A conservative plan for Donald Trump’s potential transition into the presidency calls for dozens of prisoners to be executed, according to HuffPost. An 887-page plan by Project 2025, led by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation, says that if elected, Trump should make a concerted effort to execute the remaining 40 prisoners on death row. The section’s author, attorney Gene Hamilton, advised that Trump “do everything possible to obtain finality” on the current list of people until Congress forces them to stop. Hamilton is the vice president of America Legal First, a group of former Trump lawyers bent on attacking “woke” companies, headed by Stephen Miller. Trump’s approach to the death penalty stands in stark contrast to that of President Joe Biden, who has openly opposed the death penalty, but done little to move forward legislation to reform or abolish the practice since entering office.
For those of you not in the know Project 2025 is Republicans plan to turn the USA into an authoritarian state.
Kissinger described the youth movement of the time, against the war in Vietnam, etc in a really disgusting way that sobered me up about the power dynamics on the hill (back when I was still in high school). He would say “America is currently suffering from an _‘excess of democracy’ _”. Power, popular or not, does not and will not relinquish control voluntarily. The state has two functions. It’s the only apparatus capable of extinguishing abuses of power completely, granted the capability thru the monopolization and use of force/violence. Government has only 2 jobs really. Defend the nation, environment, society so there’s a level playing field for everything production and economics and deliver the fucking mail (ensure safe communication).
Thusly the first task of anyone who steals enough power is to corrupt the state. Attacks against the donor class will be met lethally by the police reduced from a respectable service to the donors personal class traitor mercenary security force. Police can testify against you in court, but never in your defense, how fucked is that?
I’m waiting for our trigger happy cosplaytriotPD to repeat that on the protestors demanding divestment from apartheid states.
4 dead in Ohio. I’m not going to advocate furthering the loss of life, either on campus (or anywhere else) from FashFactoryPD, or the Bloodthirsty Zionist genocide of Gaza but a new anthem to rally behind could go a loooong way. CSN+Y fucking nailed it in their moment.
That’s the exact opposite of what I wrote.
After Kent State the student movement pretty much fell apart. There were other college shootings at the time, and a lot of people decided that they weren’t ready to lay their lives on the line.
I know plenty of parents who teach their kids to avoid the cops and none who are teaching them to organize a revolution.