Schiff of the United States

Adam Schiff. Senate floor. 24 January 2020.

Hearing Schiff speak, i was reminded about Georges Danton, and Atticus Finch. Adam Schiff spoke a lot during the first four days of Trump's impeachment trial, as he is the chief house manager. At one point he quoted Atticus Finch, the hero lawyer in "To Kill a Mockingbird". Finch was brilliant, and moral, but he was fated to lose in the story.

Some years ago, i saw a French/Polish movie about Danton and Robespierre, the 1982 "Danton". Danton was an early leader of the French Revolution, and a most eloquent speaker. Historical interpretation varies from author to author on him. In France the commentaries on their revolution are still current. Danton was put on trial for his life, during the Reign of Terror under Robespierre. Danton thought his great gift of persuasive speech would save him (he was blasé to his fate). He was guillotined, but so was Robespierre later, and then the revolution went in other directions.

The movie was based on the 1929 play, "Sprawa Dantona [The Danton Case]", by Stanislawa Przybyszewska. She was very much in the Robespierre camp. She had mixed with communists and wrote in the Free City of Danzig. She rehabilitated Maximilien Robespierre. The film's director, Andrzej Wajda, was in Solidarity's circle and differed from her script. All the Robespierre group were Polish actors, who spoke their lines in Polish, and then were dubbed in French. All the Dantonists were French actors speaking French. Danton was played by Gérard Depardieu.

The House managers (prosecutors) gave a very able presentation, Schiff best of all. Two-thirds of the senators (judges) would have to declare Trump's guilt for Trump's removal from office, but there are fifty-three Republican senators. The evidence, publicly available, and logic dictates guilt. The Republicans control this trial, and do not want witnesses and documents and other evidence to come to light; for all would, assuredly, confirm and magnify the guilty deeds. There have been several amendment votes, and all were on party lines: 53 to 47. The Republicans are all in a conspiracy to cover up wrong doing, avoid responsibility, and create diversions and blame elsewhere.

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postscriptum 10.45 p.m. 21 June 2023: Schiff was censured to-day by the Repukes in the House. He also in committee hearing made John Durham look like an ass, so did a few other Democratic congressmen, because Durham is a partisan apparatchik.  The Repukes and their orange skinned false god wanted revenge. It was the second attempt this censure, the first wanted to fine him $16 million. Remember the Republican Party is a criminal cult.

French Street

French Street in Cleveland has the Cuyahoga River to its east, and to its west; it is the crooked river. It is in the flats, more in the former industrial flats, than the new strip of expensive saloons; but there are some non-yuppie saloons, including the racy kind. A gym has some art on its outside walls, to featuring Cleveland and sports.
 

 

 There is a view of skyscrapers by Public Square.

 part of a mural of remembrance

  'Major League' was a movie about the Cleveland Indians. Charlie Sheen was 'Wild Thing'. The baseball logo from the movie is on State Road, miles away.

Confederate holidays

Robert Edward Lee, chief military leader of the Insurrection against the United States of America

 

   Well, some of you may be northerners [damyankees]. It may be difficult for sum ya'll to recognise Confederate holidays. I give ya'll the point, dat dere has been some calendar dancin', from time to time, and place to place. The internets may not be much he'p, it is in dusty books where ya have to gather the individual facts. To-day, is Robt. E. Lee's birthday, the commander of all southern armies. He surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on Good Friday 1865. The war was lost on July 4th 1863, on that day Grant took Vicksburg, and the day before, Lee had lost at Gettysburg. The war was continued, so as to continue the war. Yet, the traitor Lee is celebrated, and Grant is not.

   Virginia, the home state of Lee and Stonewall Jackson, had Lee Day(1889) in Lee-Jackson Day(1904), then Lee-Jackson-King Day(1983/6) after Martin L. King Jr. Day became a federal holiday; after 2000, the Lee-Jackson Day was on Friday, and the King Day on Monday. And that is how one state rewrote the calendar (and history).

   Now, there are several Confederate Memorial Days, a Confederate Flag Day, a Jefferson Davis Birthday, a Confederate History Month, a Nathan Bedford Forrest Day (Grand Wizard KKK, and Confederate General). These different 'days', are not all on the same dates in the states that celebrate them. Robt. E. Lee's birthday is, now, on the day after Thanksgiving in Georgia, and listed as "State Holiday".

   How this activity? MLK Day was catalyst for some changes. There had been a Black History Month, so...
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postscriptum: Abraham Lincoln's birthday is a holiday in eight states.