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Mark Levin: Black Lives Matter Wants To Topple Confederate Statues Just Like Confederacy ... Huh?
Yeah, that doesn’t make any sense.
September 18, 2020 09:55 AM
Conservatives lately love to compare Black Lives Matter protesters to the Confederacy. That's as ahistorical and gross as comparing the Jewish George Soros to the Nazis, which conservatives have also done, a lot. Tuesday, enemy of the site Mark Levin complained on his radio show about people trying to overthrow the government. Horrors! He didn't mean the officials within the Trump administration who are actively stripping our democracy for parts. No, the true threat to Mom and her frozen apple pie is people vandalizing statues of American traitors.
LEVIN: It's an amazing thing, as I keep saying. Early on during this you might recall the — the mostly peaceful protesters who were pulling down statues [...] Indiscriminately. It didn't matter they were abolitionists, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant — as well as Confederate generals, as well as Catholic icons.
No memorial to Abraham Lincoln was vandalized this summer. Protesters have demanded the removal of two statues in Washington DC and Boston that feature a freed, formerly enslaved person kneeling at Lincoln's feet. It isn't the best demonstration of the American concept that we are all born with inalienable rights. They aren't granted to us by generous white men who deserve a thank-you shoe shine.
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Side note: At the Emancipation Memorial's unveiling in 1876, Frederick Douglass <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/27/emancipation-monument-in-washington-dc-targeted-by-protests/" target="_blank">dragged the statue and Honest Abe.</a> The brother wasn't in a foot-kissing mood.
</p><blockquote><strong>DOUGLASS: </strong>Truth compels me to admit, even here in the presence of the monument we have erected to his memory, Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man.
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He was preeminently the white man's president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men. He was ready and willing at any time during the first years of his administration to deny, postpone, and sacrifice the rights of humanity in the colored people to promote the welfare of the white people of this country.
</blockquote><p>Had it existed at the time, Ye Olde Fox News would've condemned Douglass's “divisive" remarks, and that's even with former Confederate soldiers hosting the network's prime time lineup. </p><p>Back to Levin, who started ranting about “Eva" Pelosi — see, she's like a fascist or something because she<a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/03/909243975/hair-on-fire-white-house-uses-pelosi-salon-scandal-to-undercut-democrats" target="_blank"> gets her hair washed </a>and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/princess-cookies-n-cream-vanderbilt-pelosi" target="_blank">owns a fancy refrigerator. </a></p><blockquote><strong>LEVIN: </strong>Nancy Pelosi got out and — Eva Pelosi — and she said, "These Confederate generals, they should be removed."<br><br>Why? Why should they be removed?<br><br>"Because they were trying to overthrow the government." That's what she said.</blockquote><p>Yes, it's a reasonable position, unless you're afraid that if we stop glorifying white supremacists, we'd have no other white men to admire. Relax: We'll always have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3dPoo_Yn8w" target="_blank">Chris Evans</a> and the impressive contents of his camera roll.</p><blockquote><strong>LEVIN:</strong> And that's exactly what Antifa and Black Lives Matter is doing and they don't talk about that.</blockquote><p>It's difficult to talk about things that aren't happening. It's why I rarely mention my <em>Untitled Bebe Neuwirth Musical</em> project. </p><blockquote>And that's real — you know, they're not statues. Those are real people with real Molotov cocktails. </blockquote><p>White American men protested the British Tea Act by illegally boarding ships and hurling chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. In today's dollars, that was <a href="https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-tea-party-damage" target="_blank">$1.8 million worth of property damage.</a> This expensive vandalism escalated into the American Revolution.</p><p>However, when protesters today talk about “revolution," they're referring to lawful, constructive change. The Constitution put mechanisms in place for non-violent overthrows of the existing government. The first was arguably the fourth presidential election, which started ominously enough on October 31, 1800, and ended on December 3. Thomas Jefferson was the Democratic-Republican candidate, and incumbent President John Adams represented the Federalist party. Very different political philosophies and views of governance were on the ballot. The Federalists preferred a strong, central government. Adams had gone sort of Bill Barr during his one term and passed the Alien and Sedition Acts, which made it harder for immigrants to become citizens and restricted statements critical of the government. The First Amendment wasn't even nine years old and America had shrugged it off when it became inconvenient. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>You've probably seen <em>Hamilton</em> so you know how this turns out, but it wasn't until February 17, 1801, that Jefferson was elected the next president. Aaron Burr almost won, which seems less crazy now given the current White House occupant. <br></p><p>The point here is that overthrowing the government — non-violently — isn't a bad thing, even if the new government is too inclusive and democratic for Levin's tastes. The defeated Federalists accepted the results of the election. The future Confederacy in 1860 didn't and responded with violent insurrection. It's the current president who is attempting to undermine faith and trust in our elections, and it's his supporters who are most likely to grab a gun once the Biden/Harris ticket hits 270 electoral votes.</p><p>
[<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/mark-levin/foxs-mark-levin-compares-black-lives-matter-confederacy" target="_blank">Media Matters</a>]<br>
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Confederate Treason Statue Escorted Off Premises Of Charlottesville County Court House
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September 12, 2020 03:35 PM
Today, a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia — the site of the 2017 Unite The Right rally that led to the brutal murder of counterprotester Heather Heyer — was taken down. The statue, titled "At Ready," featured a Confederate soldier complete with cannon and cannonball accessories, "ready" to murder some damn yankees in hopes of preserving the ability of people who were very likely quite a bit richer than he was to own human beings.
It was previously in front of the Charlottesville county courthouse, and will now be somewhere else. We don't really care where, because fuck that statue.
There was a live Facebook feed of the de-statuing, which is apparently still going and which you can watch here.
The "At Ready" statue was not one of the statues at the center of the Unite The Right rally — those statutes, one of Robert E. Lee and another of Stonewall Jackson, are unfortunately still up. The city has voted to remove them, but they are at the center of a lawsuit filed by some fans of the Confederacy who would like to keep them up, so that will take some time.
<p>Via <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/confederate-statue-near-site-violent-charlottesville-unite-right-rally-gets-n1239952" target="_blank">NBC News:</a></p><blockquote>"There has been a robust, community-driven process to bring us to this moment," Ned Gallaway, chair of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, said in a press release of the removal that was streamed on Facebook Live. The county board voted last month to remove the statue in front of the county courthouse.<br><br>Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said in a pre-recorded statement that it was a "historic day" as the state continues efforts "to be more inclusive" and to acknowledge that "racial discrimination is rooted in the laws that ruled our Commonwealth."<br><br>"As we reckon with Virginia's past," said Northam, "symbols do matter."</blockquote><p>You know, the Right likes to pretend this is all about our <em>history</em> and how they just want the statues because they want to preserve <em>history </em>because they are just intellectuals who feel it is important for us all to remember our history and not forget it. But there is a whole lot of American history that they would very much prefer we all forget! So much, really! There's a lot of American history that we don't learn in school on account of the fact that we would not be too patriotic if we did, which would make it <em>super</em> difficult to recruit soldiers the next time they wanted to have a stupid war. </p><p>Like, really, they should be so grateful that all we're doing is tearing down their precious treason statues. Because really, a whole lot of "divisiveness" in this country is prevented by allowing Republicans their short memories with regard to history, including recent history. They like a little rewrite, a little glossing over of certain events, that doesn't make them look so bad, that makes the United States look pretty good. And many Democrats, particularly those who are less petty than I am, allow them to have that in the name of "civility." But they don't have to. We don't have to. And things could get very, very unpleasant for them were we to start <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/ex-colonel-involved-in-1989-el-salvador-jesuit-murders-finally-going-to-prison" target="_blank">bringing certain things up more.</a> </p><p>Anyway, that seemed like a nice thing to end the day on, so you all enjoy this nice open thread we've made for you! </p><p><span></span>[<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/confederate-statue-near-site-violent-charlottesville-unite-right-rally-gets-n1239952" target="_blank">NBC</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Ex-Colonel Involved In 1989 El Salvador Jesuit Murders Finally Going To Prison
The murderers were a US-trained death squad.
September 12, 2020 01:20 PM
Former El Salvadoran army colonel Inocente Orlando Montano, 77, was convicted in a Spanish court this week and sentenced to 133 years in prison, for the "the decision, design and execution" of the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989, who were killed along with one Salvadoran Jesuit priest, a housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter. The Spanish government was unable to charge him for the murders of the Salvadorans.
Montano, who was extradited from the US to stand trial for the murders, was the Vice-Minister for Public Security at the time of the murders, and had claimed that the priests were "fully identified with subversive movements" during the El Salvadoran Civil War. They had, in reality, been advocating for a peaceful settlement between the El Salvadoran government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. While the FMLN is now one of the two major political parties in El Salvador, they were, at the time a coalition of left-wing guerrilla organizations fighting against the military junta government of El Salvador, which was responsible for all kinds of human rights violations, recruitment of child soldiers and priest murdering.
<p>Via <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/ex-salvadoran-colonel-inocente-orlando-montano-jailed-for-1989-of-spanish-jesuits" target="_blank">The Guardian:</a></p><blockquote>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/07/ex-salvadoran-colonel-to-be-tried-over-of-six-priests-in-1989" target="_blank">proceedings were held in Madrid</a> under the principle of universal jurisdiction, which enables human rights crimes committed in one country to be investigated in another.<br>The panel of judges examined the events of 16 November 1989, when senior Salvadoran military officers attempted to derail peace talks by dispatching a US-trained death squad to murder the Jesuits at their lodgings in the Central American University (UCA) in San Salvador.<br><br>The soldiers carried with them an AK-47 rifle taken from the leftwing guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in an attempt to pin the blame on the group.<br><br>The UCA's 59-year-old rector, Father Ignacio Ellacuría – originally from Bilbao and a key player in the push for peace – was shot dead, as were Ignacio Martín-Baró, 47, and Segundo Montes, 56, both from Valladolid; Juan Ramón Moreno, 56, from Navarra, and Amando López, 53, from Burgos.<br><br>The soldiers also murdered a Salvadoran Jesuit, Joaquin López y López, 71, in his room before killing Julia Elba Ramos, 42, and her daughter, Celina, 15. Ramos was the housekeeper for another group of Jesuits, but lived on the university campus with her husband and daughter.<br></blockquote><p><span></span>The United States spent about $1-2 million <em>a day</em> for 12 years, about <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-calls-situation-in-el-salvador-a-communist-plot" target="_blank">$5 billion in total,</a> keeping that military junta in charge, by the way. The Atlacatl Battalion, who were actually responsible for killing the six Jesuits, a housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter, were trained at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina by Unites States special forces. They were also equipped and directed by the US military advisors in El Salvador during the civil war. They were also responsible for several other mass murders. In 1981, they assisted the Salvadoran Army in killing 800 civilians in El Mozote. In 1982, in El Calabozo, they killed over 200 people, including children and elderly people. <br></p><p>Oh! Oh wait! While some of this <em>did</em> occur during the Carter administration, which was bad, Carter cut off aid to the the junta in 1980 after <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/bringing-el-salvador-nun-killers-to-justice" target="_blank">three nuns and a missionary</a> from the US were abducted, brutally raped and murdered by the Salvadoran military. Once Reagan, the darling of the Religious Right, was in office, however, he started giving them loads of money again. </p><p>We really, <em>really</em> don't fucking talk about this shit enough. The United States spent billions upon billions of dollars training Latin American death squads to kill civilians and priests in order to help right-wing dictators stay in power, because we were "fighting communism," while Reagan had the fucking nerve to complain about non-existent "welfare queens" supposedly being a drain on the system. And to this day, Republicans still have the fucking nerve to complain about <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/a-new-migrant-caravan-from-el-salvador-is-making-its-way-north/2018/10/28/201ecd86-dad0-11e8-8bac-bfe01fcdc3a6_story.html" target="_blank">"migrant caravans"</a> from countries like El Salvador, which probably would not be a thing had the United States not completely fucked up those countries in pursuit of "preventing communism." </p><p>It is unlikely that Inocente Orlando Montano will serve more than 30 years in prison. Given that he's 77, he will likely serve much less than that. But it's something, I guess. Maybe it's something that will remind people that this happened, and that the United States helped it happen. </p><p><span></span>[<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/ex-salvadoran-colonel-inocente-orlando-montano-jailed-for-1989-of-spanish-jesuits" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Rightwing Twitter So Mad Facebook Cancelled Richard Jewell, 8 Years Before Facebook Existed
Perhaps this is proof that we really are in the wrong timeline?
September 04, 2020 02:00 PM
Attorney Lin Wood made his name by representing Richard Jewell in his defamation cases against the media and the US government. If you knew who Wood was before last week, it's either because of that or because he also represented JonBenet Ramsey's parents and brother in their respective defamation cases. If that is all you ever knew him from, you probably assumed he was a relatively normal human person.
He is not.
These days, he is a QAnon weirdo who is primarily representing rightwing lunatics like Dr. Simone Gold of the "America's Frontline Doctors" videos; Patty and Mark McCloskey, the couple who got famous for brandishing guns at protesters walking by their St. Louis mansion; and Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two people and injured one during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Earlier this week, Wood was blocked from attempting to raise money for Rittenhouse's defense on Twitter. Both Facebook and Twitter banned praise of Rittenhouse's actions last week (though that hasn't exactly worked out), and Discover has prohibited users from donating to his defense fund.
<p>Today, Wood posted a very weird tweet claiming that in 1996 "Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook declared Richard Jewell to be a mass murderer," and that "efforts to raise money for Jewell's defense & family were banned on social media."</p><div id="83937" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e2919deb172b118d8f1e7930de2e0833"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1301871454686937088" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">On July 27. 1996, bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, killing 1 & injuring 110.
Mark Zuckerberg &… https://t.co/MDI00IlWkB</div> — Lin Wood (@Lin Wood)<a href="https://twitter.com/LLinWood/statuses/1301871454686937088">1599225317.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Is it proof of a parallel universe in which Facebook existed in 1996? It is not. Apparently it is Lin Wood's very stupid attempt at "allegory" or "satire," meant to draw a comparison between Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two people, and his former client, who killed zero people. </p><div id="20b8a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="46c88c17edbe9c511ff6dd87b7479b67"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1301874306788528128" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">I thank God social media did not exist in 1996. I am not sure Richard Jewell & his mother could have survived lies,… https://t.co/oM7bTLvZTH</div> — Lin Wood (@Lin Wood)<a href="https://twitter.com/LLinWood/statuses/1301874306788528128">1599225997.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Yet it still resulted in many of his followers being very outraged over the way Mark Zuckerberg, who would have been 12 at the time, treated poor Richard Jewell in 1996. </p>
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<img lazy-loadable="true" src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yMzYzNTc4Mi9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyNTA2NzAwN30.XMRHNEKT4ozFH3pRs4DE3Ix8OU5CgiefXY6LZ_tlZWE/img.png?width=980" id="0d3e4" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8d4af543a1ea9470b279f0acb342a128" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" /><p>Oh, the irony.</p>
<p><br></p><p>So that worked out just as expected. There is basically nothing these people will not believe. If you tell them "2+2=5 to you if you are a real patriot," they will go along with that. </p><p>Many of those who shared their outrage about Facebook's mistreatment of Jewell recommended that others watch Clint Eastwood's movie about him, which conveniently leaves out the part where the person actually responsible for the Olympic Park bombing was rightwing anti-abortion zealot Eric Rudolph, a man who shares many of their views — far more so than Richard Jewell ever did. </p><p>Even as an allegory, it doesn't quite hold up. The only things Jewell and Rittenhouse have in common is that they wanted to be cops and were represented by Lin Wood. The similarities end there. Rittenhouse's case is actually far more similar to Rudolph's. Rudolph claimed that he only bombed an abortion clinic <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/anti-choice-terrorist-eric-rudolph-regrets-nothing-appeals-life-sentence-anyway" target="_blank">in defense of the fetuses,</a> and was both celebrated and protected by other rightwing assholes, as you can see by this comment section on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbhOMFp6gw" target="_blank">YouTube tribute</a> to him. Cute, ain't it? </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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