Posted on 02/27/2019 6:46:04 AM PST by Incorrigible
81-year-old Trump supporter was physically assaulted in dust-up over his MAGA hat, cops say
An 81-year-old man was assaulted in an attack that reportedly stemmed from a dispute over the “Make America Great Again” hat he was wearing at a Franklin Township supermarket, authorities said Tuesday.
The man, a township resident, suffered minor injuries and declined medical treatment following the assault...
“The incident reportedly began after the victim was confronted about the red ‘Make America Great Again’ hat he was wearing,” Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office declined to release more details on the incident, citing the active investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Hate crime and elder abuse. Needs to be investigated by Federal authorities.
“Dust up?” How about ASSAULT, a criminal offense? A hate crime?
I’m surprised The Star Ledger is reporting this.
That settles it. I (a 75 year old male) am going to get a MAGA hat and start trolling the malls and nearby small cities for assailants and kill me a couple. Of course I’ll end up dying in prison, since this is Jersey and self-defense is a bigger crime than assault here...
You can bet your ass that if the situation were reversed and a MAGA hat-wearing individual had assaulted, say, Nathan Phillips, for beating a drum in the assailant’s face, the prosecutor’s office would have a LOT to say about it and “ongoing investigation” excuse be damned.
Here’s my question. All these reports about “hate” crimes up by 17% (still less than 2000). Are any of them black on white and/or things like this?
Here’s my question. All these reports about “hate” crimes up by 17% (still less than 2000). Are any of them black on white and/or things like this?
The violently hateful leftist filth only understand force and fear.
If you are attacked for wearing a MAGA hat, don’t shoot the assailant in the HEAD. It won’t hurt him/her as there are no vital organs inside. Go for CENTER MASS.
I have never seen anyone wearing one of those hats. Here, I’d never do it. Not that I own one. Point is, you wear that, you’re looking for trouble around here.
Not at all condoning what was done to the man, but in this case, it’s like wearing a crop top and a short mini-skirt to a bar and then complaining when you get groped.
> I’m surprised The Star Ledger is reporting this.
Local papers near events like this DO report these local stories. What does not happen is the Associated Press and other wire services picking up these stories, sending them to the thousands of news outlets around the nation, and these thousands of other outlets reporting this local NJ story.
Until we topple the small number of wire services and networks who control this phenomenon, we are doomed.
We can vote out Hillary, and elect Trump, but he is all but powerless against the small number of root sources in the MSM and the effect of the MSM news and entertainment on the passively interest middle of voting America.
It’s the media. Until they are stopped and changed, we are doomed. The current politicians are irrelevant.
B fn s....if a person can’t wear a MAGA hat without being assaulted this country is finished......the left has demonized Trump and all his supporters....I’ve seen plenty of idiot sobs wearing hellary, bammy, Che, mao, and other leftist tripe apparel but never assaulted them. I figure this is the USA and you are allowed to be stupid...
In California, wearing an American flag is seen the same way as a MAGA hat.
Guess we should just surrender.......
By the same token, would you feel if someone was wearing an Obama t-shirt it would just be asking for trouble?
Feel sorry for you. There is no way I could live like you do in blue country. I have seen people wearing MAGA hats here, happy that I live where freedom is still the American way. I would also be fine with the Obama t-shirt. Freedom to express their views without getting beat up.
The ‘asking for trouble’ comment bothers me. The other comment bothers me just as much, don’t are if you walked into a bar naked, doesn’t mean you should get groped.
“Hate crime and elder abuse. Needs to be investigated by Federal authorities.”
Make it a hate crime against the elderly. We need to have a separate class of (fill in the blank) Americans who need protection.
I’m originally from NJ (but thankfully escaped to Texas about 19 years ago). Though it is almost unrecognizable from a political POV vs. what it was in the 60s or 70s, you still have freedom to say or wear whatever you’d like to say or wear.
Anyone assaulting a person for wearing a provocative piece of clothing is guilty of a criminal act and should be prosecuted. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER give in to these people - because the end of that road is the USSR, East Germany, Cuba and Venezuela. Part of the reason that I’m glad that I left NJ is that here in Texas people are simply not afraid to say what they think - and virtually no one is ever assaulted for saying differently than the majority (and we have Dem enclaves...and they generally don’t assault our side, either).
Sorry to say this, because we don’t know each other, but your attitude is pretty cowardly. What you choose to do is, of course, your business, but if we conservatives give up the right to voice or wear our opinions, then we’ve already lost. SCREW the other side, I don’t CARE if they don’t like my views. In fact, I LIKE to burst their bubble that “everyone knows that Trump is a racist, etc.” They need a dose of reality, which is that they are generally full of crap, ill-informed and illogical.
Oh, don’t worry. It’s coming; to be followed immediately by intense media outrage and a flurry of house bills to ban guns and red baseball caps.
Until we topple the small number of wire services and networks who control this phenomenon, we are doomed.
Hear, hear!!
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776). . . and the wire services have been conducting a virtual meeting of all major journalism outlets (note the term “outlets,” that’s mostly what they are) since memory of the father of living man ran not to the contrary.The AP started out as the New York Associated Press in 1848 - four years after Morse’s demo of the Baltimore-Washington telegraph in 1844. The AP was claiming objectivity for itself before 1880.
By now the central “conspiracy against the public” by journalists is, IMHO, their common consent that all will be considered to be objective - and that anyone who challenges that will face overwhelming propaganda in opposition. They will loudly proclaim that their opponent is “not a journalist, not objective.”
All journalists know that “if it bleeds, it leads” - that good news doesn’t attract an audience like bad news does, so focusing on bad news is good business. Journalists therefore know that they are negative - and their claim of their own objectivity therefore amounts to a claim that “negativity is objectivity.” But such a claim is the very definition of cynicism, is it not?
And cynicism has an obverse: if you are cynical about “A” you are perforce naive about the opposite of “A.” Journalism is cynical about society, and journalism is naive about government (and if you think question whether society and government are opposites, read the opening paragraphs of Common Sense). That toxic combination is the root of all socialist thought.
Since the problem is collusion against the public, the solution can be antitrust action. The wire services are a Nineteenth Century solution to a Nineteenth (and early Twentieth) Century problem. They conserve scarce, expensive bandwidth in the dissemination of news. But bandwidth is now plentiful and dirt cheap. The wire services are no longer “too big to fail.” They should be sued into oblivion.
Accordingly although I’m delighted that Nick Sandman’s lawyer is going after his persecutors, I think that “the AP and its membership” would be a far better target than individual miscreants.
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