Chinks in the Armor, fill with Justice or...

ILL FEAR SHUT US DOWN?

We allow fear to control us to the point that it is shutting us down.  The few voices raised do not represent the majority.  The Silent majority in this case is a dangerous one.  If a tree falls in the forest and some one lies and said no it didn't, did it still fall. 

Ladies and Gentlemen yes it did...

We have to speak out but it has to be with the true facts...we may not like it, but our job is go about changing our reality not denying it. 

Lies are at the root of unrest in this country.  The cops lie and say they don't single out blacks, the politicians lie and say there was vote fraud, in fact Trump said this will be the most rigged election in history a year before the voters went to the polls.. Does he have a crystal ball or was he simply getting a jump on his BIG Lie. 

The Right Wing news is more to blame for the hatred and lies than anything out there...how do you silence that?  While watching my favorite news I saw a guy, who has written a couple books about democracy, he reminded me it was in fact General/President US GRANT who squashed  and broke up the KKK, and put them on trial...he sent federal troops to SC and declared this:

|Grant did not view the Confederates as heroes. He did not embolden them or stoke their resentment about the Confederacy’s defeat. Instead, after the Enforcement Acts were passed, he sent federal troops to the South and stated categorically that “insurgents were in rebellion against the authority of the United States”.

By 1872, the Klan had been defeated. The weight of the federal government broke the back of the organization and reduced racial violence throughout the South. Frederick Douglass declared that without Grant’s actions, black Americans likely would have been trapped in a condition similar to slavery. The violence did not end altogether, but the Klan was no longer a formidable player in American politics. Nor would it be until 50 years later, when the second Klan rose in the 1920s.|

So now the white supremacists hatred has returned stoked by the right wing media...This whole movement helped to destroy my marriage....let me explain.  So in the 1990's the whole Iraq war thing really sparked hate for Islamics' and Newt Gingrich was speaker of the House from 1995-98 he resigned after having an affair with a 23 yr younger employee of his and resigned his seat entirely in 1999. He ran for president in 2012 against Obama.

Here in SC he won the Rep Primary...over Romney. 
HE is the first domino in the downfall of the GOP.  He helped stoke the Tea Party movement...  His hate seemed to spark something in my x husband...who had always had a bias toward Islamic people...because he resented immigration to his native Britain by Muslims. 

He began to listen to Rush Limbaugh in his car as he went about his day he changed after that...he would put Fox News on in the house but when I walked in he would swiftly change the channel...I would have no part of his new political fever, he was NOT a citizen and could not vote and when he finally did become a citizen he never voted to my knowledge.  But he repeated the lies...and that was a huge part of why we grew apart.  His view on the people around him changed.   He was an immigrant, but he disagreed with immigration, what he really meant was anything other than white immigration.  

Finally the divide was so big in 2001, I left.  I did love him but he changed, this media ruined his mind and who he was, which was slipping as he was a victim of early dementia.  We had no clue there was an organic problem going on...but Looking back NOW I see that. 

TO me freedom of speech is important but like Grant saw back in 1872, sometimes the dividing words of one group causes loss of life to another group.  The so called "election fraud" was pointed at counties that are heavily inhabited by black voters.  These are the counties that the GOP and Trump were contesting.  They have gerrymandered, they have tried to change the voting laws to discourage black participation, they closed down polling locations, they tried to squash efforts to make voting easier for all, during the pandemic, because that will include making it easier for black voters...this is the same shit of the south 150 yrs later...I LIVE here I KNOW HOW IT IS...people used to wear T-shirts here as recent as 1990's that said:
 "IF I had known it would turn out like this I'd of picked my own damned cotton." 
"GO Back to Africa, we don't need you anymore"
"Its heritage not hate" with big confederate flags behind the words....

It is HATE. 

there is a long and ugly history of SC trying to suppress black voters...This is what they did  in SC over the past few years, to try and stop the black vote:

•  Everyone has to have a valid State Issued ID to vote
• Mail in Voting was, expect for this election, only for the elderly, or  disabled, 
• Ballots had to be signed by a Witness
  ...and then this year due to Covid they said OK anyone who wants to vote early can  using the pandemic as a reason, and you MAY do mail in voting but you had to ASK for the ballot, to be mailed to you,  then they said it did not have to be Witnessed...After mail in voting had begun the GOP sued and it went to the Supreme Court they reinstated the witness signature...THOSE received within 2 days would be counted, but what about the ones that came in after the 2 days? They closed some polling places and combined some and if people needed a long car ride to get to the poll how are they going to do that? Some poor people have no car no state issued ID, this is how they try to suppress voters in high black populated areas.  
  I dont think the Supreme Court should have gotten involved in that...it was a state's issue.  Democrats want to expand mail in voting and Republicans do not...because it's easier for the black voter simple as that....And Im certain Jamie Harrison would have won if every vote was counted in SC and we would have been rid of the cancerous Lindsey Graham. 

This hatred can not die until the mouth repeating it is dead...if we can't tell them to shut up do we have to force them like Grant did?   If I tell you a lie with the purpose of getting your irk up so you will do my bidding that is wrong, and it should be stopped how can we stop the lies, without harming the liar?????

First off we have laws on the books, NOW it  has come to light just HOW important the Justice Dept is at getting Justice, I do think the US  Attorney General should be elected NOT named its obvious they stand between US and the Executive Branch to protect us from the Executive Branch...the entire dept was decimated by Trump and his cronies. 

Trump highlighted all the chinks in the armor of Democracy we need to fill those chinks in with Justice and Accountability...NOW the most conservative Democrat in the senate, Joe Manchin, said we should hold off 3 or 4 months on sending the Impeachment Trial to the Senate until a complete investigation can be done...At first I was outraged...but I listened to him he is right...He said "Let us go in knowing we will win...as more evidence that is indisputable comes in then we have a better chance of getting 19 republicans to vote for the Impeachment and therefore all the justice that will come with it, like the 2 Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley would also be removed from office...so I say YES if we jump into the pot before all the ingredients of the soup are mixed it could be ruined...In other words Revenge, like Justice is better served cold. Even soup is allowed to cool before served. 

SO we set up our snares, and we wait...I hope Pelosi sees the importance of this.  She wants Justice We all want JUSTICE.. Wouldn't it be better served with a more trustworthy Justice Department at the helm and in place?  The GOP is going to ride their wave of  hate as long as possible, maybe some of them will suddenly come out from under the spell of hate Trump dragged out into the open, now we see it lets' do something about it, I hope they will see the light of Justice.