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Tom Halstead's avatar

If there’s a silver lining here, it’s that the gestapo foolishly chose once again to abuse the good people of Minneapolis, a populace not easily intimidated and more than ready to resist. Still, it’s alarming that the thugs have been able to score convictions anywhere in the U.S.A. Anyone anywhere convicted of or formally charged with what amounts to citizenship should receive exoneration and substantial punitive damages.

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I cannot afford to shut-up now. I have been speaking up for others and against the wrongs I have seen all my life.

They are coming for our voice and voting rights. I have to get out there for my own sake this time. I'll be there for you too. See you in the streets, brothers and sisters.

Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

I think Trump and the gang are outnumbered by several million.

Jason Merchey's avatar

It's gross. One advantage they have is that it is diffuse, slow-moving, and this is a huge country.

We have advantages too, but theirs are powerful.

Geoff Levin's avatar

This is a playbook used by the cult I was in for 46 years. This group used thought police, fair gaming and using the court system to intimidate whistleblowers who exposed the cults crimes. And several rich cult members have supported Trump with big donations and they now have positions in his administration. No doubt Trump is using this cult’s policies to further support his fascist activities. What Thom has warned about is very real. I lived it for decades. When I was in the cult it was 24/7 fear. I finally got out and when Trump was elected the similarities to the cult were uncanny. I directed a film about my experience called Brothers Broken. It’s out now on Amazon and Apple TV. We can overcome this repression if we all work together and vote the sociopaths out of office.

Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

I'll look for your film right now.

Jeffrey Hobbs's avatar

They are trying to criminalize political activity, which is to say that they could just as well declare Congress a conspiracy and have them all arrested. Any people who organize to do anything that Trump and the oligarchy doesn't like is subject to arrest, a brief show trial, and some combo platter of imprisonment and torture.

William Farrar's avatar

It is notable that the media, even the progressive media, does not mention Trump's and MAGA's obvious preference for fascism, demontrated by their war on antifascism.

In Germany people, like Sophie Scholl and he White Rose Society, were guillotined for being anti fascist. Our turn coming up.

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Sir Okie Doke's avatar

Fallbeil is the German term for the guillotine, literally meaning “falling axe” or “drop‑axe.”

It refers specifically to the German-designed execution machine used extensively under the Nazi regime.

A Fallbeil was a shorter, mostly metal, redesigned version of the French guillotine, engineered for speed and efficiency. It was the primary method of state execution in Nazi Germany, used to kill approximately 16,500 people between 1933 and 1945.

German redesign: More compact and metal‑framed compared to the tall wooden French model.

Mechanism: A weighted blade dropped vertically to decapitate the condemned.

Speed: Executioners like Johann Reichhart emphasized reducing the time from placement to decapitation to 3–4 seconds.

Industrialized use: By 1942–45, executions were carried out at a rate of one per minute in some prisons.

Hitler ordered in 1936 that all executions by beheading in Germany be performed only with the Fallbeil, and had 22 central execution sites equipped with them.

It became a central tool of the Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court), used against political dissidents such as Sophie and Hans Scholl of the White Rose.

Why it matters

The Fallbeil is one of the most chilling symbols of Nazi “legal” terror—an industrialized, bureaucratic killing machine used to eliminate resistance with mechanical efficiency.

Who knew? [Made with Microsoft Copilot]

Images: https://guillotine.dk/pages/german.html

William Farrar's avatar

There was a program on the History Channel,"Hitlers Executioner",, Johann Reichart This guy actually designed the Fallbeil. He executed thousands, not the only executioner, and was used by the allies,to hang the Nuremberg criminals.

Julie Lewis's avatar

The obvious issue is the language is vague in the NSPM, so it can be arbitrarily enforced. What is “anti-Christian” anyway? Is it the atheist who simply disagrees with the conventional belief on God? Is it the member of a non-Christian religious group that presents a different interpretation to the age old questions pertaining to who and what we are, to why we are here, etc. Is it the member of a “liberal” mainstream Christian church that interprets the Bible through the lens of love, acceptance and tolerance and which questions the Christian Nationalist interpretation of religion and its role in our public sphere? If I proclaim a view that insists the Framers deliberately separated religion from state, while promoting free exercise that does not infringe on the rights of others who believe differently, am I a danger to the public when I have lived peacefully, worked and worshipped in my preferred way here for 70+ years, never once committing an act that violates the freedom of others around me who may worship differently? Who makes the determination that I am or am not dangerous? Or, take any other issue that is open to varying viewpoints and interpretations. I like the notion, not consistently practiced, that reasonable people elect representatives who discuss and debate within their legislative house to hash out Bills that address issues and concerns that impact Americans. We give and we take and this very process moderates our legislative bodies away from extremes and maintains the rule of law.

Gene Wood's avatar

We have 4 +/- months to get our collective bodies together .. voting them .. you know, the orange people, out !

Brian Novak's avatar

The most dangerous anti-American terrorist organization in the Country is headquartered in the Oval Office.

Sir Okie Doke's avatar

We are a 100% owned, Client state. A Vassal state of the Russian mafia.

So, brace yourself.

If the Scary, Orange Bisexual [SOB] in the WH is getting bi-weekly orders from his Daddy Vladdie, the inexplicable double-tap headshot executions will begin in D.C.

Oh, and sporadic defenestrations, too.

This . . . this Weekend at Bernie's disgrace, this half-German lump, half-Scottish turd, this grandson-of-a-draft-dodging-whore-monger, this in-name-only husband-of-an-Epstein-servicing-whore's zombie-R party must be defeated soundly in the mid-terms.

#VOTE #Draft the SOB's 2.5 sons. [one is a half-man]

Michael G Cassidy's avatar

We need to create a citizen Trust Fund to provide the funds necessary for those prosecuted under these circumstances to defend themselves.

Michael G Cassidy's avatar

Also these prosecutions are being carried out by lawyers. If the legal profession responded with disbarment proceedings against them, it would have much the same deterrent effect as the bogus prosecutions are intended to have.

DARK HUMOR IN THE USA's avatar

Trump is exactly big brother. Big brother encapsulates his type of paranoia control insecurity overkill complete lack of any interest in reason or civilization. Big brother is also, like Trump, a yenta wanting to have his nose stuck in everything