@lynnventura If you experience fascism lasting four hours or longer see your doctor immediately ?
Remembering to Focus on the Victories:
Florida Judge rules against DeSantis mask ban
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? he still thinks he is!! He is bonkers
@lovendures Jamie Raskin tweeted this earlier:
request for crucial docs. We have had enough lies about the 2020 election.
@theungamer Thank you for posting. We need good news.
The parole board just voted to release Sirhan Sirhan.
Dang! I have no idea how this officially fits in with the Great Turning but my head sure turned when I heard that breaking news.
* For any young people reading this and have no idea what I am talking about, Sirhan Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy.
Ok, I now feel old too.
@lovendures I know what you're talking about here, thus, am also feeling seasoned. LOL. Sirhan is on parole attempt 16 and I'm reading that Newsom can reject the recommendation. Similar situation with Leslie Van Houton (Manson Murders). Both Brown and Newsom have rejected her multiple parole recommendations.
The murder of RFK was the day the music died.
@febbby23 Okay! Sirhan Sirhan murdered Robert Kennedy in 1968.
I was home when it happened and heard my mother scream, "They killed the other brother!" Martin Luther King had just been killed two months earlier and we were reeling over all these assassinations - JFK, MLK, and RFK.
Our family sat in front of the tv together and watched the funeral. I saw his children sitting in a row in a pew when one of the littlest ones started sobbing. So the children handed her from one kid to the other until she was handed to her mother. It was very emotional for me to watch this. I sobbed my head off. But that wasn't the worst of it.
Sirhan Sirhan, stopped our chances for what might have been a great presidency when he murdered Kennedy, and we ended up with Richard Nixon as president instead. Nixon was nearly as bad as Trump.
When I posted that it was the day the music died, I was referencing the song, American Pie, that tied together those assassinations, the racist murders of three young civil rights workers, and a shift in the music that marked an end of innocence in America. That's my teenaged perspective of those days.
I would like to know how his eldest son, Joe Kennedy II, feels about the parole. He was sixteen at the time of his father's death. I bristle at the thought of RFK's murderer being allowed to go free.
@jeanne-mayell isn't it strange how it is always the humanitarians who get assassinated? always the Abe Lincolns, never the Andrew Johnsons. RFK gets shot, not Nixon. MLK is killed , not J Edgar Hoover. I could just go on and on like this. We all witnessed the same principle at work on Jan. 6th. Other than Capitol police, all of the other law enforcement agencies stood down. It was as if they were giving time and space for the insurrection to succeed. They only showed up hours later, after the attempted coup had already failed.
I had a brief conversation with Robert Kennedy Jr. years ago and despite the brevity of our interaction, I came away with the impression that he was depressed, based on his facial expression and demeanor.
Now he is both an avid environmentalist and an anti-vaxer. I cannot presume to understand him but I wish him peace.
Wow things are moving fast.
A U.S. military strike has conducted against an ISIS-K-planner and they say they got him without civilian casualties. ( Wow that was quick)
U.S. has told people to leave the airport area again as they say another attack is imminent. ( This is so difficult unsettling).
Families are beginning to release names an information of their killed service members.
(Very difficult to hear these loving heartfelt tributes of young and brave loved ones who have given their lives in service to their country. In helping humanity during a major crisis. May their memories be a blessing).
@jeanne-mayell isn't it strange how it is always the humanitarians who get assassinated? always the Abe Lincolns, never the Andrew Johnsons. RFK gets shot, not Nixon. MLK is killed , not J Edgar Hoover. I could just go on and on like this. We all witnessed the same principle at work on Jan. 6th. Other than Capitol police, all of the other law enforcement agencies stood down. It was as if they were giving time and space for the insurrection to succeed. They only showed up hours later, after the attempted coup had already failed.
@unk-p yes. It provokes many thoughts. And whenever I try to understand it, I realize I do not.
@jeanne-mayell I remember seeing it on tv. The grief across the country was so great. My mother couldn’t stop crying and always had her rosary in her hands. JFK, Martin Luther King and RFK it was a very sad and volatile time. Your description of historical events is perfect. Just so the young people in the community get a sense of what was happening at the time. Thank you.
In regards to the parole of Sirhan I was really surprised when I read that
“US Senator Robert F Kennedy’s assassin has been recommended for parole after two of Kennedy’s sons spoke in favour of Sirhan Sirhan’s release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars” CNN.
Sirhan is 77 and is basically institutionalized and will have a difficult time back in society. I understand the two sons choice to forgive.