Posted on 03/14/2016 4:15:25 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Friday evening’s Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancellation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed.
Brownshirt tactics worked. The mob, triumphant, rejoiced.
Friday night cried out for moral clarity. What we got from Trump’s rivals was moral mush that called to mind JFK’s favorite quote from Dante: The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
As news outlets have reported, Friday’s disruption at the University of Illinois-Chicago auditorium was a preplanned assault.
Behind it were the George Soros-funded MoveOn.org, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Hispanics hoisting Mexican flags and cop-haters carrying filthy signs to show their contempt for police.
People for Bernie, a pro-Sanders outfit, tweeted, “[This] wasn’t just luck. It took organizers from dozens of organizations and thousands of people to pull off. Great work.”
Now, Sanders did not order this assault on the civil rights of Trump supporters. But MoveOn.org has endorsed him, and “Bernie” signs and T-shirts were everywhere among the disrupters. Hence, he has a duty to disavow this conduct and those who engaged in it.
Prediction. Given their “victory” in Chicago, MoveOn.org and its allied nasties will try to replicate it, again and again. And as Americans came to despise the ’60s radicals, they will come to despise them.
And, as in the 1960s, the country will take a turn – to the right.
America has changed from the land we grew up in. But she is not yet ready to allow ugly mobs screaming obscenities at Trump and his folks inside and outside that hall in Chicago, or their paragons like socialist Bernie Sanders, to take over the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I remember the first time I became aware of Trump when "Art Of The Deal" came out while I was in High School. It was NO DEAL then and it will always be NO DEAL.
We probably can't win without each other so we'll have to do the best we can this time and hope for next time maybe with another party. No big deal.
Good piece from Pat! Right on.
Knucklehead???????
Well, at least that's better then the last few days of being called a "coward", "Dumb ass", "unAmerican"......or that "real" Americans are "sick" of what people like me think.
Let me tell you something......I'm ticked off at this crap.
I am impatiently WAITING for the day that the hate-filled, two bit thug in the White House is GONE so America can start to heal from the damage he's done.
Do you even remember him when you are "hating" against Trump's "competition"?
The Dictator President who has "ruled" by insulting and DEGRADING anyone that didn't fall on their knees before his agenda......and helped "build" the organizations like BLM, Occupy Wall Street, etc.
ripping a page out of the Left's handbook
Nope.... you aren't fighting them at all. You are BECOMING them.
It is also against the law to protest at political events where the Secret Service is deployed. It’s a fact. Since to you this is apparently all a matter of “THE LAW”, I thought you might like to know.
Maybe some leg tinglers that like the crease of his pants. Hey they elected Obama twice, they'll probably sleep with anybody.
GOPe: Give Sorts veto power over candidate messeging.
Cruz is a lawyer. That gibberish you posted is lawyer speak.
Actually, looks like you've already CONDEMNED them WITHOUT a trial even though looking at their statements would tell you that they never "ENDORSED" the people you say they did.
nice
Cruz, Rubio, and Kasich certainly aren't neutral about Trump being responsible for the planned ambush in Chicago.
Laz had a great response to the tendency to victim blame Trump, be sure to read it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3408636/posts
Of course Cruz and Rubio condemned the protestors, they have to do that so they don’t appear blatantly Leftist and at least somewhat pretend to care about the interests of conservatives. Kasich didn’t even bother to acknowledge that the MoveOn scum were to blame at all, he just gave weak platitudes about being opposed to violence.
The cause of the violence is strictly the Leftist thugs in Chicago, and any attempt to shift blame away from the Leftist thugs plays directly into their hands. Cruz’s statement was especially disappointing because he certainly knows how dangerous the Left is, but he thought he needed to differentiate himself from Trump in order to appear more electable and appease the GOP-e. His plan backfired on him horribly, of course.
And your dismissing Cruz's comment AGAINST BLM/MoveOn as "nothing of importance", because it doesn't fit your narrative, is something my brain dead liberal relative would do when I would use FACTS to point out her liberal propaganda was false.
That's pretty sad......
The video trails off with the words “And he won reelection by a good margin...”
Has Megyn asked Sanders and Hillary to 'disavow' Black Lives Matter and Occupy for the violent atmosphere they created? Or the New York Times? I want to see the haughty sneer...
For one thing, the law makes it easier for the government to criminalize protest. Period. It is a federal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in prison to protest anywhere the Secret Service might be guarding someone. For another, it’s almost impossible to predict what constitutes “disorderly or disruptive conduct” or what sorts of conduct authorities deem to “impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions.”
There is another interesting Code/law that applies the conspiracy/violation of peaceful assembly and free speech.
18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; .... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 696; Pub. L. 90–284, title I, § 103(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 75; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7018(a), (b)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4396; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60006(a), title XXXII, §§ 320103(a), 320201(a), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970, 2109, 2113, 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §§ 604(b)(14)(A), 607(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3507, 3511.)
Friday night cried out for moral clarity. What we got from Trump’s rivals was moral mush.
What we got from Cruz was a one-sentence disclaimer chiding the rioters and a two-paragraph sermon attacking Trump. There was, however, truth in it: the tenor of a campaign is taken from the top. I wonder if Cruz realizes how damning that is.
What first must be defended is the right of a candidate to speak without being shut down by organized violence. If you don't establish that, if you allow that to be superseded by personal advantage, then you've copped out. Cruz copped out. I have never been more disappointed by a candidate I once supported whole-heartedly.
There is much sanctimonious talk about principle from people who really ought to examine their own. Should Cruz come out as the nominee I shall still vote for him because the alternative is scarcely worth considering, but he isn't the man I hoped for and I am growing to despise his mendacity, his manipulation, his new establishment allies, and his refusal to recognize that if he is the nominee he is next as a target, and all the "Trump had it coming" equivocation isn't going to stop the rioters from shutting him down in turn. This isn't an academic debate, it's a street fight for the future of the country, and pious invocations of non-violence in the face of the violent are useless, pathetic gestures.
So you are telling me that "words" don't matter anymore, correct?
Cruz said he disagreed with the tactics of BLM/MoveOn.....but was concerned that Trump's use of vitriolic hyperbole to "get votes" was taking the party down a dark path that Conservatives shouldn't want to go......and that makes him a LEFTIST?
I'm going to say that the "let's punch out/punish anyone that disagrees with us" mentality smacks of a TRUE leftist agenda, that we see played out daily by people like MoveOn, BLM, Hillary and Obama.
What say you?
...I just said that by condemning Trump instead of the protestors, the anti-Trump politicians are taking the focus off of the Left. Words matter a great deal, which is why Cruz is being condemned. I honestly have no idea how you read my post to suggest that words don’t matter.
Do you honestly think for a second that these Leftist thugs wouldn’t attack Cruz if he held a big convention in Chicago? He may be trying to kiss up to the GOP-e now, but he’s promoted conservative thought enough to the point where he would be a desirable target for the Left. Were Cruz to be attacked by Leftist thugs, it certainly wouldn’t be Cruz’s fault. Under this hypothetical, the only appropriate response from Trump would be to condemn the protestors.
I acknowledge the fact that the Left cannot be reasoned with. I personally have no issue with getting rid of them by any means necessary, and execution has traditionally been the best deterrent to criminal activity. They do not merely disagree with us. I would certainly hope that someone who legitimately believes Trump is a Leftist would seek to have him removed by any means necessary.
By playing ball with the GOP-e, who are inarguably Leftists, Cruz endorses the Left. Maybe he’s doing that out of political necessity, or maybe he has changed his opinions on conservatism. In practical terms, it doesn’t matter; he’s a threat.
What we got from Trump’s rivals was moral mush that called to mind JFK’s favorite quote from Dante: The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
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BUCHANAN AT HIS BEST
RIGHT ON TARGET .....THE 3 STOOGES OF THE GOP.
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