by achrilock
Wow, there sure are a lot of student protests now, all over the world 😃
Tom Morello – Naraka (feat. Mike Posner)
And as to the question of “presidential immunity”? Let’s not pretend that this is some complex constitutional legal theory being debated. There are people who want an electoral dictatorship, which, historically, is the final step prior to a totalitarian dictatorship. If you do it, you aren’t doing future executives any favors. If the law is not universal then there is no law, only violence, and no practical recourse left to the people but violence. It’s a red line. Don’t cross it.
What’s funny in a wry sort of way is that the protests aren’t even like the uprisings of 2020. They are just small groups of registered students, at good schools, saying ‘we don’t like US involvement with Israeli apartheid, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.’ And the political establishment, on both ‘sides’ of the corporate coin, is losing their shit as if the whole country is burning.
It’s because the 2020 crowd could be easily dealt with long-term within the confines of the political and economic machinery. They could pay lip service to ‘equal rights’ and ‘social justice’ and ‘democracy’ and all the other liberal anti-Trump talking points, and then they could put those marginalized communities out of sight again when they were no longer useful. Now it’s the future leaders and functionaries who are calling out the very nature of the whole system.
And, power is freaking over it. Not because the people or their presence in public are particularly dangerous, but because their message is extremely dangerous to the way this country works. America isn’t about freedom or justice or equality or opportunity. It’s a very centralized, imperial, dishonest, exploitative construct that cares nothing for life or for right and wrong. The slightest breeze can and will blow it over and expose the lie of the whole thing, and the powerful know it.
Eddie Rabbitt – I Love a Rainy Night
You wanna talk ‘outside agitators?’ Let’s talk outside agitators. Israel’s defense minister says that the college campus protests within the US, supposedly the world’s most powerful country and Israel’s patron state, are “antisemitic” and “inciting terrorism.” And the entire political class, its functionaries, and the security state leap on that messaging and jump to oppress their own people simply for speaking. What dirt do the Israelis have on you people? Why are you being run like assets?
I mean there are numerous reasons globally connected elites and aristocrats within the US would want the Israelis to carry out this ethnic cleansing: ideological, religious, financial, political or geopolitical, but there’s absolutely no plausible explanation for a client state to be directly calling shots at the highest levels of its patron. Anybody remember a few years back when Israeli intelligence was all up in the data of world leaders and prominent influences? Bet that stuff’s useful now 🤔