Seriously. What is going on in the United States right now? I don’t understand how the judge needs two hours to deliberate after a three hour hearing on whether the National Guard should have been deployed to Illinois. It’s pretty cut and dry, especially if you want to believe that they are there to protect ICE. Because, no. They aren’t. At all. ICE has been the problem. ICE killed a man because they didn’t let go of his car. ICE said, “Do something, b****” and then shot a woman in Chicago. ICE got a priest in the head seven times with pepper balls. ICE is causing all the problems. They are separating families, taking people away, and putting them god knows where because they sure as hell won’t tell anyone. And yet they need the protection. Absolutely not.
Oh and then, you have the president saying that 1) Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson should be jailed for not protecting the hate group that is causing the problems (and let’s be honest here, the reason he wants them in jail is because they disagree with him and called him out on being absolutely awful in every way) and 2) that they cancelled free speech. You can’t cancel free speech. Not in this country, it is literally written on this document that people talk about all the time, especially his supporters. They really like to talk about Amendment number 2 on the Bill of Rights. For those of you who don’t remember your constitution from the test we all had to take in high school, let me refresh your memory:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
So, things that you can do under the First Amendment: disagree with the President, pray to whatever god you want to, demonstrate against whatever you want as long as it is peaceful, and the press is allowed to expose the truth about the President. Because, you know, that’s their job. In both of my points above, the president has violated the Bill of Rights. Which, let me see, what have I had the misfortune of hearing every time there is a mass shooting? Oh, yes. Violating Amendment Number 2 is treason. So, why is saying you have canceled everyone’s right to free speech, putting in the troops so people can’t protest, and trying to imprison people who disagree with as well as starting an insurrection on January 6th, 2021, not treason? I mean…are people not witnessing the same thing? Does MAGA see something else entirely?
And since I’m on a roll, let me also quote the Declaration of Independence and then follow it up with Amendment Number Four.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Everyone is created equal. Everyone. I’m sorry if you think that looking a certain way makes you better than everyone else. You’re wrong. I’m sorry that you think that because you have been privileged to have more money, to have been born at a certain time, or to be a certain skin color, that means that you have more rights than anyone else. You are wrong. Terribly terribly wrong. Onto amendment number four:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
You can’t arrest someone or detain them without a warrant. You can’t enter their home without a warrant. You aren’t supposed to be able to do any of these things and yet ICE is grabbing people off the street because of how they look. And Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court said that was okay. That’s treason, that’s against the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. And somehow, someway, no one is doing anything about any of this violating of the Constitution. We’re holding hearings, but no one is answering the bigger question: why are republicans in Congress allowing this to happen, and how are none of Trump’s supporters seeing the problem?
I guess that’s my question: why? Why does anyone think this is okay? Why is it even a debate? No, you can’t grab people off the street and arrest them for being brown. No, you can’t tell the press they can’t print something because it tells the world how awful the president actually is when he doesn’t want to hear it. Yes, it is illegal to just randomly deport people without a trial (see amendments numbers five through eight). And yes, it is illegal to call for people to be arrested because they disagree with you when you are the president of the United States. And for the love of all that is good, look at Amendment Number 9:
“The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
Now, someone needs to tell me why all of this is okay. Why are we letting people get away with this? Why is anyone okay with the governors having to be the ones who say, “Hey, you can’t do that?” Why is it okay to hate? And follow someone who has so much hate in their heart? The new Pope had to step in and remind everyone that Pro-Life doesn’t mean anti-abortion and screw everything else that moves. The Pope has to remind us that being kind is not ‘woke,’ it’s being a good person.
And how in the hell are we supposed to do this for another three years? If no one stops them now, it’s only going to get worse. Something needs to happen before it’s too late.
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