Trump's handlers have drafted proposed answers for him to give to Jackson, including, according to a version leaked to the New York Times, un-Trumpian utterances such as: "I want to make race disappear as a factor in government and governance".
A pattern is beginning to form here and It would be wise for Buhari and his government to stop making these irresponsible utterances as they cost lives.
In fact, no utterance escapes politics.
Tories think it unfair that such utterances are ignored when the government calls Mr Hague a racist.
Earlier this month, Democratic officials put together a rough draft of their party's platform, which touts the Democratic efforts to enact the death penalty, endorses several of President Clinton's recent social-policy placebos (school uniforms, the V-chip, a victims'-rights amendment), and repeats Clinton's utterance that "the era of big government is over".
The big one that's obvious, post-Snowden, is that these huge corporate servers create one-stop shopping for the government when it wants to Hoover up our utterances.
Given that fast pace especially at a moment when the United States has eyes and ears only for the "transition," for the acts and utterances of the president-elect, for the government that he is setting up, and for his wife, his daughter, and little Barron this story may strike some as already being ancient history.
And for aliens and natives alike, they added a Sedition Act, which punished any "conspiracy" to impede federal law (five years in prison) or any utterance or writing found to be contemptuous of the government, Congress or the president (two years).
From that utterance in 1647 to Lincoln at Gettysburg in 1863 — "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" — is a natural progression.
When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proclaimed, "I am the government" during a recent radio interview, he wasn't translating the utterances of Louis XIV.
