Musings:
•The Sins of Donald J. Trump (chapter 12). He has:
Begged for a “special” donation from the general public in order to “go to heaven”;
Questioned the First Amendment right of free speech;
Instructed attorney general Pam Bondi to investigate the use of anti-racketeering laws against leftist protestors;
Ordered the White House Peace Vigil to be removed after 44 years of protesting various acts of the presidency;
Ordered AG Bondi to prosecute political “enemies”;
Ordered a crackdown on persons who perpetrate an assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental civil liberties (unless they are MAGA agents!) and prosecute them as “domestic terrorists”;
Threatened to fire top military leaders who appear to be too “woke”;
Suggested that American “blue” cities could be used as “military training grounds”;
Failed to prevent a government shut-down that Democrats opposed;
Proclaimed October 12 as “Columbus Day” instead of “Indigenous Peoples Day”;
Sent his storm troopers into Illinois in order to round up “illegal immigrants”; and
Sent his bully boys into Aurora, Ill., for the same reason.
•One supposes that this last point was inevitable, given the fact that, as hard as it is to believe, Aurora is the second largest city in Illinois. But the numbers don’t lie; and so it became a target for Trump’s storm troopers, searching for “illegal immigrants.” ICE has left the city now (for a while?), but the trauma remains in the communities which were targeted. We may yet see another chapter unfold in the near future.
Now that our fair city has become an illegitimate target by a Federal government drunk with illegitimate power – able and willing to use that power to re-make America into Trump’s personal playground – we are reduced to that state of affairs that the Founding Fathers abhorred, a “colony” under the thumb of a “king” as described in the Declaration of Independence. Our new king has more than three more years to wreak further destruction upon a democratic republic. And would you believe that he is thinking about a third term in contravention of the Twenty-Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
His Majesty ought to be brought up on charges of high treason. And, once he is convicted of the same, he ought to be sentenced to life imprisonment in the facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he may squawk and sputter to his heart’s content to the few remaining Muslim “enemy combatants” there.
•And speaking of squawking and sputtering, in his response of October 2 to my previous essay, Bela Suhayda (B.S.) seems to be piqued by my not voting Charlie Kirk for sainthood as a lot of people are doing. I have two reasons for not doing so. One, Mr. Kirk’s ideology was diametrically opposite to mine, and I couldn’t bring myself to endorse his ascension to a higher plane of existence. And two, sainthood was an ancient concept used by the religious powers-that-be to bilk the superstitious rabble out of their hard-earned cash.
B.S. also seems to equate my silence on the matter as praising Mr. Kirk’s assassination as some people are doing. Here again is error most egregious. No one should be killed for voicing his/her opinions, regardless of his/her ideology. Free speech is – or ought to be – a hallowed concept in these United States; but every way you turn, you see some misguided person attempting to deny someone else’s right to speak out. Even false accusations, of which B.S. is a past master, can be counted as “free speech.” (And that last sentence is my “free speech”!)
Just a thought. Quack — quack!