The Heretics of American Fascism

Steven Donziger, Daniel Baker and Julian Assange are all victims of a new Secular Inquisition by America, against Truth & Justice...

Do you know who Steven Donziger is? If the answer is a likely 'No', there's a big reason why. The Biden Justice Department doesn't want you to know about Steven Donziger, and what they are allowing to be done to him with the United States’ Judicial apparatus.

Donziger's Lawyers, as well as representatives of the United Nations, have both attempted to engage President Biden and Merrick Garland, Attorney Genral and head of the Biden Justice Department, on the matter—and they aren't returning calls. The solution employed by the highest office in our nation is to Ghost the legal entities seeking to parlay. Average citizens have been calling in to Garland's hotline, too, including myself—you should do it too, after you've read this (Department of Justice hotline: (202) 353-1555 ). You might also reach out to your Representative.

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has levied a decision—against Member Nation, the United States of America— that Donziger be released, charges be dropped and restitutions be paid for the damages already done to him. And hardly any mainstream American news outlet has even spoken of the matter—none of the Broadcast stations, except in one case where a guest on MSNBC artfully slipped his name into the conversation.

Donziger has been on house arrest for more than 800 days for refusing to hand over his phone and laptop, and other technological devices, to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who was presiding over the case when Donziger was slapped with his contempt charge—because it was an absurd thing to require a practicing American attorney to do and it would have conceivably violated the security and privacy of persons he represented in the case from which this Kangaroo Court Show Trial has evolved. Steven Donziger, for those of you who do not know, is currently locked inside his Manhattan apartment, with a permanent electronic ankle bracelet—all because he won a case against Big Oil.

(watch Chris Hedges break it down, or read his article, if you want a more intelligent and comprehensive tour of the facts on the ground—or read his corresponding article)

The 9 billion dollars' restitution that was the punitive decision against Chevron (inherited when they purchased the holdings of Texaco) by the highest courts in the sovereign nation of Ecuador, has not been paid. Instead Chevron pulled out of Ecuador and refused to comply. And they did nothing to clean up the environmental devastation—toxicity which has maimed, caused birth defects and claimed lives among indigenous people dwelling on the Amazon.

When Donziger then began to pursue litigation against Chevron for the damages it owes, in other nations where they continue to do business, Chevron began to retaliate, against the attorney who won. They bought a judge in Ecuador to fabricate a false testimony that Donziger was railroading the poor defenseless Oil Monolith, on which basis they sought to prosecute Donziger in the US Judicial System for Racketeering. Of further interest is the fact that the Ecuadorian Judge Alberto Guerra, who was hired to make this claim, after meeting with Chevron over 50 times before consenting to do so, was relocated with his family and is now an Ecuadorian Ex-pat living in the United States. He’s also recanted most of his claims, since making them. When the Federal Prosecutors from the United States Justice Department refused to participate in the farcical proceedings Chevron was obviously seeking to set up, they instead elected to send some of their Litigatory knee breakers in, to scare some sense into Donziger, and to disable him from taking further action to enforce the Ecuadorian Court's decision against them.

Now, I'm an extremely emotional guy—and while I have great confidence in my intellectual powers, I'm not a journalist. I'm not objective enough to deserve that title. I don't like research, and I get bored writing down facts. So I'm going to trust that you follow some of the links I'm including in this essay, to answer any questions that may arise in my telling of his story.

Here's the big takeaway of the moment. Steven Donziger went into his Sentencing on October 1st. During the proceedings, Judge Lorraine Preska is reported to have read a newspaper all the way up until the moment she announced his sentence. It should go without saying that this entire process has happened without Donziger having once appeared before a jury of his peers—they've literally crafted the proceedings to specifically happen in a way that prevents him from seeing a jury—because it would obviously fall apart on them, if the decision was left to a body of American Citizens to decide. Because the Evidence all points to Chevron's doubling down on bad action.

Perhaps the most astounding thing about this deeply dangerous violation, of the very sanctity of American Judicial Process in our Democratic System, is what Judge Preska told Donziger in his sentence. It concerns me, because it reveals in this woman—a woman who is occupying a seat of power from which she could potentially destroy the lives of any american citizen she chose to—it reveals in her character a sort of gleeful, taunting brutality; it evidences a sort of bloodlust within the United States Legal system, a desire to savage the innocent and upstanding in our country—as opposed to overseeing their protection, which is what the Law is supposed to do.

Judge Preska said about Steven Donziger in her preamble to sentencing, "...only the proverbial two-by-four between the eyes will instill in him any respect for the Law."

Just think about that a moment. That's a verbal implication of physical threat unto his person, even sublimating the sense in her employment of nonobjective hyperbole, as she's sentencing him to time in lock-up. People get beaten, raped, killed in Prison. In the event that the movement surrounding his case fails to protect him from this further and intensified incarceration, I half-suspect that once his fellow inmates hear his story, many of them will probably want to protect him. And he seems to be such a genuinely kind and respectful human being, I would imagine his presence there could even improve the existences of many of his fellow inmates—by his influence of character alone, if not some service of teaching or mentorship in the law or writing, or some other academic or intellectual pursuit of knowledge. But this woman, who enjoys the privilege of deciding the fates of other citizens than herself, literally conjured this image of him being harmed in her communication with him. In her announcement of his sentence!

This is not a Civil proceeding, at all. This woman, Lorraine Preska, should not be allowed to preside over the fate of any American citizen, if that is the fashion in which she sees fit to Adjudicate. Meanwhile Steven Donziger—the human rights and environmental defender—has had his right to practice Law revoked, apparently for being too successful at it.

The Mainstream media will not report on this. The Office of the President will not address this. Guys, this is a foundation of our Democratic Ideal being disfigured and desecrated before our very eyes—and the main hope they're going on is that, if anybody does get wind of it, they'll be more fearful of their own potential incoming two-by-fours than they will be outraged, about the one being swung at Steven Donziger.

America! Fuck Yeah! Right?...

Democrats and Republicans are both ON THE TAKE. The only thing that matters to them is propping up this limping Juggernaut of free-market capitalism, and the fossil fuel production which makes it all go, until the last breath of fresh air is drawn by a human being, on this planet. Yeah there are token progressives who toil performatively for their constituencies against the intensifying immorality informing much of Congress's behavior, but they'll never be able to call it when there's no hope left within the system—their entire defining sense of government is informed by the broken system within which they work! And they aren't doing the job for pats on the back, after all; let's be honest about that at least...

We are all living in the thrall of this massive spirit of Cultural Narcissism, which has been almost a requirement for our sanity, ever since Operation Paperclip. Ever Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ever since the chilling testimony of President Eisenhower in his farewell address. Ever since the drums of war, and the theme of Hynkel, began to play in the background of Charlie Chaplin's impassioned speech to the Double Cross party—there are those who believe the 'Double Cross' implied was that of the US turning immediately on the USSR (the ones who actually did the work of stopping Hitler); likely J. Edgar Hoover was among their ranks, as his persecution of Chaplin was infamous and didn't end until he sought asylum in Switzerland, where the Great Father of American Cinema lived out his life to the end of his days, an Exile by American Fascism. It is necessary for us to make excuses to ourselves and each other, about what our government does; it is a requirement that we not question Daddy, if we want to keep getting our Allowance.

Steven Donziger has had his assets seized, his right to practice Law revoked (A Graduate of Harvard Law School, like Obama), he's had two years of his life stolen from him, and more yet to come—all because he (in a completely commonplace course of legal procedure, apparently) refused to hand over all his devices, in the interest of protecting his clients—and really, if this is the treatment he's getting, what might we imagine to be the fates of the persons in Ecuador who are the intended recipients of the Settlement he won for them against the Oil company?

So what can you do? Boycott Chevron, for one. Why wouldn't you stop giving them your money, if they're doing this to our Democracy? I think, if you patronize Chevron, while you know that they are doing this to our country, you make yourself by that degree a part of what's happening. I'm not saying that any other Oil company would behave any differently, at this point, but Chevron is the one presently playing this game of chicken with the future of American Democracy.

But this isn't the only malappropriation of Democratic machinery the US Justice System is currently involved in. I would point you to the young Leftist Daniel Baker, who—after tweeting in response to the January 6 Capitol Riots—in which participants branded Swastikas, Confederate Flags, erected a gallows on the lawn, brandished weapons and firearms and even assaulted Capitol Police—has now been sentenced to 44 months in prison.

This young EMT, who has an apparent history of tweeting hyperbolic statements about the United States' very obvious and widely reported slide into real gestures of Fascism, both in demonstrations by citizens and in gestures by the State, had already spent seven of his ten months already served in solitary confinement since his apprehension for a Twitter post—during which time he's reported being harrassed, beaten and psychologically tortured by his incarcerators—prior to this sentence of 44 months.

Who among the armed attackers at the Capitol on January 6 have received such a sentence? How many, even, have been charged or sentenced at all? This event resulted in numerous deaths (although in my humble opinion if you don't feel suspicious about the reported officer suicides there's probably little that can be done, to pull you out of the waters of your state-sponsored self-delusion).

In the essay preceding this one on my blog (there's been quite a gap between postings, I admit—I've been working on a couple novels and I've been struggling to find novel ways in which to word my objections to what I see happening around me, at home and abroad), I challenged the Boogaloo Boys' premise shared around earlier in 2021, that black power and white supremacist groups should be able to unite under a common cause. In the course of that essay, I acknowledge that an armed revolution has probably been a moral obligation to the world which conscientious Americans have chosen to ignore since before I was born. How long is it until they start crawling the Internet with Search Engines, and decide to incarcerate me for writing that?

I'm seriously considering my potential options as a future Ex-Pat, right now—partially because I feel like there's no other way to divorce myself from the course our elected leaders have us travelling on—for twenty years now, we've behaved like the Third Reich—no, no gas ovens yet, but we sure have become good at killing and ruining the nations of a very specific Ethnicity of human being. It is no secret that the 9-11 attackers were Saudis. We have never even spoken ill of that country, in regard to some of its officials' demonstrable ties to the 9-11 hijackers. This Holy War we've been on is a stain on our history, and it's gotten so bad they had to make the 'Asian Pivot'. Time to target a different Ethnic Group, with our Military-Industrial Fascism.

Julian Assange is going back into extradition trials this week, in the UK—after recent information leaked that the CIA had plans to assassinate Assange during the Trump Administration. Do Americans care, at all? Many of the people in this country HATE him, for making them aware of the lawless carnage our soldiers have carried out in our name throughout the 'War on Terror'. He made us look at those smiling faces of US Soldiers, as they sexually degraded and tortured the kidnap victims that were the occupants of Abu Ghareib. News Outlets have constantly framed him as a terrorist, for his truth-telling; Saturday Night Live, for a period of time, satirized his ongoing persecution as if he were some sort of James Bond villain, encouraging America's denigration, hatred and disregard for the well-being of Assange—whose story now could be compared to that of Hypatia or Galileo, or any number of persecuted truth-tellers from Western History.

All of these men I've mentioned are being subjected to a Secular Inquisition—they are heretics, in the eyes of the Church of American Fascism. I don't know about the clarity of your own moral perspective—but I can't Not See, anymore.

As Edward Snowden said in his contribution to the Belmarsh Tribunal held in Britain on October 22, 2021, "If you love the truth, as I think everyone here does—you wouldn't be listening to this; you wouldn't be watching this; you wouldn't be participating in this; you wouldn't care about this, unless something in you told you that something important was happening, here— and if you do care, as I think you do, you are a criminal in the same category as Julian Assange."

We all know that our Democratic Ideals have never actually been fully realized in this country's history, except in increments bought with tears and blood; by the sacrifices of uncompromising Idealists. The further we allow the greed of our Duopolistic Government's Corporate Sponsors to propel us down this path of Iniquity, the more blood it will require to eventually dig ourselves back out...