Good, and the Deaths of Innocents on American Soil

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  • Good, and the Deaths of Innocents on American Soil

    Our President and his advisors were upset when the their policies and outrageous, targeted deportation goals resulted in the deaths of innocent people on American soil. Innocent until proven guilty is still the law of the land. Sadly the president’s… Continue reading

  • Good and the Devil You Think you Know

    The easiest thing in the world is to accumulate evidence supporting your hatred of another person in the political realm. At the same time it is almost impossible to imagine how you yourself became the devil other people hate. Yet,… Continue reading

  • Good, Extortion, and the Art of the Misdeal

    Not everything in life is a deal.  When an offer is made and the only real alternative to the dealer’s offer is death and destruction of everything that matters to you, the transaction is called extortion. Extortion, for clarification, is… Continue reading

  • Good and Sacrificing the TSA

    One of the harder jobs on the planet would  be, in this writers mind, working as a TSA agent.  Their job is critical for the safety of flying and they have to interact with courtesy and on a never ending assembly… Continue reading

  • Good, the Work Force, and Big Lies

    The calculus of the American work force is not what we are supposed to think.  The meme constructed by the current administration is one of immigrant workers taking American jobs and American workers looking on in envy as their opportunities… Continue reading

  • Good, Power and the Deceptive Immunity from Law

    The idea that powerful people are exempt from the law and its consequences is as old an illusion as history itself is old.  The end of WWII did not automatically deliver the Nuremberg trials.  At the peak of WWII no… Continue reading

  • Good and Punishment on ‘Suspicion of Crime’

    In some slow not so subtle changes in our country’s sense of justice, to suspect one of a crime is becoming the new standard of punishment:  no trial, no evidence, no justification; simply suspicion can trigger brutal or even capital… Continue reading

  • Good and the Presumption of Guilt; Where art Thou Sweet Innocence?

    The presumption of innocence is not a new concept with the US Constitution.  The matter goes back in a formal legal sense at least as far as the Code of Hammurabi dating back in the ancient near east to at… Continue reading

  • Good, Discovering Reality, Justice, and Imagination

    This country could only end up in this set of circumstances through the lazy neglect of imagination.  The working phrase is: “Imagine how you would feel if . . . . . .?”.   The alternative to imagination, particularly in deciding… Continue reading

  • Good and When a Detention Facility becomes a Concentration Camp

    Detention has become a euphemism for concentration.  Facility has become a euphemism for prison camp.  With a goal of 3,000 immigration arrests a day this administration is, intentionally or not, setting, the stage for concentration camps in America.  This is… Continue reading