Friday evening's Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancelation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed.
Brownshirt tactics worked. The mob, triumphant, rejoiced.
And the reaction of Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich?
All three Republican rivals blamed -- Donald Trump.
With his "dangerous style of leadership," Trump stokes this anger, mewed Rubio, "This is what happens when a leading presidential candidate goes around feeding into a narrative of bitterness and anger and frustration."
Rubio implies that if Trump doesn't tone down his remarks to pacify the rabble, he will be responsible for the violence visited upon him.
Kasich echoed Rubio: "Donald Trump has created a toxic environment (that) has allowed his supporters and those who sometimes seek confrontation to come together in violence."
But were the thousands of Trump supporters who came out to cheer him that night really looking for a fight? Or were they exercising their right of peaceful assembly?
Cruz charged Trump with "creating an environment that only encourages this sort of nasty discord," thus offering absolution to the mob.
Friday night cried out for moral clarity. What we got from Trump's rivals was moral mush that called to mind JFK's favorite quote from Dante: The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
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"All three Republican rivals blamed -- Donald Trump."
ReplyDeleteAnd by such actions, they also said, in effect, that Donald J. Trump, and his supporters, do not have the Right Of Assembly, nor the Right of Free Speech. Actually, by denying these to Mr. Trump and his supporters, they are also telling the rioters ( useful idiots ) that they too don't have those Rights. The position of the Establishment has never before been so blatantly made public for all to see.
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The position of the Establishment has never before been so blatantly made public for all to see.
Delete& welcomed by all.
"& welcomed by all."
ReplyDeleteYes, Sir. Freedom isn't free, it requires one to accept responsibility for one's own self, those of whom one is responsible for in their own house, and, to a certain degree, one's neighbors. Hence,they'd rather be fed like hogs at the government feed trough, and 'slaughtered' for whatever purpose the government has for them. Far easier to do nothing and die, than to fight and live free, if free but for only a little while.
The South was a Free Country for a little while, but boy was the taste worth it! Our forefathers, who breathed that free air, passed on to their progeny, us, the vivid description of what it tasted like, and we too have yearned for it continually, as a hungry baby yearns for it's mother's milk.
'Freedom' today, for most people, consists of drinking store-bought milk; what the government deems fit for the masses. If they ever get a taste of raw milk, that is, 'True Freedom', nothing from the store ( government approved ) will ever be accepted as the real thing ever again ( hence why the government is so against raw milk, but that's an entire other story in itself, the raw milk, that is ).
As William Wallace said, They can take away our lives, but they can never take away our Freedom!.
Central Alabamaian
If they ever get a taste of raw milk
DeletePartying until 2, up at 6 and a big glass to get you motivated for the 10/12 hours of farm work and then do it all over again. :) Dman, I'd like to do it again.
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They can take away our lives, but they can never take away our Freedom!.
Couldn't be said better.