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“THE NEWS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” SO SAYS OUR PRESIDENT...

I remember in the 1950's when my brother went to Boy Scout Camp, I had to deliver his paper route. Almost every home had a paper delivered. It was a big job riding a bike and throwing with accuracy the paper to land on the door step. On my morning walks in 2025, there is only one other home in my neighborhood, which has a paper home delivered. In the 50's the News was our local paper, The Whittier Daily News, and in the evening's Network news with Edward R. Murrow at CBS. We trusted both news sources. There was no 24 hour cable, no cell phone influence-rs, no AI making up fake stories, and most of all, what we read, heard, and saw the news was an independent critically presented trusted source for our daily lives. At our Family dinner time, we as a family had occasion to talk about together what was news of the Day.

Who do you Trust Now? Really trust to get the Whole Story. To find the Whole Story. The Networks have a daily Evening News which has been downsized to 15 minuets of headlines. Even so, the headlines are only what is deemed profitable to capture a Click. Social Media for many folks has replaced traditional news sources. This kind of news is most often experienced on a Cell Phone in an abbreviated form. The TV version of news for many is Fox News, which has paid millions of dollars for having people lie on their platform. Many of my neighbors get their news on Instagram. I remember who sat in back of Trump at his inauguration. The Media Giants, Billionaires all...their social platforms are designed by algorithms, to engender clicks of like minded people and spread the stories for clicks...Real news, trusted research* is NOT their cause, their cause is making more money and power for themselves...and, not report any negative information about Trump or his policies.

Words of our Senate in Real Time

To counter, I suggest to them that C-Span, 1,2,3, is a great way to watch in real time the meanderings, double speak, and what is really happening in our Congress. PBS on TV and NPR radio give in real time a source of news in depth. Most of the time, I trust my own eyes and ears on C-span, and trust what I am hearing on PBS, most of the Time.

Cell Phones are the distribution mechanism of AI generated fake media. Stories, Art, News, Politics, and attacks on peoples privacy and personal lives writ large. Coupled with AI Chat-GP these communications can be spread exponentially in seconds. When the President writes his tweets on Truth Social, it is transported to his millions of followers in seconds. Believing all that you see on social media accounts is like believing a six year old child with a pile of rocks in front of him saying he didn't break that darn window he is standing in front of with a rock seen within.

He lies about so many stories, with elements of truth sometimes, that followers are in thrall with his attention to them. Let's contemplate the twitter platform he has created.

Truth Social. Sounds innocent and real, it's first word Truth is what he want's his followers to believe is factual Truth. When someone is trying to sell you a used car, and he loudly proclaims that the car is without any defects, do you believe him or, do you take it in for a check up from your trusted mechanic? When someone says the big lie over and over again somehow it becomes so familiar, it seems true.

Social is the second word on his twitter site. Social is a word we all are a part of, it has become a thing, in our daily lives. Humans are mostly social beings. We love to have friends to interact with daily, and whether in person or on our phones, we are Connected. By it's self, the word is innocent. It does not have a negative theme. It implies friendship, community, and happiness to connect, to be a part of a needed experience. We are hooked. We all have this need to be connected with those we trust and love.

Turning to a source for information and truth on this platform Truth Social can only be factual right? A genius lure to draw in the trusting masses looking for solutions for moral and economic problems. 

Clark Stanley

The snake oil salesman is very charismatic. He is an entertainer. He speaks with vigorous force and strategic movement, energizing his audience. He is exciting, he is more interesting than common sense. He becomes a trusted Friend. He tells all of the People that their problems will all be solved by him alone. Didn't we hear that years ago when he first began his plan to become king? 

What on God's Green Earth would make you believe that this  Billionaire cares about You? Prices are NOT a concern for him. 

I Will bring prices down...his words, we all heard him, some believed him... too many believed.

* Snopes

The Fourteenth Amendment in the Year of 2025

In the previous post, I enumerated some of the steps which contribute to the establishing of a Dictatorship. The 14^th erosion amendment was the first step.

Government Power

1. The Presidency

2. The Congressional

3. The Judicial

For almost 250 years, our Country has survived and prospered under the words of The Founders Constitution. The present day officers of our Country's Governmental operational functions have become beholden to those who have decided to change or give new meanings to the original text of the Constitution. The Three co-equal branches of our Government have the power to impart to our lives all of the rights and privileges defined under the Constitution.

Thank You Again, I won't Forget 

The checks and balances of the Three Branches of our Government have been co-opted by the Supreme Court and now the most powerful words come from the Office of the President. It has been determined that the President is not an Officer of our Government by the Supreme Court. He, above all is immune to what his words can do by executive order. However, he is a executive person who has taken an oath to “uphold the office of President”. ArticleII section 1, [8]. If a person takes an oath to uphold the office of President, it seem logical that he would be considered an officer. This doesn't seem to the be position of the Supreme Court.

A partial list of the President's new powers granted by The Supreme Court;

                    1. Release of 1500 convicted traitors for Jan. 6^th

2. Immunity from creating Jan 6^th insurrection

3. Overriding a State Governor's power of National Guard

4. Disregarding Presidential oath of office

5. Disregarding Due Process for immigrants

6. Immunity for aiding traitors of Jan 6^th

7. Federal Election Interference Case:*

8. Classified Documents Case*

9. Georgia Election Interference Case*

10. Civil Lawsuits Related to January 6th*

11. “Friday Night Massacre,” firing the Igs

12. Creating a non-governmental office of DODE

13. Bombing Iran

The Peoples House and the Senate because of fear, their Constitutional imposed duties have been subsumed into the office of the President. His words now have and hold the greatest power in our Government. The greatest weapon of this President is Fear.

Another article of the 14^th is the nullification of the Section I. All persons born in the United Sates are Citizens of the United States. By the words and EOs of the President we now have questionable status of those born in America for mothers who are not legal citizens. The legal status of many immigrants are now being rounded up and made prisoners to be deported. The conflation of these two very different problems, immigration and birthright have imbued terror our brown and black populations. The 5^th Amendment is circumvented defining due process seems to have vanished.

People Power ~ The Preamble to the Constitution of America

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”.

People Power

In the 8^th grade We had to memorize this preamble in writing for our final exam. Civics was a required subject to graduate. My teacher Maud Brink, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March in WWII . She told us that a Japanese Guard gave the family one meal day of gruel and one egg a week for her and her three children. She, return taught him English. Her stories of Dictatorship inspired war were vividly told, and her struggles on the march with her children who were about the same age as we were, gave us an appreciation of America and our Constitutional rights told to us by a powerful woman who had all of her rights taken away, and faced death of her children and herself every day.

The Bataan Death March

For the Price of Eggs we now have a would be Dictator...and his words of Unlimited Power...

Our People Power, will it be enogh, can it hold untill the midterms...? 

* When Trump became President,he pardoned himself.

 

Where are we as a Nation on the on the slippery slope of Dictatorship? What defines a Nation as living within a Dictatorship? What defines a Nation as a Democracy? 

The Free Press, Freedom of Speech, Due Process, Freedom from Fear, Constitutional Integrity, National Leaders upholding our Constitution. These elements are foundational for living in a true Democracy.

Purge Defined: the removal of elements or members regarded as undesirable and especially as treacherous or disloyal. Elements of a Purge* for a Nation.

1. Step one...Declaring that the Press is the enemy of the People.

2. Step two...Declaring that certain people are criminals and enemies of the State.  

   
   
   

3. Step Three... Instilling Fear into the Press, the Courts, Universities, the Public Media, the Representatives of the States and the Justice elements as defined in the Constitution.

4. Step Four... By executive order, removing all of those deemed disloyal to the President of our Country. 

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    Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

   
   
   

The Creation of foundational support for a Dictatorship. 

1. Step one...Eroding the Constitution by the Supreme Court. FourteenthAmendment

2. Constructing new frameworks of monetary influence and election support and facilitation. Citizens United

3. Step two...Establishing ...new unconstitutional powers for the President. AbsoluteImmunity

4. Consolidating of Congressional support though Fear. Primaried

5. Creating a following of noncritical thinking peoples who willingly allow a Leader speaking untruths to achieve his unconstitutional goals of establishing his new powers of dictatorship. MAGA 

6. Utilizing one press entity to inform, fertilize and indoctrinate a large segment of the Population. This one station of information is the only one that the President tells the People that speaks the Truth. Period, full stop. Fox News 

Elements of Purge have already happened. The creation of a Foundational Support for a Dictatorship has already happened. Where does our Nation stand on this slippery slope of Dictatorship? It seems that we are sliding downward at warp speed. The Courts, the Congress, the Press, our legal system have caved. What we have left is our first Amendment Right for Assembly. Do we have any hope that we can retain our rights until the Mid-Term election?

* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purge

 

Horsemen of Fear

My country, 'tis of thee,

sweet land of liberty,
of thee I sing:
land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrims' pride,
from every mountainside
let freedom ring!

We have songs in America which we learn as Children. I remember singing them all on Friday afternoons during WWII. We love our Country, and take the words of these songs into our collective DNA. As we grow older, we take for granted the truths of these songs. “Let Freedom Ring” is the last sentence of America, My Country Tis a Thee. Do Children still sing these songs?

We sing our National Anthem at football, baseball, and other games where we, part of a large crowd sing proud of our Country and all that it stands for, written in these songs.

What song would we sing when horsemen come into parks where children are playing and happiness is destroyed by trucks of military men with masked faces that seem like a movie is playing out in this new reality. The horses have face shields, the men with black masks completely covering their faces. These same horsemen trampled a man last month in Los Angeles. This is not  let Freedom Ring  this is terror.

MacArthur Park L.A.

Our Friends, neighbors, and workers we depend on are now fearful of the ICE team dragging them into vans without cause or warrants. Let Freedom Ring seems far away, and broken. If you have a brown skin, no warrant needed, no due process is available, no criminal background can save you.

I have always admired policemen on horses. They let you pet the horse and they are your friend and protector. Now, it seems that our President's henchwoman, Kristi Noem is playing out some kind of power ploy, and gives National Security as a reason for this action for employing the National Guard and Horsemen to inculcate fear into our Communities.

The President says that He Loves God. What kind of Man says love and god in the same sentence and then employs Horsemen to instill fear in our People...