Recap of this week in the revolution: Martin Kerr releases a new protest album and DC sues Trump regime. Trump to rename Department of Defense, RFK Jr. replaces CDC employees with anti-vaxers, and Florida concentration camp to resume operations. New police force created to target immigrants and Florida to remove vaccine requirements from schools.
The good...
Martin Kerr—"folk troubadour for the post-truth age"—is a Canadian singer and songwriter whose songs are being adopted as anthems of democracy in the fight against fascism.
Kerr's latest album, Overdue for a Revolution, includes 6 original songs and 6 parodies of classic songs, each perfectly capturing the heart and soul of the resistance.
It's incredible to see people singing my songs around the planet, raising their voices together, calling for peace, truth and justice. I hope you sing along and feel you're not the only one.
Image by Darin Barry from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit against the Trump regime for its unlawful deployment of the National Guard in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. The Act was passed specifically to limit the president's use of the military domestically to enforce the law. Instead, Trump made up a lie that D.C. was overrun with crime, constituting a crises that opened a loophole in the law.
In addition to sending troops to D.C., the Trump regime is rushing to push through legislation that would allow it to tighten its control over the city indefinitely. The proposed legislation includes making the attorney general an appointed position (Currently, the attorney general is elected by the people).
The Trump regime is threatening to send the National Guard to Chicago next, and has mentioned several other cities as well. Unsurprisingly, the cities being targeted are those run by Democratic-leaning officials.
The bad...
Surrender...or face my fury!
Donny 2-Dolls signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War. The plan has been roundly criticized by the military and legal analysts as "complete idiocy." Trump ran on the promise to "end global interventionism" and end wars. This move, which he foolishly thinks will strike fear into the hearts of our enemies, will cost billions in taxpayer funds just to update all of the paperwork and signage currently bearing the name of the department.
Trump thinks the name "Department of Defense" is too woke and that changing the name will reflect the United States' "commitment to lethality." That's right...the same idiot who thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize wants to increase the "warrior ethos" of his country by changing the name of a department.
Image by DonkeyHotey from Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
During his confirmation hearings before being appointed as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kennedy repeatedly promised that he would do nothing to make it more difficult to access vaccines or discourage people from taking them. Just a few months into his tenure, he has thoroughly broken that promise by demanding the CDC change its COVID policy to recommend the vaccine only for people over 65 or with underlying health issues, which makes them more difficult for anyone else to access.
Kennedy fired the CDC vaccine panel and re-staffed it with known anti-vaxers. He also fired CDC director Susan Monarez, claiming that he asked her if she was trustworthy and she said "no." Monarez denies this claim and says that Kennedy asked her to resign when she refused to rubber-stamp his new vaccine policy recommendations. Earlier this year, Kennedy referred to Monarez as unimpeachable and said he had full confidence in her and her scientific credentials.
South Florida Detention Facility nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz."
A recent court ruling ordered the south Florida concentration camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz" be shut down and dismantled, but an appeals court has overturned the ruling.
The original ruling cited the government's failure to conduct environmental impact studies, as required by federal law, noting that the Trump regime is reimbursing Florida for the cost of building, which would make the facility a federal one. The appeals court disagreed and declared the facility a state facility, therefore not subject to federal jurisdiction.
The ugly...
Image from White House video showing the explosion of a speedboat in international waters.
The United States military attacked a speedboat in the Caribbean, killing 11 civilians. The Trump regime claims that the boat was carrying drug traffickers and heading towards the United States. This claim has not been confirmed, and any evidence of drug smuggling activities has conveniently been obliterated by the attack.
Drug trafficking, while a crime, is not punishable by death, and the United States, especially the United States military, has no authority to summarily execute foreign civilians on the mere suspicion that they are carrying drugs and bound for the United States. This move is not only unlawful in every way imaginable, it is also an act of war.
Gestapo uniform pins.
The Trump regime is forming a new armed law enforcement agency that will answer to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that will have all the powers of a federal-level law enforcement agency. Agents will be armed and have the authority to make arrests as well as execute search and arrest warrants.
The agency will target immigrants as well as lawyers who assist with their petitions for visas, green cards, etc. The USCIS is currently an administrative agency that has the authority to grant or deny applications. They do not have the authority to execute raids and arrest people, and that is a very intentional limitation on the power granted to the agency. The proposed change will remove these checks against the abuse of power.
The agency will also monitor the social media usage of applicants and send officers to spy on them in their communities to determine whether an applicant has "good moral character."
Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo wants to end all childhood vaccine requirements in the state, saying that all vaccine requirements "drip with disdain and slavery," whatever that means. Ladapo has been caught altering data to make the COVID-19 vaccine look more risky than it actually is.
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said, "We can expect that measles will come roaring back. Other infectious diseases will follow. This is an unprecedented move that will only put our children at unnecessary risk."
Unfortunately, when a family decides not to vaccinate their children, they are not only putting their own children at risk, they are threatening the health and well-being of everyone around them. The purpose of vaccine mandates is to develop "herd immunity"—where enough of the population is immunized that a disease can't establish a foothold to spread through the population. If a small number of people are not immunized (either by choice or because they have a health condition that prevents them from being vaccinated), they are kept safe by the simple fact that most of the population is immunized. But when the percentage of people who are not immunized grows enough, the disease can easily be spread to anyone who is unvaccinated, and even to people who are vaccinated—a phenomenon called "break-through" infections.
On the lighter side...
