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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 6, 2016, 12:04 pm
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[quote]Jon Eagle Sr.
22 hours ago.
I witnessed something powerful and profound today. Wes Clark Jr
and the assembled veterans took a knee and collectively asked
for forgiveness for the genocide and war crimes committed by the
United States Military against tribal nations in this country.
Leksi Leonard Crow Dog on behalf of the tribes in attendance
accepted and asked for forgiveness for any hurt that might have
been caused June 25, 1876 when the Great Sioux Nation defeated
the 7th Cavalry.
The last thing he said to the veterans was, "... and today we
forgive and ask for world peace." All the veterans replied in a
single unified voice, "WORLD PEACE!!!!"
The Native Veterans filed through the ranks, shaking hands and
giving each other hugs. There were a lot of warriors with tears
in their eyes.[/quote]
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Monday Dec 05, 2016 · 4:13 PM EST
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 6, 2016, 12:36 pm
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Update to today on Hamilton Electors actions[/center]
By RWN
Monday Dec 05, 2016 · 7:18 PM EST
498 Comments (498 New)
I don’t have much time because I have get back on the phone
talking to fellow Republican Electors but I thought best to
update you all on the mission.
First thing tomorrow in Colorado (and subsequently other states
this week) three of us are going file in Federal District Court
a lawsuit seeking relief from C.R.S. § 1-4-304(5), which is the
CO State Statutes that binds us to voting for the winner of the
popular vote in Colorado. Link
The lawyers and group have formed a 527 to raise money for such
an effort, here is another Link and here.
Hon. Polly Baca is our lead,
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Today a Republican Elector came out in the New York Times, I
have had a number of personal conversations with him and there
is a significant number of others who remain private.
In these conversations with fellow National Electors we have
started to come to a consensus that John Kasich appears to be
the emerging alternative candidate. Link . That article also
introduced the back channel discussions with the Clinton
campaign regarding Democratic Electors en masse voting faithless
for a Republican alternative.
Colorado Independent summarizes the Colorado delegation, Link
[I](at article link below)[/I]
The New Yorker Magazine did a nice piece on the Hamilton
Electors, link.
Newsweek published a national op-ed supporting our movement.
Link
CSPAN has decided to come to Denver CO on Electoral College day
to cover Colorado’s electors. Link
Those are the published reports, what can say privately is that
the iceberg is far bigger and deeper below the surface and
[I]this Electoral College is definitely in play for the full
measure or the Twelfth Amendment.[/I]
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[center][color=navy]Texas Elector makes powerful plea to
Republican Electors to reject Donald Trump in NY Times
OpEd[/center]
By Lefty Coaster
Monday Dec 05, 2016 · 10:07 PM EST
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Agelbert NOTE: I posted on this yesterday. I recommend you go to
the link to learn how the Trump Brownshirts are already posting
the elector's address on the internet and threating him with
death.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 6, 2016, 1:06 pm
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[quote]What bugs me about Donald Trump as president-elect? The
same thing that ought to bother you, too, no matter how you
voted last month.
The rules? They are not needed, thank you. They simply don't
apply. Not to him…..The truth is, Trump's the one who thinks he
is special.
And if Congress doesn't stand up and insist on the rule of law,
then who will? Because if we're leaving it up to Trump to decide
which rules work for him and which don't, there won't be any
rules left by the time he is through.[/quote]
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 6, 2016, 1:22 pm
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[center]Four things evangelical Trump supporters
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Nov 21, 2016
Written by Terrance Terrance Green, DMN Contributors Network
While several key voting blocs supported Donald Trump, white
evangelicals overwhelmingly supported him, according to exit
poll results.
Why?
One reason is because during every presidential election cycle,
right-wing Christians misinterpret Scripture to get people to
vote Republican, as if Republican is synonymous with God or
Christian.
Another reason is because it is easier to claim morality than to
acknowledge one's own racism, hatred and misogyny, and actively
fight against them.
As a Jesus-loving, spirit-filled, black man with a Ph.D., I
believe that what some evangelicals supported in this election
[I]did not make sense.[/I]
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Scripture says that judgment must begin with the household of
God, so if we want our nation to heal, then evangelicals need to
keep four things in mind:
1. America was first founded on racism and exploitation, not
Christian values.
There is nothing Christ-centered about slavery. Period. To
persuade people to vote for Trump in the name of "this country
was founded on Christian values" is simply wrong. This country
was founded on the dehumanization of indigenous peoples who
already lived here and on the backs of enslaved Africans. So to
say that this is God's nation because of the "founding fathers,"
who owned enslaved Africans, is misleading.
2. Jesus is not a Republican or a Democrat.
It amazes me how some evangelicals point to the Republican Party
of the 1860s to justify their actions today, as if Republicans
did not own enslaved Africans or were not complicit during
slavery. Jesus never pledged allegiance to any political party.
Rather, Jesus challenged the political, economic and social
norms of the times and constantly called to task those with
power and advantage. Jesus always sided with those who were
systemically oppressed and downtrodden. Today, Jesus would
critique Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, Republicans
and all other political parties. However, Jesus would not stop
there. To be like Jesus, evangelicals must go beyond what and
whom they are against and offer alternative solutions that are
truly rooted in Scripture and not political interests.
As Christians, we are all called to do justice with and on
behalf of the "least of these," such as the poor, the oppressed,
the imprisoned, the widow, and the racially and socially
marginalized. Doing justice is not simply a call for more
personal responsibility; it calls for a radical transformation
of the structures that create these conditions.
3. Evangelicals are not truly pro-life.
If the advocacy for pro-life begins and ends with abortion, then
it is not really pro-life. It is a contradiction to be vocal
about abortion but silent about police brutality, poverty, mass
incarceration and a lack of access to health care that also
takes lives. It is sad when evangelicals will pray heaven and
earth together to stop abortion, but will look the other way
when their sisters and brothers in Christ talk about their lived
experiences of racism, hatred and oppression in America. It is
also not Christ-like to dehumanize people because of their faith
tradition, race, sexuality, gender identity or immigration
status. Whether you agree or disagree, we must start from the
realization that we were all made in God's image and likeness,
and everyone deserves to be treated as a human.
4. Racism functions on many levels, all at the same time, [I]and
some evangelicals just supported it.
There is a difference between racism and prejudice. Prejudice is
to prejudge someone based on assumptions and limited knowledge.
We are all prejudiced. Racism, however, is a system of advantage
based on race and whiteness. Although a system, racism also
operates on individual, institutional and societal levels. While
some people may not engage in overt acts of racial hatred, when
they support a candidate who campaigned with ideologies and
rhetoric that disadvantage people of color and whom the Ku Klux
Klan endorsed, then that is racism.
This is not to condemn evangelicals, but to challenge my fellow
Christians to live like the Christ they proclaim. There can be
no healing in this nation without acknowledging people's pain
and working to remedy that pain — which is what Christ would
have wanted all of us to do.
[I]Terrance Green is an assistant professor of educational
administration at the University of Texas at Austin.[/I]
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 7, 2016, 4:16 pm
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[center][font=times new roman]N.Y. Times throws a lifeline to
sinking Hamilton Electors movement [/font] [/center]
By arodb
Wednesday Dec 07, 2016 · 12:52 PM EST
COMMENT by arodb:
[quote]If this were to work, if so called "faithless Electors"
were to be faithful to the principles of the Constitution, we
can avoid the specter of President Trump alone with Mike Flynn,
and perhaps his son who tweets of Hillary's pedo phile ring,
deciding among themselves the fate of the world.
Hamilton in Federalist 68 saw Electors as preventing one with:
"Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity,
(which) may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors
.... but it will require other talents, and a different kind of
merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the
whole Union (of Electors), or of so considerable a portion of it
as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the
distinguished office of President of the United States. "
Over the last fifty six elections we've never experienced one so
brilliantly attuned to popular resentment combined with mastery
of the effectiveness of playing the part of a courageous
iconoclast - with such rapid-fire fictive calumny that less
bombastic media couldn't keep up, nor was the opposition up to
the game that was played --- which had little to do choosing the
most responsible carrier of the torch of this esteemed position.
This is the exception, the rare event when a chain of accidents
requires that those who had become a conduit for the people's
choice, revert to what is enshrined in our Constitution. This
unique use will not destroy democracy, but preserve it.[/quote]
AlRodbell.com
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[quote]There is a certain dark irony to the fact that a system
designed to prevent the people from choosing an unqualified
demagogue has resulted in the election of an unqualified
demagogue not chosen by the people. -- Scott Lemieux[/quote]
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[quote]The fundamental problem reformers face is that the two
Electoral College malfunctions in the past 16 years have both
benefitted Republicans. Had John Kerry gotten 150,000 more votes
in Ohio in 2004, he would have won the presidency without
winning the popular vote, and a sequence in which each party got
stiffed in turn might have created the necessary bipartisan
consensus to change a bad system. But with one party clearly
benefitting from the Electoral College, getting rid of it will
be impossible.
In the meantime, the Democrats need to emphasize that Donald
Trump was not the people’s choice. Paul Ryan has already claimed
a mandate for a radical and deepoly unpopular policy agenda.
More people voted for Clinton’s agenda, which should be a good
reason for Democrats to unite in opposition to put pressure on
wavering Republicans in the Senate. The Democratic Party cannot
normalize the Trump administration. Trump’s popular vote loss is
a perfect way of illustrating his incompatibility with norms of
American governance.
The Electoral College, tilting the playing field in favor of a
party increasingly hostile to racial minorities has the
regrettable effect of shielding it from reform in the next few
years.
But Hillary Clinton got more votes than Donald Trump: That is an
undisputable and politically significant fact that progressives
need to point out to the American public early and often. --
Scott Lemieux[/quote]
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 11, 2016, 2:47 pm
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December 11, 2016
[center]Anti-
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Protests against Donald Trump's visit to Baltimore to attend
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: December 16, 2016, 1:34 pm
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December 15, 2016
[center]The People's Tribunal on the Iraq War, Day One:
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[center]Chris Hedges, the former Middle East bureau chief of the
New York Times discusses his reporting on Iraq in the 90's and
the horrific human suffering that followed the 2003 invasion.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: January 3, 2017, 8:09 pm
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January 3, 2017
[center]"It was out of love that the Black Panther Party was
started"
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[center]Executive Producer [size=12pt]Eddie Conway
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interviews Ericka Huggins
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at the 50th Anniversary of
the Black Panther Party. Huggins is a former political prisoner
and was one of the central leaders of The Black Panthers.
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: January 4, 2017, 7:19 pm
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[center]
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Dr. Jill Stein covers ALL the bases on the present Duopoly
(Democrats+Republicans) Corruption, provides history and
explains the solution to each corruption based problem that
would open the way for the will of we-the-people to become
reality. [img width=25
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Re: Profiles in Courage
By: AGelbert Date: January 17, 2017, 5:49 pm
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[center]"The Democratic Party Can't Just Whisper Sweet Nothings
Anymore" - Nina Turner
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on
RAI (1/4) [/center]
Published on Jan 16, 2017
On Reality Asserts Itself, Nina Turner, former Ohio State
Senator and leading Bernie Sanders surrogate during the primary,
tells host Paul Jay that she grew up poor, believing in the
Democratic Party and the Clintons but she came to understand the
failure of the Party to serve the needs of the African-American
community and poor white workers.
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