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."
Democrats already know that, but they'll never say it in public. They just let Planned Parenthood do the "talking" for them.
Statuary Assault
This guy was a double barreled AH while in office...no change since he left.
a la islam - submission, jizya, or death ... then there will be peace.
I’m sure she felt “raped”.
Bookmark.
Might as well add the words Bill Clinton used to end his speeches.
“Blah blah blah, to protect our children!”
Most of the apparatchiks that served in the O'muslim treason regime are now out in the open with their intent to totally destroy America. They want to bring the country to crisis through conflict, violence, & division and then take back power at the point of the gun. Not that they would get any resistance from D.C., courts, media and blue states.
This is being carried out as we speak.
A Lou Dobb's interview from Feb CONFIRMS that NOTHING has been done to stop Obama's shadow gov or coup. In fact, it has gotten much stronger.
Must see:
Paul Sperry: Obama Has Trained Tens of Thousands of Leftist Organizers at Alinsky Camps - YouTube
The problem is, for blacks, the color of their skin trumps everything. How can they serve honorably in our governments?
People who speak Orwellian, rarely even hear it in what they say.
This guy should never be in a government position again.
You have to admire the left for their ideological commitedness. Their graybeards burn with the same fire as their young guys out there swinging baseball bats. Jeh Johnson wears a suit and had a position in government but he's a radical.
So much of this boils down to energy. It's a question of who will fight for their worldview more energetically. Our founders beat the British because they had more energy.
It's important to be correct but it's more important to have energy.
Gen. Kelly gushes about his relationship with this Obama jerk.
How come these statues can stand for decades without inciting any violence but now all of a sudden, the easily-offended snowflakes of the left can’t stop themselves?
Hey, Obama was president “small p” for 8 years. Why was this not an issue then ?
I guess they want the US to adopt the plain white flag as a National symbol.
They are doing no such thing. They are becoming the rally point of every anti-American faction on the earth.
Dear: Dumbass Jeh, you are not in DHS anymore. Other than the fake news media, nobody cares about your dumb@ss opinion. But keep over-reaching. It will guarantee more Rat congressional seats lost in 2018.
Jeh Johnson: Putz of the highest order. Always was, always will be.
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