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Anyone who believes Trump’s excuse for his treasonous comments in Helsinki were simply a result of misspeaking just one word doesn’t deserve to be an American citizen, just like Trump doesn’t.
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Some of the original deplorables have been replaced by others, but they all, coming or going, represent what is wrong with America. They are all traitors who have placed Trump’s cultism of divisiveness, xenophobia, greed, corruption, hatred, racism, bigotry, immorality, inhumanity, and white supremacy in a place contrary to our constitution, social culture, and our long ago affirmed democratic way of life.
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Since Trump’s absurd and cruel “zero tolerance immigration” policy went into effect, I have followed the disturbing news, actions, and events that have gone on down at our southern border, and what I have read, seen, and heard is inhumane, illegal, and unamerican. To put it in people-speak the elements of it consist of kidnapping children from those families seeking sanctuary, trafficking many of these children all over the U.S. for who the hell knows what purposes (say illegal adoptions, sex, slave labor?), and imprisoning others in a cage-like environment at numerous detention centers. All of this is apparently illegal under international law and is surely not protected by America’s laws and our constitution. Public pressure has forced Trump to amend his “zero tolerance order” into something more duplicitous and ambiguous, but provides that the children and parents are to be reunited when possible. And there seem to be a lot of impossibles, including excuses, lies, and no records.
But the government’s crass detention and separating children policies (which began long before his initial “zero tolerance order”) were at work before any kind of formalized tracking of immigrants and their children was implemented and now the government cannot reunite many of these families. Their failure to be able to do that indicates even more serious humanitarian violations. In the meantime I have just read that they have actually lost almost two thousand children. Obviously this is inexcusable and there will be many charges against the border police and ICE that will likely imprison dozens of government employees for various kinds of dereliction of duty.
But what about the phony judges, the failure to properly process immigrants seeking asylum, and the inhumanity of sending many thousands of these people back to the very places they are running for their lives from, where they are likely to be forced to return to the lifestyles they are so afraid of, including being murdered? Who is responsible for that? I say the buck stops with the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
The American people must demand that Donald Trump resign from office., and that our courts and congress punish him for these crimes and many others that he is no doubt guilty of. ~llaw
The following heart-wrenching story is one attorney’s experience at attempting to find justice for her clients at the border. I invite you to read it and offer your comments.
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The “Sweetwater Conspiracy” has had two planned publishing dates over the last five years, but both have been postponed for either marketing reasons or for storyline modifications and other iterative editing. I hope to finally publish this book by this time next year at the earliest or the year after at the latest. It is a story made for release in early July, as the critical events in this historical novel took place in that month in 1889. The following is a draft of the preface to the story. ~llaw (07/08/2018)
(An American Tragedy)
(This is taken from the Preface to my historical novel about an actual incident that occurred in the Wyoming Territory just a year before the state was admitted to the United States of America.)
“In the summer of 1889, during the settling-up of the American west a sensational news story swept off Wyoming’s high plains, making international headlines and shaking the resolve of the westward pioneering spirit. The story told of the macabre garroting murder by hanging of Ella Watson, a young, single, cowgirl homesteader (along with her friend, Jim Averell) by an ad-hoc vigilante group of influential Wyoming cattle barons. According to the press, the precocious settler was strung up for stocking her new homestead with cattle by trading sex for cows. Nothing could have been further from the truth, but the myth justified the means. They hanged Ella Watson and her boyfriend, but was someone else guilty? Or was it all a conspiracy?
This grisly incident, involving wealthy cattlemen and indigent homesteaders in Wyoming’s Sweetwater Valley, became a vital spark in the incendiary run-up to the infamous Johnson County War, leading to martial law as well as subsequent modifications to the various federal land grant acts that were profoundly influenced by that conflict.
The incident’s key role in the volatile triad of the federal government (trying desperately to equitably settle the west), the territorial government of Wyoming (in the middle of its transition to statehood), and the Wyoming Stock Growers Association (then, the most powerful jurisdictional and lobbying organization in America) must no longer be misunderstood nor ignored. The criminal, judicial, political, and historical significance of this tragic event has been suppressed, subverted, ignored, and overlooked for well over one hundred years, and most of what little has been written about it has been inaccurate if not intentionally misleading. Numerous movies, such as Heaven’s Gate, The Redhead from Wyoming, and Shane have borrowed from this tragedy. But the dark underbelly of the story seems always to be avoided. Even today the Sweetwater murders are not discussed in Wyoming’s polite social and political circles, especially in the cattle ranching community.
What follows is the dark truth behind that sensational story of so long ago – a story that headlined the front pages of newspapers from Cheyenne to Chicago to New York and on across the Atlantic to London, Paris, and Berlin, but the press, influenced by the powerful leaders of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, got it all wrong.” ~llaw
A girl may be camping out at this outpost on the Deep Springs campus, affectionately named ‘DS1’, sometime this fall. Late this summer, the first female student(s) ever, after 94 years of educating only young men, may enroll here..
This exclusive and highly rated two-year college, remotely located in the rugged high desert of eastern California between Lone Pine, California, and Dyer, Nevada (its mailing address), may be the most isolated educational institution in the United States.
Deep Springs accepts only a maximum of 15 new students each year out of nearly 200 applications. The institution and its campus is a working cattle ranch, and the students all work on the ranch in lieu of paying tuition or any other college expenses, which is one of the allures of the school.
Stay tuned to see who the first female student will become a working cowgirl at the most unique higher educational program in America. ~llaw (July 7,2018)
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Wishing all Americans a pleasant Independence Day. I hope it is not the last one. . .