{"id":153301,"date":"2020-02-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=153301"},"modified":"2020-02-06T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T09:57:05","slug":"u-s-marches-toward-police-state-amid-cheers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/02\/u-s-marches-toward-police-state-amid-cheers\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Marches toward Police State amid Cheers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hitler-germany-nazism.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-153302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hitler-germany-nazism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hitler-germany-nazism.png 480w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/hitler-germany-nazism-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>4 Feb 2020 &#8211; <\/em>Impeached U.S. President, Donald J. Trump, gave his 1 hour and 18 minute \u201cState of the Union\u201d speech today. And they cheered and they cheered! They cheered \u2013 Republicans and Democrats alike, when Trump spoke about his regime change campaigns against Cuba, Venezuela and other countries. They cheered when Trump introduced CIA Venezuela coup puppet man, Juan Guaido. They cheered when Trump boasted about spending $2.2 TRILLION on the U.S. military in the 3 years since he became president. They cheered when right wing journalist Rush Limbaugh was presented the American Medal of Freedom. The cheers got even louder when Trump noted the U.S. assassination\/murder of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani. Chants of USA, USA, USA, rang out and echoed in the Capitol chambers. And perhaps the biggest cheers came when Trump called the U.S. \u201cthe most exceptional republic in human history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans have a wrong view of the U.S. The U.S. is not under threat. The U.S. is the greatest threat to peace on the planet. Now you know, but\u2026..<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">War, War, and More War They Cheered!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mourn all victims of violence<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Reject war as a solution<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Defend civil liberties.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Seek peace by peaceful means through justice in Hawai\u2019i and around the world.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet, Feb 14 2019\u2013 959th week \u2013 Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>___________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jim-albertini-james-e1554387634304.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-54387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jim-albertini-james-e1554387634304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>James Albertini is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>, and director of\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/\" >Malu &#8216;Aina Center for Non-violent Education &amp; Action<\/a><em> &#8211; P.O. Box 489 Ola\u2019a (Kurtistown), Hawai&#8217;i 96760. Phone (+ 808) 966-7622 Email: <a href=\"mailto:ja@malu-aina.org\">ja@malu-aina.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/malu-aina.org\/?p=6563\" >Go to Original \u2013 malu-aina.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 Feb 2020 &#8211; Impeached U.S. President, Donald J. Trump, gave his 1 hour and 18 minute \u201cState of the Union\u201d speech today. And they cheered and they cheered! They cheered \u2013 Republicans and Democrats alike, when Trump spoke about his regime change campaigns against Cuba, Venezuela and other countries. They cheered when Trump introduced CIA Venezuela coup puppet man, Juan Guaido. They cheered when Trump boasted about spending $2.2 TRILLION on the U.S. military in the 3 years since he became president\u2026 (Read on)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":153302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[542,682,249,70],"class_list":["post-153301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-fascism","tag-hitler","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}