Trump adviser Roger Stone warns any politician who votes to impeach him would 'endanger their own life'
Chris Baynes
The IndependentAugust 25, 2017
One of Donald Trump's closest advisers has warned a bloody civil war would erupt if the US President was impeached.
Roger Stone predicted "an insurrection like you've never seen" if politicians sought to remove the US leader from the White House and claimed any politician who voted to topple him "would be endangering their own life".
Talk of impeachment has endured throughout Mr Trump's presidency amid allegations of collusion between Russia and the billionaire Republican's election campaign.
Support for his removal from office has risen to 40 per cent among the American public, according to a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) earlier this month.
But Mr Stone, a long-time Trump confidant and former official in Richard Nixon's administration, suggested impeachment proceedings would lead to an armed uprising among the President's supporters.
"Try to impeach him, just try it. You will have a spasm of violence in this country, an insurrection like you’ve never seen," he told entertainment website, TMZ. "The people will not stand for impeachment. A politician that votes for it would be endangering their own life."
Asked if he believed there would be "some sort of civil war" if the President was impeached, he replied: "Yes, that's what I think will happen.
"Both sides are heavily armed... There would be violence on both sides."
The Republican strategist and self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" claimed he was "not advocating violence" but "predicting it".
Mr Stone, who was an adviser to Mr Trump's presidential campaign and is thought to still speak to him regularly, said: "The people who are calling for impeachment are the people who didn't vote for him. They need to get over it, they lost."
He added: "Sorry, he whipped Hillary Clinton's ass. It's over, you lost."
A former US labour secretary this week became the latest high-profile Trump critic to call for his impeachment.
Robert Reich said the President was a "clear and present danger to America" and must be removed from office.
Democrat Representative Steve Cohen last week said he intended to introduce articles of impeachment against Mr Trump over his response to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adviser-roger-stone-warns-091246640.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adviser-roger-stone-warns-091246640.html
Friday, August 25, 2017
Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment
By Eugene Volokh
June 19
The Supreme Court building in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)
From today’s opinion by Justice Samuel Alito (for four justices) in Matal v. Tam, the “Slants” case:
[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote separately, also for four justices, but on this point the opinions agreed:
A law found to discriminate based on viewpoint is an “egregious form of content discrimination,” which is “presumptively unconstitutional.” … A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.
And the justices made clear that speech that some view as racially offensive is protected not just against outright prohibition but also against lesser restrictions. In Matal, the government refused to register “The Slants” as a band’s trademark, on the ground that the name might be seen as demeaning to Asian Americans. The government wasn’t trying to forbid the band from using the mark; it was just denying it certain protections that trademarks get against unauthorized use by third parties. But even in this sort of program, the court held, viewpoint discrimination — including against allegedly racially offensive viewpoints — is unconstitutional. And this no-viewpoint-discrimination principle has long been seen as applying to exclusion of speakers from universities, denial of tax exemptions to nonprofits, and much more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/19/supreme-court-unanimously-reaffirms-there-is-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.cffcf4f7ccd2
By Eugene Volokh
June 19
The Supreme Court building in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)
From today’s opinion by Justice Samuel Alito (for four justices) in Matal v. Tam, the “Slants” case:
[The idea that the government may restrict] speech expressing ideas that offend … strikes at the heart of the First Amendment. Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote separately, also for four justices, but on this point the opinions agreed:
A law found to discriminate based on viewpoint is an “egregious form of content discrimination,” which is “presumptively unconstitutional.” … A law that can be directed against speech found offensive to some portion of the public can be turned against minority and dissenting views to the detriment of all. The First Amendment does not entrust that power to the government’s benevolence. Instead, our reliance must be on the substantial safeguards of free and open discussion in a democratic society.
And the justices made clear that speech that some view as racially offensive is protected not just against outright prohibition but also against lesser restrictions. In Matal, the government refused to register “The Slants” as a band’s trademark, on the ground that the name might be seen as demeaning to Asian Americans. The government wasn’t trying to forbid the band from using the mark; it was just denying it certain protections that trademarks get against unauthorized use by third parties. But even in this sort of program, the court held, viewpoint discrimination — including against allegedly racially offensive viewpoints — is unconstitutional. And this no-viewpoint-discrimination principle has long been seen as applying to exclusion of speakers from universities, denial of tax exemptions to nonprofits, and much more https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/06/19/supreme-court-unanimously-reaffirms-there-is-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.cffcf4f7ccd2
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Ban DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS ! - Italian Police are forcing illegal ASYL SQUATTERS from Rome piazza with water cannons
Associated Press • COLLEEN BARRY and PAOLO SANTALUCIA • 9 hours ago
ROME (AP) — Migrants in a Rome piazza threw rocks, bottles and gas cans at riot police using water cannons to clear out about 100 mostly Ethiopian and Eritrean asylum-seekers early Thursday as part of a security operation harshly criticized by humanitarian groups.
At least two people were detained, and 13 were injured.
The dawn operation comes days after authorities cleared most of the 800 migrants who had been squatting in an adjacent building since 2013.
Police said in a statement the operation was necessary because the migrants remaining in the piazza had refused to accept city-organized lodging and because of the risk of cooking gas canisters and other flammable materials.
Authorities have said such raids to clear migrants from buildings and squares, at least four since July in Rome, are part of anti-terrorism measures.
Asylum-seekers, mostly women and children, who had been allowed to remain temporarily in a nearby building hung signs out of its windows saying "We are not terrorists," as some threw canisters into the street. They were also cleared out, and brought to a police station.
The city of Rome said in a statement that the most vulnerable among the migrants, including families with minors, and the elderly and disabled, were being given priority, and that all had been given food and drinks by authorities. The statement said workers had run into resistance in recent months to conduct a census of migrants living in the structure and piazza.
The U.N. refugee agency, UNICEF and humanitarian organizations have protested Italy's moves, saying they were carried out without warning and that there isn't enough adequate housing for them and the hundreds more vulnerable asylum-seekers sleeping on Rome's streets. They also noted that many families would be separated by the new housing arrangements and children would be uprooted from schools.
"It is a shame that the absence of alternative housing solutions brought about a violent situation," Doctors Without Borders said, calling for "dignified solutions" for those who have been removed.
UNHCR expressed "extreme concern for the use of force, which could have been avoided if alternative solutions had been identified in a timely fashion and in consultation with the people and families involved."
A U.N. refugee agency official in southern Europe, Stephane Jaquemet, noted that many of the people living in the building had been there for many years and were legal residents of the capital.
"They are people fleeing war and persecution, already victims of terrible trauma. People who have the right to support to integration in a way to become autonomous," Jaquemet said.
On Twitter, Doctors Without Borders posted pictures of the police operation and protested the "indiscriminate use of violence." The organization noted there were no ambulances nearby to help, and said their volunteers treated 13 injured, mostly cuts and fractures, including an elderly woman who fainted after being hit by a water jet.
Italy is struggling to meet the demand to house migrants, with more than 98,000 arriving so far this year after being rescued at sea in rickety smugglers' boats. More stringent border controls are preventing most of those migrants from continuing their journeys to preferred destinations further north.
Associated Press • COLLEEN BARRY and PAOLO SANTALUCIA • 9 hours ago
ROME (AP) — Migrants in a Rome piazza threw rocks, bottles and gas cans at riot police using water cannons to clear out about 100 mostly Ethiopian and Eritrean asylum-seekers early Thursday as part of a security operation harshly criticized by humanitarian groups.
At least two people were detained, and 13 were injured.
The dawn operation comes days after authorities cleared most of the 800 migrants who had been squatting in an adjacent building since 2013.
Police said in a statement the operation was necessary because the migrants remaining in the piazza had refused to accept city-organized lodging and because of the risk of cooking gas canisters and other flammable materials.
Authorities have said such raids to clear migrants from buildings and squares, at least four since July in Rome, are part of anti-terrorism measures.
Asylum-seekers, mostly women and children, who had been allowed to remain temporarily in a nearby building hung signs out of its windows saying "We are not terrorists," as some threw canisters into the street. They were also cleared out, and brought to a police station.
The city of Rome said in a statement that the most vulnerable among the migrants, including families with minors, and the elderly and disabled, were being given priority, and that all had been given food and drinks by authorities. The statement said workers had run into resistance in recent months to conduct a census of migrants living in the structure and piazza.
The U.N. refugee agency, UNICEF and humanitarian organizations have protested Italy's moves, saying they were carried out without warning and that there isn't enough adequate housing for them and the hundreds more vulnerable asylum-seekers sleeping on Rome's streets. They also noted that many families would be separated by the new housing arrangements and children would be uprooted from schools.
"It is a shame that the absence of alternative housing solutions brought about a violent situation," Doctors Without Borders said, calling for "dignified solutions" for those who have been removed.
UNHCR expressed "extreme concern for the use of force, which could have been avoided if alternative solutions had been identified in a timely fashion and in consultation with the people and families involved."
A U.N. refugee agency official in southern Europe, Stephane Jaquemet, noted that many of the people living in the building had been there for many years and were legal residents of the capital.
"They are people fleeing war and persecution, already victims of terrible trauma. People who have the right to support to integration in a way to become autonomous," Jaquemet said.
On Twitter, Doctors Without Borders posted pictures of the police operation and protested the "indiscriminate use of violence." The organization noted there were no ambulances nearby to help, and said their volunteers treated 13 injured, mostly cuts and fractures, including an elderly woman who fainted after being hit by a water jet.
Italy is struggling to meet the demand to house migrants, with more than 98,000 arriving so far this year after being rescued at sea in rickety smugglers' boats. More stringent border controls are preventing most of those migrants from continuing their journeys to preferred destinations further north.
DUMP THE JUn ! - The UN has warned the United States over its alarming rise in ethnic violence
Marc Bain • Wed, Aug 23 7:24 AM PDT
A United Nations committee has issued a formal warning to the United States and its president, Donald Trump, over recent racial violence in the country, indicating serious concern that conflicts like the recent one in Charlottesville, Virginia, will spread.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued an “early warning,” the first step in its system of measures to prevent tensions from escalating and inform member states of the urgent need to address problems. It criticized the US for “failure at the highest political level to unequivocally reject racist violent events.”
New research shows one kind of teenage friendship is more likely to result in a happier, healthier adulthood
The statement, though it doesn’t say so explicitly, appears to refer to Trump’s widely criticized response to the violent clashes on Aug. 12 between white-supremacist groups and counter-protesters in Charlottesville. Trump called the fighting an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” suggesting that the counter-protesters were as much to blame as the white supremacists.
One woman, Heather Heyer, was killed that day, when a man with neo-Nazi sympathies drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Shortly after, a group of UN experts voiced its concern over the rise of racism and xenophobia in the US, which critics of Trump say he emboldened through his tepid response to Charlottesville.
The UN’s new warning calls on US authorities to take concrete measures to address the spread of hate groups. “We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,” CERD Chairperson Anastasia Crickley said in a statement.
CERD has officially warned the US before, in 2006 when it raised the issue of US land conflicts with the Western Shoshone indigenous peoples. Its criticism of the country’s efforts to end racial discrimination haven’t always met with favorable responses from the political right in the US. In 2008, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, called for the US to “seriously reconsider the level of its future engagement with the committee,” claiming it was biased.
The committee’s new statement, however, is an alarm bell about specific events and the path the US appears to be headed down, harming its often sanitized global image (paywall). Other countries it has raised the alarm about in recent years include Burundi and Iraq.
Marc Bain • Wed, Aug 23 7:24 AM PDT
A United Nations committee has issued a formal warning to the United States and its president, Donald Trump, over recent racial violence in the country, indicating serious concern that conflicts like the recent one in Charlottesville, Virginia, will spread.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued an “early warning,” the first step in its system of measures to prevent tensions from escalating and inform member states of the urgent need to address problems. It criticized the US for “failure at the highest political level to unequivocally reject racist violent events.”
New research shows one kind of teenage friendship is more likely to result in a happier, healthier adulthood
The statement, though it doesn’t say so explicitly, appears to refer to Trump’s widely criticized response to the violent clashes on Aug. 12 between white-supremacist groups and counter-protesters in Charlottesville. Trump called the fighting an “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” suggesting that the counter-protesters were as much to blame as the white supremacists.
One woman, Heather Heyer, was killed that day, when a man with neo-Nazi sympathies drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Shortly after, a group of UN experts voiced its concern over the rise of racism and xenophobia in the US, which critics of Trump say he emboldened through his tepid response to Charlottesville.
The UN’s new warning calls on US authorities to take concrete measures to address the spread of hate groups. “We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan, promoting white supremacy and inciting racial discrimination and hatred,” CERD Chairperson Anastasia Crickley said in a statement.
CERD has officially warned the US before, in 2006 when it raised the issue of US land conflicts with the Western Shoshone indigenous peoples. Its criticism of the country’s efforts to end racial discrimination haven’t always met with favorable responses from the political right in the US. In 2008, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, called for the US to “seriously reconsider the level of its future engagement with the committee,” claiming it was biased.
The committee’s new statement, however, is an alarm bell about specific events and the path the US appears to be headed down, harming its often sanitized global image (paywall). Other countries it has raised the alarm about in recent years include Burundi and Iraq.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Andrew Young opposes fight over Confederate statues
Leon Stafford The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
1:33 p.m Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 Atlanta News
Civil rights icon and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young said Wednesday he doesn’t back the fight to tear down Confederate memorials around the country and that he fears it could have unintended consequences.
“I think it’s too costly to refight the Civil War,” Young said Wednesday at a press conference in which he and fellow civil rights icon C.T. Vivian endorsed Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell to succeed Kasim Reed as the city’s next mayor. “We have paid too great a price in trying to bring people together.”
“I’ve always been interested more in substance over symbols,” Young said Aug. 16, 2017, when asked for his opinion on removing Confederate memorials around the nation. AJC FILE PHOTO
Young’s comments came just days after a woman was struck and killed and at least 19 others were wounded in Charlottesville, Va., when a car plowed into a group of demonstrators who were protesting neo-Nazis, KKK members and white nationalists who had descended on the city because of plans to dismantle Confederate statues.
President Donald Trump sent what many consider mixed messages to the nation in reaction to the violence, saying on Tuesday that “alt-left” demonstrators shared some blame for the confrontations after a day earlier saying racism had no place in the nation.
Former Mayor Andy Young talks about the fatal crash at Charlottesville protest last weekend.
Young said the fight in the early 2000s to replace the Confederate battle emblem on the Georgia flag hurt the state and Atlanta because the Democrats lost the governor’s mansion. If Georgia had not been embroiled in the battle, it might have salvaged the deal to bring a Mercedes-Benz plant to southern Georgia and an accompany https://www.google.com/search?redir_esc=&hl=en-US&safe=images&oe=utf-8&q=ex%20black%20mayor%20atlanta%20says%20no%20statue%20removal https://www.google.com/search?redir_esc=&hl=en-US&safe=images&oe=utf-8&q=ex%20black%20mayor%20atlanta%20says%20no%20statue%20removal&source=android-browser-type&qsubts=1503467047724
Leon Stafford The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
1:33 p.m Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 Atlanta News
Civil rights icon and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young said Wednesday he doesn’t back the fight to tear down Confederate memorials around the country and that he fears it could have unintended consequences.
“I think it’s too costly to refight the Civil War,” Young said Wednesday at a press conference in which he and fellow civil rights icon C.T. Vivian endorsed Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell to succeed Kasim Reed as the city’s next mayor. “We have paid too great a price in trying to bring people together.”
“I’ve always been interested more in substance over symbols,” Young said Aug. 16, 2017, when asked for his opinion on removing Confederate memorials around the nation. AJC FILE PHOTO
Young’s comments came just days after a woman was struck and killed and at least 19 others were wounded in Charlottesville, Va., when a car plowed into a group of demonstrators who were protesting neo-Nazis, KKK members and white nationalists who had descended on the city because of plans to dismantle Confederate statues.
President Donald Trump sent what many consider mixed messages to the nation in reaction to the violence, saying on Tuesday that “alt-left” demonstrators shared some blame for the confrontations after a day earlier saying racism had no place in the nation.
Former Mayor Andy Young talks about the fatal crash at Charlottesville protest last weekend.
Young said the fight in the early 2000s to replace the Confederate battle emblem on the Georgia flag hurt the state and Atlanta because the Democrats lost the governor’s mansion. If Georgia had not been embroiled in the battle, it might have salvaged the deal to bring a Mercedes-Benz plant to southern Georgia and an accompany https://www.google.com/search?redir_esc=&hl=en-US&safe=images&oe=utf-8&q=ex%20black%20mayor%20atlanta%20says%20no%20statue%20removal https://www.google.com/search?redir_esc=&hl=en-US&safe=images&oe=utf-8&q=ex%20black%20mayor%20atlanta%20says%20no%20statue%20removal&source=android-browser-type&qsubts=1503467047724
Of course not : technically they dont recognize Nation States, just jewish colonies ! - JUn condemns Charlottesville violence, says no place for racism
ReutersAugust 14, 2017
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Monday condemned violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters in the southern U.S. college town of Charlottesville in Virginia.
"We're against all racism and bigotry," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters.
"We believe that there must be no place in our societies for the violent racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and discrimination that we've seen in Charlottesville, Virginia that we've seen in recent days," he said. https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-n-condemns-charlottesville-violence-says-no-place-163512089.html
ReutersAugust 14, 2017
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Monday condemned violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters in the southern U.S. college town of Charlottesville in Virginia.
"We're against all racism and bigotry," U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters.
"We believe that there must be no place in our societies for the violent racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and discrimination that we've seen in Charlottesville, Virginia that we've seen in recent days," he said. https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-n-condemns-charlottesville-violence-says-no-place-163512089.html
Charlottesville (((Residents))) ? Slam City’s Response To Nazis In Raucous Meeting
Ed Mazza
HuffPost August 22, 2017
CONTACT THE PC CUCKS OF THE charlottesville city council http://www.charlottesville.org/departments-and-services/departments-a-g/city-council/council-members. A city council meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned chaotic on Monday night as residents complained about the city’s decision to allow a white supremacist march earlier this month as well as the police response to the resulting melee.
A city council meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned chaotic on Monday night as residents complained about the city’s decision to allow a white supremacist march earlier this month as well as the police response to the resulting melee.
Many called on the council to resign or vowed to vote them out of office over the violence that shook Charlottesville on Aug. 11-12 as neo-Nazis, KKK members and others descended on the city as part of a “Unite the Right” rally.
A couple of residents climbed onto the council’s dais and unfurled a large banned that read “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS” as people chanted “resign” at the council.
Other residents complained that the police did a better job protecting the white supremacists than the city’s own citizens.
“I’m outraged!” said Tracy Saxon, per The New York Times. “I watched my people get beat and murdered. They let Nazis in here have freedom of speech and they protect them? And we can’t have freedom of speech?”
Police officers removed several people during the meeting.
At one point, the city council left the room, but returned when Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy changed the meeting into a forum allowing individuals to address the council.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed and at least 19 others injured when a car slammed into a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville. James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old white supremacist, has been charged with murder and several other counts.
The city council was told if they remove any statues theyll be sued & charged w class six felonies ! GOOD https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlottesville-residents-slam-city-response-080915007.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlottesville-residents-slam-city-response-080915007.html
Ed Mazza
HuffPost August 22, 2017
CONTACT THE PC CUCKS OF THE charlottesville city council http://www.charlottesville.org/departments-and-services/departments-a-g/city-council/council-members. A city council meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned chaotic on Monday night as residents complained about the city’s decision to allow a white supremacist march earlier this month as well as the police response to the resulting melee.
A city council meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned chaotic on Monday night as residents complained about the city’s decision to allow a white supremacist march earlier this month as well as the police response to the resulting melee.
Many called on the council to resign or vowed to vote them out of office over the violence that shook Charlottesville on Aug. 11-12 as neo-Nazis, KKK members and others descended on the city as part of a “Unite the Right” rally.
A couple of residents climbed onto the council’s dais and unfurled a large banned that read “BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS” as people chanted “resign” at the council.
Other residents complained that the police did a better job protecting the white supremacists than the city’s own citizens.
“I’m outraged!” said Tracy Saxon, per The New York Times. “I watched my people get beat and murdered. They let Nazis in here have freedom of speech and they protect them? And we can’t have freedom of speech?”
Police officers removed several people during the meeting.
At one point, the city council left the room, but returned when Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy changed the meeting into a forum allowing individuals to address the council.
Heather Heyer, 32, was killed and at least 19 others injured when a car slammed into a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville. James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old white supremacist, has been charged with murder and several other counts.
The city council was told if they remove any statues theyll be sued & charged w class six felonies ! GOOD https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlottesville-residents-slam-city-response-080915007.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/charlottesville-residents-slam-city-response-080915007.html
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