Feb 25, 2018

The NRA's worst Nightmare...A Children's Crusade

By RF Schatten


"There can be no keener revelation of a Society's Soul than the way in which it Treats its Children" ~~~ Nelson Mandela

Beware, America!  Our Youth are Mad as Hell...and they're not going to take it anymore!!
They speak about the Political Establishment, about the NRA, and mentioned in their statement; "They don't care a bit...they want us all to forget and 'move on'. Not this time"!!
The NRA & American Politicos are finally being exposed for what they really are!...and exposed by Children!

When you hear these 14-18 year old's own words, you can't help but notice their Angst, their Anger, but also, how eloquently these Students are able to speak!...stating their anger and frustrations towards the Gun Laws established by Lawmakers, whose blind ambition of going for the $Gold$ supersedes the Health & Safety of the constituents who elected them to keep them Healthy & Safe!

When horrific tragedies like this mass murder at Stoneman-Douglas High School occur, every single damn time, Right Wing Demagoguery goes rampant...and no longer with just a little help from their friends; the National Rifle Association...a GOP Congress, 100% complicit with the NRA, believes in tearing down all ours Future Generations for the filthy Love of their Blood Money!

For way too long, people complained about the issues of Hand Guns, Rifles, and Assault Weapons, how to keep our kids safe in schools and how to stop all these mass murders?...but a Congress bought & paid in full; lock, stock, and barrel by the benevolence of the NRA...they have shamelessly ignored the parents & families of the victims, the survivors, and of the mental & emotional trauma that occurs within the local community!

You would think someone would do something already to stop all the gun violence spreading around the country...but, you have a Congressional Majority of Republicans made up of raving Spineless Cowards, too weak minded, and with no cojones to face their NRA Benefactors & say; Never Again!...No more money!
When that Money is slapped into their "greased palms"..."No more" usually turns into; "Oh! That much more?!?!"

We're a Violent Nation covered in Historical Violence!...and the Shootings, just keep on coming!
146 Mass Shootings in the United States between 1967 and 2017! Are you proud of that, America??
With Less than 5% of the World's Population, 31% of all the World's Mass Shootings occurs in the United States. USA, #1!
When it comes to Mass Murders,  Single Murders, other Criminal Acts, White Collar, and Blue Collar Crimes...USA, #1!
When it comes to the Most Jails and most people Incarcerated, worldwide? USA #1!
The United States owns 48% of the approx. 650 million civilian-owned Guns in the World...an estimated 310 million guns (89 out of every 100 people) are owned in America!... USA! We're #1 We're #1!

Between the years 2006 and 2017, America lost 1,358 of its people! all due to 271 Mass Shootings! These incidents do not reflect the hundreds of Dead by Police Violence across this Nation! or all other violent crimes committed every day across this Country.
Gun Homicide rates are 25% Higher in the United States than any other high-income "civilized" Nation.
And since the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired and never renewed in 2004 by NRA owned Politicos, the rate of Mass Shootings around the Country has sharply risen to a staggering 200% !!

And what about the traumatized victims' families and survivors of these Mass Murders?...people who'll have to live with those memories imprinted in their minds for the rest of their lives! 
Cicero once said; "The Life of the Dead is placed in the Memory of the Living." You can very well say, the kids at Stoneman-Douglas will never ever forget the experience of witnessing the violent deaths of their fellow students, teachers, friends, and buddies!

So, what's different about this Mass Murder? What makes it so different than all the other Mass Murders that have occurred up till now?
Well, besides the customary "Thoughts & Prayers" and the total spineless & gutless inactions by Congress that normally ensue all these Tragedies...this particularly young group of people decided that enough is enough!!

Witnessing live, this life-altering event after reading and seeing previous Mass Murders on TV and the News, this group of truly fine young men and young women...all, teenagers!...took matters into their own hands, and took direct action, going straight-on head to head, against the Mighty NRA and the Cowardly GOP!

20 Teenagers formed #NeverAgain, and in a very short time, its become a dominant, if not 'the' dominant force and voice for #GunControl in America. Their cry is resonating throughout the Country, affecting schools, teachers, students, and communities throughout America! It's really all about making life safer for themselves and for America!

Our children are doing what we have not! We've seen all these tragedies, too, and nothing has been done...it's not their responsibility, let teens be teens!...it's our responsibility! to take action! take it to the streets! and take it to the front lines!
Oh! How they bring back memories of those younger days!! Another volatile time in America, when another generation of young people stood by their principles against a wrong war...and won!

Trump shamelessly calls the NRA; "America's Heroes". Heroes?
You mean the "Heroes" that treats the Massacre of Children as a political opportunity to belittle their Deaths? And to verbally attack Gun Control advocates as "Dry Humping Whores"...who "Love Grieving & Crying White Women"!!
"Heroes" who don't give a shit whether you're crazy or not, how old you are, or who dies, as long as they can sell you the damn Gun! Whether you kill someone or kill yourself! They don't give a shit!! They just want to sell you a Gun!...and get their $Money$ up-front, naturally!
The National Rifle Association are not Heroes! They are no one's Heroes!...they're America's face of Treason! Donald Trump's "Heroes" like Trump himself, are America's Traitors!!

These Kids in Florida? they 'are' America's True Heroes, my friends!...they have the Guts, the Courage, the Valor, and the Fortitude, that it takes to get into a hostile professional political arena...and the smarts! They've got the natural courage our President lacks to face real evil straight on. To say to the NRA, Trump, and his GOP; Fuck You!

These remarkably bright teenagers, certainly the product of some very fine Educators, will not stop till every man, woman, and child in America can feel safe again, wherever they are!

Never Again! will anyone die just because the NRA's little coward whores in Congress are tainted with their Blood Money. They're all totally emasculated, they'll never speak out against their favorite Cash Cow...but! that won't stop the Stoneman-Douglas Students;  #VoteThemOut!! Is their credo...and their movement will long continue!

Right now, on March 24, 2018, their #NeverAgain March on Washington DC, their protest to Capitol Hill and certainly to the White House...will be a reminder, directly to Trump, the GOP, and Wayne Lapierre's NRA...that America and its Children are not going to take it anymore, they're determined to get all Guns, especially Semi-Automatic Assault killing machines like AR15s off the streets, and will be actively busy finding pro-NRA Republicans to  #VoteThemOut ...remember, November is politically...just around the corner!

Look out, NRA! there's a new Children's' Crusade in town! A movement you never expected, not even in your wildest dreams!...they are knocking down your House! and that won't even be your Worst Nightmare!




Kids vs. guns: NRA is coming for the Parkland students, and America faces a choice - Salon.com: Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, business, entertainment and technology.

Feb 1, 2018

Trump/Russia...Foreign Intrigue on the 25th Floor

By RFSchatten



"Tricks and Treachery are the practice of Fools, that don't have Brains enough to be Honest" ~~~ Benjamin Franklin
  
We're living in an age where Subliminal Speeches, Propaganda, and Platitudes draws uneducated ignorance like it never has before. These are dangerous times for an immature America!  
Robert Reich once said; "Trump uses Fear. Fear begets Anger. Anger generates Hate. Hate causes Violence. Violence produces more Fear. It's a vicious cycle that Despots have used since the beginning of recorded time to entrench their Power".

America is still too immature ...it has never experienced what many around the world already have...Kleptocracy, Open Corruption, Legalization of Criminal Activities, Oppression, the Elimination of the Rules of Laws, the Cancellation of Elections, and shutting the Free Press. We are inching closer to those things that haven't affected us, yet! The question is; How do We, the People make sure it doesn't happen?    
    
I've always wondered; Where was Donald Trump on the afternoon of the infamous Russian Meeting in Trump Tower? 

Let's look at the Timeline of that afternoon: June 9th, 2016 
1:02 p.m. : Donald Trump leaves the Four Seasons Restaurant, where he attended a "Trump Victory Fund" fundraising lunch. Trump returned to Trump Tower...just two blocks away...where he remained there for "the rest of the afternoon".   
2:00 p.m. : Paul Manafort leaves the Four Seasons Restaurant. 
4:00 p.m. : Donald Trump, Jr., Paul Manafort, &  Jared Kushner…without their own lawyers present…meet with Russian Lawyer and her entourage of Russian Agents & Sympathizers at the Trump Tower's 25th Floor, in Trump Corp.'s  Conference Room…only a floor down from Trump's Personal Office in the 26th Floor! 
4:30 p.m. : Meeting said to End at this time. 
4:40 p.m. : Trump responds to a Hillary Clinton Tweet with a dig at her "Emails" for the very 1st time. 

That evening he addressed a group by saying he had a lot of dirt on Hillary…but won't say what it is till the following Monday…at a rally. 
Monday arrived and left…and no Dirt! Didn't even mentioned it! (especially since he knew, he never had any real evidence). 

What was Donald Trump doing on the "afternoon" of June 9th, 2016 at Trump Tower? Was he working "the rest of the afternoon" in his office on the 26th Floor?…just one floor up from the Conference Room where the Meeting was being held? Just coincidence? 
Or, was he in his Penthouse Apartment…" the rest of the afternoon"…totally ignorant of everything going on around him? Just coincidence, too? 

Donald Trump is a Cowardly Psychopath who demands Total Loyalty and obedience from all his staff, Party supporters, and his followers. He's a Control freak who demands to be "in the loop", to know everything that's happening around him...anything and everything... that will affect his life at all times, whether personal & professional. 
  
There's no way on Earth!...whatsoever!...that Donald Trump doesn't know what's happening at all times in his own Building, in his own Corporation's Conference Room…only one floor down. No way he doesn't know what happened Inside his own Campaign Team during the Election Season! and most of what's happening inside the White House, now! 

Yea!, he knew about it from the very beginning! being there "all afternoon"?…he may not have been physically present during the meeting, itself…but, he was there afterward.  
Most likely with JR...either talked to the Russians in his office, just a floor up…or way up in his Golden Penthouse where he can play out his King Shit shtick, trying to the impress the unimpressible! 

He knew about the Meeting, and he knew about the consequences…so why is he freaking out 24/7? 
  
Trump is waging a vile filthy war against every minority on the face of this Earth. He Tweets 24/7 and totally melts down every day. He's got Mueller continually up his ass, He's having a great pissing contest with North Koreans, Women filing sexual misconduct lawsuits against him, a GOP in the middle of fragile marital counseling…trying to remain one Grand Old Party. DACA, the Wall, the Government Shutdowns, Tax Cuts for Billionaires, The Iranian Issues, the Palestinians & Jerusalem, the Chinese, Russia looking more every day as the true residents of the White House, and now "Fire & Fury"...raising the fire and fury of LeGrande Orange! to the point of asking the Publisher to stop the release!  
Now, Book Banning too? Why is he so scared what Sloppy Steve Bannon might say? 

Ahhyup! Sloppy Steve is talking...and with 2 Subpoenas, and a Grand Jury lurking around the Corner?  It's payback time for the man that Trump reportedly said; "cried & begged on his knees not to fire him"!  
Shithole Donald attempted to place Sloppy Steve with a gag order, to prevent him from singing...now, with those 2 Subpoenas waving at him...he's going to sing like a Soprano!  
  
How is the Investigation going? The Republican Party is now in full complicity with Russia & Donald Trump! Devin Nunes putting out a phony horseshit memo, the same memo attacked by Sessions and Wray as being totally incomprehensible, reckless, & irresponsible to put that classified information out...Trump the Traitor and Fake President, naturally is 100% in favor of releasing the Fake Info. 

When you have to make up parts of an intelligence report to favor your side and discredit honorable people to save the Presidency...you're in as much direct collusion & obstruction of justice as anyone else! But, that's life in today's Degenerate Grand Old Party...Power rules over Principles, Party over the People, and White Male Supremacy rules over our Nation's Laws! 

Trump and the Republican Party are completely transparent about  their disdain for the Rule of Law...and could care less how they break the Laws and destroy what remains of our fragile Democracy...yes, whatever remains after Trump, his Cabinet, the GOP, and their Russian Partners completely rip Ft Knox from all its Gold and are never seen again!...just like two-bit Dictators! 

It's not just Collusion or Obstruction of Justice, but World Wide Money Laundering, Racketeering, & Working with a Foreign Power against the Interest of the United States…that's "Treason"!  
Openly being an apologist for Putin and his Spy Hackers, while attacking America's own Intelligence Services, and refusing to invoke bipartisan veto-proof Congressional Sanctions against Russia...that's Treason!  

"Treason". For that, there's a very special place of honor...a Throne reserved for the Mad King Donald to sit in...it's called the "Rosenberg" Chair!



Mueller Zeros In on Story Put Together About Trump Tower Meeting - The New York Times: Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, has pressed witnesses about a statement hastily written last summer aboard Air Force One and wants to know more from President Trump.