Listening to him being interviewed, by Rachel Maddow on just the most outrageous outrage surrounding the Trump-fascist abduction of children and their refusal to give them back to their parents, despite a court order to do so, I would love to ask Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's Immigration Rights Project a really big question.
The question flows directly from how that policy came to be in place through the election of a criminal thug as president and a racist, very likely criminal thug being appointed Attorney General. Trump as a public figure is 100% the creation of the media, the mass media, television, hate-talk radio, the tabloid media, the elite, print media having no insignificant part in it. His entire false public image was sold to the people who voted for him by the American free press, freely pressing false images, false ideas, lies, to not put too fine a point on it, to the American People. The very media on which American democracy depends because democracy is impossible without them knowing accurate information, lied us into Trumpian fascism, both through creating him as a candidate but, as well, telling lies about his opponent, Hillary Clinton for almost as long as they were creating the fraud Trump and creating the milieu of fascism which permitted him to appeal to the Republian, now Republican-fascist primary voters and to peddle him in the general election along with the Republican-fascist thugs who run the Congress and who staff the majority on the Supreme Court.
As I will never stop pointing out, and this is getting ever closer to my question for Lee Gelernt, the series of Supreme Court and lower court rulings which created that fascist milieu was brought by Gelernt's organization, the ACLU, its well manicured fingerprints are all over those rulings, it briefed in favor of every one I'm aware of, it supported some of the worst of them even with the warning, sometimes by former members and, as I recall, at least one director of the ACLU that they would lead to disaster and could destroy democracy.
Lee Gelernt wouldn't be in court or on Rachel Maddow's show so often trying to get children out of Trump-regime baby jails if he hadn't been created by the American free press and if the same American free press, everything from the great grey drab of the New York Times down to the gutter level fascist media like the National Enquirer and FOX and Sinclair hadn't sandbagged Democratic candidates over the same period, especially Al Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004 and Hillary Clinton in 2018. It's his own organization that has been such an important part in getting them the ability to do what anyone would know they would do, sending the public discourse into a sewer of lies in promotion of the most criminal part of our politics on behalf of the wealthy people who own the media.
Why would an honest man remain in such an organization as the ACLU which has that history of advocacy? Why should anyone find anything any member of the ACLU credible?
And while we're at it, Rachel, when are you going to address the part that the "free press" "free speech" rulings play in permitting the media to lie us into Republican fascist and Trumpinan fascism. And don't try that goddamned lie, "more speech." I've been watching the country going to hell under "more speech" most of my life.
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