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THROUGH NO FAULT of our own, most of us in the 99.9 Percent are unaware that white supremacists have been attacking our constitution's 14th Amendment -- which overturned the Dred Scott Decision by granting U.S. citizenship to African Americans and anyone else "born or naturalized" in the USian states or territories -- since its ratification in 1868. Nor are we to blame for not immediately recognizing the impending reversal of the 14th Amendment implicit in the undoubtedly permanent cancellation of our constitutional right to abortion by the literally limitless Christonazi vindictiveness enabled by the Supreme Court's lifetime appointments .
We are deliberately imprisoned in
ignorance of such matters by a regimen of national censorship -- about
which more below -- that is so effective it is veritably invisible.
Operating primarily in K-12 education, it long predates the malignant,
publicly declared war against learning legitimized by the
Hitler-disciple Donald Trump and metastasized throughout USia by the
fanatically hateful rabble who believe him to have been "anointed by god" to rule the USian Empire and conquer the world as their new führer.
Meanwhile Trump's "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party is working overtime -- this with the ever-more-brazen assistance of its "Democratic" (sic) Party Fifth Column and a bipartisan, persons-of-color cabal of Clarence-Thomas emulators -- to enable the nation's white-supremacist electorate to restore the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision to the viciously exclusionary, implicitly genocidal definition of "we the people" intended by Chief Justice Roger Taney, his six concurring justices and all their pro-slavery supporters in 1857.
Quoth Taney, in what is formally known as Dred Scott v. Sandford: "The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the citizen?"
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"The words ‘people of the United States’ and ‘citizens’ are synonymous terms, and mean the same thing. They both describe the political body who, according to our republican institutions, form the sovereignty, and who hold the power and conduct the Government through their representatives. They are what we familiarly call the ‘sovereign people,’ and every citizen is one of this people, and a constituent member of this sovereignty. The question before us is, whether the class of persons described in the plea in abatement compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them…" (emphasis added).
In other
words, Taney and his six adherent justices ruled that if it's not
expressly stated in the Constitution, it is neither defensible -- or
even legislatively obtainable -- as a constitutionally protected right.
Which is precisely the so-called "originalism" the Christonazified
court weaponized to revoke Roe v. Wade and -- often in a less obvious
manner -- routinely employs in its relentless restoration of other
white-supremacist, misogynistic, theocratic, homophobic, transphobic and
aristocratic tyrannies we the gullible people of the 99.9 Percent
foolishly imagined had been banished forever.
It is therefore of utmost importance to note the not-in-the-constition parallels to the 19th Century exclusionary racist bigotry that spawned the Dred Scott decision are being imposed not only openly via the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization cancellation of a half-century of abortion rights, but less obviously in both the Biden v. Nebraska prohibition of relief for student-loan debtors and in the potential imposition of nationwide racial segregation implicitly permitted by the awkwardly named, intentionally homophobic 303 Creative LLC et al v. Elenis et al decision. (For revelation of the ruling-class financial hypocrisy revealed by the anti-student ruling and additional analysis of the total repeal of civil-rights legislation permitted by Creative v. Elenis, go here.)
Here too are six more examples of the ongoing, already ruinously successful Christionazi campaign to nullify the 14th Amendment, again making the Dred Scott ruling the (permanent) de facto determination of who is -- and who is not -- (theoretically) entitled to the rights and privileges of USian citizenship:
- School Board in Missouri Revokes Its Anti-Racism Policy. The significance of this brazenly anti-Black decision is underscored by the Associated Press report: "The Francis Howell district is among Missouri’s largest, with 17,000 students, about 87% of whom are white...The vote...came during an often-contentious meeting...Racial issues remain especially sensitive in the St. Louis region, nine years after a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown during a street confrontation."
- Black Alabama Voters Prep for Another Fight after Christonazis Flout SCOTUS Ruling. See also Black Lawmakers Say Alabama GOP’s Proposed New Congressional Map Insults the Supreme Court. AP quotes Rep. Prince Chestnut, a Democrat from Selma, as saying. “We’re fighting the same battles that they were fighting 100 years ago, 50 years ago, 40 years ago, right here today,” Chestnut said. “Once again the (Republican) super majority decided that the voting rights of Black people are nothing that this state is bound to respect." In other words, Roger Taney lives.
- Did Trump Let 500,000 USians Die of Covid to Cut Them from the Voter Rolls? Thom Hartmann thinks so: "The most unreported story of the pandemic, the one that seems destined to be overlooked as histories are being written, is what Trump did when he learned the Covid coronavirus was largely killing Black and Hispanic people and mostly sparing whites. The moment he came to that realization, he completely altered the US response to the pandemic, leading to the unnecessary death of 300,000 to 500,000 Americans. Deaths that he and his advisors apparently believed (correctly) would be, outside of nursing home residents, disproportionately Black and Hispanic people. (Emphasis as in original.)
- An Overview of the Taney-Inspired White Supremacist Campaign to Purge Blacks from the Voter Rolls. "Greg Palast estimates there were at least 4 million fully legal and appropriately registered voters purged just in 2022, although the history Pew documented from 2016-1018 suggests the number may have been over ten million. And (Republican-controlled) states are, as you read these words, vigorously purging voters from the rolls, predominantly in (Democrat-controlled) cities and among Black populations, which vote more than 80 percent Democratic."
- Jihadist-Dominated Hamtramck City Council Ousts Oust Two LGBTQ-Defenders from Its Human Rights Commission. (No, unfortunately this is not a scare-story. It's an AP report that perilously downplays the fact Muslim fanatics are every bit as hatefully dangerous as their Christonazi counterparts -- and that, in Creative v. Elenis, the Christonazi cabal that rules SCOTUS for a lifetime allows jihadists the same rights of hateful exclusion it allows Christians, again targeting any minority not specifically protected by the USian constitution.)
- These Christian Nationalists Want to Stone Adulterers to Death.
Think it can't happen here in USia? Please reconsider; that sort of
self-inflicted delusion is identical to the suicidal denial by which
modern-minded Afghans hoped for tolerance from the conquering Taliban.
But now they know better; see for example, Taliban Bans Beauty Salons in Afghanistan.
In truth there are no limits to the sadism legitimized by Abrahamic
religion, the most vindictive forms of which are theocracies based on
fundamentalist interpretations of Jewish, Christian or Muslim theology.
Never forget: the selfsame hatred of women and sexual minorities that
rules USian Christonazism and Jihadist Islam also rules the most
extreme forms of orthodox Judaism, which is a major (albeit mostly
unreported) fear fueling the widespread Israeli opposition to Netanayu's efforts to impose de facto theocracy.
But Why Are We So Oblivious to What Is Being Done to Us?
There are two reasons, and -- as I said above -- neither is our fault.
By far the most crippling reason for our national plague of passivity is the ruinous extent to which we are deliberately robbed of our species' history -- the basic knowledge of our own nation and of every other nation born of our Mother Earth, which is precisely the knowledge we need to make sense of the events that impact our lives.
The ignorance so inflicted is by far the worst in the world; no other people on this planet are as methodically deprived of the study of history. The deprivation begins in our primary and secondary schools, where most of us are taught to despise the study of history as nothing more than a repugnant, wearisome ordeal of learning to recite from memory otherwise meaningless lists of names, dates and places.
Nor is it an accident the most pridefully ignorant, aggressively anti-intellectual teachers -- that is, the athletic coaches -- are typically chosen to teach civics, history, sociology and government. Having history taught by such hopeless dullards hides the dynamic interplay of cause-and-effect and dramatic personal histories that underlie the epic story of our species' experience; it is the deliberate concealment of those fascinating elements -- the vivid interplay of peoples, ideologies and events that reveal history as equivalent to a never-ending epic film or novel -- that reduce its study into an odiously dreary chore. And it is that very odium by which the .01 Percent seek to guarantee we will never, for example, recognize their slow-motion resurrection of all the dreadfulness formerly legitimized by the Dred Scott decision.
Here then are a couple of examples of history as it should be studied:
The suppressed facts of the Scottsboro Boys atrocity: how the USian Communist Party's lawyers fought to free the boys, which explains the origin of the fascist meme of civil rights as a "Communist plot." Includes information on how the USSR ensured the success of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and aided African liberation movements in general.
One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia: on the scary perniciousness of pro-Hitler, pro-Third-Reich propaganda amongst the nurdish elite.
But as I indicated above, that is only half the story. The second reason most of us remain unaware of the widespread, de facto resurrection of the U.S. Supreme Court's most notoriously racist edict is because the six obscenely wealthy tyrants who own and control USia's so-called "mainstream media" -- in brain-policing truth the world's first privately owned, for-(maximum)-profit version of Josef Goebbel's infamous Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda -- have an obvious need to downplay the skyrocketing nazification of the failed and crumbling federal union whether they themselves are nazis or not.
That's because at the epicenter of our national failure is the deliberate contraction of at least 27 of USia's 50 states into the internal socioeconomic conditions the ex-president, accused felon and Hitler-wannabe Trump says define a "shithole country." (Never mind Trump was using the term as a brazenly racist slur against Haiti, El Salvador and the nations of sub-Saharan Africa, while each of the USian shithole states are white-male-supremacist despotisms ruled by the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party.)
Unfortunately the USian/capitalist variant of Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda does an excellent job of minimizing the appalling truth that the most malignant sorts of USian misogyny, white-supremacist racism, religious bigotry and homophobia -- extremes once pretty much limited to the 11 vindictively traitorous, defiantly theocratic states of the Old Confederacy -- have now metastasized into at least 16 more states. Apart from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, the entire Middle West is solidly Christonazi, and the four exceptions are in grave jeopardy. Michigan has already been targeted by at least one Christonazi plot to assassinate its governor. And despite Wisconsin's widely celebrated vote for a pro-choice state supreme court, I suspect its voters will soon be deluded into embracing the role of shithole state number 28. Support for female reproductive rights says nothing about support for broader 99.9 Percent rights, especially racial equality; let us not forget how in 1946 and 1952 landslide-majorities of Wisconsin voters elected the vindictively anti-socialist, anti-intellectual, pro-Nazi Joseph McCarthy to the U.S. Senate and in 2018 came within a mere 29,227 votes of re-electing Scott Walker, McCarthy's sadistically misogynistic, homophobic, anti-mass-transit, anti-union and anti-welfare-recipient political reincarnation, to a third term as governor -- this after also granting his gubernatorial gruesomeness the unprecedented endorsement of a 53-percent recall-election victory in 2012. Note too the change-we-can-believe-in betrayal inflicted by Wisconsin's victorious "Democratic" (sic) governor, who just signed into law the largest funding boost for (implicitly white-supremacist) private schools in the state's history.
Looking a few years ahead -- and factoring in the Christonazis' terrifying, German-Nazi-schooled skill at subversion and conquest -- I cannot doubt they and their Neoconfederate allies will have conquered not only all the states of the Old Confederacy, Virginia included, but all the inland states as well; by then -- if our species has not yet exterminated itself by war and the ultimate misogyny of environmental ruin -- the United States will have completed its self-destruction and will no longer exist save perhaps in name only. Moreover, the presence of a violently aggressive, avowedly ecogenocidal Christonazi realm in North America will probably have altered the world's politics beyond present-day recognition. Only Hawaii, the three western coastal states and the 10 northeastern coastal states will remain as relatively free domains. And those will retain their independence only by the intervention of foreign powers. In Hawaii's case, that would probably be either Japan, China or possibly Korea; given the island's dominant ethnicities, I'd guess most likely Japan, though the defense of Hawaii against Christonazi invasion could indeed foster the first-ever genuinely willing Sino-Japanese-Korean alliance. For the 13 remaining non-Christonazi states -- Washington, Oregon, California, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine -- the most likely protection would come from merger with Canada, which would no doubt find economic advantage both in the acquisition of additional seaports and natural resources, and which with its own huge natural-resource base and solidly stable parliamentary governance might by then have already emerged as the dominant power in the Americas.
Alaska in this formulation is a wild card -- and in all probability would be the cause of at least one major war. That's because the Christonazi reich -- probably calling itself something like the "Confederate Christian States of America" -- would want to rape Alaska for its wealth of resources. But an already growing union of its First Nations and settler populations -- the latter far more anarchist than nazified -- would no doubt fight to the death to preserve their beloved Alaskan wilderness. Merger with Canada? Re-merger with Russia? Survival as an independent republic protected by mutual defense treaties with Canada and the emergent Sino-Russian alliance? I'd suspect the third alternative as most likely, but your guess is probably as good as mine.
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From the Comment Threads of Other Websites
New York City Mayor Adams' tantrums demanding "respect" -- that is, his vindictively racist, misogynistic and implicitly anti-Jewish bullying of an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor -- are most clearly understood as an extension of his oft-repeated claims to divine-right rule.
Obviously too, as USia becomes ever more tyrannically theocratic -- as its politicians become ever more obviously puppets of the plutocracy and ever more sadistically vicious toward the 99.9 Percent -- the tyrants' claims of divine right will again become central to their rationalizations of unmitigated savagery, just as they were in ages past.
Which is the real horror manifest by Adams' vicious expressions of slave-master contempt toward a legitimate critic, that -- like the Trumpite normalization of unabashed bigotry -- it is a precedent-setting public assertion of the theocratic, prosperity-gospel self-righteousness that increasingly defines the entire USian ruling class, plutocrats and puppets alike.
(My apology for my tardy response; four times vaccinated, I am nevertheless home abed with a very stubborn case of Covid. and I am therefore reading the contents of my inbox far less frequently than normal.)
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NOTE: I got sick on 22 June and posted the above comment on 6 July; as of 9 July, I finally tested negative, though even now -- 29 July -- I have no sense of taste or smell, am still so weak I cannot climb a single flight of stairs and am sleeping 12-14 hours per day.
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Our Ever-More-Feverish Mother Earth Sets New Global Temperature Record. Given that the Kubler-Ross stages of death and dying would seem to be as applicable to our species as to its individual members, I wonder how long it will take us to realize capitalism is a terminal disease -- a fatal illness so hopelessly metastasized there is no longer any possible cure -- and that it has already doomed our species to extinction, likewise doomed every other evolutionarily advanced species and doomed our Mother Earth to reduction back to a bug planet.
Nor can I doubt that is precisely the realization already manifest collectively in the now-unprecedented international rush toward thermonuclear apocalypse and individually both in the skyrocketing incidence of mass murder and the infinitely increasing cases of often-suicidal depression amongst our species' youth.
Thus -- even to our children (who are far more perceptive than most adults dare acknowledge) -- it seems ever-more-obvious our only remaining, genuinely pivotal "what-shall-I-do-with-my-life" question is, "how shall I cope with my looming death." (Disclosure: I am 83 years old, and I suspect mine is the very last of our species' generations that will ever be allowed anything even approaching such longevity.)
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On the (Lifetime) Christonazification of SCOTUS. Well said. Once again, Black Agenda Report proves itself by far the most relevant website of the US-based True Left, analytically the domestic equivalent of the Fourth International's World Socialist Web Site.
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Democrat Honchos Ignore Biden’s Unpopularity. Face it, Mr. Rall, and said with all due respect; this is not mere "pigheaded obliviousness." It is yet (another) undeniable proof of the "Democratic" (sic) Party's one true post-JFK function: serving as the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party.
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Vote on House NDAA Proves Dems Lie about Support for Abortion. Writing as the news editor I once was (Morristown, N.J. Daily Record, 1968-69), it seems to me the real story here is the House vote's irrefutable proof the "Democratic" (sic) Party's claim to support abortion rights is but another example of "change we can believe in," the most malicious election-campaign Big Lie ever pimped to USian voters.
Three of the four Democrats who declared their hateful misogyny and homophobia by voting for the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate version of the National Defense Authorization Act -- Representatives Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA), Jared Golden (ME) and Gabe Vasquez (NM) -- each claim via their websites to be staunch supporters of abortion rights.
Rep. Dan Davis (NC) seems to avoid any website reference to the abortion issue, though he implies support for women's reproductive rights by claiming to be "working hard to strengthen health...assistance for our service members, veterans and their families."
But their votes for the vindictively misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic Christonazi/Neoconfederate NDAA say these self-proclaimed "Democrats" are in truth no different in this regard from the so-called "Republicans" they claim to oppose.
Thus again we witness either the "Democratic" (sic) Party in its (only) genuine post-JFK function as the Christonazi/Neoconfederate Fifth Column, or a new, far-more-alarming development, the Democrats' radical escalation of their "change-we-can-believe-in" deceptions to actually cloaking Christonazis with "Democratic" disguises.
Whichever is true -- and it could be either alternative or both -- the votes of the four Christonazi/Neoconfederate collaborators once again demonstrate our desperate need for a militant socialist party to organize the 99.9 Percent and thus unify the entire USian working class in the global struggle for real democracy.
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RFK Jr.'s Racism and Antisemitism. I suspect what this junior Kennedy is doing is embracing Christonazism as the ultimate guarantee against being murdered as were his father and uncle.
The object lesson implicit in his wholesale embrace of tyranny is its backhanded revelation of the most probable reason underlying the nation's politicians' relentlessly bipartisan effort to make the USian Empire the de facto Fourth Reich: the plutocratic cabal that rules USia allows no alternative conduct.
Moreover -- as proven by the decade of political murders that followed the 1963 slayings of Medgar Evers and President Kennedy and the often-deceptive obedience of every successful politician since -- these tyrants obviously will never again tolerate even minimal deviance from their mandates.
Meanwhile -- if I may be permitted a terrible cliche -- I cannot doubt JFK and Robert Senior are rolling over in their graves at the submissive cowardice of their descendant.
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Images from Nazi Occupied Eastern Europe c.1941-1942. "Russia is to be reduced to the level of a nation of peasants, from which there is no return." This quote from an earlier WSWS report, Part One of Comrade Clara Weiss's superb 2015 documentation of "The Nazi War of Annihilation against the Soviet Union" (linked in Footnote 1 of today's "Images from occupied Eastern Europe"), is no doubt also the Nazi-war-criminal-advised USian Empire's post-World-War-II policy toward all the nations it has destroyed or is destroying in its allegedly "lost" wars.
Indeed I cannot imagine a more devious way to permanently destroy a nation than by disguising its intentional destruction as a "lost" war -- precisely the sort of deception that results from combining the Original (N.S.D.A.P.) Nazi policy of global conquest (aka USia's "full-spectrum dominance") with Madison Avenue's bottomless USianazi skill at manufacturing ultimate Big Lies and pimping them to a citizenry deliberately bound in helplessly gullible ignorance.
In bitter truth, such is but another manifestation of the regimen of deception the "Democratic" (sic) Party immortalized as "change we can believe in."
Such too is capitalism itself -- ever-more-obviously our species' most relentlessly terminal illness -- in its fully metastasized ecogenocidal toxicity. Again -- in this tragically unrecognized merger of the Machiavellian cunning of Hitler's disciples of Aryan supremacy with the serial-killer moral imbecility manifest in the USian ruling-class shibboleth of divine-right "exceptionalism" -- we see why for the entire global working class it's literally socialism or death.
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On German Militarism: Given the psychological importance of symbolism, particularly in a military context, it is no doubt relevant to note the Bundeswehr has quietly brought back the traditional jackboot, and now does a momentary goose-step at directional changes in marches, for both of which see the footage entitled "Yorck'scher March + Prussia's Glory 01/19/2023 Bellevue Palace" on YouTube.
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About the Political Issues in Trump’s Imminent Indictment: Given the "Democratic" (sic) Party's damnable (and utterly damning) record of functioning as the Fifth Column of the "Republican" (sic) Christonazi/Neoconfederate Party, the urgent warning issued by Comrades Grey and Martin -- that "the working class cannot entrust the defeat of fascism and defense of democratic rights to the Democratic Party and the courts" -- can be minimized, belittled, ignored or dismissed only at the greatest peril to the USian working class.
Indeed I suspect the Democrats will grant Trump and the cabal of upper- echelon Trumpites who are the present-day führers of the so-called "Republican" party the long-perfected de facto acquittal of clandestinely fumbling the prosecutions of the Christonazi leadership even as they continue to make examples of its rear-rank followers.
Thus will the Democrats continue their efforts to maintain the "strong Republican Party" as a vital puppet-partner in the USian ruling-class scheme for "full-spectrum dominance" (i.e., relentless global conquest) and continued subjugation of the 99.9 Percent in the prison of gullibility, deception and induced ignorance typified by the slogan "change we can believe in."
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Agent Zelensky. Thank you for this. Given the USian Empire's political history -- specifically its adoption during and after WWII of thousands of upper-echelon Nazi war criminals as advisors and comrades-at-arms, (also given the now-mostly suppressed histories of fanatically pro-Nazi elements in both the hereditary British aristocracy and the USian financial aristocracy) – note how a Jewish head of state facilitates "plausible denial" of Ukrainian nazification (spook terminology intentional).
It also helps conceal the purposeful weaponization of the Ukraine as the newest spearhead in an effectively endless Occidental war to conquer "lebensraum" in Russia. Originally rationalized by the Great Schism of 1054 CE (the final, irremediable split between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches), it began in earnest with a declared Crusade, the invasions of Russia by the Teutonic Knights in 1240 CE and 1242 CE, each of which were defeated by the Russian hero Alexander Nevsky. By Hitler's time this had become both a crusade against socialism and a campaign of anti-Slavic genocide much like the genocidal wars against the First Nations of the Americas: exterminating the people to finalize the theft of their land.
Today it is (still) a genocidal war for land and resources, but thanks to the near-complete global metastasis of the capitalist ethos of moral imbecility and the near-total subjugation of the 99.9 Percent, the ruling class no longer feels any need to justify such conquest much beyond declarations of want.
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