{"id":2761,"date":"2020-03-10T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T12:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2020-03-10T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:06:57","slug":"why-isnt-donald-trump-headed-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"Why Isn\u2019t Donald Trump Headed to Jail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"neoliberalism\"<\/a>On January 3, 2020, Donald Trump had Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, murdered. \u00a0He ordered a drone strike against this man and several others that saw him and his car blown apart and incinerated. \u00a0So why isn\u2019t Trump headed to jail? \u00a0Why is no one else asking these questions?<\/p>\n

All sorts of people called for the prosecution of the Saudi Arabian crown prince on suspicion that he ordered the October 2, 2018, hit on Washington Post<\/em> journalist Jamal Khashoggi. \u00a0In that case, a hit squad of Saudi Security officials killed and dismembered Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Turkey. \u00a0Khashoggi died no less gruesomely than did Soleimani.<\/p>\n

The Saudi prince denies ordering Khashoggi\u2019s death, but Trump admits to ordering the attack on Soleimani. \u00a0Yet, no one is calling for Trump\u2019s prosecution.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials admit that killing a high ranking foreign official like Soleimani was an act of war. \u00a0Under article 1, section 8 of the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Act of 1973, only Congress has the power to declare war. \u00a0Congress has never declared war with Iran. \u00a0Trump, therefore, had no legal authority to kill Soleimani. \u00a0So, again, why isn\u2019t he on his way to jail?<\/p>\n

This is the same \u201claw and order\u201d president that denigrated Central American migrants fleeing violence and broken societies as \u201ccriminals and rapists\u201d, and made \u201cLock her up!\u201d a rallying cry among his supporters during his presidential campaign against his opponent, Hillary Clinton. And this is a country that locks up millions of poor people and people of color under the guise of holding them accountable for breaking the law. \u00a0Even though 95% of them were not convicted by juries of their peers, as the Constitution promises, but were instead pressured into pleading guilty, whether innocent or not, under Amerika\u2019s corrupt plea bargaining system.[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

But of course, the principles of accountability have never applied when an extrajudicial lynching is going down. \u00a0The federal government has always played a vacillating role in organizing and defending lynchings versus opposing them. \u00a0Burning and dismembering dark flesh is nothing new in Amerikan culture. \u00a0Nor rationalizing and whipping up broad support for extrajudicial lynchings with sensational claims for the victim having committed some unproven crime. \u00a0Remember Muammar Gaddafi, the late president of Libya? \u00a0How after Amerika joined in a bombing campaign against his country in 2011, he was literally lynched by a street mob in broad daylight — having been shot point-blank in the head while a dagger was shoved into his rectum. \u00a0Remember then-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton\u2019s glib remarks after his murder, that sounded like a spectator after a southern mob lynching? \u00a0\u201cWe came, we saw, he died!\u201d<\/p>\n

As an imprisoned black man in Amerika, I know imperialist Amerika\u2019s triple standards all too well. \u00a0I know why no one\u2019s even suggesting that Trump belongs in jail. \u00a0Why, you ask? \u00a0Because from yesterday\u2019s nooses and bonfires to today\u2019s high tech drones, and from the U.S. South to the Global South, lynching is still as Amerikan as apple pie!<\/p>\n

Dare to Struggle! \u00a0Dare to Win!
\nAll Power to the People!<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> The Joint Legislative Committee on Crime in New York described the pleas bargain process in a report as follows: \u201cThe final climactic act in the plea bargaining procedure is a charade which in itself has aspects of dishonesty which rival the original crime in many instances. \u00a0The accused is made to assert publically that his guilt on a specific crime which in many cases he has not committed; in some cases, he pleads guilty to a non-existent crime. \u00a0He must further indicate that he is entering his plea freely… and that he is not doing so because of any promises made to him. \u201cIn plea bargaining, the accused pleads guilty, whether he is or not, and saves the state the trouble of trial in return for the promise of a less severe punishment.\u201d Quoted in, Howard Zinn,\u00a0A People’s History of the United States<\/em> (Harper Perennial: NY, 2002), p.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On January 3, 2020, Donald Trump had Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, murdered. \u00a0He ordered a drone strike against this man and several others that saw him and his car blown apart and incinerated. \u00a0So why isn\u2019t Trump headed to jail? \u00a0Why is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-party-articles","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}