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Bershidsky: Political violence is an American tradition
thestate.com ^ | Leonid Bershidsky

Posted on 03/19/2016 3:50:16 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says that the tension Donald Trump cultivates at his rallies is worthy “of the Third World.” He’s overstating the case, and for that, Americans should count themselves lucky.

I have been to eight of Trump’s rallies in several states over the past two months, and I have seen protesters removed or jeered at each one, but I have not seen anything that could be described as a serious brawl.

In Trump’s months of campaigning before growing and fired-up audiences, some of them so large they packed stadiums, no one has been seriously injured — and that includes the police officer and two civilians who were briefly taken to a hospital after the canceled rally in Chicago. A punch, a reporter pushed to the ground: This is hardly the mayhem that sometimes accompanies politics in what Rubio calls “the Third World.”

In younger and poorer democracies, there’s more violence in parliaments than there has been at Trump rallies.

In Greece, demonstrations against pension reform routinely feature Molotov cocktails and tear gas.

In Ukraine in August, a hard-right activist threw a hand grenade at the police at a rally outside the parliament building, and shots were fired, resulting in the death of an officer and 100 serious injuries.

In Russia, attending a rally that is not officially sanctioned carries the risk of beatings and detention. Hundreds invariably are.

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To: Candor7

Sorry, as an Aussie all I can say it’s a disgusting spectacle that Australians cannot understand.


21 posted on 03/19/2016 7:57:33 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Because Aussies and Euros seem to think it is OK that America is overrun by Third World and Asian immigrants.


22 posted on 03/19/2016 8:03:37 PM PDT by Clemenza (Lurking)
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To: Clemenza

The Republican party trying to destroy Trump is what we don’t understand.
That comment of yours is totally objectionable.


23 posted on 03/19/2016 8:09:31 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Clemenza; Candor7

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/03/20/09/34/anti-trump-protesters-rally-in-new-york-block-arizona-road

THIS IS THE SORT OF RUBBISH WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND.

We see it on the ‘news’ and shake our heads and turn it off. Your ‘protestors’ are close to being terrorists.


24 posted on 03/19/2016 9:43:16 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

We see it on the ‘news’ and shake our heads and turn it off. Your ‘protestors’ are close to being terrorists.>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, Trump finally has the dirty buggers exposing themselves and we see the left’s real face. Now we will destroy them, now that the light of day shines on their ugly terrorist faces.


25 posted on 03/19/2016 11:31:04 PM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Fred Nerks

Yes, I know, and many cannot understand internationally. Hell , half of Europe thinks Trump is an anti-Christ, the “protest” propaganda has the nationalist socialists spewing invective and having demonic seizures in public.

Yet Trump keeps beating his opponents like a drum at the polling booth.

Now the left across the world knows that Trump will be elected as the Republican candidate for the presidency, an unbeatable andidate who has defied all attempts to destroy or control him,and all they can do is resort to violence now.

That means that they are on their last legs. And if they set off a bomb at a Trump event ( a real danger now as things escalate with Obama’s Acorn modern derivative “MoveOn.org), then there will be a very short lived civil war as Americans rise up against them.


26 posted on 03/19/2016 11:37:20 PM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Fred Nerks

Sorry, as an Aussie all I can say it’s a disgusting spectacle that Australians cannot understand.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Liberal Fascists are no myth.America elected one ion Obama and now we are seeing the fascist violence when it is clear that the Obama fascist era will end.

I have been posting this article for years:

Barack Obama: The Quintessential Fascist

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

The Obama nationalist socialist movement is in its death throws ( Huzzah!) as their violence is exposed, their masks are coming off. Obama himself is now trying to influence the Republican campaign so that Trump can be stopped, but America is having none of it, they will vote for Trump in droves.


27 posted on 03/19/2016 11:42:57 PM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7
half of Europe thinks Trump is an anti-Christ

What would they know about Christ? They're being overrun by murdering-rapist-morons from the sandbox...by invitation.

28 posted on 03/19/2016 11:49:40 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Ohhh....Derka derka derka!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

What would they know about Christ? They’re being overrun by murdering-rapist-morons from the sandbox...by invitation>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

LOL. You have a point there, then lets just say that Europe is treating Trump like he was Vlad the Impaler.


29 posted on 03/19/2016 11:53:09 PM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Just trying to keep it lively.


30 posted on 03/20/2016 12:00:56 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Ohhh....Derka derka derka!)
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To: Candor7
...Yet Trump keeps beating his opponents like a drum at the polling booth.

Like I heard him say It's a movement...

31 posted on 03/20/2016 12:05:08 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Clemenza; Fred Nerks

Because Aussies and Euros seem to think it is OK that America is overrun by Third World and Asian immigrants.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You hardly conduct yourself as a caporegime to a Capo de tutti.

The Anzacs who fought alongside us would grind you to cumin and powder you on toasted snake for breakfast .

Obvious why you stay in Florida. You would receive the Darwin award anywhere else.

Aussies think no such thing , please re-arrange your myopia to be cranial rather than rectal.


32 posted on 03/22/2016 1:55:54 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

Nobody could say it better than you do...


33 posted on 03/22/2016 4:11:38 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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