Trump’s “Law and Order” – “Cold” Ideals and “Sick at Heart” Louis Rene Beres (June 15, 2020 03:19:54 pm)
JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Purdue, discusses Donald Trump's calls for police and even the military to bring "law and order" to the US in the wake of recent Black Lives Matter peaceful protests. “Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.” – Hamlet
... For an afflicted American nation, it never seems to end. On June 1, 2020, President Donald J. Trump once again openly defiled US Constitutional protections of free speech and assembly, on this occasion by gratuitously violent treatment of law-abiding civilian demonstrators. A week later, and with no discernible regrets, Trump was boisterously defending the Buffalo New York police officers who had so plainly used unreasonable force against an elderly civil rights protestor. Here, Trump alleged, ex nihilo and, as usual, without any tangible evidence, that the collapsed and bleeding 75 year old peace activist was actually a clandestine “Antifa provocateur.”
Credo quia absurdum, said the ancient philosophers. “I believe because it is absurd.” All this dissembling was merely the iceberg tip of incessant presidential wrongdoing. It was just the latest law-damaging installment of an American “bad dream.” ...
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