On 9-10-23, the Washington Post penned an article, "He was Mormon royalty. Now his lawsuit against the church is a rallying cry", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Of course religious organizations solicit and store huge amounts of tax-exempt donor money. They're just another form of an active political party trying to curry favor for dominance.

And just like political affiliation, take the pledge, pass the bucks, and favor a dislike for the competition so you can vote your conscience.

    On 9-7-23, the Washington Post reported that "Justice Kavanaugh says ethics changes may be coming to Supreme Court", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

'  (Quoted from the article) The Senate Judiciary Committee (likely bi-partisan) advanced legislation in July that would require the justices to follow disclosure rules as strict as those that apply to members of Congress — including more detailed and timely information about privately sponsored travel, for example. The bill, which is opposed by Republicans and unlikely to succeed, would also tighten recusal requirements for the justices and create an ethics code for the high court."

"The bill, which is opposed by Republicans and unlikely to succeed..."

Folks, do you really need a road map of which party is likely to abuse the power and benefits of office? An office of public servants no less. And doesn't this show you how the Federalist Society got it wrong,...all along?

   On 9-2-23, Seattle Times columnist Danny Wesneat penned: "What we could all learn from the Proud Boys trials", and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

But the reality remains that protest opportunists seldom harbor any but demonstrative motives of their own for destructive and malicious acts that have little impact on social justice matters because of spontaneity.

The January 6th insurrection, however, was and remains a destructive act to interfere, obstruct, and deny an official government function by planned and mobilized design and encouragement offered by a voter defeated candidate with an ulterior motive of illegality. And so far, the bulk of those planners, designers and participants are being taken to task for their involvement in legal courtroom criminal justice fashion.

The cause of their cause, again however, remains unaccountable for his actions while taking cheap social media pot-shots at those irascible ankle bitters handling questions of evidence our country has never had to face before in its entire history in order to perfect proper courtroom prosecution.

This is not going to happen according to our desires for action, but when it comes to pass be assured that those public servants on payroll, not on (usually unpaid) retainer hopefully will prevail.

    On 8-24-23, the Washington Post published an Analysis | The winners and losers from the first Republican debate, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus: 

Sorry I missed all that blither and blame, (PBS was more educational and informative), but thanks for the print media recap.  As I see it, about the only Presidential sounding contender in your recap was Nikki Haley who reminded us of Trump's major Presidential blunder of adding $8 Trillion to our national debt, a debt which our children must address.

But she forgot to remind us of the delay in distribution of those Congressional authorized Covid stimulus checks while they were reprinted with Trump's name on them instead of the normal Secretary of the Treasurer printed name.  Petty narcissistic behavior for someone who has been short-changing his tax liabilities to the government forever.   

And the rejoinder by Nikki directed at un-presidential Ramaswamy that his opinion of non-support of Ukraine was a vote for the Russian murderer of civilians. An isolationist attitude has no place in our country who has demonstrated such noteworthy activity in policing and charitable concerns shown for countries without our resources in science, education, medicine, military armament, intelligence gathering, farming and manufacturing.  

But still, I question her tribal mentality to back Trump if he becomes the Republican example of a mentally and morally incompetent steward for this country.  The Republicans badly need to draw the line on that error in judgement.   

   On 8-21-23, the Washington Post published an Opinion that | Trump’s kid-glove treatment highlights an unequal justice system, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Let's face it. The reason our criminal justice system finds it necessary to jail defendants before trial is the result of historical information that indicate they are likely to continue in their chosen path of aberrant behavior against the norm for societal safety and tranquility.

Just think how quickly someone of Trump's publicized anti-social behavior would earn incarceration. And since when does his federal funded security detail enjoy immunity from witness testimony for his aberrant behavior?

Trump is a mentally ill mischief inciting miscreant. Lock him up!

    The Washington Post on 8-19-23, did a book Review on| The case for James Garfield, the president history forgot, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

The benefits of history researched and written well are evident here. When the irony of a past and present political party's moral purpose (Republicans) becomes so divisive it challenges us to wonder why. Maybe the lesson to learn is our politics have become little but gaining power for the sake of its benefits, not its opportunity for public service.

    On 8-11-23, the Washington Post reported an Opinion | A Trump judge sends Southwest Airlines to right-wing reeducation camp (over a religious question), and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

Thanks Ms. Marcus, you've shown the true meddle of our country's religious group's attempts at influence and impact on our Constituted Republic. They are little but disguised political parties attempting to mandate their moral adventures, (read agenda) into lawful pursuits.

They enjoy only the privilege under our Constitution of existing and practicing their storied beliefs without interference. There is no provision in our Constitution for any (religions') rights of expression that alter our laws for social conduct.

And to assume that right would seem worth punishment, not endorsement by a government official (the Judge) under oath to uphold our (Constitutional) governing document.

   On 8-9-23, the Washington Post Analysis reported | The GOP’s belated — but growing — admission that Trump lost the election, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus:

This isn't about the fact that Trump lost his election. It is about the criminal actions he took to deny the political process of someone else's election.

That's the inconvenient truth the GOP is unable to acknowledge.

   On 8-9-23, the Washington Post penned an article entitled| Would you trust Trump with your evidence? and on that date the Enlighted Prisoner responded thus:

As has been said before, Trump would be incapable of passing the most basic background investigation by a government agency for access to classified material. Yet, a naive, uninformed and easily led portion of the electorate put him in an office where he could ignore years of rules to prevent miscreants from such access.

And yet, they have learned nothing from that experience.

    On 8-8-23, the Washington Post penned an Analysis | A better analogy for the role of delusion in Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment, and on that date the Enlightened Prisoner responded thus: 

All this just adds to Trump's true strategy which is trying to influence public opinion in the media in order to avoid the damaging results of his courtroom mannerisms which would uphold his guilt.

Wake up folks, he's not about respecting our judicial system's arena for determining truth. Trump's only about the spectacle of usurping our sense of order and tranquility and cause the chaos that leads to public disorder. And the media has become his storm troopers.