Welcome to this educational and explosive, brand-new edition of Light ‘Em Up!
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We continue our intense focus on how the Rule of law and democracy are being endangered.
Democracy hangs in the balance and is under constant daily attack — threatened on every front.
What better example than the current Department of Justice (DOJ) ordering its civil rights division to halt the majority of its functions, including a freeze on pursuing any:
— new cases
— indictments or
— consent decree settlements.
For civil rights this is a crisis! It has only been 59 years since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. This was a landmark piece of legislation that helped to dismantle many discriminatory barriers and enforce the voting rights of African Americans. Imagine having that office shut down during the LBJ Administration! The KKK would have won!
In a democracy, the majority can wield immense power, potentially leading to the suppression of dissenting voices and the marginalization of minority groups.
You had better begin to ask yourself the tough question:
Are you okay with your civil rights being suspended until 2028 and maybe beyond?
White people, too, can have their civil rights violated. Are you ready for that?
Will the police be able to simply continue to brutalize people and get away with it as the Louisiana State Police did on May 10th, 2019, with Ronald Greene?
Greene was an unarmed 49-year-old black man who, on a dark night in Monroe, Louisiana, 6 members of the LSP “goon squad” tazed, punched, kicked, pepper sprayed, and dragged face down on the concrete, only to place him in a chokehold until he died.
Good night and good luck! Under this current Trump administration your civil rights will be “enforced” like his were.
We are staring in the face of “soft despotism" or "soft tyranny".
This occurs when a powerful, centralized state, while not overtly oppressive, gradually takes over the responsibilities and decision-making of individuals and communities.
The state becomes like a benevolent but overbearing parent, providing for citizens' needs and ensuring their well-being, but in doing so, it diminishes their capacity for independent thought and action. We’ve arrived there, stop fooling yourself otherwise.
We’ll discuss and analyze the current push from the ultra-conservative-talk-show host, Ben Shapiro to petition the adjudicated felon Donald Trump to federally pardon Derek Chauvin, the felon, former police officer — who drove his knee into the neck of George Floyd for more than 9 minutes, hastening his death on May 25th, 2020.
We have passed the 5-year mark of this deadly encounter on the streets in Minneapolis, MN and tell me, what has changed for the better?
Shapiro clearly sees this as an opportunity to continue to support his white, racist agenda as it gins up his base of white nationalist followers. MAGA-folk and beyond!
We ask out loud:
Could a president do that?
What would it matter, since Chauvin also is in prison on state charges?
And we’ll wrap things up looking at what happens to democracy when police regularly brutalize its citizens as the “politics of policing” has changed drastically since George Floyd’s’ death.
The truth is under attack! The truth is worth defending!
Tune in for all of the explosive details.
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