New instructions from The Resistance: - when participating in a protest (which is the First Amendment Right of anyone standing in this country) be mindful of those around you. If you see someone committing violence sit down. If someone next to you sits down you do so as well, providing you aren't in the way of traffic, etc. As I said, be mindful.
Here's the thing - MAGA is already talking about "going undercover" to our protests to start something. That something is all the excuse the FOTUS admin needs to claim whatever emergency they desire to call out the military. Let's not give them the opportunity.
So - you see someone committing acts of violence at one of our constitutionally guaranteed protests, we sit. It's a powerful action of noncompliance and protest. At least Gandhi thought so. Point is, those committed to being violent can't change their course on a dime.
Best takeaway comment from those learning about the technique: when peaceful protestors sit in a giant wave it highlights the troublemakers to the inevitable presence of law enforcement - almost like the two are working together... Hey!!!!
We do, in fact, "do" kings. It's called the Executive branch. And since George Washington turned down a "monarchy", it was called a "presidency"
president(n.) late 14c., "one who presides over the meetings of an executive or a governing or judicial body;" also "a ruler," either sovereign or subordinate, especially in reference to judicial powers; from Old French president and directly from Latin praesidentum (nominative praesidens) "president, governor," noun use of present participle of praesidere "to act as head or chief" (see preside). Also in Middle English in reference to heads of religious houses, hospitals, almshouses, colleges and universities.
The use for "chief executive officer of a republic" in the U.S. Constitution (1787), is from earlier American use for "officer in charge of the Continental Congress" (1774), still earlier in individual colonies (Virginia, 1608), a republican sense derived from that of "chosen head of a meeting or group of persons." In the constitutions of 1776 Delaware, New Hampshire, and South Carolina gave the title president to their chief magistrates in place of governor (Pennsylvania did away with the position entirely) but eventually reverted to governor.
It had been used of chief officers of banks from 1781. The slang shortening prez is recorded from 1883. Fem. form presidentess is attested from 1763.
No king and no dictators! Britain tolerates their king, but not dictators. We don't need either of them. Both are anti-American.
As a serious student of WWII and fascism, I'd like to offer a snippet of history that shows how things haven't changed that much since the American Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden in the '30s. They were MAGA's fathers and grandfathers.
Hitler’s final offensive of WWII on New Years Day 1945 was called Operation Northwind. Journalist David Lippman writes: German infantry stormed American positions, yelling, “Heil Hitler! Down with Roosevelt!” A GI on the receiving end of this verbal assault said, “It sounded like a Republican Convention”.
MAGA are truly heirs to Hitler's Nazi regime and ideology, including MAGA Jews like Stephen Miller and certain others we might know.
We DO have a DICTATOR, thanks to the wildly unconstitutional ruling of "presidential immunity" by the corrupt partisan MAGA Supreme Court Justices in a stolen Supreme Court. (Republicans asserted the right of Republicans to install a justice a week before and election after denying one named by the Black guy 5 months previous to one. Yet another example of radical Right institutional racism.)
Oxford: King the male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
Merriam-Webster: King a: a male monarch of a major territorial unit especially : one whose position is hereditary and who rules for life
Many faced troll who can't even agree with themselves conflates presidency with kingship because of the power at their fingertips?
Silly troll, power is power and how one gets to it is how one is named. Surprised you don't know that but then again, we did just see you argue with yourself so maybe your claims of intelligence are in need of an update?
In addition to Dave D's observation, we note ' "Hitler determined to increase the political reliability of the courts. In 1933 he established special courts throughout Germany to try politically sensitive cases. Dissatisfied with the 'not guilty' verdicts rendered by the Supreme Court (Reichsgericht) in the Reichstag Fire Trial, Hitler ordered the creation of the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) in Berlin in 1934 to try treason and other important "political cases." Under Roland Freisler, the People's Court became part of the Nazi system of terror, condemning tens of thousands of people as "Volk Vermin" and thousands more to death for "Volk Treason." - Holocaust Enyclopedia
Denver Brunsman, a history professor at George Washington University and scholar of the Revolutionary War and Washington, says that it would be an "exaggeration" to say that Washington was ever seriously offered the title of king.
"Nicola [whose letter -FJ's link cites] was not someone who was in the position to do that and I don't think he was part of any real, large movement," says Brunsman. "That doesn't mean there weren't people who had those sentiments and I think Nicola was representative of that. There were other individuals in the officer corps who were extremely frustrated with Congress and any hope for a possible solution."
"What's most important is Washington's reaction to even the notion [of being king]. He [Washington] shuts down any possibility. I think that's impressive and shows why Washington was able to garner the trust of the American people."
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No kings indeed.
New instructions from The Resistance: - when participating in a protest (which is the First Amendment Right of anyone standing in this country) be mindful of those around you. If you see someone committing violence sit down. If someone next to you sits down you do so as well, providing you aren't in the way of traffic, etc. As I said, be mindful.
Here's the thing - MAGA is already talking about "going undercover" to our protests to start something. That something is all the excuse the FOTUS admin needs to claim whatever emergency they desire to call out the military. Let's not give them the opportunity.
So - you see someone committing acts of violence at one of our constitutionally guaranteed protests, we sit. It's a powerful action of noncompliance and protest. At least Gandhi thought so. Point is, those committed to being violent can't change their course on a dime.
Best takeaway comment from those learning about the technique: when peaceful protestors sit in a giant wave it highlights the troublemakers to the inevitable presence of law enforcement - almost like the two are working together... Hey!!!!
We do, in fact, "do" kings. It's called the Executive branch. And since George Washington turned down a "monarchy", it was called a "presidency"
president(n.)
late 14c., "one who presides over the meetings of an executive or a governing or judicial body;" also "a ruler," either sovereign or subordinate, especially in reference to judicial powers; from Old French president and directly from Latin praesidentum (nominative praesidens) "president, governor," noun use of present participle of praesidere "to act as head or chief" (see preside). Also in Middle English in reference to heads of religious houses, hospitals, almshouses, colleges and universities.
The use for "chief executive officer of a republic" in the U.S. Constitution (1787), is from earlier American use for "officer in charge of the Continental Congress" (1774), still earlier in individual colonies (Virginia, 1608), a republican sense derived from that of "chosen head of a meeting or group of persons." In the constitutions of 1776 Delaware, New Hampshire, and South Carolina gave the title president to their chief magistrates in place of governor (Pennsylvania did away with the position entirely) but eventually reverted to governor.
It had been used of chief officers of banks from 1781. The slang shortening prez is recorded from 1883. Fem. form presidentess is attested from 1763.
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No king and no dictators!
Britain tolerates their king, but not dictators.
We don't need either of them. Both are anti-American.
As a serious student of WWII and fascism, I'd like to offer a snippet of history that shows how things haven't changed that much since the American Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden in the '30s. They were MAGA's fathers and grandfathers.
Hitler’s final offensive of WWII on New Years Day 1945 was called Operation Northwind.
Journalist David Lippman writes:
German infantry stormed American positions, yelling, “Heil Hitler! Down with Roosevelt!”
A GI on the receiving end of this verbal assault said, “It sounded like a Republican Convention”.
MAGA are truly heirs to Hitler's Nazi regime and ideology, including MAGA Jews like Stephen Miller and certain others we might know.
No, Joe. We do not have kings.
We DO have a DICTATOR, thanks to the wildly unconstitutional ruling of "presidential immunity" by the corrupt partisan MAGA Supreme Court Justices in a stolen Supreme Court. (Republicans asserted the right of Republicans to install a justice a week before and election after denying one named by the Black guy 5 months previous to one. Yet another example of radical Right institutional racism.)
Oxford:
King
the male ruler of an independent state, especially one who inherits the position by right of birth.
Merriam-Webster:
King
a: a male monarch of a major territorial unit
especially : one whose position is hereditary and who rules for life
Hear Hear!
Many faced troll who can't even agree with themselves conflates presidency with kingship because of the power at their fingertips?
Silly troll, power is power and how one gets to it is how one is named. Surprised you don't know that but then again, we did just see you argue with yourself so maybe your claims of intelligence are in need of an update?
In addition to Dave D's observation, we note '
"Hitler determined to increase the political reliability of the courts. In 1933 he established special courts throughout Germany to try politically sensitive cases. Dissatisfied with the 'not guilty' verdicts rendered by the Supreme Court (Reichsgericht) in the Reichstag Fire Trial, Hitler ordered the creation of the People's Court (Volksgerichtshof) in Berlin in 1934 to try treason and other important "political cases." Under Roland Freisler, the People's Court became part of the Nazi system of terror, condemning tens of thousands of people as "Volk Vermin" and thousands more to death for "Volk Treason."
- Holocaust Enyclopedia
A review of the idea -FJ linked us to...
Denver Brunsman, a history professor at George Washington University and scholar of the Revolutionary War and Washington, says that it would be an "exaggeration" to say that Washington was ever seriously offered the title of king.
"Nicola [whose letter -FJ's link cites] was not someone who was in the position to do that and I don't think he was part of any real, large movement," says Brunsman. "That doesn't mean there weren't people who had those sentiments and I think Nicola was representative of that. There were other individuals in the officer corps who were extremely frustrated with Congress and any hope for a possible solution."
"What's most important is Washington's reaction to even the notion [of being king]. He [Washington] shuts down any possibility. I think that's impressive and shows why Washington was able to garner the trust of the American people."
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