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 thats 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 Healeys 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.
Fire her.
There is no reaching across the aisle to these anti-civilization nihilists. They intend to turn the US into a third world country with a ruling elite and an oppressed mass of serfs. The middle class and their businesses must be destroyed to fulfill their dreams.
Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow,”
She really has no clue. The only thing that has grown is my resolve on this matter. As if it was needed. Ive been here long enough to have seen this crap before.
Trevor Loudon on Riots 20 Plus Communist Groups are Uniting to Ignite Revolution
This is way bigger than Antifa. These are the shock troops, but there are 20 or more communist groups operating freely in the United States who engage in what they refer to as anti-fascist militant action. Trevor Loudon, May 31, 2020
In an exclusive interview with RAIR Foundation USA, author and filmmaker Trevor Loudon responded to President Donald Trumps announcement that America would be designating Antifa as a terrorist organization, as well as Attorney General William Barrs announcement that the government would enforce existing laws that make it illegal to cross state lines for the purpose of participating in violent riots.
In 2017, Loudon released a mini-documentary on the history of the violent militants of Antifa (see in full below). Loudon explained that antifa works hand-in-glove with American Marxist organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America. Antifa is a militant tactic that has been used effectively by far-left activists for decades. During the Occupy Wall Street movement, the so-called Black Bloc used the same terrifying militant tactics.
On Sunday, the Epoch Times published an article by Loudon titled Cities Burn, But None Dare Call It Communist Insurrection where the expert on subversive organizations detailed several communist organizations calling on their comrades to exploit the death of George Floyd by taking it to the streets. Many of these groups are not shy about calling for violence, justifying it as a natural response to police brutality and white supremacy.
Loudon explained to RAIR that President Trump is taking a decisive step, but should consider that Antifa is an umbrella group that has largely enjoyed anonymity because they are part of a larger collective of violent leftists, including those in the communist-created Black Lives Matter movement. This is way bigger than Antifa, Loudon told RAIR.
Those are the shock troops, but there are 20 or more communist groups operating freely in the United States who engage in what they refer to as anti-fascist militant action.
The filmmaker was very enthusiastic about Attorney General William Barrs announcement that existing laws will be enforced that make it a federal crime to cross state lines in order to participate in rioting. Loudon explained that simply enforcing that legislation broke the back of the communist anti-war movement in the 1960s, culminating in the Chicago Seven trials.
The continued violence and destruction of property endangers the lives and livelihoods of others, and interferes with the rights of peaceful protestors, as well as all other citizens, as noted by a statement from the Attorney General released on May 31.
Any thoughts?
Why havent the Dems already fixed this?
To the leftist Governors and Mayors and Congress Critters, the riots and looting are a means of redistributing the wealth. The very backbone of the Democrat ruling philosophy is to redistribute the wealth.
Or in African parlance, the looting is forced repaparations. The looters are taking that which is owed them because being unequal, they were sold into slavery
If America accepts the looting, rioting, burning as an excuse for the death of an arrest resisting druged out criminal, America is over.
Maura Healey:
"We must seize the opportunity we have right now to build anew in ways that rid us of the institutionalized racism thats led to America burning today."
Horse face we have you number to. Elected officials siding with the enemy rioters and looters.
Burning puts more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, you stupid twit.
To Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.):
“America, love it or leave it!”
Well, if we’re gonna burn the mutha down, let her go first.
That is the look of a parent that would gladly...proudly...inform on her child.
Maura Healey:
"We must seize the opportunity we have right now to build anew in ways that rid us of the institutionalized racism thats led to America burning today."
Careful....do you want the FBI knocking on your door?
Keep voting Democrat.
A marxist dialectical concept. Conflict destroys the present reality, but replaces it with a new reality. Thesis + antithesis = synthesis.
“Yes, America is burning, but that’s how forests grow,”
Maybe they can move on to some of the Sh!Th0!es in the great socialist state of Massachusetts,
Good point.
She looks like she’s been on a three day bender in the photo. Sounds like it too from what she is saying. It is incredible the garbage that super blue states elect
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