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Chicago Tribune Commentary: The Rev. ML Pfleger: Why is St Sabina flying the US flag upside down? America is in distress
Chicago Tribune Commentary - The Rev. Michael L. Pfleger: Why is St. Sabina flying the US flag upside down? America is in distress.
By Michael Pfleger
UPDATED: February 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM CST
There is a danger of letting what’s happening in America become normalized.
We have watched thousands of federal workers fired from their jobs, with no reason, putting their homes and families at risk. This administration has demonized thousands of Haitian, African, Venezuelan and Mexican immigrants as criminals and scooped them up like cattle, often separating parents and children and deporting them rather than fix the border.
This is being done while the president pardons actual convicted criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol causing damage to property, defecated on the speaker of the House’s desk and harmed law enforcement, with three officers eventually losing their lives.
This administration has declared a takeover and ethnic cleansing of Gaza; blamed Ukraine for the war when Russia invaded it; shut down diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives; put Medicare and Medicaid at risk; banned Black history in schools; and unraveled the gun laws we have fought so hard for. It is about a president who has totally ignored the Constitution of the United States of America and, unfortunately, has few guardrails besides the court systems to stop him.
And sadly, these are just a few things in a long list of actions that are being taken to dismantle our democracy and government check points, many of them being done by a billionaire citizen whom the president has given total access to the government and to American citizens’ confidential information.
/snip
By Michael Pfleger
UPDATED: February 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM CST
There is a danger of letting what’s happening in America become normalized.
We have watched thousands of federal workers fired from their jobs, with no reason, putting their homes and families at risk. This administration has demonized thousands of Haitian, African, Venezuelan and Mexican immigrants as criminals and scooped them up like cattle, often separating parents and children and deporting them rather than fix the border.
This is being done while the president pardons actual convicted criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol causing damage to property, defecated on the speaker of the House’s desk and harmed law enforcement, with three officers eventually losing their lives.
This administration has declared a takeover and ethnic cleansing of Gaza; blamed Ukraine for the war when Russia invaded it; shut down diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives; put Medicare and Medicaid at risk; banned Black history in schools; and unraveled the gun laws we have fought so hard for. It is about a president who has totally ignored the Constitution of the United States of America and, unfortunately, has few guardrails besides the court systems to stop him.
And sadly, these are just a few things in a long list of actions that are being taken to dismantle our democracy and government check points, many of them being done by a billionaire citizen whom the president has given total access to the government and to American citizens’ confidential information.
/snip