Cold As ICE
It is a seemingly surreal, desperate moment in the near 250 year story of the United States. Donald Trump and his thugs marauding through our blue state cities, creating fear and terror in countless communities. The words at the Statue of Liberty without relevance in these exceedingly difficult times.
"The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice." Martin Luther King's statement of almost six decades ago never more remote, less real. Darkness descending as this nation bends at the knee to a man limited by neither the restraints of decency or compassion. His agents acting with unbridled cruelty, treating fellow human beings without a shred of decency or a whiff of humanity.
And as the cold as ICE trespass on the trembling with impunity and we witness this depravity, these unmitigated horrors, there comes a lead to a newspaper piece in today's Washington Tribune that stands in testament to everything that has gone so terribly wrong in these desolate and desperate hours: "Donald Trump's band of not so merry men and their relentless heartless attack, take on a much deserved title: "Raiders of the Lost Arc."
It is beyond comprehension as to why all of our pillars have failed: courts, judiciary, congress, and executive branch. To make matters worse, Trump has fired all the inspector generals, which monitor the movement of money within all of the departments of the government. His lie is that it's done all the time. We are about to be bankrupted as a country. As terrible as the rounding-up of innocent people is, I believe that the mass firing of inspector generals portends much worse news. Even if legal action re the firing of this non-partisan group succeeds, it will be too late. The money will have been siphoned off to Putin.--RE
...and, especially on this International Holocaust Rembrance Day.