Excellent and important piece of work Mark. I saw a copy of the letter sent to Patel by a host of judges …. Protesting the arrest of the judge … and actually referring to the Trump government as fascist. For me that was first, a body of learned people naming evil. It was heartening. We both filed a piece on Cop Cities over a year ago. We found the map locating the numerous cop cities in operation and those under construction. Three in Minnesota alone. What frightens me is that the cop cities mirror the prisons in Israel and Iran where people are taken and tortured every day by ‘police’. I fear they are the foundation of our very own concentration camps. Trump starts with El Salvador … it will move here quickly now. I’d like to emphasize again that Steven Miller is a dark, intelligent, racist and dangerous force. He is the Himmler to clown Trump. Himmler and Heydrich (Noem) murdered millions without a care. We aren’t up against rational people with conscience. We are facing sociopathic and psychopathic evil fanatics. There IS a place for spiritual protection when marching or protesting. The Gestapo had the skull on their hats… that skull ‘protected’ the SS and Gestapo and put fear into the hearts of millions. The golden Trump pin… the Nazi and fascist tattoos… all vibrate an evil that is real!!! If they had cute puppies tattooed on their necks and arms consider your response …. Vs skulls and blood. So, carry a blessed item… something to change the vibration around you. We are facing holistic evil…. Mark your daily posts and cartoons keep many of us motivated. Be safe old man.
You are right about the need for spiritual (not religious) grounding in such times.
The skull tattoos and iconography of the fascist right reveal their ghoulish, soulless nature. It is amazing to me to see how skull imagery saturates our culture. Companies use such imagery to market coffee and kids games and toys, T-shirts and ball caps. I remember when I was a kid there would be a skull-and-crossbones image on the back of the iodine bottle in the medicine cabinet and in occasional late-night pirate movies on TV. Now the imagery and celebration of death literally surrounds us 24/7.
The Gittmo and El Salvador prisons are private prisons built by US government out of reach of the Constitution. The El Salvador prison is Betta testing for US private high tech investment for high tech torture. They have invested in USA also.
I watched Glenn Greenwald's take on the judge arrest. He's not shy on calling out Trump administration on any issue, but his opinion based on what we know was that:
- judges do get arrested all the time for various reasons, and it's not as unheard of as the left media tries to scream
- the reason for this arrest was fair, there's no way for a judge to escort defendant out the back door to avoid federal agents and to avoid legal repercussions
- this had nothing to do with due process and everything about her actions as the judge overseeing the case
I saw that segment too and while I have a lot of respect for Glenn, I have to say I didn't completely agree. He downplayed the unethical/illegal actions of the federal goons and ignored the fact that in order for them to meet their public mission, public spaces like courts, schools and hospitals should be free of that kind of police action.
If immigrants now face arrest for showing up at a courthouse what happens to the immigrant who witnessed a crime and is asked to give testimony when there is now a chance ICE thugs will show up to snatch them away. If I were in that position I wouldn't show up to testify.
We have had ICE agents showing up at schools. How can a parent feel comfortable sending their kids to school. The long-term impact on society and children not being educated is crippling.
To meet their social duty, such public spaces need to be a kind of law enforcement neutrality zone.
I didn't see the judge's actions as illegal but more as a courageous act of much-needed civil disobedience in a time of illegal and abusive fascist governmental overreach and abuse.
I also think in his often dismissive comments about legitimate concerns of Trump's clear fascist actions. It is not hyperbolic to call out Trump as a fascist. It's an obvious statement of reality. On this issue, Glenn is missing the burning forest fire for the twigs.
I think it's a problem that can't be addressed by the sitting judge. It's just - IMO - a greater threat to the justice system if they see it fit to become civil activists while exercising the power of the judge, on the case that they oversee.
If she personally escorts aliens out of the courthouse from OTHER judges' cases, I have zero issue.
I hear you, but we are also living at a time when "law enforcement" is acting with clear disregard of the Constitution, the First Amendment, 4th and 5th amendment standards of due process, sidewalk kidnappings of innocent people by masked and unidentified federal goons, active use and construction of concentration camps and enthusiastic support, arming and funding of genocide.
Under such conditions, acts of civil disobedience are necessary by even judges and -- hopefully -- by as yet uncorrupted police and federal agents who respect the Constitution and the law. Maybe there will be more that comes out on this case, but at least for now, my sympathy is with the judge not the government agents and prosecutors.
Thank you for this very informative and important post. The unConstitutional exchange programs in the 90's, also import of inhumanity and injustice to Life from Israel to USA by police who were treasonously not enforcing the Constitutional Law they took an oath to uphold, to "Urban warfare" drills in 50 States, that is the war on American people. Also police presence and drills in schools with metal detectors like prisons. Standing armies on American soil was the reason founding fathers sacrificed their lives and fortunes for Liberty 🗽, freedom from Tyranny. And then we had the unConstitutional Middle East wars, not declared by Congress, and return of veterans of war, in the service of military industrial complex, entering the local law enforcement. Surveillance Police State has been the plan to destroy the Divine Rights of Free Men, plan of desecration and destruction of the American people and their resources
Excellent and important piece of work Mark. I saw a copy of the letter sent to Patel by a host of judges …. Protesting the arrest of the judge … and actually referring to the Trump government as fascist. For me that was first, a body of learned people naming evil. It was heartening. We both filed a piece on Cop Cities over a year ago. We found the map locating the numerous cop cities in operation and those under construction. Three in Minnesota alone. What frightens me is that the cop cities mirror the prisons in Israel and Iran where people are taken and tortured every day by ‘police’. I fear they are the foundation of our very own concentration camps. Trump starts with El Salvador … it will move here quickly now. I’d like to emphasize again that Steven Miller is a dark, intelligent, racist and dangerous force. He is the Himmler to clown Trump. Himmler and Heydrich (Noem) murdered millions without a care. We aren’t up against rational people with conscience. We are facing sociopathic and psychopathic evil fanatics. There IS a place for spiritual protection when marching or protesting. The Gestapo had the skull on their hats… that skull ‘protected’ the SS and Gestapo and put fear into the hearts of millions. The golden Trump pin… the Nazi and fascist tattoos… all vibrate an evil that is real!!! If they had cute puppies tattooed on their necks and arms consider your response …. Vs skulls and blood. So, carry a blessed item… something to change the vibration around you. We are facing holistic evil…. Mark your daily posts and cartoons keep many of us motivated. Be safe old man.
You are right about the need for spiritual (not religious) grounding in such times.
The skull tattoos and iconography of the fascist right reveal their ghoulish, soulless nature. It is amazing to me to see how skull imagery saturates our culture. Companies use such imagery to market coffee and kids games and toys, T-shirts and ball caps. I remember when I was a kid there would be a skull-and-crossbones image on the back of the iodine bottle in the medicine cabinet and in occasional late-night pirate movies on TV. Now the imagery and celebration of death literally surrounds us 24/7.
We are a death culture down and on the way out.
The Gittmo and El Salvador prisons are private prisons built by US government out of reach of the Constitution. The El Salvador prison is Betta testing for US private high tech investment for high tech torture. They have invested in USA also.
Turns out the government(s) are not our friends 🤨
I watched Glenn Greenwald's take on the judge arrest. He's not shy on calling out Trump administration on any issue, but his opinion based on what we know was that:
- judges do get arrested all the time for various reasons, and it's not as unheard of as the left media tries to scream
- the reason for this arrest was fair, there's no way for a judge to escort defendant out the back door to avoid federal agents and to avoid legal repercussions
- this had nothing to do with due process and everything about her actions as the judge overseeing the case
I saw that segment too and while I have a lot of respect for Glenn, I have to say I didn't completely agree. He downplayed the unethical/illegal actions of the federal goons and ignored the fact that in order for them to meet their public mission, public spaces like courts, schools and hospitals should be free of that kind of police action.
If immigrants now face arrest for showing up at a courthouse what happens to the immigrant who witnessed a crime and is asked to give testimony when there is now a chance ICE thugs will show up to snatch them away. If I were in that position I wouldn't show up to testify.
We have had ICE agents showing up at schools. How can a parent feel comfortable sending their kids to school. The long-term impact on society and children not being educated is crippling.
To meet their social duty, such public spaces need to be a kind of law enforcement neutrality zone.
I didn't see the judge's actions as illegal but more as a courageous act of much-needed civil disobedience in a time of illegal and abusive fascist governmental overreach and abuse.
I also think in his often dismissive comments about legitimate concerns of Trump's clear fascist actions. It is not hyperbolic to call out Trump as a fascist. It's an obvious statement of reality. On this issue, Glenn is missing the burning forest fire for the twigs.
I think it's a problem that can't be addressed by the sitting judge. It's just - IMO - a greater threat to the justice system if they see it fit to become civil activists while exercising the power of the judge, on the case that they oversee.
If she personally escorts aliens out of the courthouse from OTHER judges' cases, I have zero issue.
I hear you, but we are also living at a time when "law enforcement" is acting with clear disregard of the Constitution, the First Amendment, 4th and 5th amendment standards of due process, sidewalk kidnappings of innocent people by masked and unidentified federal goons, active use and construction of concentration camps and enthusiastic support, arming and funding of genocide.
Under such conditions, acts of civil disobedience are necessary by even judges and -- hopefully -- by as yet uncorrupted police and federal agents who respect the Constitution and the law. Maybe there will be more that comes out on this case, but at least for now, my sympathy is with the judge not the government agents and prosecutors.
Thank you for this very informative and important post. The unConstitutional exchange programs in the 90's, also import of inhumanity and injustice to Life from Israel to USA by police who were treasonously not enforcing the Constitutional Law they took an oath to uphold, to "Urban warfare" drills in 50 States, that is the war on American people. Also police presence and drills in schools with metal detectors like prisons. Standing armies on American soil was the reason founding fathers sacrificed their lives and fortunes for Liberty 🗽, freedom from Tyranny. And then we had the unConstitutional Middle East wars, not declared by Congress, and return of veterans of war, in the service of military industrial complex, entering the local law enforcement. Surveillance Police State has been the plan to destroy the Divine Rights of Free Men, plan of desecration and destruction of the American people and their resources