Protesting Peacefully

THE "NO KINGS" national protest against Trump and his special brand of fascism went, by all accounts, exceedingly smoothly, with nary a violent incident anywhere, at least no reports of any. That in itself is remarkable, especially among human beings, even peace land love liberals.To avoid all violence and destruction of property was crucial, and the eight million or so protestors apparently knew this, because had a single beer bottle been dropped and broken in any of the thousands of protests all across America's fruted plain, the conservative mainstream media would have hopped all over over it like ugly on an ape, as Festus haggen used to say. The question is sustainability.Its oign to take a lot more protesting to have much if any of an impact on the essentially lame duck Trump, who can run amok knowing that no matter what he does, he can't run for reelection again. At least, not the way things stand now. but, as they say, we'll see. The crucial thing now is to continue the protesting. Assembling eight million Americansin America's streets with any degree of frequency seems a somewhat daunting task. We are all terribly busy these days. The main thrust of opposition to Trump must continue to be, as it has always been, the mass media,including and especially the internet. For example, if we the American people protest with enough viciferous vigor, in the media, Trump's associates and advisors,to the extent that he thinks he needs any advice, will alert the petty tyrant to the necessity of changing his message and messaging. The facttaht eight million or more Americas took to the streets is extremly encouraging to the anti-Trump movement, which has always been potent, but is now more so than ever.The latest ecample of Trump ruling be decree like a dictator is of course the new bright and shiny Trump war against poor hapless Iran. The fact that Arabs in the middle east have always objected to, and still object to, the United States and Great Britain establishing a national Jewish state in their midst without their approval. Go figure. The constitution is perfectly clear that only Congress has the power to declare war. If we are going to accede to the violation of the constitution this batantly by the chief excutive, what good is the founding document anyway? The official reason for attacking Iran was initially that they were on the verge of building an atomic bomb, and must be stopped, if memory serves. Now, it isn't difficult to understand why it would be better for the world, for everybody, if Iran does not have a nuclear bomb. Does anybody think that if they had one that they would hesitate to use it against israel? Unaid is that it would be far better for the world is nobody else had nuclear bombs either. There are still nine countries, including Israel, which have it, unless there is updated information. That fact clearly demonstrates that in terms of nuclear bombs, the cat, as they say, is far out of the bag. The genie escaped long ago.Any graduste student in physics know how to build an atomic bomb, and could do it, given the necessary equipment. What we're going to have to do is rid the entire planet of them, including America's stockpile, poste haste. Its incredible that to this day, only one country has ever attacked another country with a nuclear bomb,and we all, of course, know exactly which country that is. That may be the country we all really need to keep an eye on.