ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN - 187

     In police lingo 187 is the number for homicide. It is a call that one never wishes to get or hear, yet today it is a different kind of homicide, one that will be ongoing for decades to come, and there is nothing that can be done about it. That is, unless there is some manner of removing incompetence from assigned positions.
     187. One hundred and eighty seven. Trump is engaging in homicide as we speak. That is the number of federal circuit judges that he has appointed in his three years of office. So many have been rated as unacceptable by the American Bar Association - incompetent, lack of knowledge, lack of experience, heaps of bias and prejudice, - and being a Trump supporter being the main qualification. On top of that we have the two appointees to the Supreme Court, one being a pervert, exposed and then allowed through.
     Trump is murdering American justice, the entire judicial system. These judges will be with us for decades - yes, decades - and the woes they will call down upon us and the twisted and backwards decisions they render will rain down upon us, destroying the dreams of the Founding Fathers, of justice, impartial and fair. 
      More than the idiocies of his tweets. More than the nastiness of his behavior. More than his ignorance of basic grammar, of basic decency, of kindness and care for others. More than his destruction of our alliances. More than the horror of seeing him consorting with the enemy. Far more than all of that, for justice will be perverted, the basic tenets of our country will be turned on their heads. 187 redux - time and time again.
     Just as Hurricane Harvey refused to move away from Houston, as Hurrican Dorian razed the Bahamas for a full day, so too does Hurricane Trump threaten to remain over our heads for many a year, destroying much of what we stand for, what we hope for, what we strive for. The climate change that he ignores will mesh smoothly with the climate change of American justice and will totally destroy us all, certainly leaving no remnant of a fair America, a place where children are not caged, a place where children do not go to bed hungry nor their parents eat one meal a day in order to feed the kids. No America where prejudice will not rule. No America any longer, for there will be states that will pull out from the Union and here we go again.
      No jumping the shark here, folks. In all my years I have never seen or read or heard so much fear and despair, existential in origin and conclusion and this man and his lackeys, McConnell especially, are the root cause of it all. The root cause of the evil suffusing our nation and yes,evil is what it is. Call it like it is. The truth, something alien to Trump and a Trumpian world.
     Vicious haters with a twisted agenda to fulfill are not afraid now to pull out their guns, their cars, whatever weapon they can think of, and go and kill people. And why not, for their own President seems to have approved violent hatred carried through to its ugly end. People are now free to spout hatred, preach hatred, violence, at campuses all over the country, to go after Jews once more, with swastikas and threats smeared all over, with synagogues and holy scrolls and books being ripped up. The chill of Nazi behavior now runs once again through our communities - all over the world. It is not a good feeling and again, I remind you, hatred has no end, no boundaries and when one victim group is gone then the next one up is it.
     We have to recognize now that we have made great inroads upon our nation. The Republican Party is shedding any Senators, Congressmen, people at any political level, who dare to disagree with Trump, who refuse to bow down before him. It is a party run on fear and threats. And it is a Party which will make a mockery of the entire impeachment process and idea, that no person is above the law, not even the President. No one. 
   They are subverting the entire justice system, the idea of a non biased jury who will judge upon the facts and not collude with the accused, walk lockstep with him, and announce brazenly that this is so, the decision already made. One cannot allow top officials of our government accuse all others of exactly what they themselves are doing wrong, the sins they are committing and the wounds they are inflicting upon us and the ship of state. 
     There is a whole lot going on here, far more than partisan fighting. Hatred and dislike of the man is not the reason. Many people disliked Carter, yet he was never impeached for he never committed a crime that posed him as a clear and present danger to the country. He never displayed loyalty only to himself above the country. Even Nixon did not consort with our enemies or invite foreign interference at our basic core. Nope, Trump is THE worst we have ever had and his damages upon us will last for years to come. 
     I wonder if the country will ever come together again, heal its wounds, bind them up, as Lincoln urged. I wonder - and am not hopeful. Now does one, do all, understand the connection of 187, the number of police for homicide, and the number of federal judges he has appointed, all the better to kill our justice system. A clear and present danger? Oh, yes. Cannot stress it enough - nor downplay the poison he has injected into our nation, its people, its very foundations.