Domestic terrorism is defined as any act dangerous to human life that violates US criminal laws & appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a govt by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a govt by mass destruction.— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) June 11, 2020
The FBI classifies domestic terrorism threats into four main categories: racially motivated violent extremism, anti-government/anti-authority extremism, animal rights/environmental extremism, and abortion extremism.https://t.co/RCwDSu4WnN— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) June 11, 2020
BLM threatens to “RIP President Trump out of the White House”.— RedWin2020 (@Win2020Red) August 29, 2020
Calling for a revolution, they will not wait till election.
This is openly domestic terrorism. @realDonaldTrump @SecretService
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BLM leader: “I want to to put these police in a f—ing grave ... I want to f—ing burn the White House down... I f—k police up in New York, I f—k police up in DC”pic.twitter.com/x2Defrrxar— Marina Medvin ๐บ๐ธ (@MarinaMedvin) August 30, 2020
America was founded on liberty, not race or ethnicity.— PragerU (@prageru) June 26, 2020
That is what makes America great. pic.twitter.com/rfg8F8eabj
I just had the privilege of signing a very strong Executive Order protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues - and combatting recent Criminal Violence. Long prison terms for these lawless acts against our Great Country!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2020
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2020
⏹ 100+ arrests and charged cases under a # of fed laws, including inciting riots and destruction of federal property.— Kerri Kupec DOJ (@KerriKupecDOJ) June 25, 2020
⏹ The @FBI has 200+ open domestic terrorism investigations related to violent protests and anti-riot laws.
Antifa-aligned rioters used Juneteenth as a pretext for tearing down a monument in San Francisco in honor of Ulysses S. Grant, who helped win the Civil War that led to the emancipation of slaves in the American South.https://t.co/HPxTe50kk9— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 20, 2020
Previously convicted felon pleads guilty to possessing assault rifle, handgun, ballistic vest, and eight magazines of ammunition after leaving the Robert E. Lee Monument during civil unrest on June 12 in Richmond. @TheJusticeDept @ATFWashington https://t.co/fTshC926ic— U.S. Attorney EDVA (@EDVAnews) August 25, 2020
Statue of Hans Christian Heg, an anti-slavery activist and American Civil War soldier, was beheaded in Madison, Wis. and thrown in the lake. The Forward statue was also toppled. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/kx0OTbcMyR— Andy Ngรด (@MrAndyNgo) June 24, 2020
"That man is not kneeling on two knees with his head bowed. He is in the act of getting up."— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) June 24, 2020
Listen to this beautiful soul.pic.twitter.com/jfOoO8PfWS
Protester at Emancipation Monument claims that they will be tearing down the monument Thursday at 7 PM.— Richie๐ฅMcG๐ฟ (@RichieMcGinniss) June 23, 2020
Also calls for them to show up at Senator Mitch McConnell’s home. pic.twitter.com/LJ8e2f5KRG
This is definitely felony incitement. @FBI— Paul “TแผE แทOOK GแY” ๐ฆ (@PaulTheBookGuy) June 24, 2020
I visited the statue paid for by freed slaves. The former slave is clearly not kneeling. He is rising, free from shackles & clearly looking up with determination! When freed slaves kneeled in front of Lincoln in Richmond, he famously said “Kneel for no man. Kneel only for God”.— True Liberal 2 (@TrueLiberal2) June 24, 2020
How the hell does this make any sense?— Kevin Autrey ๐บ๐ธ Parler: @autreykevin (@autrey_kevin) June 24, 2020
So they tear down statues claiming "racist historical figures", but now they want to tear down "Emancipation" Monument. I'm getting a mix signal here, isn't emancipation good?— Manga Man (@The_Otaku_Vault) June 24, 2020
The guy who announced yesterday that he will tear down the Emancipation Memorial on Thursday is a Harvard student. Here is a picture of him standing next to the school's founder, an institution which has long been controversial for its ties to slavery. pic.twitter.com/2eDetLYYFU— Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore) June 24, 2020
A conservative would say this is The 1619 Project in action. Anyway, here's my coverage of the event. https://t.co/Cl9vUP6rog— Nic Rowan (@NicXTempore) June 24, 2020
Washington Examiner
written by Nicholas Rowan, Staff Writer
Tuesday June 23, 2020
Washington, D.C. — Protesters on Tuesday rallied for the removal of a memorial celebrating President Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation of slaves during the Civil War.
The Emancipation Memorial, erected in 1876, has long been the subject of controversy. Although financed entirely by freed slaves and dedicated by the abolitionist Frederick Douglass in a ceremony attended by President Ulysses S. Grant, its detractors charge that the black person depicted is a racist caricature. And Marcus Goodwin, the 30-year-old independent running for the district City Council who organized the event, said it’s time to retire the statue.
“We should be on equal footing with Abraham Lincoln,” Goodwin said as several hundred people arrived at the memorial in Lincoln Park. “As great and monumental a person as he is, we can do a lot better in terms of revisiting a 144-year-old statue that, even in its time, was not appropriate.”
Goodwin, and many other people, allege that the composition of the statue is racist: It depicts Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, while a curly-haired slave, crouched and shackled, rises to his freedom. Goodwin said that’s a paternalistic reading of history and not consistent with the representation many black people want to see in statuary.
“We don’t see a man rising,” he said. “We see a man on his knees: He’s in shackles — he’s not even wearing a shirt. And yet, there’s the magnanimous Abraham Lincoln standing above him, who is proud, upright, and in a powerful position.”
As Goodwin explained his dissatisfaction with the memorial, adding that he launched an online petition signed by nearly 5,000 people, a white woman stood up in front of the growing crowd. She introduced herself as Joanne Hatfield, a longtime resident of the neighborhood where the statue is located, and explained that she doesn’t want to see it taken down without a procedural, community consensus.
The crowd immediately started booing her and chanting to drown out her words.
“Black lives matter! No justice, no peace! Black lives matter!” they shouted.
Goodwin paused from his discourse and turned to look at Hatfield. He attempted to restart several times, but the chanting crowd made it impossible.
Eventually, he gave it up and chuckled.
“I love that they’re just ripping her up,” he said.
Goodwin joined in the chanting, and reporters swarmed Hatfield. When she said that removing it would erase an important part of American history, the crowd became angry.
“Go home, Karen! Go home, Karen!” the crowd chanted, using a slur often directed at busybodies.
“It shouldn’t be taken down by mob mentality,” she said. “It should be discussed. I’m just trying to be peaceful.”
Those statements were too much for the crowd to bear. After rebuking the press for paying attention to Hatfield in the first place, they forced her away from the memorial.
As she walked away from the crowd, Hatfield spoke with a cracked voice, and her eyes welled with tears. The crowd cheered while she left.
“I just don’t think we should hide history,” Hatfield said, adding that while painful for some, the memorial is important to understanding slavery’s legacy.
The crowd continued to press around the memorial, and Glenn Foster, a black activist, rose to whip it into a frenzy.
“If you are angry and frustrated, get into that anger,” he said. “You are allowed to be angry.”
As Foster spoke, heaping abuse on police forces, white people, and Abraham Lincoln, a black woman in the crowd interrupted him.
“Are you trying to divide us or bring us together?” she asked. “Because it seems like you are abusing this situation.”
Foster disagreed. She pushed back. It developed into a heated argument, with nearly the entire crowd shouting its input.
The woman accused Foster and activists like him of deepening racial divides.
“I keep hearing, ‘white people, white people, white people,’” she said. “Well, let’s get mad at God if that’s the case. Because he’s the one who divided us up in the first place. You want to get us deeper into this situation without making a difference.”
This statement, like Hatfield’s attempts at peaceful discourse, set off the crowd. They booed the woman until she left. Foster resumed his speech, excusing her interruption as the work of someone who is mentally “disempowered.”
In fact, he added, she is a perfect example of the disempowerment that came from celebrating Lincoln’s emancipation of the slaves in the first place.
“This statue right here embodies the white supremacy and the disempowerment of black people that is forced upon us by white people,” he said, pointing upward. “That is why we are tearing this statue down.”
But, not right then. Thursday, maybe. Soon, Foster said. Just as soon as all the police clear out.
"The 54th Massachusetts monument was vandalized ... This was a monument to the African American troops … very much an abolition aligned monument."— NTD News (@news_ntd) June 26, 2020
Rioters are destroying historical #statues across the nation. Historian @PhilWMagness says some don't know what they're destroying. pic.twitter.com/m6zlXRzE3e
Riddle me this: Why weren’t the statues a racist issue during Obama’s 8 years as President.— LORI HENDRY (@Lrihendry) June 24, 2020
National Civic Art Society Statement on the Removal and Vandalization of Public Statues https://t.co/MQdAM7rWa5— NCAS (@civicartsociety) June 30, 2020
National Civic Art Society
June 30, 2020
The National Civic Art Society believes in shared public spaces as an opportunity to display civic art that recalls the past, invites reflection, and inspires a more hopeful future. NCAS decries the lawless destruction and vandalization of public monuments taking place in the United States today. Across the land and in numbers never before seen on American soil, mobs have pulled down or defaced statues of presidents, generals, missionaries, abolitionists, pacifists, explorers, and authors. Beloved national memorials, including the Lincoln Memorial and World War II Memorial, have also been vandalized. In too many cases, the iconoclasts have acted with impunity, as local elected officials and police failed to protect art which resulted from public deliberation.
Monuments can have a powerful impact on our identity and consciousness, which is why for millennia civilizations have built them. An examination of history shows that the meaning and value of a particular work of civic art can vary and change according to the place and time. It is crucial that Americans, as thoughtful persons in a liberal society and a democratic republic, acknowledge and tolerate such polyvalent complexity. A work of art or architecture can be esteemed even if it was created by a culture very different from ours.
Even without explicit contextualization, a statue’s original ideological underpinnings can fade away and be replaced by new meanings. The aesthetic value of an artwork can thus maintain its worth independent of its intended function or symbolism. Accomplished artworks, regardless of their origins, can serve as a model for the future. No society’s heritage is perfect, and it is too much and improper to demand that all public art be immaculately conceived.
The current controversies in American life demonstrate the need for building new commemorative works that reflect contemporary values while following the best of our artistic tradition. The National Civic Art Society has, for instance, long advocated for building the proposed classical design of the National Liberty Memorial in Washington, D.C., which would honor the men and women of African descent who fought or took part in America’s War of Independence.
We believe that, if unchecked, the current spate of vandalism will have a disastrous chilling effect on works to come. The power to determine the fate of civic art, both existing and proposed, must lie not with the reckless mob but with the responsible, judicious public that is capable of reflecting on its own past.
The National Civic Art Society calls for tolerating diversity and complexity, balancing sameness and change, and adhering to democratic process in the face of unrestrained passion.
Why are you on Epstein’s flight log. https://t.co/4WnauN6OVT— The Red-Headed Libertarian ™ (@TRHLofficial) July 6, 2020
Communists:— PragerU (@prageru) June 25, 2020
✔️Renamed streets
✔️Tore down statues
✔️Rewrote history
✔️Burned books
✔️Banned certain movies, art, and music
✔️Censored speech
✔️Eliminated freedom of thought
✔️Punished dissenting voices
Sound familiar?
Give up liberty and you may never get it back!
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