(06-02-2020, 01:33 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: CNN has an article on Republican senators defending the president's clearing out peaceful protestors for security purposes by using tear gas.
That has me wondering about the right of the people to peacefully assemble? Is there a civil rights violation there? Do you charge only the person who ordered it, or any officer that followed an illegal order to violate the Constitution?
A church is a House of God, and not a political prop.
(CNN now recognizes that the National Guard did not use tear gas or rubber bullets to give the President access to a church).
I am not a religious person, but I can say that it would be far better if the President found Jesus and spend more time in prayer and less tweeting his stream-of-conscience tirades. That said, I would rather that he did some gardening or bowling than making those awful tweets that disfigure the Presidency.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.