East 9th Street, Manhattan, 1983 (from my portfolio; photo by Loren Bliss © 2017)
But When Will We Stop Our Denial and Start Thinking Accordingly?
THE TYRANNICAL INTENT of the Trump/Pence Regime grows more undeniable with every passing day.
Its proofs include:
the regime's fuck-you response to the mortally endangered people of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands;
its relentless efforts to redefine healthcare as a privilege granted only the wealthiest citizens;
its declarations of war against women and war against LGBTQ people;
its threat to invade California with trigger-happy legions of immigrant-hunting Homeland Security troops;
the probability it will use its vast expansion of the imperial war machine for mass arrests of marijuana users (and anyone else it might choose to murder or arrest);
and of course the kill-at-will endorsement of the white-supremacist death-squad functions of the federally militarized local police.
There's also the constant warmongering. Not only is war the best way to quell dissent; this particular warmongering is obviously the product of fanatical Christian yearnings for biblical apocalypse – yearning expressed in threats against North Korea, Venezuela and now probably Cuba. (Why else would Trump/Pence provoke this newest diplomatic imbroglio but to provide cover for evacuating embassy personnel prior to the saturation bombing that would precede an invasion?)
All these developments should be telling us to get our proverbial heads out of our metaphorical asses and wake up to fact the Trump/Pence victory was even more a Nazi triumph than the conquests of Czechoslovakia, Austria, France and Poland combined. No matter the Nazis won the USian federal government with Big Lies and ballots and misdirection and political sleight-of-hand rather than the bullets with which the Wehrmacht occupied Austria and Czechoslovakia and crushed the French and the Poles. No matter the victory of JesuNazism was deliberately facilitated by the Trump/Pence Regime's predecessors, particularly Clinton and Obama, and by Hillary's scripted-to-lose candidacy against Trump. No matter the entire sequence of events from 1993 onward is now in retrospect laid bare as the unfolding of a diabolical multi-generational scheme to turn the U.S. into the fascist state as first attempted by the Bankers' Plot conspirators in 1934. No matter these 21st Century Nazis are imposing their JesuNazism more by the boiled-frog method than by the zero-tolerance decrees that accompanied German Nazi conquest. The Trump/Pence objective is nevertheless imposition of the same tyranny as that of its German predecessor and we the people are no less fucked than the victims of German Nazis 77 years ago.
That's why, now as never before, we anti-fascist whites must learn to listen to our minority comrades and follow their leadership. Hence the relevance of this and this, each of which provide valuable perspectives on minority views of the Second Amendment.
Meanwhile, the ever-more-Gestapo-like Trump/Pence Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is targeting what it calls “black identity extremists.” Obviously, the Mass arrests of immigrants are only the beginning. But who will be next? Additional categories of African-Americans? Hispanics? LGBTQ people? Anyone who signed an anti-Trump petition? Let those of us who have been privileged enough to have avoided the jackboot of oppression now learn from those who have lived beneath it all their lives. Welcome to the revolutionary solidarity of oppressed peoples.
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The JesuNazi Anti-Sex League* Strikes Again
In-Depth Analysis of How Trump Birth Control Savages Women
As I have learned in my short tenure doing clinic defense in Tacoma, the real motive behind the anti-abortion movement – and this comes from the anti-abortionists themselves – is to prohibit women from having sex outside of marriage. The longer-range intent is to make all contraception impossible, thereby “put(ting) Jesus back in the marriage bed.” (No, I am not making this up.) Hence the terrible relevance of “Trump Opens Door for End of Birth Control Benefit.” Two earlier reports are here and here, with a relevant petition – one I urge you to sign – here. But this little story would not be complete without a warning about how religious bigotry hurts even those of us who imagine ourselves immune to it.
*With apologies to George Orwell.
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More on the Abandonment of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands
As one would expect from any fascist government, the Trump/Pence Regime has begun censoring the news out of Puerto Rico. But the word gets out via other avenues, such as here, here, here, and here.
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St. Louis Protests Continue Despite Escalating Police Brutality
Undoubtedly the Trump/Pence Regime has already promised these federally militarized cops total amnesty no matter how many protesters they kill. Most recent reports here and here.
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Spain: 30,000 Troops Plus NATO Reinforcements to Catalonia
The most comprehensive coverage I can find on what I suspect is a prelude to renewed civil war in Spain is via the World Socialist Web Site, here. The attacks on journalists show that while Francisco Franco is still dead, his fascism has been reanimated.
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On the Forthcoming 100th Anniversary of the Soviet Revolution
An anthology of reflections on the events in Petrograd a century ago and on the revolution that is bound to come, published by People's World.
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Worthwhile:
“What Have They Done to Our Fair Sister”
“'Beautiful Revolutionary': Che Guevara Remembered”
LB/10 October 2017
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