No Kings Day
Modern day gestapo running amuck around the country, refusing to identify themselves, arresting and deporting innocent people, dragging zip-tied children out of their houses — with no accountability for their actions.
An egomaniac telling Armed Forces senior leadership he doesn’t want to “fight with stupid rules of engagement” (the Geneva Convention). He is a disgrace to those who have worn or are wearing the uniform — and yet he is the Secretary of the newly named “Department of War.”
And then there’s the failed businessman, convicted felon , who is also liable for sexual assault, a consummate liar out to serve only himself who wants the military to target US cities as a means of training — and yet he’s the president.
Put all this together (with the gaggle of unqualified sycophants he’s surrounded himself with) and you get the reality the country and world is seeing today. On the one hand, American leadership has become the laughing stock of the world; and, on the other, we have the sympathy of the world as we’re being turned into a police state. We now live in an authoritarian state — look at Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Portland — with more to come.
Action is the antidote!
Join millions of people across the country peacefully protesting the Trump regime on Saturday, Oct. 18 at No Kings events. Indivisible Vashon is coordinating an event at the 4-way stop in town from 1-3 p.m. and also will be joining the event in Seattle from 12-4 p.m. The Seattle bound group will take the 10:35 a.m. water taxi and then walk to the start — all the while drumming, singing and making noise. Join us!
James Rickard
Cost of college
I attended college at the University of Illinois from 1958 to 1963. The tuition as I recall was $25 per semester. When I graduated I owed not a cent.
Today graduating students are saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt. What a crappy way for our young people to begin their working lives. How irresponsible of us.What has gone wrong? Why is tuition so obscenely high? This “new normal” is anything but normal.
Federal and state governments used to contribute funds to universities because unlike today’s myopic legislators, they knew universal higher education benefited the people. Both the federal government and states have cut back on funding to universities.
So where should the money be coming from? The unaudited War Dept. budget is a trillion dollars. Gee do you think some of that money could go to our college graduates rather than to death and destruction. And the frosting on the cake is the head football coach at the University of Washington. He earns $6.5 million dollars per year! To use the old cliche, “Football ain’t rocket science!” And you probably thought the administrators of the UW were in their right minds. Crazy doesn’t begin to cover it!
Shelley Simon
