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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   
      
   What we are seeing in the USA is the emergence of a new, totalitarian belief   
   system, disguisnig itself as being for justice.  IT is a time old pattern,   
   where the new moral order proclaims itself as being for justice, fairness,   
   while it bullies people into submission.  Cancel culture is the most evident   
   manifestation of this insidious ideology.   
      
   Rioting is not protesting, I agree, but Biden's missing the point here.  They   
   are NOT trying to protest.  They are trying to exercise power over others.  The   
   Democrats will never admit this, because too many in the party (perhaps not   
   Biden, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt), don't have an issue with this   
   new emerging cultural fascism.   
      
   This isn't about George Floyd.  This is about an ideology that has been   
   percolating for years, and is now seizing this opportunity to suppress and   
   bully.   
      
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