‘Commentary’ Archives
ICE, Klan – Domestic Terrorism
By DWIGHT HOBBES Dwight Hobbes Between masked ICE agents and the Klu Klux Klan, any difference is negligible, if at all, cowardly domestic terrorists hiding from sight in broad daylight. Anonymity is a powerful weapon, license to strike, ruthlessly abuse and violently oppress, sans accountability. Strikes mind numbing panic, blood racing fear.Make no mistake, just as Mississippi KKK murdered James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, so ICE did murder Renée Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Pretti. In cold blood. Because, they could get away with it. President Donald Trump has accomplished the unthinkable. Reversing civil rights, throwing around the term “domestic terrorism” while that’s what he’s unleashed on any and all Americans who don’t further his supremacist agenda. As PBS reported back in 2024, “Trump seeks a second term vowing to dramatically expand his use of the military at home and suggesting he would use force to go after Americans he considers [...]
Grace in the Face of Destruction
from the series Peace House Community Journal... By MARTI MALTBY Marti Maltby Last month I wrote about the need to use power wisely, and the temptations that everyone faces when they get power over others. Power can be used for our own prestige and comfort, or for the good of others. We have plenty of examples every day of each of those options playing out in front of our eyes. Since I wrote that article, I have been reading Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide by George E. Tinker. It is a wonderful example of using power well, along with being a great book on many other levels. Tinker looks at four missionaries who are revered for their work among Native peoples in North America, but he shows how they all contributed to the destruction of Native societies, and the results that still haunt us today. One of the missionaries he writes about is Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, an Episcopal clergyman who worked in Minnesota and after whom the [...]
