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Stephen Ayres, who has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and who testified at a January 6th Committee hearing, provides a powerful lesson for Republican Party leaders and the obvious start to solving our country’s painful division: Tell the truth.
Stephen Ayres has to rebuild his life, but at least now, he will know that his actions in life will be built on the wisdom gained through his pain: "The biggest thing for me is to take the blinders off and make sure you step back and see what's going on — before it's too late."
Why is that lesson so hard for Republican leaders to process? They have seen the tragic consequences of their lies on the lives of people like Stephen Ayres, and they know they are lies. So, stop. It is really that simple.
The lies of Republican leaders have not only hurt people like Steven Ayres, they have fed the hate of right-wing extremists — both individuals and para-military groups. Charlottesville, Buffalo, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, etc., all stand as tragic demonstrations of their hate and its fatal impact on innocent Americans. Reports make it clear that those groups are only gearing up for more violence in the future, egged on by Trump’s massive 2020 election lie.
Here is the simple truth: There was no measurable fraud in the 2020 election. No one stole it. Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
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+Ken Freeman You dumb ass nazis...Not everybody can avoid the racist court system and what happens when a white person assaults a Black person ..??..In most cases nothing ...You need to wake up and get your head out of your ass and stop making excuses for racism...The National Registry of Exonerations, a collaborative effort between the University of Michigan law school at Ann Arbor and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the School of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago. An updated registry of features stories of the wrongfully convicted and was recently released.According to the report, Blacks account for nearly half (47 percent) of all known exonerees in 1989, and Whites made up nearly 39 percent of all known exonerees. When the updated exoneration report was released in April, 57 percent of the known cases that occurred in 2012 involved Blacks.Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the editor of The National Registry of Exonerations said the 10 percent increase for Blacks was striking, but it’s too early to draw any firm conclusions. Gross said that he continues to learn about new cases that occurred in 2012. In last year’s report released in June 2012, the registry found that 50 percent of the all known exonerees were Black.“It’s striking and if it stands up and it repeats in another year or two it will be an important trend,” said Gross.According to the registry report, 52 percent of the wrongful conviction cases involved perjury or false accusation, 43 percent involved official misconduct and 41 percent involved mistaken eyewitness identification.The majority (57 percent) of all known exonerations were in homicide cases and 47 percent of those cases involved Black defendants and 37 percent involved Whites. Blacks accounted for 63 percent and Whites 18 percent of those wrongfully convicted of committed robberies.“Homicide and robbery, sadly to say, are crimes that African Americans are heavily overrepresented in the prison population,” said Gross.The report found that “African Americans constitute 25% of prisoners incarcerated for rape, but 62% of those exonerated for such crimes.”Faulty eyewitness identification continues to drive the high rate of Blacks involved in adult sexual assault exoneration cases. Gross said that this is likely because of problems associated with cross-racial identification.“White people don’t have the type of experience living with and distinguishing members of other races as minorities do,” said Gross. “There is also a long terrible history of racial discrimination in the prosecution of African Americans for rape when they are accused of raping White women and that may be a factor here, too.”According to the National Registry of Exonerations, a majority of the cases (52 percent) involve witness making a false accusation or committing perjury. Forty-one percent of the cases involve faulty eyewitness identification.“As a group, the defendants had spent nearly 11,000 years in prison for crimes for which they should not have been convicted – an average of more than 10 years each,” stated a report by The National Registry of Exonerations released in April.These are often the most productive years of a person’s life and the reason why many criminal justice advocates say that seeking compensation for wrongful convictions is the only chance that exonerees have in regaining a foothold in a world that is often much different than how they left it.“Unfortunately, many of our clients have been in jail for decades and often these were the best years of their life; the years where you can go to school and get an education, years where you can build a career and learn how to do a job,” said Paul Cates, communications director for the Innocence Project. “When they get out after 15 or 20 or 25 years, it’s very difficult to enter the job market without an education and without any marginal skills.”Cates said that, when the government confines someone for those lengths of time, they definitely deserve to be compensated. Cates added: “It’s particularly true when you consider that they have no way of making a living once they’ve been released.”Despite the proliferation of crime shows depicting the use of DNA in solving murders and proving innocence or guilt of a suspect, DNA testing is becoming less of a factor in wrongful conviction cases, because it is often initiated before cases go to trial.“DNA evidence can be very persuasive to courts and to judges and to prosecutors, because it’s a very definitive proof of innocence,” said Cates. “But in all these other cases where this evidence is not available, it’s really hard to prove when someone has been wrongfully convicted and the court system doesn’t make that easy.”..Like a typical little dick punk ass nazi you want Black people to remain silent about racism and think they are the fault of all this unexplainable hatred..By the way Adolf...Jesus had dreadlocks....These innocent people in jail did not act like fools...Tanir Rice was playing with a toy gun and was shot WITHOUT WARNING...did he act like a fool...???//..Did the Black cops that complainedt racist white cops act like fools...The fools are the ones like you that condone racism and then try to make excuses for it and then blame Black people for being targets of racism...Tell me Adolf......where does all this hatred for Black people come from...???
+Ken Freeman Typical useless nazi response...Tell you me you stupid ass...As an american citizen paying taxes and taking care of my family why shouldn't I expect to be treated fairly...??..And when I'm not treated fairly why should I be silent about it...???...Why are white defendant treated better then Black defendant...?? why is there a racist court system..??..,By the way , 90% of white people are killed by white people and most if not all serial killers are white nutcases that people like you keep making excuses for..You also keep making excuses for racism like it's some long lost novel tucked away in a small town library...Racism in this country is real and when unarmed Black people are killed for no reason then being Black that problem has to be addressed...Now I knoiw that you think white people are so damn wonderful and do very little wrong but the truth says otherwise...Therefore a movement like "Black Lives Matter" is needed just as the Civil Rights Movement was needed , just like the Panthers were needed , just like the Urban league was needed , just like the CBC is needed , just like the NAACP is needed...etc..etc.....Tell me ...where does all this hatred for Black people come from...???
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+Redblactivist You sound like a typical useless uncle tom with that weak bullshit...Black people don't have to "play the victim"..We have the racist white cops that
are kiiling unarmed Black people to victimize us...we have the GOP voter
suppression drive to victimize us...we have the bias court system which gives
Black defendants more jail time then white defendants for the same crime to
victimize us...we have Black professionals with a higher rate of unemployment
then less qualified white professionals to victimize us..We have a growing number of white supremacist groups that have pokitical power to vixtimize us...Black people have had it harder then any group in this country with the exception of Native Americans ..Has any other group gone through slavery , reconstruction , peonage , Jim Crow , being the last hired and first fired , and of course our heritage , religion , language , culture etc were all taken away....We have "manufactored knee-grow" like you worshipping to a white Jesus and thinkiing there is no longer a need to fight racism because in your shallow brain racism doesn't exist...That's interesting since Black unemployment is always much higher than white unemployment...AND... Black professionals and Black college graduates have a much higher unemployment rate than uneducated white workers...The answer of course is to have own businesses and hire our own people ...And don't think that has not been tried before or done before ...Remember Black Wall St and places like Rosewood...???..But we must try again and we cannot be afraid to expose racism ...By the way , must Black people are not on welfare , are not in jail , are not on drugs and are not waiting for some white person to give them anything..You and the rest of the "step-n-fetch-it" knee-grows believe the images that you see on television...However there is much work to be done and we cannot ignore problems that we caused ourselves but to ignore the racism that we have faced and will continue to face is stupid at best...Maybe you need to study a history and ask yourself who gets must of the "government money"...Oil companies get subsides , defense contractors get tax breaks , Russian and Italian mafia gets police and court protection , when wlefare was started in the early 1900s Black people got nothing , the healthcare system also practices racism ..There is a book by Dorothy Robeerts titled..."Killing The Black Body"....I suuggest you read it....And the most unanswered question is ....Where does all this hatred for Black people come from...???...can you answer that..??...By the way , Carson is a nutcase....
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MrStugaez...The "tribal warfare" was nothing compared to the genocide in North America , South America , Austria , or the slavery , colonialism , and constant exploitation....Also the erasing of history that was replaced with a fake white Jesus and a fake belief that people of color "need" Europeans to survive...NOTHING could be further from the truth...And who do you think the Greeks learned mathematics form...???...Where was the first university , where are the great pyramids , where is the first written language....and who was the first man to receive the breath of life ..???....Europeans only brought disease , destruction , exploitation , and war on a much greater level...Ask Japan about the atom bomb...who dropped it...???..The best thing Europeans can do for people of color is to go back to Europe....Just leave us alone forever....we will be alright you can believe that....
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Stephen Ayres, who has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and who testified at a January 6th Committee hearing, provides a powerful lesson for Republican Party leaders and the obvious start to solving our country’s painful division: Tell the truth.
Stephen Ayres has to rebuild his life, but at least now, he will know that his actions in life will be built on the wisdom gained through his pain: "The biggest thing for me is to take the blinders off and make sure you step back and see what's going on — before it's too late."
Why is that lesson so hard for Republican leaders to process? They have seen the tragic consequences of their lies on the lives of people like Stephen Ayres, and they know they are lies. So, stop. It is really that simple.
The lies of Republican leaders have not only hurt people like Steven Ayres, they have fed the hate of right-wing extremists — both individuals and para-military groups. Charlottesville, Buffalo, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, etc., all stand as tragic demonstrations of their hate and its fatal impact on innocent Americans. Reports make it clear that those groups are only gearing up for more violence in the future, egged on by Trump’s massive 2020 election lie.
Here is the simple truth: There was no measurable fraud in the 2020 election. No one stole it. Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
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@youtubedeletesmychannels2329 A collection of radical right figures including white nationalists and ultranationalist European leaders gathered in Manhattan for the New York Young Republican Club’s (NYYRC) annual gala Saturday night, where that group’s president declared “total war” on perceived enemies.
“We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war. We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And in the streets,” NYYRC president Gavin Wax declared to a room full of supporters at 583 Park Ave., an event venue on New York’s Upper East Side.
“This is the only language the left understands. The language of pure and unadulterated power,” Wax added....At the five-hour event, which Hatewatch reporters attended, white nationalists Peter and Lydia Brimelow of VDARE hobnobbed with Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser and White House official. Donald Trump Jr. was also in attendance.
Republicans publicly lauded members in attendance from an Austrian political party founded by World War II-era Nazi party members. Racist political operative Jack Posobiec shared jokes across a table with Josh Hammer, the opinion editor of Newsweek. Multiple recently elected GOP congresspeople applauded Marjorie Taylor Greene, who told the NYYRC crowd in the event’s closing remarks that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol would have succeeded if she had planned it and that the insurrectionists would have been armed.
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@youtubedeletesmychannels2329 First of all do your homework....The Klan first emerged after the Civil War in an effort to intimidate Southern blacks to stay out of politics and to exploit their labor. It was created in Pulaski, Tennessee, by Confederate veterans: Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe. Mark Pitcavage, senior fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, told The Associated Press that it was originally designed “purely for entertainment, with no political motivations.” Pitcavage said members engaged in social antics that grew to incorporate cruel pranks. The Klan gradually took on a political tone and by 1867 it began engaging in violent acts. According to Pitcavage, many KKK members were Democrats since the Whig Party had died out and white Southerners disliked the Republican party. He says, though, that the Klan was not started by the Democratic Party “ nor did it have ideological motives until later.”
By the 1870s the Klan had died out since white Southerners had retaken control of state governments “through their campaigns of violence and intimidation.” When a new Klan emerged in the 1910s, it attracted members from both parties, as well as members affiliated with no parties.
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GreyWolfLeaderTW · The Council of Conservative Citizens, a St. Louis-based group that promotes the preservation of the white race, has sponsored its own tea parties in some Southern states.
The council’s website has referred to blacks as “a retrograde species of humanity” and said non-white immigration would turn the country into a “slimy brown mass of glop.”
· Gordon Baum, the group’s founder, told The Star that the council encourages members to participate in tea parties.
He described the tea party rallies as “mainly a white thing, because there’s not a whole lot of blacks that participate, and the ones that do get to be speakers.”
· That leads some groups into a bizarre hypersensitivity, he said.
“They have black speakers, and sometimes when they can’t get one lined up, they just get some poor devil that’s on their side, black guy, in the audience and drag him up on stage,” he said.
Some other white supremacy groups also see tea parties as recruiting grounds.
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David Lowery Wayne Bertsch, a veteran GOP consultant told the Tampa Bay Times that targeting Democrats was always the goal in curbing early voting. "In the races I was involved in in 2008, when we started seeing the increase of turnout and the turnout operations that the Democrats were doing in early voting, it certainly sent a chill down our spines."
Another tactic, favored in Texas and Florida, is to target nonprofit groups that conduct voter-registration drives (the League of Women Voters, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). This is achieved by imposing onerous new training, registration and/or liability burdens on the groups' volunteers. The proportion of African-American and Latino voters who register through third-party drives is about twice what it is for whites.
Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter
"A lot of us are campaign officials -- or campaign professionals -- and we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines -- whatever it may be," Tranter said with a laugh.
Franklin County (Columbus) GOP Chair Doug Preisse.. "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine." Preisse is not some rogue operative but the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio's second-largest county and a close adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Pa House majority leader Mike Turzai, said his state's voter ID law "is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,"
U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Murphy ordered Michigan election officials to immediately halt and attempt to rectify one of the two practices -- canceling voter registrations for those whose voter identification card is returned as undeliverable. Murphy ordered the state to remove the "rejected" marking in the qualified voter file for all persons whose original voter ID cards have been returned to the state as undeliverable since Jan. 1, 2006. About 1,500 people have been removed from the voter list in that manner this year, according to evidence presented in the case.
Voter hours were extended in white distrcits of Ohio while voting hours were cut in the Black districts....
Got all that Adolf...???...good now go back to your KKK meeting
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@ASRMN27 Faced with the pandemic, Trump suppressed scientific data, delayed testing, mocked and blocked mask-wearing, and convened mass gatherings where social distancing was impossible. Despite the mounting threats of COVID-19 and global warming, he pulled the U.S. out of the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accord. He installed industry insiders in regulatory posts tasked with protecting Americans from environmental and occupational hazards; their regulatory rollbacks resulted in 22,000 excess deaths from such hazards in 2019 alone. He pushed through a $1.9 trillion tax cut for the wealthy, creating a budget hole that he then used to justify cutting food and housing assistance for the needy. He tried, but failed, to repeal the ACA, then bent every effort to undermine it, pushing up the number of uninsured Americans by 2.3 million. He denied entry to refugees fleeing violence, abused immigrant detainees, and penalized immigrants for accessing basic social services.
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Stephen Ayres, who has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and who testified at a January 6th Committee hearing, provides a powerful lesson for Republican Party leaders and the obvious start to solving our country’s painful division: Tell the truth.
Stephen Ayres has to rebuild his life, but at least now, he will know that his actions in life will be built on the wisdom gained through his pain: "The biggest thing for me is to take the blinders off and make sure you step back and see what's going on — before it's too late."
Why is that lesson so hard for Republican leaders to process? They have seen the tragic consequences of their lies on the lives of people like Stephen Ayres, and they know they are lies. So, stop. It is really that simple.
The lies of Republican leaders have not only hurt people like Steven Ayres, they have fed the hate of right-wing extremists — both individuals and para-military groups. Charlottesville, Buffalo, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, etc., all stand as tragic demonstrations of their hate and its fatal impact on innocent Americans. Reports make it clear that those groups are only gearing up for more violence in the future, egged on by Trump’s massive 2020 election lie.
Here is the simple truth: There was no measurable fraud in the 2020 election. No one stole it. Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
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@mikesmith5600 Stephen Ayres, who has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and who testified at a January 6th Committee hearing, provides a powerful lesson for Republican Party leaders and the obvious start to solving our country’s painful division: Tell the truth.
Stephen Ayres has to rebuild his life, but at least now, he will know that his actions in life will be built on the wisdom gained through his pain: "The biggest thing for me is to take the blinders off and make sure you step back and see what's going on — before it's too late."
Why is that lesson so hard for Republican leaders to process? They have seen the tragic consequences of their lies on the lives of people like Stephen Ayres, and they know they are lies. So, stop. It is really that simple.
The lies of Republican leaders have not only hurt people like Steven Ayres, they have fed the hate of right-wing extremists — both individuals and para-military groups. Charlottesville, Buffalo, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, etc., all stand as tragic demonstrations of their hate and its fatal impact on innocent Americans. Reports make it clear that those groups are only gearing up for more violence in the future, egged on by Trump’s massive 2020 election lie.
Here is the simple truth: There was no measurable fraud in the 2020 election. No one stole it. Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
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@mikesmith5600 The spectacular violence in the Capitol on January 6th was the outcome of Donald Trump’s yearslong dalliance with the white-supremacist right. Trump all but promised an attack of some kind as he called for his followers to descend on Washington, D.C., for a “wild” protest to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. In a speech inciting his supporters to lay siege to the Capitol, he told them, “We will never give up. We will never concede.” He encouraged them to “fight like hell,” saying that otherwise they would lose their country, and dispatched them to the Capitol. He promised that he would be with them. But, like a lazy coward, Trump went home to watch the show on TV.
The white right-wing assault on the Capitol, with a Confederate flag in the building and gallows on the lawn, was alarming yet wholly predictable as Trump’s frantic efforts to hold on to power faltered. Not only did Trump clearly incite violence with his speech, but his Administration also paved the way for the violence through its deliberate neglect of the rising threat of white extremism. The Center for Strategic and International Studies found that attacks by far-right perpetrators more than quadrupled between 2016 and 2017. Yet even as the threat of white-supremacist violence grew, it commanded little interest or acknowledgment from the Trump Administration. The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention, which was restructured and renamed in 2019, is dedicated to investigating extremism and domestic terrorism. Between 2017 and 2019, its operating budget was cut from twenty-one million dollars to less than three million, and the number of its full-time employees dwindled from forty to fewer than ten.
Instead of investigating white supremacists, the Trump Administration has surveilled the Black Lives Matter movement and other minority activists. According to New York University Law School’s Brennan Center for Justice, eighty-five percent of “countering violent extremism” grants under Trump have targeted marginalized and oppressed minority groups. In April of 2019, the F.B.I. announced a reduction in the number of categories used to catalogue acts of racially motivated violence, eliminating the specific category for white supremacists and introducing a vague one called “racially motivated extremism.”
Not only have white supremacists largely averted being disrupted or even investigated, but they also have had the comfort of seeing their racial fantasies expounded through the bully pulpit of Donald Trump and the wider mouthpiece of the Republican Party. Trump’s election clearly activated the white-racist fringe, sparking record numbers of hate crimes in 2017. A month after Trump was inaugurated, an Indian engineer named Srinivas Kuchibhotla was killed in a bar in Olathe, Kansas, by a white man who shouted racial epithets. On May 20, 2017, Richard Collins III, a twenty-three-year-old Black man, was stabbed to death in College Park, Maryland, by a white man who was a member of a Facebook group called Alt-Reich: Nation. This initial wave of violence peaked with the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, which brought white-racist thugs from around the country to stop the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue and resulted in the murder of the activist Heather Heyer.
Every step of the way, Trump and the Republican Party have either ignored the threat of racism and violence from the hard right or egged it on. Consider how the G.O.P. rallied around Kyle Rittenhouse, who took a semi-automatic rifle to anti-police-brutality demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last summer and killed two people. He was celebrated not only by the fringe right, which applauds violence in hopes of sparking a race war, but also by members of Congress. Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin and the chair of the homeland-security committee, refused to condemn Rittenhouse and spoke about the importance of “citizen soldiers.” In a surreal scene, Trump defended the seventeen-year-old killer from a lectern adorned with the Presidential seal, lending legitimacy to white vigilantes attacking B.L.M. protests. The misrepresentation of B.L.M. as an insurgency as opposed to a social movement has also validated the militarized response of radicalized police officers and the intrusion of white “citizen soldiers” like Rittenhouse to defend “their” America from anti-racist activists.
The convergences between the Republican Party, white supremacists, and white militias grew more numerous and more threatening the closer we came to Election Day. Republican officials evinced a growing proclivity for authoritarianism, actively trying to suppress African-American access to the ballot and insisting that their Party was the legitimate victor in the recent elections. It is only a short hop from one form of political hostility to another, including the threat of political violence. Last December, Representative Madison Cawthorn, who has used white-nationalist symbols and rhetoric, told conservatives to “call your congressman and feel free—you can lightly threaten them.” Representative Mo Brooks introduced Trump at the rally that incited the riot. “Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking some ass,” Brooks said. “Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America?”
Such acts reflect the growing unity between establishment Republican Party and white supremacists, as well as between those groups and the police. In the past two elections, the Fraternal Order of Police, which claims to represent three hundred and fifty-five thousand police officers, has endorsed Trump. Last week, John Catanzara, the president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police lodge, said that he believed that the election had been stolen and defended the rampage at the Capitol, saying that “there was no arson, there was no burning of anything, there was no looting, there was very little destruction of property.” He said that Wednesday’s events were “very different than what happened all across this country all summer long in Democratic-ran cities and nobody had a problem with that.”
Catanzara later apologized and said that his statement was “poorly worded.” But these are not fringe politics. They emanate from the center of the Republican Party.
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@MajorAnthonyNelson This is "another" misguided case of how the media HACKS feather their own nest by keeping Trump in the forefront of your attention!
It's beyond DISGUSTING! 🤮
It's enabling Trump to perpetuate himself as a publuc figure when, in fact, he is a TRAITOR.
One of the reasons I and others like me in our Forum have insisted AG Garland arrest, indict, and prosecute Trump, is the continuing presence of his influence that cannot contribute anything but further undermine our great country.
Articles and continual T-V coverage that focuses on anything other than the Criminality of January 6 and the LEADERS who planned and fostered it,
Is "craven". As such, it's contemptable and subverts the "accountability" Garland promised when he addressed the nation; which he has FAILED to deliver. 🤭
Put Donald J. Trump on Trial with the
Self-Serving Conspirators who joined him in SEDITION against the Constitutin. This includes Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Mark Meadows, Guiliane, Powell, and the rest of his Discilpes from the Pitt. 👹
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@coolramone Stephen Ayres, who has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and who testified at a January 6th Committee hearing, provides a powerful lesson for Republican Party leaders and the obvious start to solving our country’s painful division: Tell the truth.
Stephen Ayres has to rebuild his life, but at least now, he will know that his actions in life will be built on the wisdom gained through his pain: "The biggest thing for me is to take the blinders off and make sure you step back and see what's going on — before it's too late."
Why is that lesson so hard for Republican leaders to process? They have seen the tragic consequences of their lies on the lives of people like Stephen Ayres, and they know they are lies. So, stop. It is really that simple.
The lies of Republican leaders have not only hurt people like Steven Ayres, they have fed the hate of right-wing extremists — both individuals and para-military groups. Charlottesville, Buffalo, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, etc., all stand as tragic demonstrations of their hate and its fatal impact on innocent Americans. Reports make it clear that those groups are only gearing up for more violence in the future, egged on by Trump’s massive 2020 election lie.
Here is the simple truth: There was no measurable fraud in the 2020 election. No one stole it. Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
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@passingthroughtime3033 Trump “has tuned into every hearing” and has grown increasingly irate – to “the point of about to scream at the TV”, according to a close adviser – with what he views as the “lack of defense by his Capitol Hill allies”, the Washington Post reported.
He is possibly aware that, while the hearings come too late to force his resignation and may or may not cause the justice department to press criminal charges, they seem to be inflicting greater political damage than anyone imagined.
Thursday’s fifth hearing served up more of the same in the Cannon Caucus Room which, somewhat reminiscent of a grand ornate ballroom with curtains closed and lights on, is bringing a gravitas to the nailing of Trump that no trickle of media revelations or tell-all memoirs can.
Photographers crowded around the witnesses just as the panel’s chairman, congressman Bennie Thompson, brought down the gavel, a now ominous sound for Trump, and spoke of “a brazen attempt to use the justice department to advance the president’s personal political agenda”.
Trump’s consternation is likely to have only intensified when Republican Liz Cheney summed up his central role in the conspiracy to overturn the election, then another Republican, Adam Kinzinger, questioned former justice department officials. “Today President Trump’s total disregard for the constitution and his oath will be fully exposed,” Kinzinger said.
Once again, all went smoothly and efficiently. There were no interruptions, objections, points of order or spoiling tactics. And that is said to have made Trump furious. He is especially critical of Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader in the House, for boycotting the committee instead of giving pro-Trump Republicans a voice on it.
Trump told Punchbowl News, “In retrospect, I think it would have been very smart” to put more Republicans on the committee. “The Republicans don’t have a voice. They don’t even have anything to say.”
McCarthy apparently gambled that this would allow Republicans to write off the hearings as illegitimate, partisan and an attempt to distract from more pressing issues such as inflation. But the presence of Cheney, Kinzinger and more than a dozen Republican witnesses has undermined that argument.
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@jenwerqthatazzout7639 The more the effort veered away from expert-sanctioned best practices and toward groundless speculation, the less Broomhead had faith in its integrity. He tried to imagine if the parties were reversed, if liberal Democrats were pushing an identical process. It’s only fair to admit, he said in an interview, that “Republicans would lose their minds.”
Senate GOP President Karen Fann has said the recount is not intended to overturn the 2020 election results but to simply put to rest any question about the results and perhaps find ways to improve elections. (Broomhead said his initial support for the recount was similarly to restore voters’ faith in the system, and that he never believed the election was stolen from Trump.)
“Whether they are legitimate concerns or not, our voters — our constituents — deserve to have answers,” Fann told The Times in February. Her spokesman did not respond to an interview request last week.
Bill Gates, a Republican Maricopa County supervisor, said the shambolic nature of the proceedings has thoroughly undermined that purported goal.
“I don’t see how anyone in their right mind can argue what’s been going on at the coliseum is instilling any voter confidence,” he said.
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@jenwerqthatazzout7639 Mike Broomhead talks for a living, but for a moment last week, all he could do was sigh.
With that flash of wordless exasperation behind him, he continued with his work: delivering the latest update on the Maricopa County election recount to listeners of his eponymous morning talk radio show. That day’s news was of a forthcoming conspiracy-theory-riddled documentary on what organizers call an audit — but Broomhead soon turned his attention to the officials overseeing this unfolding spectacle.
“You’re turning this into the clown show that you’ve been accused of. ... You’re turning this into the sideshow at the state fair,” he said...Broomhead is a two-time Trump voter, a staunch conservative and a onetime supporter of this recount. In recent weeks, he has fashioned himself as a reality check for fellow Republicans.
As the recount of 2.1 million ballots cast seven months ago drags on, Broomhead and others are contemplating just how this saga will end. The recount’s most ardent supporters believe former President Trump will be reinstated in the White House (despite there being no legal mechanism for that to occur). Its fiercest critics predict a damaging precedent that will embolden others to baselessly challenge results of elections they don’t like.
An increasingly vocal share of Arizona Republicans see the recount as an act of self-sabotage, creating an albatross for statewide candidates in the run-up to a pivotal election year. Broomhead is in this camp, with another lingering concern.
“No matter where you stand, the one thing we can all agree on is it has put a great big wedge in this community,” he told listeners earlier in the week. “That to me is the worst part of this. It’s one more reason for us to stand on opposite sides of the streets and complain about each other.”
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@stevieraveon7006 Alan Hostetter was “in the middle of nowhere in Arkansas” when he hit the record button. It was late November, a few weeks after what the former police chief and more recent Orange County yoga instructor called the “stolen” 2020 election.
Hostetter, who founded a group called the American Phoenix Project in the spring of 2020 to oppose government restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was on his way to D.C. for the “Million MAGA March” in support of then-President Donald Trump. He had some thoughts he wanted to record “for posterity.”..In the darkened interior of his vehicle, he went on a “little bit of a rant.” He regurgitated the unfounded mass voter fraud conspiracy theories he had read on the internet and heard from Trump, the ones that law enforcement officials were worried would get someone killed. Ballot dumps! Computer algorithms! It was all being revealed, he said. “The charade is about to end,” he said, and people would end up in jail.
Then it was time for executions.
“Some people, at the highest levels, need to be made an example of: an execution or two or three,” Hostetter told his audience. “Tyrants and traitors need to be executed as an example so nobody pulls this shit again.”..The 56-year-old Hostetter and five other men from the Orange County area ― Russell Taylor, 40, Erik Warner, 45, Felipe Martinez, 47, Derek Kinnison, 39, and Ronald Mele, 51 ― were accused of entering into a conspiracy to “corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede the Congressional proceeding at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
The 20-page indictment is the first conspiracy indictment involving multiple defendants the government says are affiliated with the Three Percenters, the right-wing group that derives its name from the (mistaken) belief that just three percent of colonialists stood up against the British during the American Revolution.
The indictment alleges that, along with about 30 others, the men coordinated their actions in a Telegram chat that Taylor created and named “The California Patriots-DC Brigade,” intended for “able bodied individuals” headed to D.C. on Jan. 6.
“Many of us have not met before and we are all ready and willing to fight,” Taylor wrote in the description, the feds said. “We will come together for this moment that we are called upon.”
In one message to the group, Taylor wrote that they wanted “to be on the front steps and be one of the first ones to breach the doors!”
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Republicans continue to blame vulnerable migrants fleeing violence, hunger, and natural disasters for illicit drug smuggling, but facts are stubborn things. Over 90 percent of fentanyl, and over 80 percent of total illegal narcotics, arrive at legal points of entry—not between them—and are smuggled largely by Americans—not undocumented migrants. In fact, migrants accounted for less than 9 percent of fentanyl trafficking convictions in FY 21, compared to more than 86 percent for American citizens.
In December 2022, CBP seized 4,500 pounds of fentanyl, the largest amount ever recorded. Incredibly, just five of those 4,500 pounds were seized at the border by U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans are focused on 1 percent of the problem, 100 percent of the time.
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President Biden inherited an immigration system in tatters. The Trump administration cut off legal pathways to citizenship, leaving would-be migrants with fewer lawful methods of entering the country. They cut funding to Central American countries in 2019 as they splurged on an ineffective, costly wall.
It was the Trump administration that tightened sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, exacerbating the macroeconomic crises that have led hundreds of thousands to flee and arrive at the southern border. When they pulled the rug out from various, essential assistance programs, they made the problem worse.
But our immigration system has been broken for many decades — long before Joe Biden or Donald Trump took the oath of office. Time and again, Democrats have proposed solutions to fix the immigration system in a reasonable, humane way. And time and again, Republicans have opposed these efforts at every turn.
One might recall that in 2013, House Republicans thwarted comprehensive immigration reform after an agreement was reached in the Senate. Many of those same House Republicans who prevented that legislation from passing are now intent on blaming irregular migration, an issue our country has dealt with for over a century, solely on the Biden administration.
There’s only one problem with their affinity for blaming Democrats — it doesn’t hold up to basic scrutiny. In fact, between December 2022 and January 2023, the Biden-Harris administration halved the number of encounters at the border and reduced the number of Cuban, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, and Haitian migrants by 97 percent.
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Stephen Ayres, who has pleaded guilty to illegally entering the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 and who testified at a January 6th Committee hearing, provides a powerful lesson for Republican Party leaders and the obvious start to solving our country’s painful division: Tell the truth.
Stephen Ayres has to rebuild his life, but at least now, he will know that his actions in life will be built on the wisdom gained through his pain: "The biggest thing for me is to take the blinders off and make sure you step back and see what's going on — before it's too late."
Why is that lesson so hard for Republican leaders to process? They have seen the tragic consequences of their lies on the lives of people like Stephen Ayres, and they know they are lies. So, stop. It is really that simple.
The lies of Republican leaders have not only hurt people like Steven Ayres, they have fed the hate of right-wing extremists — both individuals and para-military groups. Charlottesville, Buffalo, South Carolina, Oklahoma City, etc., all stand as tragic demonstrations of their hate and its fatal impact on innocent Americans. Reports make it clear that those groups are only gearing up for more violence in the future, egged on by Trump’s massive 2020 election lie.
Here is the simple truth: There was no measurable fraud in the 2020 election. No one stole it. Joe Biden won the 2020 election fairly.
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+freein2339 Marco Rubio on Black Lives Matter...."This is a legitimate issue," Rubio said. "It is a fact that in the African-American community around this country there has been, for a number of years now, a growing resentment toward the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system interacts with the community. It is particularly endemic among young African-American males — that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice than higher education. We do need to face this. It is a serious problem in this country."Rubio also gave a personal anecdote: "I have one friend in particular who's been stopped in the last 18 months eight to nine different times. Never got a ticket for being stopped — just stopped. If that happened to me, after eight or nine times, I'd be wondering what's going on here. I'd be upset about it. So would anybody else."If you're arrested, if you're a 19-year-old, young minority male — African American or Hispanic — you're arrested, if you don't have any money, you're going to get public defenders. And they're going to push you toward a plea deal, because they're handling a thousand cases. You now have a record, which means you are now stigmatized — in the eyes of your employer, in the eyes of your future, etc. …And once you incarcerate someone, their chances of repeating offenses in the future begin to climb, because you're now basically housing them with criminals that they're learning the tools of the trade [with].We do need to address that. And it is particularly troubling among young African-American males."
Part of the problem is also cultural. One reason police are more likely to use force on and arrest black Americans is because they're more likely to perceive black people as threats due to what's known as “implicit bias“ Studies show, for example, that officers are quicker to shoot
black suspects in video game simulations .Part of this can be addressed through better training for cops, but some of it is simply rooted in how a person is raised, the kind of media he's exposed to, and other cultural influences.So Rubio is right in acknowledging not just that racial disparities in the criminal justice system
are a big problem, but how the problem presents itself. That's a big contrast
to a Republican field that has ranged from ignorant to hostile toward Black
Lives Matter....That includes Ben Carson....
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+Supersmashist Why would Liberals be afriad of Black conservatives....Black conservative can't even get mire themn 2-3 Blacks in the GOP congress...The only thing Black conservatives are good for is being anti-Black...At least that's what mosr Black conservatives do....not "Brotheres' like Colin Powell..or this brother....
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"The environment inside the Republican
Party today is a treacherous moral swamp for African-Americans. No black
conservative figure has yet managed to remain in a position of influence inside
the GOP while speaking honestly about racial questions.
When an NAACP chairman derided
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott recently as a “ventriloquist’s dummy”
he touched a deep nerve. Going all the way back to Reconstruction, black
conservatives have fought to justify their emphasis on economic progress against
those who sought more direct resistance to injustice.
That is a fine line to walk and it
has never been easy. When black leaders allow themselves be used as tokens,
they will deserve the suspicion they retain in the black community no matter
what other sincere goals or opinions they may hold. This is an unfair dilemma
that white political figures seldom face, but history has made it unavoidable.
Black leaders cannot expect to be
taken seriously so long as they quietly acquiesce to rhetoric and policies openly
hostile to minority communities. For black conservatives, the price of
credibility is courage.
Standing in front of a white audience
and validating their racist assumptions is a fast track to popularity and
political opportunity. Few things thrill a white nationalist more than a black
man who agrees with him. Every racist has ‘lots of black friends’ and being one
of those black friends offers benefits.
With the GOP in thrall to an ugly
Neo-Confederate resurgence, the 2012 Republican Convention featured its lowest
percentage of black delegates in modern history. Interestingly, while there
were only 46 black delegates, the convention featured eight minority speakers
on the main stage alone. Being a black Republican willing to toe the line
without question is an outstanding way to gain access to a platform.
It is entirely reasonable to expect
that Sen. Scott’s position as a Senator was paid for by his willingness to be
used. He has done nothing yet in his career that would be inconsistent with
that characterization. Recite the party’s talking points and he gets to be a
Senator. Acknowledge the existence of racism in any credible matter and he will
be escorted to the exit, where he will be greeted by Colin Powell and Michael
Steele.
One of the GOP’s other black friends,
former Rep. Allen West, learned that lesson the hard way when he accidentally
said something honest about the Trayvon Martin case. He quickly backed down,
explained that Martin had it coming because he wasn’t a “respectful young man.”
West recognized the value of being a “respectful young man” in the GOP and now
he has a nice gig with Fox News.
This dilemma complicates the appeal
of black conservatives, making it extremely difficult to communicate a
credible, persuasive message without losing access to the political process. To
speak honestly about race means being ostracized from the Republican Party. To
speak honestly about the role of values and culture in the plight of the black
community means being ostracized from the Democratic Party. Black conservatives
can accept a humiliatingly subservient role in a Republican Party that wants
them to perform like circus animals or sit outside the process, alienated and
disempowered.
Not everyone in the black community
sees this dilemma. In particular, many black religious fundamentalists do not
perceive this problem at all. It is from their ranks that figures like Tim
Scott and former Rep. Allen West have emerged. If you believe in a
6000-year-old universe it isn’t so hard to believe that Obama is a Socialist
Anti-Christ or that he cheered the attack on the American Consulate in
Benghazi.
Black religious fundamentalists feel
comfortable walking shoulder to shoulder with Tea Party activists bent on
destroying minority voting rights and ending “income redistribution” to black
urban moochers in hoodies. They are marching with the far-right far-white in
pursuit of higher, apocalyptic goals. If gay marriage is the single greatest
threat to civilization then perhaps an alignment with the GOP’s farthest
ideological fringe makes sense.
For non-white conservatives with
their feet planted firmly in the reality-based community the rhetoric being
spewed by Republicans in recent years is more than a little frightening. Some
hard-right black evangelicals may have made peace with the Tea Party, but their
numbers are very small. That’s why most if not all of the African-Americans at
your local Tea Party rally will be speaking onstage.
Whether he likes it or not, Sen.
Scott is becoming a national mascot for the efforts of Tea Party Republicans to
whitewash the movement’s glaring racism. The dilemma he faces may be unique to
black political figures, but as the Republican Party becomes more and more an
engine for white nationalism, that burden spreads more broadly to all conservatives,
regardless of race.
The same credibility problem faced by
black conservatives is becoming a dangerous threat to conservatism at large. If
Sen. Scott is a token set up to distract us all from the GOP’s racism, then
what is Karl Rove? At what point should all conservatives face the same duty to
speak about racism that we justly place on Sen. Scott’s shoulders?
If conservatism is going to survive,
conservatives should all take a close look at the dilemma faced by Sen. Scott.
The movement badly needs an update to avoid atrophying into a tool of racial
and political anachronisms. Conservatism will not survive if it fails to
represent something more compelling than the stubborn preservation of white
cultural supremacy. A handful of well-placed black friends may obscure the
party’s problems, but they are not going to save conservatism from
itself."
Chris Ladd - a Black republican
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In September 2014, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp expressed concern
that too many minority voters were registering to vote for the November
midterms and so he found it necessary to subpoena the records of at
least one group working to register more Black and Latino voters.
Now he has gone and "lost" 40,000 voter registration forms handed in by one group.
The Root:
According
to an Al-Jazeera report, it’s a sentiment that the staffers at Third
Sector Development are expressing. The nonprofit organization was on a
mission to register as many black and Hispanic people in the state of
Georgia as possible so that voter turnout for the upcoming midterm
elections in November would be high. And they were successful at it,
until they received word that about half of the applications they
submitted for processing have gone missing in action.
“Over the
last few months, the group submitted some 80,000 voter-registration
forms to the Georgia secretary of state’s office—but as of last week,
about half those new registrants, more than 40,000 Georgians, were still
not listed on preliminary voter rolls. And there is no public record of
those 40,000-plus applications, according to state Rep. Stacey Adams, a
Democrat,” Al-Jazeera explained.
But Secretary Kemp says, hey, we're not doing anything differently. Sure they're not.
Georgia
Secretary of State Brain Kemp explained that his office is not doing
anything differently from how it usually processes applications. But
some people aren’t buying his story, seeing as how he’s a Republican,
and black and Hispanic people tend to vote for Democrats.
Georgia
Republicans have been raising eyebrows for some time now with regard to
early voting and voter-ID issues. One state Republican didn’t like how
black and Hispanic voters had easy access to early-voting opportunities.
They
cut early voting, they've got horrible Voter ID laws, and now the
Secretary of State has 40,000 less voter registration forms than were
submitted. Jim Crow is alive and well in Georgia and surrounds, isn't
it?
Of course there are many other incidents of GOP voter suppression....that's why the GOP will not get support from Black voters....too much racism...
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Wayne Bertsch, a veteran GOP consultant told the Tampa Bay Times that
targeting Democrats was always the goal in curbing early voting. "In the
races I was involved in in 2008, when we started seeing the increase of
turnout and the turnout operations that the Democrats were doing in
early voting, it certainly sent a chill down our spines."
Another
tactic, favored in Texas and Florida, is to target nonprofit groups that
conduct voter-registration drives (the League of Women Voters, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). This is
achieved by imposing onerous new training, registration and/or liability
burdens on the groups' volunteers. The proportion of African-American
and Latino voters who register through third-party drives is about twice
what it is for whites.
Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter
"A lot of us are campaign officials -- or campaign professionals -- and
we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think
that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines -- whatever it
may be," Tranter said with a laugh.
Franklin County (Columbus) GOP
Chair Doug Preisse.. "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't
contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read
African-American—voter-turnout machine." Preisse is not some rogue
operative but the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio's
second-largest county and a close adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Pa House majority leader Mike Turzai, said his state's voter ID law "is
gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,"
U.S.
District Judge Stephen J. Murphy ordered Michigan election officials to
immediately halt and attempt to rectify one of the two practices --
canceling voter registrations for those whose voter identification card
is returned as undeliverable. Murphy ordered the state to remove the
"rejected" marking in the qualified voter file for all persons whose
original voter ID cards have been returned to the state as undeliverable
since Jan. 1, 2006. About 1,500 people have been removed from the voter
list in that manner this year, according to evidence presented in the
case.
Voter hours were extended in white distrcits of Ohio while voting hours were cut in the Black districts....
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@smacdonald5142 Trump was given far more leeway than most Americans, experts told us, and could have avoided the search with full cooperation.
"There's no legal requirement for the FBI to proceed via subpoena or to ask nicely. It's well within their rights to go to a judge and get a search warrant," said Neama Rahmani, a former prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers in California, who described Trump as "partially cooperative at best" with the government.
"Trump and his associates have not been cooperative," said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, who said the argument made by Trump and Crenshaw "makes no legal sense" because items the government was seeking were ultimately found in Trump’s possession.
A federal judge on Aug. 26 released a heavily redacted affidavit that explained the Justice Department’s request for the search warrant.
But the National Archives, or NARA, has been seeking documents that Trump removed from the White House and took to his Florida home after he left office in January 2021.
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Some cities in the US even get it....
Rock Port, Missouri is a tiny town the north-west of the U.S with a population of just 1,300. The town is located just in the right place to receive some of the nation’s best wind resources. With Rock Port making the most of its location, it runs entirely off of wind power. The wind farm is a private-public partnership, with the well-known company John Deere joining forces with local entrepreneurs and town leaders to create the Wind Capital Group. They have 4 wind turbines which are connected to the grid and they provide about 125% of the towns energy needs, meaning that they can sell any unused power. “We’re farming the wind, which is something that we have a lot of up here. The payback on a per-acre basis is generally quite good when compared to a lot of other crops, and it’s as simple as getting a cup of coffee and watching the blades spin”, said Jim Crawford, a natural resource engineer at the University of Missouri Extension in Columbia. “Anybody who is currently using Rock Port utilities can expect no increase in rates for the next 15 to 20 years,” Crawford said. Jerry Baker, an MU Extension community development specialist, added that the turbines could also increase tourist attraction to the area. For a town which is quite a drive from any major cities, the potential of bringing a bit of tourism to the area would be a good little boost for their local economy, without them needed to do much more than just have a cup of coffee, according to Jim Crawford, and with the town located on the road down to Kansas City, it makes it accessible for the tourists to stop off at. Rock Ports wind farm is a good example to small towns that it is easy to generate a lot of their power from a renewable source that works for them.
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@Bydun4prison Ukrainian officials on Saturday said they were offered $5 million (4 million pounds) in bribes to end a probe into energy company Burisma’s founder, but said there was no connection to former board member Hunter Biden whose father is running for the U.S. presidency.
The Ukrainian company was thrust into the global spotlight last year in the impeachment inquiry into whether U.S. President Donald Trump improperly pressured Kiev into opening a case against his rival for the November election race.
Trump wants an investigation into the Democrats’ 2020 candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son.
Artem Sytnyk, head of Ukraine’s national anti-corruption bureau (NABU), said three people had been detained, including one current and former tax official, over the bribe offer.
The money was the largest cash bribe ever seized in the country, NABU said. It was put on display during a press briefing, brought by masked men in see-through plastic bags.
Burisma said in a statement it had nothing to do with the matter. It did not respond to a request for comment from the company’s founder Mykola Zlochevsky, a former ecology minister now living abroad.
“Let’s put an end to this once and for all. Biden Jr. and Biden Sr. do not appear in this particular proceeding,” Nazar Kholodnytsky, head of anti-corruption investigations at the prosecution service, told Saturday’s briefing.
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Wake up....grow up...then shut up.
Twice-impeached former President Donald Trump on Sunday praised his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent attempt to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
“These were peaceful people, these were great people,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
Recalling the events of Jan. 6, Trump claimed “there was love in the air” at his rally earlier that day at the White House, and falsely said there was a “lovefest between the Capitol Police and the people that walked down to the Capitol.”
“They are military people, and police officers and construction workers,” he added. “They are tremendous. In many cases, tremendous people.”
The Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol was a shocking and horrifying event, as captured by countless testimonials from lawmakers who fled the scene and Capitol Police officers who faced off with the insurrectionists in hand-to-hand combat. Trump supporters assaulted Capitol Police officers and hurled racist insults at them as they forced their way into the building.
Approximately 140 police officers were injured during the attack. Dozens of people have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.
“Is this America? They beat police officers with Blue Lives Matter flags. They fought us, they had Confederate flags in the U.S. Capitol,” Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn later recalled in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
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@robbiegunkel2356 From the FBI....In our system, the prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are appropriate based on evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we don’t normally make public our recommendations to the prosecutors, we frequently make recommendations and engage in productive conversations with prosecutors about what resolution may be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case, given the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order.
Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.
In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.
To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.
As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.
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+Sam Sbogh You take a situation where you have a group of people - namely white people -
who have actually taken philosophy, religion, education, science, liberal arts,
everything that you can associate with the word "culture" from Black people.
They have taken it, distorted it, adopted it and used it against the very people
from whom they received it as a justification for slavery. So, it was convenient
to enslave Blacks in Africa under the guise of spreading Christianity when it
fact the religion as developed in Africa (there were 27 bishops and seven Popes
of the North African Church before the first one in Rome - this is documented in
the book Libers Pontificals, which, when translated into English, is Book of the
Popes). I should also point out here that few references are made to the fact
that three of the earliest fathers of the Christian church were Blacks. St.
Augustine (born at Tagaste, Numida, North Africa in 354 A.S.), who set the moral
doctrine of the Christian Church; Tutillian and Cyprian. How could white people
tell Blacks that they had no history or culture other than that which Europeans
gave them and at the same time tell them that Christianity was not only
developed by Blacks, but that its master, Jesus, was a Black man? This could not
be done.
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+Timothy O'B Actually it's spelled Cain and the "mark" was actually leprosy...Depending on who you ask that is why certain people fled to the Caucas mountains which are located in Europe....Some historians claim that the caucasian was created there...I only know that devils do what devils do , therefore when a group of people seem to always act like devils then I have to call it like I see it...Face it man and be honest....western culture has done a lot more harm to the world than any other culture...Thats a fact....So where does all the hatred from people of color come from....did the devil make you do it..??ps...Africans are an old race.while whites are really mutations of a mutation.sorry to burst your bubbles , science doesn’t lie....Scientists said that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation
that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of
thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most
enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.
The work suggests that the skin-whitening mutation occurred by chance in a single individual after the first human exodus from Africa, when all people were brown-skinned. That person's offspring apparently thrived as humans moved northward into what is now Europe, helping to give rise to the lightest of the world's races.
Leaders of the study, at Penn State University, warned against interpreting
the finding as a discovery of "the race gene." Race is a vaguely defined
biological, social and political concept, they noted, and skin color is only
part of what race is -- and is not. Like I said...it depends on who you ask....
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+freein2339
On a
national radio show [on Aug. 27], Carson said that the country need to
re-examine how it cares for veterans but also how to cut back on government
bureaucracy.
The
retired neurosurgeon said, “We don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs.
Veterans Affairs should be folded in under the Department of Defense.”
As
regular readers probably know, plenty of Republican presidential candidates
support incorporating a voucher sytstem into the VA, effectively privatizing
parts of veterans’ care, but Carson is the first national candidate, at least
in recent memory, to suggest eliminating the cabinet agency altogether.
John
Biedrzyck, head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, isn’t impressed. “To suggest
that disabled veterans could be sent out into the economy with a health savings
account card overlooks the fact that civilian health care has waiting lists of
their own … and presupposes that civilian doctors have the same skill sets as
VA doctors, who see veterans of every age and malady every day,” Biedrzyck said
in a statement.
As the Military
Times’ report added, Paralyzed Veterans of America Deputy Executive
Director Sherman Gillums Jr. called Carson’s recommendation “a misguided notion
born from ignorance of what each department does.”
“Those who
insist ‘we don’t need a Department of Veterans Affairs’ are likely people who
in fact do not need VA care because of good health or cannot access VA care due
to ineligibility, as is the case with Dr. Carson,” he wrote.
“However,
frustration in reaction to problems in VA combined with ignorance about what VA
does and how it works are not the ingredients for a recipe of success where
fixing the department is concerned.”
Former Gen. Paul Eaton
stating that the separate department was necessary and Carson’s idea was
misguided.
Rather than think of ways to nickel and dime our veterans Dr. Carson
should be thinking of other areas of fat in government – particularly in
defense contracts – that can be cut, so we can hire more doctors and
caregivers, to provide returning veterans with the kind of care they earned.”
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+Andrew Draxlar Finally ....a republican that has ther courage to tell the truth....Marco Rubio on Black Lives Matter.... "This is a legitimate issue," Rubio said. "It is a fact that in the African-American community around this country there has been, for a number of years now, a growing resentment toward the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system interacts with the community. It is particularly endemic among young African-American males — that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice than higher education. We do need to face this. It is a serious problem in this country."Rubio also gave a personal anecdote: "I have one friend in particular who's been stopped in the last 18 months eight to nine different times. Never got a ticket for being stopped — just stopped. If that happened to me, after eight or nine times, I'd be wondering what's going on here. I'd be upset about it. So would anybody else." If you're arrested, if you're a 19-year-old, young minority male — African American or Hispanic — you're arrested, if you don't have any money, you're going to get public defenders. And they're going to push you toward a plea deal, because they're handling a thousand cases. You now have a record, which means you are now stigmatized — in the eyes of your employer, in the eyes of your future, etc. …And once you incarcerate someone, their chances of repeating offenses in the future begin to climb, because you're now basically housing them with criminals that they're learning the tools of the trade [with].We do need to address that. And it is particularly troubling among young African-American males."
Part of the problem is also cultural. One reason police are more likely to use force on and arrest black Americans is because they're more likely to perceive black people as threats due to what's known as “implicit bias“ Studies show, for example, that officers are quicker to shoot
black suspects in video game simulations .Part of this can be addressed through better training for cops, but some of it is simply rooted in how a person is raised, the kind of media he's exposed to, and other cultural influences.So Rubio is right in acknowledging not just that racial disparities in the criminal justice system
are a big problem, but how the problem presents itself. That's a big contrast
to a Republican field that has ranged from ignorant to hostile toward Black
Lives Matter....That includes Ben Carson....
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+Andrew Draxlar This also apploies to you...."What law did Tamir Rice break....what law did Oscar Grant break , what law did Micheal Brown break , what law did Trayvon Martin break , what law did Jonathan Ferrell break , what law did Runain Brisbon break , what law did Akai Gurley break , what law did Ezel Ford , what law did John Crawford break , what law did Eric Garner break , what law did Yvette Smith break , what law did Jorban Baker break , What law did Carlos Alcis break , what law did Kimani Gray break , what law did Reynaldo Cuevas break , what law did Amandu Diallo break , what law did Kendrec McDade break , what law did Rekia Boyd break...???...You stupid racist nazis always you are so fucking wonderful and do nothing wrong..It's useless assholes like you that keep hatred and racism alive..AND Black cops also complain about white racist cops...? "No snitching" has nothing to do with these racist cops killing unarmed innocent Black people...fucking nazi"Here's a thought....why don't you ever hear about Black cops harrassing off duty white cops...???
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+Shazbotacus What law did Tamir Rice break....what law did Oscar Grant break , what law did Micheal Brown break , what law did Trayvon Martin break , what law did Jonathan Ferrell break , what law did Runain Brisbon break , what law did Akai Gurley break , what law did Ezel Ford , what law did John Crawford break , what law did Eric Garner break , what law did Yvette Smith break , what law did Jorban Baker break , What law did Carlos Alcis break , what law did Kimani Gray break , what law did Reynaldo Cuevas break , what law did Amandu Diallo break , what law did Kendrec McDade break , what law did Rekia Boyd break...???...You stupid racist nazis always you are so fucking wonderful and do nothing wrong..It's useless assholes like you that keep hatred and racism alive..AND Black cops also complain about white racist cops...? "No snitching" has nothing to do with these racist cops killing unarmed innocent Black people...fucking nazi
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+Whitney Pyant "We" are not in charge of the racist court system and "we" are not placed in grand Jurys that can convict racist cops..."We" do not move a trial to a "friendly lily white area"...And I;m not blaming whites for all our problems but when so many unarmed Black people are killed by racist white cops then yes it is a problem....This is what some Black cops say about your lovely and innocent racist cops....Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime. The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.Desmond Blaize, who retired two years ago as a sergeant in the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyn’s upmarket Prospect Park. "I had my ID on me so it didn’t escalate," said Blaize, who has sued the department alleging he was racially harassed on the job. "But what’s suspicious about a jogger? In jogging clothes?"Blacks made up 73 percent of the shooting perpetrators in New York in 2011 and were 23 percent of the population.A number of academics believe those statistics are potentially skewed because police over-focus on black communities, while ignoring crime in other areas. They also note that being stopped as a suspect does not automatically equate to criminality. Nearly 90 percent of blacks stopped by the NYPD, for example, are found not to be engaged in any crime. The black officers interviewed said they had been racially profiled by white officers exclusively, and about one third said they made some form of complaint to a supervisor. All but one said their supervisors either dismissed the complaints or retaliated against them by denying them overtime, choice assignments, or promotions. The remaining officers who made no complaints said they refrained from doing so either because they feared retribution or because they saw racial profiling as part of the system.Here's a question for you...Why don't we hear about Black cops running killing unarmed citizens...of any color...????
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+Whitney Pyant....Over 90% of white peope are killed by white people and they are not killed by racist Black cops....Now the question seem to not want to answer is do you have a problem with unarmed Black people killed by racist white cops.....By the way , I don't deny any problems but you seem to deny what white racist cops are doing....Here's a sample of what Black cops deal with...
New dashcam footage is backing up the claims of four African-American
parole officers who were violently detained by local upstate
New York police officers.
The police in the City of Ramapo , NY claim that they did nothing wrong in how they handled the incident.
But the parole officers say differently. Mario Alexandre, Sheila Penister,
Annette Thomas-Prince, and Samuel Washington just filed a lawsuit against the city. They say that they were terrified and feared for their lives after officer pulled them over and held them at gun point, with assault rifles
pointed at them.
The footage from the dashcam video, obtained by CNN, shows a police
cruiser swerve to the wrong side of the road to get to the
vehicle where the four African American officers were sitting.One officer pulls a gun on the four plaintiffs. Another blocks traffic, using his SUV.
One of the four emerges from the car with his hands up, even though he had done nothing wrong.Five police officers were present, including ones aiming assault rifles.
Mario Alexandre explains that he was “violently assaulted” when pulled from the
vehicle, and “slammed against the car.”
Police claim they were in the right, however, because of a 911 call on the
four officers, “concerned about four individuals observed in bulletproof vests in an unmarked vehicle.”
Those were in fact department-issued bulletproof vests. They also had gold badges around their neck: a common image of officer that is familiar to virtually everyone.
The officers even had an official sign placed on the dashboard that read:
“State of New York – Executive Department – Division of Parole.”That apparently wasn’t enough to identify them as police officers to the
racist cops who pulled them over.The racist officers involved in the incident were: Lt. Robert Lancia, Capt.,
Sgt. Margaret Sammarone, Thomas Cokely, and Suffern Sgt. Edward Dolan, according to The Journal News…Now I don't know what town you live in but am sure you can find some activists that are actually doing something in the community instead of whining about it....
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+Chris Kavanagh Here's what some republicans say about Obamacare...To be clear, the comments in this article are my opinion and mine alone and should not be construed as representative of the site in general.I’m also quite sure some of you have your fingers hovering over the R-I-N-O keys so let me start by giving you my Republican credentials and political views.I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life other than maybe when I was 18, didn’t know what I was doing and voted for people based on how patriotic their names sounded.I’m worried our entitlement programs have turned into a handout and not a hand up. Without better accountability measures, I think our current system traps families in a cycle of poverty.I would love to be able to invest my own Social Security money because with the government in charge, I don’t think my money is going to be waiting for me at retirement time.I’m concerned with our punitive tax system. We say it’s the American dream for everyone to make it big, but if you succeed, by golly, we’re going to take your money away and give it to someone else.I think less government is better government, except in cases of life and death (which is where I think health insurance falls).So that said, this is why I love the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare as it is so affectionately called by some.I love that it will help ensure everyone has access to careI’ve been reporting on health reform since before the law passed, and in the early days, there was a lot of concern about government death panels deciding who would get care and who would be left to die.Well, we already have our own version of death panels: It’s called health insurance. If you have coverage, you get treatment. If not, well, tough for you.True story: When my husband was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, the parting words of the doctor who did the endoscopy were, no joke, “I hope you have health insurance. Because you’re going to need it.”Boy, was he right. When I called the cancer center for general information, they asked for our insurance information. When I made the consultation appointment, they asked for our insurance information. When we showed up, they checked our insurance information. In the middle of the consultation, we met with a finance guy who, that’s right, checked our insurance information.And then get this. We show up for the first chemo visit, my husband is hooked to the IV and the nurse says she needs to wait a minute before getting started. When my husband asked why, she said it was because they needed to reconfirm our insurance coverage. My husband asked what happens if the insurance company says they won’t pay, and the nurse told him they would probably pull us back to meet with a financial adviser and they might need to change the treatment plan.In other words, if you don’t have health insurance, you get sub-par treatment.That brings me to the next reason I love Obamacare.I love that it gives new options for those with pre-existing conditionsIf you have only ever had insurance through your workplace, you probably think the health insurance system is great. I know I did when I had group coverage. One huge difference is how pre-existing conditions have been treated under the law. . However, no such protection was extended to those buying individual plans. If you had a pre-existing condition and needed to buy your own health insurance, you were up the proverbial creek and without an oar.Here’s my real-world example – one that helped change my view on health insurance. In the summer of 2010, in anticipation of leaving my office job, which provided our family insurance, I received a quote for individual coverage that was $800 a month with a $7,000 deductible. And that was the good plan out of multiple choices.My husband was diagnosed with cancer a few months later and then our options dwindled down to exactly zero. Fortunately, a 1986 federal law – – gave me the right to continue to buy my former workplace policy for 18 months. It cost $1,300 a month but, hey, what else are you going to do if you need coverage?Then after 18 months, thanks to that same federal law, our insurance provider was required to offer us an individual insurance plan. This mercifully dropped our premiums to $800 a month but gave us a $5,000 deductible. However, we were grateful to just have insurance since my husband’s pre-existing condition meant no one else would cover us.You may be thinking there were high-risk pools for those with pre-existing conditions, right? Well, in our state, you needed to be uninsured for six months to be eligible. That’s not much help to people who have immediate medical needs.It may also be crossing your mind that people could just get a job or they should have gotten health insurance earlier or it’s such a small percentage of people affected that we shouldn’t bother changing the system. Maybe or maybe not, but again, we’re talking about people’s lives here. I find the attitude of “too bad for you” to be disturbing, particularly when it comes from my fellow Christian Republicans.I love that it focuses on preventive care and essential servicesOn a different note, I love that Obamacare is requiring insurance companies to provide free preventive services and cover essential services.I know mandates go against the pro-business party line, but as a Republican, I appreciate the fiscal soundness behind this strategy. It makes more sense to pay 60,000 a year to help someome manage thier diabetis than it does to have them develop end-stage renal disease, which can cost upward of 70,000 per patientSame thing goes for mental health services which, prior to the passage of Obamacare, were not covered by 1 in 5 heslth plans.Under the law, mental health and substance abuse services are essential health benefits and must be covered by all new health insurance plans.Does mandating mental illness coverage increase our health insurance premiums? Perhaps, but I can’t believe our costs will go up more than the estimated 4 billion we are already paying annually as a result of untreated mental illness. And that doesn’t include the emotional price we pay when someone’s untreated mental illness leads to tradegyIn the short run, paying for preventive services and essential health benefits might cost us a little more. However, after crunching the numbers, I like to think my fiscally conservative friends would agree, in the long run, paying for preventive care simply makes sense.I love that it gives premium assistance to working familiesSo many government assistance programs are geared toward people living at or just above the poverty limit, and I love that Obamacare is extending some financial love to the working middle class.Many people work long hours to make ends meet and stay off the welfare rolls. If the government is going to be doling out money – and we all know it is – I’m glad these families are finally getting a piece of the pie.Plus, as with preventive care, I would rather give working families a couple hundred dollars a month to supplement their premium payments and keep them covered rather than have us pay for their emergency room visitsI love that it’s a start … but I’m not convinced it’s the answerFinally, I love that Obamacare is getting the conversation started. It’s not perfect by any means, but it has moved what is, quite frankly, a life and death issue to the forefront.That said, I am not convinced the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the answer to our health care problems. These are my concerns:Constitutionality. Despite the fact I was secretly rooting for the bill, I was shocked when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. While I understand the reason for requiring everyone to get health insurance, the mandate seems like overreach of government authority. My hope would be that if affordable health insurance becomes widely available, everyone would be smart enough to take advantage of it without a government requirement.Government incompetence. My second concern is that the government may simply not be up for the challenge. Despite having three years’ advance notice, the online marketplace was and is a mess. It took at least 10 hours of my time to get my application in and, in the end, a technical difficulty preventing me from even being able to view my plan choices. Instead, I had to rely on a phone operator who had a questionable level of knowledge to explain the available plans. Couple that with all the people having trouble accessing their benefits, and I’m starting to wonder if the government is causing more harm than good.So the law isn’t perfect in my mind, but at least it’s moving our health care system in the right direction — a direction that ensures we don’t leave marginalized people to die.There you have it: That’s why I’m Republican and love Obamacare. Feel free to tell me why I’m wrong Maryalene Laponsie....
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+freein2339 Marco Rubio on Black Lives Matter.... "This is a legitimate issue," Rubio said. "It is a fact that in the African-American community around this country there has been, for a number of years now, a growing resentment toward the way law enforcement and the criminal justice system interacts with the community. It is particularly endemic among young African-American males — that in some communities in this country have a much higher chance of interacting with criminal justice than higher education. We do need to face this. It is a serious problem in this country."Rubio also gave a personal anecdote: "I have one friend in particular who's been stopped in the last 18 months eight to nine different times. Never got a ticket for being stopped — just stopped. If that happened to me, after eight or nine times, I'd be wondering what's going on here. I'd be upset about it. So would anybody else." If you're arrested, if you're a 19-year-old, young minority male — African American or Hispanic — you're arrested, if you don't have any money, you're going to get public defenders. And they're going to push you toward a plea deal, because they're handling a thousand cases. You now have a record, which means you are now stigmatized — in the eyes of your employer, in the eyes of your future, etc. …And once you incarcerate someone, their chances of repeating offenses in the future begin to climb, because you're now basically housing them with criminals that they're learning the tools of the trade [with].We do need to address that. And it is particularly troubling among young African-American males."
Part of the problem is also cultural. One reason police are more likely to use force on and arrest black Americans is because they're more likely to perceive black people as threats due to what's known as “implicit bias“ Studies show, for example, that officers are quicker to shoot
black suspects in video game simulations .Part of this can be addressed through better training for cops, but some of it is simply rooted in how a person is raised, the kind of media he's exposed to, and other cultural influences.So Rubio is right in acknowledging not just that racial disparities in the criminal justice system
are a big problem, but how the problem presents itself. That's a big contrast
to a Republican field that has ranged from ignorant to hostile toward Black
Lives Matter....That includes Ben Carson....
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+josh b
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler hated blacks almost as much as he hated Jews.
In his autobiography Mein Kampf, Hitler referred to Afro-Germans as “Rhineland bastards”—a reference to the children of German and African parents.Among other forms of oppression, the Nazis sterilized German blacks. The intent was to prevent Afro-German men from having children with white German women and “diluting” the Aryan race.In the 1997 documentary Hitler’s Forgotten Victims, black German survivors talked about the forced sterilization. After the procedure, often administered without anesthesia, the blacks were free to leave after getting a certificate … and vowing to never sleep with German women..Black prisoners of war faced illegal incarceration and mistreatment at the hands of the Nazis, who did not uphold the regulations imposed by the Geneva Convention (international agreement on the conduct of war and the treatment of wounded and captured soldiers). Lieutenant Darwin Nichols, an African American pilot, was incarcerated in a Gestapo prison in Butzbach. Black soldiers of the American, French, and British armies were worked to death on construction projects or died as a result of mistreatment in concentration or prisoner-of-war camps. Others were never even incarcerated, but were instead immediately killed by the SS or Gestapo.There is also the American Nazi Party and they hate Black people ...just like you do ...Adolf...
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