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This story explores the concept of citizen control of defense.

This is what is happening to our planet and to the human race. We will need to wake up and make a major change of direction to survive.

Yesterday President Biden @ the White House celebrating Jewish American Heritage referred to the situation in Gaza w/ the following, "Let's be clear, contrary to allegations against Israel, made by the International Court of Justice, what's happening is not genocide. We reject that." But when the Israeli Defense Force kills women, children and old people indiscriminately as it is doing in Gaza, that's genocide.

On April 22nd, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that focuses on whether unhoused -- the term that has generally replaced "homeless" -- people with no indoor shelter options can even pull a blanket around themselves outdoors without being subject to criminal punishment[...]

This column presents Chapter 6/Section 2, of the 2024 serialization of Steven Jonas' book: "The 15% Solution: How the Republican Religious Right Took Control of the U.S., 1981-2022." It is from the most recent printing, the third, from 2013. The book was first published in 1996. This Section is entitled "The History," and this Chapter, 8, is entitled "The Balancing Amendment."