America! America!

Over Here, Over There: a USA leadership Pattern of Divide, Destroy, Disbelieve, Disconnect

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 country whose leaders have for decades committed unspeakable atrocities, have driven millions of people against one another, destroyed institutions of culture, society, education, and government, leaving fear and endless animosity and waves upon waves of chaos and conflict —and lacking the humility and courage sufficient to earnestly apologize and set about mending their ways and mending the damage they’ve done —

…these leaders, having neglected their country’s vital needs and now facing full-on breakdown … double down; and

… bring characteristically criminal, immoral, misguided, barbaric foreign policy, practices of divisiveness and violent aggression, to domestic policies and practices of the homeland.

This latest “street infraction” and distraction involving illegal use of U.S. mail delivery services is but another excuse to bring government leaders and their partners’ barbarism and backlash home.

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merica, America!

Where are your leaders who love their “country more than self,” “mercy more than life?”

Where, America, America, is your “good” crowned “with brotherhood?”

Sources

“Over the past week, what appeared to be small pipe bombs were reportedly sent to (a media organization and a few individuals)… None of the devices detonated.”

RT “FBI detains mail bomb suspect, seizes white van with pro-Trump posters”

“Two law enforcement sources have named the man as 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc. Sayoc was arrested in Plantation, Florida, and according to CNN, has a criminal history.… Sources say DNA evidence played a role in Sayoc’s arrest.” October 26, 2018 https://www.rt.com/usa/442371-mail-bomb-suspect-detained-/

RT “‘Bring them to swift justice, we can’t allow political violence in America’—(U.S. President Donald) Trump on mail bomber” 

“Identified by media as Cesar Sayoc of Aventura, Florida, the suspect was arrested on Friday. His age was given as either 54 or 56. Photos of a white van allegedly belonging to Sayoc show it covered with stickers supporting Trump and denigrating Democrats and the media.”

 October 26, 2018 https://www.rt.com/usa/442383-trump-mail-bomber-political-violence/

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America the Beautiful” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful

Lyrics were written by American writer, poet, professor, and social activist Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Lee_Bates

Music composed by American organist and composer Samuel Augustus Ward (December 28, 1847 – September 28, 1903) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_A._Ward

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Newsroom Shooting in Historic U.S. City near Naval Academy, National Capital

Annapolis. Maryland — 

Site of the former Second Continental Congress and temporary national capital of the United States (1783–1784) where General George Washington stood before the new Maryland State House and resigned his commission as commander of the Continental Army. Annapolis— site of the 1786 Annapolis Convention that called states to send delegates for the Constitutional Convention scheduled for the following year at Philadelphia.

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ontemporary American leaders and public officials grandstanding and fighting among themselves fail to recognize and heed the cries of a troubled people in a troubled land—

America! America! Sans soul or self control, sans good or brotherhood from sea to shining sea!

Yesterday’s homegrown assassination

In the neighborhood of the United States Naval Academy, the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay, the capital closest to the capital of the United States of America, a shooter attacks members of what used to be called the free press.  

When the shooting was over the editorial page editor, an assistant editor, the community beat reporter, the sports reporter, and sales assistant were dead. Several other employees of the Capital Gazette were injured. The shooting suspect and the newspaper apparently had been engaged in conflict extending back some years. The former is said to have harassed newspaper staff after the newspaper published an article about him. The publisher and editor then consulted attorneys “about filing a restraining order” and contacted county police about the harassment, with no police action taken. The man now accused of the newspaper office shooting had filed a lawsuit (dismissed at court) over the newspaper article he considered defamatory.

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oday’s Baltimore Sun citing charging documents reports

“Years after unsuccessfully suing the newspaper for defamation, (the shooter) blasted through the doors of the newspaper offices Thursday (June 28, 2018) afternoon and hid under a desk where police found him.”

The shooter stands “charged with the killings of (Capital Gazette) “editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen”; “community correspondent Wendi Winters”; “editorial page editor Gerald Fischman”; “sports writer John McNamara”; and “sales assistant Rebecca Smith.”

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n the world today, and for years — in Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Palestine, among others; on the United Nations Security Council; inside and on borders of the Americas—U.S. leaders and their partners, militaries and mercenaries are implicated in endless mass slaughter: occupation, provocation, destabilization, displacement, intimidation, violent aggression.  

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ave the crocodile tears and moans! Save the feigned “shock,” and, equally useless, “thoughts and prayers”! Save the staged concern for “mothers and children”!

Sources

Baltimore Sun June 29, 2018 “Capital Gazette shooting suspect barricaded exit doors as part of a pre-planned attack, authorities say” http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ramos-charges-20180629-story.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapolis,_Maryland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Gazette_shooting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking

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