John Judge has died

[Peter Lemkin]

They'll be burning books next. And we know what comes next after the books are burned.

While there has always been push-back against books such as Zinn's which try to tell the true history of US and World - not a sanitized version for propaganda value, under Trump all the reactionary slithering things have come out from under their stones. It goes beyond the banning of books. Usually those teachers/professors who bring such books into their classes don't last long on the job. The USA is moving more quickly than usual to the 'reich'. Devoss, now head of the Dept. of Education also would like to move to starting classes with Christian prayer and pledge of allegiance to the U.S. Government, despite a very clear statement of division between church and state in the Constitution. She will certainly not be in favor of books like Zinn's. However, most of these plans to ban books have been on a more local level. Most 'history' books in US High Schools and even in many universities either do not mention or twist the truth of such things as the Native American genocide, breaking of treaties, false-flag operations to steal Cuba, and theft of most of Western US from Mexico, needlessness of bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, support for and collaboration with Franco/Hitler/fascism, incarceration of Japanese citizens during WWII, killing of Bonus Army veterans in D.C. asking only for the money promised by the government after WWI, what really caused the great financial collapses, right-wing planning and funding for overthrow of government several times - notably exposed once by Smedley Butler, who really rules the country, and on and on and on. The myth of 'manifest destiny' is told and the heroic 'Americans' battling the forces of evil in and outside the countries boundaries. All is OK with Oligarchy, as long as it is not labeled as such. We never did or do any wrong. Progress came from the top down, the People never made any contributions to social change - or so they'd have the Sheeple believe. Capitalism is inherently good and creates freedom - all other systems of constructing a society are evil. Corporations are people and have equal or superior rights to them. Capital and factories can move, workers and people can not. et al.

Book burnings.....next month. They are still very good at making the best books difficult or nearly impossible to find/distribute or even get printed. Now with digital technology they have a bigger problem. After that.....[the camps are all ready and stocked....] DHS is surely making its 'lists', but this is not new under Trump...only moving faster and including more groups.