Texas Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets

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512-517-2708

Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Something to think about... as Trump prepares to suspend the Constitution and Bill of Rights

Here is something everyone is going to have to think about...


Why are all these politicians making plans in secrecy concerning our health and well-being rather than making plans and decisions openly and in full view with the involvement of the citizenry?


And now we learn secret plans have been made to “suspend the Constitution.”


In many places like Lake Worth Beach, Florida which has a huge population living in poverty with much of the population people of color, during this time of crisis and government restrictions being imposed, the government shut off water and the people had other services like electricity turned off for failure to pay their bills on time and then they are ordered to stay in their homes.


Now, Trump says one thing pretending to be all compassionate with this hypocritical feigning of empathy, while on the other hand all of these heavy-handed measures are being used against the people.


And we are led to believe the National Guard and the military is being mobilized to help people when there is another totally different scenario unraveling...


Trump and these politicians know people will not tolerate being treated in this way and the government is preparing to wage war against the people.


This government is intent on making the American people pay for an economic crisis that was already in the making using the coronavirus as a pretext to bailout the Wall Street banks and corporations...


Crisis capitalism... any crisis is used to erode and subvert the Constitution and Bill of Rights as the banks and corporations get bailed out of the mess they created in the first place.


And we must take seriously the accusation being made by the Chinese that this coronavirus has its origin in a U.S. bio-warfare lab... if this all wasn’t by intent and design, Trump and these sleazy corrupt politicians sure are taking advantage of this pandemic to the hilt to carry out their reactionary agenda.


The way they are intentionally mismanaging this health care crisis can’t possibly be by accident or even attributed to sheer stupidity or lunacy- Trump’s two better traits.


Trump’s continued intentional racist characterization of the coronavirus as a “Chinese virus” is a sure sign that he had a hand in making the decision to start this deadly pandemic; it’s characteristic of the bully who starts a fight and then blames the violence on the victim... Trump has done this incessantly, always using racism and bigotry, when it comes to every problem... he creates the problem then blames the victim and then he gives himself credit for solving the problem even though the problem he created hasn’t even been resolved... so why wouldn’t we think Trump has had a hand in setting this coronavirus free against humanity?


Remember, the economy was already collapsing well before the coronavirus ever entered the scene and Trump was claiming the economy was sound... not just sound, but he used all of his stupid adjectives he always attaches to each of his lies.


Keep in mind, the Trump Administration has plans to suspend the Constitution and Bill of Rights for the states purpose, not for the health of the Nation, but for the stated purpose of arresting and indefinitely detaining people without trial.


If anyone should be arrested and indefinitely detained it should be Trump and all of these sleazy crooked and corrupt politicians.


How can we trust politicians to do what is right by us after they intentionally delayed action that would have protected the health of tens of thousands of people from this deadly virus and the pensions and 401k’s of tens of millions of people they take an oath to protect and defend and used what they learned in secret meetings and hearings to protect their own financial interests and make a fortune off this crisis to boot?