Tag: politics

Daniel Lurie’s stealth campaign to destroy Great Highway Park

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 3.11.2025

The entitled motorists have an ally in Room 200 at City Hall.

In a brutal last ditch attempt to halt creation of an environmental oasis by the Pacific Ocean, Levi’s scion and billionaire Mayor Daniel Lurie has enlisted his legal fixer to destroy Great Highway Park

Proposition K was approved by 55 percent of San Francisco voters last November.

Daniel Lurie has been Mayor only nine weeks and his attempt to slash and burn the environmental legacy of his predecessor London Breed is evident for any who care to notice.

Rather than come out and publicly say he opposes Great Highway Park, approved by 55 percent of the voters last November, Mayor Lurie enlisted his campaign lawyer to slash and burn the voters will. The only conclusion one can draw from this turning his back on The People is that the Mayor has been bullied into submission by the entitled motorists.

It’s a crass political calculation that the environmentalists who have waged a successful battle can be safely politically ignored.

It’s a shame that even though the proponents of a more pedestrian and cyclist friendly San Francisco have emerged victorious in all the major battles; JFK Promenade, Slow Streets and Great Highway Park the spoiled rotten entitled motorists refuse to acknowledge reality.

Former Mayor London Breed was a champion for the environment and car free streets. She advocated for JFK Promenade and Great Highway Park. Those halcyon days of environmental progress are over.

Former Mayor London Breed, champion of both JFK Promenade and Great Highway Park, signs enabling legislation creating JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park – May 7, 2022 – photo Lee Heidhues

Excerpted from The San Francisco Standard 3.10.2025

Opponents of Proposition K, the ballot measure that authorized the closure, and created Great Highway Park last November were expected to file a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that San Francisco voters don’t have the right to close the street to cars.

The lawsuit, led by Jim Sutton, alleges that the city ignored the state’s authority and unlawfully placed a measure before San Francisco voters. Sutton was Mayor Daniel Lurie’s campaign attorney.

Advocates for Proposition K – Great Highway Park. Will Daniel Lurie destroy their success?

The lawsuit also questions how the measure was put on the ballot, saying it bypassed the California Environmental Quality Act review process.

“This lawsuit is about standing up for the people who are being left behind,” said Albert Chow, a Sunset small-business owner and plaintiff. “Seniors, kids, and families will be forced to navigate more dangerous streets just so City Hall can score political points.”

Prop. K passed with 54% of votes in November 2024 after being placed on the ballot by five supervisors, including Joel Engardio of the Sunset, where the stretch of road is located. Approximately 64% of Sunset residents opposed the measure. Some have launched a recall effort against Engardio.

Top photo: Daniel Lurie prays that his Hail Mary to destroy Great Highway Park succeeds.

Trump should be in jail. Criminal presidents busted in other lands

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 3.10.2025

Donald Trump should be in prison.

American justice is disgraceful. The convicted felon Donald Trump is in the White House while the ex Presidents of The Philippines and Brazil have been indicted for their criminal acts and face major jail time. In these countries a compliant judiciary will not save them.

Where Trump belongs.

In the Philippines former President has been indicted by the International Criminal Court.

Excerpted from The New York Times 3.10.2025

Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was arrested on Tuesday in Manila, after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity in his war on drugs in which, human rights groups say, tens of thousands of Filipinos were summarily executed.

He was taken into custody at the airport in Manila after returning from a trip to Hong Kong, according to the Philippine government. Mr. Duterte’s lawyer, Salvador Panelo, said the arrest was unlawful, partly because the Philippines withdrew from the court while Mr. Duterte was in office.

Mr. Duterte, 79, who left office in 2022, is a populist firebrand who remains one of the Philippines’ most influential politicians, and he has enjoyed relative immunity despite several accusations against him in connection with his antidrug campaign.

But Mr. Duterte’s arrest could be a major step toward accountability for thousands of Filipinos who have long sought justice for their loved ones, many of whom were gunned down by police officers, hit men and vigilantes. Activists say the vast majority of victims were poor, urban Filipinos, some of whom were minors and people who had nothing to do with the drug trade.

In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has been indicted for attempting to overthrow an election he lost.

April 12th. Day of Great Highway Park. “The truth will prevail.”

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues. March 1st, 2025

A local senior law enforcement official recently told me, “The truth will prevail.”

March 1st is a historic and memorable day for San Francisco in general and for Liz and me in particular.

Today March 1st 2025 San Francisco officialdom announced a date for the formal opening of Great Highway Park, the two mile stretch of road adjoining the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco.

Liz and Lee in younger days

On this first of March day in 1969 Liz and I moved to a place which came to be known as the ‘Beach House’ in the outer Richmond District. High on a hill this house, still standing 56 years later, overlooks Golden Gate Park and a view which stretches all along the coastline. Site of Great Highway Park. That night we took the 38 Geary bus downtown to the Chinese New Year Parade; ate dinner at Sam Wo and bought two LPs, which we still have today. ‘The Blues Alone’ by John Mayall and ‘Sailor’ by The Steve Miller Blues Band.

Today officials from City Hall announced The Great Highway Park will formally open on April 12th 2025.

The date, April 12th, has taken on a tragic, traumatic and long lasting significance in Liz’s life.

It was on this day, seven years ago April 12th 2018 that Liz, then 68, was subjected to the first of two citizen’s arrests.

This event has had an ever lasting traumatic impact on Liz’s life.

Liz self portrayal behind bars at San Francisco County Jail.

The fact The Great Highway Park will open on April 12th 2025 is a joyous event, one which we have battled for the past four years and will ease the hurt of what happened seven years ago. The fact Liz and I, along with countless other environmental advocates, persevered despite the opprobrium heaped on us taught us one thing. “The truth will prevail.”

Liz and Lee on JFK Promenade

Top photo: Looking down the Pacific Coast shoreline in San Francisco adjacent to Great Highway Park

Lucky Man – Steve Miller Blues Band “Sailor” 1968

AfD in the German Bundestag. Hitler, Hate and Hooligans

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 2.26.2025

The gang of Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) Neo-Nazis are the type people The Felon Donald Trump, Elon Musk and JD Vance cheered on during the recent German election.

AfD the descendants of The Third Reich

Deutsche Welle continues to report on last Sunday’s German elections.

The far right “Nazi Curious” Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) captured 152 seats in the 630 member Bundestag.

Deutsche Welle found several of the most incendiary AfD members who will now have an outsized influence in formulating German policy; some of which involve hate speech and neo-Nazi activity in a country ravaged by Adolf Hitler during his 12 year reign.

Deutsche Welle 2.26.2025

https://www.dw.com/en/afd-in-the-bundestag-hitler-hate-and-hooligans/g-71754221

Details about each AdF Bundestag member were found on Wikipedia.

MATTHIAS HELFERICH. During his election campaign, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) banned Helferich from holding political office. Helferich had described himself in messages as the “friendly face of the ns [sic],” referring to National Socialism. Helferich also called himself a “democratic Freisler,” referring to a Nazi-era judge. Helferich later said that his statements were meant as parody: “If you are confronted with Nazi accusations as frequently as AfD politicians, you compensate for that in private spheres. You ridicule it.”
MAXIMILLIAN KRAH: is a German lawyer and politician. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019 as a member of right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD). In April 2024, Krah gained international attention when the German Prosecutor General arrested his assistant, suspected of spying for China by passing on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament to China’s intelligence service. This and comments Krah made about the Nazi era in a subsequent media interview were seen by observers as having triggered the decision by the European parliamentarian group Identity and Democracy (ID) to exclude the AfD from membership on 23 May 2024. Since then, Krah has sat with the non-attached members.
JAN WENZEL SCHMIDT became member of AfD in 2014. One year later he was co-founder of the rightwing extremist youth organization Junge Alternative (young alternative for Germany) and became their first chairmen. In 2016 he was elected to the Landtag of Saxony Anhalt. He became member of the Bundestag in 2021.
STEPHAN PROTSCHKA became member of the bundestag after the 2017 German federal election. He is a member of the Committee for Food and Agriculture. In 2019 he was involved in controversy after funding and supporting a memorial in Poland honoring German soldiers in WWII and the Nazi paramilitary organization Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz. The construction of the memorial was partially initiated by the neo-Nazi organization Junge Nationalisten which is being monitored by the German intelligence services. Polish courts started an investigation against Protschka for supporting Nazism and defamation of victims of the Holocaust. In 2024, Protschka agreed to pay a 12,000 euro fine in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges related to his calling Bavarian state premier Markus Söder “a traitor to the country” and “Södolf” at a political event in 2023.
DARIO SEIFERT a German politician who was elected member of the Bundestag in 2025. From 2012 to 2014, he was a member of the Junge Nationalisten, The youth wing of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD).
SEBASTIAN MUNZENMAIER. German politician  AfD and a member of the German Bundestag since 2017. Since 2023 he has been deputy parliamentary group leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the BundestagIn July 2017, Münzenmaier and many other people were charged with  grievous bodily harm and attempted theft of fan trophies at the Mainz District Court . In 2012, he was alleged to have been involved in an attack by members of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern ultra and hooligan scene on fans of 1. FSV Mainz 05. This was preceded by a series of insults by Mainz ultras that had been practiced for years to denigrate the Kaiserslautern idol 
Fritz Walter. The masked hooligan group had ambushed and attacked buses of Mainz fans, which also contained children. The Kaiserslautern fans were chased away by the defensive Mainz fans with sticks and bottles. During the scuffle, Mainz fans are said to have suffered lacerations and broken fingers from punches. A representative of the Mainz ultras testified in court that the incident was a typical “beating” among ultras. The press has been critical of the legal investigation . According to Münzenmaier’s defense attorney , the defendant’s apartment was searched immediately after the crime . The police found 
a telescopic baton , a balaclava and “trophy” photos of masked hooligans with opposing fan paraphernalia. Three of Münzenmaier’s co-defendants pleaded guilty at the beginning of the main hearing,  Münzenmaier denied the charges. 
 On 18 October 2017, the district court sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence of six months with a probationary period of three years and a fine of 10,000 euros. Both Münzenmaier and the public prosecutor’s office appealed against the verdict .  In December 2017, the German Bundestag lifted Münzenmaier ‘s immunity to allow the proceedings to continue.  On 17 December 2018 , he was sentenced in the appeal proceedings before the Mainz Regional Court to a fine totaling 16,200 euros.
Elon Musk the AfD Neo-Nazi cheerleader

Top photo: Trump and Alternative for Deutschland (AfD). Kindred souls of Neo-Nazism

Mississippi Judge crushes the US Constitution right to publish

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 2.20.2025

A HUGE story about Prior Restraint and suppression of the right to publish.

Major media outlets are giving this story major coverage. I am going close to the site of this egregious Prior Restraint by a Judge in Mississippi.

All those who care about Press freedom must be concerned and alarmed.

https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/02/20/judge-orders-clarksdale-newspaper-remove-editorial-after-libel-suit/

Excerpted from Mississippi Today – Pulitzer Prize Winning Non-Profit News 2.20.2025

Clarksdale, Mississippi Press Register crushed in the Courtroom

A Mississippi judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing the mayor of Clarksdale and city leaders after the officials sued the news outlet, leading press advocates to criticize the order as one of the most egregious First Amendment violations in recent years. 

Charlie Mitchell is the former executive editor of the Vicksburg Post and an attorney. He is a assistant professor at the University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism and New Media, where he has taught media law for years. He told Mississippi Today there were so many issues with the judge’s order that he didn’t even “know where to start.”

“The First Amendment allows restraint of expression, including by the media, only extremely rarely and only when there is clear evidence of immediate and irreparable risk to the public — such as blocking publication that would identify confidential informants,” Mitchell said.

Hinds County Chancellor Crystal Wise Martin issued a temporary restraining order against the Clarksdale Press Register

Without a hearing for the newspaper, Hinds County Chancellor Crystal Wise Martin issued a temporary restraining order against the Clarksdale Press Register on Tuesday after the news outlet wrote a Feb. 8 editorial titled “Secrecy, Deception Erode Public Trust.” 

The column criticized the city for not sending the newspaper a notice about a meeting city commissioners held over a proposed effort to ask the state Legislature for permission to enact a local tax on alcohol, marijuana and tobacco. 

As of Thursday morning, the news outlet had removed the editorial from its website, but Wyatt Emmerich, the newspaper’s owner, told Mississippi Today that he intended to fight the judge’s order in court, which he called “absolutely astounding.” 

The United States Supreme Court in the famous New York Times v. Sullivan has stood strongly for the right to publish without interference of censorship by government authorities.

Hinds County judge orders Clarksdale newspaper to remove editorial, alarming press advocates

Excerpted from The New York Times 2.20.2025

Adam Steinbaugh, a lawyer at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which supports free speech, criticized the city’s lawsuit, writing on social media that it was “wildly unconstitutional.”

He said that governments “can’t sue for libel” under New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark First Amendment decision issued by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1964.

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled the freedom of speech protections in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution limit the ability of a public official to sue for defamation.[1][2] The decision held that if a plaintiff in a defamation lawsuit is a public official or candidate for public office, then not only must they prove the normal elements of defamation—publication of a false defamatory statement to a third party—they must also prove that the statement was made with “actual malice“, meaning the defendant either knew the statement was false or recklessly disregarded whether it might be false.[2] New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is frequently ranked as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the modern era.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan

The Musk-Trump dream of global dominance is coming true.

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 2.18.2025

President Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s wildest dreams of worldwide political dominance are coming true.

The isolationist and politically obtuse American public is ignoring the impending disaster of the political order in Germany.

This Sunday German voters will go to the polls and elect a new parliament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundestag

The extremist right wing Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), if the polls are correct, will gain over 20 percent of the seats in the Bundestag. Potentially giving the AfD 130 seats in the 630 member parliament. Making this party of extremists and, some would say, Neo-Nazis a major player in Germany and the whole of Europe.

Elon Musk is actively campaigning for the AfD. Vice-President JD Vance went to Munich last week and sang the praises of these extremists.

Excerpted from Wall Street Journal Editorial 2.18.2025

The AfD’s foreign-policy views should give Americans pause. Party co-leader Tino Chrupalla in December suggested Germany should withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization because NATO is too dominated by America. Alice Weidel, the party’s candidate for chancellor, said in September she believes “U.S. interests in Germany are diametrically opposed to our security interests.” The party taps into a deep well of suspicion of the U.S. and sympathy for Russia among its voters in the former East Germany.

Nor can Americans be blind to the extremism within the AfD. Björn Höcke, a party leader in Thuringia state, criticized construction of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial, says the word Lebensraum (the Nazi concept of an ethnic German zone in Europe) should be revived, and has peppered speeches with a nationalist slogan once adopted by Hitler’s storm troopers. Alexander Gauland, an AfD leader in the national parliament, once described the Nazi era as “bird s—” in the context of Germany history.

Ms. Weidel and other leaders haven’t purged these elements from the AfD. That is in contrast to Marine Le Pen’s purge of antisemites from her party in France, expelling even her own father from the party he founded. Ms. Le Pen’s party has cut ties with the AfD at the European Union level in Brussels.

This explains why mainstream German parties have erected a “firewall” around the AfD—something Mr. Vance criticized last week. Mr. Vance is right that Europe’s failed mainstream politicians can’t run from their voters forever, but it doesn’t follow that an American Vice President should throw his weight behind an anti-American party.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/germany-election-friedrich-merz-cdu-afd-europe-donald-trump-5bb5109d?st=2mbEJ9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Super Bowl Sunday – Surfing through the shoppers at Safeway

San Francisco – Safeway at Ocean Beach

Lee Heidhues 2.9.2025

UPDATE: New Orleans, Louisiana. The Philadelphia Eagles demolished The Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 and capture the 59th Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy. In 2026 the Super Bowl will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Home of the 49ers.

The All-American pastime. The Super Bowl. And what more appropriate way to spend the time before the 3:30 kickoff. Shopping at the Supermarket.

We took a walk through the car free slow street near the Safeway a mile from our home. And an hour later boarded the bus carrying bags and backpacks full of food and household item.

Getting ready to chow down on Super Bowl Sunday.

The Super Bowl ads are always a signal of the current state of life in America.

The ads this year are light on substance with strong bows to the boomer generation. So, this photo montage concludes with the classic rock song by It’s a Beautiful Day, “White Bird.”

The crow watches over Safeway at the Beach in San Francisco.
The Super Bowl sugar fix ensemble. Complete with the team colors of Kansas City and Philadelphia
It’s not all the sugar fix at Safeway. Healthy oranges and apple abound.
Liz holds aloft a cabbage destined to be a marvelous Coleslaw salad. Check out that Erin Andrews 49ers sweatshirt. Maybe next February at Levi’s Stadium the home team will make another Super Bowl appearance.
Aisles and aisles of San Francisco consumer staples.
Blogger Lee loves those cookies.
The well stacked and surprisingly empty Safeway Deli section on Super Bowl Sunday.
For the non Super Bowl fan there are plenty of periodicals available to pass the hours.
Liz carefully looks over the organic chicken drumstick selection.
An abundance of organic produce at Safeway.
Heading home.
“White Bird” the classic late ’60s song and appropriate for a beautiful day on Super Bowl Sunday.
It’s a Beautiful Day is an American band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1967, featuring vocalist Pattie Santos along with violinist David LaFlamme and his wife, Linda LaFlamme, on keyboards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Beautiful_Day

The Elon Musk – Donald Trump Nazi American Coup d’etat – 2025

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 2.7.2025

Quick and brutal like Germany in 1933. Nazis Donald Trump and Elon Musk have their Reichstag fire. It’s happened and nobody has taken notice as the 250 year old democracy in America is burned to the ground.

The Nazi Felon President Trump may not like it.

The latest Elon Musk cover photo in Time tells an inconvenient truth about the presidency. Time Magazine which just two months ago The Nazi Trump was feted as Person of the Year for 2024.

The truth is fellow traveler Elon Musk has gleefully implemented The Nazi President’s coup d’etat in America with barely a whimper from devastated, somnolent and out maneuvered Democrats.

This is the condition of America in 2025.

An American Nazi takeover. So fast and effective.

The Reichstag fire (German: Reichstagsbrand, pronounced [ˈʁaɪçstaːksˌbʁant] ⓘ) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties, and pursue a “ruthless confrontation” with the Communists.[1] This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

That’s why Elon Musk wants more than America to succumb to his Nazi ideology. He is campaigning for extremist the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in the February 23rd national election.

Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD, German pronunciation: [aːʔɛfˈdiː] ⓘ) is a far-right[4] and right-wing populist[5][6] political party in Germany. The AfD is Eurosceptic,[7] and opposes immigration into Germany, especially Muslim immigration.[8] The name of the party reflects its resistance to (uncontested by mainstream parties) policies of Angela Merkel with her insistence on Alternativlosigkeit (lit. ’alternative-less-ness’, a German version of “there is no alternative“).[9] The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, has classified the party as a “suspected extremist” organization.[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany

Elon Musk. Soul mates with the German far right party and its standard bearer for Chancellor Alice Weidel

January 6, 2021. Nazi Trump got his coup d’etat four years later

Axed from Lurie’s team. Kit Lam San Francisco rabble rouser.

Season of the Opportunist. Kit Lam goes on campaign trail for Levi’s scion
‘Power Play’ San Francisco Standard 1.29.2025

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 1.29.2025

The first day of The Year of the Snake is not a happy one for San Francisco political rabble rouser Man Kit Lam.

Kit Lam is out of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration after less than a month.

San Francisco Chronicle page one announcing Kit Lam’s “joining” Daniel Lurie’s mayoral campaign. March 12, 2024

Last March it was all smiles as then candidate Levi Strauss & Co. scion Daniel Lurie brought Kit Lam aboard as a liaison to the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.

After Lurie’s victory in the Mayoral election last November, Kit Lam joined the incoming administration. It was a short lived tenure in the Mayor’s office.

His fate with Daniel Lurie is similar to that of his brief tenure with Supervisor Joel Engardio. Kit Lam managed Engardio’s 2022 successful Supervisorial campaign. He then came on as one of Engardio’s legislative aides. He left after a year.

Supervisor Joel Engardio and Kit Lam

At the time Kit Lam left Supervisor Engardio’s employ I was told he had a difficult working relationship with fellow legislative aides in City Hall. Then Mayor London Breed’s office also had a difficult time working with Kit Lam.

In both instances, Kit Lam said publicly he left for “personal reasons” and said he still supported both his former employers.

During 2021 and 2022 Kit Lam was active in the successful campaigns to Recall three School Board members and District Attorney Chesa Boudin.

Man Kit Lam, campaign manager for D4 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio, argues with Rev. Amos Brown of the NAACP at SFUSD Headquarters at 555 Franklin Street in San Francisco, Calif., on June 22, 2022, regarding Lowell High School admissions. | Camille Cohen/The Standard

Prior to entering the electoral arena Kit Lam did investigative work for the San Francisco school board. He was laid off several years ago.

In Hong Kong Kit Lam worked for law enforcement.

Top photo. Jason Kruta and Kit Lam confront each in the San Francisco Richmond District other during the School Board Recall petition campaign in 2021.

San Francisco MSM trumpeted the settlement of Man Kit Lam’s civil law suit against Jason Kruta. The young man who briefly disrupted his successful campaign to recall three Progressive School Board members in February 2022. An act for which Jason Kruta was fired from his job and was criminally prosecuted. A prosecution which was not enough for vengeful Man Kit Lam. He sued Mr. Kruta in San Francisco Civil Superior Court. A lawsuit which concluded in 2023.

Brazil condemns Nazi Felon Trump Deportees arrived handcuffed

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 1.26.2028

It’s just the beginning. Humans in chains. That’s the Nazi felon Donald Trump way.

This photo provided by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents guide undocumented immigrants onboard a C-17 Globemaster III at the Tucson International Airport, Ariz., Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Senior Airman Devlin Bishop/Dept. of Defense via AP)

The Nazi felon American President Donald Trump has done more to destroy people’s dignity and human rights than any President in my lifetime.

You won’t read in the mainstream media that Nazi felon Trump is deporting men, women and children to their native countries in handcuffs. The Brazilian government is calling out this wanton human rights abuse.

The inhumane treatment of Brazilian citizens by the US will sour relations between the felon Trump administration and Brazilian President Lula’s government

Earlier the Colombian government harshly condemned Nazi felon Trump for carrying deportees in military cargo planes. And refused permission for the American planes to land in Colombia.

The conduct of Nazi felon Trump has shamed America throughout the world. His obscene performance is reminiscent of Germany beginning in January 1933.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 1.26.2025

The use of handcuffs on migrants is considered controversial in Brazil. Even former conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump supporter, has called for an end to the practice.

Brazil’s government decried the US after dozens of deportees arrived on a plane in handcuffs. The Brazilian justice minister called it a “blatant disrespect” of their rights.

Brazil strongly condemned the US on Saturday after dozens of deportees arrived to the country in handcuffs.

A plane carrying 88 Brazilian passengers, 16 US security agents, and eight crew members, was originally scheduled to arrive in Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais, but had to make an emergency landing in the city of Manaus due to a technical error, said a statement by the Brazilian government.

The smirking Nazi felon Donald Trump

Brazilian federal police received the plane at the instructions of Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski and intervened, asking US agents to remove handcuffs from the deportees.

Lewandowski told President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva it was a “blatant disrespect” of their fundamental rights, according to a statement by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
 
“Upon learning of the situation, President Lula ordered that a Brazilian Air Force (FAB) aircraft be mobilized to transport the Brazilians to their final destination, in order to ensure that they could complete their journey with dignity and safety,” the ministry’s statement said.

https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-condemns-us-after-deportees-arrive-handcuffed-in-plane/a-71411774