Tuesday 19 January 2021

More on trump's attempted coup

This topic, terrible thought it is, is providing quite a bit of information - albeit US-focused in many cases. 

An interesting case is the video "COURTSIDE - Episode 63 - Trump’s troika of Bannon, Flynn & Stone facing new legal trouble", which covers impeaching officials who are no longer in power. This has points I may consider should such a topic come up here - and, in fact, now that I know the British system has impeachment in it, I will do some research on what, if any, reference to impeachment is included in Australian law (what I've found so far suggests a focus on the leader of a nation, and fails to recognise that it applies to other officials as well, but I've found nothing yet similar to impeachment in the UK or USA)

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There are continuing concerns about the infiltration of white supremacists into police forces - and not only in the USA. Police here (Australia) have been seen using white supremacist symbols, and there are concerns about other forms of bigotry - including misogyny facilitating domestic violence (in two states)

This has also extended to the troops guarding the inauguration, with the FBI vetting all troops to try to prevent an "insider attack". 

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A video on some of the violence that occurred elsewhere in the USA.

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trump may issue 100 pardons in the next few days - which has always been one of my major concerns. Pence and the other cowards in the US republicans whop refused to remove trump under the 25th amendment are directly implicated in this subversion of justice.

Here is an interesting article on terminology that could be used for the actions of the trumpettes on 6th January. (I'll stick to coup and insurrection - I consider "revolution" or "rebellion" potentially gives them a glow of approval from the times in history that such has been used to overthrow despots. Also, although it was probably more "autogolpe" than coup, as no-one knows the former term I'll keep using the latter.) 

 


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