Two Countries Under One Flag

There are now two sets of laws here in the United States and we are on the cusp of being torn apart. All the news is concentrating on the utterance of Sh*thole counties but in the background the Department of Justice, Department of Education, the Department of Labor, the Health and Human Services have said that they will not enforce the laws of this country.

The Department of Justice has issued a statement that they will not enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while the Department of Education have said they will not enforce Title IX, the Department of Labor will not enforce Title VII, and Health and Human Services have said they will not enforce the Fair Housing law. All the agencies have said that they will defer to the states to enforce the federal laws. In addition the administration said they there are not going to enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Those agencies have also come with a policy that creates special policies that allow anyone to disobey any federal and state laws just by says these magic words… “it is against my religious beliefs.”

Think about that for awhile.

Trump administration creates new religious, moral protections for health workers
The Hill
By Jessie Hellmann
January 18, 2018

The Trump administration has created new protections for health workers who have religious and moral objections to certain procedures, such as abortion or assisted suicide.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday it will create a new division under the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) responsible for investigating complaints filed by workers claiming that their employers have violated their religious rights.

The changes represent a major shift for the OCR, which in the past has primarily focused on enforcing patient safety and privacy concerns.

"No one should be forced to choose between helping sick people and living by one’s deepest moral or religious convictions, and the new division will help guarantee that victims of unlawful discrimination find justice," OCR Director Roger Severino said at the announcement ceremony Thursday morning.

You got that!

Democrats and other critics worry the changes could restrict access to health care for some.

“I am deeply troubled by reports of the unconscionable approach being considered by President Trump’s Administration to use the civil rights office at the Department of Health and Human Services as a tool to restrict access to health care for people who are transgender and women," Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Health Committee, said in a statement.

Suppose you are dying of cancer in a hospice and the nurse comes to relieve your pain you are suffering and the nurse sees you holding hands with your spouse who is of another race. The nurse stops and starts spewing Bible passages and refuses to give you the pain medication. Then the rest of the staff also complains about you and the hospice says you are not welcome there and puts you out on the street and the nearest hospice that will accept you is twenty miles away.

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Connecticut governor Malloy said it best… “President Trump’s ‘Fake News’ awards as ‘fascist propaganda.’”

In article in The Hill,

In a statement Wednesday, Malloy praised journalists and rebuked the GOP for “challenging” the free press.

“The modern-day Republican party seems to have taken a page out of the 20th century fascist regime propaganda playbook,” Malloy said. “The primary purpose of today’s theater regarding ‘fake news’ awards is to bully and intimidate members of an independent press who seek to report the facts.”

On Wednesday, the Republican National Committee announced the “winners” of the “Fake News Awards,” which Trump has touted as a way to identify news outlets he claims have shown “unrelenting bias, unfair news coverage, and even downright fake news.”

Stop for a moment and think why is Trump always say “Fake News?”

Also think about when else was there “Fake News” in history.

Nina Khrushcheva, the grand-daughter of Nikita S. Khrushchevsaid in an article on NBC that…

In the early years after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, and particularly under Joseph Stalin’s despotic regime in the 1930s, “enemies of the people” emerged as the regime's most terrifying label. During Stalin’s Great Purges of 1936-38, the term vragi naroda (enemies of the people) branded all those who disagreed with the Kremlin — whether about the planned economy, unfree press or predetermined election results. That label, which defined Soviet reality, typically resulted in immediate death or imprisonment within the Gulag of harsh labor camps.

Also consider what the National Socialist Party (NAZI) did in Germany in the 30s under Joseph Goebbels the Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany and his “Big Lie.”

What Trump is doing is nothing news, by seeding doubt in the nation he seeks to energize his base.

Lastly another common trait among dictators is a scapegoat… the NAZI used Jews to focus the people’s anger. The NAZI took away the rights of the Jews, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…

During the first six years of Hitler's dictatorship, from 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939, Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives. Many of those laws were national ones that had been issued by the German administration and affected all Jews. But state, regional, and municipal officials, on their own initiative, also promulgated a barrage of exclusionary decrees in their own communities. Thus, hundreds of individuals in all levels of government throughout the country were involved in the persecution of Jews as they conceived, discussed, drafted, adopted, enforced, and supported anti-Jewish legislation. No corner of Germany was left untouched.

Now compare that to what Trump has done to the Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender people with taking away our rights. To healthcare, to education, to employment, and to housing. He has given permission for us to be persecuted in the name of “religious freedom.”

Trump along with his white supremacists and evangelical christians backers are out to create two Americas one that has to obey all laws and those who can discriminate against blacks, Muslims, Jews, and LGBT people with impunity just by saying those magic words… “It is against my religious beliefs.”

It is the beginning of the end to “One Nation under God.

We are heading down a dangerous path that will tear us apart as a nation.