Showing posts with label woke culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woke culture. Show all posts

Apr 6, 2025

Trump's Leap to Fascism Comes Atop of Liberal-Woke Edifice, with Wokists Cushioning His Fall

When fascism comes here, Zionist Judenraete; fanatics aided
by woke liberals in the Universities and media will violate
liberties, and declare their power to prevent the lives of
anyone questioning anything, all in self-defense of course.
The ever widening gap between the government and
the people today casts suspicion on the people,
not Trump's government, in Trump's perverse view.
Free Mahmoud Khalil; Presidential Acts to Protect National Security Are Less Than Credible

Commentary

Madison, Wisconsin — Donald Trump is employing the machinery of government against Americans and permanent residents in State retribution for voicing thought at variance with purveyors of Genocide.

Trump's war against perceived wrong-thought annihilates sacred rights of American Due Process, the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment and cherished valuation of the individual.

His war is worse than the liberal establishment's odious lawfare, and malicious prosecutions launched against Trump by Democrats and liberal political opponents the last four years. It's worse than Democrat Censorship for which this party of parrots can never be forgiven.

Trump builds on liberals' ludicrous notions that truth and falsity of propositions are logically determined by how a proposition makes a reader or listener feel, and the related notion that someone's subjective feeling is equivalent to safety.

No great leap for Trump emulating the Biden-Harris administration determining expression of thought against Genocide is to be viewed with suspicion.

For example, since artist Roger Waters opposes fascism and Genocide in his art and music, Roger Waters must really be an anti-Semite, as determined by the U.S. State Department under Biden, (AP; Reuters).

That the U.S. State Department and Biden-Harris are perpetrators of Genocide is a fact that must go unacknowledged.

Consider as well the case of permanent U.S. resident and college student, Mahmoud Khalil.

As Krystal Ball notes in Breaking Points on the ideological framework of the Biden-Woke bunch employed by Trump today.

Once the pro-Palestine protests were portrayed by the liberal Biden administration as being effectively Hamas, it did not take a large leap to criminalize anyone who was affiliated with them, [pro-Palestine protests].
To throw Visa holders and permanent residents (such as Mahmoud Khalil) out of the country altogether for participating [in protests] or for even liking the wrong Tweet.

Mahmoud Khalil

Mahmoud Khalil is a graduate student at Columbia University School of International Affairs, a permanent U.S. resident, married to a U.S. citizen. Khalil is also a member of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student organizations objecting to Genocide against Palestine.

On March 8, Mahmoud Khalil was arrested in New York by agents of ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It's not clear what crime or immigration law Mr. Khalil is alleged to have violated, (New York Times).

His wife, Noor Abdalla, is eight-months pregnant and is due to give birth in April. She was threatened with arrest outside their apartment, though ICE has not followed up yet against her alleged crime(s), (St. Clair, CounterPunch).

ICE, which collectedly resembles a gang of sociopaths with badges, sports a webpage with a front page that three times invites readers to report and phone ICE, should readers see "suspicious activity." Further, the front page features a link to an ICE Tip Form, on which Americans can inform on all manner of suspicious people.

Accusations of fascism cry out from human rights workers, civil liberties organizations and writers at the outrageous arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, now slated to be heard in federal district court in New Jersey, (New York Times).

Congressional Democrats, ensconced in neocon foreign policy and well-versed in employing McCarthyite attacks against Trump after morphing into an anti-free speech Party, not surprisingly offer a muted defense of Mr. Khalil and his family.

Writes Yasmine El-Sabawi, in Middle East Eye:

When Michigan Congresswoman and Palestinian native Rashida Tlaib shared a letter to her social media account on Tuesday, [March 18], demanding that immigration authorities free Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil - a man never charged with a crime - it only contained 14 signatures.

For perspective, there are 220 Democrats in the House of Representatives, all of whom have been unabashedly vocal in their criticism of the Trump administration’s actions on a near-daily basis.

There are 45 Democrats in the Senate.  

That the two major American political parties are united in committing Genocide and evisceration of foundational liberties of free expression and free speech in America ought be causing everyone's fascism detectors to be blinking red.

Mahmoud Khalil, dictating a letter to the Columbia Spectator, pens his determination to carry on this weekend. Writes Khalil:

In his last message to a world that betrayed him, the beloved Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat said, I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.

So too do we believe that it is the highest honor of our lives to struggle for the cause of Palestinian liberation. The student movement will continue to carry the mantle of a free Palestine. History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence.
I'm with Mr. Khalil.

Far worse than 1970s elites pronouncing an excess of democracy by the Peace and Civil Rights movements, today, liberal elites have declared there is no objective truth; and the American people must fight it out against themselves using their imposed subjective identities as shields and weapons. 

If many deplore Trump for his fascism, (and rightfully so), wokists and Zionists should be counted among other perpetrators.

Dec 6, 2021

Huntley-Cooper Silent on Scheme to Rename Fitchburg City Hall — After Her

Frances Huntley-Cooper
Assumed Royal Bearing

Commentary

Fitchburg, Wisconsin — The scheme to rename City Hall after a one-term mayor who served in the early 1990s is looking a little sadder and sleazier two weeks after the private decision of Frances Huntley-Cooper and Michael Johnson was shared with the public, (Fitchburg Star. Wisconsin State Journal, Madison365).

The effort reportedly is the brainchild of Johnson, president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County, and Huntley-Cooper.

Johnson is not a resident of Fitchburg, and was not a Wisconsin resident when Huntley-Cooper served one term as mayor beginning in 1991.

Still no public comment from Frances Huntley-Cooper after numerous local news stories. She is assuming a royalist posture that she has no public duty to explain to Fitchburg residents why we must  pay public paens to her alleged greatness. 

This monarchical silence is an interesting take from someone who wants the seat of local representative government and democracy named after her.

But we should not be surprised.

Our job as residents, as seen by
Frances Huntley-Cooper and Michael Johnson, is to ratify their scheme  and sing public hosanna to the highest. Frances Huntley-Cooper has always acted like the public owes her.

Our most sacred traditions and cherished democratic values mean nothing to
Frances Huntley-Cooper.

Nov 29, 2021

Effort to Rename Fitchburg, Wisconsin City Hall Is Politically Correct Theater

Commentary

Update: The Fitchburg Star is out with the story and guess what Frances Huntley-Cooper deigns to offer as comment: Nothing. As in, "Huntley-Cooper did not immediately respond to a Dec. 2 email from the Fitchburg Star asking for comment."

The narcissism and anti-democratic attitude towards the Fitchburg people of Ms. Huntley-Cooper are astounding. C'mon, don't we the people of Fitchburg deserve even a comment? Guess not.

Fitchburg, Wisconsin — Emily Hamer reports in the Wisconsin State Journal on an effort to change the name of Fitchburg City Hall to the Frances Huntley-Cooper Municipal Building, (Madison365).

Ms. Huntley-Cooper is the first African American mayor in Wisconsin history. She served one term, unremarkable, from 1991 to 1993.

The effort reportedly is the brainchild of Michael Johnson, president and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County, and others. Johnson told Madison365 he has considered his decision for about a year.

Johnson is not a resident of Fitchburg, and was not a Wisconsin resident when Huntley-Cooper served one term as mayor beginning in 1991.

Renaming City Hall is a foolish idea on too many levels to itemize here.

It seems redolent of the compulsion to establish a Ronald Reagan monument in every county in the United States, or plastering someone's face on public structures to honor their greatness, like Stalin, Mao or Saddam Hussein.

But characterizing, honoring or debasing any human being on the basis of skin color, even a one-term mayor who served some 30 years ago, honors racial classification schemes leading anti-fascist writers, such as Norman Cohn, Ashley Montagu and Marvin Harris, to note similar enterprises as meaningless myth, an idea that 'race' enjoys a status as anything but irrational, nonsensical and demonstrably false.

I don't know why Frances Huntley-Cooper endorses this effort.

Thirty-one years ago, I broke the news in The Capital Times that Ms. Huntley-Cooper would become Wisconsin's first black mayor in Nov. 1990 when she declared for a mayoral run.

Huntley-Cooper downplayed the fact of 'Wisconsin's first black mayor' in a phone conversation then, and I had to rewrite a draft incorporating her comments and stated campaign priorities before I filed the piece.

What has changed since then, in my view, is the rise of woke identity politics that glorifies and validates 'race' as a system purporting to have non-zero scientific status.

I don't think the liberals raising this flag of the cancel culture have the faintest clue how toxic and ridiculous is their performative theater in this proposed renaming, not seen since the great removal of the 42-ton boulder from UW-Madison because the pre-Cambrian rock was deemed racist.

Hey, nothing against Frances Huntley-Cooper, but I think I can make a good case for renaming City Hall after Doug Morrissette, Mark Vivian, Roger Tesch, Jay Allen, Tom Clauder, Dave Herbst or current Mayor Aaron Richardson, among dozens of others who have served our city honorably.

We could even emblazon the front of City Hall with a likeness of the chosen's face.

If we are going to brand and rename monuments, buildings and parks, then I want Western Hills Park by our home renamed after my wife, Jackie Captain, for her outstanding work on anti-fascist artists, Ben Shahn and Eugene Higgins.

Further, I want to rename my street, now Monticello Way in the Jamestown neighborhood — named after a seventeenth century indentured servant-cum-slave colony — renamed Don Kosterman Way in recognition of this Fitchburg resident's academic work on the Milwaukee Police Dept's unconstitutional effort to sabotage the publishing of Kaleidoscope in the 1960s-70s.

See what I am getting at here?

Representative democracy and municipal policy are not about one person, or even one body of elected persons.

Especially on the municipal level, democracy is about the people and their liberties that make democratic processes a breathing monument that lives forever for future generations.

If we are truly to rename a such a vital public building as City Hall, the process being contemplated — a Common Council resolution — is inadequate.

We need a much more deliberative process that would include and invite extensive public input, a long list of nominations, including a referendum that offers no-name change at all, because every present and future Fitchburg resident has a stake in this enterprise.