Subj : Re: Political violence
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Sun Nov 13 2022 00:40:12

On 12 Nov 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...
 AT>  JT>  MP> I used to, but then I was told here and by some in the media tha
 AT>  JT>  MP> not happen.  Unless the non-conservative posters here and the me
 AT>  JT>  MP> lying back then, I have no choice but to take their word for it.
 AT>  JT> What Maxine Waters said was that if certain things occurred, Democrat
 AT>  JT> would need to become "more confrontational," meaning more protests, m
 AT>  JT> participation, more lawsuits, etc. "More confrontational" is far less
 AT>  JT> violent rhetoric than comparing Democrats to feral hogs, followed by
 AT>  JT> footage of the politician in a helicopter shooting feral hogs.
 AT> You're trying to use selective-memory to defend the old bag, but you're
 AT> only recalling her comments regarding the Derek Chauvin trial. But back
 AT> in 2018 she had this to say: 
 AT> "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department
 AT> store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you
 AT> push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore,
 AT> anywhere."


Ooh, "tell them they're not welcome." That sounds sooo violent.

 AT> Why? We elected Trump; so why should we treat his cabinet like garbage
 AT> instead of working with them? If you have a problem with CIA policy, why
 AT> not contact Gina Haspel's office instead of throwing poop at her while
 AT> she's having dinner with her family? Why is politically violent rhetoric
 AT> ok for Maxine but not for Trump?

People have a right to speak their minds. "Tell them they're not welcome" is
not violent rhetoric.

Jeff.

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