Remember Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, because his name could well become immortalized alongside others in the American political Hall of Shame, like Lewinsky, Iran-Contra, and of course Watergate. The humble immigrant from El Salvador is transcended now individuality – in his kidnap and extradition to a foreign penitentiary – to becoming a symbol of Donald Trump’s lawlessness. He is too perhaps the harbinger of the president’s fall from grace, (or in this case more an inelegant pratfall down the front stairs).
Andy Worthington’s an English journalist, activist, author, photo-historian, filmmaker, musician, song-writer and principle of The Four Fathers band. Andy is too a co-founder of the ongoing Close Guantánamo campaign, who’s “First Wednesday” Monthly Coordinated Global Vigils continue yet. Worthington’s book titles include: ‘The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison’, ‘Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion’, and ‘The Battle of the Beanfield. Andy’s articles appear at: AndyWorthington.co.uk, where I found his latest, ‘No One Is Safe As Trump Gleefully Deports Migrants to El Salvador’s Mega-Guantánamo Without Evidence, Or Even Via An “Administrative Error”‘.
Andy Worthington in the first half.
And; three years after the Canadian government decided to use wartime legislation to incarcerate citizens for protesting what they believed were unjust policies, a court in Ottawa has read the verdict in the Chris Barber and Tamara Lich case, and the prosecution is seeking two years incarceration for their roles in 2022’s Trucker’s Freedom Convoy to Ottawa. The truckers you may recall were protesting Covid-era lockdowns and mandated vaccinations.
Ray McGinnis is an author and retired educator who, concerned about the unprecedented invocation of the Emergencies Act in 2022, attended and began reporting on the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings, and was one of the only journalists in Canada to follow the subsequent ‘Coutts Four’ case, publishing numerous articles on its traducing of Canadian legal norms.
Ray’s book titles include, ‘Writing the Sacred: A Psalm-inspired Path to Appreciating and Writing Sacred Poetry’, ‘Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored’, and the newly released, ‘Unjustified: The Freedom Convoy, The Emergencies Act, and The Inquiry That Got It Wrong’.
Ray McGinnis and Canada compounding injustice in the second half.
But first, Andy Worthington and the sinister “errors” of the Trump-era.
Song: ‘This Time We Win’
Artists: The Four Fathers
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