musical interlude

 

Well that was tuesday...

 On Tuesday I thought that Guantánamo was off the books for the criminal's undocumented individuals project. But like everything else in this criminal enterprise nothing is ever settled. Yesterday we learned that more men were brought to the base. Read more here. (I think this link is shareable.)

Stay tuned.

Watching Guantanamo

 So, as my criminal president played with Guantanamo (off again and on again with immigrants he has been trying to remove) we, in the Guantanamo bar, were watching with great interest. As I mentioned a few posts down- the men who came to Guantanamo from the US (the immigrants) brought their constitutional rights with them. It would have been a great irony to have those rights brought to Guantanamo and bestow those rights to the remaining Muslim men being held at the base since the Bush years. 

But,  I guess someone finally figure it out and they will not use Guantanamo for the immigration project any more.

I am sharing an article by one of my fellow Gitmo attorneys. He explains what we all were watching.

From Roger Fitch and our friends down under at Justinian... corrected

 "Competent white men must be put in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men"

- tweet, State Department Under-Secretary Darren Beattie 

Trump is more than a racist. He's a white supremacist trading on "white racial antipathy". His goal seems to be positive discrimination and assistance for ostensibly-oppressed white males. How else to explain blocking USAID for dark people overseas (with devastating consequences) while creating special refugee status for White Afrikaners who aren't poor or persecuted, or asking for help?

It was left to the Department of Education's "Civil Rights Office" to say the quiet part out loud. In a Dear Colleague Letter (here), sent to educators at every level, recipients were essentially directed to no longer honour, respect or distinguish student minorities. They were told, "treating students differently on the basis of race to achieve nebulous goals such as diversity, racial balancing, social justice, or equity is illegal". 

Who knew that social justice and equity were contentious things? They are to Trump supporters, who want the freedom to be cruel, hateful and intolerant.

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The Cabinet meets with Musk

For the felon Donald Trump, a successful crime is no crime. A cheat and bigot himself, he's never been comfortable punishing crimes of peculation and prejudice. In cases of self-dealing, bribery, payoffs and financial plunder, and violence against women, Trump doesn't believe a crime has even occurred, or should be punished. 

In Elon Musk, presently deep in criminal heists throughout the public service, Trump has a soul mate, instinctively greedy and of equally-ambitious criminal intent. Their joint crime is the biggest scandal no one is mentioning: the new age of  bribery and corruption they have unleashed in American politics.

The interests of the two men seem to particularly coincide where corporate, financial or other white collar crime is involved. A good example is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 

Pending cases brought at the CFPB that were begun under Biden are now being dismissed with prejudice by the (business-detested) regulatory agency's new hirelings. 

Who paid off whom - or whether it was free - is not yet known, but banks and finance companies were involved, and they have a lot of loose money lying around, especially when it can be directed to those in a position to drop expensive and image-damaging litigation. 

The Musk-Trump political philosophy is that anything "liberal" or humane (especially "DEI") has to go. Instead, arms shipments to repressive regimes must be re-allowed; police misconduct tolerated and covered up; ghost guns legalised; assassination targets expanded; and cruelty to asylum-seekers resumed. Medical research will be blocked and great universities silenced. Overseas, there will be inhumanity, starvation, disease and death. 

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There have been alarming sackings of the top career Pentagon lawyers, Justice Department lawyers and FBI agents. 

At Justice, AG Pam Bondi seeks more amenable, "loyal" lawyers, ready to tell the Trump administration what it wants to hear, i.e, do as directed, like GW Bush's "torture lawyers". 

They will be closely watched by politically-appointed legal officers, who, in their Senate confirmations, refused to commit to obeying court orders (the supine Senate confirmed them anyway).  

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