Pax on both houses

GOP Powerbroker Left A Voicemail For Texas Governor Requesting That National Guard "Shoot To Kill" Rioters

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/gop-powerbroker-left-texas-governor-a-voicemail-requesting-national-guard-shoot-to-kill-rioters/

Excerpt: “I want you to give a message to the governor,” Hotze told Abbott’s chief of staff, Luis Saenz, in a voicemail. “I want to make sure that he has National Guard down here and they have the order to shoot to kill if any of these son-of-a-bitch people start rioting like they have in Dallas, start tearing down businesses — shoot to kill the son of a bitches. That’s the only way you restore order. Kill ‘em. Thank you.”

Violence is the "solution" of choice for American conservatives.

How did that work out in Vietnam?

How did that work out in Iraq?

How did that work out in Afghanistan?

How did that work out in Nicragua?

How did that work out in Cuba?

Just curious.

My good friend AWC, a retired Air Force general confided: "It seems we haven't fought a good war since World War II."

Pax on both houses: A Proposed National Holiday For Smedley Butler

"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?"
(Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-smedley-butler-do-wars.html

"Vote Out Hate": Political Ad Focuses Trump's Hatred And Passion For Violence

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/powerful-political-ad-focuses-on-trumps.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Organized Religion And The Everyday Validation Of Violence

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

A History Of Trump's Incitation Of Violence
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/04/trump-incites-violence.html

New Political Ad Focuses Trump's Hatred And Passion For Violence And Incitation Of Violence

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/powerful-political-ad-focuses-on-trumps.html

American Conservatives Demand Violence To Keep Violence Alive. Otherwise, It Withers

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/american-conservatives-demandviolence.html

John Lennon On The Trap Of Violence: How The Right Wing Seduces The Left Into Suicide

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-trap-of-violence-how-right-wing.html

The Problem Is Black Violence, Not White Oppression: A Reply

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-problem-is-black-violence-not-white.html

Tulsa Race Massacre Of 1921: "The Single Worst Incident Of Racial Violence In American History"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/06/tulsa-race-massacre-of-1921-single.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: American Political Violence Is "Exclusively" Right-Wing

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/02/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-about_4.html

"I Applaud Donald Trump"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/i-applaud-donald-trump.html

"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?"
(Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-smedley-butler-do-wars.html

Patience

July 4, 2020

“TWELVE monks, benighted on the road, observed that their guide was going astray. This, for fear of breaking their rule of silence, they forbore to notice, thinking within themselves that at daybreak he would see his mistake and put them in the right road. Accordingly, the guide discovering his error, with much confusion, was making many apologies; when the monks being now at liberty to speak, only said, with the greatest good humour: ‘Friend, we saw very well that you went out of your road; but we were then bound to silence.’ The man was struck with astonishment, and very much edified at this answer expressive of such patience and strictness of observance.”

— From the Life of St. Sisoes, Anchoret of Egypt

Sisoës the Great, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisoes_the_Great

Alan: If you are an American citizen and think you live in a Democracy where the election of the president and representatives generally operates under the principle of "One Person, One Vote," buckle you seat belt and put in your mouth guard.

Most, if not all states, operate -- legally -- in such a way that government officials try to limit (and in many cases try to minimize in racially and ethnically biased ways) the electoral principle of "One Person, One Vote."

The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Segregation was legal. Legality is not a guide to morality. | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

The likelihood is overwhelming that your state's Secretary of State operates by fiat, dictating (in the full totalitarian sense of "dictatorship") the rules that determine the conduct of state and federal elections.

Whether your Secretary of State is a man or woman, that ONE person devises and ultimately supervises -- with the same dictatorial power as Caligula, Nero, Tiberius, Domitian, Diocletian or Cesar -- how elections will be conducted.

The inter-related issue of the number of polling places in a given county -- and the location of those polling places -- are determined by local "election boards," notorious for their ferocious determination to disenfranchise black and brown citizens by making the location polling places (and their hours of operation) prohibitively inconvenient.

Polling Places Become Battlegrouns In U.S. Voting Rights Fight

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-vote-precincts-insight/polling-places-become-battleground-in-u-s-voting-rights-fight-idUSKCN11M0WY

Unless you WANT American government to deliberately structure US elections in order to deny voting rights to people of color --- yet one more way in which minorities suffer the structural racism that is coming to light in the wake of George Floyd's cold-blooded murder at the hands of one bad cop who, in turn, was enabled by four other bad cops --- you will be sickened to discover America's all-encompassing buro-institutional Dictatorship whose Official Story is as lauded as Motherhood and Apple Pie.

Here is how this dictatorial scam works:

The Secretary of State at the State Level

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_state_(U.S._state_government)

Excerpt: The Secretary of State's Duties in most states

The most common, and arguably the most important, function held by secretaries of state is to serve as the state's chief elections official (although many states also have supervisors of elections, which are usually county elected officials). In 38 states, ultimate responsibility for the conduct of elections, including the enforcement of qualifying rules, oversight of finance regulation and establishment of Election Day procedures falls on the secretary of state. The exceptions are Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.^[6]

Florida is one of the many states for which this is true, and for this reason, during the Florida election recount, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris became one of the few state secretaries of state to become well known nationally.

Alan: If individual states are so benighted that they choose to keep their electoral monstrosities in place, I say let them do so for now while the entire citizenry vigorously debates the national need for federal and presidential elections to be ruled by federal law, not state law.

It may be that developing new federal electoral law will require a constitutional amendment to over-rule state and local bailiwicks.

Whether or not a constituional amendment proves necessary, let us open the door of this stinking, skeleton-filled closet to stoke public outrage at the nation's persistent -- and deliberate -- injustice, injustice that is fundamentally racist in origin and current enactment.

Let it be known that the U.S. electoral system, as manifest at the state and local levels, embodies a shameless exhibition of anti-democratic process worthy of every classic dictatorship that has ever conducted sham elections in order to ape democratic governance.