Posted on 08/20/2017 9:01:53 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former Obama administration official Jeh Johnson said the removal of Confederate statues was a matter of "public safety and homeland security" on Sunday.
In the aftermath of deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., when a man with white nationalist ties was arrested for ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters last week and killing a woman, Confederate monuments across the country have been taken down. The furor in Charlottesville began with a protest by white supremacists against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee.
Johnson served as Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, and he said on ABC's "This Week" that the monuments to Confederates were helping to rally white nationalists.
"What alarms so many of us from a security perspective is that so many of the statues, the Confederate monuments, are now, modern-day, becoming symbols and rallying points for white nationalism, for neo-Nazis, for the KKK, and this is most alarming," Johnson said. "We fought a world war against Naziism. The KKK reigned terror on African Americans for generations."
"I salute those in cities and states who are taking down a lot of these monuments for reasons of public safety and security," he added. "And that's not a a matter of political correctness. That's a matter of public safety and homeland security and doing what's right."
Host Martha Raddatz said she felt the Trump administration would call that a "slippery slope," referring to local Washington locations like Washington-Lee High School and Jefferson Davis Highway.
"Where should that stop?" Raddatz asked.
Johnson said those kinds of decisions should be made at the local level.
President Donald Trump slammed the removal of such monuments as "foolish" and for ripping apart the "history and culture of our great country."
Couldn’t ever take this guy seriously .... couldn’t even spell his name right!
Have I got this straight? Jeh says we must comply with a bunch of violent terrorists in order to decrease the risks to national security. I guess acquiescence to these terrorists will not cause them to continue to demand other actions. Jeh, you should not be making any important decisions. Have your wife make them.
OMG
(Down in FL now for vacation. Sorry if late!)
So, there are hardly any monuments for CSA at Sharpsburg (we were just there last month), but we must be rid of those too. Can’t bear to have CSA stuff even on the battlefield!
t to specifically target and dishonestly present a picture to an audience based solely on a lie i>>>>>>>>>>>
You have just defined the major communications technique employed by the Liberal fascist Obama Administration:
eg. : “ You want to keep your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”
Liberal Fascism us real, we defeated them at the ballot box last November, now we must defeat them in the streets.
Let it begin.
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