Forget the legal arguments. Forget the political arguments. Forget all the BS and think of this in the only terms that count: human terms. Nature gave us a brain to use so let's use it. We don't need to look to the sky or to the dead or old parchment to determine right from wrong. We can each judge that for ourselves right here and now. We know inhumanity when we witness it. And we know it's always a crime. So let's recognize it as such - in ourselves as well as others - if we are to preserve any chance we have of a future.
The truth is not as confined by the rules of Man. It stands on its own marching to its inevitable revelation regardless of polling or popular opinion or the whims and desires of the masses. Only by standing with the truth can one stand at the end. Everyone else will be dead. For though we all desire life, we all will not choose it. And on the sick and twisted path until that final time, we will slander and rape the truth as if that would save us. But only love can save us.
So let's drop the charade and write the true articles of impeachment of not only Donald Judas Trump, but any who support treachery and treason, murder and mayhem, libel and lasciviousness, death and despair. No soul can profit from these things even in our darkest deceiving. Crimes against humanity cannot escape punishment. We fail to resolve them at our own peril. With great sorrow we must list our crimes, renounce them, and embrace the gifts we daily reject. In so doing, we shall drink from the endless stream of dreams and thirsteth nevermore.
ARTICLE 1: MURDER
The agonizing and unnecessary deaths of Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria
Underestimating the hurricane’s damage, the U.S. military deployed a hospital ship but not enough troops to rebuild critical infrastructure like communications and power lines, said Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University in New York.
“It would have been a perfectly appropriate job for the U.S. military,” he said. “There’s probably no other agency in the world more capable than the U.S. military in re-establishing communications, putting up a temporary electric grid, repairing bridges, making sure that access by ambulance is available.”
In a retrospective report, FEMA found it had underestimated the food and fresh water needed, and how hard it would be to get supplies to the island. Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló, too, has recognized his office’s bungled response and promised new measures to avoid unnecessary deaths in the future, including a registry for the island’s most vulnerable residents.
The weeks after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico brought remarkable images of people desperate to find clean water, drinking from hazardous Superfund sites and thrusting containers under makeshift spigots on the sides of mountains.
FEMA says most of Puerto Rico has potable water. That can’t be true.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, this particular problem has subsided now, more than three months after the storm: FEMA's official statistics on Puerto Rico, which rely on data provided by the territory, suggest that 95 percent of Puerto Ricans now have access to potable water.
That just isn't possible.
ARTICLE 2: MURDER
ARTICLE 3: TREASON
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
“This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”
The report was described as "shocking" and "horrifying" by some commentators and former U.S. intelligence officials. According to current and former U.S. officials interviewed by ABC News, Trump's disclosure endangered the life of a spy placed by Israel in ISIL-held territory in Syria. The classified information Trump shared came from a source described as the most valuable of any current sources on any current external plotting, according to The Wall Street Journal.
ARTICLE 4: KIDNAPPING
Why We Will Never Know Exactly How Many Immigrant Families Were Separated
A new report shows the Trump administration was prepared to separate 26,000 children from their parents, despite knowing it couldn’t keep track of them.
The Department of Homeland Security failed to accurately record the family relationships of roughly 1,400 children over a year and a half, from October 2017 to February 2019, according to the report.
Immigration officials knew about these technical issues long before the zero tolerance policy was implemented. But they failed to fix them before taking children from their families en masse, making an already traumatic situation for parents and kids all the more chaotic.
“It just confirms that the real policy and attitude of dehumanization of this population,” said Michelle Brané, the director of the Migrant Rights and Justice Program at the Women’s Refugee Commission. “I really think a part of this administration’s approach is that we don’t view this population as having human rights.”
ARTICLE 5: RAPE
1,224 Records of Sexual Assault in ICE Detention
1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE.
Elsewhere in Florida, a man said a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent threatened him with deportation after he refused to engage in oral sex — and that the officer told him he would be deported to Haiti, even though the man is from the Bahamas. In Texas, a Border Patrol agent driving detainees between detention centers pulled over and let a woman get out after she performed oral sex on him, according to another complaint.
Many other women and men held in immigration detention across the country reported routine searches that turned into groping and fondling. Many said they were propositioned, subjected to suggestive stares and sexual innuendo, and threatened with retaliation if they spoke up. Many said officers shrugged when they reported abuse by fellow detainees.
These allegations are just a sample of hundreds of complaints of sexual and physical abuse in immigration detention obtained by The Intercept in response to a public records request with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, which is tasked with independently reviewing the department’s various agencies, including ICE and Border Patrol.
ARTICLE 6: MAYHEM
Major Climate Change Rules the Trump Administration Is Reversing
The move to rescind environmental rules governing emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, brings to 84 the total number of environmental rules that the Trump administration has worked to repeal. Officials at the White House, the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies have called the regulations burdensome to the fossil fuel industry and other businesses.
Trump administration proposals could cause millions to lose food stamps
“SNAP is related to hunger and getting people the nutrition they need,” one food bank representative said. “Food shouldn’t be a luxury.”
Critics and experts say that would be antithetical to the program's goals to address food insecurity in the United States.
Craig Gundersen, an agricultural and consumer economics professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who has studied the program for more than two decades, said that about a million people could become food-insecure because of the change. He added that 50 percent of those 3.7 million SNAP beneficiaries were already food insecure despite the assistance.
The changes, he said, would put many Americans in a worse position, increasing hunger and health issues. Each additional adult who becomes food-insecure sees an additional $2,000 in healthcare costs, Gundersen explained.
Trump has told 13,435 lies while in office
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To argue against these articles is to argue against oneself. I would encourage everyone, school children and adults alike, to engage in the exercise of writing their own articles. Let us face the full gravity of the situation. For those who argue against themselves, let your child be raped or kidnapped. Let you be forced into drinking toxic water. May your family be betrayed to military death squads. May firemen show up to your home and use "alternative facts" to determine your house is not on fire as you listen to the death screams inside.
Like our good, our evil will come back to haunt us, as one of the monster's supporters has already found out:
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
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