OUR PEOPLE SPEAK

THE ONLY THING WE HAVE LEFT IS OUR VOICES

Today, I drove to the Civic Center in Oceanside CA, to participate in the Hands Off protest against what the Trump administration is doing to Our Country. A single person, Trump, has a big start in turning America into an autocracy. This person, unfortunately is our elected President. For the price of eggs, he was elected and for that reason, we now have no law at the highest level of our Government. The Supreme Court has become, yes puppets, the strings pulled by money from Elon Musk, the Republican project 2025, and the President. The Congress has become an echo of the Supreme Court and has dutifully let the President become a King.

The People spoke with one voice as I listened, “Hey Hey Ho Ho Donald Trump has got to Go”!

I spoke with many and all had the same concerns, our rights have been taken away, and the institutions we depend on are being destroyed.

Some of the signs proclaimed: Hands off of our Libraries, Hands off of our Schools, Hands off of our Environment, Hands off our Social Security, and many with signs with colorful language.

There were two young men creating their posters. I thanked them for their efforts and they told me that after this protest ended at 110;30, they were going to San Diego to take part in one which started later in the day.

There were many cheers with the people and horn honking from cars passing by with thumbs up. One of the loudest boos was for the most ugly truck in the world, the Tesla Truck. This truck came around more than three times, and I wondered if someone has paid for the driver to give the bird to the crowd...

Back home I found that this protest, Hands Off has spread to other countries, and for good reason. What Trump has stupidly done is to offend every Country in the world and impacted the economic futures of all across the Globe.

One of the men to whom I spoke said, this is what we have left, Our Voices. Will this be enough? What has happened in just two months is beyond the pale, what will happen in eighteen months before the next election? It is no accident that the incredible speed with which the President is acting, has terminated so many workers was planned to keep people off balance.

I expect Trump to do much more before the 2026 election. He is on a crazy mission of vengeance.

What will be left for our People to keep The Republic...

Benjamin Franklin  

 

THE  AMERICAN PEOPLE SPEAK   

Yesterday in Encinitas CA and across the Country the People of America has this to say. This video says it all. 

One person's Voice  gives us a hopeful perspective of wonder in our Madding World

Rain 

“Scrolling Through Stressful Times, When Ending Aide to Malnourished Children is Applauded,

and Podcasters Laugh at Being Called Nazis, and the Bill of Rights Seemingly No Longer

Exists, and Government Employees Are Fired Without Cause, and The Nation Has Elected a

President Who Fomented a Rebellion Assisted by a News Media which Amplified a Lie About a

Stolen Election, and Much Much More That Makes a Person Feel That It Really Might Be

Hopeless”

And then, it began to rain in Southern California

A Poem, by P.J. Whetney

2025

 

 

The Supremes

As I watched the Presidential traditional State of Union last night, the thought that the real power of the United States was siting in the first row below the podium where the President stood. They were sitting there in Black Robes and now have made the President a King.

Supreme Court associate justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Sonia Sotomayor and Neil M. Gorsuch were not present Tuesday at the joint Congressional address.

Curious, this morning I wondered where in the Constitution does it say that the Supremes have a life time tenure for this job. Article 3 in the Constitution says;

“The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office”.

The term good behavior has somehow become a lifetime tenure for the Supremes. Good behavior should be that one does not lie when taking the oath during a confirmation hearing and lies about settled law such as Roe V Wade. Roe v. Wade was a1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide. The decision ruled that the Constitution protects a person's right to privacy, which includes the right to control pregnancy. The ruling also stated that states cannot place undue restrictions on abortion.

Good Behavior should not include making up a ruling out of whole cloth that the President has immunity from crimes while in office. This ruling has had the effect of conferring upon the President he is above the law. We have been believing in our history That no Man is above the Law. Actually, these words are not anywhere in our Constitution. What is says is; that every one is equal before the law and that everyone has equal protection under the law. We know that with great wealth the legal system can be manipulated to find ways to divert, to delay, and sometimes to become a game where the rich find ways to not be held accountable.

The Supremes also did not have Good Behavior when they suspended the 14^th Amendment section 3. Clearly, Mr Trump did in fact create the mob which invaded our Capital on January 6, and tried to give him the presidency which he lost in the 2020 election. He is by definition an insurrectionist...

The Supremes take two oaths of Office;

The First Oath, The Constitutional Oath; "I, ________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

The Second Oath, is the Judicial Oath; "I, ________, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God."

Dear Mr. Franklin it seems that keeping our Republic is becoming more challenging without our Courts fulfilling their oaths and a President who continues to flout the law...

THE PRESIDENT'S WORDS,

are lies

In America our President speaks many words to the People. In the year of 2025, the words of the President are filled with lies and disinformation. The concept of Truth seems to be considered only when it benefits this President. Contradicting what we see with our own eyes and hear with our ears, he proclaims the opposite in his statements.

What is the value of Truth? It lies at the heart of our Democracy. Our Constitution has been the guiding truth with Articles and Amendments which have been our National truth for 250 years. Now, the President has spoken to the People that he is King. This is a lie.

Post from the White House

On his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday, Mr. Trump went a step further, likening himself to a king as he celebrated his administration’s move to kill New York City’s congestion pricing program.

“ Congestion is Dead. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED,” he wrote. “LONG LIVE THE KING!”

His words this last week that Ukraine started the war with Russia is lie. He has given the entire world a lie, which has alienated our historical allies. And given them a reason to doubt our participation in NATO, article 5 which has been the guide star for peace since WWII.

The very title of the platform on which the President speaks, “Truth Social” is an anathema to the Truth of our National Conscience.

The Words of the President could be an inspiration, which can bring the People together for the challenges of our world's peaceful future, or they can destroy our human condition with his greed and self serving need to be King of our destiny...

 

 

THE PEOPLES WORDS

AMERICA'S WORDS COME FROM...

MANY SOURCES:

Our historical written documents, our news media, our Congressional Leaders, The Supreme Court, The President of the United States, and the People of America.

Today, the headline by the San Diego news paper, the Union Tribune proclaimed;

“MARCHES OPPOSE TRUMP AGENDA: IT'S TERRIFYING”.

Today, the words come from the People of America living in San Diego and the Tribune printed them. “The People will not bend down and let Elon Musk ravish the treasury and destroy regulations meant to protect the people”.

In pondering the speed with which the new administration and Mr Musk is penetrating the various agencies, we encounter a strategy of overwhelming the courts in their ability to stop the culling of information which should be private to us from the various federal agencies which were created to protect us, we the People. So far the Department of the Treasury, the Department of of Labor, Education and more. When reading the Project 2025 last summer, it was apparent that this would happen. We were warned. Yet, how many people read this 900 page document and took it to heart? Mr. Trump tried to distance himself from this plan, and people believed him.

So now we learn that Mr. Trump was lying. He appointed the worlds richest man, who is a far right Nazi sympathizer, to invade our Federal agencies and steal our personal information. How do we stop this madness? He appointed to his cabinet people who are “loyal” to him and will not obey established law, and this leaves us with no clear path to stop the implementation of Project 2025. The Words within this document are proposed to be the American Words which we should live by.

 

John McCain, His last Words

more important today than when he spoke in July 2017                                           

 Words we can be Proud of...

Some of Americas best words have come from speeches from the Floor of our Senate. The Words are sometimes inspiring, and sometimes a warning. I remember well the last speech of our great Senator John McCain. It was July 25^th 2017. Here is his last speech, he was recovering from surgery with brain cancer.

When I listen today, I weep. Where are all of our leaders of today who can say words which could bring us together?