By SJ Otto
As the end of our President, Donald Trump closes in, I find
two contradictorily views that I find really strange. As an anti-imperialist I
couldn't be happier seeing the headline; "All wars must end, ' new defense chief says." [1] I
saw this in The Wichita Eagle, my
hometown newspaper. Some other articles I read are about Trump ramping up
executions here in the
According to the first article, Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller said:
"We are not a people of perpetual war- it is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought. All wars must end."
I have complained for years that we don't need to occupy
other people's countries. I don't know why Trump is against these wars, other
than his "
Unfortunately, Trump is not against unnecessary killing of
human beings. Here in this country, he is pushing to make sure that people on
death row are executed. He has also opened the door for the
"Precisely one week before
Thanksgiving, Orlando Hall became the eighth person incarcerated in
federal prisons to be executed this year after Attorney General William Barr lifted a 17-year ban on the federal
government’s implementation of the death penalty. When Hall, 49, was killed by lethal
injection, he became the first person that a lame-duck administration has
executed in more than 100 years.
This wasn’t
some sort of scheduling happenstance, caused by a rapid succession of appeals
that pushed Hall’s date down the calendar. No, his date quickly followed the
killing of Christopher Vialva in late September, and Barr has
scheduled five more before Biden is inaugurated as president. His Department of
Justice just concluded that there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud,
which we all knew — but Barr clearly realized weeks ago that he and the
president would be out of a job come January 20th. Why else would they have
started scheduling executions, rushing to kill those who are incarcerated on
the federal government’s death row? Perhaps because these prisoners might be
otherwise spared under President-elect Biden, who wants to eliminate the death penalty?"
So why do conservatives such as Trump, want people executed so badly? Why do conservatives such as Trump love the death penalty so much? I have read several articles by people who complain that Communist countries have killed more people than any other ideology. Yet many right-wing capitalists believe in executions. They want to kill people. Quoting Time Magazine, Yahoo News said:
"The
Cuban leader’s passing comes at a time of change between the two nations, which
have had a tense relationship over the past five decades. President Obama
sought to reverse that in his last term in office, reopening an embassy on the
island and opening up channels for both travel and the exchange of some goods. “During my presidency, we
have worked hard to put the past behind us, pursuing a future in which the
relationship between our two countries is defined not by our differences but by
the many things that we share as neighbors and friends,” Obama said before
offering condolences to the Cuban people and the family of Castro.
“As
they do, the Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the
His
statement stands in stark contrast to that of President-elect Donald Trump, who called Castro a “brutal
dictator” whose legacy was one of “firing squads, theft, unimaginable
suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.”
“It
is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long,
and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the
freedom they so richly deserve,” Trump said."
On top of our executions, we also have a drone program that kills suspected terrorists and if they are around their families, their family members are killed. They also like the drone program that kills people in foreign countries seen as a threat to this country. The assassinations take place without any due process. Our government simply kills people, and if their families are present, women, children, they are killed also. If terrorists do that to us, we complain. But when we kill their innocent people, we are OK with that. Trump seems to be using assassinations of all kinds in his presidency. Press Reader has posted an article: "Targeted Assassinations could open a Pandora's Box,"
Also according to CBS News:
"Satellite-controlled machine gun with "artificial intelligence" was
used in last week's assassination of a top nuclear
scientist in
....Mohsen
Fakhrizadeh was driving on a highway outside
It has been reported that Israelis have been blamed for the action:
"Iranian
authorities have blamed arch foe
But at the same time, some
pundits say that Trump was behind the attack and simply used another country to
actually carry out the execution. Again we see a fondness for executions.
The death penalty has been
outlawed in most of Europe, with the exception of such authoritarian/ fascistic
countries as
[1] "All
wars must end,' new
defense chief says." The
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