Let’s flood BlueSky with this message so that the MSM will be forced to report on the phenomenon and get back to why Trump is desperately creating these distractions.
Unfortunately, George, the Founding Fathers left ambiguity in the US Constitution, with the vesting clause and Unitary Executive power being the worst.
Today’s authoritarian GOP is taking advantage of the UET in the Executive, Congress, and SCOTUS.
“The Nuremberg trials established the principle that neither “obeying the law” nor “following orders” is a sufficient legal defense for those accused of violating basic standards of civilization.”
—Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
And where the US may have withdrawn from the ICC thinking that will offer protection, they are still a signatory state to the Nuremberg Principles and Rome Statute. There is no protection from 'I was just following orders.'
The Rome Statute was signed but never ratified thereby making the signature null and void. The President cannot unilaterally make treaties, it requires the advice and consent of the Senate, consent which they did not give to the Rome Statute.
Even so, there is no protection from violation of international law. Trump, should he survive this, is going to The Hague. He will never be tried in the US again. Our 2 tier system is insufficient for monsters.
The American Service-Members' Protection Act, informally called The Hague Invasion Act, gives the President standing authorization to do anything necessary, up to and including a military invasion, to get an American citizen back.
Also, it violates Federal law to assist the ICC in this capacity.
We are going to be in full war with ourselves soon. He is betting his military will protect him & keep in in power. He will do what he always dreamed of. Weak impotent men love this weak impotent man: he’s everything they’re not: rich
I mean, we don't need him back and I don't agree with the law, but it's a bad idea to give any future Republican President an excuse to use military intervention, which they are already authorized to use if that should happen.
The people who are doing the most harm in the world today, by concentrating money, manipulating public policy, or destroying the environment, are doing so legally.
Yes! (but also they’re doing it illegally as well, just that no one enforces the laws on them - there’s such significant overlap between the ignored legal harms and the ignored illegal harms because it’s the same powerful people)
The law must be grounded in the one fundamental rule that no person is legally allowed to harm another while enabling people the freedom to make non-harmful choices as they see fit.
It’s why we need to force his name and face to the forefront so the entire country can see who the devil really is. This is this Nazis life long mission. And he needs to be held accountable for the destruction he is causing.
It’s why we need to force his name and face to the forefront so the entire country can see who the devil really is. This is this Nazis life long mission. And he needs to be held accountable for the destruction he is causing.
”All men are created equal.. endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness… Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
I tell you it's sad as an American I had to order these days ago, they will be arriving this afternoon... To feel like I will ever need these in our so called "Land of the free. Is terrifying.
IF WHITE AMERICA DOES NOTHING TO STOP THIS, TRUMP WILL NOT STOP.
WHITE AMERICA MUST STOP THE WHITE ADMINISTRATION.
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But which principles are regarded at any given time are highly mutable. And to misquote Rummy, you go with the laws you have, not with the laws you should have.
She’s absolutely right of course. The problem is that magats have weaponized a diabolical interpretation of the same idea. In their case if you have power and you don’t like a law ignore it.
I don't think these people give a shit about a coherent rational argument (smacks of intellectualism) or a plea for christian morals or ethics (they wear the cross, they don't need to walk the talk).
Yes, obviously. That's why we have democracy by which voters may influence laws to make them more congruent with their ever evolving ethical or moral views. But going outlaw is destabilizing and anti-social and should be taken only under extreme conditions with an eye to potential consequences.
When possible, I suppose the ethical thing to do with a law one considers unethical or immoral is to follow it until one can change it in the normal way. However, under extreme conditions, if one is willing to accept the consequences for oneself and society, one may choose some level of criminality.
If one's morality begins and ends simply with "I follow the law," I'm afraid one may end up performing all manner of evil in this world. There is ethical value to following the rule of law as a part of society, of course, but there are other important ethical values as well. It's complicated.
A great deal depends on one's assessment of why one is going outlaw: Helping slaves escape back then? Running a speakeasy? Refusing to serve in a war one considers unjust? Robbing a bank? Shooting your neighbor for a bag of gold? Just saying. It's not a simple issue.
And as Mr. Takei points out, one's ethical views on the legal and political system that produced and enforces the laws are surely part of that equation, give laws more or less ethical significance. Is the law made by democratic government? Did a fascist tyrant pull it out his back pocket just now?
Your skin color doesn't change your value.
Your pronouns don't change your value.
Your love doesn't change your value.
Your differences don't change your value.
The way you act and treat others does.
If you can't act civilized towards other people, you don't belong in a civilized society.
And now the Baptists Church calls for a ban on gay marriage sports betting & promote having more children meaning double down on abortion. Why is anyone supporting this? What happened to separation of Church & State? Why is anyone not saying anything agains it?
We need a way to show Americans that Trump’s response is overblown. I suggest all peaceful protesters document their peaceful protest #notaninsurrection.
Local police should be enforcing local laws on federal agents. That includes compliance with a multitude of offenses like parking to kidnapping. Unwind it all in court. That's what MAGA does! MAKE UP charges, who cares, as long as they are kept on the defense ...
The standard of legality is NOT the standard of ethics--unless a conscientious lawmaker uses ethical principles to form laws. Ethics is based on principles and arguments for which there is evidence that they contribute to the overall well-being of humans--and by extension, the planet we inhabit.
Jim Crow was most definitely not legal, but that did not stop it from being the de facto reality for a very long time. The laws of this land are only as good as those who are entrusted with enforcing them.
My father-in-law's family (2 adults and 4 children) survived the Holocaust because a member of the Dutch resistance found hiding places for all of them. She broke the law and risked her life.
She is honored at Yad Vashem along with many other righteous gentiles.
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It's why the european union (under a different name) was created after WWII, to uphold the laws of each other member states, the US refuses to partake in such international safety nets because it prefers to go down the path of criminality in government, without any recourse, just corruption...
What kind of FUCKERY is this?! Agent Orange posted this, asking citizens to turn in their neighbors to ICE - just like NAZI Germany! wtf?! You are HERE!
👇👇👇This is REAL!
Bc that’s the whole pt. Incels hanker for the ‘good old days’. 1940-50. When black ppl couldn’t compete for jobs. When women couldn’t have their own bank accounts so every man no matter how vile was guaranteed a bangmaid.
Colonialism was legal crime. The Virginia Company kidnapped children. Habeas Corpus law became more defined because the proprietor of Carolina disappeared his enemies there. There a term similar to the term Shanghaied: Barbadosed. It meant being deported and bound to a sugar plantation forever.
Cuban sugar slavery is predominantly a late eighteenth century to nineteenth century phenomenon. Chasteen's Born in Blood and Fire is a good read on the subject.
I went with examples of English enslavers because their crimes led to the formation of the US.
And TBC this was a crime. Just because a tyrant is allowed to commit crimes against you does not void the criminality. Legitimacy is not the same as legality; kidnapping and murder are crimes. They have always been crimes. And regimes that allow such crimes are, themselves, criminals.
Lawrence Kohlberg's work on moral reshowed most people as "conventional moralists." They have external locus of moral control - usually government or religion, but that could also be a cult leader.
Decades after Nuremberg. But "I was just following orders" makes more sense knowing that.
That's a great sentiment. What do we do when they aren't?
Californians, we can do better. Sign the petition to put the independence referendum on the ballot and contact your representatives. (See profile for how)
Can we skip to the part where Felon Taco and the rest of this administration is put in front of Nuremberg style courts for their crimes against humanity?
Abe Lincoln ended slavery and Union Army soldiers fought and died to liberate African Americans from slavery ON THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUAL RIGHTS. Where are Blacks' appreciation for the Union soldiers who died to abolish the institution of slavery the Southern Confederacy fought to keep? Answer that.
Anne Frank was deemed an ILLEGAL in her country - the law can be changed to fit any narrative. Trump is a narcissistic sociopath and is enabled by Christo-fascists such as Miller and Vought.
My Aunt Mae was in the camps, in the US during the war. Just rounded up 1 day, whole family, taken.
She told me a lot of stories, most were about a tsunami that made her family decide 2 immigrate 2 the US. The rest were about her days in the camps during the war.
Blk ppl die everyday at the hands of gov(police) w/out the same outrage, not one immigrant or protester has died.
blk people don't wave other countries flags
Never has the law been on the right side of history. The law only reflects the whims of the ruling class and nothing else. Morality is sacrosanct. There is right and wrong inherently and that can’t be governed.
The Founders, for all their faults, created a legal system that enabled the Abolitionists to abolish slavery, the Suffragists to enfranchise women, and for modern advocates to establish Gay Marriage and more. This is a record of legal progress that Americans can be proud of.
Well you could expand that also to the german nazi party 1933-45....concentration camps were legal.... mass executions of civilians as answer to partisan activity were legal....execution of students who distribute flyers against nazi regime legal...Stalins purges were legal too we could go on and on
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(Vesting Clause)
Unfortunately, George, the Founding Fathers left ambiguity in the US Constitution, with the vesting clause and Unitary Executive power being the worst.
Today’s authoritarian GOP is taking advantage of the UET in the Executive, Congress, and SCOTUS.
—Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning
Also, it violates Federal law to assist the ICC in this capacity.
I mean, we just have to watch the US government.
GESTAPO ABDUCTION & DETENTION are ILLEGAL
REGARDLESS if done at trump's behest.
CALL IT WHAT IT IS E_T_H_N_I_C CLEANSING
from maniacal trump, a megalomanic.
IT IS trump's AUTOCRACY & the END of DEMOCRACY,
IF we ALLOW IT and are SILENT!
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Right now, justice and the Law are lines diverging.
”All men are created equal.. endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness… Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Always choose ethical.
WHITE AMERICA MUST STOP THE WHITE ADMINISTRATION.
#usa ##losangeles @governor.ca.gov #California #ice #RACISM
Charles Dickens "Oliver Twist"
Just in case you find out soon afterwards that basically nothing has changed.
Rosa Parks broke the law. The people who protected Jews from the Nazis broke the laws.
Which side of history do you want to be on - the side which obeyed or that which made things change?
Your pronouns don't change your value.
Your love doesn't change your value.
Your differences don't change your value.
The way you act and treat others does.
If you can't act civilized towards other people, you don't belong in a civilized society.
Ask yourself,
Why arent they?
Why do white men even open their damn mouths?
She is honored at Yad Vashem along with many other righteous gentiles.
https://youtu.be/uIRLy-2pZqQ
World used to be flat
Women were the "weaker sex"
Laws are sometimes wrong.
https://apple.news/AX8XpDxDmQRa7g9TvrrLfuA
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I went with examples of English enslavers because their crimes led to the formation of the US.
Decades after Nuremberg. But "I was just following orders" makes more sense knowing that.
Californians, we can do better. Sign the petition to put the independence referendum on the ballot and contact your representatives. (See profile for how)
#calexit
I over this reality TV sh-t show.
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She told me a lot of stories, most were about a tsunami that made her family decide 2 immigrate 2 the US. The rest were about her days in the camps during the war.
We are better than this.
blk people don't wave other countries flags
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/232140.The_Cunning_of_History
https://bsky.app/profile/josephwesker.bsky.social/post/3lrfd3xdhlk2o
Stage 6 is simplified in this graphic, but its the only one that I could find.
Stage 6 is actually called "Universal Human Equity."
"Law and order" is simplistic moral reasoning.
The problem is, the right uses this same argument for their desire to make abortion illegal on “moral grounds” as well.
It’s a bit too much of a Rorschach.
but in America Republican$ are making
Law & Ethics Mutually Exclusive
To quote the Preamble to the Constitution…
“…To form a MORE perfect Union…”
So long as we learn from mistakes and Amend our foundational Law when necessary, it will continue becoming ‘more perfect’.
What's wrong with that?
DHS is supporting existing laws.
... I forgot how funny that show was and wow looking back at the time how so innovative and brave and courageous and cheeky it was
Forcing indigenous children from their homes into boarding school torture camps was legal until the 1970s!