I came across this article I wrote during Trump's reign of
terror. I thought it was worth repeating. I wrote this even before that fake president committed sedition by inciting the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
Now I want the justice I demanded then even more.
Due process for this
phony president is too long delayed.
There for a time, specifically after I
watched the (fake) President of the United States stand on a dais in Helsinki,
in front of an adversarial foreign leader and in a televised speech in front of
a global audience, denounce the US intelligence community, I wished that the
government would reinstate the use of a firing squad for such treachery.
And then I started thinking about it.
Because since then that fake president has
brutalized Americans in countless ways. He has swindled, berated, neglected,
tortured, and murdered thousands of American people. He has incited violence
everywhere he goes, everywhere his voice will reach, everywhere his electronic
messages go.
I no longer wish for the return of the
firing squad for such horrific behavior.
I want retribution. I want him to be
forced to personally feel the heartbreak, pain, humiliation, frustration,
oppression, and suffering that he's caused Americans to feel.
I want him stripped of all possessions.
I want him in an orange jumpsuit.
I want every moment of every one of his
years dictated to him by prison officials.
I want him to eat prison food every day
for the rest of his miserable life.
I want him to sleep on a prison cot or
palate.
I want him to call a 9 X 6 cell home.
I want him completely powerless.
I want him to crap in a stainless-steel
toilet mounted to a wall in view of guards.
I want him to have no privacy.
I want him to have to ask permission to
use a pay telephone mounted on a prison wall in which he must insert quarters
for limited speaking time.
I want him to have to ask permission to
have a book.
I want him to have to earn television
privileges that are shared with other prisoners, many of whom are much better
people than he is.
I want him to have a large, intimidating
cellmate who is as big a psychopath as he is.
I want him to know that his sons,
daughter, and son-in-law are all living their lives out in exactly the same way
he is, paying for their crimes against their country and against humanity.
I want him broken, penniless, humiliated,
powerless, and humbled before the world with nothing but time to experience how
it feels to be the victim of the kind of treatment he doles out on a daily
basis.
I'm not interested in rehabilitation. I'm
not interested in the court showing him mercy. He's shown none, even to tiny
little children he had stolen from their parents and locked in cages in a
desert.
I'm interested in punishment. Severe,
unyielding punishment.
A year for every rubber bullet that hit a
peaceful protestor.
A year for every tear shed by little
children in cages at the border.
A year for every word he uttered
encouraging and emboldening hate groups like the KKK, neo-Nazis,
neo-Confederates, Proud Boys, and Boogaloo movement whose main goal is to
regress America back to the pre-civil rights era and to spur a civil war in
America.
A year for every American life lost to a
pandemic that he allowed to gain a foothold in the United States.
A year for every time he berated or
slandered an honest public servant looking out for American citizens under
their care and protection.
A year for every dollar he stole from the
American purse for his self-interest.
A year for every lie he told to the
American people.
A year for every game he played toying
with hospitals, making them beg for live-saving medical supplies.
A year for every time he mercilessly
called a governor a liar when they were advocating and trying to acquisition
supplies on behalf of desperate medical staffs trying to save American lives
during an overwhelming pandemic – American lives that the fake president was
willing to squander.
A year for the ruined future of every
child whose potential is denied because their education depended on the whims
of a soulless, rich, unqualified heiress who cares more about her yachts and
manicures than about the future generations of Americans or even the Special
Olympics.
A year for every American he scammed with
Trump University.
A year for every dollar of profit he made
when his own Secret Service detail had to pay for their accommodations in a
Trump-owned hotel.
A year for every dollar profit he made
selling MAGA hats and swag, flouting the emolument clause.
A decade for every qualified, intelligent,
decent government official who was cheated out of a position that Trump gave to
a woefully unqualified, corrupt family member or crony.
A year for every American who was roughed
up at one of his rallies-for-ignorance.
A year for every dollar he made laundering
money via his real estate deals for the Russian mob.
A year for every dollar he swiped from
hard-working Americans to give tax breaks to the obscenely wealthy.
A year for every dollar he's hidden from
the IRS.
A year for every tear Meghan McCain shed
as he mocked and slandered her father on a daily basis even as John McCain
struggled with cancer and lost his life.
A year for every time he slandered
reporters and journalists, calling them the enemy of the people and trying to
have their credentials revoked.
A year for every dollar he spent trying to
cover up his extra-marital escapades.
A year for every dollar he stiffed to
hard-working Americans who labored on his properties in good faith only to be
ripped off.
A year for every slur, rude remark, and
snub dealt to our allies around the world.
A year for every dollar of pay lost by government
workers during the longest shutdown in US history, over his vanity wall,
useless except to feed his ego, and destructive to landowners, ranchers, and
the environment along our southern border.
A year for every dollar that Congress
continued to get paid during that shutdown that average American government
workers didn't.
A year for every member of the Coast Guard
and TSA who were furloughed during the shutdown, leaving our ports of entry
vulnerable.
A year for having a member of the press
forcibly removed from a press conference like a bag of trash for merely asking
a question he didn't like.
A year for every American Muslim he hurt
when he said they were celebrating the destruction of the World Trade Center.
A year for every seed of doubt he planted
when he took a full-page ad out in the NY Times saying that the Central Park
Five were guilty and should receive the death penalty for a crime that they'd
been exonerated of with DNA evidence and the word of the victim that it
wasn't them.
A year for each person that he said was in
his inaugural crowd that wasn't.
A year for every star and stripe on the
American flag that he desecrated by wrapping his treacherous, sell-out arms
around it for a photo op.
A year for saying he could shoot someone on
Fifth Avenue and get away with it.
A year for every drop of chemical filth
dumped into American waterways since he rolled back environmental regulations.
A year for every ounce of plastic waste
he's allowing to be dumped in earth's oceans.
A year for every single wild animal or
marine life that's died because of pollution, sport hunting, and fracking that
he's allowed.
A decade for every species that's gone
extinct since he took office, because the protected wildlife reserves have been
desecrated.
A year for every Christian he's conned
into believing he honors their morals.
A year for every minute of the four years
that Osama bin Laden's brother resided in Trump Tower starting in 2008.
A year for every immigrant he slandered by
calling them rapists, thieves, and murderers.
A year for every courageous lesbian, gay,
transgender, bi-sexual member of the military who risks life and limb for their
country (which he was too much of a selfish coward to do) who he insulted by
saying "we don't want them".
A year for every American citizen who has
been wounded or slaughtered in a shooting because he continues to cave to NRA
lobbyist pressure to keep their votes and campaign funding.
A year for every woman who has suffered
with diseases including cancer because they couldn't see doctors at Planned
Parenthood clinics which he defunded.
A year for every teenager who's gotten
pregnant for want of birth control that they can no longer receive via Planned
Parenthood clinics that he defunded.
A year for every woman he's grabbed by the
genitals without her consent.
A year for every family he shattered by
deporting undocumented spouses, some who'd served in the US military.
A year for his hypocrisy in denouncing
chain migration for immigrants, even as his immigrant wife sponsored her
parents' green card.
A year for every woman who's had to
deliver a baby that's a product of incest or rape because he endorsed
criminalizing abortion feigning morals and a respect for the sanctity of human
life that he absolutely does not possess.
A year for every moment of suffering he
caused the Puerto Rican people during a catastrophe when he delayed assistance,
even though they are a US territory (and an additional year because he didn't
even know that).
A year for each victim tortured and
slaughtered by dictators he has sucked up to and expressed admiration for.
A year for every single time he demeaned,
insulted, besmirched, ridiculed, slandered, falsely accused, and attempted to
intimidate any American who is not a member of his base.
A year for every honest public official he
fired for putting their loyalty to their country over loyalty to him, which is
what they are supposed to do.
A decade for saying that Mueller fully
exonerated him when he did not.
A year for every Mexican citizen he
defrauded when he said Mexico was going to pay for his nonsensical wall.
A year for every document he's falsified
information on.
A year for every time he encouraged one of
his MAGA thugs to beat up a protestor at one of his rallies. An additional year
for each time he offered to pay for their lawyers.
A year for taking a protesting man's coat
away and throwing him out into the freezing cold at one of his rallies.
A year for every inch of Native American
land he allowed oil companies and miners to trespass upon and pollute.
A year for every drop of oil that leaked
into Native American soil from a pipeline he had no right to authorize
installed there, knowing that the water tables below it would be threatened.
A year for every minute that Flint
Michigan spends with undrinkable water.
A year for every minute of suffering he
caused President Obama, his wife, his daughters, and each member of his
extended family and his friends with all the persistent lies he spat about his
origin of birth.
A year for every instance of violence he
instigated towards American citizens.
A year for every word he spoke to gaslight
Americans with propaganda that would make Goebbels blush.
A year every time he utilized Nazi
propaganda and strategies he's studied for decades.
A year for every Tweet he posted to
undermine honest, decent, caring, public servants.
A year for every time he ran his mouth or
sent a Tweet that exposed undercover journalists or intelligence personnel in
dangerous situations abroad and risked their lives.
A decade for every POW he insulted by
saying that they were losers for getting captured.
A decade for every Gold Star Family he
insulted when he showed no compassion or respect for a newly widowed woman
whose heart was broken.
A year for every veteran who felt used and
manipulated by a fake president who was a no-show for Memorial Day events, who
never visited with them on Christmas, or showed them any attention other than
during photo ops.
A decade for calling peaceful Black Lives
Matters advocates sons of bitches because they dropped to a knee, symbolic of
prayer and mourning, during the national anthem.
A decade for trespassing on church
property and harming people, including the clergy of the church by ordering
them cleared – by means of tear gas, being shot with rubber bullets, and flash
bang grenades – off of the church's patio which is consecrated ground,
considered sanctuary! All for a fake president to hold up a bible he's never
read, in front of a church he's attended once in three years because he had to.
A decade for using the holy scriptures as
a photo prop after inciting violence against peaceful, law-abiding American
Christians on their own property.
A year for every member of the military
who served in Vietnam – for those who shed tears, blood, sweat; who were
tortured, imprisoned, shot, exploded, burned, maimed – while he partied,
screwed off in college, groped women, learned the art of the unethical deal,
womanized, and indulged his every depraved impulse, uncaring of their
sacrifices then, just as he's uncaring of their sacrifices now.
I want him punished.
I want my country back. I want justice for
extreme harm, both physical and emotional, he's inflicted upon the American
people.
I want it yesterday.
