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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

30/Fred Continuing with his dissent Murphy notes that some did prove disloyal, just like those of German and Italian descent who were judged individually, not as a group like Korematsu. He argues all have ancestral loyalties - I’d add even natives have ties to their own nation not the US.

All residents of this nation are kin in some way by blood or culture to a foreign land. Yet they are primarily and necessarily a part of the new and distinct civilization of the
United States. They must
accordingly be treated at all times as the heirs of the American
experiment and as entitled to all the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

9/Fred Section 3 refers to the “instant case” (legal speak for the case currently before the court) being that there was information Korematsu violated a law passed by Congress, 18 U.S.C.A. §97(a), quoted in section 4. Can’t find this section now on a quick search, apparently repealed in 1948.

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* * * whoever shall enter, remain in, leave, or commit any act in any military area or military zone prescribed, under the authority of an Executive order of the President, by the Secretary of War, or by any military commander designated by the Secretary of War, contrary to the restrictions applicable to any such area or zone or contrary to the order of the Secretary of War or any such military commander, shall, if it appears that he knew or should have known of the existence and extent of the restrictions or order and that his act was in violation thereof, be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine of not to exceed $5,000 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for each offense.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

7/Fred The sections of the ruling are numbered, and 1 is the charges. Korematsu was charged with being of Japanese descent and remaining in “military area #1” described in exclusion order 34, linked. The ruling notes that there is no question of his loyalty. www.javadc.org/java/docs/19...

All of that portion of the County of Alameda, State of Califor-nia, within the boundary beginning at the point where the southerly limits of the City of Oakland meet San Francisco Bay; thence easterly and following the southerly limits of said city to U. S. Highway No. 50; thence southerly and easterly on said Highway No. 50 to its intersection with California State Highway No. 21; thence southerly on said Highway No. 21 to its intersection, at or near Warm Springs, with California State Highway No. 17; thence southerly on said Highway No. 17 to the Alameda-Santa Clara County line; thence westerly and following said county line to San Francisco Bay; thence northerly, and following the shoreline of San Franciseo Bay to the point of beginning.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Teddy’s Man In The Arena speech is evergreen. www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Learn-About-...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

(The start of the next line “Shame on the” is also included in the image).

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Schimel should read a bit on what God smote people for in days of old.

Ezekiel 16:49-50 v
New International Version v
49 "Now this was the sin of your sister
Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and did detestable things before me.
Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

(They did not help the poor and needy is circled)

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Just reposting this little bit from Frederick Douglass - this is not a new problem. There’s a reason so many have turned away and the church has become a fallen institution.

For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! welcome atheism! wel come anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by those Divines!
They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny, and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke,
put
together, have done! These ministers make religion a cold and flinty hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. They strip the love of God of its beauty, and leave the throne of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form. It is a religion for oppressors,

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

33/What Beyond simply turning a blind eye to the problems and focusing on going through the motions of religion, FD accuses the church of palming off the blasphemy of endorsing slavery as Christianity. FD argues that Christianity used this way is an endorsement of atheism.

They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny, and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke, put together, have done! These ministers make religion a cold and flinty hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. They strip the love of God of its beauty, and leave the throne of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form. It is a religion for oppressors,

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Christians have always been bad at this.

…above mercy; psalm-singing above right doing; solemn meetings above practical righteousness. A worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind. The Bible addresses all such persons as "scribes, pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weighter matters of the law, judgement, mercy and faith. "

Frederick Douglass, July 5th, 1852

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

29/What This is a bit of scripture that FD invokes which is something I ran across in my own reading that, well, resonates. FD uses the verse in referring to these tithes of spices as the trappings of religion (psalms, sacrament, ceremony) as things that would get a response if affected.

New International Version
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill and cumin.
But you have neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Gospel of Matthew 23:23

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Here’s a relevant line. Reading through the political doublespeak it’s clearly about race.

way to "preserve the sociological and cultural balance of the United States."149

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Which report? This one? (P. 30 excerpt, Smith, 7Jan25)

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

They’ve been at it for a while. Just ask Elián Gonzalez.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Mission accomplished! Bush the Younger really ruined that phrase for me, trying to reclaim it.

Bluesky error showing suspended account.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

From the article that you obviously didn’t read:

Prisoners and the flow of higher volumes of aid into Gaza – but without any commitment to permanently ending the war.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Those protests are in no danger of threatening the government. This is the quote that sets off alarm bells, btw, as sounding like “I’m saying this because I have to.”

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We could easily be around January 27th on this graph.

Graph of confirmed COVID cases, showing upward curve and rapid acceleration in February.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

One of the guys in there, I think the only white guy on the first page. Seriously, did these people not take any American history at all?

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Looks like they’ll all be replaced with X accounts, providing a massive subsidy to protect a dying company.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I won’t reply further, just leaving your own words here.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

No, I think it’s a Mossie. This is a Savage. (Yes, I’m being silly.)

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

e.g. this on Schumer. I get it, people are angry, frustrated, and scared (leaving the name off for a reason) but wanting the Dems to come here when this is the response they get may not be worth their time.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Here’s una mujer that had some words on it.

"¡Pobres hombres políticos, aferrados a la esperanza de que nada se transformara en el país, a que nada evolucionara, a que nada ni nadie se despertara espiritualmente y caminara hacia el porvenir!

Clara Campoamor, El voto femenino y yo: mi pecado mortal

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Washington said it was going to happen sooner or later. Ready for some ruins of public liberty? I’m not, but… here we are.

miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned. I confess I’m guilty of it too sometimes.

Ezekiel 16:49

New International Version

49 "'Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A snip from GW’s farewell letter - he recognized that exactly what is happening at this very moment was a fundamental threat to the new government.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Technically phrased as the negative it’s the silver rule. Regardless, the main point is that what you’re calling “animating” is the thing that those in that period were accused of neglecting. Similar from Jesus -

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

(Matthew 23:23 NIV)

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Washington’s farewell address basically expected Jackson… and Trump.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Two plus two making five (math jokes about rounding aside) is standard authoritarian stuff.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

George Orwell, 1984

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

That and animals, bipedal and featherless. Those are the scary ones.

A featherless biped (chicken) with the inscription “Behold a man.”

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The image is a quote from a 1935 novel about a newspaper editor who becomes an important leader in the resistance to an American dictator (Mussolinish). If everyone resists, it’s easy. If only a few do they get dealt with.

So, debated Doremus, like some hundreds of other craftsmen, teachers, lawyers, what-not, in some dozens of countries under a dictatorship, who were aware enough to resent the tyranny, conscientious enough not to take its bribes cynically, yet not so abnormally courageous to go willingly to exile or dungeon or chopping-block-particularly when they "had wives and families to support."

It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis (1935)

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

They also demonize it because they know their interpretation of scripture is shallow and flawed and any evaluation would tear it to shreds. For example Sodom was destroyed for legalistic abuses by the powerful and for mistreating the poor, not because of the gays.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

39/Barmen. The final paragraph declares the theses and rejections as the theological basis of the German Evangelical Church and has both a call to be mindful of these precepts in church politics and to return to the unity of faith, hope, and love, presumably a reference to 1Cor13:13.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1st Corinthians 13:13 (NIV)

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

38/Barmen. The PCUSA text of the “falsche Lehre” is worth quoting in full. This is a separate paragraph there, in the ekd.de copy it’s part of the preceding paragraph. I speak limited German but “Selbsherrlichkeit” (arrogance) was easy to find (~selfkingishness) - more confrontational than usual.

We reject the false doctrine, as though the church in human arrogance could place the Word and work of the Lord in the service of any arbitrarily chosen desires, purposes, and plans.

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It’s not a new problem, unfortunately.

True and False Disciples

21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'

Matthew 6:21-23 (NIV)

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2plus2equals.bsky.social @2plus2equals.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

36/Barmen. The second scripture for the final thesis is 2 Tim 2:9, in part. Paul is writing to Timothy from prison, tradition is that Paul was executed. “God’s word is not bound” Christ is the word - dead, resurrected, and free from prison. I expect the authors knew defiance had consequences.

8 Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, 9 for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God's word is not chained. 10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. 2 Timothy 2:8-10 (NIV)

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