Trump’s Environmentally Damaging And Costly Birthday Bash VS. Us!

The fact that I personally find Donald Trump repulsive, disgusting and basically unacceptable as a government leader has nothing to do with my resistance to his rulership. Instead, I care about his repeated law breaking tactics and the miseries that he imposes on the worst off people (homeless, undernourished and without medical care) in the USA while foisting forward ruin of whole ecosystems by his fawning monied upperclass, selfish millionaires and billionaires, who rip apart the natural world for as much selfish monetary gain as can be had, as well as rip up the streets of Washington, D.C. in a needless parade.

Nobody knows for sure about the specific destruction that very heavy tanks and more will successfully be able to avoid when rumbling through Washington D.C.’s antique, decaying thoroughfares. 

Meanwhile, I’m glad to learn that over 2,000 protests to his illegal activities are planned to take place during his self-aggrandizing birthday bash.

Because somebody has to create resistance to his authoritarian kingship. Moreover, doing so is not futile and those who especially repeatedly break the law with over thirty proven incitements always need to know that they are being held accountable.

At the same time, let’s recall that the formerly lucky few families in Gaza came upon bags of farm animal pellets to eat around a year ago and shoveled them into their children’s mouths face supplies that are long gone.

In relation, I won’t ever blindly or just automatically follow USA laws and rules (such as are being enthusiastically carried out in Gaza). I never did so and never will. Such behavior on my part is utterly impossible … and, no, I am NOT a covert communist, nor an anarchist.

You can see for yourself the reason that I don’t follow my country’s plans very well at all. They simply don’t fit with my ethics and sense of compassion for the most part.

As I wrote to one of my friends this morning who is decent, and who likes law and order lots:

You and I are very close ideologically as you, like I, are aware. However, we do deviate on one point. I, personally, don’t give a hoot about laws if they go against matters of conscience and morals. So you can imagine my reactions in Germany where I’d hide Jews and dissidents if I were there during W.W.II. … It’s the same in terms of our own country’s laws. 

All that one has to do is read about different laws considered legal at the time (such as Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Defense Secretary during one our illegal wars, condoning and authorizing extreme forms of torture used at Abu Ghraib Prison) or each legal inditement brought to bear on Donald Trump to know where I stand.

(To know more about the former incident, please see: Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse.)

In the end, all that one has to do is read about some of the atrocious monstrosity to realize that one has to stand above our laws and take a higher pathway toward service to undertake life support. … Following the law does not guarantee that betterment occurs one iota.

Further, I’m not by any means a coward and have laid my life on the line once, which doesn’t make me exceptional, but does make me altogether very human in terms of compassion, honorability, altruism, kindness, material and emotional support, empathy and more that are considered worthwhile qualities.

Personally, I think that Trump overstepped the law in LA and his actions probably exacerbated troubles. Meanwhile, resistance is NOT futile. In the end and if we remain peaceful, it’s the biggest tool that we have to stop our government’s illicit continuous wrongs whether this Saturday or on any other day of the week.

Sally Dugman lives in and writes from MA, USA.