Defying the Supreme Court

Trump nearly ended our Republic as a Republic.

Trump, Epstein, Pedophiles and RICO

I Expect [Personal] Loyalty

If you haven't read the Mueller Report. Read it here. This is Comic Book format and easy on the eyes:

The kind of loyalty Trump expects, demands and punishes if not given, is personal loyalty. And this is is the behavior of a mob boss. Read the report here:

https://www.insider.com/mueller-report-rewritten-trump-russia-mark-bowden-archer-2019-7

Ending Gerrymandering

Gerrymandering is wrong. This year, SCOTUS, decided to chicken out on dealing with the problem. They acknowledge that Gerrymandering is bad politics, unjust politics and a terrible thing. But they tell society they can't fix it. Justice Kagan wrote a powerful dissent on the subject:

“For the first time ever, this Court refuses to remedy a constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities,” [SCOTUS]

If a problem is beyond judicial solution, that indicates bad design.

“And not just any constitutional violation. The partisan gerrymanders in these cases deprived citizens of the most fundamental of their constitutional rights: the rights to participate equally in the political process, to join with others to advance political beliefs, and to choose their political representatives.” [SCOTUS]

Gerrymandering is also corruption.

“These gerrymanders enabled politicians to entrench themselves in office as against voters’ preferences.” [SCOTUS]

15 years of perversity

It's hard to believe it's been 15 years! 15 years ago I was blogging about Abu Gharaib and Torture. 15 years later and none of the perps, except the useful idiot reservists who were caught on camera, and a Reservist General who had been frozen out of supervision, have been punished. On the contrary, the perps from them are in the Trump admin! Anyway what I was writing then is as true then as now. And the fact that nobody was punished is part of the lead in for why this is an issue now. Indeed the David Cole article I cited then contains a warning for now:

“history suggests that what the government does to foreigners in the name of national security it will ultimately do to citizens as well. The Palmer Raids were directed at foreigners, but their architect, a young Justice Department lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover, was not content to stop there. He devoted his career to seeking out ways to extend those tactics to citizens, and in the McCarthy era, he succeeded. In fact, every significant form of political repression that the government has used against citizens began as an anti-alien measure.” [No More Roundups/WaPo]

In this day of Donald Trump, where we still haven't even rectified the abuses we committed against Muslim immigrants 15 years ago, this is a current issue and real threat to all of us.

Torture I

Torture II

Humility and Pervisity

Good Bye Ray Charles

Written June 11, 2004

Goodbye Ray Charles, I hear your sound,

it is a a sad day, that you re not around.

Your music moved me, your vision spoke to me,

I’ll play your tunes, and sing a prayer for you,

No dirge will it be, though into the night.

 

I hear your vision, I see your sound,

It will be sad, when you are not around,

But your spirit endures, and may it continue,

rolling down the keyboard, belting out tunes,

for many more years, deathless and bright.

 

Goodbye Ray Charles, I sing you farewell,

No blind man died, no vision was lost,

I shed no tears, I heard your vision.

You touched the keys to my heart,

I’m privileged to have known you,

Your piano rocking on in the endless night.

 

Chris

Note: I had to add a little

From: https://fraughtwithperil.com/cholte/2004/06/11/goodbye-ray-charles/

Impeachment Articles

The Trump administration is accused of many crimes.

List of Article Subjects

Each of these articles should have multiple counts when completed, along with a statement of why those are criminal and/or impeachable. Each Article should describe:

A. Criminal or constitutionally abusive Actions.

B. Evidence of Criminal, lawless or abusive ongoing Intent.

C. Evidence of abuse of power and harm to individuals or country.

D. Description of the laws or constitutional requirements violated.

E. Remedy for these violations.

Each Article should provide:

Summary list

1. Trump Organization Criminal Behavior in using the Corrupt Trump Organization to commit Campaign Violations, using extortion and blackmail to silence critics, and lying to Congress to cover up those violations.
2. Incapacity/Negligence: He has failed to execute faithfully the laws of the country.
3. Perfidy: Abused his power in cruel and Genocidal manner.
4. Fraud: Abused the Trust of his Voters by continual lies and frauds.
5. Violating Spirit of USC 30121: Solicited illegal contributions of propaganda and interference from foreign nationals and governments alike. Defending and encouraging these purveyors of propaganda and their assaults on our system of elections.
6. Emoluments: Sought emoluments from Citizens, Foreign persons and Citizens and engaged in policies that reflect those emoluments and not the best interests of the Country.
7. Corruption: Created a culture of corruption and abuse of power in his administration.
8. Obstructing of Justice detailed in the Mueller Report
9. Continual Obstruction of Justice via stonewalling and misuse of Executive Privilege to obstruct congress.

I'm going to move the individual articles to separate posts. and then this page will have references to them. This is too much for a single post.

Worst US-AGs

Worst Attorney Generals

We've had a lot of bad attorney Generals. From the very beginning of the Country there have been rotten eggs in the white-house. Not usually the President himself but none of our Presidents have been saints and some of them were real sinners.

1. John Mitchell
2. Barr
3. Edwin Meese
4. Gonzales
5. Taney
6. Alexander Mitchell Palmer
7. Harry M. Daugherty
8. McReynolds
The Hapless and the good ones:
9. Kleindienst

I created this post a while ago and it's been draft too long. So I'm putting this out. It is still in draft form and I may add and remove names, and definitely will add references and pictures.