American Doom A new "biggest scandal" and more fascism from cops on the streets
I’m not going to get into the weeds of the White House’s latest “biggest scandal” that is clearly a distraction from Epstein. You can watch the video above to hear all about that. Suffice to say it’s all for show — throw “Obama” and “treason” into a sentence and it’s like chum in the water for our fellow Americans who just want to see a Black man on the gallows.
At press time I don’t have the energy to break all this down in these paragraphs because I am pretty damn pissed off after learning about the arrest of two young journalists following a protest in Cincinnati.
It’s early, and things may change, but as it stands right now: a judge has refused to drop misdemeanor charges against the reporters even though they were simply doing their jobs in covering what looks like an aggressively violent over-reaction to an anti-ICE protest by local police.
Here is one officer beating up a protester, throwing haymakers like it’s a drunken barroom brawl.
Man, today is one of those days where I’ve had enough of people. I’ve had enough the Americans who voted for this because their brains are so melted by Facebook and Fox News that they think poor immigrants are their problem — and not the millionaires and billionaires who run this country and don’t give a damn about the average American. I’ve damn sure had enough of guys like that cop — his name is Zachary Stayton and he’s thankfully on administrative leave from the Covington (Kentucky) Police Department, just over the bridge from Cincinnati — although I hold out little hope that he’ll be held accountable for his actions.
I’m pretty weary, too, of every other cop like him who has abdicated their oaths to the constitution and has watched as Trump’s federal goon squad has run roughshod over cities and towns all across the country.
A judge in California deemed that Trump’s masked immigration agents — essentially his personal army of lawless, secret police at this point — are engaged in widespread racial profiling and are violating the constitutional rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens. But police there and a lot of other places — when they aren’t outright helping ICE — are standing idly by like a bunch of aw shucks Barney Fifes.
It’s past time for local law enforcement to actually do something right for a change and arrest the federal agents violating the law in their own cities and states. This is the stuff of failed states, but unfortunately that’s where we’ve gotten to.
For a long time now but especially in the past few months, I’ve had quite enough of supposedly tough, anti-government right-wingers who’ve been salivating over the prospect of armed conflict with the government since the publication of the Turner Diaries and well before who haven’t said a damn thing about the masked thugs terrorizing our cities under the president’s direction.
Clearly, when the American right said it was against government tyranny what they meant was they were against it unless the government was oppressing others on their behalf.
Democratic mayors, governors and other elected officials need to tell the law enforcement agencies under their command that this has to stop. The longer all of this goes on, the more that people like Trump will try to push. They always want more. This is about control. Someone has to stand up to stop them or else they’ll keep going until there’s nothing left for the rest of us. They will rule over us in a way few will like — as they have been promising to do for years. By then it will be too late.
If local cops in blue cities aren’t going to stop Trump’s agents, they should be replaced by those who will. Democracy cannot stand if lawless paramilitary organizations are allowed to continue acting with impunity. It certainly can’t continue if Americans who protest those agents along with the journalists covering those protests are arrested as rioters.
We are heading down a dark path. Seeing things like what happened on the bridge between Cincinnati and Covington makes me think we’re speeding up.
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