Thank you. I kept it somewhat short for the purposes of the main point, but I've written a lot about the Andijon massacre, and about the Uzbek poets and journalists and activists determined to tell the truth about what happened, even though it meant risking their lives. I may upload more of my old academic papers here, now that I've (sort of) figured out how to do it. I don't want people to forget Andijon.
Sarah: Thank you for posting this piece. I, too, agree that it is power ... and profoundly relevant. The Trump administration's effort to create "Antifa" goes hand-in-hand with their efforts to otherwise rewrite history. Would anyone be surprised if supposedly "permanent" records which reflect badly on Trump are being purged from the National Archives?
You and your professor obviously understood you were risking your academic career when you published your scholarly paper. I'm interested to learn more about the specific problems you encountered after publication (assuming you feel comfortable telling us) and, more important, how you dealt with those problems at the time. I am grateful you did not allow yourself to be silenced. You, yourself, are brave. And I believe we can learn from your experiences.
You forgot to mention the capitulating law firms! A friend of mine is a partner in one of those prominent law firms. He texted me when I did not attend our most recent reunion. (He and his wife, another of our classmates, are good, principled people. They have been kind to me. We simply no longer have anything in common and very rarely see each other.) When I learned his firm had capitulated, I texted him to express my disappointment. I pointed out the dangers of appeasement and then held my breath. ... He responded that he agreed. Wheh! I then asked what he was going to do about it. Nothing. He "respected his firm's decision." He would, however, continue his opposition pro bono work and work to get Dems elected. I did not respond to his last text. And we haven't been in touch since.
For various reasons, I'm exhausted. I haven't had the wherewithal to contact him, much less challenge him further. Nevertheless, I find myself wondering whether he's continued to do the pro bono work to which he vaguely referred. I have my doubts. (Would his firm even allow it?) I'm trying to garner the energy to find out ... and possibly speak my mind again. I doubt it will do any good, but a girl can try.
We're not going to forget, Sarah. Many of us will remember Andijon.
As we remember also Guernica, Katyn Forest, Auschwitz, U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler's words on criminal regimes our elites floated 100 years ago, My Lai, the U.S.'s torture camps in Iraq, the Iranian Savak we trained and armed to float the criminal Shah, South American regimes we trained for more torture, murders, and disappearances at Fort Benning adjacent School of the Americas.
Yes, the murderous, rapist, criminal Donald is itching for his full police state powers. Is itching for vaster ICE terror, so his spree surpasses that you cite in Uzbekistan.
But we can respect your anxiety at our forgetting, as some aspects of our elites' butchery just keep repeating themselves.
I fell into one of the deepest depressions of my life after 9/11, because I could guess what was coming next. The Bush regime pushed through the Patriot Act within two months as the majority cheered him on, the thin end of a wedge that would only get thicker.
Thank you, Sarah, for doing so, so much more than your share.
Thank you. A lot of my work feels thankless so I always appreciate thanks! A lot of times I think about how older and wiser folks knew what 9/11 would bring. I was 22 and lived in NYC -- I was at my first job at the NY Daily News -- so on 9/11 I was shocked and afraid and not much else. If a similar attack happened now, I'd be afraid, but no longer shocked, and full of dread and suspicion instead. I remember the older people in my office, the ones who reacted in horror when Cheney joined the Bush admin because they could remember him from other admins, understood what 9/11 meant very well.
On 9/11, I was driving to teach a computer class in North Jersey, listening to WNYC FM "We're hearing reports of a small plane crashing into the World Trade Center... “ and static. The antenna was on the North Tower. Switch to AM. I got to class a couple of minutes late. The students had the news on their monitors. One said to another "How much are we in for?" The students were from Chubb, who insured the towers. When I dismissed the class early, one student wanted to know why. The training company demanded I reteach the class for free. I never taught for them again. I could go on. 9/11 brought out the best in some, and the absolute worst in others. And so it has remained. Thank you for seeing both.
I recall the fear of what is happening now in 2025 with the Patriot Act of 2001. 24 years since that heinous set of statutes also called "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" was instituted. We all have an idea of what is contained within it. I never see it mentioned, but it sits there on paper "legitimizing" all kinds of repression?
Sarah, a question. Do you have advice on how to explain things to people who have never lived through them?
I had depression era and WWII parents. I was born with a ration card. I've been poor, I've lost money on houses and the market, all more than once, although not much, because I feel it in my bones and I have a reflex.
We have a couple of generations who came of age after 9/11, and don't have a memory of the before times. And now there's a generation who came of age after the 2008 recession. They've never lived through a market crash, a housing crash, or serious unemployment.
The alarm bells are ringing. A state job that got 7 applicants a year ago got 70 on the first day last week. Car loan defaults and repos are up. Foreclosures are rising. They're suppressing the numbers to hide the truth, but we know that this isn't an accidental byproduct of incompetence, it's a deliberately engineered fire sale.
How, for example, to explain to my millennial stepdaughter who has 3/4 of a job between her and her girlfriend that she needs to get out from under her condo before she's underwater on her mortgage and the HOA fees eat her alive? She's waiting for rates to come down and the price to come up. I'm not sure she can afford to wait that long.
How do you explain something outside of someone's frame of reference using only terms from within it?
I used the phrase "keep your powder dry" to a GenX friend the other day. She didn't know what it meant. (I should have said it's what the Democrats have been doing for the past 25 years...)
That would make sense, but it actually didn’t, as I didn’t have a whole lot of hope, and I didn’t expect any change. I was just relieved that things didn’t get worse at least.
"Banned in Uzbekistan" is a badge of honor indeed. My wife and I marched in NYC, and were pleasantly surprised by the total absence of goons. Someone at NYPD made a really interesting decision: There were no cops in riot gear, and the cops lined the march route mostly in pairs, leaning against doorways and radiating zero vigilance. Like they were just hanging out. It was a good opportunity to notice that while the command structure of the NYPD is irredeemably white & suburban, the demographics of the cops on the ground have shifted pretty dramatically. Of course there are plenty of Latinx ICE agents, etc., but I did wonder if pairs of Latina NYPD officers would be inclined to brutalize their own aunties marching with SEIU.
It's very obvious that in Chicago, Gov Pritzker lives in fear of city police. And of course we all remember when NYPD openly disrespected NY Mayor DeBlasio, with no repercussions. But today made me wonder whether the capture of local police by the regime is not as hegemonic as I assume it is. In Hamden, CT, the mayor didn't hesitate to publicly call out her cops for failing to alert her and the public in advance of an ICE raid on a car wash.
All of it raises the question whether there are unseen fissures in the power structure. Today would have been a great opportunity for the regime to wreak havoc in NYC, yet something interfered.
As always, all gratitude to you for your moral clarity and brilliance. May we one day not live in fear.
Seems to me at the Trump Fascist Regime level they are committed for now to a plan to totally ignore these protests, as not to give them any credence. The addled figurehead sits in a gilded room at his Disneyesque Neverland resort/home in Florida and makes no public statements whatsoever. Gearing up for putting the hammer down with provocateurs in the near future, or go ahead and dress up and wave signs, we could care less?
The hammer will be wielded by Stephen Miller. T-rump is only interested in enriching himself and playing golf. Miller, Vance, Bessent, Vought, Bondi, Patel, and Gabbard and a bunch of un-named fascists are doing the real dirty work.
Yes, understood. Trump is a childlike useful idiot. His simplistic vocabulary, bluster, and substantively unfocused attacks help convey their "intellectual" right wing openly fascist ideas to the Lee Greenwood and "try that in a small town" crowd. Fucking scary, every day. Fascism is what they need to be free. They believe this. A billionaire with patently obvious class interests can accomplish this in a society where class divisions are utterly impossible to recognize by generations raised on TV and corporate controlled mis and disinformation. No Kings is not going to cut it in my opinion. It is easily passed off as "nut jobs" and latter day "hippies." Costumes and "joy?" OK, but not effective, not serious. The message to the right is "we don't like Trump." Easy to retort, "OK, so what? You are commies and hate America, and by extension God."
We gotta get way more organized and serious than this Democratic Party followers bullshit. They are useless and convinced they have some kind of hope of opposition, with what? AOC and JB Inherited Billionaire Pritzger who bought himself a governorship? Then came into office saying "the state needs 2 billion dollars to survive." OK asshole, put it up... you have it. A sick drooping capitalist drenched joke really. Capitalism is not serving 80% of the US population and that is the truth that will not be mentioned, but you and I and others who experience it but can't put their finger on it yet know it. Profit from health care? What? Threaten to kill off millions in a system where wages are life with AI fantasies? Time for work towards real change to take the bastards down and take them out. Will the terminally rich hateful and greedy ever be able to coexist with normal humans? Most of us humans are good, but forced by the system to live in ever more ignorantly precarious serfdom, the majority unconsciously coerced to accommodate the every whim and desire of brutal corporate rulers. How did people get so cowed and subservient? That is the biggest social and philosophical question of our times. The answer isn't chicken and frog costumes and the corporate servile Democratic party.
I also noticed the absence of cops at the protests down here in sleepy Clearwater Florida. I hope it's a thing. Or do I? No win situations. That's how they want us. Still hopeful.
Well yes. But we don't want ourselves hopeless either. Personally, I'm trying to recover from the three-year panic attack that started when I realized Biden would do nothing to stem the tide of authoritarianism. And part of that means a quiet sense of gratitude for every day that passes without martial law. Every day that folks in Oakland, CA gather to plan for mutual aid and resistance to ICE and possible federal incursion, and 1,400 people show up. Every day that MIT says no to the regime, and two more universities follow suit.
Other incoming scapegoats of protestors besides "You are antifa" are:
- BLM
- Tren De Aragua
- MS-13
- Cartel members
- Criminal illegals
- Socialists
- Communists
- Marxists
- Hamas
- Radical Left
I hate knowing how predictable this is, and who falls for it without fail every single time, sadly.
The one bright side of the intentional absurdity of the costumed people (I particularly liked the woman riding the one other in a pony costume I saw, personally) is that it helps to dissolve the fascist MAGA Right's narrative there is "crime everywhere in the inner cities, burning towns," etc. etc. here, but I share your fear here-- but it takes bravery to go to these No Kings protests in the face of the GOP in control of every branch of government right now, these people are heroes in my book.
Sarah, you couldn't have written a better analysis of the state your nation has found itself in. I hope your people can stop the insanity. I support your efforts. Elbows up!
Respect, wow. Quite cognizant of your fear, also wow. Sending strength from Canada; in solidarity with humanists. I'm hopeful, but it could all go downhill, everywhere, very quickly ... Stay strong!
Funny, ‘after decades of having everything stolen’ - reminds me of a Richard Pryor bit from long ago, where he imagines a white guy asking ‘why you guys always holding your dicks?’ to which he then responds ‘you took everything else’.
An excellent and chilling comparison. Fascists have a problem with listening - it runs counter to their whole existence. Any objection they consider "hatred." Our groveling, craven, frighteningly "normal" looking Speaker Of The House Mike Johnson referred to No Kings protests as "Hate America Day" I believe. That is what they see because that is all they want to see. What is the tipping point at which they will listen to a perfectly expressed objection such as yours Sarah? I hope we find out, and soon.
Yes, I agree 100%. Whatever they accuse others of is what they are guilty of. An extremely hamfisted and transparent propaganda technique, but these things work where critical thought has been almost entirely drilled out of people.
Moses Johnson knows full well that Democrats are not "antifa" and are not demonstrating "hatred" for America. What he is is a voice for limiting protest against the fascist regime and for blaming Democrats for the shutdown which the administration refuses to lift.
I've been concerned about much the same. I think they've been looking for any excuse to activate the Insurrection Act and/or arrest, abuse, /attack citizens at their own leisure.
"There are no fixed definitions in a mafia state. Law is a plaything, evidence is an illusion, and as an Uzbek dissident explained to me twenty years ago in a way I now understand far better, 'Suspicious is the same as guilty.'"
...and...
"Using RICO against “antifa” is not only an act of revenge on those who anger Trump, but an attack on the integrity of RICO itself. Under Trump, RICO is now a tool of a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. Somewhere, Lansky and Cohn are looking up, flames reflected in their eyes, smiling."
Rico should be employed in the prosecution of Trump and his minions, but it is unclear, I grant, whether it specifically applies. I think the crimes of the present administration require a new approach, an appeal to other statutes, and ultimately a compilation of crimes that could be sent to the Internationsl Criminal Court.
This is so powerful. I had no idea.
Thank you. I kept it somewhat short for the purposes of the main point, but I've written a lot about the Andijon massacre, and about the Uzbek poets and journalists and activists determined to tell the truth about what happened, even though it meant risking their lives. I may upload more of my old academic papers here, now that I've (sort of) figured out how to do it. I don't want people to forget Andijon.
That’s right. Keep it up. We need this. You are doing a courageous thing.
Thank you.
Please do.
Sarah: Thank you for posting this piece. I, too, agree that it is power ... and profoundly relevant. The Trump administration's effort to create "Antifa" goes hand-in-hand with their efforts to otherwise rewrite history. Would anyone be surprised if supposedly "permanent" records which reflect badly on Trump are being purged from the National Archives?
You and your professor obviously understood you were risking your academic career when you published your scholarly paper. I'm interested to learn more about the specific problems you encountered after publication (assuming you feel comfortable telling us) and, more important, how you dealt with those problems at the time. I am grateful you did not allow yourself to be silenced. You, yourself, are brave. And I believe we can learn from your experiences.
You forgot to mention the capitulating law firms! A friend of mine is a partner in one of those prominent law firms. He texted me when I did not attend our most recent reunion. (He and his wife, another of our classmates, are good, principled people. They have been kind to me. We simply no longer have anything in common and very rarely see each other.) When I learned his firm had capitulated, I texted him to express my disappointment. I pointed out the dangers of appeasement and then held my breath. ... He responded that he agreed. Wheh! I then asked what he was going to do about it. Nothing. He "respected his firm's decision." He would, however, continue his opposition pro bono work and work to get Dems elected. I did not respond to his last text. And we haven't been in touch since.
For various reasons, I'm exhausted. I haven't had the wherewithal to contact him, much less challenge him further. Nevertheless, I find myself wondering whether he's continued to do the pro bono work to which he vaguely referred. I have my doubts. (Would his firm even allow it?) I'm trying to garner the energy to find out ... and possibly speak my mind again. I doubt it will do any good, but a girl can try.
*powerful (not power.)
We're not going to forget, Sarah. Many of us will remember Andijon.
As we remember also Guernica, Katyn Forest, Auschwitz, U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler's words on criminal regimes our elites floated 100 years ago, My Lai, the U.S.'s torture camps in Iraq, the Iranian Savak we trained and armed to float the criminal Shah, South American regimes we trained for more torture, murders, and disappearances at Fort Benning adjacent School of the Americas.
Yes, the murderous, rapist, criminal Donald is itching for his full police state powers. Is itching for vaster ICE terror, so his spree surpasses that you cite in Uzbekistan.
But we can respect your anxiety at our forgetting, as some aspects of our elites' butchery just keep repeating themselves.
Yep, early to speak truth and always channeling through a moral heart.
I just came back from the Pasadena Ca. rally where we heard a motorcycle cop say to a frog: “Frog, move out of the roadway. There are cars coming.”
I fell into one of the deepest depressions of my life after 9/11, because I could guess what was coming next. The Bush regime pushed through the Patriot Act within two months as the majority cheered him on, the thin end of a wedge that would only get thicker.
Thank you, Sarah, for doing so, so much more than your share.
Thank you. A lot of my work feels thankless so I always appreciate thanks! A lot of times I think about how older and wiser folks knew what 9/11 would bring. I was 22 and lived in NYC -- I was at my first job at the NY Daily News -- so on 9/11 I was shocked and afraid and not much else. If a similar attack happened now, I'd be afraid, but no longer shocked, and full of dread and suspicion instead. I remember the older people in my office, the ones who reacted in horror when Cheney joined the Bush admin because they could remember him from other admins, understood what 9/11 meant very well.
The second I heard him say "Homeland," I knew. I was chilled to the bone and the hair on my neck stood up.
You weren't by yourself....
Same here. Barely less creepy than if they'd left it as Heimat. And now it barely makes me blink, I'm ashamed and terrified to say.
Same
On 9/11, I was driving to teach a computer class in North Jersey, listening to WNYC FM "We're hearing reports of a small plane crashing into the World Trade Center... “ and static. The antenna was on the North Tower. Switch to AM. I got to class a couple of minutes late. The students had the news on their monitors. One said to another "How much are we in for?" The students were from Chubb, who insured the towers. When I dismissed the class early, one student wanted to know why. The training company demanded I reteach the class for free. I never taught for them again. I could go on. 9/11 brought out the best in some, and the absolute worst in others. And so it has remained. Thank you for seeing both.
I recall the fear of what is happening now in 2025 with the Patriot Act of 2001. 24 years since that heinous set of statutes also called "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" was instituted. We all have an idea of what is contained within it. I never see it mentioned, but it sits there on paper "legitimizing" all kinds of repression?
Sarah, a question. Do you have advice on how to explain things to people who have never lived through them?
I had depression era and WWII parents. I was born with a ration card. I've been poor, I've lost money on houses and the market, all more than once, although not much, because I feel it in my bones and I have a reflex.
We have a couple of generations who came of age after 9/11, and don't have a memory of the before times. And now there's a generation who came of age after the 2008 recession. They've never lived through a market crash, a housing crash, or serious unemployment.
The alarm bells are ringing. A state job that got 7 applicants a year ago got 70 on the first day last week. Car loan defaults and repos are up. Foreclosures are rising. They're suppressing the numbers to hide the truth, but we know that this isn't an accidental byproduct of incompetence, it's a deliberately engineered fire sale.
How, for example, to explain to my millennial stepdaughter who has 3/4 of a job between her and her girlfriend that she needs to get out from under her condo before she's underwater on her mortgage and the HOA fees eat her alive? She's waiting for rates to come down and the price to come up. I'm not sure she can afford to wait that long.
How do you explain something outside of someone's frame of reference using only terms from within it?
I used the phrase "keep your powder dry" to a GenX friend the other day. She didn't know what it meant. (I should have said it's what the Democrats have been doing for the past 25 years...)
I think 9/11 was always predicated on the need to enhance citizen surveillance and intimidate normal citizens.
Your depression must have deepened when “Hope and Change” didn’t change a thing and the Patriot Act lived on to terrorize the population.
That would make sense, but it actually didn’t, as I didn’t have a whole lot of hope, and I didn’t expect any change. I was just relieved that things didn’t get worse at least.
“I’m a writer and an all purpose pain in the ass.” Stealing this, sorry not sorry
"Banned in Uzbekistan" is a badge of honor indeed. My wife and I marched in NYC, and were pleasantly surprised by the total absence of goons. Someone at NYPD made a really interesting decision: There were no cops in riot gear, and the cops lined the march route mostly in pairs, leaning against doorways and radiating zero vigilance. Like they were just hanging out. It was a good opportunity to notice that while the command structure of the NYPD is irredeemably white & suburban, the demographics of the cops on the ground have shifted pretty dramatically. Of course there are plenty of Latinx ICE agents, etc., but I did wonder if pairs of Latina NYPD officers would be inclined to brutalize their own aunties marching with SEIU.
It's very obvious that in Chicago, Gov Pritzker lives in fear of city police. And of course we all remember when NYPD openly disrespected NY Mayor DeBlasio, with no repercussions. But today made me wonder whether the capture of local police by the regime is not as hegemonic as I assume it is. In Hamden, CT, the mayor didn't hesitate to publicly call out her cops for failing to alert her and the public in advance of an ICE raid on a car wash.
All of it raises the question whether there are unseen fissures in the power structure. Today would have been a great opportunity for the regime to wreak havoc in NYC, yet something interfered.
As always, all gratitude to you for your moral clarity and brilliance. May we one day not live in fear.
We must always hope to find "fissures" in the fascistic power structure.
I'm stunned. This would be a great time, to let them know of your approval. They likely don't get much feedback, in that direction.
Seems to me at the Trump Fascist Regime level they are committed for now to a plan to totally ignore these protests, as not to give them any credence. The addled figurehead sits in a gilded room at his Disneyesque Neverland resort/home in Florida and makes no public statements whatsoever. Gearing up for putting the hammer down with provocateurs in the near future, or go ahead and dress up and wave signs, we could care less?
The hammer will be wielded by Stephen Miller. T-rump is only interested in enriching himself and playing golf. Miller, Vance, Bessent, Vought, Bondi, Patel, and Gabbard and a bunch of un-named fascists are doing the real dirty work.
Yes, understood. Trump is a childlike useful idiot. His simplistic vocabulary, bluster, and substantively unfocused attacks help convey their "intellectual" right wing openly fascist ideas to the Lee Greenwood and "try that in a small town" crowd. Fucking scary, every day. Fascism is what they need to be free. They believe this. A billionaire with patently obvious class interests can accomplish this in a society where class divisions are utterly impossible to recognize by generations raised on TV and corporate controlled mis and disinformation. No Kings is not going to cut it in my opinion. It is easily passed off as "nut jobs" and latter day "hippies." Costumes and "joy?" OK, but not effective, not serious. The message to the right is "we don't like Trump." Easy to retort, "OK, so what? You are commies and hate America, and by extension God."
Yep!
We gotta get way more organized and serious than this Democratic Party followers bullshit. They are useless and convinced they have some kind of hope of opposition, with what? AOC and JB Inherited Billionaire Pritzger who bought himself a governorship? Then came into office saying "the state needs 2 billion dollars to survive." OK asshole, put it up... you have it. A sick drooping capitalist drenched joke really. Capitalism is not serving 80% of the US population and that is the truth that will not be mentioned, but you and I and others who experience it but can't put their finger on it yet know it. Profit from health care? What? Threaten to kill off millions in a system where wages are life with AI fantasies? Time for work towards real change to take the bastards down and take them out. Will the terminally rich hateful and greedy ever be able to coexist with normal humans? Most of us humans are good, but forced by the system to live in ever more ignorantly precarious serfdom, the majority unconsciously coerced to accommodate the every whim and desire of brutal corporate rulers. How did people get so cowed and subservient? That is the biggest social and philosophical question of our times. The answer isn't chicken and frog costumes and the corporate servile Democratic party.
I also noticed the absence of cops at the protests down here in sleepy Clearwater Florida. I hope it's a thing. Or do I? No win situations. That's how they want us. Still hopeful.
Well yes. But we don't want ourselves hopeless either. Personally, I'm trying to recover from the three-year panic attack that started when I realized Biden would do nothing to stem the tide of authoritarianism. And part of that means a quiet sense of gratitude for every day that passes without martial law. Every day that folks in Oakland, CA gather to plan for mutual aid and resistance to ICE and possible federal incursion, and 1,400 people show up. Every day that MIT says no to the regime, and two more universities follow suit.
Other incoming scapegoats of protestors besides "You are antifa" are:
- BLM
- Tren De Aragua
- MS-13
- Cartel members
- Criminal illegals
- Socialists
- Communists
- Marxists
- Hamas
- Radical Left
I hate knowing how predictable this is, and who falls for it without fail every single time, sadly.
The one bright side of the intentional absurdity of the costumed people (I particularly liked the woman riding the one other in a pony costume I saw, personally) is that it helps to dissolve the fascist MAGA Right's narrative there is "crime everywhere in the inner cities, burning towns," etc. etc. here, but I share your fear here-- but it takes bravery to go to these No Kings protests in the face of the GOP in control of every branch of government right now, these people are heroes in my book.
Apparently "Democrats" and "liberals" are to be considered "terrorists" by the illegitimate fascistic administration.
Sarah, you couldn't have written a better analysis of the state your nation has found itself in. I hope your people can stop the insanity. I support your efforts. Elbows up!
Thanks!
Respect, wow. Quite cognizant of your fear, also wow. Sending strength from Canada; in solidarity with humanists. I'm hopeful, but it could all go downhill, everywhere, very quickly ... Stay strong!
Thank you, Canadians. You have no idea how much your support means to us.
Second that!
Funny, ‘after decades of having everything stolen’ - reminds me of a Richard Pryor bit from long ago, where he imagines a white guy asking ‘why you guys always holding your dicks?’ to which he then responds ‘you took everything else’.
An excellent and chilling comparison. Fascists have a problem with listening - it runs counter to their whole existence. Any objection they consider "hatred." Our groveling, craven, frighteningly "normal" looking Speaker Of The House Mike Johnson referred to No Kings protests as "Hate America Day" I believe. That is what they see because that is all they want to see. What is the tipping point at which they will listen to a perfectly expressed objection such as yours Sarah? I hope we find out, and soon.
They may not be able to relate. Or even imagine. So they accuse of what they, themselves, are guilty of.
Yes, I agree 100%. Whatever they accuse others of is what they are guilty of. An extremely hamfisted and transparent propaganda technique, but these things work where critical thought has been almost entirely drilled out of people.
Yep, we live in an upside-down country.
Can we please refer to Mike Johnson as "Trump's Little Johnson?" It seems fitting - for both.
Moses Johnson knows full well that Democrats are not "antifa" and are not demonstrating "hatred" for America. What he is is a voice for limiting protest against the fascist regime and for blaming Democrats for the shutdown which the administration refuses to lift.
So important. Thank you... from Canada.
I've been concerned about much the same. I think they've been looking for any excuse to activate the Insurrection Act and/or arrest, abuse, /attack citizens at their own leisure.
Putin?
With hair!
Yes. Antifa is Akromiya. I love that joke about Uzbek protesters. Ouch.
I remember reading about the Andijon massacre in Hiding in Plain Sight. I also remember the dark joke the Ukbek say about that massacre.
Thank you for all your amazing work and everything you do. God bless.
Thank you!
Same here and reading them here again, as you know, is necessary.
"There are no fixed definitions in a mafia state. Law is a plaything, evidence is an illusion, and as an Uzbek dissident explained to me twenty years ago in a way I now understand far better, 'Suspicious is the same as guilty.'"
...and...
"Using RICO against “antifa” is not only an act of revenge on those who anger Trump, but an attack on the integrity of RICO itself. Under Trump, RICO is now a tool of a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. Somewhere, Lansky and Cohn are looking up, flames reflected in their eyes, smiling."
Oh man, you said a mouthful here!
Rico should be employed in the prosecution of Trump and his minions, but it is unclear, I grant, whether it specifically applies. I think the crimes of the present administration require a new approach, an appeal to other statutes, and ultimately a compilation of crimes that could be sent to the Internationsl Criminal Court.