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Military Leaders Become Increasingly Vocal Against Trump
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I Cannot Remain Silent
Our fellow citizens are not the enemy, and must never become so.
Mike Mullen
Seventeenth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel—including members of the National Guard—forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president's visit outside St. John's Church. I have to date been reticent to speak out on issues surrounding President Trump's leadership, but we are at an inflection point, and the events of the past few weeks have made it impossible to remain silent.
Whatever Trump's goal in conducting his visit, he laid bare his disdain for the rights of peaceful protest in this country, gave succor to the leaders of other countries who take comfort in our domestic strife, and risked further politicizing the men and women of our armed forces.
There was little good in the stunt.
While no one should ever condone the violence, vandalism, and looting that has exploded across our city streets, neither should anyone lose sight of the larger and deeper concerns about institutional racism that have ignited this rage.
As a white man, I cannot claim perfect understanding of the fear and anger that African Americans feel today. But as someone who has been around for a while, I know enough—and I’ve seen enough—to understand that those feelings are real and that they are all too painfully founded.
We must, as citizens, address head-on the issue of police brutality and sustained injustices against the African American community. We must, as citizens, support and defend the right—indeed, the solemn obligation—to peacefully assemble and to be heard. These are not mutually exclusive pursuits.
And neither of these pursuits will be made easier or safer by an overly aggressive use of our military, active duty or National Guard. The United States has a long and, to be fair, sometimes troubled history of using the armed forces to enforce domestic laws. The issue for us today is not whether this authority exists, but whether it will be wisely administered.
I remain confident in the professionalism of our men and women in uniform. They will serve with skill and with compassion. They will obey lawful orders. But I am less confident in the soundness of the orders they will be given by this commander in chief, and I am not convinced that the conditions on our streets, as bad as they are, have risen to the level that justifies a heavy reliance on military troops. Certainly, we have not crossed the threshold that would make it appropriate to invoke the provisions of the Insurrection Act.
Furthermore, I am deeply worried that as they execute their orders, the members of our military will be co-opted for political purposes.
Even in the midst of the carnage we are witnessing, we must endeavor to see American cities and towns as our homes and our neighborhoods. They are not “battle spaces” to be dominated, and must never become so.
We must ensure that African Americans—indeed, all Americans—are given the same rights under the Constitution, the same justice under the law, and the same consideration we give to members of our own family. Our fellow citizens are not the enemy, and must never become so.
Too many foreign and domestic policy choices have become militarized; too many military missions have become politicized.
This is not the time for stunts. This is the time for leadership.Comment
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Trump Finally Gets His Wall One Problem
TRUMP IS LITERALLY BUILDING A WALL AROUND THE WHITE HOUSE
The additional fencing comes as Trump swears he wasn’t hiding in a bunker from protesters.
Donald Trump is finally, kinda-sorta getting his “big, beautiful wall”—not along the southern border, mind you, but around the White House. Like much of the wall he made a symbol of his xenophobic presidential campaign in 2016, this barrier is actually fencing reinforcing what was already there. But the fencing authorities installed around the White House is taller than what had surrounded the complex before, designed to keep at bay the protesters who prompted the president to retreat into an underground bunker last weekend.
The new fortification—which a Secret Service source told Fox News is “standard anti-riot fencing and ranges from seven feet to more than nine feet high”—comes amid days of largely peaceful protests outside the White House. On Friday, after some of those demonstrating against systemic racism and police brutality breached temporary fences near the White House, Trump and his family were whisked into a secure bunker—a sore spot for the president, who has spent days now trying to convince everyone that he wasn’t rattled by the episode and that he’s actually super brave. On Monday, he more or less declared war on protesters in the Rose Garden and made a show of walking off the White House grounds to a historic church that had been damaged in the demonstrations. But the tough-guy act was undermined by the fact that he used chemical agents and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters to clear the way for the stunt. Foiled in his initial attempt to save face, he tried a new tack on Wednesday: Claiming, hilariously, that he had actually only gone down to the bunker for an “inspection” of the space.
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One can only hope it is stronger than Trump’s other barrier, a portion of which was toppled by a gust of wind earlier this year.Comment
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Every time I think donny boy has reached the pinnacle of douche baggery he takes it one step further. To imply that George Floyd would be looking down and smiling at how well the economy is going has to be the new pinnacle, right?Comment
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This is what an effective leader looks like. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a knee while silently attending a Black Lives Matter protest while wearing a mask.
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- Goodell said he wants players to continue to speak out through protesting, supported the Black Lives Matter movement, and offered his participation.
NFL
✔ @NFL
We, the NFL, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of Black People. We, the NFL, admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We, the NFL, believe Black Lives Matter. #InspireChange
NFL condemns racism, admits '''we were wrong''' not to listen to player protests
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Snarky comments that add no value is far too common a theme among some members on CTN.
Please point out one other world leader anywhere who has taken a knee in support of minority people during this time of intense racial unrest in the USA and around the world.Comment
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Trudeau sparked an uproar in September 2019 when a video and several images surfaced of him wearing blackface in his younger years.
And that is not all there is about Trudeau.
Trudeau traveled overseas in 2018 in hopes of building Canada-India relations but ended up directing the spotlight toward himself instead – and not in a good way.
His office had to backpedal after a man convicted of attempting to kill an Indian Cabinet minister in Canada in 1986 was invited to a Trudeau party there.
Canada's ethics commissioner, in 2019, accused Trudeau of pressuring the country's former attorney general to drop a criminal case against a Montreal-based engineering firm suspected of bribing Libyan officials to secure contracts.
Trudeau sparked outrage in 2019 for his response to a protester that confronted him during a Liberal Party fundraiser at a luxury hotel in Toronto.
Trudeau apologized numerous times in 2016 after he elbowed a female lawmaker in the chest while forcibly grabbing another member of Parliament.
SalesServiceGuy maybe you should stop attacking President Trump and start paying attention to your own Prime Minister.
Justin Trudeau: 5 Canada controversies that have rattled his leadership | Fox NewsComment
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