A president tries to silence his critics, and Trayvon Martin redux.

The president of these Divided States of America will do anything to silence his critics. (Remember when he said he would pull the credentials of members of the press?)

Now, in a stunning display of hubris, he has declared that he wants to revoke the national security clearance of folks like John Brennan, James Comey, Michael Hayden,and Susan Rice. If I didn't hear it from his press secretary I would think it's some kind of bad joke.

“For political reasons, this is a petty way of retribution, I suppose, for speaking out against the president, which I think on the part of all of us, are borne out of genuine concerns about President Trump,” 

Of course it's "petty retribution",  he has no other way of doing things. We all knew that  Mr. trump has very thin skin, we just didn't know that it was this thin.

Finally, there was another shooting in Florida by a white man of an unarmed black man. and like a more high profile case in our recent past, the killer said he feared for his life. The killer in this case is using Florida's "Stand-your-ground" law as a shield from prosecution.

By all accounts, this was simply a case of a man getting his ego bruised and retaliating with deadly force. I watched the video a few times, and there is just no other way to explain it. The local sheriff has already declared that he will not charge the man *Black man pushes white man to the ground in public. He deserves the death penalty*

"He had to shoot to defend himself," Pinellas county sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. "And those are the facts and that's the law.  "

Watch the video, switch the race of the killer and the victim, and tell me if you think that Sheriff Gualtieri  would have made the above statement.