American Culture of Violence & It's Related Politics
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Now who do you think did it? Same organization that taunted a schoolboy for wearing a MAGA hat
A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis
Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border
The following timeline compiles numerous sources to lay out an incomplete history of U.S. military and economic intervention in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala over the past century.
El Salvador
1932: A peasant rebellion, led by Communist leader Farabundo Martí, challenges the authority of the government. 10,000 to 40,000 communist rebels, many indigenous, are systematically murdered by the regime of military leader Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the nation’s acting president. The United States and Great Britain, having bankrolled the nation’s economy and owning the majority of its export-oriented coffee plantations and railways, send naval support to quell the rebellion.
1944: Martínez is ousted by a bloodless popular revolution led by students. Within months, his party is reinstalled by a reactionary coup led by his former chief of police, Osmín Aguirre y Salinas, whose regime is legitimized by immediate recognition from the United States.
1960: A military-civilian junta promises free elections. President Eisenhower withholds recognition, fearing a leftist turn. The promise of democracy is broken when a right-wing countercoup seizes power months later. Dr. Fabio Castillo, a former president of the national university, would tell Congress that this coup was openly facilitated by the United States and that the U.S. had opposed the holding of free elections.
More: https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148?
Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border
The following timeline compiles numerous sources to lay out an incomplete history of U.S. military and economic intervention in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala over the past century.
El Salvador
1932: A peasant rebellion, led by Communist leader Farabundo Martí, challenges the authority of the government. 10,000 to 40,000 communist rebels, many indigenous, are systematically murdered by the regime of military leader Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, the nation’s acting president. The United States and Great Britain, having bankrolled the nation’s economy and owning the majority of its export-oriented coffee plantations and railways, send naval support to quell the rebellion.
1944: Martínez is ousted by a bloodless popular revolution led by students. Within months, his party is reinstalled by a reactionary coup led by his former chief of police, Osmín Aguirre y Salinas, whose regime is legitimized by immediate recognition from the United States.
1960: A military-civilian junta promises free elections. President Eisenhower withholds recognition, fearing a leftist turn. The promise of democracy is broken when a right-wing countercoup seizes power months later. Dr. Fabio Castillo, a former president of the national university, would tell Congress that this coup was openly facilitated by the United States and that the U.S. had opposed the holding of free elections.
More: https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148?
Suspect in stabbing at N.Y. rabbi's home faces attempted murder, burglary charges; governor calls it 'domestic terrorism'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-new-york-home-n1108271?cid=eml_nbn_20191229
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-new-york-home-n1108271?cid=eml_nbn_20191229
Trump fan?
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"(CNN)An Iowa woman who told police she ran over a teen because she "was a Mexican" has been charged with another attempted murder after police say she hit a 12-year-old boy on the same day.
Nicole Poole Franklin was charged with attempted murder last week after admitting she intentionally ran over a 14-year-old girl with her car and "made a series of derogatory statements about Latinos," police said.
And just an hour-and-a-half after that incident, West Des Moines police said she used racist slurs toward a clerk and customers at a West Des Moines convenience store and threw items at the clerk, landing her assault, theft and public intoxication charges.
Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek said footage of the incident showed she intentionally hit the 12-year-old boy, who is black, about an hour before she hit the 14-year-old.
The boy was walking along the curb of a Des Moines apartment parking lot when an SUV jumped the curb, ran over his leg and fled, police reported.
A witness told police the SUV "gunned its engine" before the driver struck the child and that she'd seen the driver in the complex before."
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/24/us/iowa-woman-ran-over-girl-hit-black-child-trnd/index.html
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"(CNN)An Iowa woman who told police she ran over a teen because she "was a Mexican" has been charged with another attempted murder after police say she hit a 12-year-old boy on the same day.
Nicole Poole Franklin was charged with attempted murder last week after admitting she intentionally ran over a 14-year-old girl with her car and "made a series of derogatory statements about Latinos," police said.
And just an hour-and-a-half after that incident, West Des Moines police said she used racist slurs toward a clerk and customers at a West Des Moines convenience store and threw items at the clerk, landing her assault, theft and public intoxication charges.
Des Moines Police Sgt. Paul Parizek said footage of the incident showed she intentionally hit the 12-year-old boy, who is black, about an hour before she hit the 14-year-old.
The boy was walking along the curb of a Des Moines apartment parking lot when an SUV jumped the curb, ran over his leg and fled, police reported.
A witness told police the SUV "gunned its engine" before the driver struck the child and that she'd seen the driver in the complex before."
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/24/us/iowa-woman-ran-over-girl-hit-black-child-trnd/index.html
Guns in church? Volunteer security teams? Places of worship debate solutions to lethal violence
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...security-places-n1108676?cid=eml_nbn_20191230
Only in America?? !!!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...security-places-n1108676?cid=eml_nbn_20191230
Only in America?? !!!
THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES.
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Jan. 1, 2020 at 12:01 a.m. GMT+13
Most graduation photos capture candidates on the cusp of a promising future. But for one class of cadets at West Virginia’s state corrections academy captured performing a Nazi salute, their final class picture marks the end of their careers.
Gov. Jim Justice (R) announced Monday that he had approved the recommendation of his cabinet secretary that all of the cadets pictured in the photo captioned “Hail Byrd!” be terminated.
The decision affects at least 32 cadets. One additional staff member at the Corrections Academy was also recommended for firing, joining two other workers who were fired on Dec. 6, a day after the photo of the training class emerged publicly. Four other academy staff members will be suspended without pay.
“As I said from the beginning, I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class 18 in the strongest possible terms,” Justice said in a statement announcing his acceptance of Military Affairs and Public Safety Secretary Jeff Sandy’s recommendation. “I also said that this act needed to result in real consequences — terminations and dismissals. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated on my watch in any agency of State government.”
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W. Va. corrections employees fired, suspended following ‘disturbing’ photo of trainees performing Nazi salute
The report did not identify by name the cadets and academy staff members who will be terminated or include an unblurred version of the photo, per privacy protocols for state employees undergoing a termination or disciplinary process; it is unclear if the instructors named in the report are the staffers who were recommended for firing.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which advocates for Muslim civil rights, praised the governor’s decision.
“We welcome the firing of these individuals and hope it sends the strong message that anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry and hate will not be tolerated in West Virginia or any other state,” council spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said in a statement Monday.
Justice’s announcement marks the end of a nearly month-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding the photo, which had angered state officials as an embarrassing and insensitive incident that undermined the credibility of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which is overseen by Military Affairs.
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The summary of the report, released Monday, revealed a staggering lack of judgment spanning from the trainees to their captains, with multiple missed opportunities to head off the embarrassment; Capt. Annette Daniels-Watts, identified in the report by her rank and last name, presciently said upon seeing the photo, “Well, that is going to bite us in the [expletive].”
'Intolerably offensive’: Boy’s Nazi costume at elementary school Halloween parade sparks outrage
Daniels-Watts told investigators she found the photo “horrible” and that it called to mind incidents of college students making the gesture in viral photos that were later criticized as anti-Semitic. Nonetheless, she did not remove the photo, copies of which had by then been printed to be stuffed into graduation packets, the report said. Daniels-Watts would later tell department officials at a meeting about the picture, “Do I resign now or what?” and admitted, “I saw the picture and did nothing.”
The report found that the Nazi salute originated with a cadet who encouraged classmates to use it “as a sign of respect for Byrd,” a reference to instructor Karrie Byrd. Several other cadets reportedly objected to making a Nazi salute and called it out as inappropriate, only for the instigating cadet to tell them, “Look at me, I am black and I am doing it,” the report said.
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Two other instructors who saw the class make the gesture reportedly reprimanded the cadets, thinking that ended the issue. The report states that separately, Byrd told the class “she saw nothing wrong with the gesture and allowed it to continue.”
When it came time for the graduation photo, several cadets declined to make the gesture, prompting retakes of the photo until everyone participated in the salute. The report said of the 10 cadets who were uncomfortable, three relented and the rest raised clenched fists instead; the cadets told Military Affairs investigators they acquiesced to Byrd out of fear they wouldn’t graduate for disobeying an instructor.
In the explanation for the recommendation to terminate all of the cadets, even though some initially resisted, Sandy wrote that their conduct had undermined the department’s values and damaged the reputation, perception and morale of corrections employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...hed-giving-nazi-salute-whole-class-got-fired/
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Jan. 1, 2020 at 12:01 a.m. GMT+13
Most graduation photos capture candidates on the cusp of a promising future. But for one class of cadets at West Virginia’s state corrections academy captured performing a Nazi salute, their final class picture marks the end of their careers.
Gov. Jim Justice (R) announced Monday that he had approved the recommendation of his cabinet secretary that all of the cadets pictured in the photo captioned “Hail Byrd!” be terminated.
The decision affects at least 32 cadets. One additional staff member at the Corrections Academy was also recommended for firing, joining two other workers who were fired on Dec. 6, a day after the photo of the training class emerged publicly. Four other academy staff members will be suspended without pay.
“As I said from the beginning, I condemn the photo of Basic Training Class 18 in the strongest possible terms,” Justice said in a statement announcing his acceptance of Military Affairs and Public Safety Secretary Jeff Sandy’s recommendation. “I also said that this act needed to result in real consequences — terminations and dismissals. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated on my watch in any agency of State government.”
AD
W. Va. corrections employees fired, suspended following ‘disturbing’ photo of trainees performing Nazi salute
The report did not identify by name the cadets and academy staff members who will be terminated or include an unblurred version of the photo, per privacy protocols for state employees undergoing a termination or disciplinary process; it is unclear if the instructors named in the report are the staffers who were recommended for firing.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which advocates for Muslim civil rights, praised the governor’s decision.
“We welcome the firing of these individuals and hope it sends the strong message that anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry and hate will not be tolerated in West Virginia or any other state,” council spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said in a statement Monday.
Justice’s announcement marks the end of a nearly month-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding the photo, which had angered state officials as an embarrassing and insensitive incident that undermined the credibility of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation, which is overseen by Military Affairs.
AD
The summary of the report, released Monday, revealed a staggering lack of judgment spanning from the trainees to their captains, with multiple missed opportunities to head off the embarrassment; Capt. Annette Daniels-Watts, identified in the report by her rank and last name, presciently said upon seeing the photo, “Well, that is going to bite us in the [expletive].”
'Intolerably offensive’: Boy’s Nazi costume at elementary school Halloween parade sparks outrage
Daniels-Watts told investigators she found the photo “horrible” and that it called to mind incidents of college students making the gesture in viral photos that were later criticized as anti-Semitic. Nonetheless, she did not remove the photo, copies of which had by then been printed to be stuffed into graduation packets, the report said. Daniels-Watts would later tell department officials at a meeting about the picture, “Do I resign now or what?” and admitted, “I saw the picture and did nothing.”
The report found that the Nazi salute originated with a cadet who encouraged classmates to use it “as a sign of respect for Byrd,” a reference to instructor Karrie Byrd. Several other cadets reportedly objected to making a Nazi salute and called it out as inappropriate, only for the instigating cadet to tell them, “Look at me, I am black and I am doing it,” the report said.
AD
Two other instructors who saw the class make the gesture reportedly reprimanded the cadets, thinking that ended the issue. The report states that separately, Byrd told the class “she saw nothing wrong with the gesture and allowed it to continue.”
When it came time for the graduation photo, several cadets declined to make the gesture, prompting retakes of the photo until everyone participated in the salute. The report said of the 10 cadets who were uncomfortable, three relented and the rest raised clenched fists instead; the cadets told Military Affairs investigators they acquiesced to Byrd out of fear they wouldn’t graduate for disobeying an instructor.
In the explanation for the recommendation to terminate all of the cadets, even though some initially resisted, Sandy wrote that their conduct had undermined the department’s values and damaged the reputation, perception and morale of corrections employees.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...hed-giving-nazi-salute-whole-class-got-fired/
Well, we DID coin the saying "Praise the Lord and pass the ammo."
Flipside, we never had a religious war like the Crusades or the Reformation Wars.
What about the yellow, slitty-eyed Japs and the atrocities they committed?
Did that particular Festival of Yellowness skew your perception forever, too?
Gets on my ****ing goat: "I hate all white people because the Nazis were white."
Well, the Nazi-supporting Japanese weren't white. How would you like it if I said I hate all slitty-eyed, yellow Japs because of the atrocities they committed?
And Mr Cdn's comments completely ignore the fact that hundreds of millions of white people fought AGAINST the Nazis.
Yeah, that would be about as surprising as sunrise.
In case you hadn't noticed, you hate everybody who's not an English Anglo-Norman rightwinger because they're not English Anglo-Norman rightwingers.