#Democratic Republic of Con

[brrmian]

something that so many star wars fans somehow fail to realize is that george lucas always intended for the fall of the republic to be a completely unavoidable tragedy. that’s what makes it such brilliant storytelling.

placing the blame on just one party in the galaxy-wide farce that was the clone wars just isn’t interpreting the story the way its writer intended. neither is saying that all players should be held equally accountable. i don’t think the jedi were at fault for the state of the republic, and (despite the fact that he did horrible things) neither was anakin, on a galactic or governmental scale.

the real villain is palpatine, who shaped the government into a corrupt system by his own hand. the blame for turning a democratic republic into an authoritarian dictatorship (which it was long before it became the empire) under the noses of thousands of incredibly corrupt politicians must be placed entirely on him, and him alone.

by the end of the war, the jedi council recognized that they had already lost the ability to hold onto what it truly means to be a jedi. in their prime during the days of the old republic, the jedi knights were “the guardians of peace and justice.” they’re meant to as diplomats, peacekeepers, mediators, and public servants. when the clone wars began, they were essentially forced into being soldiers, generals, and quasi-politicians by palpatine and the senate. all of those things are antithetical to the jedi’s beliefs, but they had no other choice.

placing even the smallest bit of blame on the jedi for anything leading to the republic’s downfall—and their own—is not only unfair, it’s factually incorrect. the jedi order is a monastic organization. they have no say in the senate and no voting power. saying they’re corrupt, when in fact they were just as conned by palpatine as the rest of the galaxy, is victim-blaming and scapegoating.

palpatine shoved the jedi face first into fighting the war, and pretty much threw the clone army into their laps on top of that. the jedi had no say in the matter, and they certainly had no say in the war itself being started, either. because he controlled both sides, palpatine was able to make the CIS and the republic declare war on each other even though its citizens wanted the same outcome: political independence and survival. if not for palpatine’s schemes, the separatists would have been allowed to secede peacefully, the republic would have continued existing, and the war would have been completely avoided. but that was unfortunately not the case.

so in a galaxy thrown into an unavoidable war by its own secret dictator, with an army of sentient slaves suddenly at their command, and the risk of billions of deaths at the hands of the droid army imminently approaching, what do the galaxy’s official peacekeepers have no other choice but to do? be peacekeepers. why wouldn’t the sworn defenders of the galaxy be out on the battlefields trying to end the war? if they sat in the temple and did nothing, they simply wouldn’t be jedi.

the jedi were forced into a lose/lose situation. every religion and organization has faults, but that doesn’t place any blame on them for the catch-22 they were trapped into falling for. when the clone wars started—and the key point here is that it never should have in the first place—the jedi still needed to be jedi. unfortunately for them, that meant having positions of power not meant for them being thrust upon their shoulders. they couldn’t drop the burden, because that meant actively choosing not to save lives—but the other option, becoming soldiers despite the tenet of their beliefs that dictates they shouldn’t, was no better.

see what a cruel trap palpatine set? it’s like a fish being caught in a fisherman’s net. the net is spread out across the ocean floor, and the fish swim above it, not knowing that the trap is waiting to be drawn in around them from below. in the end, when the net starts to tighten, dragging them closer to the surface, they can’t swim fast enough to escape from the middle to the edge—and to safety—before the net is completely tied. it’s the cruelest kind of trap: the kind that gives you just the right amount of time to think you can escape while being sprung just quick enough to make actually escaping impossible.

in the end, the order actively chose to fight the war because they needed to. there was no other way to continue on as who they were. militarizing the order was not the right choice in a vacuum, but this was not that; this was a situation in which every galaxy-changing choice was the wrong one. the jedi knew they were making a decision that drew them farther away from their beliefs, but it was the lesser of an infinite list of evils, and they didn’t see the walls closing in on them until it was too late.

lucas himself has even said that the order was not corrupt or decaying from the inside, nor did they make a series of bad choices that ultimately led to their own destruction. they were always just trying to do the right thing—but unlike literally everything else in fiction, the jedi order’s death was completely unaffected by any of the choices they made. no matter what they did, they were always going to lose. the fall of the republic wasn’t caused by its defenders choosing what they saw as the least bad choice. it didn’t come down to any decisions, political or not, that the jedi council made with the limited tools that they had. it certainly didn’t come down to one emotionally unstable twenty-three-year-old’s slow descent into insanity, either. the republic and the jedi would still have been destroyed with or without anakin’s unhinged nervous breakdown.

anakin, just like the order, the republic, and the separatists, was taken advantage of by palpatine. even if a person’s choices are their own, they don’t exist in a vacuum.

anakin would have made better choices if not for palpatine, but he didn’t. the jedi order would have kept the peace if not for palpatine, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t. the republic, and democracy with it, would not have crumbled if not for palpatine. not the order, not anakin, not the separatists, and not the republic.

in the end, they were all just pawns in a decades-spanning plan, one that none of them saw coming until it was too late—and by then, it was already irreversible.

[eugenedebs1920]

Trump is the most dishonest, corrupt, self serving, manipulative president of all time. He is high in the ranking worldwide. What has he done since he got into office? He fired almost 20 inspectors general. He gutted the aviation security agency, TSA, and FAA. He pardoned his shadow white supremest militia. He fired dozens of FBI employees. He’s purged DOJ. He’s allowed a foreign billionaire to hack the Treasury Department, giving access to every Americans personal information and access to the $6 trillion dollars of U.S. taxpayer dollars. He nominated and the Republican senate confirmed, known authoritarian murdereous dictator sympathizer, Tusi Gabbard, a woman who was on a flight watchlist regarding associations with American adversaries, to lead our intelligence agencies.

He’s asking for the resignation of 3,000 CIA agents now, demanding documents from the FBI, on behalf of his involvement in the January 6th 2021, election interference and seditious conspiracy, riot case, that he promoted, organized and led, be turned over, and requesting any agent that worked on the case be fired, mind you this was the largest criminal investigation ever undertaken due to its sheer scale and size, and threat that its impact would have to our representative democratic constitutional republic, that this was the first attempted seizure of the capital since the early 1800’s, who’s primary legal obligation was to make an example for the consequences that occur when one assaults an officer of the law, when one desecrates a federal building, particularly the capital, and when one tries to stop a constitutionally mandated congressional procedure, in an attempt to overturn the election, a case that in one way or another involved hundreds of agents on over a 1,000 separate cases, which accounts for almost 75% of the workforce would have had contact with it. (Wew! That was quite a sentence! 😅)

Less than a month ago if id told you this story it would have been interpreted as the ramblings of a crazed liberal, brainwashed by the vast and all powerful left wing media apparatus that had warped my mind into some Marxist sphere of delusion.

Yet here we are…

You don’t need to be a top notched intelligence expert to see what’s going on. This lunge towards coverup and away from accountability is clearly visible. Why would someone oppose fact checking? Because they want to lie. Why does someone remove individuals tasked with investigating fraud and corruption? Because you wouldn’t want to get caught committing fraud and corruption. Why does someone want to eliminate those tasked with asserting whether you committed crimes or not? If you were innocent wouldn’t you await the day you could clear your name? You do that when you want to hide what your involvement was.

Why would someone violate the Constitution, dissolve essential agencies and fill them with loyalists, take over independent law enforcement agencies with loyalists, and release a shadow military force through pardons? Because they intend to overthrow and usurp an entire country’s constitutional government and claim rule of it as an emperor.

This is a coup.

He’s not a king, he just plays one in TV. Just because he’s a criminal doesn’t mean he can break the law. He’s not a dictator but a clown in a circus of his own making. The executive branch is but one part of a multilayered system. Remember when Biden declared that the equal rights act was “officially the law of the land.”? That was an executive order also and everyone just blew it off as non binding and ceremonial. His EO’s are the exact same thing.

Just a criminal trying to get away with crimes. Just a conman working his con. Just a clown in the circus.

[r0tt3n-soul]

DDR (german democratic republic) pros and cons because I'm bored

Pros:

employment for all

womans rights way earlier than in the BRD (women in leading positions and traditionally male jobs, legal abortions, finances without being dependant on husband etc.)

good daycare system

good health system

food/housing for everyone

no class system

everyone had access to education

Cons:

not allowed to say anything against the state/system

not allowed to travel outside of the DDR and a few selected countries

not allowed to go to western germany

spies from the StaSi (state safety) could be everywhere (even your own husband/wife)

couldn't always chose your job yourself

late on trends/it took a long time to get the car you bought (sometimes even 10 years or more)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) :: @froomkin

Trump is a con artist and ordinary people are going to get hurt. That’s the all-encompassing story of the next four years.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

March 1, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Mar 01, 2025

John Simpson of the BBC noted recently that “there are years when the world goes through some fundamental, convulsive change.” Seven weeks in, he suggested, 2025 is on track to be one of them: “a time when the basic assumptions about the way our world works are fed into the shredder.”

Simpson was referring to the course the United States has taken in the past month as the administration of President Donald Trump has hacked the United States away from 80 years of alliances and partnerships with democratic nations in favor of forging ties with autocrats like Russian president Vladimir Putin.

On February 24, 2025, the U.S. delegation to the United Nations voted against a resolution condemning Russia for its aggression in Ukraine and calling for it to end its occupation. That is, the U.S. voted against a resolution that reiterated one of the founding principles of the United Nations itself: that one nation must not invade another. The U.S. voted with Russia, Israel, North Korea, Belarus, and fourteen other countries friendly to Russia against the measure, which nonetheless passed overwhelmingly.

Then, on Friday, February 28, 2025, Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance made clear their shift toward Russian president Vladimir Putin as they berated Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, publicly trying to bully him into agreeing to the ceasefire conditions that Putin and Trump want to end a war Russia started by invading Ukraine.

The abandonment of democratic principles and the democratic institutions the U.S. helped to create is isolating the United States from nations that have been our allies, partners, and friends.

After yesterday’s Oval Office debacle, democratic nations rejected Trump and Vance’s embrace of Russia and Putin and publicly reiterated their support for Ukraine and President Zelensky. The leaders of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the European Council, the European Parliament, the European Union, and others all posted their support for Ukraine and Zelensky.

In London today, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer greeted Zelensky with an enthusiastic hug and in front of cameras told him: "You are very, very welcome here…. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."

In the last interview that former secretary of state Antony Blinken gave before leaving office, he talked about the importance of alliances and the strong hand the Biden administration was leaving for the incoming Trump administration. Now, a little over a month later, that interview provides a striking contrast to the course the Trump administration has steered.

We are learning the difference at our peril.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[phoenixwrites]

I grew up conservative and Republican. I'm talking, serious conservative values, as in, my father considered Fox News "too liberal" a news source. My dad could forgive me leaving Christianity, but me registering Democrat? That was a bridge too far.

I saw a post essentially claiming that Trump is the only conservative choice for the election, the only one who truly cares for the American people. And it riled up my Old Guard Republican feelings (however latent) because no. However Republican and conservative you are (a minority on this website, I know), Trump is not and never has been Republican and conservative. You are deluding yourself.

Why do I say that?

Let's go down the list. (Please be aware, I am not defending conservatism--that ain't my political ideology anymore for the whole "they're trying to take away my loved ones' rights" issue. But for the sake of rhetorical strategy, bear with me.)

The claim that Trump isn't a part of the liberal elite is absurd. Trump has never felt dirt underneath his fingernails. Trump has never struggled to pay bills. Trump has paid for multiple abortions of his many affairs and mistresses. He is a draft dodger who mocked war heroes. He is a failed Hollywood celebrity that is grasping at fame. There is a reason Never Trump was popular among conservatives during the 2016 Republican primary.

My Vietnam veteran father warned me in 2008 that Putin wanted to reclaim the Soviet Union, that he was a dangerous dictator that put out hits on foreign journalists. Now he's posting videos of Putin doing judo on Facebook. It is insane that to me that the Republican party is so obviously doing a 180 after warning us for thirty years about Russia.

Trump only started caring about the pro-life movement when he realized he could manipulate them. His voting record is pro-choice. He has paid for abortions, had multiple affairs, and yes, is a serial rapist. None of this is pro-life.

Trump has insulted veterans, dishonored Arlington, and didn't have the balls to fight in Vietnam himself, ran away from the draft like a scared little boy. Now, sixty years later, he has the gall to attack Vietnam veterans and make claims on who is and isn't a war hero? He expects me to believe he gives two shits about veterans? Nah.

Trump does not care about Christianity or protecting Christian freedom. This is a big one. You are falling for a con. Trump is not and never has been a Christian; he just saw a malleable voting block. He has never asked for forgiveness from Christ the Savior and considers doing so weak. He has no relationship with Jesus. He does not pray. He had to have multiple "lessons" on Christianity with top Evangelical pastors to make him more palatable to Evangelicals.

Evangelical conservative Russell Moore penned multiple op-eds where he expressed bewilderment and betrayal that his community was blindly supporting a serial rapist that was antithetical to traditional Christian values. He isn't the only one. A large chunk of Evangelicals are sick and tired of defending a lying, cheating, coward and deluding themselves that he loved Jesus.

A significant portion of Trump's former cabinet has refused to endorse him. I cannot stress to you how wild that is to me. One thing about Republicans? They always vote for their candidate. No matter how much they dislike the candidate--that was the whole thing in 2016. A huge chunk of conservatives disliked Trump and thought him vile, but voted for him anyway because that's what you do when you're a Republican. The fact that so many are breaking away and calling him a danger to the republic? That's a big screaming deal.

Women are not safe around Trump. That used to be important to conservatives, protecting women from rapists--that was my dad's main reason for teaching me to shoot competitively.

If you support Trump, whatever. That's your insane delusional business.

But don't pretend that man is any kind of conservative or gives two shits about what true conservatives care about.

And if I may quote my Evangelical mama, "That man is going to Hell and I look forward to it."

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

Republicans Betray The United States

Republicans failed the United States miserably when they wiped their nasty asses with their Oaths of Office as they refused to fulfill their Constitutional duties to protect our nation and its citizens.

The Legislative branch of the US government is empowered to enforce the checks and balances against the Executive branch. Republicans refused to hold Trump accountable for anything when they all knew he was an incompetent self-serving corrupt low-life sleaze bag.

They intentionally aided and abetted a con-man who was impeached twice - the first time in American history - and took advantage of the Office of the Presidency to enrich himself, his family and his goon squad of seditious, unqualified sycophants and enablers.

Republicans had the chance early in Trump's time in office to stand up for the United States and its citizens or stand up for Trump and the Republican party. They chose the latter and unleashed a thieving lying monster who instigated an insurrection and won't shut the fuck up and go away.  

Republicans are no longer legitimate participants in our democratic processes and are now the seditious destructive MAGA party. An exclusively white organization based on extreme right-wing deceit, division, bigotry and racist tenets. Their only goal is to destroy our democratic constitutional republic and install a white male christo-fascist authoritarian government.

FUCK MAGA REPUBLICANS and FUCK TRUMP

FUCK YOU IF YOU VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS IN ELECTION 2024

VOTE BLUE VOTE BLUE VOTE BLUE VOTE BLUE

[wat3rm370n]

The “Genius Act” is financial corruption.

The pseudoscience eugenics apparent in the idea that crypto tycoon profiteering is a sign of genius is horrendous.

The New Republic - Jeff Hauser / May 16, 2025 Are Some Dems About to Cave to Crypto? It Wouldn’t Be the First Time As the Senate considers a GOP-backed stablecoin bill, it’s a good time to look back on when the Biden administration bailed out a bunch of high-rolling, right-wing crypto crybabies. Because it appears that despite the cryptocurrency industry’s support for the Republican Party … and despite the Trump family’s brazen embrace of cryptocurrency, Senate Democrats are probably set to provide the critical votes necessary to pass the so-called GENIUS Act sometime before Memorial Day. The GENIUS Act is a very soft touch “regulatory framework” to entrench the so-called “stablecoins” (including one associated with the Trump family) that grease the wheels of cryptocurrency speculation. Some Democrats pushed for language aimed at the Trump family’s crypto profits, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to be in there.

My letter to reps:

There are so many accusations of misleading business practices and all sorts of shady stuff and serious problems with crypto printing and the entire operations of cryptocurrency. Yet I see politicians being on board with cryptocurrency and all this clearly bad practice. The “GENIUS” Act demonstrates the folly of duped politicians and gall of profiteers and con artists. VOTE NO TO ALL CRYPTO.

Please feel free to copy or repurpose for your own letters to reps.

[gryficowa]

!!!

[longwindedbore]

2020 was “the most important election of our lives.”

We, the Progressive Voters, gave the Dems the Executive and both Chambers in order to ‘secure Democracy’ against Trumpian demagogues and theocratic-fascists.

What did the Dems do 2021-22?

Either they couldn’t or were too inept or were conning us.

Democracy wasn’t secured.

Candidly, I’m thinking it was a great fairy tale.: ‘checks & balances���, ‘rule of law’, federal republic, universal education developing a knowledgeable electorate.

A house of straw built on sand.

Perhaps we were nothing more than just another oligarchy disguised as a democracy cycling through growth-to-decline.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Wanna bet they're attached to christofascist toysoldier Erik Prince and the Dominionist fucksticks who are trying to literally take over the world with their religiofascist regime...

[kneedeepincynade]

When the colonizers come, they create nothing but poverty and death. When China comes,it brings prosperity,peace, and development

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The collective is on telegram

🥰 合作共赢 | IL PRESIDENTE RUTO LODA LA CINA PER AVER COSTRUITO LA PRIMA LINEA FERROVIARIA MODERNA NELLA STORIA DEL KENYA 😘

🇰🇪 William Ruto - Presidente della Repubblica del Kenya, è stato intervistato da CCTV, e ha elogiato la Cina per aver costruito, nell'ambito della Nuova Via della Seta, la Ferrovia Mombasa - Nairobi, la prima moderna nella Storia del Kenya 💕

🚝 La linea ferroviaria, che collega Mombasa con Nairobi, è il più grande progetto infrastrutturale nella storia del Paese dall'ottenimento dell'Indipendenza dal Regno Unito nel 1963 🥳

📊 Ad oggi, nel 2023, la linea ferroviaria ha trasportato 2,405 milioni di container, 28.609 milioni di tonnellate di merci e 11+ milioni di persone:

💬 «[...] Tra le conversazioni che avremo con altri Paesi, come l'Uganda, la Repubblica Democratica del Congo, [...], parleremo di come collegare l'Oriente all'Occidente» 👏

🇨🇳 Tramite la Cooperazione a Mutuo Vantaggio (合作共赢), ogni Paese può beneficiare dei frutti dello Sviluppo della Cina, i petali rosa della 中国春天 possono diffondersi ovunque 🌸

🔍 Approfondimenti sul Tema Cina - Africa:

一 深情厚谊 - La Cina costruisce il nuovo edificio del Parlamento dello Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

二 Presidente del Burundi: «La Cina promuove Cooperazione e Prosperità Comune» 🇧🇮

三 Funzionario del Kenya: «Ogni volta che la Cina ci visita otteniamo un ospedale. Ogni volta l'UK ci visita, otteniamo una predica» 🇰🇪

四 Le disgustose menzogne anti-Cinesi dell'Occidente sull'Africa 🤮

五 Cooperazione Cina - Africa in 10 anni: 10.000km di ferrovie, 100.000km di autostrade, 80 centrali elettriche, aeroporti, banchine e porti 👏

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan 😘

🥰 合作共赢 | PRESIDENT RUTO PRAISES CHINA FOR BUILDING THE FIRST MODERN RAILWAY LINE IN THE HISTORY OF KENYA 😘

🇰🇪 William Ruto - President of the Republic of Kenya, was interviewed by CCTV, and praised China for having built, as part of the New Silk Road, the Mombasa - Nairobi Railway, the first modern one in the history of Kenya 💕

🚝 The railway line, which connects Mombasa with Nairobi, is the largest infrastructure project in the country's history since it gained Independence from the United Kingdom in 1963 🥳

📊 To date, in 2023, the rail line has transported 2.405 million containers, 28,609 million tons of cargo and 11+ million people:

💬 «[...] Among the conversations we will have with other countries, such as Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, [...], we will talk about how to connect the East to the West» 👏

🇨🇳 Through Mutual Benefit Cooperation (合作共赢), every country can benefit from the fruits of China's Development, the pink petals of 中国春天 can spread everywhere 🌸

🔍 Insights on the theme of China - Africa:

一深情厚谊 - China builds new Zimbabwe Parliament building 🇿🇼

二 President of Burundi: «China promotes cooperation and common prosperity» 🇧🇮

三 Kenyan official: «Every time China visits us we get a hospital. Every time the UK visits us, we get a lecture" 🇰🇪

四 The West's disgusting anti-Chinese lies about Africa 🤮

五 China - Africa cooperation in 10 years: 10,000km of railways, 100,000km of highways, 80 power plants, airports, docks and ports 👏

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collectivoshaoshan 😘

[oscarfredypossovitali]

Deportivo Cali eligió a IDC Network como su inversionista: inyectará 55 millones de dólares

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[brightquang]

KHÁM PHÁ NƯỚC ĐỨC TOÀN CẢNH - Thiên Nhiên Kỳ Vĩ, Lịch Sử Hào Hùng, Con N.../ Hello everyone, the United States Congress enacted H.R. 7885 Pub. L. 88_205, let Congress allowed President Kennedy sent his troops to Vietnam on the day, December 16, 1963, at 4:pm, during the United States Congress approved this Act at 11: am. which is why the greatest America has easily abused power to bully a small sovereignty of Vietnam, the United States has distorted Constitution because a US Senator, Democratic Party, is Wayne Morse, he has testified hearings before his Congress to enact the Law to persuade the Republic of Vietnam that Vietnam ought to defeat communism to win. That is why the United States didn't keep its loyal promises with its Vietnam ally. When the United States came to Vietnam, the United States expressed disloyalty, unjust- cause, and injustice by the assassination, coup, and kills its Vietnam ally to Damne after the United States has threatened to cut off the head's Nguyen Van Thieu to force him to ratify the Paris Peace Accords. For this reason, President Nguyen Van Thieu has worried about his life that looks like Ex- President Ngo Dinh Diem. Therefore, he nodded his head to approve the death of the Paris Peace Accords during President Nixon has promised wind and cloud to defense Sout Vietnam if North Vietnam will have torn the Paris Peace Accords. However, after three have gone by, the United States secretly opened a green light to welcome North Vietnam. So, President Nguyen Van Thieu would request to the United States that the United States should enforce the Paris Peace Accords to fight against North Vietnam. But the United States hasn't carried out any treaties, amities, and laws and international relations of protocols with its Vietnam ally. In fact, Secretary of States stated, "Vietnam failures we did to ourselves." However, one excellent million soldiers have not only protected for American security but also saved so many humans of the American Armed Forces who have been fallen on the Vietnam battles, which is why the United States sent us to many Vietnamese communist's concentration camps without having regrets while the American leaders have been seen for the blood of Vietnamese Armed officers to paint on the American Flag. When the United States is proud of modern civilization society, the American children eat their delicious foods. They eat a half and throw half, so the Vietnamese officers' children were homeless because their fathers' properties were nationalized by North Vietnam, but the American properties have in Vietnam. Which were compensated by North Vietnam. 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Therefore, the plaintiff would introduce to you to let you see this law was from the Bristen Kingdom approximately 1225 years algo. If the plaintiff hasn't studied, he or she hasn't understood about the American laws. When the Native American Lawyers have prejudiced their indigenous laws, they discriminated against national color racism. For example, the native Americans have lawsuit when they carried out the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. They are solemnly welcomed by their native Lawyers, but immigration's naturalized in the United States was denied by the Native Lawyers- while the United States has expressed Diversity, Equality, and inconclusion to cover up the ambition of the United States by a bilateral treaty is a waiver of mutual immunity to look like My-Lai massacre which is why the United States didn't compensate any pennies to many innocent Vietnamese people who were massacred by a waiver of immunity of the treaty amity.. The Plaintiff Bright Quang ArtI.S9.C2.1 Suspension Clause and Writ of Habeas Corpus Article I, Section 9, Clause 2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. This Clause is the only place in the Constitution in which the Great Writ is mentioned, a strange fact in the context of the regard with which the right was held at the time the Constitution was written1 and stranger in the context of the role the right has come to play in the Supreme Court’s efforts to constitutionalize federal and state criminal procedure.2 Only the Federal Government and not the states, it has been held obliquely, is limited by the Clause.3 The issue that has always excited critical attention is the authority in which the Clause places the power to determine whether the circumstances warrant suspension of the privilege of the Writ.4 The Clause itself does not specify, and although most of the clauses of Section 9 are directed at Congress not all of them are.5 At the Convention, the first proposal of a suspending authority expressly vested in the legislature the suspending power,6 but the author of this proposal did not retain this language when the matter was taken up,7 the present language then being adopted.8 Nevertheless, Congress’s power to suspend was assumed in early commentary9 and stated in dictum by the Court.10 President Abraham Lincoln suspended the privilege on his own motion in the early Civil War period,11 but this met with such opposition12 that he sought and received congressional authorization.13 Three other suspensions were subsequently ordered on the basis of more or less express authorizations from Congress.14 When suspension operates, what is suspended? In Ex parte Milligan,15 the Court asserted that the Writ is not suspended but only the privilege, so that the Writ would issue and the issuing court on its return would determine whether the person applying can proceed, thereby passing on the constitutionality of the suspension and whether the petitioner is within the terms of the suspension. Restrictions on habeas corpus placed in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA)16 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) have provided occasion for further analysis of the scope of the Suspension Clause. AEDPA’s restrictions on successive petitions from state prisoners are well within the compass of an evolving body of principles restraining abuse of the writ, and hence do not amount to a suspension of the Writ within the meaning of the Clause.17 Interpreting IIRIRA so as to avoid what it viewed as a serious constitutional problem, the Court in another case held that Congress had not evidenced clear intent to eliminate federal court habeas corpus jurisdiction to determine whether the Attorney General retained discretionary authority to waive deportation for a limited category of resident aliens who had entered guilty pleas before IIRIRA repealed the waiver authority.18 [At] the absolute minimum, the Court wrote, the Suspension Clause protects the writ as it existed in 1789. At its historical core, the writ of habeas corpus has served as a means of reviewing the legality of Executive detention, and it is in that context that its protections have been strongest.19 Building on its statement concerning the minimum reach of the Suspension Clause, the Court, in Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, explored what the habeas writ protected, as it existed in 1789.20 Thuraissigiam involved a Suspension Clause challenge to a provision in IIRIRA limiting when an asylum seeker could seek habeas review to challenge a removal decision and stay in the United States.21 Proceeding on the assumption that the Suspension Clause only prohibited limitations on the common-law habeas writ,22 the Court concluded that the Writ at the time of the Founding simply provided a means of contesting the lawfulness of restraint and securing release.23 The asylum seeker in Thuraissigiam did not ask to be released from United States custody, but instead sought vacatur of his removal order and a new opportunity to apply for asylum, which if granted would enable him to remain in the United States.24 The Court concluded that such relief fell outside the scope of the common-law habeas writ.25 As a consequence, the Court held that, at least with respect to the relief sought by the respondent, Congress did not violate the Suspension Clause by limiting habeas relief for asylum seekers in IIRIRA.26 In a 2023 decision, Jones v. Hendrix,27the Supreme Court held that a prisoner may not file a habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241, asserting a change in statutory interpretation, to circumvent AEDPA’s restrictions on second or successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motions. The Court held that allowing a claim based on a change in statutory interpretation would extend the scope of the Suspension Clause far beyond its scope at the time of the Constitution’s ratification.28 The question remains as to what aspects of habeas are aspects of this broader habeas are protected against suspension. Noting that the statutory writ of habeas corpus has been expanded dramatically since the First Congress, the Court has written that it assume[s] . . . that the Suspension Clause of the Constitution refers to the writ as it exists today, rather than as it existed in 1789.29 This statement, however, appears to be in tension with the theory of congressionally defined habeas found in Bollman, unless one assumes that a habeas right, once created, cannot be diminished. The Court, however, in reviewing provisions of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act that limited habeas, passed up an opportunity to delineate Congress’s permissive authority over habeas, finding that none of the limitations to the writ in that statute raised questions of constitutional import.30 In Jones, the Court pushed back further, commenting that the Suspension Clause does not constitutionalize [an] innovation of nearly two centuries later.31 In Boumediene v. Bush,32 in which the Court held that Congress’s attempt to eliminate all federal habeas jurisdiction over enemy combatant detainees held at Guantanamo Bay33 violated the Suspension Clause. Although the Court did not explicitly identify whether the underlying right to habeas that was at issue arose from statute, common law, or the Constitution itself, it did decline to infer too much from the lack of historical examples of habeas being extended to enemy aliens held overseas.34 In Boumediene, the Court instead emphasized a functional approach that considered the citizenship and status of the detainee, the adequacy of the process through which the status determination was made, the nature of the sites where apprehension and detention took place, and any practical obstacles inherent in resolving the prisoner’s entitlement to the writ.35 In further determining that the procedures afforded to the detainees to challenge their detention in court were not adequate substitutes for habeas, the Court noted the heightened due process concerns when a detention is based principally on Executive Branch proceedings—here, Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs)—rather than proceedings before a court of law.36 The Court also expressed concern that the detentions had, in some cases, lasted as long as six years without significant judicial oversight.37 The Court further noted the limitations at the CSRT stage on a detainee’s ability to find and present evidence to challenge the government’s case, the unavailability of assistance of counsel, the inability of a detainee to access certain classified government records which could contain critical allegations against him, and the admission of hearsay evidence. While reserving judgment as to whether the CSRT process itself comports with due process, the Court found that the appeals process for these decisions, assigned to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, did not contain the means necessary to correct errors occurring in the CSRT process.38

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Above the abyss: It seems that the United Nations President alerts Dr Con Cong Fighting | news

Antonio Guterres says that “regional escalation should be avoided at any cost” as the M23 forces supported by Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo gain. UN President Antonio Guterres says the Democratic Republic of the Congo “Regional Safety” in the Congo (DRC) must be preserved after M23 fighters. He attacked the capital of the East Bokavo Province. In his speech to the African Union…

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The OP was quoting the first two paragraphs of the May 17, 2024 New Republic article by Eric Alterman. The full article is available via the link immediately above.

Here is the next paragraph:

Consider just a few of Trump’s qualities that quite recently would have disqualified him in the eyes of all responsible voices in the discourse. I have no room to do justice to even a fraction, so I’ll have to stick to just keywords: insurrectionist; election denier; pathological liar; corrupt; racist; antisemite; (digital) rapist; serial adulterer; Islamophobe; con man; tax cheat; patsy to dictator; wannabe dictator; isolationist; bully; psychopathically narcissist; sociopath; almost certainly medically demented. We all know I could go on. (I haven’t even mentioned the Democrats’ single best issue: Trump’s proud boast that he was able to “kill Roe v. Wade.”)

“With democracy itself on the line, the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860. It will also be the weirdest. There are two fundamental facts about this campaign that do not appear to be making much of an impact on what, at least today, seems to be close to a majority of the electorate. The first and more obvious one is that few people in history have ever been less qualified to hold a position of any responsibility, much less the most powerful position in the world, than Donald Trump. If elected, he will certainly deploy that power to destroy virtually everything Americans have historically held dear about the nation’s democratic traditions. The second, less obvious, but no less objective fact is that Joe Biden has been a remarkably good president. Not everything has worked out, and one can certainly disagree with many of his decisions. His embrace of Bibi Netanyahu has clearly had disastrous consequences for Israel, Gaza, the United States, and likely for his own reelection prospects. But in terms of the way presidents are traditionally measured, Biden has been a smash. The U.S. economy is the envy of the world. Yes, inflation is higher than one would like, but jobs are plentiful, and so are raises for the people in them; wages are rising faster than inflation, as it happens. Violent crime is way down. Infrastructure investments are way up since 2020. Student loans are being forgiven. The labor movement is rebounding. We are leading the world in defending democracy in Ukraine. And yet, the danger of a Trump takeover remains as high as ever.”

— How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again?