Video: Chris Hedges Warns Against Trump Fascism in Vancouver Talk from March 2017

'Warning sighs on road to tyranny'

Six weeks into the Trump administration last year, Chris Hedges spoke at an anti-Trump event in Vancouver, British Columbia, March 3, 2017.

Hedges warned about the prospect of militarized federal and local police "terrorizing and deporting" immigrants living in the United States, waging a "race war" against black and brown folks, more racial profiling, random police stops, wanton human rights violations and abandoning the common good.

All of which existed and have been accelerated by Trump in a broad project to make America white.

Said Hedges:

White Europeans who are undocumented are not being targeted. The executive orders of Trump are directed against people of color. They begin from the premise that white Americans are the true victims of neo-liberalism, deindustrialization, and falling living standards. The Trump orders are written not to make America great again. But to make America white.

They are an updated version of the NAZI's Nuremberg laws, the Jim Crow laws, the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Naturalization Act of 1870. They are intended to institutionalize an overt racial hierarchy in the United States, one already far advanced in the miniature police states where people of color live in marginal communities.

In these impoverished enclaves there is no right to trial or due process. Militarized police kill with impunity, and the courts lock people away often for life. Rights are treated as privileges that can instantly be revoked. The poor, especially poor people of color, are exempted from moral consideration. They are attacked as impediments to social cohesion. And these impediments must be eliminated.

Hedges warned about the cruel consequences of insane social movements finding an oasis in the Trump adminstration, welcoming the dispirited and politically alienated.

Sane Americans saw this coming, but too many did nothing.

From March 2017:

McCain 2008 Campaign Manager and Strategist Renounces Republican Party, Resigns Membership

The systemic sacrifice of children has begun
as calls for feeding the young to MAGA are
heeded. The Flight of Moloch - by
William Blake
America über alles

Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell singled out as indecent

Steve Schmidt, Republican Party strategist and an architect of two presidential campaigns, has publicly renounced the Republican Party, vowing to align with the Democratic Party to fight against the "the party of Trump."

Schmidt made his comments on social media Wednesday morning as the number of children taken from parents by the U.S. government has now exceeded 11,000.

Steve Schmidt said the Republican Party has become "corrupt, indecent, and immoral" and "filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the legacies of the party’s greatest leaders."

Singling out House Speaker Paul Ryan (R) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R), Schmidt said former Republican Party standard bearer, President Ronald Reagan, would be "ashamed of McConnell and Ryan and all the rest ... ."

29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018

It is corrupt, indecent and immoral. With the exception of a few Governors like Baker, Hogan and Kasich it is filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the legacies of the party’s greatest leaders. This child separation policy is connected to the worst abuses of

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018

Humanity in our history. It is connected by the same evil that separated families during slavery and dislocated tribes and broke up Native American families. It is immoral and must be repudiated. Our country is in trouble. Our politics are badly broken. The first step to a

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018

Season of renewal in our land is the absolute and utter repudiation of Trump and his vile enablers in the 2018 election by electing Democratic majorities. I do not say this as an advocate of a progressive agenda. I say it as someone who retains belief in DEMOCRACY and decency.

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018

On Ronald Reagan’s grave are these words. “ I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.” He would be ashamed of McConnell and Ryan and all the rest while this corrupt government

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018

Meanwhile, intellectuals and writers continue to sound the alarm the United States is entering a period of domestic fascism and state violence formerly reserved for its black citizens and Native Americans.

"All mass crimes in history start with a justification, a necessity rationalization, a sick form of nationalism and racism," notes The Intercept.

Last night as the AP broke the story the Trump administration had erected special internment camps for infants and toddlers, Rachel Maddow broke into tears at the end of her news show as she handed over MSNBC coverage to the Lawrence O'Donnell Show.

MSNBC and NBC News have stationed dozens of reporters and producers in the American south as each day newscasts seem more like a bearing of witness as the U.S. government attempts to hide locations and operations of secret holding facilities housing the children taken from parents.

The Trump administration signals that its child-snatching regime is a complex that is built to last.

The number of children stolen from their parents by the United States government now exceeds 11,000.

Just heard from @HHSGov again:

Of the 11,786 minors currently in the unaccompanied alien children program, 3,280 are female and 8,506 are male.

We still don’t have photos of or acces to any girls or toddlers.

— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) June 19, 2018

No need for Rachel Maddow to apologize as most of America is right behind her.
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Sacrificing our children as Moloch calls.

By Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!
Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies!
Old men weeping in the parks!
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch!
Moloch the loveless!
Mental Moloch!
Moloch the heavy judger of men!
Moloch the incomprehensible prison!
Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows!
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When Moloch calls for the sacrifice of children, religious mania is ever-present in America's DNA. Those without character round up children in a ritual sacrifice requiring the ascent of 1,000s. No member of ICE has dissented and spoken out.
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"The religion of Moloch — as such creeds may be generically called — is in essence the cringing submission of the slave, who dare not, even in his heart, allow the thought that his master deserves no adulation. Since the independence of ideals is not yet acknowledged, Power may be freely worshipped, and receive an unlimited respect, despite its wanton infliction of pain."
— Bertrand Russell, A Free Man's Worship (1903)

On Wisconsin Badger Football and Republican Destruction of American Society

Madison, Wisconsin—First, in the minds of American citizens should be an active plan to oppose the Republican project to demolish anything, anything, working to nourish the life of people.

At the national, state and municipal level, what Republicans are seeking is the slow-motion destruction of humanizing institutions of American society, and the creation of a massive prison state for disfavored communities.

This cannot happen overnight, it happens little-by-little.

Secondly, bet heavily on the Wisconsin Badgers straight-up against Ohio State; five points are a gift. Update: Badgers lose 27-21.

Opposing Fascism Means Supporting Hillary Clinton Now

Watching the Republican National Convention is an exercise in observing crooks, liars, cheats and the rituals of the white fascistic party.

As a lifelong Wisconsin progressive and avid Bernie Sanders supporter, am now working to elect Hillary Clinton as president.

Not that anyone particularly gives a shit, but working for the election of Hillary Clinton is something I must do and state publicly.

Watching my franchise as a voter effectively veer in the status of bystander is something I cannot do.

The Republican Party resembles nothing so much now as a suicidal, racist cult.

Israel Falls Toward Fascism

Uri Avnery, an Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom reports on Israel's apparent drift towards out-and-out fascism.

This week, the Knesset voted by a large majority (47 to 34) for a law that threatens imprisonment for anyone who dares to deny that Israel is a Jewish and Democratic State.

The private member’s bill, proposed by MK Zevulun Orlev of the 'Jewish Home' party, which sailed through its preliminary hearing, promises one year in prison to anyone who publishes 'a call that negates the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State', if the contents of the call might cause 'actions of hate, contempt or disloyalty against the state or the institutions of government or the courts'. ...

THE FACTORY of racist laws with a distinct fascist odor is now working at full steam. That is built into the new coalition.

At its center is the Likud party, a good part of which is pure racist (sorry for the oxymoron). To its right there is the ultra-racist Shas party, to the right of which is Lieberman’s ultra-ultra racist “Israel is our Home” party, the ultra-ultra-ultra racist 'Jewish Home' party, and to its right the even more racist 'National Union' party, which includes outright Kahanists and stands with one foot in the coalition and the other on the moon.

Racist Jim Broussard Is a Criminal

Have a gander at this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nONjlZ8YMkA&mode=related&search=

Since when did become okay to steal property and brandish a military knife and threaten people? I guess it's okay in Reno if the victims are Mexican.

I e-mailed the following to the Reno Police Dept, can't say if it were received:

Why are you not investigating this man, Jim Broussard, for trespassing, destruction of private property, theft of property, brandishing a weapon, a military knife (assault), among other causes for criminal action by your department?

I await your reply and will be monitoring your action in this matter.

I have Cc ed La Raza, the National Action Network, among other parties.

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Mendez v. Westminster and the Racist Jim Broussard

Update:

Here's video of the racist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nONjlZ8YMkA&mode=related&search=

Update II: ACLU defends flag display at tavern.

Update III: A reader at Kos suggests that the bar owner certainly has a case against Broussard for trespassing, destruction of private property, brandishing a weapon (assault), among other causes for civil and criminal action.

Madison, Wisconsin - After helping winterize my family’s home this weekend, my father gave me some stamps commemorating the 60th anniversary of the desegregation case, Mendez v. Westminster School District (California) (1947).

I had never heard of that case, but it turns out Mendez is the Mexican-American and Latino legal precedent to Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the landmark decision still despised by racists the nation-over for its obliteration of the bigoted “separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

After reading up on Mendez, it made me think of the millions of heroes whose names we will never know who have advanced the cause for social justice in this country.

Thurgood Marshall, who argued Brown before the U.S. Supreme Court seven years after Mendez helped write an amicus brief filed by the NAACP in the Mendez case, along with briefs filed by the ACLU, the American Jewish Congress, and the Japanese American Citizens League.

Who knows all the forces that won the Mendez victory, but the fact that World War II saw legions of Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients may have helped.

The fight against discrimination and hate has countless allies and many enemies, seen and unseen.

Racist Fascist Jim Broussard

So, it came as no great surprise to me yesterday when a veterans’ e-mail newsletter that I receive boasted that an American believed he possessed the right to invade the private property of a Reno, Nevada tavern owned by a Mexican-American and cut down a Mexican flag flying above an American flag (pictured above).

According to WorldNetDaily.com: “After hearing a Reno bar was flying a Mexican flag above a U.S. flag, an angered U.S. Army veteran took matters into his own hands, drove to the site and cut down the banners in front of a stunned group of Hispanic patrons.”

The bigot in question identified himself as one “Jim Broussard,” according to WorldNetDaily.com, and he is one of the allies of discrimination and hate.

WorldNetDaily.com quotes Broussard:

"I'm Jim Broussard, and I took this flag down in honor of my country with … a knife from the United States Army. … I'm a veteran; I'm not going to see this done to my country. If they want to fight us, then they need to be men, and they need to come and fight us. But I want somebody to fight me for this flag. They're not going to get it back. … I was immediately infuriated and felt a duty to do something about it. I feel there's a lot of this turning-our-heads-on-things in concern with the Hispanic community and the things they do. They seem impervious to our laws in a lot of situations."

I’ve had my dealings with the likes of racists like Jim Broussard before and they share several traits: Ignorance, hate, cowardice, and a sociopathic sense of entitlement to inflict their authoritarian, sick vision of: White America rules!

My ethnic heritage is Irish-Mexican. The Mexican part comes from my father who hails from Aurora, Illinois. And I have been both the recipient of oral history and eyewitness experience in seeing how Mexican-Americans handle the likes of the bigoted Jim Broussard.

Put it this way, it’s direct and confrontational. And Jim Broussard and his pathetic moment of racist pride would not win the day were he to attempt to pull this crap in a Mexican bar in Aurora. The SOB would have an even worse time in an Irish bar.

In May last year, I was privileged to attend a ceremony in Aurora honoring a relative who was a pioneering Hispanic police officer and listen to his daughter who ridiculed the racists (after all we are all “spics,” as the bigots say) for the fools that all racists are.

I would have loved to see Broussard there.

There is a report that the Hispanic community in Reno is considering legal and political action against Broussard.

That’s a good idea.

Brother Jesse and Brother Al, I think we may just need you really soon over in Reno.
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