Been trying to think of a way to address what happened in DC yesterday. I'm not paid to be first or frequent so I can afford to sit and think. Thinking is in short supply these days. Everybody has an itchy trigger finger ready to say the most outrageous thing that gets the likes, shares and approval of social and family circles. Fortunately I have long advanced past that stage of immaturity.
First and foremost The Ghost has been against political violence from the jump.
2016:
Dear Move On.Org: Please Fuck Off
There is free speech and there is treason and sedition. What we saw last week was the latter. In America, no candidate for office should be so threatened. Persons should be able to see and hear this candidate without fear of life, limb or property. Instead of MoveOn sending a message to it's membership condemning the behavior we saw. MoveOn asked for money for it's security systems.
Fuck Move On.
And fuck Clinton and Sanders. And Cruz and Kaisich. The DNC, the RNC and each and every representative that failed to stand up and speak forcefully against the behavior we saw last week. The condemnation of the behavior shown last week should have been across party lines, ideological lines and any other lines that American citizens have drawn for themselves. Violence and intimidation to enforce a political desire is and should be unacceptable. Period. That is the entire point of the right to vote and the entire point of freedom of peaceable assembly and petition of government. If the so called "leadership" cannot stand up for constitutional principles which is what "we are supposed to be". Then I get to call them traitors.
The True Left Being Exposed
What? What? There are now "no go" places for American citizens seeking highest office?
When the hell did this happen?
Maybe these nitwits forgot that not too long ago in America there was a thing called the Civil Rights movement. The purpose of said movement was do break down the barriers of full rights of citizens for those who were being denied those rights. Before that, there were placed black people couldn't go, sit or eat. There were places where black people had to make sure they left before the sun went down. Where people who were aligned with organizations like the NAACP had to fear for their lives because people who thought like they did and advocated ideas they advocated for were unwelcome and could be lynched. We fought to end that shit and here is Chris Matthews suggesting that in 2016 America persons shouldn't go to certain places because the populations there may be violent towards them. This is coming from The Left.
Political Violence America
A person in the comments section asked what the shirt said as if that was of any excuse or valid explanation for the political violence meted out to the 62 year old man.
Once again we will find our sitting president absent in condemning the rising political violence that has marked this election. I have seen cases where signs supporting Trump have gone from lawns to windows because of property destruction that followed the placement of yard signs. This is unacceptable. It is unacceptable that both major political parties will not make a forceful public statement condemning the violence and for the federal government to fail to fully prosecute those individuals and groups who are engaging in domestic terrorism.
No US citizen should face violence, be it physical or economic for choosing to support or not support any candidate for office. Political thuggery is a deadly disease to any democratic system. Where citizens cannot feel secure to exercise their rights, society falls.
This Is War
You need to understand. This is the first US election in my lifetime
where violence occurred before and after an election. This is the first
election in my lifetime that representatives of government, up to the
sitting president (that would be Obama in this reference) did NOTHING to
stop or punish this clearly politically motivated violence. We have
celebrities among other lefty types openly calling for assasination[sic] of a
sitting president. We have a celebrity calling for a military coup. We
have officers of the court being openly partial. We have those charged
with upholding the law directing their subordinates to not uphold the
law.
America Is Broken
The government response to Va, from Trump and Sessions on down has let the left know that it is open season to commit violence against those whom they disagree with. America has just become a much more dangerous place to live. If you are to the right of Antifa and they can tell you can have your financial life and "limb life" in danger. On the other side, if you're not white and you are out and about and some neo nazi or white nationalist or just some right of center person who feels threatened, realizes he has no non-violent means of being heard and having his legitimate issues addressed (which doesn't mean all his issues are legitimate) decides on venting his anger decides he's gonna take it out on the next non-white person he sees, well you're fucked.
Equal Protection or Second Class Citizenship?
Why is all this happening? It would be easy to blame Democrats or "The
Left" but Holder is not in the Justice Dept and Obama is not president.
The blame lies squarely on Trump and Sessions. I'm going to focus on
Sessions here. Since the campaign we have seen unprecedented levels of
political violence mostly by leftist groups. We have seen a level of
lawlessness, where governors and mayors have openly violated immigration
law or stated their intent (which is what is needed for criminal
prosecution) to violate immigration law. Various govt. officials have
brazenly told police under their watch to allow persons designated
"nazis" to be beaten and to have their constitutional rights violated.
All of this has happened with mice level peeps from Sessions. This is
unacceptable. Where there is a lack of law, lawlessness escalates.
Paypal etc. have done what they have done because the persons
responsible for setting the tone have failed to do so. Even a failed attempt at prosecution is better than no prosecution at all.
You'll note I put the blame squarely on the Trump administration here. Again, I have been consistently against political violence and have called for enforcement of law regardless. Where were those mainstream voices doing the same? Nowhere.
Lastly I'm going to jump to 2019:
Of Jussie and Andy
Antifa is a domestic (actually international) terrorist organization. It
claims self-defense against those it labels Neo-Nazis. However; it
regards anyone to their right (including moderates) as Neo-Nazis, hence
anyone who disagrees with them is in danger of receiving the same
treatment.
Yeah, teacher's union protest in Wisconsin, 2011.
Sedition? Treason? Domestic terrorism?
Here's The Nation on that:
The next day the Joint Finance Committee of the legislature held a hearing on Act 10. The TAA and other union protesters had planned a “people’s filibuster” of the bill, lining up hundreds of people to speak against it and extending the comment period all day and all night. The repeal of collective bargaining rights, they argued, had nothing to do with “repairing” holes in the budget; freezing their wages was one thing, and even increasing the amounts they had to contribute to their pensions and health insurance could at least be vaguely connected to a need for funds, but getting rid of their right to negotiate for a raise higher than the cost of living when the economy improved was very different and had little to do with the current budget problems. People were incensed. “We had people stuffed in the overflow room of the Capitol, people in line, and the unions were agitating outside,” Hanna said. As the comments stretched on into the evening, the protesters created the Defend Wisconsin Twitter account to send out updates. At the beginning of the day, Hanna said, they’d been told that testimony would continue until everyone had been heard, but sometime after midnight the legislators cut off the speakers, announcing they’d heard enough.
“We decided we were just going to stay,” Hanna said. She and her colleagues sent out messages via Twitter and Facebook, calling for people to join them at the Capitol and to bring sleeping bags. The TAA members invited their students, and they camped out in the Capitol rotunda. At 5:00 a.m., Hanna looked at the person next to her and said, “I guess this is happening!”
