Clean Sweep
It is not enough that we impeach Trump, we’ve already done that, twice.
Even if we did it a third time and assuming that this time we could actually convict and imprison him, that would leave all of his handpicked sycophants in place to continue the destruction of our nation and the world.
What we must do is have a type of Nuremberg trial for him and his entire cabinet…
In other words, a clean sweep!
Breaking News
- Written by: Jose A Rosa
- Category: Fiction
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA (IFZ) In what an interviewed neighbor described as ”a hail of gunfire”, Bill Hedge, a prominent local resident, was killed in his home. In that Lincoln, Nebraska ”explosive horror”, as another neighbor recounted it, his wife barely survived her injuries. The couple’s six-year-old child did not. Six other men were also shot, four of them fatally. Tragically, a responding Sheriff’s deputy also succumbed to his wounds, despite “heroic efforts to save him,” as stated by ER head nurse, Barbara Adams.
According to Mrs. Hedge, loud banging from the front door had awakened them at approximately three in the morning. Upon opening her phone’s ring camera app, confirmed by the security system’s cloud recording, two masked men, carrying assault style weapons, stood by the door, with one of them also wielding a hand-held battering ram.
Mr. Hedge, a respected architect and Second Amendment proponent, kissed his wife lightly on the cheek, she recalled from her hospital room in tears. She described how he had whispered for her to call 911, before jumping barefoot to their weapons locker, entering the code and yanking out his registered AR-15.
Repercussions
- Written by: Jose A Rosa
- Category: Politics
Consider a side effect of the lawlessness, cruelty and disrespect for human rights thath has now become the signature of ICE, local Police, the National Guard, and even the United States Marine Corps since they have been deployed on American soil in violation of The Posse Comitatus The issue I have yet to see addressed anywhere is the long-term impact on our citizenry.
It has been documented all over the world, in many different times and conflicts, that when inhumane tactics are used on a civilian population, that population becomes radicalized and prone to see counter violence as the only viable alternative.
ICE
- Written by: Jose A Rosa
- Category: Law
There have been many questions as of late about the militarization of ICE and I decided I needed to do some research and get some answers. Here is what I found and admittedly much of it is contradictory and confusing especially in light of recent events.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security. Established in 2003 by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks. ICE's mission is to protect the United States from illegal immigration and cross-border crime that threaten public safety and national security. ICE enforces federal laws related to customs, trade, immigration, and border control
COPENHAGEN LORD MAYOR asks DANISH CAPITOL OF AMERICA to embrace LGBTQ+ Natural Diversity
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Society
Each June, the LGBQT+ world community celebrates natural gender diversity and sexual identification as Pride Month. Its roots go back to June 28, 1969, when the NYPD stormed a Greenwich Village, NYC, gay club, Stonewall Inn, on the pretense of liquor license violations, employed for decades to prevent gay assemblies. The NYPD committed battery on Stonewall Inn’s patrons and employees as they brutally yanked them out. This resulted in six days of intense protests against the police action outside the bar and at a nearby park, resulting in further skirmishes with the NYPD.
Read more: COPENHAGEN LORD MAYOR asks DANISH CAPITOL OF AMERICA to embrace LGBTQ+ Natural Diversity
One Flew Over the Kingdom’s Nest, Part 1 of 2
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Science
During the primaries leading up to the dysfunctional 2016 election, Bernie Sanders often lauded the Danish welfare system. Compared to anything found in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada for example, he was, and is, on the money. But according to Humanity in Action Denmark, the socioeconomic trend from the Danish government in recent years has engendered an increase in stress factors that lead to tangible human suffering due to the growing chasm between the wealthy and the very poor: "Until prevailing social mores and public discourse openly acknowledge the new state of the 'welfare state', there is the threat that an increasing number of poor and marginalized people in Denmark will be neglected." This can be seen in the long queueing for surgeries and cancer treatment, waiting too long for an operation, and patients have died or lost limbs through unnecessary amputations, and nurses are frustrated by wages not keeping up with inflation and the private sector. Despite those issues, which are also prevalent throughout the world unless you're wealthy, The Social Progress Index in 2017, ranked Denmark as number one in the world. Denmark also ranks number five in the world in its social welfare spending per person "as...percentage of GDP [gross domestic product]". Sanders' argument is even corroborated from a capitalistic point of view, as is briefly discussed at the end of this article.
DRAGONSLAYER
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Fiction
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Witchery Justice
She stole into the dark forest, crying as she went, and did not heed the gathering gloom of dusk. Soon, she had gone so deep into the woods that thorns reached out to her like the claws of that legendary dragon her father was said to have slain, shortly after her birth when it had devoured her mother. Ragged, weary, and bloodied, she settled upon a rocky outcropping from which nothing grew, and the emerging stars began to twinkle through a rosy sunset. She barely took note of the rising full moon that set some of the huge spreading oaks and tall pines encircling the clearing into dark relief.
She sat upon a still-warm stone and pulled her knees to her breasts, and began to cry again. From out of a dark cave unseen to her, the many eyes of a creature gazed upon the long, dark, leaf-tangled mess of hair that draped over the beautiful girl. Awful memories just out of thought licked at his mind as he silently watched her sob far into the night. He never once blinked, even if he could, daring not to lose a single moment of her beauty, phantom-like though it was in the deepening cold of starlight, and the moon, now high.
THE WORLD AS IT IS
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Politics
Based on facts, is a pretty scary place. A way to help wrap your brain around that one, so it's less encumbered by one's own relative biases, or comforts and discomforts, is to imagine yourself on a spaceship from a civilization with a similar ethnography as the one Gene Roddenberry purposely infused Star Trek with. The ship approaches the Earth of today, and accurately analyzes its entire mechanics on all scales, as well as highly probable outcomes in the near future relative to geologic history. From the ship you analyze everything, from the molecular... to oceans suffocating from floating plastic continents... stockpiled WMDs that can kill most of the planet's life in a few hours... right down to a police shooting in America, a Trump who is deified by so many... to the collapse of a stable biosphere, wars, tortures, extreme mass brutality everywhere, and mostly sleeping population groups enjoying a very short term bit of pseudo-democratic entertainment.
Would you want to take a one-way plunge down to Earth?
PASSAGE
- Written by: Bent Lorentzen
- Category: Fiction
This story is fiction and is not intended to represent any reality other than empowering creativity, embedded loosely in Cherokee mythology, in the face of evil. A 2001 version of the story earned a 3rd prize award from the International Ground Zero literature contest in 2002. Every few years I tend to update/edit it a bit around September 11. This is the first revision since Obama's POTUS tenure.
Section 2 - Page 40
- Written by: Infected Blood Comics
- Category: Fiction
Alex seeks the truth.
F I R S T - P R E V I O U S - N E X T
