Posted on 06/04/2020 10:20:29 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.) on Tuesday refused to denounce the violent riots occurring nationwide, likening them to the purifying effects of a forest fire.
"Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow," Healey said in a speech delivered to the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Healey, who is also the co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, repeated her remarks in a tweet later the same day, adding that Americans need to "seize the opportunity" to rid the country of "institutionalized racism," which she blamed for the violence.
Maura Healey
Today in my address to the bostonchamber, I spoke about how we must seize the opportunity we have right now to build anew in ways that rid us of the institutionalized racism that’s led to America burning today.
Republican Attorneys General Association chairman Jeff Landry called on Healey to renounce her statement shortly after, criticizing her for "inflammatory rhetoric."
"Maura Healey’s inflammatory rhetoric is part of the problem, not a solution," Landry said. "An AG is elected to uphold the rule of law and protect life and property, not to violate their oath and incite additional violence by inflaming emotions and condoning lawlessness. AG Healey has an obligation to quell fear, not incite further damage and destruction."
Landry affirmed that all who seek to harm or kill "must be held accountable" during this time.
"The wrongful death of any innocent life is a tragedy. That includes George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, and now the numerous law enforcement officers and business owners who have been killed or assaulted as a result of these riots and domestic terrorism. Criminal elements have infiltrated peaceful protests, and those individuals breaking the law must be held accountable," he said.
Healey's remarks come after a week of protests in cities nationwide sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed as a white police officer pinned him to the ground and refused to let him get back up.
The protests have taken a violent turn by night in many of America's cities. Businesses have been ransacked, cars and homes have been set ablaze, and cultural sites have been defaced.
In Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed and the protests began last week, fires consumed cars, businesses, and homes last weekend, and the city's 3rd Precinct headquarters was set ablaze by protesters.
On Sunday night in Washington, D.C., some protesters set the historic St. John's Church on fire, which stands a block from the White House. The fires were doused before any damage was done to the main sanctuary, but the church's nursery was destroyed.
[[[Institutional democratic stupidity.]]]
The mob rule party. This is exactly how they should be referred to from now on.
Bump
Lipstick on a pig-literally and metaphorically.
Yep I’ve pointed out that to anyone that will listen, I used FBI stats from 2016 that blacks kill whites at a rate about twice as much. Does that make blacks twice as racist?
If a looter set his house on fire and destroyed his livelihood, would he feel the same?
So we’re planting a racist black forest?
Thanks for that inane analogy.
They are truly damned fools and should not be allowed anywhere NEAR the podium or in a position where serious decisions are made..
Wise men of honor better start coming forward real soon or we are going to lose this country... :(
Any rational human being would see the offending officers being held responsible and tried as justice in this case.
Bostonian Bill Burr made a great "joke" when Michelle Obama was posting pictures about saving kidnapped girls etc. He said basically, "hey, instead of posting on Instagram, why don't you talk to the guy sitting across the breakfast table from you? He can actually DO SOMETHING about it." Implicit in this, is that people who've been in power are at fault for the current sad state of affairs.
So, AG Healy, if things are bad, you're at fault AND why don't you actually DO SOMETHING (not that she's likely to do anything constructive but work with me) instead of make speeches?
More fine work by Democrat voters, I see.
FWIW, the title is a play on an old, but memorable statement by John Kerry: “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” (during the 2004 POTUS race, iirc)
Yes. A very clever writer. More like this please!
I think she’s too into intersectional lesbianism to know anything about Constitutional Rights and equal protection.
The day after the 2016 election, a couple of neighboring college white guys in a pickup truck drove through the Wellesley College campus (of HR[C] infamy) shouting pro-Trump statements, and Healey got the vapors because of a complaining snowflake or three, and ordered an investigation, trying to get the guys at least kicked out of school, if not convicted of “civil rights” violations or whatever.
Quite curious that none of the coeds had any phone footage of the alleged derogatory racial/sexual epithets directed at them by the male students.
How often have we been told by Feminazis how much better things would be if women ruled the world?
Perfect!
Glad to oblige, stay safe!
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