The Iron Heelis Coming!
If the Democrats Decide to Fund ICE It Will Mean the 1% Have Decided to Apply the White Nationalist No
As congressional negotiators on Tuesday released a proposed spending bill for the US Department of Homeland Security, with the January 30 funding deadline rapidly approaching, critics of President Donald Trump’s deadly immigration operations renewed calls for Democrats to oppose any new money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. —‘A Surrender to Trump’s Lawlessness’: Democrats Warned Against Giving ICE More Money
Background
It is easy to imagine with what a condescending perplexity the official socialist thinking of that time met Jack London’s menacing prophecies. If one took the trouble to look over the reviews of The Iron Heel at that time in the German Neue Zeit and Vorwärts, in the Austrian Kampf and Arbeiterzeitung, as well as in the other socialist publications of Europe and America, he could easily convince himself that the thirty-year-old “romanticist” saw incomparably more clearly and farther than all the social-democratic leaders of that time taken together. But Jack London bears comparison in this domain not only with the reformists. One can say with assurance that in 1907 not one of the revolutionary Marxists, not excluding Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg, imagined so fully the ominous perspective of the alliance between finance capital and labor aristocracy. This suffices in itself to determine the specific weight of the novel. —Trotsky and the Iron Heel
One hundred years after its initial publication, London’s political ideas and cultural insights seem remarkably contemporary. Indeed, in The Iron Heel, he describes a sinister conspiracy, by an oligarchy, to quash freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, imprison its outspoken opponents and critics, control news and information, install a professional army of paid mercenaries, create a secret police force, and wage global warfare for economic hegemony. There’s also guerrilla warfare, furious acts of wanton terrorism, and cold-blooded terrorists—a world roiling in violence that might be taken for the world of the twenty-first century. Here’s a book that demonstrates the veracity of Ezra Pound’s remark that “the artist is the antenna of the race.” — The Iron Heel at 100: Jack London The Artist as “Antenna of the Race”
‘The Fourth Amendment Literally Exists to Prevent This’: Memo Claims ICE Can Forcibly Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants“Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door and storm into your home,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, demanding congressional hearings. “The United States government is looking for ways around that pesky Fourth Amendment,” an investigative journalist said of Wednesday reporting by the Associated Press on an internal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo claiming that ICE agents can forcibly enter a private residence without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency. The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitutionstates, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
DHS, White House shared white nationalist song in ICE recruitment posts DHS, White House shared white nationalist song in ICE recruitment posts
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The 1% and Their Government
Donald Trump is an example of the lawless might is policy of the United States both globally and locally.
All three branches of the government support the might is right policy!
All three branches have allowed The Resegregation of America!
In the recent period there has bipartisan approval to appoint originalists to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has Given The 1% Control of Elections, with the Citizens United Decision!
The United States is no longer a democracy!
Today’s Supreme Court & The U.S. Government
Today’s Supreme Court, Trump’s appointees ensured an originalist majority:
AI Overview Originalist: Originalism, in the context of constitutional law, is a theory of interpretation that asserts that the meaning of the Constitution should be determined by what the framers and ratifiers of the document originally intended it to mean. It contrasts with “living constitutionalism,” which posits that the Constitution is a living document that should evolve with society.
It was the intent, of the ‘framers of the constitution’, not include the Bill of Rights in the original Constitution. The Bill of Rights was included after those, who led the 1776 revolution. threaten another revolution. The ‘framers’ then promised to in include the ‘Bill of rights as the first act of Congress’. The Bill of Rights became the first ten amendments to the constitution. To quell the threat of revolution.
We should not be surprised when Trump and the Supreme Court ignore the Bill of Rights!
The ‘founding fathers’ wrote the constitution to “protect the minority of the opulent against the majority”, and the Constitution was designed to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority, and the Constitution was designed to try to prevent, what is called, the tyranny of the majority, meaning democracy.
As James Madison, in May 1787 stated, when he was defending the constitution prior to it’s ratification:
“A national convention was called for May 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation. Madison believed that the problem was not with the Articles, but rather the state legislatures, and so the solution was not to fix the articles but to restrain the excesses of the states. The principal questions before the convention became whether the states should remain sovereign, whether sovereignty should be transferred to the national government, or whether a settlement should rest somewhere in between.[4] By mid-June, it was clear that the convention was drafting a new plan of government around these issues—a constitution. Madison’s nationalist position shifted the debate increasingly away from a position of pure state sovereignty, and toward the compromise.[8] In a debate on June 26, he said that government ought to “protect the minority of the opulent against the majority” and that unchecked, democratic communities were subject to; the turbulency and weakness of unruly passions”.”[9] — Federalist No. 10
And as Noam Chomsky stated in the Article: Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History”:
“To return to a previous point: the left has often described Trump as a symptom of American decline or American bad behavior, and said that the real threat to American democracy is all of these things that have been true about us for a long time. The center-left has often described Trump as a uniquely malignant figure, who is threatening a democracy that was working better than some people on the left thought. You were seeming to come down on the latter side of that debate—which, given your status in the American left, I thought was interesting. Sorry. I think [American] democracy, first of all, was never much to write home about. Do you really want to talk about it? The Founding Fathers, let’s go back to them. They were committed to reducing democracy. The major scholarly work on the Constitutional Convention, the gold standard for today, is Michael Klarman’s book, and it’s called .The Framers’ Coup‘— their coup against democracy. The general population wanted more democracy. The Framers wanted to restrict that; they didn’t like the idea of democracy. Their picture was more or less that of John Jay: the people who own the country ought to rule it. James Madison explained that one of the prime goals of government is to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority, and the Constitution was designed to try to prevent what is called the tyranny of the majority, meaning democracy. You’ve got to protect the minority; the opulent have to be protected.“
All three branches of government, today, are following the intent of the ‘founding fathers’ to protect the 1% opulent minority from the 99% minority!
We should do the same thing, as those, who led the 1776 revolution