Category: Constitution and Law

Is History Repeating itself?

In March 1933, the Enabling Act became law in Germany, granting the chief executive the power to enact laws without legislative oversight, effectively dismantling the system of checks and balances.

This pivotal legislation marked the transition from a democratic republic to a totalitarian dictatorship.

By September of that year, Germany had become a one-party state, consolidating the power of the Nazi regime and eliminating political opposition.

During the liquidation of the ghettos starting in 1942, trains were used to transport the condemned populations to death camps. To implement the “Final Solution”, the Nazis made the Deutsche Reichsbahn an indispensable element of the mass extermination machine, wrote historian Raul Hilberg.

Today masked immigration agents are taking unwanted immigrants to detention facilities.

Does any of that history remind anyone of what is happening in the United States today?

During the liquidation of the ghettos starting in 1942, trains were used to transport the condemned populations to death camps. To implement the “Final Solution”, the Nazis made the Deutsche Reichsbahn an indispensable element of the mass extermination machine, wrote historian Raul Hilberg.

Today masked immigration agents are taking unwanted immigrants to detention facilities.

Dictator or King?

A San Bernardino born Hispanic was arrested by masked men wearing “border patrol” vests. A popular Oregon vineyard owner was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody outside his church in Oregon on Thursday.    

If you have brown skin you are subject to arrest. Donald Trump’s words saying immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ The Biden campaign likened the comments to Hitler.

The raids by ICE are stunning but no surprise.

Terry Moran defends ‘fair and accurate’ post about Trump that got him dropped by ABC News. Both ABC and CBS have been sued by Donald Trump because he did not like their reporting.

Where does this end?

If Trump has his way he will be a dictator or a king.

Is this the beginning of Civil War?

President Theodore Roosevelt said “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

In merely four months Donald Trump has turned the United States from a functioning democracy into a country on the edge of a fascist dictatorship.

Trump’s war on California has begun. These news items are not my imagination.

Trump deploys National Guard as Los Angeles protests against immigration agents continue. California Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the Trump administration’s move to send the California National Guard into Los Angeles to handle immigration protests.

The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems.

ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent, Terry Moran, after he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” in a since-deleted post on X.

Trump has sued both CBS and ABC over their reporters saying things that Trump does not like.

The president has now called for the arrest of California governor Gavin Newsom calling him grossly incompetent.

Is this the beginning of a civil war?