Key West Lou COMMENTARY / SIT AT ATTENTION OR DIE
By Louis Petrone
Trump is enamoured with authoritarian figures. He especially admires people who permit their leaders to enjoy absolute power.
Simply stated, means that Trump when he speaks does not know what he is talking about.
A perfect example is his new found relationship with Kim Jong Un.
Trump said he wants “my people” to “sit up at attention” as they do in North Korea when Kim speaks.
If Trump knew anything about recent North Korean history, he would be aware that they do so because they fear death.
Two 2016 episodes are proof.
A deputy premier for education was executed by a firing squad for exhibiting “disrespectful posture” in a meeting. A general fell asleep in a meeting. He was executed with an anti-aircraft gun.
Kim randomly executes anyone in his way. Before Trump’s visit, three generals. Last year, a half brother by chemical poisoning at a Malaysian airport. An uncle he had killed with anti-aircraft machine guns following which the body was incinerated with flamethrowers.
Nice guy!
Trump loves dictators. I suspect because he wants to be one. He forgets he was elected to represent the people, not the people to represent him.
Authoritarian figures are sick dogs. Go to bed with a dog who has fleas and you wake up with fleas. Trump does not see this. He does not care. He wants to be one of them.
Here is what being one of them means if Kim is a man you admire.
Rule by fear. Kim has concentration/detention camps. Holding more than 120,000 at any given time. Most are political enemies. Some economic, others for retraining.
No trial. Arrested and sent away. Not just the accused. The accused’s entire family Covering three generations. Yours, the elders behind you and the young ones next in line. Kim believes arrest one member of a family and the rest remember and will do you harm. So he automatically arrests three generations at one time.
Camp numbers remain the same because those sent do not live long. Kim starves them. Death keeps the numbers at a maintainable level. In addition to starvation, torture, disease, arbitrary brutality, and execution.
Kim needs money first and foremost for weapons and luxuries. Luxuries for North Korea’s ruling elite. Not to feed the Korean people, in or out of jail.
There are many camps. Only one experiments on human subjects. Pregnancies a problem. Even in a concentration camp, people find ways to mate. Kim’s solution abortion. Done by shooting a hypodermic needle filled with gasoline into a woman’s stomach.
Children educated from day one to have absolute obedience to Kim. They turn into cult figures. They are also taught to hate the official enemies of North Korea: The U.S. and Japan.
Christianity is considered a serious threat. Practice of any Christian religion forbidden. Caught reading a Bible results in instantaneous execution.
Trump is a bad guy in his own right. Look at the discourse he has created. In only 1.5 years. His own party is afraid to speak up against him.
Trump has another 2.5 years in office. How much more damage will he do?
My greatest fear is that there will be no Presidential election in 2020. You may think me crazy. However consider the wrongs he has wrought so far.
In recent days, Trump has said how nice it was that Kim is a leader for life. No election. China’s Xi was recently elected President for life. Putin wins in Russia continuously, forgetting that Putin kills or jails his opposition.
Trump wants to be them.
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Some, as is the case with this author, simply cannot stomach leadership or what it takes to get things done.
They’d rather wallow in misery than accept authority.
Poor Lou~!
Just another lost soul in paradise..
Lou writes “Trump is enamoured with authoritarian figures.”‘
Pres Trump should have followed the Clinton, Bush, Obama Administrations in dealing with the DPRK. Those “three Kings” brought the DPRK gifts to buy that leadership off.
Maybe “regime change” could have been tried. We have Iraq and Libya by the Bush and Obama Administrations as reference.
Pres Trump could have declared a “red line” instead. That declaration worked very well in Syria for the Obama Administration.
Based on the above success stories, I can see why Pres Trump’s efforts are not being viewed favorably!
Lou writes “Trump is enamoured with authoritarian figures.”‘
This relationship appears a “love hate” one. Months previous, Pres Trump threatened the DPRK with a nuclear war! Now the “nuclear option” worked successfully for Pres Truman against the Japanese. (The last war the US won but not overlooking our spectacular victories under other Presidents against military powerhouses of the Dominican Republic 1965, Grenada 1983, and Panama 1989.)