I Sure Hope The Deep State, Or The Trump Regime, Doesn't Assassinate Zohran Mamdani

 There's been plenty of character assassination of the winner of the Democratic Party primary for that Party's candidate for New York City mayor, the general election to be held in November. When character assassination doesn't work, often the next step is physical assassination. (U.S. euphemisms for such murders include "elimination" and the CIA classic, "termination with extreme prejudice." Such coy killers!)

Trump has already threatened to take over New York City (with his dictatorial powers enabled by the Republican Supreme Court and Trump's puppet Congress) and to "investigate" Mamdani to try and strip him of U.S. citizenship and deport him. And if that doesn't work?

Trump has a record of personally ordering assassinations. (He's not unique among U.S. presidents in that regard. Many have done so. For example, Obama ordered assassinations at least once a week. Every Tuesday, he would review a list of potential "terrorists" to be murdered, and approve them for "elimination" or not.)  In his first term, Trump ordered the assassination of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general, Suleimani, on January 3rd, 2020, 17 days before the end of Trump's term in office. (Which he tried to violently extend.) This was done in particularly outrageous fashion, by bombing the general's plane as it landed in IRAQ, at the Baghdad international airport. But the U.S. has over two centuries of violating the sovereignty of others. (It invaded the British colony to its north, the current nation of Canada, in 1812.)  

Trump also ordered at least one assassination of an American citizen on U.S. soil, the anti-fascist warrior Micheal Reinoehl. Michael's crime was killing an armed fascist in a street confrontation. Trump ordered a U.S. Marshal's death squad to ambush Michael as he was getting out of his car and murder him. Eyewitnesses described the summary execution. Michael was not holding a gun and was slaughtered without any words spoken or shouted.

Murdering dissident Americans is nothing new in the U.S. It goes back at least as far as the murder of Joe Hill in 1915, and is a common occurrence. Obama oversaw some of these murders by Federal government agencies, including the Black Lives Matter online commentator Sandra Bland, and journalist Michael Hastings. The BLM movement was deemed a "terrorist" movement by the FBI, and came under the usual repression that social, economic, or political movements considered threatening to the established power structure always are subjected to. The FBI organized the murder of Bland. 

 Michael Hastings was an honest journalist (already making him an outlier in the U.S. propaganda system) who was reviled by his "colleagues" for reporting accurately on the comments and attitude of the fascist army general Stanley McCrystal towards the Commander-In-Chief, President Barack Obama. McCrystal encouraged contempt for Obama among his staff officers, as Hastings accurately reported. At the time of his death, Hastings feared for his life, telling confidants that he was working on an explosive story. (Maybe having to do with the fact that the Bush regime, in a conspiracy with the Saudi rulers, arranged the attacks of September 11m 2001, I wonder. It has been proven that the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan were demolished in controlled demolitions by military grade nanothermite explosives.) Control of Hastings car was seized remotely (it has been demonstrated that today's computerized cars can easily be hijacked over their wireless connections) and a bomb planted in the car was detonated. There are videos and witnesses to the event which leave no doubt. A handful of journalists did honest reporting on his, just local ones. (The "hit" occurred in Los Angeles, a place with a history of political assassinations, including the CIA-LAPD murder of Robert Kennedy in 1968 to prevent him from becoming president.) 

As I mentioned, Hastings, even though he had worked for Newsweek, was held in contempt by other power establishment journalists for "ruining" McCrystal's "career." They are such fawning devotees of militarists that they privilege a fascist general over the need of the president of the U.S. to command the respect of ranking officers. That in itself is very revealing.

Obama also ordered the murder of several Americans in Yemen, at least four. One was alleged Al Qaeda "propagandist" Anwar al-Awlaki. Two weeks after that, Obama saw a need to "eliminate al-Awaki's 16 year old son and the son's cousin as they sat in a cafe in Yemen. But it's okay to murder anyone you decide to label a "terrorist" (as the U.S. and Israel are currently going to Palestinians, Lebanese, Iranians, Yemenis, and on and off, Syrians), and also anyone "connected" to these "terrorists:" family, friends, acquaintances.

Or just people living in the same building as the girlfriend OF a "terrorist." As was done a couple of months ago in Yemen. Remember the political brouhaha from a couple of months ago (I hope you do, it wasn't so long ago) when War Secretary Hegseth and then "National Security Advisor" Michael Waltz and others held a giddy pre-attack chat on a commercial communication platform, Signal, instead of on a secure government channel, and Waltz included in the chat the Zionist reactionary editor of The Atlantic Magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, who he's pals with. The Democratic Party's Congresspeople and the media aligned with the Democratic Party raised a hue and cry over "operational security" and how the lives of American military personnel were supposedly endangered. But there was no mention of what the mission was- to commit a crime of mass murder.

What happened was this. Since Israel's ongoing genocide and daily atrocities and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis of Yemen have fought to try and help the Palestinians by attacking shipping going to Israel. This of course is deemed "terrorism" by "Western" (i,e. white imperialist) powers like Israel, the U.S., European lackey governments and other lapdogs of U.S. imperialism like Canada. To fight back against Western imperialism is "terrorism," by the imperialists' definition. So a Houthi "militant" ("terrorist") allegedly part of the Houthi's military structure, was going to visit his girlfriend in her apartment building. Mossad, benefiting from the global surveillance network set up by and centered around the U.S. (which includes government entities like the NSA, and private corporations joined at the hip to the secret police state including Microsoft, Apple, Meta {Facebook Instagram etc.] and Amazon's cloud data operation) asked the U.S. to murder the "terrorist" and the other residents of the apartment building he was visiting. Which the U.S. duly did with an aerial attack.

Nobody in the alleged "opposition" party, the Democrats, or their aligned media, bothered mentioning any of this. To them, the Big Crime was allegedly jeopardizing the attack by using Signal, and by including Goldberg, who kept quiet until after the massacre of the residents of the apartment building, since as I said, Goldberg is a dyed-in-the-wool Zionist and U.S. imperialist down to his bones.

So in this incident, there is yet another in a never-ending series of examples of the deeply-ingrained immorality of the U.S. elite. And like all power elites, they have complete confident in their own virtue and righteousness as they commit their crimes.

Now, probably most Americans, or at least a large proportion of them, if they could read this, would reject it out of hand as alien, ideological raving. But it's just objectively factual. Having been indoctrinated from birth by a gaslighting media and educational system that substitutes a false reality for the real world, they are effectively brainwashed. But brainwashing can be undone. In this regard, the Internet has proven a significant source of information that has cracked the wall of establishment propaganda. But much suppression occurs there too. Unfortunately I have personal experience of this.

 

The Sure Way To Get Rid of Donald J. Trump

The Democratic Party is currently in a tizzy trying to agree internally on the best way to be rid of U.S. president Donald J. Trump. A faction of the party's Congressional Representatives in the House want to impeach Trump, even though there is no hope of getting the Senate to vote to convict Trump and thus remove him from office, since this requires a vote by two-thirds of the members in that body, and virtually no Republican Senators can be expected to vote to convict their party leader, who is overwhelmingly popular with Republican voters. (Republicans currently are a majority in the 100 seat U.S. Senate.)

The other faction among the Democrats say the only way to remove Trump is by victory in the 2020 presidential election. But that too is problematic. There are 25 Democrats vying for the party's nomination, which surely will create confusion and result in a nominee lacking great stature. Plus, the GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) consistently steals elections, for president, senators, state governors, by underhanded and illegal means. They have even resorted to assassination to grab control of the Senate, as occurred with the murders of Paul Wellstone and Mel Carnahan.

This subversion by the GOP of what little democracy there is in the U.S. has been going on for two decades, and the Democrats never make a peep about it or lift a finger to counter it. Instead they have spent the past three years promoting the gigantic hoax that Russia had a major influence on the 2016 election, that it massively interfered, and that it constitutes an ongoing "threat to our democracy."

Can a political party get any lamer than that?

So with impeachment not a viable method to remove Trump from power, and the Democrats' sorry record in electoral politics, one must consider other alternatives.

So herein, A Modest Proposal.

I was musing on the life of another headstrong and ambitious individual who ruthlessly grabbed the top rung of power in an empire: Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome.

Caesar, a ruthless general who slaughtered an estimated million people in his conquest of Gaul, committing innumerable atrocities to facilitate the Roman Empire's seizure of the area and the subjugation of its people by such methods as chopping off all the hands of male inhabitants who dared resist being conquered, made himself Emperor by marching into Rome with his army, "crossing the Rubicon" river, as the phrase memorializing his power grab has it.

A group of Roman Senators decided to eliminate this dictator, and did so by luring him onto the Senate floor, where they dispatched him with daggers. The story goes that with his dying breath he rebuked one of the assassins whom he had considered loyal, with the words "Et tu, Brute?" ("And you, Brutus?" by which Caesar meant, even you?)

I thought: what a classy way to free the nation of Trump if Senators would emulate their Roman counterparts of two millenniums ago!

Just imagine the scene: Trump, lying on the floor of the Senate like a beached whale or mortally wounded buffalo, his blood oozing out in an expanding puddle on the marble floor, his killers standing over his body in their expensive suits, observing their handiwork.

If he has any sense of classical history- and he went to "good" schools, so he should- the words on Trump's dying lips could be, "Et tu, Mitch?"

But no way Republican Senators would turn on Trump, whom they fear. Their "base" would surely avenge such treachery against their idol. And they have guns, lots of guns.

So what would Trump gasp out as he lay dying? "Et tu, Chuck?" That makes no sense. He doesn't expect loyalty from Schumer. And Schumer, being a Democrat, is far too timid and compromised to take bold action, ever. So we wouldn't get the wonderful historical bookend, the reverberation from millenniums past, that would make this so satisfying. Besides, the Democrats are renowned for their cupidity, so surely that would stay their hands.

I suppose we'll just have to see if the Democrats let the Republicans steal another presidential election through chicanery, voter suppression, and the like, as they did in 2000, 2004, and 2016.

And if the Democrats "lose" again, they'll just pretend that RUSSIA did it! BLAME IT ON RUSSIA!! THEY'RE UNDERMINING OUR DEMOCRACY!! In fact, they are already preparing the ground to blame an upcoming loss on Russia, running around saying that the "threat" is "still there," and that Trump is "doing nothing to protect our democracy." Various media propagandists and secret police types peddle the same lurid threat-mongering.

It's contemptible and pathetic.

Trump better hope past is not prologue. Sometimes bullies end up badly.

The Wise Emperor Takes His Bodyguards With Him To The Senate

Beware the Ides of March, O Emperor! (Or of April, May, June, etc.)