Genocide Joe Channels his inner Woody Wilson
Locking Up People Who Disagree With the Regime is the American Way!
Since Genocide Joe’s event announcing his candidacy for POTUS the other day, #DementiaHitler has been trending on X. Some shitlibs have predictably made it about Trump. All kidding and name-calling aside, Biden’s disastrous policies (foreign and domestic) cannot be emphasized enough.
Joe Biden and Woodrow Wilson: A Comparison of Jailing Political Opponents
The United States of America incorrectly prides itself on the democratic principles enshrined in its Constitution. However, there have been instances in history when due process was thrown out the window and political dissent was brutally suppressed. Two Presidents who mastered the art of demolishing due process this are Woodrow Wilson and Joe Biden. They both jailed their political opponents circumventing due process, which is a blatant violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution. In this blog post, we will draw parallels between the actions of these two Presidents and examine their impact on American democracy.
Woodrow Wilson was the President of the United States during World War I. One of his most notorious acts was the imprisonment of Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the Socialist Party. Debs spoke out against the war and argued that the capitalists were responsible for its outbreak. Wilson saw him as a threat to national security and had him arrested on charges of sedition. Debs was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison. This was a clear violation of the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to freedom of speech and press. Wilson went on to use the Espionage Act of 1917 to jail more than 2,000 Americans who opposed the war. It’s worth noting that the U.S.s entry into the war in Europe was deeply unpopular here in the states, but, the push to do so was one of the first times mass-marketing, a la Edward Bernays was used on the American public.
Debs was noted for his oratorical skills, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a 10-year term. President Warren G. Harding (did something very good) commuted his sentence in December 1921.
I realize that, in speaking to you this afternoon, there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I must be exceedingly careful, prudent, as to what I say, and even more careful and prudent as to how I say it. I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. They may put those boys in jail—and some of the rest of us in jail—but they can not put the Socialist movement in jail. Those prison bars separate their bodies from ours, but their souls are here this afternoon. They are simply paying the penalty that all men have paid in all the ages of history for standing erect, and for seeking to pave the way to better conditions for mankind. From EV Debs’ speech at Canton, OH on 16 June 1918.
Genocide Joe Biden, on the other hand, is the current President of the United States and has been in the news for his (mis)handling of the January 6, 2021, Capitol Protest. While most people agree that any violence from protesters, or, law enforcement, was indefensible, there has been controversy over the arrests of the protesters who were present there that day. Many believe that there is a double standard at play, as the protesters were not treated the same way as Black Lives Matter protesters earlier in the year. Furthermore, there have been reports of people being held in solitary confinement without trial, for years. This has led to accusations that Biden is taking a page out of Wilson's playbook by cracking down on political dissent. Not to mention all of the mostly spurious persecutions of ex-president Donald Trump.
It is worth noting that Abraham Lincoln also jailed his political opponents during the Civil War. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus, which allowed the government to arrest and detain anyone they deemed to be a threat to national security without a trial. Many were held in prison camps, including Congressman Clement Vallandigham, who was arrested for opposing the draft. This shows that jailing political opponents is not a new phenomenon in American politics.
In conclusion, the jailing of political opponents without due process is a dark stain on even the low-class version of American democracy. While there may be arguments for national security and public safety, it is ultimately up to the courts to determine if someone is guilty of a crime, following the principles of due process. The actions of Wilson, Biden, and Lincoln eroded the trust that the American people have in their government and its institutions.
We must ensure that such abuses of power do not happen in the future, and hold those responsible accountable for their actions. It is only by upholding the principles of true, grassroots democracy that we can truly call ourselves a great nation: We have a long way to go before that claim can be made.
#DementiaHitler is getting beyond ridiculous; it’s pathetic and absurd. Is a puppet who doesn’t know how to walk off stage the preferable choice for the people who are really in charge to control?
And, the genocide in Gaza continues:
Nearly 90,000 Killed, Wounded or Missing in Gaza Due to Israeli AggressionNearly 90,000 Killed, Wounded or Missing in Gaza Due to Israeli Aggression
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Great Newsletter. I grew up believing that the Palmer Acts and the Palmer Raids (named after Wilson's AG Alexander Palmer) had been a bad thing and a terrible time in U.S. history. I believed the same about Red Scare that Joe McCarthy put the country through. The Cold War was stupid and dangerous too. Now such insanity has become SOP for the Democratic Establishment and insanely, the ACLU has been completely standing down. I burned my ACLU card some time back after it became a Yes-organization for the loonies who have taken over this country. It's really sad.
Ahh, Gencide Joe is just a by-product of the rat-line of people occupying in the offices and in the shadows of Wailing Wall White House .
Please please, every president was a whore to corporations, MIC, banks, and their own inner supremacist real self.
Come on, Cornel called Obama what? The first black misleadership President? Nah, much much more street in West's words than that milquetoast.
Ahh, one man's protest is another pig's/cop's violence: "While most people agree that any violence from protesters, or, law enforcement, was indefensible, there has been controversy over the arrests of the protesters who were present there that day."
Cindy Cindy Cindy, I have been thrown in jail with nuns and priests and students on charges of disordely conduct, terroristic threats to an officer of the peace, aggravated rioting, and on my own, for assault when I was working with Planned Parenthood in El Paso, on Saturdays (no abortions, just STD screening and other services), and I grabbed a picket sign from one of the Jews for Christ peeps who continually jammed it into my face and groin.
Read one comment here on my post:
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/scientism-white-mans-womans-burdern
Our Democratic and Republican billions of tax dollars to these unhuman Homo Bellum Sapiens Israelites?
From “War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification,” by Jeff Halper (Pluto Press, 2015):
“The Israeli journalist Amira Hass described what happened when IDF troops occupied the Palestinian Ministry of Culture in the center of El Bireh during Operation Defensive Shield: On the evening of Wednesday, May 1 [2002], when the siege on Arafat’s headquarters was lifted and the armored vehicles and the tanks had rumbled out, the executives and officials of the ministry who had rushed to the site did not expect to find the building the way they had left it … But what awaited them was beyond all their fears … In the department for the encouragement of children’s art, the soldiers had dirtied all the walls with gouache paints they found there and destroyed the children’s paintings that hung there in every room of the various departments—literature, film, culture for children and youth books, discs, pamphlets and documents were piled up, soiled with urine and excrement. There are two toilets on every floor, but the soldiers urinated and defecated everywhere else in the building, in several rooms of which they had lived for about a month. They did their business on the floors, in emptied flowerpots, even in drawers they had pulled out of desks. They defecated into plastic bags, and these were scattered in several places. Some of them had burst. Someone even managed to defecate into a photocopier.” So much for the supposed cultural superiority of Israeli society.
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Violence? Look up all the counties and city codes in AmeriKKKa and see how easy it is to get hit with assault charges protesting, but when it comes to Domestic Violence? Fuck, even the female judges and prosecutors fucking fail victims and survivors.
Not a dime for these enlightening pieces I wrote:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/04/everyday-is-domestic-violence-awareness-day-not-just-a-week-in-october/
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/08/elephants-in-the-room-battered-women-are-our-sisters-mothers-friends-wives/
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/09/stages-of-grief-disempowering-the-abuser-healing/
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/10/from-victimhood-to-victim-to-survivor-and-the-chains-of-broken-systems-dealing-with-dv/
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/black-and-blue-the-many-ways-of-domestic-violence-world/
All in the local newspaper, that is, the shortened versions without the, well, VIOLENT language and VIOLENT tone I have been accused of fomenting from people reading your stuff, all the way through Caitlin Johnstone's SubBlogStack!
Peace,