Law & Possibilities in a World of a Bully’s Mega-Distractions

 

Law & Possibilities in a World of a Bully’s Mega-Distractions

EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN!!!!

Just as the United States has itself done for many years with trade agreements with People’s Republic of China, still one of America’s major trading partners, Canada and China, following years of tense relations, struck a new trade deal in mid-January, opening China to Canadian agriculture and Canada to Chinese electric vehicles. What was TACO loser Donald “lame duck” Trump’s response? “If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a 'Drop Off Port' for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken," on Truth Social on January 24th. “Governor” Mark Carney, implying Canada’s fate as our 51st state, was simply boiling with rage at the unhinged President of a formerly good neighbor. Trump threatened a 100% tariff as the price for a trading arrangement between Canada and China. “Drop-off” point??

The world has begun to accept an economic universe where the United States is decreasingly a necessary player… much less the global shot-caller it once was. Global resistance to Trump ‘sunlawful assertions is exploding. Not one single Western democracy has signed on to Trump’s Board of Peace, under a logo that bears an uncanny resemblance to that of the United Nations. Internally, our entire country is witnessing a red against blue war, where only red has all the rights.

BYD, China’s premiere EV carmaker, now dominates global sales at a multiple of any US manufacturer, and since Donald Trump has long since disabled all alternative energy initiatives he associated with the “hoax of climate change,” the United States is increasing its dependence on burning fossil fuel as most of the rest world is shift to clean energy. The glut of oil is pushing prices downwards, just as Trump is still trying but failing to convince BIG OIL executives to rebuild the frayed Venezuelan petroleum extraction and processing system. What we are seeing is the Trump administration’s living in a parallel autocratic universe, where no one can dare to disagree with his policies and “vision” without suffering retribution, and the real world where anyone with eyes can confirm that what the Trump administration tells us is real defies what we actually see.

Nothing brings that home more forcefully than Trump’s directed ICE soldiers, undertrained and, as they were falsely told by VP JD Vance, given absolute immunity for the actions. Their non-lethal “crowd control” weapons, like flash bangs with projectiles which recently killed a baby, must be stopped. As an internal ICE memo, released to congressional committee members – rapidly pulled back even as the policy remains unchanged – informing ICE agents that if they suspected an illegal were hiding inside a home, they were allowed without a legitimate judge-approved warrant, to break down the door and arrest the occupant. One elderly US citizen was so extracted in zero-degree Minneapolis cold, allowed on a blanket to cover his body (he was only clad in underwear); he was released an hour later, because the real target had been in prison for months.

Each of several ICE agent shootings in Minneapolis, resulting in deaths of American citizens, was ruled a justifiable defense against a “domestic terrorist,” the agent in question instantly exonerated, with no normal inquiry that always follows such shootings commenced, local police were barred from mounting their own inquiry, and often ICE began investigating the innocent victim targets and their associates as potential terrorists. ICE officers stopped one quiet protester who was recording an incident on a smartphone, retrieved her identification and told her that she would now be on list of confirmed domestic terrorists. Nazi tactics. Totally unconstitutional. Intimidating policies of an American dictator.

So, folks have asked me what to do, if it were up to me to turn down the escalating governmental provocations, very unpopular under every poll taken. First, the President needs to dismiss every governmental official who believes “might makes right” and that provocation is justifiable tactic. The first to go, in my book, would have to be the policy wonk who seems to be writing the rules, senior Trump advisor Stephen Miller (and his entire staff). Next to go include AG Pam Bondi who seems to revel in rewriting the Constitution with outlandish misdirection, as well as her senior political appointees in the DOJ who have dedicated their lives to seeking criminal indictments (with little success) again key figures who may have investigated and perhaps prosecuted Mr Trump, and most certainly Democrats who have raged against Trump’s obvious efforts to assume complete control as the nation’s sole lawgiver. High on the list of officials to be axed include Kristi “I have no constitutional limits” Noem, Tom “what happened to that bag with $50 thousand in it” Homan, and Border Patrol Chief Greg “I love the smell of pepper gas in the morning” Bovino, who seems to incent violence and has been very active in direct combat against innocent protesters.

Most ICE officers who have been recently recruited, often under the enticement of being “culture warriors” (read: white Christian nationalists), have received a mere 47 days of training (animal control officers generally get twice that), with no real instruction on how to deescalate an angry (usually justifiably) rising crowd of civilian protestors attempting to exercise their constitutional right to protest peacefully, a right repeatedly confirmed by federal judges. The mechanics of recruitment must be changed, the minimum training for new officers should be 6 months and should include at least fourteen days on how to deescalate potential confrontations. This means that virtually all new recruits need to be recalled and sent to complete the training in a way that lessens violence, instills a sense of individual responsibility and redefines their roles more into peacekeeping priorities.

All violent confrontations, most certainly any where a gun has been drawn by an officer, must be investigated by a combination of local polices and the FBI, before labels are applied to the “innocent” officers and the designated “domestic terrorists.” But what we are witnessing in Minneapolis is instead beginning of civil war. If Trump isn’t stopped and stopped soon, the global power of the United States will vaporize, the possibility of another world war will rise and except for the mega-rich doting Trump worshipers, life for most Americans will fall to levels we have not seen since the Great Depression… with potential casualties by the millions.

I’m Peter Dekom, and if you want to see the truth, turn off the Trump volume and trust your own eyes… and know that most of this Trump rhetoric and violence is just an effort towards distraction from the truth lurking in the Epstein scandal.