Feds arrest ‘ringleader’ in attack on Andrew Jackson statue by White House

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  1. (original)late

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    If history was easy, everyone would do it.

    Try Dallek.
     
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    Did he?
     
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    yep. You really need to catch up on reality
     
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    Glad he was caught

    I literally just saw you in another thread defending vandalism over a message that offended you.
     
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    Or, you know, maybe they actually did their homework on Byrd.
     
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    I take it you didn't read the rest of the article.
     
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    March 21, 2019

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    The FIRST STEP Act was an unlikely bipartisan success that brought modest but desperately needed sentencing and prison reforms to the federal system. But the law can only function as advertised if it is fully funded — a prospect that seems unlikely after President Trump’s executive budget, released in full this past Monday, omitted any funding request for implementing the law.

    https://www.brennancenter.org/our-w...trumps-budget-requests-nothing-first-step-act

    How much funding is going in this year?
     
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    Bluesguy Well-Known Member Donor

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    More non-response

    Again
    Of the 21 Southern Democrat Senators who voted against be CRA and VRA how many were in this rush to switch to Republicans? How many switched parties? How many stayed retaining their leadership positions and were re-elected as Democrats?
     
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    Quite literally everything. Black individuals would not have wound up as slaves in the united states, if they had not already been enslaved by their fellow black individuals back in the nation of Africa. Apparently even in the nation of Africa, black individuals did not see their fellow black individuals as being human, or having worth, otherwise they would not have practiced slavery to begin with.

    Apparently those who were sold as if they were nothing more than commodities, for journey to what would become the united states, were of such a despicable quality even their owners could not wait to get rid of them the moment they learned there was a buying market to be had.
     
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    Helms and Thurmond were racists until the day they died (according to you) but Joe Biden changed......... right brutha?

    Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say.
    Joe Biden helped give America the language that is still used to oppose school integration today, legislative and education history experts say.

    But political experts and education policy researchers say Biden, a supporter of civil rights in other arenas, did not simply compromise with segregationists — he also led the charge on an issue that kept black students away from the classrooms of white students. His legislative work against school integration advanced a more palatable version of the “separate but equal” doctrine and undermined the nation’s short-lived effort at educational equality, legislative and education history experts say.

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    The amendment went beyond the busing issue, affecting school systems that effectively separated students by race whether or not they used busing. Co-sponsors included segregationist Sens. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Strom Thurmond, R-S.C. The amendment passed the Senate on a 50-43 vote, including majorities of both Democrats and Republicans. (Biden was not alone among northern Democrats who supported it — in that group, 14 supported the amendment and 26 opposed it, according to the Congressional Quarterly.)


    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk...mise-segregationists-he-fought-their-n1021626
     
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    Over 60% in Chicago seeking early prison release under Trump’s First Step Act go free

    According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the First Step Act led to sentence reductions for nearly 2,400 inmates nationwide through the end of 2019: 2,172 African Americans, 100 Hispanics, 87 whites and 18 people of other races.

    https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/6...iley-larry-hoover-marvel-thompson-paul-schiro
     
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    There are 2 things that define the situation. Racists were in the Democratic party, now they are Republicans.

    You seem to think the speed of the transition has some import. It does not. The last major realignment was the death of the Whig party, and the rise of the Republicans. That also took a while.

    You're looking for something; you'll have to find it elsewhere.
     
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    That's because your heart and head are filled racism this and racism that.
     
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    Ah - the arbitrary purity standards of the *woke* mob...

    I'm sure a statue of Frederick Douglass won't be attacked next!

    Vote Democrat 2020
     
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    How do you "vandalize" graffiti ? "I vandalized the vandalization"!
     
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    What was on the street wasn't vandalism or graffiti. They had permission to do it. What they did was legal. What these two loons did was not. Get it now?
     
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    Arbitrary purity standards? You mean homework? You mean actually telling the truth about Byrd and realizing that this sentiment is complete nonsense? I don't know why you guys are so offended that someone would leave and renounce the KKK and go on to, instead, support civil rights.
     
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    It should never have been allowed, giant letters how many traffic control symbols did it obscure? The mayor is worthless and unfit for the job.
     
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    And your opinion doesn't change the facts. They did allow it. You can complain all you want that they shouldn't have, but they did. Things don't maaaaagically become illegal just because they irk you. What the BLM people did was legal, not vandalism. What the people with the black paint did was illegal. That was vandalism. I realize you wish upon a star that the reverse were true, but the facts don't care about your feelings.
     
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    As though they always get permission...the are fond of defacing private property with paint, so what a taste of their own medicine. If someone gets in a traffic accident there, they should sue the dumbass city.
     
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    Prove any of the people who made the mural ever engaged in any kind of vandalism. The only one promoting crime. And, by the way, it you watch the video, the road was closed, so the concern about "traffic accidents" is, likewise, nonsense. All you are doing is projecting your hypocrisy onto others.
     
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    LOL, sure guy. I guess you have not seen pics of rioted areas with BLM spray painted everywhere?
     
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    I have. And seeing as these people sought a permit, I doubt they were the ones engaging in that behavior. Yet you are convinced they are, so I asked for your proof. You obviously have none and instead are just playing games of guilt by association in order to justify your disregard for the law. Two Trump supporters were part of this vandalism. According to your logic, that makes it okay for me to go find some other, law-abiding Trump supporter and vandalize their property. That's insane.
     
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    According to your logic only BLM is justified in running around tagging buildings and private property. When you lay with dogs, you get fleas.
     
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    If you had paid attention to the arguments I made instead of just making stuff up, you would have seen that I'm against vandalism on their part too. You know, like actual vandalism, not the fake "vandalism" you guys are accusing law-abiding folks of just because you don't like what they have to say.

    Let me make this simpler:
    My position is that vandalism is wrong. Period.
    Your position is that it is okay when your side does it.

    Again, you are projecting your hypocrisy onto others.

    So, since you advocate vandalism, what does that say for you?
     
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