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.
You know,that’s an interesting point.If a forest can grow where a Target store,or a cop car,or a bank has been firebombed...
I think at this point it would be easier to post a list of dem politicians who have actually criticized the rioting and looting (I won’t refer to that behavior as protesting). I guess as soon as one does so a thread will get started. Might be a while.
If arson and trashing the place was the path to growth, Africa would look like Singapore from ocean to ocean.
interesting that she’s the AG for the State and her wife is a judge.
Sick b*tch.
Hitler cremated Jews to grow a cleaner forest too, my dear AG.
Apparently, some of those ashes blew up your nose or other orifice and took root.
Local small businesses dying because they aren’t insured or if they are don’t have lawyers to deal with insurance companies if how multinationals grow, which increases inequality as well as decreasing accountability to the community.
“The parable of the broken window was introduced by French economist Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay “Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas” (”That Which We See and That Which We Do Not See”) to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society.
The parable seeks to show how opportunity costs, as well as the law of unintended consequences, affect economic activity in ways that are unseen or ignored. The belief that destruction is good for the economy is consequently known as the broken window fallacy or glazier’s fallacy.”
From what I surmise, the afterthought justification that all the little people are supposed to buy is that this will usher in green businesses. You know, because that just what broke people are going to do on their way to the bankruptcy court.
It’s an interesting idea, but the businesses that are going to grow are the exploitive ones (if reputable businesses leave the cities), and large corporations that can afford to bend politicians to their will.
Ask yourselves this greenies, does being on the same side as Sen. Chuck Schumer make you wonder what you are missing about this whole thing?
Yuckie Buckie!
Speaking of the Gay State, I just spoke to my mother-in-law who lives in Massachusetts. She lives in a complex, not a nursing home but about 1800 apts. owned mostly by the elderly.
She tells me that the owners have informed her that "Gay" flags will be hoisted above the main entrance and over each bank of apts and over the long term care building.
Gay flags? Mother-in-law was a wreck. She's 91 and tells me she just can't up and move. Not that she should I suppose but darn if I'd want to live in a building covered with gay flags.
Whatever they are.
The analogy is as vacuous as its author.
Auditioning for Fauxcahantas’ senate seat?
She would be perfect; a black Irish lesbian who is soft on crime and enviro-mental.
open rebellion, we do nothing...….
Ask a blacksmith. You heat the metal red. Hammer it to the shape wanted. When cool it’s strong again with a more useful shape.
Was that what Comey was referencing way back when he tweeted his forest pic???
OK. Send them over to her house, see how she likes it.
Iron doesn’t flee but capital does, grocery stores do.
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