+++Since I was asleep at the wheel and posted today’s post yesterday (that is what happens when you suffer from sleep deprivation) I thought I would inject on of my favorite subjects into the debate…..history.+++

As you guys know I like to throw some history into my posts with the hope it will help educate and open some closed minds.  (Good luck with that chuq)

Little Donny is using a law from 1798 in his rush to round up all those brown people that he sees as ‘enemies’….

This law when signed had very little to with justice and more about vengeance.

The Alien Enemies Act, established in 1798, was designed to give the president of the United States more power over foreign nationals on American soil during times of war. This month, Donald Trump invoked the law in an executive order targeting the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, which the White House says is conducting “irregular warfare” against the U.S. The administration subsequently deported more than 200 men—who may or may not have ties to the gang—to a Salvadoran prison before a judge temporarily blocked the removals. (The administration is appealing the ban, but the men remain in El Salvador while their legal status is challenged.)

The White House claims implementing the law is necessary to ensure public safety, while others argue the longstanding statute should not be used since the U.S. is not in a declared war with Venezuela. In a memorandum blocking the removals, federal judge James E. Boasberg acknowledged that the executive’s use of the Alien Enemies Act raises “thorny legal issues” that “loom on the horizon,” calling Trump’s use of the law “unprecedented.”

Here’s what to know about the law and how it’s been used against non-citizens throughout American history.

The Alien Enemies Act was one of four 1798 laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts—a set of controversial statutes that emerged during a tenuous moment in the fledgling nation’s history.

In the wake of the Revolutionary War, the U.S. attempted to claim neutrality on the world stage. Yet it still faced a military threat from GreatBritain, which was seizing American ships to use in its ongoing war with France. In 1794, the U.S. signed a treaty with Britain to stop the seizures and improve Anglo-American relations, but the treaty strained the American alliance with revolutionary France.

Back at home, American lawmakers were split on which nation to support. Members of the emerging Democratic-Republican party, led by Thomas Jefferson, wanted the U.S. to ally with France, while Federalists, led by John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, thought the U.S. should align itself with Great Britain. Meanwhile, French privateers began seizing American merchant vessels in retaliation. An attempt to resolve the dispute through diplomatic means backfired when French diplomats demanded bribes.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/alien-enemies-act-history

As these laws from 1798 make their way back into public discourse, it is essential to know how they were both used and misused in the past. People have historically been targeted based on their sex and national heritage under these laws, laws that were weaponized against the American people in the name of national security. While the American founders offer us many pieces of wisdom and inspiration in political decision-making and compromise, it is incumbent upon us not to repeat their mistakes.

But sadly Trump is not thinking sanely and he is repeating the same attacks on people’s rights but that is what he has in mind the whole time…limiting our civil rights to the parts he agrees with and destroying that which he does not appreciate.

That all comes up because of the arrest and deportation of Khalil for his beliefs….(WTF?)

Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, citing the Trump administration’s authority to expel noncitizens whose presence in the country damages U.S. foreign policy interests.

The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the war in Gaza.

Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs.

He said that while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the United States.”

https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-university-trump-c60738368171289ae43177660def8d34

Then there is the sedition thing and one’s words…very Stasi-like….turning fellow workers into stool pigeons…

US State Department employees are being encouraged to snitch on their “anti-Christian colleagues”.

An internal email sent out by Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, details how the department will collect evidence of anti-Christian bias by its own employees via anonymous tip-off forms.

The initiative is part of an effort to root out anti-Christian bias announced by Donald Trump in February.

Department employees are encouraged to report each other via an anonymous form, and instructed that their accounts should be as “detailed as possible” and include “names, dates and locations” of where the incidents took place.

Officials told Politico they were alarmed by the move, claiming it could create a culture of fear as staff turned on each other.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/04/11/snitch-on-anti-christian-co-workers-says-trump/

This is such bullshit!  It is all so damn disgusting!

I am sick of these sanctimonious bastards that try to equate the hatred of a religion with justifiable criticism of the barbaric attacks of Israel.

Personally I do not give a shit what they believe or pray to….that means absolutely nothing to me.

I despise the bastards in the Israeli government as much as I hate Little Donny and his gang of thugs.

Do I need to be more clear?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”