Republicans Are Trump's Three Wise Monkeys

Three Wise Moneys - Republicans On Trump Impeachment

As Trump's impeachment trial, or lack there of, looms in the Senate, Republican Senators who will take an oath to be impartial jurors play their roles as one of Donald Trump's Three Wise Monkeys. The Three Wise Monkeys saw no evil, heard no evil and spoke no evil because they had their hands covering their ears, mouth and eyes. The principles behind the Three Wise Monkeys may date back to hundreds of years BC before taking its final form in Japan. The framers of the U.S Constitution never thought a co-equal branch of government created to be a check on an out of control Executive Branch would be controlled by Three Wise Monkeys and become subservient to the Executive Branch to the point of being jointly complicit in covering up and enabling constitutional breaches including inviting foreign interference in our elections to advantage a sitting President. 

 

 

Living in The Age of White Reparations 

As the fourth estate of the press revealed that Trump rolled over his top advisors after they advised him not to withhold congressionally approved aid to Ukraine the truth is sitting in front of their faces to see, read and hear. Trump asked the President of Ukraine to, "do him a favor though" in order to get aid and that favor was to announce an investigation into his rival Joe Biden and his son. If this impeachment trial is like the Brett Kavanaugh FBI investigation for his confirmation to the Supreme Court when people called and went to the FBI with information that was ignored because it was outside the very narrow scope defined by the White House, then we no longer have three co-equal branches of government. If the Senate conducts a rigged sham impeachment trial and clears Donald Trump summarily then we no longer have a President, but an unchecked and untouchable head of state who could wreak havoc for the rest of his current term and do untold damage if reelected with no risk of constitutional restraint or reelection.

 

 

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Impeachment: If Soldiers Face Death, Senators Can Face Witnesses To Preserve America

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In the Constitution Congress has the sole power to declare war. In recent years, Presidents have entered the United States in multiple wars without Congressional declarations of war. When the United States enters a war the expectation is for those in military service to fight in those conflicts and if required, to give their lives in combat. Military members, members of Congress and the President take an oath that all contain these words, "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."  

Trump: Nixon on Steroids

 

Congress and Presidents have sent Americans to face deaths in wars foreign and domestic to maintain our republic! The least they can do is face the truth, witnesses and voters to make sure we protect our republic from foreign powers being invited to interfere in our elections going forward! Impeachment is not a political party exercise, but an emergency button to be pushed if a President, of any political party, is violating his oath of office and placing our republic in peril. We expect military men and women to sacrifice their lives in order to protect our freedoms, among those, to have free and fair elections free from foreign influence. The United States was born because it broke away from foreign rule through a bloody war and it should be obvious why an invitation by a sitting U.S. President, elected under a cloud of election interference by Russia, to the President of another country to assist him in an upcoming election by smearing his political opponent.

 

If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to hear key fact witnesses before acquitting President Donald Trump of the articles of impeachment drawn against him, then the Senate has lost its moral authority to send brave Americans to their deaths in defense of their right to display such moral cowardice in a free country.   

How My March On The Florida State Capital In 1980 and Amber Guyger Are Connected

 

 Amber Guyger

I recall marching on the state capital in Tallahassee, Fl when I was a student at Florida A&M University 39 years ago after a group of police officers were acquitted in the death of Black ex-Marine and salesman Arthur McDuffie, who they chased as he rode a motorcycle through the streets of Miami, Fl. It was December 1979 when McDuffie died from what the police said were injuries from a motorcycle crash.

During a trial that was moved to Tampa, Fl, a cop at the scene stated McDuffie was beaten to death with flashlights, fists and police batons by the officers that were chasing him. Testimony from a cooperating officer stated McDuffie’s motorcycle was ran over by a squad car to damage it so it appeared to have been in a crash. An all-White jury in Tampa acquitted the officers of all charges related to McDuffie’s death on May 17, 1980 and Miami exploded into riots that resulted in 18 deaths, hundreds of injuries and arrests. Over $100 million of damage occurred in Miami.

Blackphobia - Bluephobia - Police Race and Rage in America

Tallahassee, Fl is 483 miles and 0 miles from Miami, Fl because many students attending Florida A&M were from Miami. After the acquittal verdicts the campus and Black community was wound tight as a drum and ready to explode. Someone ran to each apartment door where I lived off-campus and knocked to let everyone know that the police officers got away with killing a Black man and a March on the capital was scheduled.

Florida A&M was a powder keg with a lit fuse. Bob Graham, the then Governor of Florida, came and gave a speech at Lee Hall, but was almost booed off stage.

Tempers cooled down with time and I left Florida A&M in December of 1980 having completed my 4 years course of study in Marketing. Some 39 years later I got to witness Amber Guyger, a White female police officer get convicted of murder for killing her neighbor while he sat in his apartment because she said she thought it was her own.

Has everything changed since the Miami riots, no, but Guyger is going to prison for what she did to Botham Jean.

Amber Guyger Killed Black Man - Mohammed Noor Killed White Woman

Amber Guyger                Mohammed Noor

White off-duty Dallas, TX policewoman, Amber Guyger, walked to an apartment door in the building where she lived, opened that door and shot a Black man, Botham Jean, who was the resident of the rental unit. Guyger said she thought she was at her own apartment and perceived Botham Jean as an intruder inside her home.

Black on-duty Minneapolis, MN policeman, Mohammed Noor, was sitting in his police cruiser with his partner while responding to a report of a possible sexual assault turned in by Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a White woman. Noor stated a loud noise startled him and his partner just before Damond approached the car window. Noor stated he saw Damond raise her arms, perceived her as a threat and shot her through the window of the car and killed her. Damond died outside her home.

The tale of two cops, one male and Black, and the other, female and White, come about as close as you can get to answering the question of would a Black male policeman killing an innocent White woman in her home get as light of a sentence as the 10 years Amber Guyger got for killing Botham Jean in his apartment while he was eating ice cream and watching a football game. Think about the contrast. Botham Jean was obviously shaken when someone stepped into his apartment unexpectedly and shot him shortly thereafter. Now imagine that you called the police about a possible sexual assault and walked out to meet your possible rescuers and one of them shot you through the squad car window. Two innocent civilians ended up dead at the hands of people sworn to protect and serve them. Race was a flashpoint in the trials of both Noor and Guyger, but from opposite ends of the racial spectrum. White outrage demanded Noor be held accountable for killing Damond and Black outrage and frustration demanded Guyger not get what was perceived as White privilege treatment in whatever conviction and sentence she ultimately received.

Blackphobia - Bluephobia

Both Noor and Guyger were found guilty of murder. Many Blacks felt Noor was found guilty due to his race as many White officers charged with unwarranted deaths of Blacks walked free. Many of all races were shocked that Guyger was found guilty of murder in-spite of her race and some Blacks felt a kind of vindication for all those times White police officers did not serve time after killing minorities even when it was caught on camera. Rejoicing over Guyger's murder conviction turned to rage in the Black community when the jury gave her a 10 year prison sentence and cries of White privilege rang out. Anger ensued when the judge in Noor's trial gave him a 12.5 year sentence that some in Black community thought was too harsh.

For those asking if a Black male police officer would have received a similar sentence as Amber Guyger need to take the case of Mohammed Noor into consideration. Noor received 2.5 years more in prison for killing a White woman who he was dispatched to protect and Amber Guyger got 10 years for killing her Black male neighbor that she said was a mistake due to thinking she was at her own apartment.

Were these cases of Black and White justice or shades of gray?

Trump's War Against The America Dream

Fear and loathing of a fully realized version of the United States where the words of both Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. come into full fruition drove frightened voters to seek refuge in a retrograde vision of America from a morally bankrupt racist and elevate him to be President of the United States.

 

Thomas Jefferson wrote as part of the Declaration of Independence, "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." Martin Luther King Jr. said he dreamed of a day when people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. The 45th President of the United States, Donald John Trump, is fighting against the realization of Jefferson's and King's words and used the fear of the day that is coming where more minorities will be counted as Americans than Whites. Using words and tactics that stoked fear of a darker America among the insecure, Trump drew out the darkness to gain enough votes in areas left behind by a changing economy to secure a victory in the electoral college while being rejected by three million more voters nationally than voted for him.

 Trump - Nixon on Steroids

Since taking the oath of office Trump has constantly sought to divide and pit Americans against each other on the basis of race, religion, ideology, sexual orientation and political party. Trump has called some immigrants vermin and infestations. Trump has described some countries certain immigrants came from as shitholes. Trump characterized predominantly Black athletes who knelt to protest police brutality against Blacks as sons of bitches while saying White Supremacists involved in violence in Charlottesville, NC were fine people. Trump tweeted about four minority first year Democrat Congresswomen and said, "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken crime infested places from which they came."

Trump continually seeks new lows and a twitter attack against Black Congressman Elijah Cummings took him there. Trump tweeted, "Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place." Later Trump stated ""no human being would want to live there."

Over two and one half years since becoming President Trump has never presented he was even pretending to represent the entire country, but he is stoking more racial, cultural and economic division than ever while throwing toxic red meat to his base.

In truth Trump wants the American dream to the reserved for those he deems deserve it, and it's not his lower income White supporters that shout and chant at his rallies and survive on a steady diet of FOX News. Trump abhors Dr. King's vision of America and rejects Thomas Jefferson's view of equality, but he wants Jefferson's America when wealthy White men ruled unchallenged. Voting with a foreboding of an inevitably different America pushing them aside caused a corrupt man to be entrusted with unchecked power and shielded from criminal repercussions due to the office he held. Trump is now attempting to destroy the United States as it exists to serve the needs of his greed, ego and powerful enablers, both foreign and domestic.

If Trump and his enablers get what they want and the United States is left in tatters in their wake, in their view, it is a small price to pay.