24 August 2025

Symphony in Five Movements

It is intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer:
Authority without responsibility is tyranny
Responsibility without authority is servitude
-- Donald Hughes McElhone, Ph.D.[statistics, Iowa State]/1974 & anon/unknown

Well... Demented, Petty, Paranoid Dictator Don has begin the First movement in his Symphony in Trump Major. Take over the Capitol with troops. Now the Second movement has been announced - Chicago. Whether we even get to the Fifth movement is unknown.

The point of the Symphony is to generate demonstrations. The point of the demonstrations is to generate Martial Law. The point of Martial Law is to install his self (and his designated successor) as Prime Commander of the United States of Alabama. He has already asserted that he's the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of Alabama.

Gentle Reader may remember Kent State. If not, read up on it. The idea that US soldiers would never, ever shoot Americans is a pipe dream. The sub-GED crowd that make up most them would love to do that. Just look at how ICE, et al, are having so much fun.

So, escalate, esacalate, escalate.
A federal public defender representing Mr. Bigelow, Elizabeth Mullin, told the U.S. magistrate judge, Moxila A. Upadhyaya, that he would never have been arrested, let alone charged with a federal felony, but for the president's crackdown. "He was caught up in this federal occupation of D.C.," she said. "This was a case created by federal law enforcement."
You were warned. And you voted for the asshole anyway.

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