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   -=> Lee Lofaso wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-   
      
    LL> Hello Dennis,   
      
    >LL> Donald J. Trump. The man with no balls.   
    >   
    >LL>"He may believe mouthing the words law and order makes him strong,   
    >LL>but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an   
    >LL>armed militia in this country shows you how weak he is."   
    >LL>~ Joe Biden, 8/31/2020   
    >   
    >Do you want Trump to use a stronger police force then?   
      
    LL> I want Trump to do his fucking job!   
      
    LL> "The job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder, tell   
    LL> the truth, to be candid, to face facts, to lead, not to insight. That's   
    LL> why I'm speaking to you today. The incumbant president is incapable of   
    LL> telling us the truth, incapable of facing the facts and incapable of   
    LL> healing. He doesn't want to shed light, he wants to generate heat and   
    LL> he's stroking violence in our cities.   
      
    LL> "This is a tragic fact of the matter, how he's dealing with this   
    LL> perilous hour in our nation. And now we have to stand against violence   
    LL> in every form it takes. Violence we've seen again and again and again,   
    LL> of unwarranted police shooting, excessive force, seven bullets in the   
    LL> back of Jacob Blake. Knee on the neck of George Floyd, killing of   
    LL> Breonna Taylor in her own apartment, violence of extremists and   
    LL> opportunists, right wing militias... And to derail any hope and support   
    LL> for progress, the senseless violence of looting and burning and   
    LL> destruction of property. I want to make it absolutely clear, so I'm   
    LL> going to be very clear about all of this, rioting is not protesting.   
    LL> Looting is not protesting. Setting fires is not protesting. None of   
    LL> this is protesting. It's lawlessness, plain and simple. And those who   
    LL> do it should be prosecuted. Violence will not bring change, it will   
    LL> only bring destruction. It's wrong in every way. It divides instead   
    LL> of unites, destroys businesses, only hurts the working families that   
    LL> serve the community. It makes things worse across the board, not   
    LL> better."   
    LL> ~ Joe Biden, 8/31/2020   
      
    >If Trump was to come down harder on the rioters, then the Democrats would   
    > say he's a fascist for doing so.  Is he supposed to just people people   
    > riot, loot, murder and bully innocent people?   
      
    LL> Joe Biden has condemned *all* acts of violence. It is time for   
    LL> Donald Trump to do the same.   
      
    >His "supporters" are defending themselves.   
      
    LL> Two rights do not make a wrong. As Joe Biden noted so clearly   
    LL> in his message. Do pay attention.   
      
    >I've seen too many videos of "protestors" attacking and accosting people.   
    > Going up to people who are just out for a meal or a drink, and DEMANDING   
    > they show fealty to your beliefs is not acceptable.   
      
    LL> Worked for Bull Connor. And his dogs. What we have today is a   
    LL> new George Wallace. Only this one is in the White HOuse, rather   
    LL> than the Alabama governor's mansion.   
      
    LL> --Lee   
      
    LL> --   
    LL> Stop Workin', Start Jerkin'   
      
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