Trump's License To Kill

Vile gangster (as the Star Wars scrolls would put it), Trumpnazi Attorney General William Barr announced yesterday that the federal government would resume executions -- I believe the last federal executions were in the administration of the last lying incompetent criminal fraud in office, George W. Bush. Needless to say, wrongful prosecution is inevitable and capital punishment ensures the ultimate miscarriage of justice will likewise inevitably take place in our names, an absolutely unacceptable state of affairs in my view. Given the palpable injustice of the police-and-prison-industrial-complex, capital punishment represents just the most absolute and conspicuous visage of the racist and poverty-punishing operations of what passes for "the justice system" in this country. Nobody with a sense of decency in the face of the human capacity to change, fairness in the face of the brutal inequities of our society, or the remotest grasp of the factual possibilities of restitution and recuperation and rehabilitation and reconciliation among the harmed can support capital punishment -- though I am sure most people are not Saint enough not to want to kill one who has killed a loved one, certainly I know how I'd feel if such violence took Eric from me, but universal laws can scarcely be written in the toxic stew of such passions. Needless to say, Donald Trump is not a sensible or decent person and neither are the members of his deplorable base. Trump wants to kill because he thinks killing looks "strong" and his Nazi base thinks killing is strong, too. The less said about this sort of sick sad worldview, the better. More to the point, though, I daresay the many legal challenges to these efforts soon forthcoming will provide the looked-for pretext for a cynical unleashing of racist "weak-on-crime" Willy Horton on steroids fearmongering. Probably, Trump will also whomp up racist hysteria around any events, however minor, that can be narrated in terms of furrin' terrorism and scary diseases from "abroad" -- all convenient frames through which to make the racist Base appeals that are the only real quiver in Trump's bow just the sort of narrative mainstream media fall for every time.