Tag: democracy
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TAPA. # 245 WHAT MORE DO WE NEED TO KNOW???
Who knows where the coming elections will take us? What I do know is that unless Americans bring about a change or at least erect a firewall between Trump and the further exercise of unchecked power, our liberties, living conditions, personal safety, and standing in the world may be severely, perhaps irreparably, damaged. That is…
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TAPA # 243 THE CHASSIS OF FREEDOM
He suppressed the free press, saturated public life with propaganda, demanded personal allegiance, subordinated the courts, stripped the legislature of its authority, and used police power to crush civil and human rights. No, not Trump, Adolf Hitler. His destruction of democracy should serve as a warning: institutions cannot protect a nation when those entrusted with…
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TAPA # 232 A ONE EYED CARPENTER???
Anthony Scaramucci, known as “the Mooch,” recently expressed surprise at how many holes our Constitution seems to contain, holes that Trump has chosen to drive through. I disagree. Our problem is not the form of the Constitution. It is the character of the people entrusted with managing the government it created. In a democracy, leadership…
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TELLING IT LIKE IT IS
Rep. Jared Huffman of California tells it like it is. Tried to transfer the video but it seemed to be blocked? So here is the transcript of his speech to the House Committee. I think it is pertinent to today’s continued trail of deception, deceit and grift Trump is traveling down. “and if we’re real,…
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TAPA # 157 NUREMBERG TWO
• 1984: The government rewrites reality, invents enemies, and uses propaganda to justify torture, disappearance, and execution.• The Trial: A man is arrested and prosecuted by a faceless legal system in which guilt is assumed.• Darkness at Noon: Based on Stalin’s purges, where victims are coerced into confessing to invented crimes.• Fahrenheit 451: The state suppresses dissent by destroying…
