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Sunday, June 21, 2020

Did You Expect Something Different From Him?

Well Trump did the obvious, appointed another anti-LGBTQ person to head an agency.

New directors at federal media agency have ties to anti-LGBT groups, fought pro-transgender policies
The move to install Trump loyalists to the board comes after Pack purged longtime board members and executives just weeks after officially becoming USAGM’s new CEO.
CNBC
By Brian Schwartz
June 19 2020

Michael Pack, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, has appointed to the organization’s board a person with ties to an anti-LGBT group and another who publicly bashed President Barack Obama’s transgender policy.

The board of directors for these media organizations that are overseen by the USAGM have a say on who is selected to become leaders of the companies they represent. Their ties and previous remarks could give a preview into the way Michael Pack, the CEO of the agency, is remaking the federally funded news organization to fit a more conservative tone.

Among the agencies that he will oversee is Voice of America

The board moves come after Pack purged longtime board members and executives just weeks after officially becoming USAGM’s new CEO. Trump himself has publicly taken aim at Voice of America, one of the news organizations overseen by the agency.
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Alexandre [is expected to be a corporate board member for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] is also senior counsel for government affairs at Liberty Counsel Action, an associated 501(c)(4), that, according to their website, “advances religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, the family, responsible government, national security, and support for Israel at the federal, state, and local levels.”

He is politicizing Voice of America which in recent years has been working to be a balance and respectable as BBC, now that effort has been thrown away.

Why is this important to the LGBTQ+ community?

Because the former Warsaw Pact countries are becoming Fascist and strongly anti-LGBTQ, some of those countries have passed law banning us and in other countries they have set up concentration type camps for LGBTQ people and now into that mix Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Voice of America will throw their message of anti-LGBTQ hate.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Did You Expect Something Different From Him?

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