By Donald A. Collins | 19 September 2025
Church and State
Many times over the past several years, I have suggested that the behavior of this president deserves what I advocate for.
While there seems to be no appetite for recognition of our constitution and our right of free speech by the gutless GOP and its majority in Congress, with the removal of Kimmel at the instigation of the chairman of the FCC on September 17, we must again scream for justice and legal action.
Again, we cannot expect that gutless GOP elected officials to do anything but disgracefully refusing to recognize the enormous step that the Kimmel withdrawal represents.
Stephen Colbert: "After threats from Trump's FCC chair, ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship…With an autocrat, you can't give an inch. If ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naïve." pic.twitter.com/LpRFOE7kOS
— Home of the Brave (@OfTheBraveUSA) September 19, 2025
This attack on all media parallels the attack. Trump has made on all the significant institutions in our society, including Harvard, cower institutions, such as the JFK center, where he appointed himself chairman, and his use of abusive language to attack his perceived enemies in what he advertises as a second term devoted to retribution against those enemies.
All American citizens should understand the informality of what has just happened with the Kimmel situation, as it is completely parallel with all the previous actions. Trump has been using steamroller to cause the loss of freedom of speech for all of us.
You can read here the full article in the Washington Post, which details the basis for this current initiative, using the Kirk murder as a basis for stealing that basic constitutional right of free speech.
"Administration officials promise actions against critics in break with past GOP rhetoric defending free speech, probably drawing legal challenges."
Trump, allies seek to punish speech they dislike following Kirk killinghttps://t.co/8Zvzl53zV6
— Church and State (@ChurchAndStateN) September 18, 2025
Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 60 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”, “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”, “On the Precipice of Political Disaster in 2024”, “Democracy at Red State Risk”, “Does Trump Go to Jail or to The Oval Office?”, “Trump: Pardon or Punish?: The Nixon Precedence Was Not A Trump Coup Denied!”, “Common Sense: When will Trump be Impeached, Indicted, and Exited?” and “Trump–unrestrained dangerous liar!”.“What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”: https://t.co/fHuh0CG6JD
“We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”: https://t.co/TA4j7cp1tE
“From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”: https://t.co/lkC2t3E1A9 pic.twitter.com/bQsL2mLBcO— Church and State (@ChurchAndStateN) November 1, 2021
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