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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsResignation letter from Elizabeth Holtzman to Sec Nielsen is absolutely incredible
"Although it is I who am resigning in protest against these policies,
it is you who should be tendering your resignation instead."
Link to tweet
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)olegramps
(8,200 posts)I don't know how much longer this dysfunctional, lawless, dictatorial executive brand of the government can be tolerated? The legitimacy of the election of the president was accomplished by the aid of a foreign power that has avowed to destroy our nation and subjugate it as it sought to do throughout its history. The very allegiance of the president is in serious doubt. It has been concluded by those with extensive knowledge that he has been either compromised to do their bidding or even more seriously is conspiring to transform the presidency into an authoritarian office with absolute power over the legislative and judiciary. In effect creating a police state and nullifying every article of the constitution. Any objective appraisal must conclude that the executive branch of the government is under the control of a irrational, vindictive despotic moron with a cabinet of brainless bootlicking syncopates to do his bidding. God help America.
mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)prerequisites for trump employment.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)Chickensoup
(650 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)still_one
(92,177 posts)They do not have a conscience
brooklynite
(94,511 posts)She served on Homeland Security Advisory Council
https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-advisory-council-members
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)brooklynite
(94,511 posts)Resigning from a job carries an economic impact
SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Identifies the group from which she is resigning.
brooklynite
(94,511 posts)Since changed...
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)few Republican invertebrate betrayers who've discovered vestigial spines and stumbled over long-discarded moral codes only after deciding not to run for reelection.
Still applaud the truth she speaks. It's possible she might not have done it had she believed Republicans would dominate DC until 2020 but also possible she'd have walked no matter what.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Whoosh. Rationalize. Wash hands.
malaise
(268,955 posts)Rec
FM123
(10,053 posts)Puzzler
(2,505 posts)-Puzzler
lark
(23,097 posts)I love this brave, caring woman - wow what a role model!!! :
NoMoreRepugs
(9,417 posts)brush
(53,771 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)But good for her!
zanana1
(6,112 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)Cruelty is not gender-specific. Nielsen possesses it in spades.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Trump has turned DHS into the organization that we feared when Bush first approved it.
In the interest of "fighting terrorism" we have constructed our own Gestapo.
llmart
(15,536 posts)especially the name - sounded so nazi Germany. I wish they would do away with it already. I remember when librarians were standing up to the requirement that they reveal what sorts of materials people were checking out. Does anyone really think it has been an effective use of taxpayer money? Once you create a new agency, it never goes away. But Americans were all caught up in the nationalistic fervor after 9/11.
klook
(12,154 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)and IIRC, even Bush opposed it at first.
There are certain efficiencies that happen when LEO and intel organizations work together, but the risk was real, and we're seeing the dark side of it TBS.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)We really did see the possibilities for despotic activity here in DU.
C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)A bold and smart letter. History will not be kind to the Trumps and their surrogates.
Gothmog
(145,152 posts)LittleGirl
(8,285 posts)I stand and applaud someone that will stand, state their views and leave. See who follows.
I hope she starts a tsunami of people that cripple that agency and get those children back where they belong.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)that is my response - what a marvelous letter. Yet another person that could/should have the opportunity to serve our country - denied by terrible, mean-spirited and ill-thought leadership.
What a shame our country has become - nowhere near the "Make America Great Again" objective so fraudulently thrown about by IQ45 and his band of terrorists.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)I'm still waiting for SH Sanders to bu bye.
DeminPennswoods
(15,285 posts)There was a recent story about how few of friends recognize her as the person they knew.
awesomerwb1
(4,267 posts)Bravo Mrs Holtzman!
"Although it is I who am resigning in protest against these policies, it is you who should be tendering your resignation instead."
pangaia
(24,324 posts)local newspapers, TV and radio stations, NATIONAL media outlets!
READY
SET
GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)It is nice to see integrity once in awhile.
-- Mal
colorado_ufo
(5,733 posts)It outlines one of the great crimes of our time.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...her first run for the House in 1972. During that primary campaign, when I'd gone up to NYC to volunteer for George McGovern in the presidential primary, I very briefly met her. I'm surprised that she wasn't purged immediately by the Trump junta.
RESIST!
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)They_Live
(3,231 posts)dchill
(38,474 posts)FSogol
(45,481 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,679 posts)90-percent
(6,829 posts)This does truly clarify the cruelty of Trump and the compassion we the USA USED TO HAVE for refugees escaping misery, slavery and death.
-90%
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Hekate
(90,660 posts)She was one of the authors of the Refugee Act of 1980, back when we could still be proud of Congress.
Utter Depravity (the Drumpf years as will be known in history)
democrank
(11,094 posts)Thank you, Elizabeth Holtzman.
oasis
(49,379 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,792 posts)The Wizard
(12,542 posts)elleng
(130,872 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)nt
malaise
(268,955 posts)Let them have it Liz
drmeow
(5,017 posts)If anyone in the Trump administration had any morals or ethics or was capable of feeling shame they would have already left the administration. The only things these people care about are loss of power, loss of money, or loss of freedom (i.e., actual jail time).
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)We will make this right, because we have no choice.
librechik
(30,674 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)Thanks for the thread kpete.