Fascinating development. Attacking the U.S. federal government to overthrow it… does not prevent citizenship path for immigrant.

Eliel Rosa, 53, avoided a felony, which would have threatened future citizenship by pleading to a misdemeanor.

According to court documents, Rosa and his wife fled political persecution in Brazil and arrived in the US in 2016. The couple was granted asylum in 2018 and they are currently pursuing US citizenship.

Rosa claimed to be a teacher of civics, while participating in a rejection of civics.

Rosa claimed to be seeking government aid, while participating in a rejection of government.

Sharp contrast for an immigrant to Texas who seems to be flaunting truth and morality, let alone the law, when compared with so many others unable to get entry into Texas.

Judge McFadden, who has refused to punish this criminal immigrant to Texas, is an appointee of the coup leader who hates immigrants.

Rosa also claims his family was persecuted for being evangelical Christian politicians… so affinity with coup leadership isn’t any mystery.

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” Rosa quoted Madison.

“I am definitely not an angel,” the defendant admitted.

He then said he was pleased he had the “ability to repent” for his wrongdoing pursuant to the Christian faith.

Note his pleasure directed towards an evangelical calling instead of rights and laws enshrined under the Constitution.

Indeed, Madison was wrong, begging what kind of civics this immigrant is teaching in Texas.

Just because you could get away with breaking the law doesn’t mean you’re entitled to morally.

Obviously Rosa should be expelled immediately, especially in context of how anti-immigrant the coup leaders claim they are.

Even his asylum claims sound bogus.

After the Civil War anti-American insurrectionists were officially invited by Brazil to immigrate where they could continue to expand slavery.

Is it thus any surprise such descendants of insurrection would return to attempt again the overthrow of the U.S. government? What really compelled him to leave Brazil?

Every so often I have an image of a New Yorker cartoon pop into my mind. If I had the time to draw, this is one I would have sketched after breakfast today:

A robber leaving the vault with pockets stuffed with cash says on the way out, past police pointing guns at him, “This is the future, I’m reinventing banking”.

This cartoon in fact has many applications, not just fraudulent futurism.

Far too many times I’ve had people try to tell me that relativism makes it impossible to criticize crimes in the past.

Washington intentionally violated laws of his day that abolished slavery, other men in that day set all their slaves free, and slaves in America already for over a hundred years prior had proven abolition sensible… yet far too many Americans ignore all these simple facts while peddling how Washington’s own views of his crimes are all that should matter then or now.

An absolutely beautiful new work of writing states much of what I’ve been saying in my presentations since at least 2016: driverless cars are being designed to promote a “hellscape” that nobody should want.

With autonomous vehicles it’s both: It can’t work, but the companies will create problems because they’ll pursue it anyway. If a surgeon does invasive surgery and it doesn’t work, he’s going to do a lot of harm to your body without curing you. The destruction of pre-automobile cities like St. Louis or Cincinnati to create space for cars didn’t mean that car dependency ever met its promises — but it did mean that the belief that it could was profoundly destructive.

Waymo likes to claim that autonomous vehicles are working right now. The reason it works is that there is a hellscape that these things have to go through, called Chandler, Arizona. Density is too low for anything other than driving to work well, every residential street is too wide, the non-residential roads are all multilane arterials with turning lanes, and every destination is surrounded by a vast parking lot. If that’s what you have to create for autonomous vehicles to work, it’s a Pyrrhic victory. It’s not worth it.

It works because there is a hellscape. Couldn’t have said it any better.

In other words, if someone builds technology that can only be successful on the moon, don’t be surprised when they try to trick you into leaving your colorful alive world and going to a gray lifeless surface of the moon… so they can remain profitable regardless of your loss.

Jaywalking is a racist fantasy crime that was fabricated by car companies, for another angle on this same problem.

The new book is called “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving” and it’s obvious it was written by a historian.

Cigarettes provide a historical lesson. When the Surgeon General’s report came out in 1964, the discussion the tobacco companies wanted to have was, “How do we make cigarettes safe?” That was getting the problem wrong. The real problem was, “How we can free ourselves from cigarettes?” […] It’s freeing ourselves from a world where if you don’t have a car you’re doomed, because you can’t get to work. The accommodation of car dependency is the perpetuation of car dependency.

Boom.

As I’ve been saying through every channel I can, history tells us that driverless cars will kill more people not less. They will cause more fatalities and do far more harms, not less. This is a function of centrally-planned and controlled decisions about human-life that values it less and less (e.g. jaywalking history) while fraudulently claiming to care more than anything before.

And so far my early predictions from five years ago have been sadly accurate.

Where does this go? Driverless will bring a “hellscape” where “…motordom has successfully prevented Americans from [freedom of choice]…”.