Posted on 06/16/2022 8:16:03 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Your ignorance is only exceeded by your arrogance.
Arrests are meaningless given the fact that most charges were dropped and they were immediately released.
You may want to “google” a little harder...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/17/george-floyd-protesters-charges-citations-analysis
Isn’t that the truth. He should do well at DU.
Freedom doesn’t mean much to you then.
I don't dispute your number because I don't know, but I read where the woman who threw a Molotov Cocktail into a police SUV with 5 officers inside was convicted and sentenced to only 33 HOURS of community service.
Yes, free speech means all speech.
Yes, free speech means all speech.
Oh, you already are, Fritz. With every Freedom-hating word out of your mouth. and that's your right.
The South should have been allowed to leave the Union the same way the colonies left the British empire. You should look at how Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson viewed the decision to secede before throwing out your silly comments. You probably do not know that Robert E. Lee was serving in the U.S. Army when the war broke out and was arrested by the state of Texas.
Both Jackson and Lee were not fond of the decision to secede but felt an allegiance more to the state of Virginia than to the federal government. Add the atrocities committed by Northern forces, for example the intentional targeting of civilians at Fredericksburg, Sherman's March, and even the way Northern troops made sure to bury the dead as close to Lee's wife's home at Arlington to terrorize her and the North can go eff itself.
For what it's worth, I grew up in New England so I'm not some hick southerner clinging on to the confederate flag.
Wilson was a Fascist, and considered himself a Southerner all his life. Also awhile supremacist.
A Rat hero Woodrow Wilson!
Wilson took office in 1913:
Washington was a rigidly segregated town—except for federal government agencies. They had been integrated during the post-war Reconstruction period, enabling African Americans to obtain federal jobs and work side by side with whites in government agencies. Wilson promptly authorized members of his cabinet to reverse this long-standing policy of racial integration in the federal civil service.
Upon taking office, Wilson himself fired 15 out of 17 black supervisors in the federal service and replaced them with white people.
To enable hiring discrimination going forward, in 1914 the federal government began requiring photographs on job applications.
At the Versailles Convention in 1919, Wilson helped kill a proposal from Japan calling for the treaty to recognize the principle of racial equality. While 11 out of 17 members at the meeting considering the amendment favored it, Wilson, who was presiding, arbitrarily decided that the amendment had been defeated because the vote wasn’t unanimous.
Historian Wesley Moody describes Wilson’s most famous book as an academic, A History of the American People, as “steeped in Lost Cause mythology.” The book was generally sympathetic to the Ku Klux Klan, describing them as “men half outlawed, denied the suffrage, without hope of justice in the courts, who meant to take this means to make their will felt.” (”This means” being violence and intimidation against black people.)
Wilson quotes from D.W.Griffth’s film “Birth of a Nation”.
The “Birth of a Nation” actually cut off the most racist part of the first half of the quote:
The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers.
And that was only the last of three Wilson quote title cards in the film. This one came first:
Adventurers swarmed out of the North, as much the enemies of one race as of the other, to cozen, beguile, and use the Negroes.…In the villages the Negroes were the office holders, men who knew none of the uses of authority, except its insolences.
And then this one:
The Policy of the congressional leaders wrought…a veritable overthrow of civilization in the South.…in their determination to “put the white South under the heel of the black South.”
They were charged with misdemeanors and not felonies. Bench trials for misdemeanors are not uncommon. And not unconstitutional.
They tried. The difference being they lost their rebellion.
If the charges are misdemeanors and the maximum penalty is six months or less then a jury trial is not required.
If the charges are misdemeanors and the maximum penalty is six months or less then a jury trial is not required.
Not quite. From the article:
“McFadden convicted both Delaware men of a felony count: obstruction of an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College that day.”
And no, the right to a jury trial is NOT just limited to felony cases. It is constitutionally required down to the most minor of traffic offenses.
Wilson was born in Virginia and lived there as a kid but moved to New Jersey when he was still young. Southerners do not claim him. He’s much more a product of New Jersey. That’s where his formative years were spent.
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