controlled by Trump.
If they haven't broken from him by now, what makes any one think that they will break from him over Epstein files or anything.?
If not afraid for their careers and incomer they are afraid for the safety of themselves and their families, as MAGA has proven to be extremely violent, haven't they?
No the solution is in our hands, Oct 18th was a start, now it has to beginin earnest, a national intifida, general strike, boy cott, denial of labor, hit the powers that be where it hurts, the pocket book,. It is effective the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel did it, not only with Paramount, but with Nexstar and Sinclair.
Yes, I also believe we can’t lean on someone else to stop him, we have to do it ourselves. 10 million citizens to storm the white Bastille.
Yes Elizabeth but the very idea makes a lot of people cringe, because it is risky and someone will get hurt. We are soft and conditioned. A you go first society.
We are a victim, perpetuated by the powers that be,of the myth of non violence.
They hold up the myth that Ghandi convinced the Brits to leave India, but it wasn't Ghandi, the PTB loves non violence, it is a pressure relief valve.
What scared the Brits was millions of armed and angry Indians, and the ghosts of Subhas Chandra Bose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose
Bose created the India Legion which served alongside the Wehrmacht and he Subhas Chandra Bose met Adolf Hitler in May 1942 in Berlin. Bose sought assistance from the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—in his fight for India's independence from British rule.
and the Indian National Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Army. The Indian National Army fought alongside the Japanese to liberate India from the Brits, Most died in combat, the rest were hung as traitors.
But combined their memory (or ghosts) and their anti colonial fervor scared the Brits out of India, not Ghandi.
Makes sense to me.
You're always so hopeful.
Why do you discourage it. Ans. Because I posted it.
You should thank Swalwell.
Concentrate on your infatata?
Swalwell is one of them doing yeoman work, one of the fewm the proud.
Don't take me personally, except that I object to your attempt to put us to sleep, a state of somnolence
You aren't doing it on purpose, it is your nature, or as Voltaire would have it, your character, and also your occupational background and training.
I do not think that you are really in touch with reality, and believe in the institutions,the very ones that Trump is destroying and has destroyed.
I analogize you to the Pied Piper of Hamlin, only he was doing it on purpose, while with you it is your training and experience.
Here is why I consider the hope that your friends are pushing is dangerous.
Hope is an anesthetic, it can be a motivator, but hoping that the pain will end, that a savior will arrive to save the day, is forlorn hope and dangerous.
Hoping that a Republican congressman will bolt his party and incur Trump's wrath, is a vain hope, a forlorn hope.
Hoping that a congress critter that takes up with you on one issue, is foolish and a forlorn hope, as you well know that jumping the fence means the end of their career and possibly dangerous to self and family..
MAGA goes after their enemies. As a couple of legislators in Minnesota sadly discovered and as Gretchen Whitmer discovered. There is an uptick in personal security business since Trump. What would happen to any Republican that jumped fence?
You are left with elections. Good luck with that, Redistricting is in the Republican favor, unless there is a miracle and a majority of Republican voters,are disgusted and vote Democrat. There is voter caging, voter suppression laws, messing with ballot boxes, mail in votes, and Dominion voting machines just sold to a GOP official who is an associate of Ed Martin., then there are armed poll watchers,in red States with a high percentage of black voters.
And it is intifada Daniel not infatata. The word means uprising, and I understand that the very word will evoke a reaction from those that have a particular affection and concern for the state of Israel.
Mamdani called for a global uprising (intifada) and AIPAC and the ADL have gone ballistic, and pouring money into the NYC campaign to defeat him.
Opportunity: You can be the first suicide bomber.
You're nuts.
Your response when you have no answer is to call someone nuts, and to respond with a slur or insult. Yor bonafides Daniel are under question.
You claim to be a retired administrative law judge, but other than being adept at AI, your responses are those of a pimple faced teen ager.
Infandata?
"The Emperor has no brain." -Dr. John Gartner
When the Blue Jays come to play, how will they be greeted? Fingerprints and a fee at the border, adding injury to insults for Canadian tourists. The Canadians probably should be worried about Americans wanting to stay THERE: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.thetravel.com/canadian-snowbirds-us-customs-and-border-protection-new-charge-policy/
The war in Venezuela, the Technate of America (see Cornell map/notes), and the economy now all hinge on the race with TRump's dementia, psychopathy, and possible strokes. The podcast Shrinking Trump wrapped because they feared legal repercussions, but Dr. Gartner appeared on The Daily Beast on 10/23/25. Excellent explanations on TRump's craziness: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-cognitive-collapse-is-clear-psychologist/
"It's gonna get worse."-Dr. John Gartner. IMHO, TRump had a mild stroke in September, and they recently did brain scans at Walter Reed to make sure it was safe for him to fly. Someone knows. Isn't it ironic that ethics are protecting him?
See you in the streets.
We won't win if we don't stay in the streets.
DC November 18.
I'll be shouting loudly from California.
I’m pretty sure non-approved is considered Thought Crime.
ALSO---1984 Come to life.
PayPal Mafia history with the government and dollar-ize-ing the internet. Where they got the algorithm (ARPA-H), worked it, and have now used it to develop Palantir to monitor your thoughts and whole life: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUm-TVmzzK_g
I don't know how it can be done but somehow 'we the people' have to stop this! Back in the day when my daughter was in high school she had to read Orwell for a book report. She has always been hypersensitive so she asked me to read it for her. I remember it to this day, something I can never forget. Then I read "Atlas Shrugged" fairly recently because the right wing pod caster kept talking about it. One thousand pages of gobbled y-gook but don't think it can't happen. I fear that is why we are where we are today. We watch and we listen and we consider it entertainment, like "The Housemaid" which I could only struggle about three-quarters of because by then I was so very soul-sick I couldn't go further. People that is NOT entertainment, that is evil creeping into our lives. I think we have to recognize it as that, compare it to what is happening and what is being said today and if you are like me, read it and weep but don't stop there. You can't stop there. At 78 years old with a history of 40 years being an RN and taking care of people, finding resources, holding hands as they died, helping physicians and, yes, loving it but then when I came home to my hometown, a small town of less than 1000 souls, I was hated because I am a blue dot in an ocean of red. No one wants to help me anymore, no one wants to talk to me anymore and that includes my relatives. One of the reasons is because I don't dance around them, I can't. It started with the pandemic, which I knew having been a nurse, could devastate our largely older community. I masked, I isolated, I got vaccinated and I told them if they didn't fine, just stay away from me...mostly they did and many times they died but they still don't trust me even though I told the truth. I will never tell anything but Truth but I will tell it no matter the cost.
Stay blue, stay angry, stay strong, stay bonded with others who believe in the Truth.
Read Hartmann because he is spot on.
S'truth
SidneyS RN
Yours is the second heart-breaking nursing story I have heard about the pandemic, Sydney.
I live in a beautiful vacation area and a nurse told me she had driven non-stop to get here to clear her head and soul. The patients she was taking care of were dying from covid while they were denying that it exists. She just wanted to love and care for them, but couldn't stop resenting them.
I feel you, and I thank you.
A sense of purpose and commitment is vital. Much thanks for sharing.
It is scary when it appears that there is no more functioning GOP, simply an echo of its Supreme Leader, willingly surrendering its role under the Constitution without even a whimper.
We have always been at war with Eurasia
And Venezuela, and California, and Colombia, and Chicago, and Gaza, and the West Bank, and New York City, and Democrats, and the East Wing, and Black people, and Brown people, and gay people, and atheists, and environmentalists, and SPLC, and journalists, and everyone and everything not explicitly allegiant to the GOP and their rodeo protection athlete, Donald J Trump.
All of this is normal..
My take on Trump's Ministry of Mayhem is that it is a non-official but operable agency meant to offer flashy and horrifying theater, performances, meant to distract from his true agenda. It is like a circus sideshow full of grotesque freaks meant to keep people's attention while the bloodbath is being prepared for the main arena, i.e., the entire country. I wrote "The ballroom, the threatening all caps posts, the blowing up men in boats, all are sideshows to the Trump damnatio ad bestias planned for main arena. This is the entire country." I asked "How many of us will end up like Ignatius of Antioch?" I suggested that if Trump has his way it could be all of us Read here: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/the-ballroom-the-threatening-all
Yes indeed!! A sense of purpose keeps you young-thinking and doing...
Why not write down 3 of your own purposes...put them on your bedroom wall where you see them everyday - and feel FREE to change them.
If you are only for yourself, who will support you?
I watched the movie "2073" for the year 2073. It was a part fiction, part non fiction movie. The film illustrated a futuristic, biometrics surveillance police state where citizens lived either in object poverty in subterranean societies or in complete luxury high rise apartments in the year 2073. If the poor people were caught by the police, they were arrested interrogated or worse. The fictional future scenes were interspersed with non fictional stories about present day tyrants, despots and dictators such as; Victor Orban and China's enslavement of the Uyghurs. Interestingly, one of the futuristic scenes shows a subterranean girl walking above ground and you see a large sign on a building above her that says "PALANTIR" Is this art imitating life or life imitating art, only time will tell...clearly Orwellian
First-rate overview, thank you!
To counter future bogus federal legal actions, every state & local law-enforcement officer should publicly state, "Federal officers must be permitted to conduct lawful activities. However, unlawful activities will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."
Thanks, Thom. We, all really see where we are headed Thom. Everything Trump touches turns to bad. Wait, for it. And so as it goes. Democracy?
Now it's the Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which in itself is a cabal of Federally funded terrorist organizations. At the insistence of our Glorious King, the Omniscient and Serene etc, etc, etc... these organizations operate above the law with impunity. Their mandate operates outside of, and is impervious to, the limitations imposed by the Constitution. The masks make it clear that their thugs are America's secret police, that the law flows relentlessly downhill, without checks or balances. For many, citizens aren't even afforded the Star Chamber: why bother when a criterion for warrantless arrest and extrajudicial conviction is skin color. We have now reached that threshold for creating a dictatorship where speaking out against a "government" is necessarily a crime and arrest the admission of culpability. Stalin at least had show trials.
Osama bin Laden wanted to lay waste to the United States. It seems he succeeded.
Just taught some people that it starts with what is called the "fusion centers" gathering info and incidents, then they give it to the Joint Terrorism and Task Forces to investigate. It's in all the states.
Good job. Robert.
Ain’t we got fun! At some point in the not-too-distant future, November 1st for many, those red hats will first dimly glow, then incandesce, then suddenly burst into flame. I foresee a Great Awakening, stronger than any occurring in the Megachurches, people grabbing pitchforks, tar and feathers, and marching down the the local GOP precinct office. I hope, I hope.
I get maybe twenty requests for donations per day. Donating is imperative, but I think we are not sufficiently attending to the organizational work that will support real, meaningful, structural change in this country. Recently, Move to Amend published a position statement that referred to the four stages necessary to meaningful change. (I may paraphrase) They are: 1. Set up an organizational struction. We already have Indivisible and the wide, wide coalition they have put together, though we may want to add one specifically directed to action, but that also connects to the the coalition. 2. Attract people to the organization by providing services. This will be imperative shortly as the economy continuies to tank and people are without necessities. We should be setting up alternative ways to help each other through this. 3. Education. The article referred specifically to the educational projects of the Grange movement of the late 19th Century. People traveled widely throughout the country giving lectures out of wagons and particularly working to increase rural people's sense of self esteme so they would feel they had a right to expect and demand better. 4. Politicization. Mobilization to replace the current corrupt political establishment. Included running candidates and challenging the old, entrenched ones. I feel so encouraged by this plan. We can do this. Let's get busy.
Here is the four stage program for social change that Move to Amend put out as an article. I may paraphrase. 1) Set up an organizational structure. We already have Indivisible and the wide, wide coalition they have put together, though we may want to start another that attends just to action for change but uites with the Indivisible coalition. 2) Provide services. This is particularly appropo right now as we probably enter a dark period of economic collapse and deprevation when it will be necessary to find ways to provide services to assist ourselves. 3. Education. The article makes reference to the Grange movemewnt of the late 19th Century when lecture tours out of traveling wagons traveled widely thoughout the countryside. One big focus was on increasing the self esteme of the people so they would realize the had the right to demand better. 4. Politicization. Includes actions which directly challenge and effect the political establishment. Includes running candidates and challenging the entrenched ones. I love this. It is a blueprint for change. Let's get busy.
You've inspired me to reread Orwell! This comment is undoubtedly considered a "seditious conspiracy," especially when added to most of what I've been posting recently, but the truth needs to be spoken—besides, as it turns out, I'm already in prison illegally. Trump is doing what he was elected to do. Initially it can be difficult to fathom that many Americans are more than willing to forfeit their freedoms if it means achieving a white-christian-ethnocentric-America. Which is going to bring us to a dilemma: how are we supposed to compromise, self-govern, or coexist with people who do not want freedom for everyone?
Maybe the topic of secession is anti-American, but if America ceases to be free, then what is that we're really trying to save?
Thank you, Professor. Thanks for summarizing what looks like a terrible week for humans and the rule of law. Both may become extinct from this guy.