Comment to New York Times article by David Brooks (note: Brooks is considered a conservative)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html?comments#permid=22518785
George Washington warned about the abject support of Trump by the Republicans:
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.”
Every year on Washington's birthday, a member of the Senate reads Washington's "Farewell Address". And every year the Senate ignores his advice by dividing itself along party lines. We now see almost lockstep support of Trump by Republicans and lockstep opposition to Trump by Democrats.
Maybe someday the the voters will grow up and elect grown-ups to political office.
Showing posts with label revenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revenge. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Seven-No-Trump
Seven-no-trump is a winning bridge hand. What can we do to make sure we have can win to have no Trump as a President?
The figures below are just out of my hat for effect. We may need more or less of any of the figures below to actually to have no Trump as President? Actually, with his thin skin he may bring about his own removal from office.
We need 70 electors to switch their votes from Trump to Clinton?
We need 7 Supreme Court members to declare his election void?
We need 70 Republican Representatives to impeach him?
We need 7 Republican Senators to try his impeachment?
This article was inspired by Elizabeth Renzetti, “Go ahead, laugh: Humour is the weapon in the fight against Trump”, The Globe and Mail, 2106-12-17.
The figures below are just out of my hat for effect. We may need more or less of any of the figures below to actually to have no Trump as President? Actually, with his thin skin he may bring about his own removal from office.
We need 70 electors to switch their votes from Trump to Clinton?
We need 7 Supreme Court members to declare his election void?
We need 70 Republican Representatives to impeach him?
We need 7 Republican Senators to try his impeachment?
This article was inspired by Elizabeth Renzetti, “Go ahead, laugh: Humour is the weapon in the fight against Trump”, The Globe and Mail, 2106-12-17.
Sunday, November 06, 2016
Quotes of the Day, misdirected politics
“It’s just more about getting the other people than worrying about the American people.” Christine Etima, quoted in "Immersed in the election, but unable to vote", Duluth News Tribune, 2016-11-05
"But not making a choice — sitting out the election — is to turn our fate over to others." Ann McFeatters, Duluth News Tribune, 2016-11-06
"But not making a choice — sitting out the election — is to turn our fate over to others." Ann McFeatters, Duluth News Tribune, 2016-11-06
Monday, April 22, 2013
Nation of laws or nation of revenge?
As expected, several Republican members of Congress don't want Miranda rights read to Dzhogar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bomber; they want him tried in a military court as an enemy combatant; and of course, they want the death penalty.
This does not sound like due process for a U. S. citizen; it sounds like revenge is more important. A nation of laws would be sure that any accused is proven beyond doubt to guilty of the crimes as charged.
As for the death penalty, what does that prove? That the government believes killing is a solution just as the killer believes killing is a solution to some real or imagined problem.
Finally, whether the Tsarnaev brothers acted out of anger and craziness or they acted for political reasons, executing Dzhogar Tsarnaev will provide Islamists with yet another martyr.
This does not sound like due process for a U. S. citizen; it sounds like revenge is more important. A nation of laws would be sure that any accused is proven beyond doubt to guilty of the crimes as charged.
As for the death penalty, what does that prove? That the government believes killing is a solution just as the killer believes killing is a solution to some real or imagined problem.
Finally, whether the Tsarnaev brothers acted out of anger and craziness or they acted for political reasons, executing Dzhogar Tsarnaev will provide Islamists with yet another martyr.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Quote of the day – violence
"And that speculation leads me to wonder about acts of violence against innocent victims cloaked in the language either of religion or nationalism, of Islam or the perceived national interests of the USA, or even of revenge. We 'know' that violence begets violence, yet some/many, of us persist in acting as if planting another bomb (or dropping just one more from a drone) would break the endless cycle."
Comment left by JO to "The Mind of a Terror Suspect", Charles M. Blow, New York Times, 2013-04-19.
Blow's column is a description of the morphing of a "nice kid" into someone with a bigger and bigger chip on his shoulder.
Comment left by JO to "The Mind of a Terror Suspect", Charles M. Blow, New York Times, 2013-04-19.
Blow's column is a description of the morphing of a "nice kid" into someone with a bigger and bigger chip on his shoulder.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Afghanistan - Cycle of violence continues
When you reach the end of this entry, you may feel that I could have written more. I agree, but I felt that anything more would dilute the message.
A single U.S. soldier goes on a rampage in Afghanistan killing 16 civilians. The Taliban vows to avenge the killings. When the Taliban attacks the U.S. military, more Afghanis will be killed. The the Taliban seeks vengeance again, and more Afghanis will be killed. Each act of violence by one side increases the resolve of the other side to continue the fight. And on and on it goes.
In the land of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, everybody becomes blind and toothless.
A better strategy to get the U.S. out of Afghanistan would for Afghanis to drop off single flowers at every U.S. base in Afghanistan and simply say, "Please go home." Every time an Afghani sees a U.S. soldier, he or she should say, "Please go home."
A single U.S. soldier goes on a rampage in Afghanistan killing 16 civilians. The Taliban vows to avenge the killings. When the Taliban attacks the U.S. military, more Afghanis will be killed. The the Taliban seeks vengeance again, and more Afghanis will be killed. Each act of violence by one side increases the resolve of the other side to continue the fight. And on and on it goes.
In the land of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, everybody becomes blind and toothless.
A better strategy to get the U.S. out of Afghanistan would for Afghanis to drop off single flowers at every U.S. base in Afghanistan and simply say, "Please go home." Every time an Afghani sees a U.S. soldier, he or she should say, "Please go home."
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