Jan 7, 2026

If you thought you could confidently scan the news without being led down a rabbit hole I caution you to think again.  The DOJ of the United States of America is rapidly throwing off the demands of truth, impartiality and service to the people. Departments of Justice in Islamic-majority nations have been touting the effectiveness of harsh and unequal justice as the best examples of civic society.  The global   climate crisis is a near perfect parallel to the descent into undisguised bigotry, intelligence famine, and sheer roguishness.  How safe the world is when felons and indicted despots are in charge of our consumption of news has to be

Illegal criminals – the new America target

You can be sure that the goal of apprehending criminals has taken a nosedive when a band of brats are pardoned by the head of state, but you will be wringing your hands when you realize that rich criminal enterprise is now legal. Where on earth does a convicted felon buy election to the highest office and where do criminals come in legal and illegal versions.  You got it: Kristi Noem’s spacious skies.

Criminalizing the truth

The US DOJ is headed by a person who says that the department is committed to pursuing (my word) illegal criminals.  This was last heard – by me and I assume millions of news consumers – at a news conference where the department was briefing the public about the fatal shooting of a presumed unarmed motorist.  My mind tried immediately to grasp the full implication of “illegal criminals”. Of all the things that criminals could be I had to be sure.

• Alleged
• Accused
• Indicted
• Convicted
• Pardoned
• Exonerated

It is quite obvious that Americans believe in legal crime.  Armed and hooded bands have terrorized people for centuries.  Prospective homeowners have been denied access to homes and property by the use of secret codes, and the Supreme Court has put the president above the law with its ruling that he cannot be charged with a crime for the (presumed) exercise of official duties.  The current occupant of the executive mansion interprets that to mean “I can do whatever I want”.  The people seem to have bought the wink and nudge. They elected a convicted felon as president. Illegal criminals are, for now, (1) poor people who pay more taxes than the rich, migrant workers, (2) religious leaders who scam and steal from the public, and (3) politicians who tell the truth about the American constitution and dreams of the Founding Fathers. 

Criminal Crime fighters

We can all see that there is a legal criminal in the executive mansion, a band of legal criminals trying to keep a fatally wounded Republican Party alive with leeches, tourniquets, spells and incantations. We all can see that it is now legal for anyone to broadcast lies and hide behind the right of free speech. There are a lot of legal criminals in the world today.  Look at the friends of the current American administration and you will get the picture, in black and white, in New and Gentile, in despots and liberators, and in God and idols.  Added to the hazard of news and information consumption is the explicit muzzling of news organizations and individual agents who the public have trusted for decades.

When people have to filter what they want to say through what the government line is they are definitely applying to be legal criminals. Think before you illegally steal your right to reject MAGA, and all the religions of our brief stay on earth.