{"id":425,"date":"2017-09-05T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=425"},"modified":"2017-09-05T20:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:50:46","slug":"coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2017\/09\/05\/coward\/","title":{"rendered":"Coward!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coward!!!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our Republic, than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law. Societies where the rule of law is treasured are societies that tend to flourish and succeed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Sessions \u2013 Announcement of the end of the DACA Program<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Tuesday September 5<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017, President of the United States Donald J. Trump announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program.\u00a0 He is ending the legal status of over 800,000 Americans who have committed the sole \u201coffense\u201d of being brought by their non-citizen parents illegally into the country as children.\u00a0 Implicit in this is the eventual deportation of these 800,000 to their \u201ccountry of origin;\u201d countries where they did not grow up, have little or no contact, and may not even speak the language.<\/p>\n<p>This is just another step in the slow erosion of America.\u00a0 America has over the past two hundreds years gradually expanded citizenship.\u00a0 First it was white, property owning men, then the property qualification was dropped, then the \u201cwhite\u201d was dropped, then women were added, native Americans included, and since we have continued to expand the legal definition to include more of the diversity that makes America great. Clearly the Dreamers, this group of Americans, here by no fault of their own, raised here, serving here, working here; most deserve this expansion. \u00a0Until the last six months with the election of Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He is a coward.\u00a0 A coward:\u00a0 hiding behind the \u201cstrength and well being of the Republic,\u201d when the real strength and well being of our Republic is the value we place on life, liberty, and happiness. A coward:\u00a0 using the old saw of \u201claw and order\u201d instead of the real values of America.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWith malice for none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was from a man who recognized the citizenship of Americans who fought AGAINST their country. Instead of following this Republican model, Trump hides behind the \u201claw\u201d to inflict his ultimately racist views on our nation.<\/p>\n<p>He is a coward.\u00a0 A coward who could not even stand up to spout his racist decision.\u00a0 He did it through Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a man familiar with racist views.\u00a0 And he didn\u2019t even have the courage of his conviction to really \u201cdo it;\u201d he passed the buck to the Congress to let them struggle with it.<\/p>\n<p>And he did it to those who committed no crime: \u00a0whose only act was to follow their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Coward!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/09\/05\/trump-ending-daca-dreamers-program-sessions-transcript-242326\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/09\/05\/trump-ending-daca-dreamers-program-sessions-transcript-242326<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coward!!! \u201cNo greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our Republic, than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law. Societies where the rule of law is treasured are societies that tend to flourish and succeed.\u201d Jeff Sessions \u2013 Announcement of the end of the DACA Program[1] Today, Tuesday September &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2017\/09\/05\/coward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coward!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coward!!! : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2017\/09\/05\/coward\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coward!!! : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Coward!!! \u201cNo greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our Republic, than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law. 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