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Ted Cruz asks Justice Department to investigate Charlottesville crash as domestic terrorism
Washington Examiner ^
| August 12, 2017
| Kyle Feldscher
Posted on 08/12/2017 10:54:49 PM PDT by Coronal
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wants the Department of Justice to investigate Saturday's attack that killed one woman in Charlottesville, Va. as an incident of domestic terrorism.
In a statement released Saturday night, Cruz called the incident "tragic and heartbreaking" and said the Justice Department must be involved immediately.
"The Nazis, the KKK, and white supremacists are repulsive and evil, and all of us have a moral obligation to speak out against the lies, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred that they propagate," Cruz said in a statement.
"Having watched the horrifying video of the car deliberately crashing into a crowd of protesters, I urge the Department of Justice to immediately investigate and prosecute this grotesque act domestic terrorism."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agsessions; canadian; cruz; cruzers; cvacarattack; cvariots; cvariotscarattack; domesticterrorism; jamesfields; tedcruz; trumpdoj
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To: Yosemitest
It was a peaceful and fully approved march , with the help of the ACLU , yes the ACLU ... Gov. McCawful allowed violent extreme left-wing so-called counter protesters to aggressively attack the approved marchers ... who’s wrong here ?
You are wrong and you are absolutely disgusting by casting judgement upon us for our views on this situation ...
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:34:32 PM PDT
by
Neu Pragmatist
(Stop the Neo-Cons and Warmongers - No war with Russia- Support Trump in this endeavor)
To: Pravious
Certain Repubs are on the same payroll as most Dims ...Soros comes to mind as a paymaster
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posted on
08/14/2017 7:37:11 PM PDT
by
Neu Pragmatist
(Stop the Neo-Cons and Warmongers - No war with Russia- Support Trump in this endeavor)
To: Sontagged
Like I said before,
Jim Robinson himself has wrote many times,"Ted Cruz is a good man."
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:34:25 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Neu Pragmatist
READ what Ted Cruz WROTE .
Maybe YOU support hatred and racism ?
Maybe YOU don't want prayers for the loved ones of those killed and injured ?
Maybe YOU support violence ?
Maybe YOU don't want the guilty caught by the Department of Justice ?
Maybe yYPU want the bigots to tear our country apart ?
YOU absolutely DISGUST ME !
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:37:30 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Coronal
President Cruz??? NEVER happen...ROTFLMAO! ...and Ted..? See a dentist.
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posted on
08/15/2017 2:46:07 AM PDT
by
who knows what evil?
(Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
To: Yosemitest
Like I said before
Jim Robinson purged Cruzbots like you. Why are you acting as if it’s still 2015 and the full extent of Cruz’s lying ineligibility and fake Tea Party stance was known?
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posted on
08/15/2017 6:58:49 AM PDT
by
Sontagged
(Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
To: Sontagged
Why are YOU still here?
I thought he got rid of all the PSYCHOPATHS !
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posted on
08/15/2017 5:36:04 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
Whose payroll is Cruz on ?
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posted on
08/15/2017 7:12:21 PM PDT
by
Neu Pragmatist
(Stop the Neo-Cons and Warmongers - No war with Russia- Support Trump in this endeavor)
To: Neu Pragmatist
The TAXPAYERS !
And TEXAS, as well as REAL CONSERVATIVES, TRUST HIM !
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posted on
08/15/2017 7:45:26 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
No way ... Cruz the Cuck is on the Globalist anti-White agenda payroll .. he’s not to be trusted at all after this situation
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posted on
08/15/2017 8:56:55 PM PDT
by
Neu Pragmatist
(Stop the Neo-Cons and Warmongers - No war with Russia- Support Trump in this endeavor)
To: Neu Pragmatist
Go take your meds before your blood pressure breaks a vein in your skull.
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posted on
08/15/2017 8:58:00 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
I’m quite calm and take zero meds ... think before you slander , it could have legal repercussions if you’re not careful ... keep it to civil debate or concede and go silent... do you oppose what Trump said today at his press conference ?
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posted on
08/15/2017 9:03:16 PM PDT
by
Neu Pragmatist
(Stop the Neo-Cons and Warmongers - No war with Russia- Support Trump in this endeavor)
To: Coronal
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posted on
08/15/2017 9:07:12 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: Neu Pragmatist
What a STUPID QUESTION !
Trump has his good and his bad.
Cruz is MUCH BETTER, and more trustworthy !
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posted on
08/15/2017 9:51:56 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
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posted on
08/15/2017 10:00:55 PM PDT
by
Neu Pragmatist
(Stop the Neo-Cons and Warmongers - No war with Russia- Support Trump in this endeavor)
To: Yosemitest
Are you all that remains of the once formidable Cruznadian horde? :)
Anyways, ted cuck’s statement mentions nothing of the bat-wielding anti-American blm/antifa.
ted cuck and the Cruznadian horde love blm/antifa. Long Time!
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posted on
08/15/2017 10:08:25 PM PDT
by
Vision Thing
(You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
To: Yosemitest
False accusations from the accuser of the Brethren?
Stop trolling me. Thanks, in Jesus’ name.
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posted on
08/15/2017 10:58:32 PM PDT
by
Sontagged
(Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
To: Vision Thing
READ what Senator Ted Cruz WROTE .
Do you NOT consider the 'Antifa' "BIGOTS ?
Do you NOT consider the 'Antifa' wanting "to tear our country apart" ?
Do you NOT consider the 'Antifa' propagators of HATRED ?
Read
The Lost History of Antifa by Loren Balhorn .
72 years after the triumph over Nazism, we look back to postwar Germany, when socialists gave birth to Antifa .
The origins of the word antifa shorthand for decentralized, militant street activism associated with its own aesthetic and subculture
might be murky to most readers.
Even in Germany, few know much about the popular forms of antifascist resistance that coined the term.
The movements short but inspiring political legacy proved too uncomfortable for both Cold War-era German states,
and was ignored in schools and mainstream history.
Today its legacy is almost entirely lost to the Left.
Out of the Ruins
By 1945, Hitlers Third Reich lay physically destroyed and politically exhausted.
Basic civil society ceased to function in many areas, as the Nazi grip on power faltered and regime supporters, particularly in the middle- and upper classes, realized that Hitlers final victory was a fantasy.
On the Left, many Communists and Social Democrats had either been outright murdered by the Nazis, or died in the ensuing war.
The unimaginable human and material destruction wrought by Nazi rule killed millions and turned German society upside down,
decimating the labor movement and murdering most of the countrys Jewish population.
Millions who had supported or at least acquiesced to the regime including many workers and even some former socialists now faced a new beginning in unknown political terrain.
Yet despite its failure to stop Hitler in 1933 and veritable dismantling in subsequent years, Germanys socialist labor movement and its decidedly progressive traditions
outlived Hitler in the factories of its industrial cities, and began gathering up the fragments as soon as open political activity became possible.
As historian Gareth Dale describes:
Of all sectors of the population, it was industrial workers in the major towns that showed the greatest immunity to Nazism.
Many trade unionists and socialists were able to maintain their traditions and beliefs, at least in some form, through the Nazi era.
A courageous minority, including some 150,000 Communists, took part in illegal resistance.
Wider layers avoided danger but were able to keep labour movement values and memories alive amongst groups of friends, in workplaces and on housing estates.
hese groups, oftentimes launched from the aforementioned housing estates, were generally called Antifaschistische Ausschüsse, Antifaschistische Kommittees, or the now famous Antifaschistische Aktion Antifa for short.
They drew on the slogans and orientation of the prewar united front strategy, adopting the word Antifa from a last-ditch attempt to establish a cross-party alliance between Communist and Social Democratic workers in 1932.
The alliances iconic logo, devised by Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists members Max Keilson and Max Gebhard, has been since become one of the Lefts most well-known symbols.
It's a long article, but it clearly shows that today's
Antifa organization clearly comes from
" the product of Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Communist Party (KPD) veterans ", and later was forced into merging with the
"Socialist Unity Party (SED) in the Soviet zone" of Germany.
The article end's with this :
...
Dare to Dream
Following their collapse in late 1945 and early 1946, Antifas would disappear from the German political stage for nearly four decades.
The modern Antifa with which most people associate the term has no practical historical connection to the movement from which it takes its name,
but is instead a product of West Germanys squatter scene and autonomist movement in the 1980s itself a unique outgrowth of 1968 considerably less oriented towards the industrial working class than its Italian counterpart.
The first Antifas functioned as platforms to organize against far-right groups like the National Democratic Party (NPD) in an autonomist movement still numbering in the tens of thousands of active members and capable of occupying entire city blocks in some West German metropoles.
As the far right began to rebuild in the wake of German reunification, expressed in shocking mob attacks against asylum-seekers in several eastern provinces in the early 1990s,
Antifa increasingly became a movement unto itself:a national network of dedicated antifascist groups organized into the Antifaschistische Aktion/Bundesweite Organization (AA/BO).
In some ways, these groups were the inverse of their progenitors:rather than a broad alliance of socialists and progressives from separate, ideologically distinct currents,
they were single-issue groups, expressly radical but vague and deeply heterogeneous in their specifics.
Rather than a point of departure for young activists into a broader socialist and political left,
Antifas outside of major cities are often the only political game in town, and function as a counter-cultural space with their own fashion styles, music scenes, and slang,
rather than a component of a rooted mass movement within wider society.
After the AA/BO split in 2001, Antifas continued to work locally and regionally as dedicated networks of antifascists opposing far-right demonstrations and gatherings, though many also take up other left-wing issues and causes.
What remains of the squats and infrastructure built up between the 1970s and 1990s continue to serve as important organizing and socializing spaces for the radical left,
and Antifa as movement, trope, and general political outlook will no doubt continue to exist for quite some time but it would appear that this iteration of antifascism has also exhausted its political repertoire.
The movement has shrunken continuously since the late 1990s, fragmented across ideological lines and unable to adjust its original autonomist strategies to shifting patterns of urbanization and the rise of right-populism.
Its most promising products of late the mass mobilizations against neo-Nazi marches in cities like Dresden,
as well as the formation of a new, distinctively post-autonomist current in the form of the Interventionist Left
mark a departure from rather than a revival of classical Antifa strategy.
Antifascism has surged to the fore of debates on the American left under Trumps presidency,
and many of the tactics and visual styles of the German Antifa can be seen emerging in cities like Berkeley and elsewhere.
Some argue that with the arrival of European-style neo-fascist movements on American shores, it is also time to import European Antifa tactics in response.
Yet the Antifa of today is not a product of a political victory from which we can draw our own strength, but of defeat socialisms defeat at the hands of Nazism and resurgent global capitalism,
and later the exhaustion of the autonomist movement in the wake of the neoliberal turn and the sweeping gentrification of many German cities.
Although Antifas continue to function as important poles of attraction for radicalizing youth
and guarantee that the far right rarely goes unopposed in many European countries,
its political form is of an exclusive nature, couched in its own aesthetic and rhetorical style
and inaccessible to the masses of uninitiated people getting involved in activism for the first time.
A left-wing subculture with its own social spaces and cultural life is not the same thing as a mass social movement,
and we cannot afford to confuse the two.
Of course, the Antifas experience in 1945 offers us equally few concrete lessons for how to fight a resurgent far right in the Trump era.
Looking back at the history of the socialist left is not about distilling victorious formulas to be reproduced in the twenty-first century,
but rather understanding how previous generations understood their own historical moment and built political organizations in response,
in order to develop our own (hopefully more successfully models) for today.
The Antifas in Stuttgart, Braunschweig, and elsewhere faced impossible odds,
but still sought to articulate a series of political demands and a practical organizational vision for the radicalizing workers willing to listen.
Antifas refused to capitulate to their seemingly hopeless predicament and dared to dream big.
Facing an even more fragmented and weakened left than in 1945, American antifascists will have to do the same.
Now given that small amount of information on that group,
Antifa, we must understand that the European 'right' is NOT the same as the 'right' in the United States.
The European 'right' were 'National SOCIALISTS', or
Nazis, and the European 'left' were 'Fascist SOCIALISTS'; so both were SOCIALISTS , and both were bad.
In Charlottesville, Va. we saw the 'National SOCIALISTS' in the KKK, and the 'Fascist SOCIALISTS' in the
Antifa.
Both are bad, and both do NOT support INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS or OUR CONSTITUTION.
Now think about THAT for a while !
Trump should identify them as WHAT THEY REARY ARE ...
BOTH ARE SOCIALISTS ...
and BOTH are AGAINST INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS and OUR CONSTITUTION.
Both groups should be prosecuted, and the guilty should fined
AND JAILED to the maximum that the law will allow, with no exceptions !
One group is guilty of INTENTIONAL property damage, and not remaining peaceful, and not demonstrating with proper permits.
The City Mayor is also guilty for not ENFORCING THE LAW when the demonstration FIRST got out of hand.z
He should be fined
and jailed to the maximum also !
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posted on
08/15/2017 11:44:09 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Sontagged
Sontagged ... Who's trillion who ?
I'm simply responding to your senseless comments.
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posted on
08/15/2017 11:46:16 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
Damned 'auto-correct' function !
"trillion" should read TROLLING
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posted on
08/15/2017 11:49:52 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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