Friday, April 18, 2025

Issues of Freedom.

 


Trump has targeted the FED Chair Powell to lower inflation, or he wants him gone from the Federal Reserve. The problem with Trump is that his tariff policy is causing economic turmoil in America and the world. This crisis has nothing to do with Powell's actions. Some Republicans have rejected the tariff agenda too. That is why there is a bipartisan effort to assert congressional primacy over tariff policies. White House trade leader Navarro lied and said that tariffs are tax cuts when they are tax increases on goods and services. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the disrespectful comment that kids with autism will never pay taxes, never hold a job, never play baseball, never write a poem, etc. He's a disgraceful piece of work. The truth is that millions of people with autism do have jobs, can write eloquently, do play sports, make art, and do tons of activities without any assistance spanning millennia. Robert Kennedy Jr. supports Trump, and Trump is the antithesis of his father's views. Robert Kennedy Sr. supported civil rights, but Trump wants to whitewash American history and restrict the power of the DOJ to fight racism and police brutality. Robert Kennedy Sr. supported the due process of residents of America, but Trump has deported legal residents without due process of law. Robert Kennedy Sr. promoted environmental protections, but Trump has eliminated legitimate environmental regulations and cut funding from NOAA.

Putin thanked the political leadership of Hamas. We know that the genocide in Gaza is wrong and evil. Yet, Hamas is a terrorist organization that doesn't represent all of the Palestinian people. Putin supporting the criminal group of Hamas is typical as Putin is another war criminal allowing the killing of civilian men, women, and children in Ukraine. Many so-called "anti-war" activists are silent on the Russian war crimes in Ukraine. I am not silent. I condemn the genocide taking place in Gaza by far-right Israeli governmental leaders and the war crimes in Ukraine done by a far-right Putin regime. I'm consistent. Also, hundreds of anti-Hamas Palestinian protesters in Gaza demand that Hamas step down from power. Yet, masked Hamas cowards had guns and batons and assaulted many protesters in trying to disperse the peaceful protesters, as reported by the BBC. This news shows how hypocritical many folks are. Hamas kidnapped, tortured, and murdered a Palestinian 22-year-old man named Oday Nasser Al Rabay, because he protested against Hamas in late March of 2025. The Palestinian protesters have every God-given right to be free from genocide by the Netanyahu regime and Hamas terrorism.


There has been a lot of debate and criticism over Pastor Philip Mitchell's words. First, I will show what he said, and then my views. He said that he didn't want black people to blame white cops for killing black kids. He said that he wants black people to be model citizens and not rebel against authority. He wants black people to be obedient to authority, and not kids to fight against authority and cops. He wants black people to be submitted to laws and authority. The problem with Pastor Mitchell's words is that his words lack nuance. We, as black people, should live life filled with integrity and righteousness (we should follow the Golden Rule and legitimate ethics in our social conduct), but we should not be silent when oppression is abundant in the world. Decades ago, Hitler was in authority in Nazi Germany in the 1930s overthrowing the Weimar Republic. Hitler passed laws stripping the rights of Jewish people, promoting concentration camps, and invested in the Holocaust. All of Hitler's policies in Nazi Germany were legal and filled with authority. As believers in God, should we follow Hitler's authority? The answer is of course No. Back almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire had the legal authority to force Christians to worship false gods or face death in many locations. Should we follow that authority? No. Even the Bible says that we oppose evil. So, we should follow just laws and legitimate ordinances that are righteous. The concept of government helping the people and administering justice is of God, and that is holy. The problem is that Trump and his crew are promoting unjust laws and political policies that are blatantly illegal, like firing innocent federal workers without just cause, deporting legal residents without due process of law, and violating the First Amendment in trying to force Harvard and other universities to whitewash American history. Pastor Mitchell promotes old school anti-black tropes that black kids collectively will disrespect cops and fight against society using nihilism. 

This is a racist stereotype, as the vast majority of black people in America follow the law. We just oppose unjust policies. We reject police brutality and the system of racism. He is wrong to say that black people should stop blaming white cops for the killing of black kids when tons of innocent, unarmed black people have been murdered unjustly by the police for centuries in America. Not all white cops and not all cops of every color are criminals, but exposing police brutality is not anti-legitimate authority. It's pro-truth. Us exposing police brutality doesn't mean we omit intraracial violence or gun violence in our community. We put things into context in saying that we should never kill each other as black people, but the majority of black people aren't murderous terrorists. That is what the respectability politics crowd omits. We should honor authority that treats us right, not condone authority oppressing us, mistreating us, and violating its own laws against us. That is the difference. The pastor omitted that Paul was a fugitive as he escaped prison for preaching the Gospel. Daniel was almost killed as he didn't agree with all of the policies of the governing authorities in the Middle East. The Apostles were on the run constantly, risking their lives, and most of the Apostles were murdered. For him to equate many legitimate concepts to "rebellious" is offensive to the families of the victims of police injustice. Ahmad Arbery, George Floyd, Tamir Rice, George Floyd, and other Brothers and Sisters were murdered without just cause by the police. They followed the law, but their lives were taken by evil cops. 

Respectability politics and submission to authority unconditionally are antithetical to history and truth. We have the God given right to oppose Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration, the Maafa, etc., as these evils were legal in America. We will not be silent, and we believe in spiritual liberation against evil. Following authority also means protesting, as the law permits us the right to protest and allows our grievances to be heard against unjust authority (as found in the First Amendment). The law gives people the right to go to the courts, protest peacefully, and speak our minds to reject unjust laws. We believe in democracy, not oligarchy. Congress has the right to abolish evil laws too. That (or peacefully protesting, voting, going to the courts, and speaking our minds) is part of our authority. We are called to oppose evil and promote good. The pastor omits that because he wants a docile population instead of a liberated, thoughtful population.


By Timothy





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Our Constitutional Crisis.

 


Harvard should be commended for refusing to submit to Trump's anti-free speech demands. The Trump administration has froze $2.2 billion in federal funding, because Harvard doesn't want its students to be fed a whitewash, distorted version of history and a denial of diversity in its student body. Trump demanded Harvard to ban DEI programs, screen international students, and promote "viewpoint diversity." Harvard's President Alan Garber rightfully said that the government has no right to force private universities to submit to the government's demands. Harvard has stood their ground. Yet, some universities have submitted to Trump's anti-DEI demands, which is about selling out to a tyrant. Trump is a fascist tyrant, as his policies violate the First Amendment. The government has no right to dictate to private universities what they can teach in their curriculum or syllabus, who they can admit or hire, and which areas of study they can pursue. Trump wants to attack educational freedom. Supporting the rights of Palestinian people is not anti-Semitism, and loving the concept of black liberation is not racism, regardless of what the Trump regime says.


Trump and his administration are defying the Supreme Court order saying that Abrego Garcia must return back to America. Garcia is from Maryland, and he is a legal U.S. resident. The Trump administration continues to lie and say that Garcia is a member of MS-13 when that has not been proven at all. Garcia was kidnapped and deported to El Salvador without due process of law. This is illegal. Trump wants universities to promote pro-Trump propaganda, and Trump wants the deportation of U.S. citizens, which is fascism. Deportation of U.S. citizens is illegal in violation of the 8th Amendment, the First Amendment, and the Constitution in general. The El Salvador CECOT mega-prison system is one of the most brutal detention facilities on Earth. Bukele is a dictator in El Salvador too. He has suppressed political opposition, too. He doesn't want Kilmar Abrego Garcia to return to his American wife and three children in Maryland. Attorney General Pam Bondi is a liar to say that Gracia is an MS-13 member and an illegal immigrant. Garcia is a legal resident, he was never charged with a crime, and he was kidnapped without due process. Trump is a fascist as he wants the President to be bound by no law, even above judicial rulings, have unchallenged authority over foreign policy and war, and have the power to deport or detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, without due process of law.


Russia committed another war crime with a missile strike in Ukraine's Sumy, killing 35 people. Yet, many fake anti-war advocates are silent because many of them want to support the dictator Vladimir Putin (who is a far-right bigot). Silence is not an option. Putin did this on Palm Sunday in a cruel irony. Russian officials lied and said that they wanted to target military targets, but children were murdered. Putin is a liar as Russian forces targeted civilian locations for years in the Ukrainian war. Trump said that tech-specific tariffs are coming soon. That contradicts Trump's supposed electronics exemption, underscoring that no one is being truly exempted from the tariffs. Trump wants the U.S. military to control much of the U.S./Mexico border and adopt repressive measures that would treat migrants crossing the border as though they were attacking a U.S. military base. The dehumanization of migrants has been part of the Trump playbook for years now.

Trump wants to deport American citizens to foreign concentration camps that he deems "homegrown" criminals. This is illegal. We haven't had this level of fascist promotion since the 1930s. This is beyond worse than Reagan, and we lived through Reagan. Reagan's policies were bad in tons of cases, but Trumpism is on another level of evil. Trump is not only complicit in this. All Trump supporters are complicit in this evil as they voted for this male. This policy is anti-democratic and anti-American. It is heinous. The Supreme Court has to fight back and condemn this injustice or America as we know it is gone. Next year is, ironically, the 250th year anniversary of America. This is the most blatantly constitutional crisis in American history in a long time. Now, an American citizen Krebs is being targeted by the Trump administration. He is an innocent man who disagrees with Trump. If this can happen to legal residents, it can happen to citizens. It has happened to the citizen, Krebs now being harassed by the Trump regime.


The cruel news is that Trump and El Salvador's President refuse to return the mistakenly deported man. This man is entitled to due process, as we ought not to be a fascist nation. The Supreme Court ordered Trump to send Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia (from Maryland, and he is a legal resident) back to America. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Trump should be ashamed of themselves. Trump has the power and the resources to send Gracia back home, but he refuses to follow a legal Supreme Court ruling, because Trump is an evil, xenophobic, and lawless Resident of the White House. Trump supporters hypocritically claim to love the rule of law, but they support Trump, who makes a mockery of legal court decisions. Trump has declared war on the rule of law, the federal judiciary, and we have a constitutional crisis now. Trump called for the impeachment of federal judges who ruled against him, which is illegal and fascist. We have to stand on our values and call out Trump for his anti-constitutional actions. Now, Trump wants to deport American citizens if he can find legal justifications for it (when that is illegal).  Trump is a dictator and a fascist. I will not sugarcoat my words. The leader of the DOJ and Trump supporters want to stonewall legal decisions that go against Trump's agenda. Democrats and other freedom lovers must talk about this issue from the rooftops.


By Timothy