The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
For reasons of my own, I use the Rooster as a symbol for the beginning of a new news week. This is a wake up call that every American needs to strongly condemn the hate speech of the President of the United States of America.
Jeff Sessions has stated the Charlottesville, Virginia demonstration and attack on innocent people in opposition to the message of the White Supremacists was an act of domestic terrorism. However,...
August 14, 2017
By Hayley Miller
In the days (click here) following the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke out against “racial bigotry” and “white supremacists” earlier ― and in stronger terms ― than his boss, the president of the United States.
Sessions unequivocally condemned Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan on Monday after a white nationalist rally turned violent on Saturday, leaving one person dead and at least 19 injured. Two state troopers also died after their helicopter crashed while they patrolled the area.
“Amazingly, Nazism remains alive, after all of the evil it has caused in the world,” Sessions said Monday on NBC’s “Today” morning show. “I think we take this seriously. We go after it morally, politically, legitimately ― in any way possible ― to reject this ideology that causes division and hatred in America. It’s just not part of our heritage.”
Sessions appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” minutes later and pledged that the Department of Justice would engage in “vigorous action” to protect U.S. citizens.
“It does meet the definition of domestic terrorism,” Sessions said in reference to James Alex Fields, a 20-year-old white nationalist, allegedly driving his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer....
...AG Jeff Sessions is known to attend rallies of White Supremacists as a speaker. I would say perhaps he feels differently today since becoming the USA Attorney General, but, he spoke in recent time in California.
He is prosecuting the people that have committed crimes against those in the USA that believe violence and killing is an answer to their ideology. I am skeptical at the fact the MAGA Bomber is only charged with five crimes. There were 13 bombs delivered to some of the highest ranking members of the oppositional party to the Republicans; including two former Presidents and a Vice President, Cabinet Officer, First Lady, Attorney General, US House Representative and notable benefactors to humanitarian causes and the Democratic Party, one likes to assert his Freedom of Speech as a living citizen. Of those five crimes, there is a POTENTIAL of 58 years in prison. But, only a potential.
I worry about the people leading our country and their commitment to domestic peace and tranquility. I find the fact that while Steve Scalese was the recipient of a bullet from an another angry White Man, he also is a White Supremacist sympathizer and an attendee of European rallies. The bullet he received was random. He was not the target. It could have been any US Senator on the playing field. It is a serious offense none the less. There is no one to prosecute as the gunman is dead.
I fully expect the prosecutions of the criminals acting against innocent and notable Americans to feel the full weight of the law, without exception. Lady Liberty is blind to whom the perpetrator is or the crime, but, only adheres to the Rule of Law.
I don't like feeling as though there is any hesitation to charging criminals in the USA or it's interests abroad.
Besides these two crimes, there is the issue of an American citizen in Turkey in the Saudi Arabian consulate that was brutally murdered. I expect all those involved to receive the full weight of USA laws, including the Magnitsky Act. In recent statements coming out of Saudi leadership (Not the King), it was stated the world is reacting hysterically to the death of Jamal Khashoggi. If that is the way Saudi Arabia sees such a brutal death of a man simply trying to find his place in the new paradigm of his country as declared by the King; then so be it. Saudi Arabia needs to get used to the idea of a hysterical international community when it commits such atrocities.
I fully expect the USA Justice Department to do it's job and do it well. Political hate speech matters and those engaging it need to be held accountable. The Supreme Court seems to believe USA currency is used to express political speech and is considered equal to a citizen. The use of USA currency in POLITICAL HATE SPEECH is not exempt from laws when it contributes to domestic disharmony. Charlottesville was stated to be an act of Domestic Terrorism, I consider the MAGA Bomber and MAGA Assassin to be Domestic Terrorists.
