Donald Trump Green Lights White Supremacist Terror Attacks on Americans

Alfred P Murrah Building
photo from SSA.Gov

In April 1995, white Christianist extremist Timothy McVeigh left a bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah building that would level a federal building in Oklahoma City, causing 168 deaths, including that of 19 small children in the building's daycare center.

Dylan Roof,  wanted to start a race war
Sentenced to death for 9 murders

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, who tracks extremist domestic terror groups, that triggered a new error of emboldened action in White Supremacist groups across the United States.   In the following 20 years, they have sought ever more prominent targets and a higher body count than McVeigh.   It is only the attention of the federal government in squashing these terrorist cells that have prevent another such attack.

So why, exactly, has Donald Trump and his adminstration signaled the end of their attempt to squash out the Christofascist aspect of rightwing America, by removing white supremacists from the list of individuals targeted by federal agencies responsible for preventing domestic terrorism?

Scott Michael Greene, accused assassin of two Iowa police officers

Is it the incorrect belief that white supremacists are not responsible for a majority of terrorist attacks in the United States?  Per New America, a Washington research institute, white supremacists have killed TWICE as many Americans as radicalized Muslims since the attacks of 9/11.

Or is it a far more unsettling implication?  Is this a tacit nod of approval to the extreme right that made up his voting base, the KKK, the American Nazi Party?  Is it a way of saying that those who commit Christofascist terrorism on US soil do not have to fear prosecution by the federal government?

Regardless of motivation, the results will be the same; without the attention of the federal government, white supremacists, whether they be organized members of the American Nazi Party or the KKK, or so called 'lone wolf' christofascists, are in a new era of unscrutinized criminal activities, and have essentially been invited by the Trump Administration to attack American citizens unchecked.

Donald Trump Lies about White Nationalist Terrorist, Implies he is Muslim

Sunday, January 29th, White Nationalist Alexandre Bissonette walked into the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center and opened fire, in a terrorist attack that left 6 Muslim men dead and 5 others wounded.  

On Monday, January 30th, White House Press Secretary, the man who lied about the size of the crowd at Trump's inauguration, twice posted his own twitter password, and recently shared an Onion article mocking him on Twitter, apparently not understanding that the Onion is satire, or that the article was mocking him, took to camera to state that the attacks supported Trump's 'policies' to prevent terror.  While he did not state exactly which policy, it was strongly implied that the attacker was a Muslim (he was not) and the policy was the Muslim Ban (which has been stayed by numerous federal court Judges.)

The loose and free approach the White House and its representatives take to information should be disconcerting to even the most ardent Republican.   To discredit reality is to create your own history book.     And it is with this tapestry of lies, artfully woven together, Trump and Co are able to create justification for the most bizarre and unconstitutional of behavior. 

Investigation is Demanded into White House and Border Agents Defiance of Federal Court Order

The senators of Illinois, Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, are requesting an investigation in the unprecedented refusal of the White House and their agents in the Custom & Border Protection to comply with multiple federal court orders to stand down from their illegal "Muslim ban".

Multiple people, legal residents of the US, still remain illegally detained without access to counsel or due process, in international airports.    Thousands more are now stranded internationally,  unable to return home to lives, schools, jobs, spouses, and children.

It appears that the White House, which issued a statement defying the federal order, has no intention of complying with constitutional checks and balances that protect our democratic republic.

This should terrify everyone, from Republicans to Democrats.

Complete Text of the letter from Senators Duckworth and Durbin to the Office of the Inspector General 

Texas Mosque Burned to Ground Hours After "Muslim Ban"

Photo by Islamic Center of Victoria

Victoria, Tx ~ Shortly after President Trump signed his sweeping executive order, illegally denying legal residents of the USA reentry into the country, a Texas mosque burned to the ground in the early morning hours of Saturday January 27th.  




Just a week previously, the mosque was burgled, and in 2013 was vandalized.     While the fire inspector would not speculate on the cause,  he has called in state investigators to assist in determining it. The Trump Effect will continue to monitor as additional reports become available.

Pediatric Anesthesiologist Spews Racial Insults on her Facebook Page

We're not sure what Dr. Michelle Herren was thinking when she wrote the following on her social media account (image at linked site due to copyright restriction)

"doesn't seem to be speaking too eloquently here, thank god we can't hear her! Harvard??? That's a place for "entitled" folks said all the liberals! Monkey face and poor ebonic English!!! There! I feel better and am still not racist!!! Just calling it like it is!"

next to a picture of Michelle Obama, but we're pretty sure it wasn't "My punctuation abuse and racial slurs will SURELY reflect well on my place of employment, Denver Health Medical Center, Children's Hospital Colorado or my assistant professorship at CU's School of Medicine."

The good news for Dr. Herren?  It seems that her employers aren't overly concerned with the racist nature of her message either!  As of today, she's still listed as an employee of Denver Health Medical Center, despite the fact that her opinion of black children certainly would serve as a cause for alarm for any parent entrusting her with their child's literal life during a surgical procedure.

If you would like to contact Denver Health Medical Center to express your concerns about this oversight, here's their contact information.

When contact by phone for an explanation by a local journalist, Dr. Herren claims she didn't know comparing a black woman to a monkey is racist.  (We will now pause for everyone over the age of 14 to roll their eyes in unison.)

While Doctor Herren is in hiding from the outrage she's generated, she might need some reading material.  We recommend the Linguistic Society of America's explanation of ebonics.  She might also choose to avail herself of Mrs. Obama's highly impressive C.V.


In any case, we hope that she either has a change of heart, makes a public apology and puts her money where her mouth is, with the donation of time and services to something serving the black community, or that the hospital and the medical school choose to let her go.  

Trump Goes After The First Amendment

With a 140 character flourish, our President Elect has reminded us that, during his campaign, he set the first amendment squarely in the sights of the second. At the time, his target was legitimate and highly respected journalists from various newspapers across the country.

This morning, he suggested that anyone who burns the flag should 'lose citizenship' (has he ever read Man Without a Country?   That doesn't work) or spend a 'year in prison'.

While his hyperbolic nature often flares up in his tweets, the underpinnings of this remark need to be taken seriously by anyone who has more than a passing regard for the bill of rights.

Burning the flag falls firmly in the category of free speech, however distasteful or, literally, inflammatory, it may be.  It is decided case law, Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), which overturned a full 48 restrictions on burning the flag in state laws.

His threat, although entirely unenforceable, also plays fast and loose with the 8th amendment, which prevents cruel and unusual punishment.   Stripping a human of American citizenship is not legal short of voluntary consent of the citizen, and should horrify us (and if it doesn't, really, read Man Without a Country).    Any amount of time of confinement for flag burning has fascist overtones that should make our stomachs turn.

In 7 weeks, Donald J. Trump will 'solemnly swear' to the best of his ability to 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Hasn't he just declared, in one of his infamous pithy phrases, that he prefers to do precisely the opposite?  

Dr. Tom Price Named as Secretary of Health and Human Services

At first blush, Tom Price doesn't seem like a horrible choice for Secretary of Health.  Unlike his compatriot DeVos, nominated as Secretary of Education, he actually has experience in the appropriate field,  as a practicing physician.   

In the last several years, he has been a loud voice opposing the Affordable Care Act, and wishes to see it abolished, no doubt to the detriment of the more than 11 million people who have signed up for insurance policies under the exchange.  The disabled and chronically ill are particularly vulnerable to such an abolishment.

He's also an outspoken opponent of safe pregnancy termination, a rather counterproductive argument for any physician,  and also an outspoken opponent to equal rights protections to the LGBTQ community.

As disabled persons, women and the LBGTQ community, stand to suffer on a Trump administration, it is worth noting that the man who will be setting the tone for health care of our entire nation for the next several years is an advocate of medical harm to both all three of these groups of individuals.