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Whitmer says armed protesters displayed 'worst racism and awful parts' of US history
2020-05-04
[FOXNEWS] Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
...the dictator of Michigan...
slammed the protesters who gathered inside the state's Capitol building on Thursday to demand she rescind her stay-at-home orders, saying they represented the "worst racism and awful parts" of U.S. history.

"There were swastikas and Confederate flags and nooses and people with assault rifles," Whitmer said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "Some of the outrageousnesses of what happened at our capitol depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country."

The Michigan governor, however, added that those people represented a small portion of the demonstrators at the state capital and that, for the most part, the protest was peaceful.

"When you think about the fact that this is a state of almost 10 million people, the vast majority of whom are doing the right thing," she added, "the behavior you've seen in all of the clips is not representative of who we are in Michigan."

Holding American flags and handmade signs — and with some carrying firearms -- the demonstrators in Lansing first congregated shoulder-to-shoulder on Thursday outside before demanding to be let inside the building as politicians were poised to debate an extension of an emergency and disaster declaration. Some chanted "Let us in," The bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
News reported.

State Sen. Dayna Polehanki, a Democrat, tweeted a photo of what she described as armed demonstrators yelling above her. She said some of her colleagues were wearing "bullet proof vests" inside the House chamber.

"Directly above me, men with rifles yelling at us. Some of my colleagues who own bullet proof vests are wearing them. I have never appreciated our Sergeants-at-Arms more than today. #mileg," she posted
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Posted by:Fred

#21  ..the media would be covering up all the deaths so as not to reflect badly upon their goddess.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-04 20:09  

#20  Imagin the mess this country would be in if Hildabeast was Pres right now.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454   2020-05-04 19:45  

#19  ...hmmm.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-04 18:34  

#18  "Racism" i.e. I'm losing the argument.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-05-04 15:13  

#17  A huge number of our fellow citizens have been taught or generations that the second amendment was about self-protection and was increasing irrelevant and even dangerous.
Now is the perfect time to mount a campaign emphasizing that government overreach and disobedience to the constitution to which they all swore “true faith and allegiance “ is why the second amendment was written and buttressed right ext to the foundation right to freedoms of speech, religion and assembly.
Peaceful assembly by armed citizens should remind her of that intent, and that she trifles with it at her own, personal political peril.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-05-04 12:53  

#16  She is afraid of the 2nd amendment and the rights therein. Just like the authors of the document wanted. HT to the authors, your concerns played true.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2020-05-04 11:55  

#15  They won't get The Fearâ„¢ until they send their enforcers out to suppress the proles and the proles decide not to be supressed, or the enforcers decide the orders aren't feasible to pursue.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-04 11:13  

#14  It's a real problem when pols do not fear an angered populace
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2020-05-04 11:01  

#13  ^War powers act?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-04 10:49  

#12  I wonder what the Founding Fathers would have said about this. Oh wait, there's no need to guess:

"Amendment I
Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Posted by: Matt   2020-05-04 10:30  

#11  @ #7 - Bien sûr, Lex!
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-04 07:19  

#10  True Proc but also blatantly racist herself. Something the GOP should be hammering down daily. If we don't throw this back in their sick faces...
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-05-04 05:05  

#9  And you madam are nothing short of a true fascist.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-05-04 03:48  

#8  
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-04 02:33  

#7  S'il n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer
Posted by: Lex   2020-05-04 02:26  

#6  You are a depraved person.
Posted by: newc   2020-05-04 01:54  

#5  She is ignorant of the Klan lynchings of about 100 years ago, I guess.
Posted by: Glenmore   2020-05-04 01:20  

#4  Feeling the heat when she's resorting to the racist card already.
Posted by: ruprecht   2020-05-04 00:45  

#3  If you don't believe the Queen, who do you believe? Is there a Lexington, MI?
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823   2020-05-04 00:35  

#2  "There were swastikas and Confederate flags and nooses and people with assault rifles,"

I wasn't there, but none of the pix I saw showed Confederate flags, swastikas or nooses. If there had been, I'd expect it to be front page news. And how the *bleep* does racism enter into this?
Posted by: SteveS   2020-05-04 00:33  

#1  This broad is sick. "Worst racism" Uh-huh. Maybe the nooses [anybody see them?] were for her.

Maybe we should invite the Redcoats back.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-04 00:23  

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