Four WH initiatives that in major and obvious ways do NOT increase domestic security in America are:
1. funding a Wall on the Mexico border; the worst security threat to America is our "Police State" mentality to fill prisons, not Mexicans.
2. increasing the defense budget; the DoD budget is too big to manage, or even keep track of.
3. threatening sanctuary cities; FACT: community relations aid in reducing crime as reports of criminal activity are more favorable.
4. chastising states that made recreational use of marijuana legal. Illegal drug use of MJ does not significantly reduce use of MJ.
All the above have significant flaws that Tweety does not, maybe cannot understand.
In addition, it is in Tweety's DNA to create and support violence it seems.
"A judge rules Trump may have incited violence … and Trump again has his own mouth to blame"
The inside track on Washington politics.
By Aaron Blake By Aaron Blake The Fix Analysis Analysis Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events
April 2, 2017
We are not a nation of laws as long as we have Tweety; Tweety is NOT a "Law and Order" President. Bannon leads Tweety's thought and action, a anarchist.
"A federal judge in Kentucky is the latest to take Trump at his word when he says something controversial. Judge David J. Hale ruled against efforts by Trump's attorneys to throw out a lawsuit accusing him of inciting violence against protesters at a March 2016 campaign rally in Louisville.
At the rally, Trump repeatedly said “get 'em out of here” before, according to the protesters, they were shoved and punched by his supporters. Trump's attorneys sought to have the case dismissed on free speech grounds, arguing that he didn't intend for his supporters to use force. But Hale noted that speech inciting violence is not protected by the First Amendment and ruled that there is plenty of evidence that the protesters' injuries were a “direct and proximate result” of Trump's words.
“It is plausible that Trump’s direction to ‘get 'em out of here’ advocated the use of force,” Hale wrote. “It was an order, an instruction, a command.”"
Tweety defenders say you cannot take his words for their meaning? We are supposed to translate his words into something good for America. How?
"It's merely the latest example of Trump's team arguing that his controversial words shouldn't be taken literally. But though that argument may have held water politically during the 2016 campaign, it has since repeatedly hurt Trump's cause when his words have been at issue in legal proceedings."
Internationally, Tweety endangers America and American values with his apparent love affair with Russia! Russia is NOT our friend for many reasons.
"Vladimir Putin’s war on terror"
Gideon Rachman
Sep 30 2015
http://blogs.ft.com/the-world/2015/09/vladimir-putins-war-on-terror/
"But with the Russians, as with the Americans in 2003, the definition of who is a terrorist seems to be a little fuzzy."
To Putin, a lot of "terror" comes from anyone who opposes him, so one way or the other they disappear and/or die.
Starting cautiously . . .
"It's not a trivial question. Putin is not a bloodthirsty, Stalin-like dictator. He has stubbornly resisted calls for the reinstitution of the death penalty in Russia, put on hold during the country's brief romance with Europe. "Experts do not believe tougher punishment leads to the eradication of crime or the lowering of crime rates," he said in 2013. On the other hand, it's hard to ignore that some of Putin's enemies and political opponents have turned up dead. "
So Putin is not a blood thirsty, or stupid killer.
"The three most prominent murders that are commonly blamed on Putin in the West are those of politician Boris Nemtsov in 2015, journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006, and former intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko also in 2006. An official inquiry in Britain concluded it was likely that Putin was behind the assassination of Litvinenko, who was poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium-210. That's the closest anyone has come to pinning a murder on Putin. The KGB — the organization that taught Putin most of what he knows about the world — has a long tradition of assassinating "traitors," primarily defectors. In his memoir, Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB general, recalled an episode from his work in the U.S. under journalistic cover in the 1960s."
"The corrupt and often ruthless system Putin has maintained in Russia is clearly a killer, and not just by dint of empowering people like Kadyrov. Since Putin came to power, 25 journalists were killed for work-related reasons. Many of them had been investigating corruption by Putin-appointed officials or exposing injustice by Putin's billionaire friends — like Mikhail Beketov, the editor of a small paper in the Moscow suburbs that opposed a highway project led by Putin crony Arkady Rotenberg. Only three journalists have been murdered in the U.S. in the same period, and two of them were victims of a terror attack."
"People also suffer injuries when they come into contact with Russia's brutal and opaque law enforcement and justice systems."
Here's what I consider an interesting conclusion:
"The degree of an authoritarian ruler's personal responsibility is higher than in a state with a working system of checks and balances. Such a country's interests inevitably merge with the ruler's interest in keeping power. So, compared to U.S. leaders, Putin must accept more personal responsibility for the victims of his policies, his adventures and his mistakes. That includes the people killed in terror attacks that followed his harsh actions in Chechnya, as well as the many deaths resulting from his support of Ukrainian separatists and President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
To call Putin a killer, though, is to reduce Russia's problems to the size of Putin's compact body. The system he has built will likely still be there long after he is gone, and it will keep killing, even if Russia's next leader makes an attempt at liberalization,"
Whether we reduce issues to short-term, narrow time, so what? The question was is Putin a killer and the answer is "Yes." The idea that such a system of murder wil continue after Putin is arguable, I think. For America's purposes it matters most now and with Putin because Tweety seems to really, really like Putin's style, and, perhaps, his methods.
