The latest sequel to the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter debacle comes to you live from snow-white Minnesota with a cast of lily-white performers. Noticeable differences include the absence of burned down neighborhoods and the twist in the plot that includes the cop in this case actually getting it wrong.
Bottom line on the ICE Shooting, if the agent could have gotten out of the way, he should have gotten out of the way. In reality he was able to get out of the way because he did get out of the way, uninjured, so again, clearly his life was not in danger, he simply had to step aside, which he did while firing his weapon. Had he simply let her go, at most, charges would have been violations or at a stretch, low level misdemeanors. Instead she is dead. Not obeying a lawful order to stop, or to get out of the car, or whatever, is not license to use deadly force.
The shoot was bad.
The hoopla of course, has much to do with the built-up frustration, and hostility as America repeatedly witnesses angry-middle-class housewives turn into urban-warriorettes, pretending to be righteously indignant in order to be the center of attention in their wine-club. Virtue signaling from the rare-air of the upper-middle class mommies looking for something to do makes them Tic-Tok and X celebrities, validated from the comfort of their SUV’s.
While they may be easy to hate, that doesn’t sign their death warrant.
And here is the most troubling part. We are all so over-loaded with the barrage of stories coming from the news-cycle; we tend to forget over time what has happened. In eight weeks or so, this episode will be a distant memory, covered over with whatever the next story will be and in some small by-line buried in the newspapers or perhaps not even mentioned in the larger media machine, the family of the dead woman in Minnesota will be paid an undisclosed sum of money and no admissions of wrong-doing will be forthcoming and with that, we’re off to the next stop for our outrage machine to become re-engaged.
Peter Principle poster boy Pete Hegseth had reached the zenith of his intellectual career as a talking head for FOX. His hawkish-military machismo persona, bravado and, brazen-pretty-boy face got the attention of our President. If you haven’t noticed, good-looks ranks as high on Trump’s “must-have” list as actual credentials. Now, as Secretary of War, Hegseth is in so far over his head that the US Navy can’t even save him.
The role of what was traditionally called the Secretary of Defense, (now War), was specifically meant to provide a clear demarcation between civilian management of the US armed forces and the fighting forces themselves. According to the National Security Act of 1947,” “There shall be a Secretary of Defense, who shall be appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: PROVIDED, That a person who has within ten years been on active duty as a commissioned officer in a Regular component of the armed services shall not be eligible for appointment as Secretary of Defense.”
Civilian control of our military is a fundamental principle of American democracy.
In 2018, eight years ago, the National Defense Strategy Commission said, “…civilian voices have been relatively muted on issues at the center of U.S. defense and national security policy, undermining the concept of civilian control…It is critical that DOD—and Congress—reverse the unhealthy trend in which decision-making is drifting away from civilian leaders on issues of national importance.” The appointment of Hegseth does nothing except exacerbate this issue.
Hegseth is a bully. He vented his spleen while addressing Generals and flag officers at Quantico marine base in September of 2025, in a tone many found condescending. His sentiment remained me of someone who has had a chip on his shoulder for some time and now has discovered the opportunity to vent with impunity. This is what the Center for Strategic & International Studies had to say about his remarks. “Hegseth could not restrain himself from getting personal. He criticized Generals Mark Milley, Peter Chiarelli, and Frank Mackenzie by name, the latter two because of their association with the Afghanistan withdrawal; despite their having criticized the Obama administration’s handling of the operation. Belittling officers by name smacks of pettiness.”
And once again, Hegseth doesn’t disappoint with demonstrating just how petty one can get. After Senator Kelly and five other congressmen issued a public statement suggesting that military personnel have a right to disobey an unlawful order, Pete went right to the internet and accused Senator Kelly of sedition and reckless misconduct, threatening to degrade his retirement allowance. How clearly vindictive. This is, in part what the statement from Kelly and the others said:
“Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our constitution”.
The words above are statements of FACT. The words are TRUE and our soldiers need to know where that line is. Equating the utterance of these statements with acts of sedition is preposterous. While not saying so directly, it would seem that this statement might refer to the extrajudicial assaults and murders of alleged drug runners on the high seas being conducted by the military under Hegseth’s orders.
We are not at war.
Simply declaring certain boats in the Caribbean as “narco-terrorists” doesn’t magically create some kind of legal authority to blow them up. Putting video all over television of US forces blasting boats out of the water and killing people every other day serves to harden the hearts of viewers and reduce the human element to the status of a video-game. These boats were in international waters. We have no legal authority over them. We killed over 100 people without a clue as to who they were or how they found themselves in those situations. Telling the American public that the boats are running drugs and coming to our shores is really quite a stretch. Are we to take it all in and believe it as an article of faith? Is the unrelenting mantra of “fentanyl is killing our kids” justification for anything and everything we do? If we know all of that, why can’t we simply interdict these boats once they are in our jurisdiction? Could it be that we needed a pretext to go after Maduro and overtake the Venezuelan oil supply? Trump always has bigger plans.
Hegseth is a henchman, only better than those he pursues by virtue of his own sense of his virtue above yours. Pete is the kind of guy that measures the mark of a man by how many pull-ups he can do, a warrior not a statesman, a useful idiot for the Trump agenda, and that agenda may have many highlights, good things and great outcomes, but at what a price when we begin to ignore the ends and means arguments in favor of just getting what we want.
While Lailah Gifty Akita, tells us that “A warrior walks alone in the dark.”Henry Kissinger reminds us that, “It is imperative that the statesman bridges the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.”
What the United States of America needs immediately, is that heretofore unacknowledged leader that can take us into the future with the balance, freedom, understanding and moral surety that God demands from a nation that sets the example for the rest of the world.
Whether or not you are a Liberal or a Conservative, I think we can all agree that anyone who is a fugitive of justice, that is to say, someone who has already been arrested, arraigned, indicted, tried and convicted of a crime, is someone who should not be free in public, but should be incarcerated, according to the conditions of their sentencing.
Addressing the apprehension of these kinds of criminals is what the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, (ICE) officials are sworn to do. Unlike the domestic police agencies, (i.e. Police departments, sheriff-agencies, the State Police etc.) ICE agents concentrate on non-citizens. Estimates of between 11 and 14 million represent the number of illegal aliens scattering throughout the USA. Reports state that well over 2-million of these illegal aliens have deportation orders and or pending criminal charges or convictions.
If you are an illegal alien with a deportation order, (issued by a Federal court), or you are a fugitive from justice, this qualifies you for arrest. The agency that handles that is ICE.
Historically, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies have worked together in the interest of justice. How things have changed, (Olim numerari poteras, nunc non potes..) When state and local policymakers created “sanctuary spaces” that shielded criminals from accountability and created an illegal reality. Article 4, Clause 2 of the US Constitution, known as the Supremacy Clause, states that federal law supercedes state and local law and binds lower court judges to enforce that. Clearly, states and local jurisdictions that declare themselves as “Sanctuary Spaces” are lawlessly acting against the supreme law of the land. This disregard for the rules that govern us creates the tension and now bloodshed as ICE exercises their authority in order to enforce the law and protect American citizens.
When you advertise your status as a “sanctuary” you are inviting in those who need it. Therefore it becomes the most likely place to go looking for criminals. While doing their jobs, ICE officers are often assaulted and accosted by mobs, seeking to interfere with their duties. This is where the arrests happen to people who otherwise might have gone unnoticed by ICE, had they not stuck their nose into someone else’s business. Assaulting an ICE officer is a felony and, interfering in their investigative duties is obstructing justice, also a crime.
A quick check on recent arrests in Minneapolis shows a dozen men located and arrested for the following litany of charges, some 56 in total including: Murder, rape, child-rape, sodomy of a child, kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct with a minor, and gang affiliation. While trying to locate and arrest these scum-bags, others interfere and because of that, they are also arrested.
I’m curious how the Liberals explain away their pride in protecting these criminals?
We are still a nation of laws. Sanctuary places and the people who support them are lawless thugs bent on anarchy and many more will be hurt and killed until they regain their senses and fight for change in a civil fashion, not by becoming a criminal.
Spectrum news anchor JoDee Kenney made a comment this weekend about the issuance of Commercial Drivers Licenses, (CDL) in New York, referencing national news about states lax oversight, professed by National Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy when he was addressing recent instances of truck drivers that can’t speak English and can’t read or understand road signs.
Kenney made the comment that these CDL audits were mainly occurring in “Blue States” and inferred, directly, that this was a form of retaliation coming from the administration.
Kenney is supposed to be a news anchor, not an opinion host. Her obvious bias disqualifies her from serious credibility as an anchor and she should either step down or be removed.
These are the FACTS:
The Department is now moving to withhold $73 million in federal funding if New York fails to follow the law, revoke every illegally issued license
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today announced that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) nationwide audit of non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) uncovered that the New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has been routinely issuing CDLs to foreign drivers illegally. The federal audit exposed a shocking 53 percent failure rate in the records sampled, indicating a total collapse in the administration of New York’s CDL program.
FMCSA’s audit of New York’s non-domiciled CDL issuance practices found numerous failures by the state of New York including:
Out of 200 sampled records, 107 were issued in violation of federal law—a failure rate of over 53%.
The DMV’s systems defaulted to issuing 8-year licenses to foreign drivers for non-REAL ID licenses, regardless of when their legal status expired.
New York issued commercial licenses to foreign drivers without providing any evidence that it had verified their current lawful presence in the United States.
“When more than half of the licenses reviewed were issued illegally, it isn’t just a mistake—it is a dereliction of duty by state leadership. Gov. Hochul must immediately revoke these illegally issued licenses. If they refuse to follow the law, we will withhold federal highway funding,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “This administration will never stop fighting to keep you and your family safe on our roads.”
In a stunning admission, New York DMV officials confirmed that their licensing system is programmed to default to an automatic 8-year expiration for non-REAL ID CDLs—intentionally disregarding the expiration of a foreign driver’s lawful presence in the U.S. This systemic failure allows the state to blindly grant long-term commercial driving privileges to foreigners that expire long after the expiration of their lawful presence in the country.
Spectrum is and always has been strongly Left-Leaning and this particular story involving Kenney should be corrected and taken down as opinion not news. Spectrum needs to apologize to their viewers for mixing opinion with news and Kenney needs to be fired.
The mark of a true thinker is the willingness to allow information that is contrary to their perception of incomplete and unknown situations to become useful in the intellectual mechanism of how they draw their final conclusions. Ignoring certain events and facts in order to avoid challenging a narrative plausible only when conceived in their absence veers away from the truth.
The recent events involving missile attacks and scores of killings of alleged drug traffickers in international waters is a great example of the intellectual schism confused as a Right- v -Left issue when it is not that at all. Strip away the narratives, official statements, opinions and take no position other than an investigative one and then consider the facts.
The public is treated to an aerial screen-shot of a high-speed boat, we’re told somewhere in the Caribbean, just too grainy to identify cargo or faces, carrying drugs we’re told, bound for the US. Seconds later a flash, fireball and smoke are all that is left. Clearly those on board are killed and whatever was the cargo is destroyed. As of this writing, this has happened 22-times with 80 dead, according to the US government.
With the intelligence apparatus of the US military, we are told these boats are full of drugs and we obviously know their location, so given the capabilities of our naval powers, why aren’t we interdicting these boats? The President simply declaring groups “terrorists” does not permit murder on the open sea. The Caribbean is not a war-zone and the people piloting these boats are low-level actors, perhaps forced into compliance for fear of death or family suffering. Those we kill might well be innocent victims. How do we actually know what is on-board these boats? They tell us drugs, but are we supposed to simply take their word for it? There is no proof that the boats are in the Caribbean, or that the bombings happen at all. Is it really so far-fetched to consider that the whole show is just that, a show? Just to be clear, I don’t actually believe the whole thing is staged, but we ought to be skeptical. I do believe the US military has carried out these strikes, but I’m making the point that we all see these snippets of violence and death and we react not with any pity for the dead or dying, but almost like we are winning some real-time video game and because we are making the world a better place, it matters little our methods or tactics.
Conservative television outlets continue to show viewers thousands of times these awful images of human death and destruction. It is meant to harden us, to justify this by repeating the narrative of the number of drug-deaths in the US but again, where is the proof? Everything and everyone is conveniently blown into oblivion. And again, I’m not suggesting some extensive conspiracy here I’m well aware of the drug traffic problems, but it seems that this exercise in getting the public to approve of what is really extra-judicial murder is OK when done in order to save American drug-users.
Unfortunately for the government, the blow-up-the-boats imagery of September 2nd didn’t fit so neatly into the video-game like finish. After the smoke cleared, it appeared that 2-men were clinging to wreckage. A second missile strike took care of that but here is where it breaks free from the other neater and more final versions. Clearly, 2-men were targeted to die and the imagery, formerly akin to a video game became a snuff-film that jolted Americans back to reality.
No one wanted their fingerprints on this one and so conveniently, the US Navy Admiral in charge of this particular section of the world says it was all him and then quickly retires. The public is promised publication of those videos, but they never come, relying on the strong undercurrents of the news-cycle pressure to sweep it into vague memory.
So with this unprecedented hard-line on alleged drug boats justifying public pay-per-view instant death without proof, force of law or trial, how can we juxtapose Trump’s sudden pardon of former Honduran President Hernandez? This thug was essentially the King Pin of a narco-state who was arrested, tried and convicted. His power makes these drug boats inconsequential by comparison yet he walks away from a 45-year prison term, inexplicably, while we slaughter nameless and faceless strangers in the name of justice? Perhaps Trump is using the public execution of all of societies “bad-guys” as a pretext to invade Venezuela, oust President Maduro and exchange our nation-building largess for our own oil supply, justified by the promise to liberate the Venezuelan people from the evils of one man to the evils of another. This nicely avoids all of the domestic environmental concerns and creates a literal pipe-line of oil to the US, all under the guise of protecting our citizens from drugs, freeing Venezuelans and ousting bad leaders, with the uncomfortable exception of Hernandez, who’s value is entirely entangled in his insider knowledge of the South American drug world, all entangled up in a pretty package of competing interests and the reality of a world in the troughs of an existential crisis of character as the Lord looks upon us and weeps.
In this new world of LEFT versus RIGHT, Liberal versus Conservative and Republican versus Democrat, I believe we need to take a step back, a pause, and consider not what makes us disagree, but what we share in common. In many ways, I think many of us have forgotten the fundamentals of what we sometimes argue about. In order to understand this, I think it is important to identify what ideas and concepts this country was founded upon, with a focus on the Constitution as the codification of those ideals continually refined over time by law. It seems we can all agree that we are a nation of laws, as we have heard this slogan touted as foundational truth by both sides of the philosophical divide.
Our founders were passionate about defining and preserving those ideals and rights, so much so that they put in all in writing, addressing to the King of England their grievances, ending by pledging to each other their, ” lives, fortunes and sacred honor.” That was no cliqued rhetoric. Many lost their lives, fortunes, homes and farms as well as their sons in battle.
After battling the British for our freedom and then fighting each other in preserving the union, well over 1.5 million US casualties resulted, all within one-hundred years of her founding. Based on the population then, the same percentages today would mean losing almost 25-million soldiers to war.
This was the price of freedom and this is what our forefathers thought was worth dying for:
The rejection of monarchial rule and the sanctity of Individual Liberty via a government controlled by and limited by the consent of her citizens.
The three-branches of our government check and balance each other in order to stay true to this concept. Clearly, the importance of individual liberty underpins the entirety of the sentiment of our founders and therefore deserves our utmost diligence in preservation. This is what Thomas Jefferson told us in his first inaugural speech. He defined good government as, “… wise and frugal, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits”, the definition of individual liberty.
So I think it is safe to say that the preservation of individual liberty is worth dying for which also means it is worth killing for when challenged. Jefferson reminded us of the stark reality of our collective responsibilities in this regard when he said,
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Without the preservation of individual liberty, the foundation of our governance ceases to exist. Remember, the founders recognized that our freedom was a natural right granted to us by God not man, but guaranteed in its preservation by government. In other words, government doesn’t create the right to freedom, it only protects that right. This is an extremely importance concept because if you buy into the notion that government creates liberty, then obviously government could take it away. God given rights are eternal and no government can usurp them. To that end, common with our founders was the reality that “when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty”.
So, how does this close our philosophical divide? I believe that if we acid-test every notion, every law, requirement, edict, directive, speech or philosophy against the concept of whether or not this action violates or infringes upon our shared belief in the non-negotiable principle of our individual liberty, our debates, or decisions as a nation and our governance will rebalance itself in alignment with what formed us as a nation to begin with.
All of my friends and colleagues were shocked and puzzled by my opinion about the ongoing saga concerning Kilmar Abrego Garcia and as you can see, (if you care anymore), it seems that I am right. He is still here, even after presidential efforts to disappear him.
Even after a carefully orchestrated and relentless character assassination campaign with zero proof, the Great Unwashed of the minimally informed that seek validation over truth have made up their small minds. With the senseless murder of an innocent young girl followed by Charlie Kirk’s assassination days later, for many, the weight of the news cycle buries and paves over their desire to retain information or even muster up the will to care.
Fully armed and sure of their logical purity, I would ask the gang of “the-very-sure” that have the Garcia thing all figured out to consider the following.
Some few days ago, federal agents raided a Hyundai plant in Georgia and arrested some 300 Korean nationals on site. After nearly a week of involuntary jail incarceration, the administration did an about-face, releasing all 300 and providing charter air service back to Korea. Come to find out, upon further investigation, these detainees all had B-1 visas, allowing them to be in the US legally.
Trump originally declares they are here illegally. A week later, he invites them to stay.
These men were engineers here to build the state-of-the-art car manufacturing plant. Now, completion times have been moved back dramatically. What Korean engineer in his right mind wants to visit America after this fiasco?
Nobody understands and lives by the mantra of, I would rather ask for forgiveness than seek permission that I do, but expedience needs to be curtailed by the rule of law and the Constitution when it come to human rights and the lives of people. Those who look the other way or excuse Trump on the basis of what he can get done quickly need to square in their own minds the fact that when those they oppose do similar contradictory things, the scrutiny is higher. This is the definition of a hypocrite.
I write articles and stories for a wide variety of outlets. Sometimes when I fail to gain the attention of a publisher, I drop the article into my personal blog you’re reading now. I’ve written a few pieces on the on-going saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and as you can see in the comments, I have few supporters. The last article I posted here was rejected by the publisher of a blog site called AmericanThinker.com. In the editors rejection notes to me, we had a spirited back-and-forth that I thought you might enjoy reading so I have copied and pasted it below. Looks like I’m hitting nerves!
You argued with me about this some months ago and come to find out you were wrong. Maybe now this is timely?
Bob:
I’m afraid that pillorying the Trump administration on behalf of a gangster and human trafficker is not something that will play with AT readers. We’re going to pass.
There is nothing in what I wrote that is incorrect factually. Gangster? Zero proof. Human Trafficker, again zero proof, read what I wrote. If you’re a Trump at all costs guy, you’re really not doing your readers any service feeding them only what they want to hear. There a many flavors of ice cream, seems you’re hooked on plain vanilla.
“And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith”
I’ll stick with plain vanilla rather than the Ben & Jerry’s Diesel Oil with Sea Slugs that’s being presented here.
BTW, a colleague reminded me that we should add “wife beater” to “gangster” and “human trafficker.”
JR:
Here it is in its simplest form: Are you familiar with the legal concept known as the “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine? If not, Google it. Had the administration not erred in grabbing Garcia up and unlawfully taking him to prison in the first place, (Which BTW they admitted doing) none of what followed would have taken place. What followed was literally the fruit of the poisonous tree.
Don’t EVER declare in your writings that, “we are a nation of laws” or otherwise tout lawfulness when you approve of trampling all over civil and constitutional rights as a necessary casualty of getting to the outcome you have pretended to envision as the right one. Your position in this case is one of a dogmatic ideologue suffering from cognitive dissonance. (Thankfully, this can be treated.)
Thank you for making my point so vividly in your tortured defense calling for crucifixion via the publics ignorance of due process and making your case only attractive in the public square of group-think low-information consumers of news.
You and your colleague ought to sign up for a Constitutional Law course in order to elucidate yourselves. I’ll take as convincingly persuasive, the quotes I reference from members of the judiciary over your tepid and unsupported utterances passing as authoritative.
If you had any creative courage at all, you would publish what I wrote with your 2-cent warning label about how full of crap you think I am, but reminding readers about how you are of a big enough mind to put what I wrote out there to see what others might think. One would think you would relish watching me get flamed? It seems to me that you’re all about reinforcing your opinions rather than exploring alternatives. Not really so courageous.
The Kilmar Abrego Garcia situation is unlike the usual Liberal-Conservative kerfuffle. For the Trump administration, this is the camels-nose-under-the-tent moment they fear will sap their momentum and undermines their agenda.
Please, put aside what you think you know about this story and consider the following.
The administration admitted that Garcia was mistakenly grabbed up and deported to a foreign prison. When pressured to bring him back, the President said it was “out of his control” to do so when of course we know that was a lie and in proving that, as pressure grew, magically Garcia was returned. Critics say he was here illegally. This is false. Although Garcia entered the country illegally, a federal immigration judge granted him “withholding of removal” status, which allowed him to legally live and work in the U.S. indefinitely.
Now embarrassed by the power of the federal judiciary over the Executive branch, the administration mounted a full-on character assassination campaign against Garcia in order to divert the glare of scrutiny from their overall deportation schemes.
Just give this next question a moment of your thought:
When is the last time you can recall the United State of America arresting people and then sending them off to foreign prisons?
Now after being embarrassed, the administration lied about supposed tattoos on Garcia’s hands signifying gang affiliation. The images were digitally altered. Playing on fear, the administration planted the label of “GANG-MEMBER & MS-13” into the minds of Americans in the effort to vilify him and justify his mishandling. No court or judge or and legal process has proven any gang affiliation to Garcia. This is an accusation without proof. A healthy dose of skepticism should raise a red flag when the administration knowingly offers up false information in order to make their case. Trusting anything they say about this going forward should be weighed against the lies they have already told.
Next came the allegations of domestic violence which Garcia’s wife disputed, explaining that she had been a victim of abuse in a previous relationship. Acting on an abundance of caution during a rough patch in her marriage to Garcia 6-years ago, she sought a civil protective order in anticipation of conflict which never materialized after successful couples counseling. Since then, the couple’s relationship improved and the matter was put behind them, but not before the continued character assassination in the media, pillorying and convicting this man in the public square. Now in the minds of many American’s who consume main-stream-media, Garcia is not only a gang-member, but a wife beater as well.
This is how an authoritarian administration paves the path to justify their actions by demonizing and dehumanizing. Once the targeted subject is sufficiently despised in the public’s eye, any means are justified as deserved.
And finally, when all of these schemes failed, the now infamous traffic stop in Tennessee 3-years ago becomes the secret sauce fed to a secretly convened Grand Jury that belches up the federal indictment for transporting aliens for financial gain. Garcia was stopped for speeding in Tennessee. He had 8-men in his vehicle, transporting them to a job site. Go to any Lowe’s or Home Depot parking lot at 6AM and you will find legions of central and South Americans eager for construction work. This was what was likely happening. The key to understanding this “Hail-Mary” indictment, some 3-years after it happened, is to know that the Tennessee State Police that made the traffic stop released Garcia and the men without any charges. The only reason this was elevated to presentation to a Grand Jury is obvious. The administration was out of accusations. After scouring the federal courts for similar examples of seeking indictments 3-years after the fact, this looks more and more like an act of malicious prosecution. Add to this the threat of facing a Ugandan prison and you can see just how desperate and vile this administration is acting.
Here are excerpts from the various federal and state courts about this case.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes ordered Abrego Garcia’s release on bail. In her order, Judge Holmes questioned the strength of the human smuggling case, noting that some of the allegations “approach physical impossibility”. She also criticized the government’s lack of proof for its claims of MS-13 gang affiliation, writing that concluding such “would border on fanciful.”
The Supreme Court ordered the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. and ensure his case was handled properly. In a concurring statement, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, with whom Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined, criticized the government’s position, writing that it “implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene”.
U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued multiple temporary restraining orders, blocking the government from deporting Abrego Garcia to Uganda. Judge Xinis told government attorneys that they were “absolutely forbidden” from removing Garcia from the continental U.S. She also set an evidentiary hearing for October 6, where she will consider whether his removal to Uganda would violate his due process rights by placing him in danger of persecution or torture.
This is just what it looks like; a vindictive, hateful and malicious witch hunt that has taken on proportions far beyond the reasonable scope of legal reasoning. The most logical and likely explanation for this is to nip in the bud any possibilities of examining these radical processes in a much larger scope.
It may surprise you to know that I am a staunch Conservative and that I support President Trump in many, many ways, but not in this case. It stuns and alarms me that those fellow Conservatives that I in general have admired and followed for years are in near total unison in seeing this matter in the opposite way as I do. I write what I write generally because I tend to see things a bit different than do most people and I share those insights, hoping to add a different perspective to the dialogue of thinking people, but in this case and in this instance, I am completely baffled by the inability of otherwise smart and thinking people to see this for what it really is. Let history guide us.
“First the came for the Socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then the came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew and then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.”
NYS Governor Hochul (of all the unlikely people) demonstrated long over-due leadership by banning student cell phone use in public schools. This begs the question of why local leaders controlling the 731 school districts throughout NYS failed to do so on their own? Who in God’s name thought it wise to provide kids with another distraction or way to cheat? Maybe with test scores being so abysmal, school officials hoped that the cell phone induced cheating would improve their numbers?
Did any of the geniuses that manage our schools really believe cell phones would have no negative effect? As it stands, kids are completely intoxicated by their phones. For many, their social skills suck, they can’t carry on a reasonable conversation and their attitudes, well they suck as well.
History is a fine teacher and I’m old enough to have a historical perspective based on my own experience and I can tell you this, with certainty. The overwhelming majority of school leaders from 50+ years ago would have banned cell phones from day one. This is because back then, leaders actually led. They didn’t wait for legislation, regulation or questionnaires to know what was smart and what was stupid and allowing cell phones in schools is on its face stupid. What passes for leadership in schools today is little more than cowardly custodianship.
Waiting to be told what anyone with a pulse knew was a problem and then applauding the effort demonstrates how leaderless our schools actually are. You see, the youngest members of the educational establishment just coming aboard are also from the cell phone dynasty and have the same social issues and screen addictions as their students.
And to cap off what is already a colossal joke, the governor allots $13.5 for phone storage bags.
Seriously?
Again, common sense goes something like this. Kids, you have 3 choices when it comes to your phones. 1. Leave them home, (best choice.) 2. If you drive, leave it in your car. 3. Leave it in your locker with the ringer off. There you go, common sense solution and $13 million saved.
What the hell is wrong with these people? This is the best we’ve got? Talk about phoning it in….
Perspectives from the INTJ angle 