The fruits of Ignorance, Reply to NYT Opinion

Neither ego nor gender are the primary culprits to America's slaughter by the cornavirus, but they contributed, second hand side effects. The great killer of Americans, as in all of history, is IGNORANCE. Ignorance of how to use the cultures stored knowledge, the knowledge in the books, sure, but more importantly, the knowledge in the minds of disciplined scholars. Trump and the Republicans already "know everything". Knowing everything means you can no longer remove pieces of your ignorance, can no longer push back the dark walls of ignorance that surround the little we have in minds. This egoistic ignorance stultifies learning, curiosity, new ideas, and advice from the experts who have spent a lifetime preparing to meet the enemy and apply their understanding, add to their knowledge. Who face only the small unknown from the new challenge, with no need to tackle the whole discipline, now. Ignorance, isn't just not knowing, Wisdom is mainly knowing how to learn, how to probe, how to apply the resources of the entire civilization. The Republican leadership, especially Trump, simply was ill equipped to do this simple task: Find out who knows, in this case, about pandemics, viruses in general, fighting them in particular, save the lives of the cooks, carpenters, scholars, the taxi drivers, athletes, friends and foes, AMERICANS, HUMANS. We remember the Harvard President before the Senate in the 1950's who replied to a question,"You think education is expensive? Try ignorance."

General Milley's Apology...

Generals Milley's presence did not "give the impression" that the military was involved in violating the protesters Constitutional right to peaceably assemble. It gave full evidence and proof of the fact that the Executive branch of the Federal Government ordered the military to move peaceful protesters from their position. A standing army was used to carry out the determined purpose of the commander in chief: to stop the people from peaceably assembling and petitioning the government for redress of grievances: the murder of citizens, mostly black, without benefit of due process of law. Milley, in hindsight, apologizes. I honor him for that. The scar on the Constitution will, in infamy, last for the rest of history.

What Happened to America?

The Soccer moms and dads all started walking their children to the after school practices, soccer, baseball, football, band. I soon wondered why. My childhood was spent "going out". Mom would ask where'd you go?" out. "What 'ja do?" nothing. Get washed and get ready for bed. And do your homework.  And it was evening and another day with the kids on the block, in the yards of the block, or in the baseball park with a play ground slightly separated from it.  I thought about it. There in my childrens home town, northern Jersey. Then it hit me. We walked the kids to and from their regulated play time to keep the police from taking them. This is in the late eighties and early nineties.  But It had been happening at the end of the seventies. We didn't trust the police and the police hastled all the children.  We've let it go on for 4o or fifty years now. We need public service we can trust and not fear. Especially the black and latino communities.  And we have to welcome all the children into the play ground and inform our children to get together and keep the bullies out of the play grounds. We did. And we were free. We talked to each other. Asked each other questions. Learned how to charge a ground ball, set a volley ball, head shake a would be tackler, remember what multiplication tables and points on  lines  were. Children of my generation helped each other, educated each other, played,worked,studied, and read books together. And we knew the first paragraph of the Declaration, the preamble to the Constitution, and most of the Gettysburg Address, and that most people were good people. WE got afraid of each other and afraid of the police. Pity...

Standing Army attacking citizens peacably petitioning the government

"All men are created equal": Declaration of Independence. "No person can be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law", 5th Amendment and 14 Amendment to the Consttution".  No person can be denied "the equal protection of the laws". Also the 14 Amendment.  When any person, within the Unied States or property governed by the United States, is killed or maimed at time of arrest, by an officer of the law, without any "process of law" except the actions and reactions of the police, that person has been deprived of his life in violation of the 5th and 14 Amendments.  This is not a question of "excessive force" or "police brutality" (altough the claim applies and iss irrefutable) it is a question of our fundamental laws applying to everyone. The black and brown citizens of this nation have seen members of their race and communities killed on the streets of America by police officers who go uncharged, unpunished, unchallenged, with impunity. The Police, like other members of the government, acting with the concurance of the elected officials in both the executive and legislative branches ( frequently even the judicial branch) are given immunity from the law rather having to face the full machinery of arrest, charge, indictment, trial, and sentence or freedom.  Why are the police immune from the commands of the Constitution?  Free of the demands of the major religions, "Thou shalt not kill"?
Because of prejudice, fear, and the false racial belief in the inferiority of the black and brown races.  Deny one person, one group of persons, the full protection of the law and you live in anarchy.  Only equal justice for all can give us justice and freedom.  The people are standing in the streets asking our public servants to serve the public.  They Government sent a Standing Army into the streets to silece the demands of he people for the equal protection and equal application of the laws to all people. America will die a violent death if we are refused.

Anarchy in the United States

The United States Government has taken a "Standing Army" and ordered it in front of the Whitehouse, to quell the citizens peaceably petitioning their government for a redress of grievances: government employed policemen killing black men on the streets of America: a prominent, visible, and illegal denial of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments assertions that no man can be denied life, liberty, or property without due process of law, and that the people shall have the equal protection of the law. In other words, the United States Standing Army has attacked citizens of the United States to enforce the citizens being denied their guaranteed rights and liberties. The "Praetorian guard" of Rome and the Brown shirts of nazi Germany did exactly what Trump had the American Military do in Washington: Protect the will of the Ruler that has taken away the lives and freedoms of the people. There is Anarchy here, it is the Anarchy of a government running wild with power and filling the streets with bodies, mostly black, while denying them "life, Liberty, justice, and hope." This government is now a Government of One man (a fool and liar) and far, far away from a Nation ruled by law. Trump waves his hands and says the words "law and order" and orders the Army to take it from the People. To my raw, uneducated mind, this is an invasion of the United States by the Army of the United States aimed at forceful implimentation of the Rule of the Republican Party under the Idiot Trump. And nothing less.