2024/07/01

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the supreme court, of the corporate United states, hands down Trump v. United states, inventing the Doctrine of Presidential Immunity:  “The President … is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts”—however unlawful.

       In a dissenting opinion, Sonia M. Sotomayor, associate justice of the supreme court, writes:

       The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world.  When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution.  Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?  Immune.  Organizes a military to hold onto power?  Immune.  Takes a bribe in ex-change for a pardon?  Immune. Immune, immune, immune. [emphasis added]

       NOTE: Although Sotomayor used the word “country” here, the editors believe that she meant to use the word “nation,” in which a central government, with almost limitless power, treats its constituent states as mere enclaves, provinces, or sub-divisions of its greater self; as opposed to “Union,” which is a union of sovereign States under a federal system, with a central government whose powers are strictly limited by a respected Constitution.

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