THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR December 31, 2020 at 7:31 pm
Paul Plante says:
Getting back to Andy Cuomo, called “The Honker” because he talks through his nose so that he sounds like a goose honking when he gets excited, which with Andy is often, according to an Albany, New York article entitled “State requires counties to sign agreement before receiving coronavirus vaccines – Governor’s vaccination chief urges patience as frustration over plan grows” by Brendan J. Lyons on Dec. 30, 2020, the state’s COVID response is as ****** up today as it ever was, if not more so, to wit:
ALBANY — The state health department ordered county officials this week to quickly sign a “memorandum of understanding” giving the state full control of the coronavirus vaccination process in order for those counties and other “authorized vaccine providers” to receive and administer the doses.
The memorandum was delivered to county officials across the state late Tuesday, and they were given a deadline of noon Wednesday to sign and return it, several officials said.
The move caught many county officials off-guard and has further strained the tenuous relations between the state and counties that have been preparing mass-vaccination plans for years but, according to some officials, seen those efforts largely brushed aside by the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
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For Andy, there is a very small stage in New York with only room for him on it, and there is a very small spotlight, with room for only him in it, so of course these other public officials are being brushed aside.
Getting back to that article as to why COVID vaccine distribution in the Democratic Socialist stronghold of New York state is so ****** up, we have:
The governor’s task force has responded that the distribution of vaccines to nearly 20 million New Yorkers is an unprecedented undertaking that requires meticulous management by the state to ensure the process is done properly.
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Uh, sure, okay, no, truly, whatever you say, although they have had months now to get prepared for exactly that outcome.
And back to that story we go, as follows:
Larry Schwartz, a member of Cuomo’s coronavirus task force who is leading the state’s vaccination efforts, said any organization or municipality receiving the vaccines is being required to sign the agreement.
“We have to ensure they are following the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) guidance and the state guidance on who is to receive the vaccine,” he said.
“That MOU ensures us that they are going to follow the CDC guidance and the state guidance regarding the allocation of the vaccine.”
“… To me, nobody should have an issue with that.”
The agreement states that any county health department or other authorized vaccine provider “is not at liberty to utilize the vaccine unless and until it is directed to administer it by (the state health department) at a later date, which may involve allocation or redistribution of vaccine initially delivered to such site, and which may be further informed by (the state’s) vaccination program, vaccine prioritization matrix, or other specific directives.”
The agreement also enables the state to reallocate vaccine doses to other facilities or locations at its discretion if there is a more pressing need elsewhere.
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As can be expected of a Democratic Socialist, this program remains a complete **** up, which takes us back to that article for more as follows:
Frank E. Thomas, chairman of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, said the frustration among some county leaders is due to their inability to provide more information to the public.
“There is frustration as far as counties want the data for each county, as far as how many vaccines come into each county,” he said.
“It doesn’t seem to be very forthcoming from the state.”
“… (We are) getting a lot of questions from the public … and they don’t have the answers.”
Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin, a frequent Cuomo critic, said his office also has not been provided details of who has been vaccinated in that county, and he questioned the necessity of the memorandum of understanding when there is “one mission” to vaccinate those who want it.
“We are worried that delays and a lack of coordination by the state will result in days turning into weeks, and weeks turning into months as we wait for vaccines,” McLaughlin said.
“The time the state has spent crafting MOUs or deciding which group gets to jump the line distracts from getting the vaccines onto trucks and delivered across the state to all residents.”
McLaughlin, a former state assemblyman, said there is “growing concern about the lack of communication by the state to local partners including those of us in Rensselaer County.”
“There should be specific dates on when the vaccines will be received and when they are expected to be administered.”
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Yes, there should be, and in a better run state, there would be.
But New York state under Democratic Socialist Andy Cuomo is not one of them.
Which will probably earn him another Edward M. Kennedy Institute Award for Inspired Leadership.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 1, 2021 at 7:59 pm
Paul Plante says:
And going back for a moment to that Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “State requires counties to sign agreement before receiving coronavirus vaccines – Governor’s vaccination chief urges patience as frustration over plan grows” by Brendan J. Lyons on Dec. 30, 2020 while we ponder life in the Land of What The **** here to the north of the Commonwealth of Virginia with its copycat Democrat governor “Ralph “Ol’ Blackface” Northam, a “state” where Democratic Socialist strongman Andy Cuomo rules supreme with all the power of a Roman dictator, we have the following interesting revelation, to wit:
The governor and other members of his office and the coronavirus task force have not been vaccinated.
A spokesman for Cuomo said they would likely wait until the general public is being vaccinated, and to use it as an opportunity to reassure people the vaccines are safe and effective.
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HUH?
Speaking of being in the Land of What The ****, what’s up with that, one must wonder.
Governor Andy and other members of his office and the coronavirus task force have not been vaccinated and they would likely wait until the general public is being vaccinated, and to use it as an opportunity to reassure people the vaccines are safe and effective?
That seems like BULL**** to me given that on Friday, December 4, 2020, ABC 7 ran a story titled “Coronavirus NY News: Cuomo shows off the ‘weapon that’s going to win the war'” wherein Cuomo was touting the vaccine as follows:
NEW YORK (WABC) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unpacked a sample box of coronavirus vaccine, demonstrating the packaging and shipment required for ultra-cold storage.
The show-and-tell was a demonstration of what Cuomo described as the “weapon that’s going to win the war.”
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Think about that, people – the “weapon that’s going to win the war.”
What a powerful statement!
OH, the drama of the moment, and what drama it would have been if Andy had rolled up his own sleeve and sat there calmly while his health commissioner and proctologist Howie Zucker came onstage from the wings with a gold needle full of vaccine resting on a cushion of purple velvet and gave Andy the shot right then and there!
Oh, how the multitudes would have cheered and felt good about themselves, as a result, more confident about getting the vaccine than they otherwise would have been, and now are, by the spectacle of Andy and his crowd, including Howie Zucker all saying, “Ah, well, hey, you know, we’re going to take a pass for the good of the public, who we’ll donate our share to, somebody in an underserved community of which we have many in New York!”
Which translates out as “Hey, I wouldn’t take any of that **** if my life depended on it!”
They’re going to wait to see what that **** does to the common person before they take it, which is smart on their part, which takes us to a CBS News article on December 14, 2020 entitled “First COVID-19 vaccine given in New York as Cuomo touts ‘weapon that will end the war'”, where we had another opportunity for drama missed by Andy Cuomo, who claims to be the supreme leader of the people of New York state, which has people wondering why he is ducking getting the shot himself, to wit:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo hosted a televised update Monday that saw critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay receive one of the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I believe this is the weapon that will end the war.”
“This is the beginning of the last chapter of the book,” he said, ahead of the public vaccination in New York City.
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Now, with good speech writing like that, and Andy’s commanding presence on stage where he looms larger than life like a modern-day George Patton, it is easy to see why Andy has become a nation-wide media darling worthy of a plethora of Edward M. Kennedy Institute Awards for Inspired Leadership, not just one.
So why is Andy putting off getting the shot?
I mean, what kind of leadership example is that?
If the stuff was as good as Andy wants us to believe it is, one would think he would be setting the same type of example as Kamala Harris who got the shot on national TV to convince the people of color that the vaccine is not some white man’s plot to kill them off the make America white again.
Think how much more powerful that message would have been if Andy had been there with her, getting the shot, as well, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
Lindsay said she felt “hopeful and relieved” about the shot.
“It didn’t feel any different from taking any other vaccine,” she told reporters.
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Not bad, but really, kind of tepid when it comes to getting the public interested in being a guinea pig for the drug companies by taking this vaccine.
Getting back to the story:
Cuomo tweeted “hope is on the way” Sunday as the first of nearly 3 million doses being shipped this week made their way by truck and by plane around the country from Pfizer’s Kalamazoo, Michigan, factory.
“The vaccine only works if people take it,” Cuomo said Monday.
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So why didn’t Andy take it then, to set an example?
What is it that he is waiting for, given that in that same news story, we are told that experts have said at least 75% of people need to get the vaccine to achieve widespread “herd immunity.”
“It’s going to take months before the vaccine hits critical mass.”
“This is the light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s a long tunnel,” Cuomo said, urging people to continue practicing coronavirus safety measures including wearing masks through the upcoming holidays.
end quotes
And that is the latest on the COVID vaccine cluster**** in the Land of What The **** north of the Commonwealth of Virginia where Cuomo wannabee Ralph “Ol’ Blackface” Northam reigns supreme.
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Paul Plante says:
And going back for a moment to that Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “State requires counties to sign agreement before receiving coronavirus vaccines – Governor’s vaccination chief urges patience as frustration over plan grows” by Brendan J. Lyons on Dec. 30, 2020 while we ponder life in the Land of What The **** here to the north of the Commonwealth of Virginia with its copycat Democrat governor “Ralph “Ol’ Blackface” Northam, a “state” where Democratic Socialist strongman Andy Cuomo rules supreme with all the power of a Roman dictator, we have the following interesting revelation, to wit:
The governor and other members of his office and the coronavirus task force have not been vaccinated.
A spokesman for Cuomo said they would likely wait until the general public is being vaccinated, and to use it as an opportunity to reassure people the vaccines are safe and effective.
end quotes
HUH?
Speaking of being in the Land of What The ****, what’s up with that, one must wonder.
Governor Andy and other members of his office and the coronavirus task force have not been vaccinated and they would likely wait until the general public is being vaccinated, and to use it as an opportunity to reassure people the vaccines are safe and effective?
That seems like BULL**** to me given that on Friday, December 4, 2020, ABC 7 ran a story titled “Coronavirus NY News: Cuomo shows off the ‘weapon that’s going to win the war'” wherein Cuomo was touting the vaccine as follows:
NEW YORK (WABC) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo unpacked a sample box of coronavirus vaccine, demonstrating the packaging and shipment required for ultra-cold storage.
The show-and-tell was a demonstration of what Cuomo described as the “weapon that’s going to win the war.”
end quotes
Think about that, people – the “weapon that’s going to win the war.”
What a powerful statement!
OH, the drama of the moment, and what drama it would have been if Andy had rolled up his own sleeve and sat there calmly while his health commissioner and proctologist Howie Zucker came onstage from the wings with a gold needle full of vaccine resting on a cushion of purple velvet and gave Andy the shot right then and there!
Oh, how the multitudes would have cheered and felt good about themselves, as a result, more confident about getting the vaccine than they otherwise would have been, and now are, by the spectacle of Andy and his crowd, including Howie Zucker all saying, “Ah, well, hey, you know, we’re going to take a pass for the good of the public, who we’ll donate our share to, somebody in an underserved community of which we have many in New York!”
Which translates out as “Hey, I wouldn’t take any of that **** if my life depended on it!”
They’re going to wait to see what that **** does to the common person before they take it, which is smart on their part, which takes us to a CBS News article on December 14, 2020 entitled “First COVID-19 vaccine given in New York as Cuomo touts ‘weapon that will end the war'”, where we had another opportunity for drama missed by Andy Cuomo, who claims to be the supreme leader of the people of New York state, which has people wondering why he is ducking getting the shot himself, to wit:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo hosted a televised update Monday that saw critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay receive one of the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I believe this is the weapon that will end the war.”
“This is the beginning of the last chapter of the book,” he said, ahead of the public vaccination in New York City.
end quotes
Now, with good speech writing like that, and Andy’s commanding presence on stage where he looms larger than life like a modern-day George Patton, it is easy to see why Andy has become a nation-wide media darling worthy of a plethora of Edward M. Kennedy Institute Awards for Inspired Leadership, not just one.
So why is Andy putting off getting the shot?
I mean, what kind of leadership example is that?
If the stuff was as good as Andy wants us to believe it is, one would think he would be setting the same type of example as Kamala Harris who got the shot on national TV to convince the people of color that the vaccine is not some white man’s plot to kill them off the make America white again.
Think how much more powerful that message would have been if Andy had been there with her, getting the shot, as well, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
Lindsay said she felt “hopeful and relieved” about the shot.
“It didn’t feel any different from taking any other vaccine,” she told reporters.
end quotes
Not bad, but really, kind of tepid when it comes to getting the public interested in being a guinea pig for the drug companies by taking this vaccine.
Getting back to the story:
Cuomo tweeted “hope is on the way” Sunday as the first of nearly 3 million doses being shipped this week made their way by truck and by plane around the country from Pfizer’s Kalamazoo, Michigan, factory.
“The vaccine only works if people take it,” Cuomo said Monday.
end quotes
So why didn’t Andy take it then, to set an example?
What is it that he is waiting for, given that in that same news story, we are told that experts have said at least 75% of people need to get the vaccine to achieve widespread “herd immunity.”
“It’s going to take months before the vaccine hits critical mass.”
“This is the light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s a long tunnel,” Cuomo said, urging people to continue practicing coronavirus safety measures including wearing masks through the upcoming holidays.
end quotes
And that is the latest on the COVID vaccine cluster**** in the Land of What The **** north of the Commonwealth of Virginia where Cuomo wannabee Ralph “Ol’ Blackface” Northam reigns supreme.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 2, 2021 at 10:03 pm
Paul Plante says:
To understand why we do not trust this COVID vaccine distribution in the corrupt third-world ****-hole of New York state under the regime of Democratic Socialist strongman Andy Cuomo, a thug who rules by fear, we need to go back to the Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “State requires counties to sign agreement before receiving coronavirus vaccines – Governor’s vaccination chief urges patience as frustration over plan grows” by Brendan J. Lyons on Dec. 30, 2020 where we were informed that Larry Schwartz, a member of Democratic Socialist strongman Andy Cuomo’s New York state coronavirus task force who is leading the state’s vaccination efforts said any organization or municipality receiving the vaccines is being required to sign an agreement giving Andy Cuomo full control of the vaccination program, including the “right” to pull back vaccine supplies apportioned to a county to divert them “elsewhere,” as determined by Andy, this same Larry Schwartz was the star of a Newsweek article appropriately entitled “Lawrence Schwartz is Cuomo’s behind-the-scenes muscle” by Michael Gormley michael.gormley@newsday.com on August 9, 2014, where we had as follows:
ALBANY — He is the most powerful state official most New Yorkers have never heard of.
“He has the reputation of a sort of no-nonsense tough guy who has really implemented the will of governors Paterson and Cuomo,” said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group and an observer of Albany politics for more than two decades.
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Being a real tough guy himself, our Andy, a former Queens tow-truck driver who has been made into a literal dictator by the Democratic-controlled lickspittle NYS legislature with the power to suspend the constitution during the COVID crisis, likes to surround himself with other tough guys like Rich “The Ape” Azzopardi who was the star of a 28 March 2019 New York Times story entitled “In Profane Rant, Cuomo Aide Calls 3 Female Lawmakers ‘Idiots’,” and a Splinter News article entitled “Cuomo Aides Not Big Fans of Young Female Legislators” by Samantha Grasso on 3/28/19, wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
If you thought New York Gov. Andrew was a piece of work, just look at his staff.
A senior adviser to the governor called three young female state lawmakers “f**king idiots” on Wednesday, the New York Times reported.
The insult was in response to a press conference the women held criticizing Cuomo for reportedly hosting a $25,000-ticket fundraiser earlier this month during the state’s budget season, which wasn’t mentioned on Cuomo’s public schedule.
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That is how the Andy Cuomo administration deals with women – it lets “The Ape” loose on them.
Getting back to the Cuomo COVID vaccine cluster****, we have:
Now Schwartz is at the center of the Moreland Commission controversy being investigated by Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District.
Schwartz was accused in a July 23 New York Times article of interfering with the commission Cuomo created a year ago.
“This is wrong,” Schwartz is said to have told a commission co-chairman last year when the panel planned to subpoena a TV ad company used by Cuomo’s campaign.
“Pull it back,” Schwartz said, according to an email from co-chairman William Fitzpatrick cited in the Times.
The subpoena ultimately was served.
Schwartz also was cited in the Times article as having interfered with the commission when it planned to issue a subpoena to one of Cuomo’s biggest campaign donors, the Real Estate Board of New York, and other allies.
“Even I was surprised at the level to which there might have been interference,” said Barbara Bartoletti of the League of Women Voters, who was a nonvoting adviser to the commission.
Cuomo, however, discounts claims of interference.
Cuomo and Schwartz aren’t commenting publicly on the Moreland case, citing the federal probe that has caused most of state government and even former Cuomo and Paterson staffers to clam up.
When Cuomo relied on Schwartz to work with the Moreland Commission, the governor picked a proven staffer with a strong background in government and politics.
Schwartz was senior class president and a soccer goalie at Comsewogue High School in Port Jefferson Station and graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton, majoring in political science.
After college, Schwartz worked on local political campaigns.
Schwartz began the road to the executive chamber in 1994.
Like many current Cuomo confidants, he was an aide that year in the unsuccessful re-election campaign of Gov. Mario Cuomo, whose top adviser was another hard-charging 20-something named Andrew M. Cuomo.
That led Schwartz to a stint with the State Senate’s Democratic minority.
In 2009, Schwartz became secretary to the governor for Paterson, a formal title that translates to the governor’s top aide and chief of staff involved in every initiative.
Schwartz, who makes $178,000 a year, once described his role as “chief operating officer,” a title that doesn’t exist in state government and which many thought overstated his role.
In 2010, Schwartz was involved in one of the scandals of the Paterson administration.
Inspector General Joseph Fish released a highly critical report about the awarding of a contract to create a video slot machine casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.
The state had sought to generate as much as $650 million a year in tax revenue by creating the casino, but what the inspector general later called a “political free-for-all” ensued, involving several lobbying groups and accusations that their campaign contributions swayed the selection process.
“Secretary to the Governor Lawrence Schwartz, the self-proclaimed ‘chief operating officer’ of the state . . . testified that he was ‘outside’ the selection process, yet he organized and attended many key meetings with executive staff and various vendors,” Fish’s report stated.
“Schwartz further engaged in communications with the governor regarding the selection despite his ignorance of the salient facts,” the report said.
“Schwartz further incredibly claimed to not recall myriad meetings he organized and attended, various e-mail correspondence between himself and other individuals, and numerous conversations in which he engaged.”
Schwartz survived unscathed as some lawmakers — but no administration officials — faced investigations.
And now we have that same dude in charge of distributing COVID vaccine in New York state which is why we have no faith whatsoever in the program, especially in a corrupt state like New York.
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Paul Plante says:
To understand why we do not trust this COVID vaccine distribution in the corrupt third-world ****-hole of New York state under the regime of Democratic Socialist strongman Andy Cuomo, a thug who rules by fear, we need to go back to the Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “State requires counties to sign agreement before receiving coronavirus vaccines – Governor’s vaccination chief urges patience as frustration over plan grows” by Brendan J. Lyons on Dec. 30, 2020 where we were informed that Larry Schwartz, a member of Democratic Socialist strongman Andy Cuomo’s New York state coronavirus task force who is leading the state’s vaccination efforts said any organization or municipality receiving the vaccines is being required to sign an agreement giving Andy Cuomo full control of the vaccination program, including the “right” to pull back vaccine supplies apportioned to a county to divert them “elsewhere,” as determined by Andy, this same Larry Schwartz was the star of a Newsweek article appropriately entitled “Lawrence Schwartz is Cuomo’s behind-the-scenes muscle” by Michael Gormley michael.gormley@newsday.com on August 9, 2014, where we had as follows:
ALBANY — He is the most powerful state official most New Yorkers have never heard of.
“He has the reputation of a sort of no-nonsense tough guy who has really implemented the will of governors Paterson and Cuomo,” said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group and an observer of Albany politics for more than two decades.
end quotes
Being a real tough guy himself, our Andy, a former Queens tow-truck driver who has been made into a literal dictator by the Democratic-controlled lickspittle NYS legislature with the power to suspend the constitution during the COVID crisis, likes to surround himself with other tough guys like Rich “The Ape” Azzopardi who was the star of a 28 March 2019 New York Times story entitled “In Profane Rant, Cuomo Aide Calls 3 Female Lawmakers ‘Idiots’,” and a Splinter News article entitled “Cuomo Aides Not Big Fans of Young Female Legislators” by Samantha Grasso on 3/28/19, wherein was stated as follows, to wit:
If you thought New York Gov. Andrew was a piece of work, just look at his staff.
A senior adviser to the governor called three young female state lawmakers “f**king idiots” on Wednesday, the New York Times reported.
The insult was in response to a press conference the women held criticizing Cuomo for reportedly hosting a $25,000-ticket fundraiser earlier this month during the state’s budget season, which wasn’t mentioned on Cuomo’s public schedule.
end quotes
That is how the Andy Cuomo administration deals with women – it lets “The Ape” loose on them.
Getting back to the Cuomo COVID vaccine cluster****, we have:
Now Schwartz is at the center of the Moreland Commission controversy being investigated by Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District.
Schwartz was accused in a July 23 New York Times article of interfering with the commission Cuomo created a year ago.
“This is wrong,” Schwartz is said to have told a commission co-chairman last year when the panel planned to subpoena a TV ad company used by Cuomo’s campaign.
“Pull it back,” Schwartz said, according to an email from co-chairman William Fitzpatrick cited in the Times.
The subpoena ultimately was served.
Schwartz also was cited in the Times article as having interfered with the commission when it planned to issue a subpoena to one of Cuomo’s biggest campaign donors, the Real Estate Board of New York, and other allies.
“Even I was surprised at the level to which there might have been interference,” said Barbara Bartoletti of the League of Women Voters, who was a nonvoting adviser to the commission.
Cuomo, however, discounts claims of interference.
Cuomo and Schwartz aren’t commenting publicly on the Moreland case, citing the federal probe that has caused most of state government and even former Cuomo and Paterson staffers to clam up.
When Cuomo relied on Schwartz to work with the Moreland Commission, the governor picked a proven staffer with a strong background in government and politics.
Schwartz was senior class president and a soccer goalie at Comsewogue High School in Port Jefferson Station and graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton, majoring in political science.
After college, Schwartz worked on local political campaigns.
Schwartz began the road to the executive chamber in 1994.
Like many current Cuomo confidants, he was an aide that year in the unsuccessful re-election campaign of Gov. Mario Cuomo, whose top adviser was another hard-charging 20-something named Andrew M. Cuomo.
That led Schwartz to a stint with the State Senate’s Democratic minority.
In 2009, Schwartz became secretary to the governor for Paterson, a formal title that translates to the governor’s top aide and chief of staff involved in every initiative.
Schwartz, who makes $178,000 a year, once described his role as “chief operating officer,” a title that doesn’t exist in state government and which many thought overstated his role.
In 2010, Schwartz was involved in one of the scandals of the Paterson administration.
Inspector General Joseph Fish released a highly critical report about the awarding of a contract to create a video slot machine casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.
The state had sought to generate as much as $650 million a year in tax revenue by creating the casino, but what the inspector general later called a “political free-for-all” ensued, involving several lobbying groups and accusations that their campaign contributions swayed the selection process.
“Secretary to the Governor Lawrence Schwartz, the self-proclaimed ‘chief operating officer’ of the state . . . testified that he was ‘outside’ the selection process, yet he organized and attended many key meetings with executive staff and various vendors,” Fish’s report stated.
“Schwartz further engaged in communications with the governor regarding the selection despite his ignorance of the salient facts,” the report said.
“Schwartz further incredibly claimed to not recall myriad meetings he organized and attended, various e-mail correspondence between himself and other individuals, and numerous conversations in which he engaged.”
Schwartz survived unscathed as some lawmakers — but no administration officials — faced investigations.
And now we have that same dude in charge of distributing COVID vaccine in New York state which is why we have no faith whatsoever in the program, especially in a corrupt state like New York.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/a ... ent-312953
Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 3, 2021 at 10:43 pm
Paul Plante says:
And continuing on with our concerns about COVID vaccine distribution in the corrupt ****hole of New York and segueing off New York State Inspector General Joseph Fish having released a highly critical report about the awarding of a contract to create a video slot machine casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens which the inspector general later called a “political free-for-all” involving several lobbying groups and accusations that their campaign contributions swayed the selection process, and wherein he stated “Secretary to the Governor Lawrence Schwartz, the self-proclaimed ‘chief operating officer’ of the state . . . testified that he was ‘outside’ the selection process, yet he organized and attended many key meetings with executive staff and various vendors,” and “Schwartz further incredibly claimed to not recall myriad meetings he organized and attended, various e-mail correspondence between himself and other individuals, and numerous conversations in which he engaged,” which is typical of New York state political hacks when they are being questioned about alleged wrongdoing they are involved in, with “I don’t know nothing” being their common refrain, that takes us to an Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “State Police investigating COVID-19 vaccine distribution outside of protocols – Provider based in NYC, Orange County touted giving Moderna vaccine to public” on Dec. 27, 2020, where we were informed as follows:
NEW YORK (AP) — Police and health officials were probing Saturday whether an Orange County health care provider violated state guidelines in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said in a statement that his office and State Police were investigating ParCare Community Health Network in Orange County.
Zucker said he had received reports that ParCare may have fraudulently obtained the vaccine and diverted it to other facilities to be given to members of the public.
end quotes
Now, here it has to be said that the “boss” of this ParCare that allegedly received the COVID vaccine “fraudulently” is connected to the Democrat party, which takes us back to the story as follows:
“We take this very seriously and DOH will be assisting State Police in a criminal investigation into this matter,” Zucker said.
“Anyone found to have knowingly participated in this scheme will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
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The question, of course, that hasn’t yet been answered, and given the political connections here, won’t be answered, is how this alleged “fraud” could possibly have happened with Cuomo “tough guy” Larry Schwartz in charge of who it got distributed to.
Getting back to that story, it continues as follows:
In an emailed statement, the company said it would cooperate with the investigation and that it “has a long history of partnering with the city of New York to provide vital healthcare services to New Yorkers who need them most — including providing COVID-19 testing — especially for New Yorkers in medically underserved communities who’ve been hardest hit by COVID-19.”
On Dec. 21 ParCare tweeted pictures of “thousands” of doses it received, as well as a picture of a rabbi receiving the vaccine on Dec. 24.
Statements from ParCare the same day said they were providing Moderna vaccines to people who signed up online if they were older than age 60, or who had underlying medical conditions.
“Hundreds of patients were already vaccinated today, and people are still coming in,” Gary Schlesinger, the CEO and president of ParCare, said in a statement earlier in the week.
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And that in turn takes us to a New York Post article entitled “Gov. Cuomo says AG to probe vaccine ‘fraud,’ vows $1M fine for violations” by Bruce Golding on December 28, 2020, where the fraud saga continues, as follows:
The state attorney general’s office will investigate allegations that a Brooklyn-based health care provider fraudulently obtained and diverted coronavirus vaccines, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday — and warned that even recipients of an unsanctioned shot could face penalties.
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See what I am saying about Cuomo being a real tough guy?
Getting back to the story of the COVID vaccine fraud, we have:
Cuomo also said he planned to sign an executive order that would establish a $1 million fine for vaccine-related fraud and allow the revocation of state licenses from violators, including doctors and nurses who crookedly administer shots.
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Cuomo is quite literally a dictator these days while COVID rages, so he can make any kind of laws he wants to through executive orders and nobody can challenge him.
And that story continues as follows:
Even patients could be prosecuted, Cuomo said, “if you received the vaccine and you knew you shouldn’t have received the vaccine.”
“The vaccine is a valuable commodity,” Cuomo said during a virtual news conference in Albany.
“You have many people who want the vaccine and you will have fraud in the vaccine process.”
“It’s almost an inevitable function of human nature and the marketplace.”
end quotes
And in fact, this being the corrupt ****hole of New York, we expect a brisk Black Market in COVID vaccines, especially in New York City, where the Russian mob will likely be peddling rat urine as the real thing, as well as a bidding war, which again takes us back to that story, as follows:
“The state police believe there’s enough evidence to commence a criminal investigation and that’s why they referred it to the attorney general,” Cuomo said.
AG Letitia James “is going to take it on and make it a priority,” he said.
“We will not tolerate any fraud in the vaccination process,” Cuomo said.
“Anyone who engages in any fraud is going to be held accountable.”
end quotes
Except “Tish” has a conflict of interest, as we see in another New York Post article entitled “AG Letitia James recuses herself from ParCare COVID-19 vaccine fraud probe” by Susan Edelman on January 2, 2021, as follows:
State Attorney General Letitia James has recused herself from the ParCare vaccination probe “to avoid even an appearance of conflict,” her office told The Post.
James is chummy with the boss of the embattled network, which runs four Brooklyn clinics, one in upstate Kiryas Joel and another in Harlem.
Gov. Cuomo and state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker have accused ParCare of misidentifying itself as a “qualified health center” to obtain the vaccine from the state Health Department.
end quotes
And it is immaterial as to how ParCare represented itself – what is material is how Larry Schwartz and Howie Zucker and the state health department allowed that representation to make it through the system unchallenged, which again takes us back to that story for more, as follows:.
The recusal was announced after questions were raised whether James — a former City Councilwoman in central Brooklyn and NYC Public Advocate — is too friendly with PareCare CEO Gary Schlesinger.
“In order to avoid even an appearance of conflict, the Attorney General has personally recused herself from this matter,” a spokeswoman said in a statement.
A fixture in the Orthodox Jewish community, Schlesinger was photographed smiling broadly alongside James at a 2015 Democratic Party fund-raiser at Junior’s restaurant in downtown Brooklyn.
In January 2016, Schlesinger posted a Facebook photo of himself next to James and ParCare’s executive team, captioned, “catching up with the energetic NYC Public Advocate Letitia James to discuss healthcare needs of Brooklyn’s underserved communities.”
In 2017, Schlesinger posted a photo of himself and James “celebrating last night with my friend,” calling her the “future NYC mayor.”
In 2018, James ran for state attorney general instead of mayor.
Schlesinger was a key supporter of James’ AG campaign, and reportedly was involved in running a PAC to help her get elected.
“I endorse Tish James, who is devoted to fair justice for all and religious liberty which is why I join Jewish community leaders and advocates to endorse” her, Schlesinger posted on Facebook, one of several messages urging followers to vote for her.
The history of Schlesinger’s political alliance with James, and Cuomo plopping the ParCare probe into the AG’s lap, has raised eyebrows.
end quotes
Indeed it has, and indeed it should, which takes us back to that story for the punch line, to wit:
The offices of Cuomo and Zucker would not explain why the state failed to check ParCare’s credentials before shipping the vaccines.
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Paul Plante says:
And continuing on with our concerns about COVID vaccine distribution in the corrupt ****hole of New York and segueing off New York State Inspector General Joseph Fish having released a highly critical report about the awarding of a contract to create a video slot machine casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens which the inspector general later called a “political free-for-all” involving several lobbying groups and accusations that their campaign contributions swayed the selection process, and wherein he stated “Secretary to the Governor Lawrence Schwartz, the self-proclaimed ‘chief operating officer’ of the state . . . testified that he was ‘outside’ the selection process, yet he organized and attended many key meetings with executive staff and various vendors,” and “Schwartz further incredibly claimed to not recall myriad meetings he organized and attended, various e-mail correspondence between himself and other individuals, and numerous conversations in which he engaged,” which is typical of New York state political hacks when they are being questioned about alleged wrongdoing they are involved in, with “I don’t know nothing” being their common refrain, that takes us to an Albany, New York Times Union article entitled “State Police investigating COVID-19 vaccine distribution outside of protocols – Provider based in NYC, Orange County touted giving Moderna vaccine to public” on Dec. 27, 2020, where we were informed as follows:
NEW YORK (AP) — Police and health officials were probing Saturday whether an Orange County health care provider violated state guidelines in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said in a statement that his office and State Police were investigating ParCare Community Health Network in Orange County.
Zucker said he had received reports that ParCare may have fraudulently obtained the vaccine and diverted it to other facilities to be given to members of the public.
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Now, here it has to be said that the “boss” of this ParCare that allegedly received the COVID vaccine “fraudulently” is connected to the Democrat party, which takes us back to the story as follows:
“We take this very seriously and DOH will be assisting State Police in a criminal investigation into this matter,” Zucker said.
“Anyone found to have knowingly participated in this scheme will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”
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The question, of course, that hasn’t yet been answered, and given the political connections here, won’t be answered, is how this alleged “fraud” could possibly have happened with Cuomo “tough guy” Larry Schwartz in charge of who it got distributed to.
Getting back to that story, it continues as follows:
In an emailed statement, the company said it would cooperate with the investigation and that it “has a long history of partnering with the city of New York to provide vital healthcare services to New Yorkers who need them most — including providing COVID-19 testing — especially for New Yorkers in medically underserved communities who’ve been hardest hit by COVID-19.”
On Dec. 21 ParCare tweeted pictures of “thousands” of doses it received, as well as a picture of a rabbi receiving the vaccine on Dec. 24.
Statements from ParCare the same day said they were providing Moderna vaccines to people who signed up online if they were older than age 60, or who had underlying medical conditions.
“Hundreds of patients were already vaccinated today, and people are still coming in,” Gary Schlesinger, the CEO and president of ParCare, said in a statement earlier in the week.
end quotes
And that in turn takes us to a New York Post article entitled “Gov. Cuomo says AG to probe vaccine ‘fraud,’ vows $1M fine for violations” by Bruce Golding on December 28, 2020, where the fraud saga continues, as follows:
The state attorney general’s office will investigate allegations that a Brooklyn-based health care provider fraudulently obtained and diverted coronavirus vaccines, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday — and warned that even recipients of an unsanctioned shot could face penalties.
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See what I am saying about Cuomo being a real tough guy?
Getting back to the story of the COVID vaccine fraud, we have:
Cuomo also said he planned to sign an executive order that would establish a $1 million fine for vaccine-related fraud and allow the revocation of state licenses from violators, including doctors and nurses who crookedly administer shots.
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Cuomo is quite literally a dictator these days while COVID rages, so he can make any kind of laws he wants to through executive orders and nobody can challenge him.
And that story continues as follows:
Even patients could be prosecuted, Cuomo said, “if you received the vaccine and you knew you shouldn’t have received the vaccine.”
“The vaccine is a valuable commodity,” Cuomo said during a virtual news conference in Albany.
“You have many people who want the vaccine and you will have fraud in the vaccine process.”
“It’s almost an inevitable function of human nature and the marketplace.”
end quotes
And in fact, this being the corrupt ****hole of New York, we expect a brisk Black Market in COVID vaccines, especially in New York City, where the Russian mob will likely be peddling rat urine as the real thing, as well as a bidding war, which again takes us back to that story, as follows:
“The state police believe there’s enough evidence to commence a criminal investigation and that’s why they referred it to the attorney general,” Cuomo said.
AG Letitia James “is going to take it on and make it a priority,” he said.
“We will not tolerate any fraud in the vaccination process,” Cuomo said.
“Anyone who engages in any fraud is going to be held accountable.”
end quotes
Except “Tish” has a conflict of interest, as we see in another New York Post article entitled “AG Letitia James recuses herself from ParCare COVID-19 vaccine fraud probe” by Susan Edelman on January 2, 2021, as follows:
State Attorney General Letitia James has recused herself from the ParCare vaccination probe “to avoid even an appearance of conflict,” her office told The Post.
James is chummy with the boss of the embattled network, which runs four Brooklyn clinics, one in upstate Kiryas Joel and another in Harlem.
Gov. Cuomo and state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker have accused ParCare of misidentifying itself as a “qualified health center” to obtain the vaccine from the state Health Department.
end quotes
And it is immaterial as to how ParCare represented itself – what is material is how Larry Schwartz and Howie Zucker and the state health department allowed that representation to make it through the system unchallenged, which again takes us back to that story for more, as follows:.
The recusal was announced after questions were raised whether James — a former City Councilwoman in central Brooklyn and NYC Public Advocate — is too friendly with PareCare CEO Gary Schlesinger.
“In order to avoid even an appearance of conflict, the Attorney General has personally recused herself from this matter,” a spokeswoman said in a statement.
A fixture in the Orthodox Jewish community, Schlesinger was photographed smiling broadly alongside James at a 2015 Democratic Party fund-raiser at Junior’s restaurant in downtown Brooklyn.
In January 2016, Schlesinger posted a Facebook photo of himself next to James and ParCare’s executive team, captioned, “catching up with the energetic NYC Public Advocate Letitia James to discuss healthcare needs of Brooklyn’s underserved communities.”
In 2017, Schlesinger posted a photo of himself and James “celebrating last night with my friend,” calling her the “future NYC mayor.”
In 2018, James ran for state attorney general instead of mayor.
Schlesinger was a key supporter of James’ AG campaign, and reportedly was involved in running a PAC to help her get elected.
“I endorse Tish James, who is devoted to fair justice for all and religious liberty which is why I join Jewish community leaders and advocates to endorse” her, Schlesinger posted on Facebook, one of several messages urging followers to vote for her.
The history of Schlesinger’s political alliance with James, and Cuomo plopping the ParCare probe into the AG’s lap, has raised eyebrows.
end quotes
Indeed it has, and indeed it should, which takes us back to that story for the punch line, to wit:
The offices of Cuomo and Zucker would not explain why the state failed to check ParCare’s credentials before shipping the vaccines.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/a ... ent-313534
Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 7, 2021 at 7:46 pm
Paul Plante says:
Based on what we saw transpiring yesterday in Washington, D.C. with respect to what is purported to be the “electoral college,” it seems time to revive this thread on the electoral college as it was originally envisioned to be, as opposed to the farce that we have now.
IF the electoral college actually functioned the way the so-called “founders” envisioned it working, “Corn Pop” Biden would never be an American president, no matter how many popular votes he received, because “Corn Pop” is far too controversial, based on his past statements where without any proof adduced at a trial, and no due process of law offered, “Corn Pop” denounced the followers of Donald Trump as the “dregs of society.”
Given his obvious contempt and disdain for those American citizens, there is no way that “Corn Pop” Biden can be trusted to take care that the laws are enforced, period, which would make him unfit to be an American president, again, regardless of how many popular votes he received, as it would appear that those people who were voting for “Corn Pop” Biden were doing so on the hope and belief that he would deprive American citizens that they don’t like of their due process rights and equal protection of law.
As to the electoral college, going back in our history to this nation’s beginnings, in the election of 1789, the electoral votes were as follows:
George Washington 69
John Adams 34
John Jay 9
Robert H. Harrison 6
John Rutledge 6
John Hancock 4
George Clinton 3
Samuel Huntington 2
John Milton 2
James Armstrong 1
Benjamin Lincoln 1
Edward Telfair 1
That is the system as it was originally intended to function, with each elector voting for the person he thought best for the position of chief magistrate of the United States of America.
Contrast that with what we have today:
On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December of a presidential election year, each state’s electors meet, usually in their state capitol, and simultaneously cast their ballots nationwide.
This is largely ceremonial: Because electors nearly always vote with their party, presidential elections are essentially decided on Election Day.
Although electors aren’t constitutionally mandated to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their state, it is demanded by tradition and required by law in 26 states and the District of Columbia (in some states, violating this rule is punishable by $1,000 fine).
Historically, over 99 percent of all electors have cast their ballots in line with the voters.
On January 6, as a formality, the electoral votes are counted before Congress and on January 20, the commander in chief is sworn into office.
end quotes
So today, someone can be made president because like “Corn Pop” Biden, they have campaigned on a platform of depriving American citizens of protection of law, and that platform was popular enough with the faction whose rights would not be stripped from them, to give that person the electoral college votes for that state based solely on popularity, and the electoral college will simply rubber-stamp that, which totally perverts OUR Constitution.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/t ... ent-315015
Paul Plante says:
Based on what we saw transpiring yesterday in Washington, D.C. with respect to what is purported to be the “electoral college,” it seems time to revive this thread on the electoral college as it was originally envisioned to be, as opposed to the farce that we have now.
IF the electoral college actually functioned the way the so-called “founders” envisioned it working, “Corn Pop” Biden would never be an American president, no matter how many popular votes he received, because “Corn Pop” is far too controversial, based on his past statements where without any proof adduced at a trial, and no due process of law offered, “Corn Pop” denounced the followers of Donald Trump as the “dregs of society.”
Given his obvious contempt and disdain for those American citizens, there is no way that “Corn Pop” Biden can be trusted to take care that the laws are enforced, period, which would make him unfit to be an American president, again, regardless of how many popular votes he received, as it would appear that those people who were voting for “Corn Pop” Biden were doing so on the hope and belief that he would deprive American citizens that they don’t like of their due process rights and equal protection of law.
As to the electoral college, going back in our history to this nation’s beginnings, in the election of 1789, the electoral votes were as follows:
George Washington 69
John Adams 34
John Jay 9
Robert H. Harrison 6
John Rutledge 6
John Hancock 4
George Clinton 3
Samuel Huntington 2
John Milton 2
James Armstrong 1
Benjamin Lincoln 1
Edward Telfair 1
That is the system as it was originally intended to function, with each elector voting for the person he thought best for the position of chief magistrate of the United States of America.
Contrast that with what we have today:
On the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December of a presidential election year, each state’s electors meet, usually in their state capitol, and simultaneously cast their ballots nationwide.
This is largely ceremonial: Because electors nearly always vote with their party, presidential elections are essentially decided on Election Day.
Although electors aren’t constitutionally mandated to vote for the winner of the popular vote in their state, it is demanded by tradition and required by law in 26 states and the District of Columbia (in some states, violating this rule is punishable by $1,000 fine).
Historically, over 99 percent of all electors have cast their ballots in line with the voters.
On January 6, as a formality, the electoral votes are counted before Congress and on January 20, the commander in chief is sworn into office.
end quotes
So today, someone can be made president because like “Corn Pop” Biden, they have campaigned on a platform of depriving American citizens of protection of law, and that platform was popular enough with the faction whose rights would not be stripped from them, to give that person the electoral college votes for that state based solely on popularity, and the electoral college will simply rubber-stamp that, which totally perverts OUR Constitution.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 9, 2021 at 8:00 pm
Paul Plante says:
“With this as its basic constitution, civilization achieved things of which gentile society was not even remotely capable.”
“But it achieved them by setting in motion the lowest instincts and passions in man and developing them at the expense of all his other abilities.”
“From its first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization; wealth and again wealth and once more wealth, wealth, not of society, but of the single scurvy individual – here was its one and final aim.”
“If at the same time the progressive development of science and a repeated flowering of supreme art dropped into its lap, it was only because without them modern wealth could not have completely realized its achievements.”
“Since civilization is founded on the exploitation of one class by another class, its whole development proceeds in a constant contradiction.”
“Every step forward in production is at the same time a step backwards in the position of the oppressed class, that is, of the great majority.”
“Whatever benefits some necessarily injures the others; every fresh emancipation of one class is necessarily a new oppression for another class.”
Those words come to us from Karl Marx himself, the literal godhead of the religion Marxism is, if not a cult, through Frederick Engels in Chapter IX, Barbarism and Civilization, of the Marxist Bible entitled “Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State,” so that when we hear Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology, known as the “opiate of ******* idiots,” telling us in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists,” which is like admitting to being a trained seal playing tuned bicycle horns on the Ed Sullivan Show, and that “(T)he first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers, we are trained Marxists, we are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories,” the ideological theories she is super-versed on, sort of, anyway, boil down to this:
CIVILIZATION IS BAD!
CIVILIZATION IS THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR TROUBLES!
TO DO AWAY WITH ALL OUR TROUBLES, WE MUST DO AWAY WITH CIVILIZATION!
How do we know civilization is bad, people?
Karl Marx said so!
Sure, civilization produced some things we didn’t have when we were savages and barbarians, but it achieved them by setting in motion the lowest instincts and passions in man and developing them at the expense of all his other abilities.
How do we know that?
Karl Marx said it was so, and so it is so!
So by becoming civilized, we have developed our lowest instincts and passions at the expense of all our other abilities.
And now, we are in big trouble deep as a result.
Think about it, people – from its first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization!
Doesn’t that make you feel bad about yourself instead of all warm and squishy inside, which is the way it should be?
So, bottom line, here, people – if you are civilized, then it is because of your sheer greed.
If you weren’t civilized, then you wouldn’t be greedy, plain and simple!
So to make things right again, each and every one of us and all of us have to renounce civilization!
Think about it, people – wealth and again wealth and once more wealth, wealth, not of society, but of the single scurvy individual – here is the one and final aim of civilization.
And the only we we can defeat that downward spiral is by renouncing civilization, each and every scurvy individual of us.
And how do we do that?
Where do we start?
Simple!
BLACK LIVES MATTER, being trained Marxists, and being super-versed on ideology, sort of, anyway, which is more than most of us can say, have all the answers we need to go forward into the past and welcome savagery and barbarism as our path to salvation, so we put them in charge of us and do what they say we have to do to save ourselves from the multitude of sins associated with being civilized.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/b ... ent-304594
Paul Plante says:
“With this as its basic constitution, civilization achieved things of which gentile society was not even remotely capable.”
“But it achieved them by setting in motion the lowest instincts and passions in man and developing them at the expense of all his other abilities.”
“From its first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization; wealth and again wealth and once more wealth, wealth, not of society, but of the single scurvy individual – here was its one and final aim.”
“If at the same time the progressive development of science and a repeated flowering of supreme art dropped into its lap, it was only because without them modern wealth could not have completely realized its achievements.”
“Since civilization is founded on the exploitation of one class by another class, its whole development proceeds in a constant contradiction.”
“Every step forward in production is at the same time a step backwards in the position of the oppressed class, that is, of the great majority.”
“Whatever benefits some necessarily injures the others; every fresh emancipation of one class is necessarily a new oppression for another class.”
Those words come to us from Karl Marx himself, the literal godhead of the religion Marxism is, if not a cult, through Frederick Engels in Chapter IX, Barbarism and Civilization, of the Marxist Bible entitled “Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State,” so that when we hear Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology, known as the “opiate of ******* idiots,” telling us in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists,” which is like admitting to being a trained seal playing tuned bicycle horns on the Ed Sullivan Show, and that “(T)he first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers, we are trained Marxists, we are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories,” the ideological theories she is super-versed on, sort of, anyway, boil down to this:
CIVILIZATION IS BAD!
CIVILIZATION IS THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR TROUBLES!
TO DO AWAY WITH ALL OUR TROUBLES, WE MUST DO AWAY WITH CIVILIZATION!
How do we know civilization is bad, people?
Karl Marx said so!
Sure, civilization produced some things we didn’t have when we were savages and barbarians, but it achieved them by setting in motion the lowest instincts and passions in man and developing them at the expense of all his other abilities.
How do we know that?
Karl Marx said it was so, and so it is so!
So by becoming civilized, we have developed our lowest instincts and passions at the expense of all our other abilities.
And now, we are in big trouble deep as a result.
Think about it, people – from its first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization!
Doesn’t that make you feel bad about yourself instead of all warm and squishy inside, which is the way it should be?
So, bottom line, here, people – if you are civilized, then it is because of your sheer greed.
If you weren’t civilized, then you wouldn’t be greedy, plain and simple!
So to make things right again, each and every one of us and all of us have to renounce civilization!
Think about it, people – wealth and again wealth and once more wealth, wealth, not of society, but of the single scurvy individual – here is the one and final aim of civilization.
And the only we we can defeat that downward spiral is by renouncing civilization, each and every scurvy individual of us.
And how do we do that?
Where do we start?
Simple!
BLACK LIVES MATTER, being trained Marxists, and being super-versed on ideology, sort of, anyway, which is more than most of us can say, have all the answers we need to go forward into the past and welcome savagery and barbarism as our path to salvation, so we put them in charge of us and do what they say we have to do to save ourselves from the multitude of sins associated with being civilized.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/b ... ent-304594
Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 10, 2021 at 10:00 pm
Paul Plante says:
As an immigrant, most likely you were required to actually read the Constitution and know it and understand it.
Elaine Luria was born here, so she can go through her whole life dog-stupid and never bother to read the document or know what is in there.
And with respect to what congresswoman Luria calls “our democracy,” here context and history are all important, and we have to understand that she is talking about the democracy of a class of people in America, not a democracy of the American people.
Her “democracy” comes to us from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, not any of our so-called “founders,” who rejected democracy and instead gave us a REPUBLIC, which no longer stands, and has not for some long time now.
When I was young, WWII was just over, but while the war itself was over, the struggle, which was between what was called “fascism” and communism, and fascism was not only the Nazis, and in fact, goes back to the Romans, had only just begun.
The first fascist country in the run-up to WWII was in fact Italy, ruled by Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), not Germany.
Hungary had the radical Arrow Cross Party, and Romania had the Iron Guard.
Even Australia had a fascist movement with the New Guard which was founded in Sydney in 1931 and was was pro-Monarchy and anti-Communist and was led by World War I veteran Eric Campbell.
Look at the dates, and focus on the words “anti-Communist.”
So we are looking at a struggle by the Communists for control that has been going on for over 90 years now, since the Russian Revolution, although it actually goes back in time before that in Europe, and when I was young, we were told that in our lifetimes, we would see the struggle being played out over here, as this would be the new battleground, and so it is, although most people don’t realize that, because it is not a battle being fought with bullets and tanks, at least right now – to the contrary, it is a battle fought with ideas.
And that takes us back to the 1800’s and Marx and Engels, which is where this “democracy” of Elaine Luria’s comes from.
Consider that dictatorship for Marx and Engels was not the rule of one man as in the Roman republic, nor was it rule by a group of revolutionary leaders over a mass of uncultivated people, as in the French revolutionary case.
Rather, it is the rule of the oppressed majority of people, sufficiently aware of their oppression to want to change the existing state of affairs.
So, who is the “oppressed majority” of the people in this case?
Congresswoman Luria would have us believe it is all the people who voted for “Corn Pop” Biden to be their savior, and yes, their dictator.
Getting back to Marx, who is the godhead here for the Marxists who use the Democrat party as their stalking horse, the way for the oppressed majority of people to become sufficiently aware of their oppression to want to change the existing state of affairs where it is absent is through democratic political activism and the attempt to develop the political character of class struggle, which is where Saul Alinsky and Barack Hussein Obama and BLACK LIVES MATTER come into the picture as “community organizers” so that they can develop the political character of class struggle which we in fact are witnessing today here in the United States, as the Marxists get ready to celebrate their victory on 20 January 2021 when “Corn Pop” Biden is sworn in as president.
To get an idea of who the “oppressed” really are in the minds of the Marxist Democrats, think back to 9 July 2019 and house speaker Nancy Pelosi saying Trump wanted to add a citizenship question to the census because he wanted to ‘make America white again.’
Getting back to what Marxists really believe, for them, Marx and Engels’s conception of dictatorship has a profound democratic character, in line with the traditional understanding of democracy as rule by the people.
Rule by the people!
That is the “democracy” of Elaine Luria and the Democrats.
The “oppressed people” of America wanted “Corn Pop” Biden as their leader, and so the will of the people must be obeyed.
Getting back to Marx and democracy, for Marx, democracy as a decision-making mechanism remains crucial even after the state has withered away.
Democracy takes a more deliberative and less antagonistic form, and is an integral part of the ways in which collective decisions are made, but it is a kind of democracy that no longer needs the state and resembles more the democratic ideal of the ancients like the Greeks.
With respect to the utopia promised to the “oppressed” by Marxist community organizers like Hussein Obama, whose protege is now on his way to the White House, the Marxist democracy is a form of decision-making where the personal and the communal interest of the individual support each other rather than pulling apart, and where the social nature of human beings prevails over their unsociable one.
It is a form of democracy that succeeds in delivering the wisdom of the multitude championed by Aristotle, but in a context in which the material or power-related objections to that ideal that Plato or Hobbes highlighted no longer apply.
Now, given that those words were written in the middle of the 1800’s, and notwithstanding that that democracy has never existed except in the fevered minds of committed Marxists, that is the democracy that Elaine Luria and the Democrats and BLACK LIVES MATTER are going to bring to America with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Getting back to the godhead, Marx applauded many of the measures adopted by the Paris communards as channelling true popular rule: the progressive dissolution of state bureaucracy, the attempt to reduce the role of experts (or what we would call nowadays technocrats) in making political decisions, the abolition of the professional army and its substitution by a citizen militia, the revocability of administrative and judicial roles and positions, and the more general progressive transformation of representative democracy into direct popular rule.
As to the Paris Commune, it was a radical socialist, anti-religious, and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871 as the Franco-Prussian War had led to the capture of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, and the collapse of the Second French Empire, and the beginning of the Third Republic.
Because Paris was under siege for four months, the Third Republic moved its capital to Tours.
A hotbed of working-class radicalism, Paris was primarily defended during this time by the radical troops of the National Guard rather than regular Army troops.
Paris surrendered to the Prussians on 28 January 1871, and in February Adolphe Thiers, the new chief executive of the French national government, signed an armistice with Prussia that disarmed the Army but not the National Guard.
On 18 March, soldiers of the Commune’s National Guard killed two French army generals, and the Commune refused to accept the authority of the French government.
The Commune governed Paris for two months, until it was suppressed by the regular French Army during “La semaine sanglante” (“The Bloody Week”) beginning on 21 May 1871.
Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx, who described it as the first example of the “dictatorship of the proletariat”.
So when people like Barack Obama and Elaine Luria and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and “Corn Pop” Biden talk about their “democracy,” that is the “democracy” they are referring to, the “democracy” of the Paris commune that Marx, their founding father and godhead, was praising.
And that brings us to this, which is quite important in the wake of this “riot,” and the police state under “Corn Pop” Biden that is soon to follow: during this transformation of the representative democracy in this country into direct popular rule, it is clear to them that the dictatorship of the proletariat relies on the coercive power of the state to realise its goals.
So right now, for them, gaining control of the coercive power of the state is what it is all about, and on 20 January 2021, for them, that goal will have been accomplished, and this riot then gives them the excuse to use that coercive power harshly and relentlessly against their class enemies, which is all of us who don’t cleave to the standard of “Corn Pop” Biden and the Democrat party.
For those who don’t believe it could happen here, they are naive and uninformed, because it has happened here before, the use of the coercive power of the “state” by a faction to suppress those they consider a threat to them.
Recall that the summer of 1798 was considered by the John Adams administration to be a period of national emergency and criticism was considered so dangerous as to be tantamount to treason.
There is where we are headed back to, thanks to this “riot,” which hands “Corn Pop” Biden the national emergency he needs to conduct a massive clamp-down where once again, criticism will be considered so dangerous as to be tantamount to treason against the democracy the Democrats are going to be ushering in when “Corn Pop” becomes president.
Back then, the Federalists claimed the right to enact a federal Sedition Law on the grounds that the First Amendment had never protected the licentiousness of the press, that seditious libel was naturally not protected under the amendment, and it seemed eminently clear to them that particularly during a national emergency, criticism of government policies and men could not be tolerated.
For the general welfare and security of the Republic, it was not only constitutionally valid, but imperative to act.
Its original form, as proposed by General James Lloyd of Maryland, it was called “A Bill to define more particularly the crime of Treason, and to define and punish the crime of Sedition.”
The third section forbade criticism of any measure of the United States and expressions against any public officer which would damage his character.
The fourth section added that any material which tended “to induce a belief in the citizens” that the government “in enacting any law, was induced so to do by motives hostile to the constitution,” or any defamation of the President or any court, would result in a fine and an imprisonment.
So we have been here before.
The question before us now is whether or not Elaine Luria and the Democrats under “Corn Pop” Biden are going to take us back to there again, when they gain control of the coercive power of the “state” come 20 January.
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Paul Plante says:
As an immigrant, most likely you were required to actually read the Constitution and know it and understand it.
Elaine Luria was born here, so she can go through her whole life dog-stupid and never bother to read the document or know what is in there.
And with respect to what congresswoman Luria calls “our democracy,” here context and history are all important, and we have to understand that she is talking about the democracy of a class of people in America, not a democracy of the American people.
Her “democracy” comes to us from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, not any of our so-called “founders,” who rejected democracy and instead gave us a REPUBLIC, which no longer stands, and has not for some long time now.
When I was young, WWII was just over, but while the war itself was over, the struggle, which was between what was called “fascism” and communism, and fascism was not only the Nazis, and in fact, goes back to the Romans, had only just begun.
The first fascist country in the run-up to WWII was in fact Italy, ruled by Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), not Germany.
Hungary had the radical Arrow Cross Party, and Romania had the Iron Guard.
Even Australia had a fascist movement with the New Guard which was founded in Sydney in 1931 and was was pro-Monarchy and anti-Communist and was led by World War I veteran Eric Campbell.
Look at the dates, and focus on the words “anti-Communist.”
So we are looking at a struggle by the Communists for control that has been going on for over 90 years now, since the Russian Revolution, although it actually goes back in time before that in Europe, and when I was young, we were told that in our lifetimes, we would see the struggle being played out over here, as this would be the new battleground, and so it is, although most people don’t realize that, because it is not a battle being fought with bullets and tanks, at least right now – to the contrary, it is a battle fought with ideas.
And that takes us back to the 1800’s and Marx and Engels, which is where this “democracy” of Elaine Luria’s comes from.
Consider that dictatorship for Marx and Engels was not the rule of one man as in the Roman republic, nor was it rule by a group of revolutionary leaders over a mass of uncultivated people, as in the French revolutionary case.
Rather, it is the rule of the oppressed majority of people, sufficiently aware of their oppression to want to change the existing state of affairs.
So, who is the “oppressed majority” of the people in this case?
Congresswoman Luria would have us believe it is all the people who voted for “Corn Pop” Biden to be their savior, and yes, their dictator.
Getting back to Marx, who is the godhead here for the Marxists who use the Democrat party as their stalking horse, the way for the oppressed majority of people to become sufficiently aware of their oppression to want to change the existing state of affairs where it is absent is through democratic political activism and the attempt to develop the political character of class struggle, which is where Saul Alinsky and Barack Hussein Obama and BLACK LIVES MATTER come into the picture as “community organizers” so that they can develop the political character of class struggle which we in fact are witnessing today here in the United States, as the Marxists get ready to celebrate their victory on 20 January 2021 when “Corn Pop” Biden is sworn in as president.
To get an idea of who the “oppressed” really are in the minds of the Marxist Democrats, think back to 9 July 2019 and house speaker Nancy Pelosi saying Trump wanted to add a citizenship question to the census because he wanted to ‘make America white again.’
Getting back to what Marxists really believe, for them, Marx and Engels’s conception of dictatorship has a profound democratic character, in line with the traditional understanding of democracy as rule by the people.
Rule by the people!
That is the “democracy” of Elaine Luria and the Democrats.
The “oppressed people” of America wanted “Corn Pop” Biden as their leader, and so the will of the people must be obeyed.
Getting back to Marx and democracy, for Marx, democracy as a decision-making mechanism remains crucial even after the state has withered away.
Democracy takes a more deliberative and less antagonistic form, and is an integral part of the ways in which collective decisions are made, but it is a kind of democracy that no longer needs the state and resembles more the democratic ideal of the ancients like the Greeks.
With respect to the utopia promised to the “oppressed” by Marxist community organizers like Hussein Obama, whose protege is now on his way to the White House, the Marxist democracy is a form of decision-making where the personal and the communal interest of the individual support each other rather than pulling apart, and where the social nature of human beings prevails over their unsociable one.
It is a form of democracy that succeeds in delivering the wisdom of the multitude championed by Aristotle, but in a context in which the material or power-related objections to that ideal that Plato or Hobbes highlighted no longer apply.
Now, given that those words were written in the middle of the 1800’s, and notwithstanding that that democracy has never existed except in the fevered minds of committed Marxists, that is the democracy that Elaine Luria and the Democrats and BLACK LIVES MATTER are going to bring to America with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Getting back to the godhead, Marx applauded many of the measures adopted by the Paris communards as channelling true popular rule: the progressive dissolution of state bureaucracy, the attempt to reduce the role of experts (or what we would call nowadays technocrats) in making political decisions, the abolition of the professional army and its substitution by a citizen militia, the revocability of administrative and judicial roles and positions, and the more general progressive transformation of representative democracy into direct popular rule.
As to the Paris Commune, it was a radical socialist, anti-religious, and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871 as the Franco-Prussian War had led to the capture of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, and the collapse of the Second French Empire, and the beginning of the Third Republic.
Because Paris was under siege for four months, the Third Republic moved its capital to Tours.
A hotbed of working-class radicalism, Paris was primarily defended during this time by the radical troops of the National Guard rather than regular Army troops.
Paris surrendered to the Prussians on 28 January 1871, and in February Adolphe Thiers, the new chief executive of the French national government, signed an armistice with Prussia that disarmed the Army but not the National Guard.
On 18 March, soldiers of the Commune’s National Guard killed two French army generals, and the Commune refused to accept the authority of the French government.
The Commune governed Paris for two months, until it was suppressed by the regular French Army during “La semaine sanglante” (“The Bloody Week”) beginning on 21 May 1871.
Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx, who described it as the first example of the “dictatorship of the proletariat”.
So when people like Barack Obama and Elaine Luria and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and “Corn Pop” Biden talk about their “democracy,” that is the “democracy” they are referring to, the “democracy” of the Paris commune that Marx, their founding father and godhead, was praising.
And that brings us to this, which is quite important in the wake of this “riot,” and the police state under “Corn Pop” Biden that is soon to follow: during this transformation of the representative democracy in this country into direct popular rule, it is clear to them that the dictatorship of the proletariat relies on the coercive power of the state to realise its goals.
So right now, for them, gaining control of the coercive power of the state is what it is all about, and on 20 January 2021, for them, that goal will have been accomplished, and this riot then gives them the excuse to use that coercive power harshly and relentlessly against their class enemies, which is all of us who don’t cleave to the standard of “Corn Pop” Biden and the Democrat party.
For those who don’t believe it could happen here, they are naive and uninformed, because it has happened here before, the use of the coercive power of the “state” by a faction to suppress those they consider a threat to them.
Recall that the summer of 1798 was considered by the John Adams administration to be a period of national emergency and criticism was considered so dangerous as to be tantamount to treason.
There is where we are headed back to, thanks to this “riot,” which hands “Corn Pop” Biden the national emergency he needs to conduct a massive clamp-down where once again, criticism will be considered so dangerous as to be tantamount to treason against the democracy the Democrats are going to be ushering in when “Corn Pop” becomes president.
Back then, the Federalists claimed the right to enact a federal Sedition Law on the grounds that the First Amendment had never protected the licentiousness of the press, that seditious libel was naturally not protected under the amendment, and it seemed eminently clear to them that particularly during a national emergency, criticism of government policies and men could not be tolerated.
For the general welfare and security of the Republic, it was not only constitutionally valid, but imperative to act.
Its original form, as proposed by General James Lloyd of Maryland, it was called “A Bill to define more particularly the crime of Treason, and to define and punish the crime of Sedition.”
The third section forbade criticism of any measure of the United States and expressions against any public officer which would damage his character.
The fourth section added that any material which tended “to induce a belief in the citizens” that the government “in enacting any law, was induced so to do by motives hostile to the constitution,” or any defamation of the President or any court, would result in a fine and an imprisonment.
So we have been here before.
The question before us now is whether or not Elaine Luria and the Democrats under “Corn Pop” Biden are going to take us back to there again, when they gain control of the coercive power of the “state” come 20 January.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 12, 2021 at 7:11 pm
Paul Plante says:
Yes, people, making it up as they go big time, and here I am specifically referring to Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco congresswoman who once again purchased the office of speaker of the house of representatives, what Nancy calls the “people’s house,” and who thinks it is she who is in charge of the national government of the United States of America, trying to order Mike Pence, the vice president of the United States of America and a member of the executive branch of the national government, which branch the Constitution gives Nancy Pelosi no control over, at all, to remove a sitting American president because Nancy Pelosi doesn’t like him, never has liked him, never will like him and wants him gone, period.
“GET RID OF THE MOTHER******” screeches Nancy at the top of her lungs, as if she were Catherine the Great of Russia picking a new king of Poland.
And no, I am not making things up here, nor giving out with fake news.
We are indeed seeing the Democrats in the House of Representatives openly waging war on the office of the executive, which takes us for a moment back to FEDERALIST No. 62, The Senate, for the Independent Journal to the People of the State of New York by either James Madison or Alexander Hamilton writing as Publius circa 1788, wherein was stated as follows and still applies to this day, to wit:
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
end quotes
Thanks to the continued internecine and childish warfare between the Democrat faction of Nancy Pelosi, and Trump, our worthless national government is no longer respected, precisely because it is no longer respectable, because it no longer possesses a certain portion of order and stability.
To the contrary, all it has to offer is BULL**** on top of BULL**** which is heaped over by even more BULL**** until the stench emanating from Washington, D.C. has become overpowering, which takes us to the RESOLUTION to remove Trump Pelosi has her Democrats voting on today, to wit:
RESOLUTION calling on Vice President Michael R. Pence to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments of the Cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th Amendment to declare President Donald J. Trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting President.
Whereas on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the day fixed by the Constitution for the counting of electoral votes, Congress experienced a massive violent invasion of the United States Capitol and its complex by a dangerous insurrectionary mob which smashed windows and used violent physical force and weapons to overpower and outmaneuver the United States Capitol Police and facilitated the illegal entry into the Capitol of hundreds, if not thousands, of unauthorized persons (all of whom entered the Capitol complex without going through metal detectors and other security screening devices);
Whereas, the insurrectionary mob threatened the safety and lives of the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the President pro tempore of the Senate, the first three individuals in the line of succession to the presidency, as the rioters were recorded chanting ”Hang Mike Pence” and ”Where’s Nancy” when President Donald J. Trump tweeted to his supporters that ”Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country” after the Capitol had been overrun and the Vice President was in hiding;
Whereas the insurrectionary mob attacked law enforcement officers, unleashed chaos and terror among Members and staffers and their families, occupied the Senate Chamber and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office along with other leadership offices, vandalized and pilfered government property, and succeeded in interfering with the counting of electoral votes in the joint session of Congress;
Whereas the insurrectionary mob’s violent attacks on law enforcement and invasion of the Capitol complex caused the unprecedented disruption of the Electoral College count process for a 4-hour period in both the House and the Senate, a dangerous and destabilizing impairment of the peaceful transfer of power that these insurrectionary riots were explicitly designed to cause;
Whereas 5 Americans have died as a result of injuries or traumas suffered during this violent attack on Congress and the Capitol, including Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick and Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Kevin Greeson, and Benjamin Phillips, and more than 50 police officers were seriously injured, including 15 officers who had to be hospitalized, by violent assaults, and there could easily have been dozens or hundreds more wounded and killed, a sentiment captured by Senator Lindsey Graham, who observed that ”the mob could have blown the building up. They could have killed us all”;
Whereas these insurrectionary protests were widely advertised and broadly encouraged by President Donald J. Trump, who repeatedly urged his millions of followers on Twitter and other social media outlets to come to Washington on January 6 to ”Stop the Steal” of the 2020 Presidential election and promised his activist followers that the protest on the Electoral College counting day would be ”wild”;
Whereas President-elect Joseph R. Biden won the 2020 Presidential election with more than 81 million votes and defeated President Trump 306–232 in the Electoral College, a margin pronounced to be a ”landslide” by President Trump when he won by the same Electoral College numbers in 2016, but President Trump never accepted these election results as legitimate and waged a protracted campaign of propaganda and coercive pressure in the Federal and State courts, in the state legislatures, with Secretaries of State, and in Congress to nullify and overturn these results and replace them with fraudulent and fabricated numbers;
Whereas President Trump made at least 3 attempts to intervene in the lawful vote counting and certification process in Georgia and to coerce officials there into fraudulently declaring him the winner of the State’s electoral votes, including calls to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and a State elections investigator, and an hour-long conversation with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger badgering him to ”find 11,780 votes” and warning of a ”big risk” to Raffensperger if he did not intervene favorably to guarantee the reelection of President Trump;
Whereas President Trump appeared with members of his staff and family at a celebratory kickoff rally to encourage and charge up the rioters and insurrectionists to ”march on the Capitol” and ”fight” on Wednesday, January 6, 2021;
Whereas while violent insurrectionists occupied parts of the Capitol, President Trump ignored or rejected repeated real-time entreaties from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to appeal to his followers to exit the Capitol, and also ignored a tweet from Alyssa Farah, his former communications director, saying: ”Condemn this now, @realDonaldTrump — you are the only one they will listen to. For our country!”;
Whereas photographs, cell phone videos, social media posts, and on-the-ground reporting show that numerous violent insurrectionists who invaded the Capitol were armed, were carrying police grade flex cuffs to detain and handcuff people, used mace, pepper spray, and bear spray against United States Capitol Police officers, erected a gallows on Capitol grounds to hang ”traitors,” vehemently chanted ”Hang Mike Pence!” while surrounding and roving the Capitol, emphasized that storming the Capitol was ”a revolution,”, brandished the Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol, and were found to be in possession of Napalm B, while still unidentified culprits planted multiple pipe bombs at buildings near the Capitol complex, another lethally dangerous criminal action that succeeded in diverting law enforcement from the Capitol; and
Whereas Donald Trump has demonstrated repeatedly, continuously, and spectacularly his absolute inability to discharge the most basic and fundamental powers and duties of his office, including most recently the duty to respect the legitimate results of the Presidential election, the duty to respect the peaceful transfer of democratic power under the Constitution, the duty to participate in legally defined transition activities, the duty to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States, including the counting of Electoral College votes by Congress, the duty to protect the people of the United States and their elected representatives against domestic insurrection, mob rule, and seditious violence, and generally the duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls upon Vice President Michael R. Pence—
(1) to immediately use his powers under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments in the Cabinet to declare what is obvious to a horrified Nation: That the President is unable to successfully discharge the duties and powers of his office; and
(2) to transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives notice that he will be immediately assuming the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
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Paul Plante says:
Yes, people, making it up as they go big time, and here I am specifically referring to Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco congresswoman who once again purchased the office of speaker of the house of representatives, what Nancy calls the “people’s house,” and who thinks it is she who is in charge of the national government of the United States of America, trying to order Mike Pence, the vice president of the United States of America and a member of the executive branch of the national government, which branch the Constitution gives Nancy Pelosi no control over, at all, to remove a sitting American president because Nancy Pelosi doesn’t like him, never has liked him, never will like him and wants him gone, period.
“GET RID OF THE MOTHER******” screeches Nancy at the top of her lungs, as if she were Catherine the Great of Russia picking a new king of Poland.
And no, I am not making things up here, nor giving out with fake news.
We are indeed seeing the Democrats in the House of Representatives openly waging war on the office of the executive, which takes us for a moment back to FEDERALIST No. 62, The Senate, for the Independent Journal to the People of the State of New York by either James Madison or Alexander Hamilton writing as Publius circa 1788, wherein was stated as follows and still applies to this day, to wit:
No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
end quotes
Thanks to the continued internecine and childish warfare between the Democrat faction of Nancy Pelosi, and Trump, our worthless national government is no longer respected, precisely because it is no longer respectable, because it no longer possesses a certain portion of order and stability.
To the contrary, all it has to offer is BULL**** on top of BULL**** which is heaped over by even more BULL**** until the stench emanating from Washington, D.C. has become overpowering, which takes us to the RESOLUTION to remove Trump Pelosi has her Democrats voting on today, to wit:
RESOLUTION calling on Vice President Michael R. Pence to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments of the Cabinet to activate section 4 of the 25th Amendment to declare President Donald J. Trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting President.
Whereas on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, the day fixed by the Constitution for the counting of electoral votes, Congress experienced a massive violent invasion of the United States Capitol and its complex by a dangerous insurrectionary mob which smashed windows and used violent physical force and weapons to overpower and outmaneuver the United States Capitol Police and facilitated the illegal entry into the Capitol of hundreds, if not thousands, of unauthorized persons (all of whom entered the Capitol complex without going through metal detectors and other security screening devices);
Whereas, the insurrectionary mob threatened the safety and lives of the Vice President, the Speaker of the House, and the President pro tempore of the Senate, the first three individuals in the line of succession to the presidency, as the rioters were recorded chanting ”Hang Mike Pence” and ”Where’s Nancy” when President Donald J. Trump tweeted to his supporters that ”Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country” after the Capitol had been overrun and the Vice President was in hiding;
Whereas the insurrectionary mob attacked law enforcement officers, unleashed chaos and terror among Members and staffers and their families, occupied the Senate Chamber and Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office along with other leadership offices, vandalized and pilfered government property, and succeeded in interfering with the counting of electoral votes in the joint session of Congress;
Whereas the insurrectionary mob’s violent attacks on law enforcement and invasion of the Capitol complex caused the unprecedented disruption of the Electoral College count process for a 4-hour period in both the House and the Senate, a dangerous and destabilizing impairment of the peaceful transfer of power that these insurrectionary riots were explicitly designed to cause;
Whereas 5 Americans have died as a result of injuries or traumas suffered during this violent attack on Congress and the Capitol, including Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick and Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, Kevin Greeson, and Benjamin Phillips, and more than 50 police officers were seriously injured, including 15 officers who had to be hospitalized, by violent assaults, and there could easily have been dozens or hundreds more wounded and killed, a sentiment captured by Senator Lindsey Graham, who observed that ”the mob could have blown the building up. They could have killed us all”;
Whereas these insurrectionary protests were widely advertised and broadly encouraged by President Donald J. Trump, who repeatedly urged his millions of followers on Twitter and other social media outlets to come to Washington on January 6 to ”Stop the Steal” of the 2020 Presidential election and promised his activist followers that the protest on the Electoral College counting day would be ”wild”;
Whereas President-elect Joseph R. Biden won the 2020 Presidential election with more than 81 million votes and defeated President Trump 306–232 in the Electoral College, a margin pronounced to be a ”landslide” by President Trump when he won by the same Electoral College numbers in 2016, but President Trump never accepted these election results as legitimate and waged a protracted campaign of propaganda and coercive pressure in the Federal and State courts, in the state legislatures, with Secretaries of State, and in Congress to nullify and overturn these results and replace them with fraudulent and fabricated numbers;
Whereas President Trump made at least 3 attempts to intervene in the lawful vote counting and certification process in Georgia and to coerce officials there into fraudulently declaring him the winner of the State’s electoral votes, including calls to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and a State elections investigator, and an hour-long conversation with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger badgering him to ”find 11,780 votes” and warning of a ”big risk” to Raffensperger if he did not intervene favorably to guarantee the reelection of President Trump;
Whereas President Trump appeared with members of his staff and family at a celebratory kickoff rally to encourage and charge up the rioters and insurrectionists to ”march on the Capitol” and ”fight” on Wednesday, January 6, 2021;
Whereas while violent insurrectionists occupied parts of the Capitol, President Trump ignored or rejected repeated real-time entreaties from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to appeal to his followers to exit the Capitol, and also ignored a tweet from Alyssa Farah, his former communications director, saying: ”Condemn this now, @realDonaldTrump — you are the only one they will listen to. For our country!”;
Whereas photographs, cell phone videos, social media posts, and on-the-ground reporting show that numerous violent insurrectionists who invaded the Capitol were armed, were carrying police grade flex cuffs to detain and handcuff people, used mace, pepper spray, and bear spray against United States Capitol Police officers, erected a gallows on Capitol grounds to hang ”traitors,” vehemently chanted ”Hang Mike Pence!” while surrounding and roving the Capitol, emphasized that storming the Capitol was ”a revolution,”, brandished the Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol, and were found to be in possession of Napalm B, while still unidentified culprits planted multiple pipe bombs at buildings near the Capitol complex, another lethally dangerous criminal action that succeeded in diverting law enforcement from the Capitol; and
Whereas Donald Trump has demonstrated repeatedly, continuously, and spectacularly his absolute inability to discharge the most basic and fundamental powers and duties of his office, including most recently the duty to respect the legitimate results of the Presidential election, the duty to respect the peaceful transfer of democratic power under the Constitution, the duty to participate in legally defined transition activities, the duty to protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States, including the counting of Electoral College votes by Congress, the duty to protect the people of the United States and their elected representatives against domestic insurrection, mob rule, and seditious violence, and generally the duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls upon Vice President Michael R. Pence—
(1) to immediately use his powers under section 4 of the 25th Amendment to convene and mobilize the principal officers of the executive departments in the Cabinet to declare what is obvious to a horrified Nation: That the President is unable to successfully discharge the duties and powers of his office; and
(2) to transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives notice that he will be immediately assuming the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR January 13, 2021 at 7:23 pm
Paul Plante says:
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
That, people, is Virginian James Madison speaking to us across the gulf of time in FEDERALIST No. 47, The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Among Its Different Parts, from the New York Packet on Friday, February 1, 1788, to the People of the State of New York, and as we watch the takeover of this country by the Democrat party with the Democrats now having complete control over the executive and legislative branches of our national government, which in turn gives them control over the judiciary, we should ask ourselves this one pertinent question, to wit:
WHY?
Why is it that we have voted to impose a tyranny on ourselves?
And leaving that question hanging for a moment, and this is all with regard to the rioting and anarchy that the nation witnessed in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021, which is not all that different from what we witnessed back in the turbulent 60s, to be truthful, I want to go back to FEDERALIST No. 10 by James Madison, to wit:
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
end quotes
Think about it, people – the founders gave us a REPUBLIC, but people wanted democracy, instead, which is what we are now stuck with to our detriment as a nation and as a people, and that brings us back to the present moment and this from U.S. Sen. Anthony M. Bucco, a Republican who represents New Jersey’s 25th district, to wit:
“There is no room in our democracy for violence, the destruction of property, or the disruption of that orderly transition.”
“Democracy will prevail, just as law and order will prevail over disorder and chaos.”
end quotes
Which makes the Senator from New Jersey sound real stupid and uninformed, because as we see from not only our own history, but the history of democracies going back in time, and here, all you have to do is a cursory study of the Greeks, democracy is simply another word for violence, the destruction of property, and disorder and chaos, which takes us back in time to 1969 and this from the Harvard Crimson, to wit:
“Police Tear Gas Routs Demonstrators In Skirmish at Department of Justice”
By John G. Short
November 17, 1969
(Special to the CRIMSON)
WASHINGTON, D. C.- Police routed 10,000 people – some of them spectators – in a rally of militant antiwar groups here Saturday afternoon, driving them from in front of the Justice Department with tear gas and clubs.
end quotes
Yes, people, we really have been here before, many times, actually, and having been alive back then, and you can call up photos from those times to check it out for yourself, those protesters who were being clubbed and beaten back then were white, not Black, which goes to this statement going around today that Black rioters are treated differently than white rioters, which is yet more BULL**** being pumped our way by the ignorant and partisan main-stream media in this country.
Getting back to The Crimson:
They arrested 50 demonstrators as Attorney General John Mitchell watched from his office window.
Demonstrators had been throwing bottles and stones through windows of the building and at police.
end quotes
So, okay, it was only the Justice Department building whose windows they were smashing, not the capital, so that is a whole lot less serious than what happened in Washington on 6 January 2021, where a mob estimated between 10,000 and 30,000 were seen around the capitol, or so we are to believe, anyway, and that is because in 1969, it was the Republicans in charge of the Justice Department, so given they were not Democrats, the dominant political force here in the United States of America, it was okay for the mob to attack them, which again takes us back to The Crimson for more, to wit:
Rally
The rally began shortly after 4 p. m. when a coalition of the Yippies, the Weathermen, the Mad Dogs, and small anarchist groups from New York City gathered around huge papier mache figures of Spiro Agnew and other men in the government.
end quotes
HUH?
WTF?
Rioting?
Insurrection?
Sedition?
Civil disobedience?
Anarchy?
Treason?
All of the above?
And with those questions before us, let us drop back to 1968, when Eugene McCarthy, a little-known Democratic senator from Minnesota, announced on November 20, 1967, that he would seek the party’s nomination for president, this a month after another mammoth demonstration at the Pentagon.
McCarthy was very straightforward about his political goals — rehabilitating the American political system and getting the antiwar protests off the streets:
“There is growing evidence of a deepening moral crisis in America — discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest.”
“I am hopeful that this challenge…may alleviate at least in some degree this sense of political hopelessness and restore to many people a belief in the process of American politics and of American government…[and] that it may counter the growing sense of alienation from politics, which I think is currently reflected in a tendency to withdraw from political action, to talk of nonparticipation, to become cynical and to make threats of support for third parties or fourth parties or other irregular political movements.”
end quotes
So contrary to what the Senator from New Jersey is saying, there is indeed plenty of room in our democracy for violence, the destruction of property, or the disruption of that orderly transition, because democracy is a synonym for political violence, just as Jemmy Madison told us in FEDERALIST No. 10, to wit:
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Getting back to the political violence our democracy provided for us back in 1969, let’s go back to The Crimson for more, to wit:
A march led by red, blue and yellow Viet Cong flags began circling the Justice Department building from its front door on Constitution Ave.
The group had a permit to rally from 5 to 8 p. m.
The marchers demanded an end to the Chicago trial of the eight people charged with conspiracy to riot at last year’s Democratic National Convention.
They also demanded the freeing of Bobby Seale, one of the eight, who was sentenced to four years in jail for contempt of court in that trial.
Shortly after the march had rounded the building and was back on Constitution Avenue, a demonstrator threw a red smoke bomb which exploded next to the building.
Then, with thousands of demonstrators jammed in the street in front of the Justice Department, members of the crowd hurled rocks and bottles at the windows.
A line of Mobe marshals briefly ringed the base of the Justice Department building holding their fingers in the V-shape to try to stop the barrage.
Police moved in from the east and fired two successive rounds of tear gas which drove about a quarter of the crowd back into the Mall to the south.
In the meantime, other police formed a line across Constitution Avenue to block the main body of the demonstrators.
Some of these hauled down the American flag from the Justice Department’s pole and ran up their Viet Cong flag.
Police then took it down.
end quotes
There is no room in our democracy for violence, the destruction of property, and democracy will prevail, just as law and order will prevail over disorder and chaos?
Getting back to the democracy, we have:
For some 15 minutes demonstrators and police confronted each other until the crowd began to throw rocks and sticks at police.
Then the police began a massive tear gas attack on the crowd.
The police first shot gas at the front of the crowd, which began to retreat immediately.
Then as the 10,000 – both militant demonstrators and less-militant spectators – on Constitution Avenue tried to leave the area, the crowd was bottle-necked by narrow exits.
Two thousand people trying to get between the Museum of Natural History and a concrete underpass could move no faster than a very slow walk.
Big clouds of tear gas covered the crowd.
Police fired more cannisters of gas into the air so that they landed and exploded in the midst of the crowd on the feet and clothing of the retreating demonstrators.
Many Blinded
The gas blinded those it hit and made it very difficult for them to breathe.
Many were overcome and collapsed.
Many others lay gagging and vomiting over the rail into the underpass.
A larger group of demonstrators was similarly trapped on Constitution Avenue.
Police arrested about 30 for disorderly conduct.
Most of the people from this group headed north towards Pennsylvania Ave Some then headed west to the White House where they were repulsed again, and where more were arrested.
As they retreated, some groups smashed some store windows.
A total of 20 windows at the Justice Department were broken.
Over 100 demonstrators were arrested Saturday on a variety of charges.
end quotes
Boy, isn’t democracy just the best thing that ever happened since somebody discovered that if you dropped a piece of plain white bread into the fire, if you got it out soon enough, it made for some great toast!
So was what happened in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021 really an insurrection because Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats say it was?
Or was it anarchy, plain and simple?
Stay tuned, for more is yet to come!
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Paul Plante says:
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
That, people, is Virginian James Madison speaking to us across the gulf of time in FEDERALIST No. 47, The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Among Its Different Parts, from the New York Packet on Friday, February 1, 1788, to the People of the State of New York, and as we watch the takeover of this country by the Democrat party with the Democrats now having complete control over the executive and legislative branches of our national government, which in turn gives them control over the judiciary, we should ask ourselves this one pertinent question, to wit:
WHY?
Why is it that we have voted to impose a tyranny on ourselves?
And leaving that question hanging for a moment, and this is all with regard to the rioting and anarchy that the nation witnessed in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021, which is not all that different from what we witnessed back in the turbulent 60s, to be truthful, I want to go back to FEDERALIST No. 10 by James Madison, to wit:
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
end quotes
Think about it, people – the founders gave us a REPUBLIC, but people wanted democracy, instead, which is what we are now stuck with to our detriment as a nation and as a people, and that brings us back to the present moment and this from U.S. Sen. Anthony M. Bucco, a Republican who represents New Jersey’s 25th district, to wit:
“There is no room in our democracy for violence, the destruction of property, or the disruption of that orderly transition.”
“Democracy will prevail, just as law and order will prevail over disorder and chaos.”
end quotes
Which makes the Senator from New Jersey sound real stupid and uninformed, because as we see from not only our own history, but the history of democracies going back in time, and here, all you have to do is a cursory study of the Greeks, democracy is simply another word for violence, the destruction of property, and disorder and chaos, which takes us back in time to 1969 and this from the Harvard Crimson, to wit:
“Police Tear Gas Routs Demonstrators In Skirmish at Department of Justice”
By John G. Short
November 17, 1969
(Special to the CRIMSON)
WASHINGTON, D. C.- Police routed 10,000 people – some of them spectators – in a rally of militant antiwar groups here Saturday afternoon, driving them from in front of the Justice Department with tear gas and clubs.
end quotes
Yes, people, we really have been here before, many times, actually, and having been alive back then, and you can call up photos from those times to check it out for yourself, those protesters who were being clubbed and beaten back then were white, not Black, which goes to this statement going around today that Black rioters are treated differently than white rioters, which is yet more BULL**** being pumped our way by the ignorant and partisan main-stream media in this country.
Getting back to The Crimson:
They arrested 50 demonstrators as Attorney General John Mitchell watched from his office window.
Demonstrators had been throwing bottles and stones through windows of the building and at police.
end quotes
So, okay, it was only the Justice Department building whose windows they were smashing, not the capital, so that is a whole lot less serious than what happened in Washington on 6 January 2021, where a mob estimated between 10,000 and 30,000 were seen around the capitol, or so we are to believe, anyway, and that is because in 1969, it was the Republicans in charge of the Justice Department, so given they were not Democrats, the dominant political force here in the United States of America, it was okay for the mob to attack them, which again takes us back to The Crimson for more, to wit:
Rally
The rally began shortly after 4 p. m. when a coalition of the Yippies, the Weathermen, the Mad Dogs, and small anarchist groups from New York City gathered around huge papier mache figures of Spiro Agnew and other men in the government.
end quotes
HUH?
WTF?
Rioting?
Insurrection?
Sedition?
Civil disobedience?
Anarchy?
Treason?
All of the above?
And with those questions before us, let us drop back to 1968, when Eugene McCarthy, a little-known Democratic senator from Minnesota, announced on November 20, 1967, that he would seek the party’s nomination for president, this a month after another mammoth demonstration at the Pentagon.
McCarthy was very straightforward about his political goals — rehabilitating the American political system and getting the antiwar protests off the streets:
“There is growing evidence of a deepening moral crisis in America — discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest.”
“I am hopeful that this challenge…may alleviate at least in some degree this sense of political hopelessness and restore to many people a belief in the process of American politics and of American government…[and] that it may counter the growing sense of alienation from politics, which I think is currently reflected in a tendency to withdraw from political action, to talk of nonparticipation, to become cynical and to make threats of support for third parties or fourth parties or other irregular political movements.”
end quotes
So contrary to what the Senator from New Jersey is saying, there is indeed plenty of room in our democracy for violence, the destruction of property, or the disruption of that orderly transition, because democracy is a synonym for political violence, just as Jemmy Madison told us in FEDERALIST No. 10, to wit:
“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Getting back to the political violence our democracy provided for us back in 1969, let’s go back to The Crimson for more, to wit:
A march led by red, blue and yellow Viet Cong flags began circling the Justice Department building from its front door on Constitution Ave.
The group had a permit to rally from 5 to 8 p. m.
The marchers demanded an end to the Chicago trial of the eight people charged with conspiracy to riot at last year’s Democratic National Convention.
They also demanded the freeing of Bobby Seale, one of the eight, who was sentenced to four years in jail for contempt of court in that trial.
Shortly after the march had rounded the building and was back on Constitution Avenue, a demonstrator threw a red smoke bomb which exploded next to the building.
Then, with thousands of demonstrators jammed in the street in front of the Justice Department, members of the crowd hurled rocks and bottles at the windows.
A line of Mobe marshals briefly ringed the base of the Justice Department building holding their fingers in the V-shape to try to stop the barrage.
Police moved in from the east and fired two successive rounds of tear gas which drove about a quarter of the crowd back into the Mall to the south.
In the meantime, other police formed a line across Constitution Avenue to block the main body of the demonstrators.
Some of these hauled down the American flag from the Justice Department’s pole and ran up their Viet Cong flag.
Police then took it down.
end quotes
There is no room in our democracy for violence, the destruction of property, and democracy will prevail, just as law and order will prevail over disorder and chaos?
Getting back to the democracy, we have:
For some 15 minutes demonstrators and police confronted each other until the crowd began to throw rocks and sticks at police.
Then the police began a massive tear gas attack on the crowd.
The police first shot gas at the front of the crowd, which began to retreat immediately.
Then as the 10,000 – both militant demonstrators and less-militant spectators – on Constitution Avenue tried to leave the area, the crowd was bottle-necked by narrow exits.
Two thousand people trying to get between the Museum of Natural History and a concrete underpass could move no faster than a very slow walk.
Big clouds of tear gas covered the crowd.
Police fired more cannisters of gas into the air so that they landed and exploded in the midst of the crowd on the feet and clothing of the retreating demonstrators.
Many Blinded
The gas blinded those it hit and made it very difficult for them to breathe.
Many were overcome and collapsed.
Many others lay gagging and vomiting over the rail into the underpass.
A larger group of demonstrators was similarly trapped on Constitution Avenue.
Police arrested about 30 for disorderly conduct.
Most of the people from this group headed north towards Pennsylvania Ave Some then headed west to the White House where they were repulsed again, and where more were arrested.
As they retreated, some groups smashed some store windows.
A total of 20 windows at the Justice Department were broken.
Over 100 demonstrators were arrested Saturday on a variety of charges.
end quotes
Boy, isn’t democracy just the best thing that ever happened since somebody discovered that if you dropped a piece of plain white bread into the fire, if you got it out soon enough, it made for some great toast!
So was what happened in Washington, D.C. on 6 January 2021 really an insurrection because Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats say it was?
Or was it anarchy, plain and simple?
Stay tuned, for more is yet to come!
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Re: Just musings, is all
Paul Plante says
January 14, 2021 at 6:31 pm
And before we go further in here, let us go back in time for a moment to 1868, and the Articles of Impeachment the Republicans in the House of Representatives brought against Democrat Andrew Johnson, because as this matter of the “Trumpian Insurrection” develops further, it makes for interesting reading, to wit:
ARTICLE X.
That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his office and the dignity and proprieties thereof, and of the harmony and courtesies which ought to exist and be maintained between the executive and legislative branches of the Government of the United States, designing and intending to set aside the rightful authority and powers of Congress, did attempt to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt, and reproach the Congress of the United States and the several branches thereof, to impair and destroy the regard and respect of all the good people of the United States for the Congress and legislative power thereof, (which all officers of the Government ought inviolably to preserve and maintain,) and to excite the odium and resentment of all the good people of the United States against Congress and the laws by it duly and constitutionally enacted: and in pursuance of said design and intent, openly and publicly, and before divers assemblages of the citizens of the United States convened in divers parts thereof to meet and receive said Andrew Johnson as the Chief Magistrate of the United States, did, on the 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1866, and on divers other days and times, as well before as afterward, make and deliver with a loud voice certain intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues, and did therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces as well against Congress amid the cries, jeers, and laughter of the multitudes then assembled and within hearing, which are set forth in the several specifications hereinafter written, in substance and effect, that is to say:
Specification First. In this, that at Washington, in the District of Columbia, in the Executive Mansion, to a committee of citizens who called upon the President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress of the United States, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, heretofore, to wit, on the 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1866, did, in a loud voice, declare in substance and effect, among other things, that is to say:
“So far as the executive department of the Government is concerned, the effort has been made to restore the Union, to heal the breach, to pour oil into the wounds which were consequent upon the struggle, and (to speak in common phrase) to prepare as the learned and wise physician would, a plaster healing in character and coextensive with the wound.”
“We thought, and we think, that we had partially succeeded; but as the work progresses, as reconstruction seemed to be taking place, and the country was becoming reunited, we found a disturbing and marring element opposing us.”
“In alluding to that element, I shall go no further than your convention and the distinguished gentleman who has delivered to me the report of its proceedings.”
“I shall make no reference to it that I do not believe the time and the occasion justify.”
“We have witnessed in one department of the Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and Union.”
“We have seen hanging upon the verge of the government, as it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, the Congress of the United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States.”
“We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a disruption of the States inevitable.”
“We have seen Congress gradually encroach step by step upon constitutional rights, and violate, day after day and month after month, fundamental principles of the Government.”
“We have seen a Congress that seemed to forget that there was a limit to the sphere and scope of legislation.”
“We have seen a Congress in a minority assume to exercise power which, allowed to be consummated, would result in despotism or monarchy itself.”
Specification Second. In this, that at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, heretofore, to wit, on the 3rd day of September, in the year of our Lord 1850, before a public assemblage of citizens and others, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress of the United States, did, in a loud voice, declare in substance and effect, among other things, that is to say:
“I will tell you what I did do.”
“I called upon your Congress that is trying to break up the Government.”
[Here, the text of the Articles of Impeachment indicates omitting a portion of the quoted speech.]
“In conclusion, besides that, Congress had taken much pains to poison their constituents against him.”
“But what had Congress done?”
“Have they done anything to restore the union of these States?”
“No; on the contrary, they had done everything to prevent it; and because he stood now where he did when the rebellion commenced he had been denounced as a traitor.”
“Who had run greater risks or made greater sacrifices than himself?”
“But Congress, factions and domineering, had undertaken to poison the minds of the American people.”
Specification Third. In this, that at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, heretofore, to wit, on the 8th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1866, before a public assemblage of citizens and others, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress of the United States, did, in a loud voice, declare in substance and effect, among other things, that is to say:
“Go on.”
“Perhaps if you had a word or two on the subject of New Orleans you might understand more about it than you do.”
“And if you will go back – if you will go back and ascertain the cause of the riot at New Orleans, perhaps you will not be so prompt in calling out ‘New Orleans.’”
“If you will take up the riot at New Orleans and trace it back to its source or its immediate cause, you will find out who was responsible for the blood that was shed there.”
“If you will take up the riot at New Orleans and trace it back to the Radical Congress you will find that the riot at New Orleans was substantially planned.”
“If you will take up the proceedings in their caucuses you will understand that they there knew that a convention was to be called which was extinct by its power having expired; that it was said that the intention was that a new government was to be organized, and on the organization of that government the intention was to enfranchise one portion of the population, called the colored population, who had just been emancipated, and at the same time disfranchise white men.”
“When you design to talk about New Orleans you ought to understand what you are talking about.”
“When you read the speeches that were made, and take up the facts on the Friday and Saturday before that convention sat, you will there find that speeches were incendiary in their character, exciting that portion of the population, the black population, to arm themselves and prepare for the shedding of blood.”
“You will also find that the convention did assemble in violation of law, and the intention of that convention was to supersede the reorganized authorities in the State government of Louisiana, which had been recognized by the Government of the United States; and every man engaged in that rebellion in that convention, with the intention of superseding and upturning the civil government which had been recognized by the Government of the United States, I say that he was a traitor to the Constitution of the United States and you find that another rebellion was commenced having its origin in the Radical Congress.”
[Here, the text of the Articles of Impeachment indicates omitting a portion of the quoted speech.]
“So much for the New Orleans riot.”
“And there was the cause and the origin of the blood that was shed; and every drop of blood that was shed is upon their skirts, and they are responsible for it.”
“I could test this thing a little closer but will not do it here tonight.”
“But when you talk about the causes and consequences that resulted from proceedings of that kind, perhaps, as I have been introduced here, and you have provoked questions of this kind, though it does not provoke me, I will tell you a few wholesome things that have been done by this Radical Congress in connection with New Orleans and the extension of the elective franchise.”
“I know that I have been traduced and abused.”
“I know it has come in advance of me here, as elsewhere, that I have attempted to exercise an arbitrary power in resisting laws that were intended to be forced upon the Government; that I had exercised that power; that I had abandoned the party that elected me, and that I was a traitor, because I exercised the veto power in attempting and did arrest for a time a bill that was called a ‘Freedman’s Bureau’ bill: yes, that I was a traitor.”
“And I have been traduced.”
“I have been slandered, I have been maligned, I have been called Judas Iscariot, and all that.”
“Now, my countrymen here tonight, it is very easy to indulge in epithets; it is easy to call a man a Judas and cry out traitor; but when he is called upon to give arguments and facts he is very often found wanting.”
“Judas Iscariot – Judas.”
“There was a Judas and he was one of the twelve apostles.”
“Oh yes, the twelve apostles had a Christ.”
“The twelve apostles had a Christ, and he never could have had a Judas unless he had twelve apostles.”
“If I have played the Judas, who has been my Christ that I have played the Judas with?”
“Was it Thad. Stevens?”
“Was it Wendell Phillips?
“Was it Charles Sumner?”
“These are the men that stop and compare themselves with the Savior: and everybody that differs with them in opinion, and to try and stay and arrest the diabolical and nefarious policy, is to be denounced as a Judas.”
[Here again, the text of the Articles of Impeachment indicates omitting a portion of the quoted speech.]
“Well, let me say to you, if you will stand by me in this action: if you will stand by me in trying to give the people a fair chance, soldiers and citizens, to participate in these offices, God being willing, I will kick them out.”
“I will kick them out just as fast as I can.
“Let me say to you, in concluding, that what I have said I intended to say. I was not provoked into this, and I care not for their menaces, the taunts, and the jeers.”
“I care not for threats.”
“I do not intend to be bullied by my enemies nor overawed by my friends.”
“But, God willing, with your help I will veto their measures whenever any of them come to me.”
Which said utterances, declarations, threats, and harangues, highly censurable in any, are peculiarly indecent and unbecoming in the Chief Magistrate of the United States, by means whereof said Andrew Johnson has brought the high office of the President of the United States into contempt, ridicule, and disgrace, to the great scandal of all good citizens, whereby said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, did commit, and was then and there guilty of, a high misdemeanor in office.
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January 14, 2021 at 6:31 pm
And before we go further in here, let us go back in time for a moment to 1868, and the Articles of Impeachment the Republicans in the House of Representatives brought against Democrat Andrew Johnson, because as this matter of the “Trumpian Insurrection” develops further, it makes for interesting reading, to wit:
ARTICLE X.
That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his office and the dignity and proprieties thereof, and of the harmony and courtesies which ought to exist and be maintained between the executive and legislative branches of the Government of the United States, designing and intending to set aside the rightful authority and powers of Congress, did attempt to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt, and reproach the Congress of the United States and the several branches thereof, to impair and destroy the regard and respect of all the good people of the United States for the Congress and legislative power thereof, (which all officers of the Government ought inviolably to preserve and maintain,) and to excite the odium and resentment of all the good people of the United States against Congress and the laws by it duly and constitutionally enacted: and in pursuance of said design and intent, openly and publicly, and before divers assemblages of the citizens of the United States convened in divers parts thereof to meet and receive said Andrew Johnson as the Chief Magistrate of the United States, did, on the 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1866, and on divers other days and times, as well before as afterward, make and deliver with a loud voice certain intemperate, inflammatory, and scandalous harangues, and did therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces as well against Congress amid the cries, jeers, and laughter of the multitudes then assembled and within hearing, which are set forth in the several specifications hereinafter written, in substance and effect, that is to say:
Specification First. In this, that at Washington, in the District of Columbia, in the Executive Mansion, to a committee of citizens who called upon the President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress of the United States, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, heretofore, to wit, on the 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord 1866, did, in a loud voice, declare in substance and effect, among other things, that is to say:
“So far as the executive department of the Government is concerned, the effort has been made to restore the Union, to heal the breach, to pour oil into the wounds which were consequent upon the struggle, and (to speak in common phrase) to prepare as the learned and wise physician would, a plaster healing in character and coextensive with the wound.”
“We thought, and we think, that we had partially succeeded; but as the work progresses, as reconstruction seemed to be taking place, and the country was becoming reunited, we found a disturbing and marring element opposing us.”
“In alluding to that element, I shall go no further than your convention and the distinguished gentleman who has delivered to me the report of its proceedings.”
“I shall make no reference to it that I do not believe the time and the occasion justify.”
“We have witnessed in one department of the Government every endeavor to prevent the restoration of peace, harmony, and Union.”
“We have seen hanging upon the verge of the government, as it were, a body called, or which assumes to be, the Congress of the United States, while in fact it is a Congress of only a part of the States.”
“We have seen this Congress pretend to be for the Union, when its every step and act tended to perpetuate disunion and make a disruption of the States inevitable.”
“We have seen Congress gradually encroach step by step upon constitutional rights, and violate, day after day and month after month, fundamental principles of the Government.”
“We have seen a Congress that seemed to forget that there was a limit to the sphere and scope of legislation.”
“We have seen a Congress in a minority assume to exercise power which, allowed to be consummated, would result in despotism or monarchy itself.”
Specification Second. In this, that at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, heretofore, to wit, on the 3rd day of September, in the year of our Lord 1850, before a public assemblage of citizens and others, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress of the United States, did, in a loud voice, declare in substance and effect, among other things, that is to say:
“I will tell you what I did do.”
“I called upon your Congress that is trying to break up the Government.”
[Here, the text of the Articles of Impeachment indicates omitting a portion of the quoted speech.]
“In conclusion, besides that, Congress had taken much pains to poison their constituents against him.”
“But what had Congress done?”
“Have they done anything to restore the union of these States?”
“No; on the contrary, they had done everything to prevent it; and because he stood now where he did when the rebellion commenced he had been denounced as a traitor.”
“Who had run greater risks or made greater sacrifices than himself?”
“But Congress, factions and domineering, had undertaken to poison the minds of the American people.”
Specification Third. In this, that at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, heretofore, to wit, on the 8th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1866, before a public assemblage of citizens and others, said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, speaking of and concerning the Congress of the United States, did, in a loud voice, declare in substance and effect, among other things, that is to say:
“Go on.”
“Perhaps if you had a word or two on the subject of New Orleans you might understand more about it than you do.”
“And if you will go back – if you will go back and ascertain the cause of the riot at New Orleans, perhaps you will not be so prompt in calling out ‘New Orleans.’”
“If you will take up the riot at New Orleans and trace it back to its source or its immediate cause, you will find out who was responsible for the blood that was shed there.”
“If you will take up the riot at New Orleans and trace it back to the Radical Congress you will find that the riot at New Orleans was substantially planned.”
“If you will take up the proceedings in their caucuses you will understand that they there knew that a convention was to be called which was extinct by its power having expired; that it was said that the intention was that a new government was to be organized, and on the organization of that government the intention was to enfranchise one portion of the population, called the colored population, who had just been emancipated, and at the same time disfranchise white men.”
“When you design to talk about New Orleans you ought to understand what you are talking about.”
“When you read the speeches that were made, and take up the facts on the Friday and Saturday before that convention sat, you will there find that speeches were incendiary in their character, exciting that portion of the population, the black population, to arm themselves and prepare for the shedding of blood.”
“You will also find that the convention did assemble in violation of law, and the intention of that convention was to supersede the reorganized authorities in the State government of Louisiana, which had been recognized by the Government of the United States; and every man engaged in that rebellion in that convention, with the intention of superseding and upturning the civil government which had been recognized by the Government of the United States, I say that he was a traitor to the Constitution of the United States and you find that another rebellion was commenced having its origin in the Radical Congress.”
[Here, the text of the Articles of Impeachment indicates omitting a portion of the quoted speech.]
“So much for the New Orleans riot.”
“And there was the cause and the origin of the blood that was shed; and every drop of blood that was shed is upon their skirts, and they are responsible for it.”
“I could test this thing a little closer but will not do it here tonight.”
“But when you talk about the causes and consequences that resulted from proceedings of that kind, perhaps, as I have been introduced here, and you have provoked questions of this kind, though it does not provoke me, I will tell you a few wholesome things that have been done by this Radical Congress in connection with New Orleans and the extension of the elective franchise.”
“I know that I have been traduced and abused.”
“I know it has come in advance of me here, as elsewhere, that I have attempted to exercise an arbitrary power in resisting laws that were intended to be forced upon the Government; that I had exercised that power; that I had abandoned the party that elected me, and that I was a traitor, because I exercised the veto power in attempting and did arrest for a time a bill that was called a ‘Freedman’s Bureau’ bill: yes, that I was a traitor.”
“And I have been traduced.”
“I have been slandered, I have been maligned, I have been called Judas Iscariot, and all that.”
“Now, my countrymen here tonight, it is very easy to indulge in epithets; it is easy to call a man a Judas and cry out traitor; but when he is called upon to give arguments and facts he is very often found wanting.”
“Judas Iscariot – Judas.”
“There was a Judas and he was one of the twelve apostles.”
“Oh yes, the twelve apostles had a Christ.”
“The twelve apostles had a Christ, and he never could have had a Judas unless he had twelve apostles.”
“If I have played the Judas, who has been my Christ that I have played the Judas with?”
“Was it Thad. Stevens?”
“Was it Wendell Phillips?
“Was it Charles Sumner?”
“These are the men that stop and compare themselves with the Savior: and everybody that differs with them in opinion, and to try and stay and arrest the diabolical and nefarious policy, is to be denounced as a Judas.”
[Here again, the text of the Articles of Impeachment indicates omitting a portion of the quoted speech.]
“Well, let me say to you, if you will stand by me in this action: if you will stand by me in trying to give the people a fair chance, soldiers and citizens, to participate in these offices, God being willing, I will kick them out.”
“I will kick them out just as fast as I can.
“Let me say to you, in concluding, that what I have said I intended to say. I was not provoked into this, and I care not for their menaces, the taunts, and the jeers.”
“I care not for threats.”
“I do not intend to be bullied by my enemies nor overawed by my friends.”
“But, God willing, with your help I will veto their measures whenever any of them come to me.”
Which said utterances, declarations, threats, and harangues, highly censurable in any, are peculiarly indecent and unbecoming in the Chief Magistrate of the United States, by means whereof said Andrew Johnson has brought the high office of the President of the United States into contempt, ridicule, and disgrace, to the great scandal of all good citizens, whereby said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, did commit, and was then and there guilty of, a high misdemeanor in office.
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