Violence

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">this is about credible incitement or actual usage of violence for political ends, see terror?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">includes hate crimes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">capt 819</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>see mass shooter and domestic TRO</b></font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
See also war on science/gagging paul nurse royal soc bbc pgm went after skeptic intellectual rape? "

ariz tea party cand 2nd amendment remedy (Bachman too?) [Palin?]

gifford shooter cites grammar conspiracy
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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">horo-show sez left is source of violence (note slippage of black bloc wackos burning some trash or breaking windows are violent) whereas actual acts of violence eg by trump whipping up hate to press that gets them shoved/hit?</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">more aha: rt conflates verbal violence and actual, eg&nbsp; sec of def nom said ok for son to use baseball bat on mom b/c she yelled/nagged him for 3 hrs, thus self-defense</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">// slippage of eco- --> econ terror; rt calls left "extremists" and angry thus irrational, they seem to be the ones to consistently and constantly "lose it" plus violence is the trad perogative of mean and power.&nbsp; plus if left tyranny is real threat to freedom and liberty, violence is justified/necessary</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div class="header-list-style" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="entry-title grid-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/viral-video-shows-pickup-truck-ramming-crowd-protesting-ice/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Viral video shows pickup truck ramming crowd protesting ICE</font></a></h2><div class="grid-post-box-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/david-badash/" title="Posts by David Badash" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">David Badash</a>&nbsp;/&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/the-new-civil-rights-movement/" title="Posts by The New Civil Rights Movement" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The New Civil Rights Movement</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">August 15, 2019</span></font></div></div><div class="item-content entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 18px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Several protestors were injured and taken to a hospital for treatment.</font></p></div></div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/white-supremacists-responsible-for-all-race-based-domestic-terrorism-incidents-in-2018-doj-blocked-report/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/white-supremacists-responsible-for-all-race-based-domestic-terrorism-incidents-in-2018-doj-blocked-report/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Explosive report says the Trump admin blocked data revealing that white supremacists were responsible for all race-based domestic terrorism incidents in 2018</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>August 9, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Trump administration has known since at least April that alleged white supremacists were responsible for every single act of race-based domestic terrorism in the U.S. in 2018, yet not only took no action to combat the growing right-wing violent extremism, but actually substantially reduced or even eliminated funding and programs that combat white supremacist extremism, violence, and terrorism – and then blocked the data from reaching the hands of Congress.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Domestic Terrorism in 2018,” a document (embedded below) prepared by the State of New Jersey’s Office of Homeland Security Preparedness, “shows 25 of the 46 individuals allegedly involved in 32 different domestic terrorism incidents were identified as white supremacists,” Yahoo News’ Jana Winter and Hunter Walker report.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That document finds there were “32 domestic terrorist attacks, disrupted plots, threats of violence, and weapons stockpiling by individuals with a radical political or social agenda who lack direction or influence from foreign terrorist organizations in 2018.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The report was “circulated” throughout the U.S. Dept. of Justice “and around the country in April just as members of the Senate pushed the DOJ to provide them with precise information about the number of white supremacists involved in domestic terrorism.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Justice Department, under President Trump’s hand-picked Attorney General Bill Barr, refused to hand over the data or the document to Congress.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in January of 2019 had already compiled a report, announcing that, “Right-Wing Extremism Linked to Every 2018 Extremist Murder in the U.S., ADL Finds.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ADL reported that “Right-wing extremists were linked to at least 50 extremist-related murders in the United States in 2018, making them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995, according to new data from the ADL.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">1995 was the year domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma City federal building, slaughtering 168 people and injuring more than 680 others.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“The tally represents a 35 percent increase from the 37 extremist-related murders in 2017,” ADL reported, “making 2018 the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970. Last year saw the highest percentage of right-wing extremist-related killings since 2012, the last year when all documented killings were by right-wing extremists.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why the Dept. of Justice and the White House blocked the data from reaching Congress is now yet another investigation Congress should take up.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s the document the DOJ refused to hand over to Members of the House and Senate:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Domestic Terrorism in 2018.pdf by Kelli R. Grant on Scribd</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">pivot from eco to econ to nat'l security "critical infrastructure" // BS on tariffs?</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/dangerous-republican-resolution-suggests-that-all-forms-of-political-dissent-could-soon-be-considered-terrorism/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/dangerous-republican-resolution-suggests-that-all-forms-of-political-dissent-could-soon-be-considered-terrorism/</font></a></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>Dangerous Republican resolution suggests that all forms of political dissent could soon be considered terrorism</b></div><div>
</div><div>Written by Urie Dvorozniak / Salon July 23, 2019</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Last week, Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Ted Cruz&nbsp; of Texas introduced a resolution to designate “antifa,” which the Anti-Defamation League defines as “a loose collection of groups, networks, and individuals who believe in active, aggressive opposition to far right-wing movements,” as a “domestic terrorist organization.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In fact, antifa is a constellation of many different activist groupings, with no official leader or clear hierarchy. As the New York Times has noted, its membership count is “impossible to know.” That didn’t stop the two Republican senators from claiming that&nbsp;<b>“Antifa are terrorists, violent masked bullies who ‘fight fascism’ with actual fascism, protected by Liberal privilege.”</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>Senator Ted Cruz</div><div>?</div><div>@SenTedCruz</div><div>&nbsp;Antifa is a terrorist organization composed of hateful, intolerant radicals who pursue their extreme agenda through aggressive violence. Time and time again their actions have demonstrated that their central purpose is to inflict harm on those who oppose their views.</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Antifa, short for “anti-fascist,” traces its ideological roots to 1920s and 1930s Germany and supposes that if people had opposed the Nazi Party more aggressively, Adolf Hitler might never have come to power. The ADL reports that many people who act within antifa are anarchist or very left-wing, but that “since Trump’s election, some people with more mainstream political backgrounds have also joined their ranks.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In their resolution, Cruz and Cassidy reference the “violent demonstrations” on June 29 in Portland, Oregon, where writer right-wing Alex Ngo was assaulted while covering an antifa protest against the “far-right nationalist” group known as the Proud Boys.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After the incident, Cruz called for a federal criminal investigation of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat who is also the police commissioner of the city.</span></div><div>
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</div><div>Ted Cruz</div><div>?</div><div>@tedcruz</div><div>&nbsp;To federal law enforcement:&nbsp; investigate & bring legal action against a Mayor who has, for political reasons, ordered his police officers to let citizens be attacked by domestic terrorists.&nbsp; https://tinyurl.com/y2udrv5d&nbsp; https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1145212511966441473 …</div><div>
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</div><div>Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Under Fire for Not Stopping Antifa Protests</div><div>Wheeler's hands-off policy when it comes to Antifa came under scrutiny on Saturday after journalist Ngo was assaulted by masked assailants.</div><div>
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</div><div>Cruz and Cassidy also point to antifa activists occupying the areas outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices, as well as posting the personal information of ICE officials online.</div><div>
</div><div>But the Republican senators’ resolution is little more than a political stunt.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cruz and Cassidy’s resolution, which is entirely non-binding, won’t actually change U.S. law — because there is no existing law to change. The Patriot Act defines domestic terrorism as criminal activity that appears intended to “intimidate or coerce” civilians or influence government policy using violent methods. But, domestic terrorism is not a specific crime under U.S. law. Labeling a group as domestic terrorists give federal law enforcement broader powers to conduct investigations of other crimes, but does not itself define any criminal activities. criminal make. Furthermore, since antifa isn’t a singular group, as mentioned above, its definition under this resolution is unclear.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The designation of what “groups” are called terrorist, domestic terrorist or hate groups is extremely loose. For instance, the Pulse Nightclub shooter was charged with terrorism, while the Ku Klux Klan is legally considered a “hate group,” not a domestic terror organization. And while the federal government keeps a list of foreign terrorist groups, there is no public list of domestic terrorist groups.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Some outlets have thought it worthy to equate the confrontational tactics of antifa to political violence on the far-right. But as the ADL has pointed out, “To date, there have been no Antifa related murders,” yet “right-wing extremists” have “ murdered hundreds of people in this country over the last ten years alone.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Just last week, James Alex Fields Jr., an avowed neo-Nazi, was sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years for the violent assault he committed during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fields deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyerand injuring several others.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Free speech activists have expressed concerns that the Cruz-Cassidy resolution could set a precedent for more groups to be labeled domestic terrorist organizations.&nbsp; As National Observer reporter Caroline Orr noted, Cruz’s resolution uses the terms “antifa” and “left-wing activists” interchangeably. Most dangerously, it suggests that all manner of dissent could be considered terrorism.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Cruz’s move looks to be a transparent attempt to saddle congressional Democrats with a divisive political debate, declaring themselves either against antifa or in support of it, invariably alienating some of the party’s supporters ahead of a critical presidential election.</b></div></div><div style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div><b>The frightening undercurrent running through all of Trump’s talk</b></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/the-frightening-undercurrent-running-through-all-of-trumps-talk/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/the-frightening-undercurrent-running-through-all-of-trumps-talk/</a></div><div>
</div><div>Written by David Neiwert / Daily Kos<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>July 21, 2019</div><div>
</div><div>Many observers, with good cause, have decried Donald Trump’s vicious attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar and her fellow progressive congresswomen of color and the frightening chants—“Send her home!”—his fanatical followers in North Carolina started up all on their own, responding to Trump’s vituperation about Omar, as nakedly racist, not to mention dangerous. Many have remarked on the fascism dripping from every word, and suggested that what we saw Wednesday in Greenville was a new Nuremberg, Trump’s feeble denials notwithstanding.</div><div>
</div><div>If anyone needed further evidence that Trump is now America’s eliminationist-in-chief, the frenzied crowd delivered it in spades.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But listen carefully to the language being used by Trump and his defenders to rationalize their words. It is language with a very familiar ring: The language of community defense and purification, driving from the body politic any foreign—and therefore innately toxic—presence or influence. The language of heroic willingness to sever the Gordian knot and do “what needs to be done” to protect the community, or in this case the nation, or indeed Western civilization itself.</span></div><div>
</div><div>It is the language of hate crimes, used by their perpetrators to rationalize their deeds.</div><div>
</div><div>Even before the chant, it was fascinating to watch Trump’s defenders in the wake of the nakedly&nbsp;<b>eliminationist&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">go back where they came from</span>” tweets that inspired the chant. There was&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sen. Lindsay Graham, justifying the tweets to the hosts on Fox & Friends by suggesting that people like these members of Congress deserve to be ejected from the country: “We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of communists … they’re anti-Semitic. They’re anti-America.”</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And then there was U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana, who tweeted on Monday along similar lines: “Montanans are sick and tired of listening to anti-American, anti-Semite, radical Democrats trash our country and our ideals.” (Special hypocrisy note: Daines employed a noted white nationalist named Taylor Rose as a campaign field organizer in Montana in his 2014 Senate campaign.)</span></div><div>
</div><div>Listen to the words Trump used in Greenville to attack Rep. Omar just before the chant broke out:</div><div>
</div><div>I mean think of that one, and she looks down with contempt on the hardworking American, saying that ignorance is pervasive in many parts of this country. And obviously and importantly, Omar has a history of launching vicious antisemitic screeds.</div><div>
</div><div>After the chant, he continued with similar language in attacking Omar’s colleague, Rep. Rita Tlaib:</div><div>
</div><div>And Tlaib also used the F word to describe the presidency and your president. That’s not nice, even for me. She was describing the President of the United States and the presidency with the big fat vicious, the way she said it, vicious F-word. That’s not somebody that loves our country.</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is how violence against both nonwhites and political dissenters has been justified by the mainstream American Right for centuries: If you disagree, you hate the country, and thus deserve ejection or elimination. This is why “go back where you came from” is a favorite phrase both of hate-crimes perpetrators and violent right-wing thugs like the Proud Boys.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Yet this was presented as a rational explanation by Trump’s defenders: “The president clarified in there what he was talking about: a love of the country. And if you don’t love the country, leave the country,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told the press.</div><div>
</div><div>New York Post columnist Sohrab Ahmari hated the chants but then embraced the underlying sentiments:</div><div>
</div><div>Needless to say, the “send-her-back” chants are gross. But again, with remarks like these, and many other of the kind,&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">she has signaled radical hostility to her adopted homeland and the West — i.e., a total departure from the political community.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Beneath the pseudo-logical veneer, there is a frightening undercurrent running through all of this talk.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The problem is much deeper than the naked discrimination and intolerance on display: This is language that will be used to justify violence. It will almost certainly inspire a fresh wave of racial sectarian violence in the form of hate crimes and right-wing extremist domestic terrorism, because it is the very same language that is used by the perpetrators of these crimes to justify their acts.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The criminologists and social scientists who study hate crimes have parsed the motivations behind such acts into four different but related kinds:</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">thrill-seeking, “defensive,” retributive (or revenge crimes), and “mission” crimes (perpetrated by committed ideologues intent on striking a blow on behalf of their cause).</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>By far the largest of these categories is the “defensive” kind of motive, in which perpetrators see themselves as heroes who are out to save their communities and the nation as well.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;One study found that this category of motive had become dominant in hate crimes after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—and that hate crimes were likely to spike when “when a particular group is regarded as representing a danger to the dominant group’s prestige, wealth, or power.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Dylann Roof [who murdered nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston, S.C, in June 2015] thought he was saving the world,” said Heidi Beirich, Intelligence Project director at the Southern Poverty Law Center. “They’ve come to believe they’re saviors of the white race. … I’m doing this to protect my race.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In “defensive” hate crimes, perpetrators see themselves as heroic protectors of their communities: their neighborhoods, their workplace, their religion, their country, their race. These “defenders’ often target specific victims, justifying their crimes as necessary to fend off perceived threats. Particular events such as the arrival or a Muslim or a black family in a previously all-white neighborhood can act as the spark for such crimes.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Both while in the act and afterward, especially when caught and charged with bias crimes, these perpetrators defend themselves by using the language of community defense. They show little to no remorse for their crimes, and usually insist that they are acting on the unspoken wishes of the majority of people in the community, which is too afraid to act. Even non-defender types of perpetrators—particularly “mission” and retributive criminals—employ this kind of rhetoric to explain their actions.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>“They honestly believe that what they’re doing has some sort of communal assent,</b>” says Brian Levin, who leads the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is where the role played by Donald Trump becomes crucial: Rather than acting as a lever to discourage such acts, Trump clearly has encouraged them with both his rhetoric and his actions. This has led to what has been called the&nbsp;<b>“Trump Effect,” in which outbreaks of bigoted crimes and incidents are directly linked to the president’s outbursts in speeches and on Twitter.</b></span></div><div>
</div><div>This effect was first marked in the month immediately following Trump’s election in November 2016. Levin’s team as CSUSB assembled hate-crimes data from 38 jurisdictions and found the effect was unmistakable: “racial hate crime according to FBI data surged during November 2016, and in particular on the day after the election, rising from 10 to 27. Our analysis of the same FBI data set further revealed November was the worst month—with 735 hate crimes—since 2007 and the worst November going back to 1992, when systemic national record keeping began. Further, we found that hate crimes more than doubled, from 17 to 42, the day after the election and that a 72 percent average daily spike occurred in the two weeks following the election compared to before.”</div><div>
</div><div>The Southern Poverty Law Center recorded a similar phenomenon:</div><div>
</div><div>To the contrary, in the first 34 days after the election, the SPLC documented 1,094 bias-related incidents and found that 37% of them directly referenced Trump, his campaign slogans or his notorious comments about sexual assault. Not every incident met the definition of a hate crime, but many did. The FBI later confirmed the sharp uptick in reported hate crimes in the fourth quarter of 2016. Researchers have shown that reported hate crimes following Trump’s election made up the second largest surge since the FBI began collecting data in 1992 (trailing only the increase after the 9/11 terror attacks).</div><div>
</div><div>Another study found that not only is there a demonstrable “Trump Effect” arising from his rhetoric, the effect is substantially broadened and deepened by the fact of his winning the 2016 election:</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Using time series analysis, we show that Donald Trump’s election in November of 2016 was associated with a statistically significant surge in reported hate crimes across the United States, even when controlling for alternative explanations.</span>&nbsp;Further, by using panel regression techniques, we show that counties that voted for President Trump by the widest margins in the presidential election also experienced the largest increases in reported hate crimes. … We hypothesize that it was not just Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric throughout the political campaign that caused hate crimes to increase. Rather, we argue that it was Trump’s subsequent election as President of the United States that validated this rhetoric in the eyes of perpetrators and fueled the hate crime surge.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">More pointedly, there has been a sharp spike in hate crimes (226 percent) in counties where Trump has held his political rallies, which feature his frequently eliminationist and threatening speeches</span>. As its authors note, “Recent research also shows that reading or hearing Trump’s statements of bias against particular groups makes people more likely to write offensive things about the groups he targets.”</div><div>
</div><div>All this bodes ill for the coming 2020 presidential campaign. If Trump continues to wage his culture war against nonwhites and the liberals who defend them, the Trump Effect is certain to surge along with it—and so will the hate crimes and acts of domestic terrorism that ride in its wake.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">anglin daily stormer 14mill$</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Anglin and his fellow neo-Nazis have openly and avidly supported Trump&nbsp;</span><a title="" href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/donald-trump-hate-groups-neo-nazi-white-supremacist-racism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">since the fall of 2015</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;and all during the 2016 campaign, thanks in large part to the signals he regularly sent through social media and his speeches indicating his support for their views. After the election, these same white nationalists and far-right extremists have&nbsp;</span><a title="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/14/white-supremacists-have-been-marching-in-president-trumps-name-literally/?utm_term=.fa800acfce2b" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">continued to march in his name</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, resulting in a wave of hate crimes in which the perpetrators have used Trump’s name to terrorize vulnerable minorities.</span></font></div><div class="p6_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Montana lawsuit resulted from Anglin’s attempts to defend fellow white nationalist Richard Spencer, who resides in Whitefish part time with his parents. Concerned by his rising national profile after the election, a number of community leaders in Whitefish, including real estate agent Tanya Gersh, began raising concerns about his presence there.</font></p><div class="p7_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anglin became involved in the controversy by publishing Gersh’s name and addresses, as well as the names of her children, as well as those of several prominent Jewish leaders in Whitefish, alongside their photos and superimposed Star of David patches, claiming they were responsible for the Spencers’ problems. Simultaneously, an online army of “trolls” descended en masse on some of the people in Whitefish who had been identified as opposing his parents’ business. Their Twitter and email accounts were flooded with anti-Semitic and misogynistic threats.</font></p><div class="p8_19" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So Then—Let’s Hit Em Up. Are y’all ready for an old fashioned Troll Storm?” Anglin wrote. He&nbsp;demurred that he was not advocating “violence or threats of violence or anything even close to that.” A week later, he published another post claiming he was preparing to bus in skinheads from the Bay Area of California: “I have already worked out most of the details with the leaders of the local groups,” he wrote. “We are continuing our barrage against the criminal Jews of Whitefish,” he wrote. “We are planning an armed protest in Whitefish … we can easily march through the center of the town carrying high-powered rifles.”</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">interesting redefinition: if i walk into a bank and demand $, serious crime long jail term, but if i rip off my illegal immigrant employee not considered violent even tho it does harm; so if not illegal or not enforced, ok to do</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-june-26-2019/">https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-june-26-2019/</a>&nbsp;8:30 am ends</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tim wise ;racism is a system (designed to create specific ends?)</font></div><div style=""><a href="https://kpfa.org/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://kpfa.org/</font></a></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United States isn’t the only English-speaking country where politicians can be loose cannons: in the U.K., Conservative MP Mark Field has been suspended from his position as a Foreign Office minister following a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/21/mark-field-suspended-as-minister-after-grabbing-climate-protester-by-neck" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">physical attack</a>&nbsp;on a female Greenpeace activist.</font></p><div class="p1_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a video that has been posted on the Guardian’s website, Field can be seeing grabbing the protester by the neck at a June 20 dinner at London’s Mansion House and physically removing her from the event — and she can be heard saying, “It’s a peaceful protest.” Greenpeace activists disrupted the dinner in order to draw attention to the climate change crisis.</font></p><div class="p2_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="alt_ad_block story-page-in-content-graph-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teads-adCall" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 54-year-old Field has said he feared the Greenpeace protestor might have been armed; regardless, outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May (who is also a member of the Conservative Party) decided to suspend Field after watching the video.</font></p><div class="p3_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an official statement, a spokesperson for May noted, “The police have said they are looking into reports over this matter,” adding that Field “will be suspended as a minister while this investigation takes place.”</font></p><div class="p4_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Members of the Labour Party, which is presently headed by liberal/progressive Jeremy Corbyn, have asserted that Field’s suspension is not enough and are calling for his resignation. Labour Party MP Dawn Butler, who has served as Shadow Women & Equalities secretary since 2017, described the video as “horrific.”</font></p><div class="p5_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Field has apologized yet maintains that he acted “instinctively” and was concerned about the safety of those attending the dinner.</font></p></div><div style=""><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style=""><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/3/headlines/report_disappearance_and_murder_of_1000s_of_indigenous_women_a_canadian_genocide"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/3/headlines/report_disappearance_and_murder_of_1000s_of_indigenous_women_a_canadian_genocide</font></a></p><p style="" /><div id="more_headlines" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p /><article class="headline" id="report_disappearance_and_murder_of_1000s_of_indigenous_women_a_canadian_genocide" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding: 15px 0px 45px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="headline_body" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;"><div class="headline_summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: calc(100% - 95px); display: inline-block; line-height: 27px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Canada, a national inquiry found that the disappearance and murder of thousands of indigenous women and girls over decades amounts to a “Canadian genocide.” The report, which was obtained by&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;">CBC</span>&nbsp;News ahead of its official release today, says that “We do know that thousands of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual) have been lost to the Canadian genocide to date” and are the result of “state actions and inactions rooted in colonialism and colonial ideologies.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><div class="topics" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 30px; width: 635px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="label" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: bottom; text-transform: uppercase; display: inline-block; margin-right: 10px; font-weight: 900;">TOPICS:</div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; display: inline;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline-block;"><a data-ga-action="Headlines: Topic" href="https://www.democracynow.org/topics/canada" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Canada</a></li><li class="bullet" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 4px; height: 4px; background-color: rgb(236, 238, 239); margin: 7px 5px 2px; display: inline-block; list-style-type: none; vertical-align: baseline;" /><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline-block;"><a data-ga-action="Headlines: Topic" href="https://www.democracynow.org/topics/indigenous" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Indigenous</a></li></ul></div></div></div></article><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/theres-a-clear-connection-between-donald-trump-and-racist-violence-research/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/04/theres-a-clear-connection-between-donald-trump-and-racist-violence-research/</font></a></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Racism is a poison that has flowed through the American body politic since before the founding of the republic. The United States was founded on two great sins: the enslavement of black people and the genocide of Native American people. Donald Trump, to say the least, has not tried to find a cure for this poison. Instead he has injected more of it into the country.</font></p><div class="p1_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump has done this in many ways. In general, he wants to reduce and ultimately take away the civil and human rights of nonwhites and Muslims. Trump and his administration are also committed to undermining the basic assumption that nonwhites and Muslims (as well as LGBT people and other marginalized groups) have the same equal protections under the law as white heterosexual Christian men.</font></p><div class="p2_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some specific examples: Trump embraces racism and white supremacy through his slurs against Latino and Hispanic immigrants and refugees as a “race” of rapists, gang members and killers. As a matter of policy his administration has put babies and children in concentration camps with the goal of causing them and their families harm in order to deter “illegal immigration” into the United States.</font></p><div class="p3_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump’s white identity politics agenda is prefaced on ensuring that white people remain the dominant social, political and economic group in the United States. He believes that the people of Puerto Rico — a U.S. commonwealth where at least 5,000 people died in the wake of Hurricane Maria — are lazy and do not deserve assistance. As shown by Donald Trump’s other behavior, his attitude is likely rooted in animus towards nonwhite, Spanish-speaking people — who are also more likely to be Democrats.</font></p><div class="p4_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He suggested after the 2017 riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, that at least some of the neo-Nazis, Klan members and white supremacists who gathered there were “very fine people.” These same white supremacists, hate-mongers and domestic terrorists have claimed Donald Trump as their hero and champion.</font></p><div class="p5_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The FBI, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other organizations have documented a large increase in hate crimes and other right-wing political violence beginning with Donald Trump’s campaign and through to the third year of his presidency.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> In 2018 there<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2019/02/19/hate-groups-reach-record-high" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">&nbsp;were at least 1,020 hate groups in the United States</a>. This is a record number, one that has only increased during Trump’s time in office. As seen in incidents across the country, this hate groups have too often unleashed lethal violence.</span></font></p><div class="p6_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In total, the president of the United States helps to set the moral tone for the nation. In that role he or she gives permission, both active and tacit, for individuals’ and the public’s behavior.</font></p><div class="p7_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">New research by University of North Texas political scientists&nbsp;<a href="https://politicalscience.unt.edu/people/ayal-feinberg" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Ayal Feinberg</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://politicalscience.unt.edu/people/regina-branton" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Regina Branton</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://politicalscience.unt.edu/people/valerie-martinez-ebers" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Valerie Martinez-Ebers</a>&nbsp;offers additional evidence on the relationship between Donald Trump and racial violence in America. Their new paper, “The Trump Effect? Political Rallies and Hate Crime Contagion,” will be presented at the 2019 meeting of the Western Political Science Association.</font></p><div class="p8_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/22/trumps-rhetoric-does-inspire-more-hate-crimes/?utm_term=.4fe8e3f618ae" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Writing in the Washington Post</a>, the authors explain their methodology, writing that they examined a possible correlation “between the counties that hosted one of&nbsp;Trump’s 275 presidential campaign rallies in 2016 and increased incidents of hate crimes in subsequent months.” They included numerous controls for such factors as crime rates, minority populations, educational levels and documented numbers of hate groups prior to the Trump rally.</font></p><div class="p9_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feinberg, Branton and Martinez-Ebers <b>summarize</b> their conclusions this way:</font></p><div class="p10_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; position: relative; line-height: 1.7; overflow: hidden; background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border: none !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"We found that counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally.</b></font></p><div class="p11_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, our analysis cannot be certain it was Trump’s campaign rally rhetoric that caused people to commit more hate crimes in the host county. However, suggestions that this effect can be explained through a plethora of faux hate crimes are at best&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/fake-hate-crimes.html" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">unrealistic</a>. In fact, this charge is frequently used as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/02/23/an-orchestrated-attack-against-truth-how-clash-over-hate-crimes-has-become-one-more-culture-war/?utm_term=.fdabd8a69b48" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">a political tool</a>&nbsp;to dismiss concerns about hate crimes.&nbsp;<a href="https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/cdozo37&div=56&id=&page=" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Research</a>&nbsp;shows it is far more likely that hate crime statistics are considerably lower because of underreporting.</font></p><div class="p12_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Additionally, it is hard to discount a “Trump effect” when a considerable number of these reported hate crimes reference Trump. According to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.adl.org/education-and-resources/resource-knowledge-base/adl-heat-map?s=eyJpZGVvbG9naWVzIjpbXSwiaW5jaWRlbnRzIjpbXSwieWVhciI6WzIwMTYsMjAxNl19" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">ADL’s 2016 data</a>, these incidents included vandalism, intimidation and assault.</font></p><div class="p13_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What’s more, according to the&nbsp;<a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">FBI’s Universal Crime</a>&nbsp;report in 2017, reported hate crimes increased 17 percent over 2016.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ashford.zone/images/2018/09/followtheracist_v2.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Recent research</a>&nbsp;also shows that reading or hearing Trump’s statements of bias against particular groups makes people more likely to write offensive things about the groups he targets.</font></p><div class="p14_41" style="font-style: italic; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div></div></div></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I asked several of the country’s leading experts on psychology and violence to help me better understand the broader context of this new research about Donald Trump, his movement and political violence.</font></p><div class="p15_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/09/21/psychiatrist-bandy-lee-trump-is-getting-worse-i-suspect-he-is-unable-to-tolerate-reality/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Dr. Bandy X. Lee</a>, professor of psychiatry at Yale University and&nbsp;lead editor of the bestselling book “<a href="https://amzn.to/2V6tMoa" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President</a>.” Dr. Lee is one of the world’s leading experts on violence, having consulted with the World Health Organization on public health approaches to violence prevention since 2002.</font></strong></p><div class="p16_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is not surprising and, in fact, is likely only the tip of the iceberg. &nbsp;What we know about violence is that it is modeled and learned. Ecological studies also show us that even individual violence results more from social, cultural, economic and political factors than individual factors. Rhetoric that encourages or glorifies violence,&nbsp;especially coming from an authority figure, is exactly how we would expect society-wide epidemics of violence to begin.</font></p><div class="p17_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Leaders with psychological structures such as Mr. Trump’s, especially, will pick up on these patterns more quickly than others, and use it to their advantage — intentionally and enthusiastically — as they&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">want</em>&nbsp;violence to retain their power. &nbsp;Violence confirms their worldview, fuels their desire for cruelty, and thrills them with a sense of strength, which compensates for an intolerable inner experience of inadequacy. The most lethal and pervasive forms of violence are hidden and enduring. As such, we can expect the true death and injury toll&nbsp;from a culture of violence to be felt years after Mr. Trump’s final years in office.</font></p><div class="p18_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Henry J. Friedman, associate professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. He is also on the editorial boards of the&nbsp;American Journal of Psychoanalysis,&nbsp;Psychoanalytic Quarterly&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.</font></strong></p><div class="p19_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We could say that hatred had been suppressed, at least in the sense of open hate speech, but Trump in his rallies encouraged his audiences to give in to what they had been suppressing. … We shouldn’t be surprised by these very clear statistics; the closer the community was to Trump’s grandiose paranoid hate the more likely that individuals in that audience are likely to feel they are entitled to act violently to get rid of those they feel so much deserve their hate.</font></p><div class="p20_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Donald Trump has focused on illegal immigrants as those who contaminate and destroy American greatness, his followers, who frequently have no contact with illegal immigrants, have a backlog of hatred for Jews, blacks and LGBTQ individuals, the usual targets of white supremacy, because it is these groups that have traditionally been the target of hatred.</font></p><div class="p21_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the Obama administration there was a public force exercised against racism and anti-Semitism, a force that inhibited even those who were filled with hatred for those outsider groups. The resultant containment of these hatreds, the view that they were no longer acceptable if uttered aloud, gave way to the Trumpian endorsement of hatred of illegal immigrants.</font></p><div class="p22_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The resultant containment of these hatreds, the view that they were no longer acceptable if uttered aloud, gave way to the Trumpian endorsement of hatred of illegal immigrants.&nbsp;We could say that hatred had been suppressed, at least in the sense of open hate speech, but Trump in his rallies encouraged his audiences to give in to what they had been suppressing. … We shouldn’t be surprised by these very clear statistics; the closer the community was to Trump’s grandiose paranoid hate, the more likely that individuals in that audience are likely to feel they are entitled to act violently to get rid of those they feel so much deserve their hate.</font></p><div class="p23_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Philip Zimbardo is professor emeritus of psychology at Stanford University. He is the author of more than 400 articles in professional journals as well as the book “<a href="https://amzn.to/2HUi2SX" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil</a>.” Zimbardo was also the creator of the famous (or infamous) “<a href="https://www.prisonexp.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Stanford prison experiment</a>.”</font></strong></p><div class="p24_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hatred of others who appear different from the majority has been common in many nations around the world. Less common is translating that negative emotion into hostile, even deadly actions against these “Others.”</font></p><div class="p25_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One motivation for doing so is to show your superiority over those who are deemed inferior because of their race, religion, gender or ethnicity. It is easier and safer for such individuals to instigate hostile, deadly actions when submerged in a group of like-minded peers.</font></p><div class="p26_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Such collectives congeal around their political leaders’ rhetoric that provides righteous justification of suppressing these defiled minorities by all means necessary.</font></p><div class="p27_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two of the contributors to this collective violence are their public reporting in the media that serve to incite them by social modeling of what is seemingly the right way to be a “good old American,” and also our president, Donald J. Trump! The statistical evidence is his clear indictment: In all counties where he has held public rallies the hate crime index is significantly greater than in counties where Trump was in absentia.</font></p><div class="p28_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dr. James Gilligan is an a</strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">djunct professor at the New York University School of Law. He is the author of several books, including “<a href="https://amzn.to/2TMDcnk" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others</a>” and “<a href="https://amzn.to/2HP40lc" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic</a>.”&nbsp;</strong></font></p><div class="p29_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his rallies, beginning during his campaign for the presidency, Trump has repeatedly urged his followers to punch those who did not agree with him in the face and beat them up so badly that they’d have to be taken out on stretchers, with remarks like the following:</font></p><div class="p30_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell you.”</font></p><div class="p31_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In the good old days this doesn’t happen, because they used to treat them very, very rough.”</font></p><div class="p32_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher, folks.”</font></p><div class="p33_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Just knock the hell out of them. I will pay for the legal fees, I promise you.”</font></p><div class="p34_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He even complained that his supporters were not being violent enough. Then he amplified the magnitude of violence that he urged his followers to commit when he reminded them that they could always assassinate Hillary Clinton if she were elected president. In his words, “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”</font></p><div class="p35_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And so on and on and on, in an endless stream of threats of violence, boasts of violence and incitements to violence.</font></p><div class="p36_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given those and many other examples of his attempts to incite his supporters to commit an ever-increasing scale of violence, it is far from surprising that they have done just that. Indeed, given that he is their authoritarian leader, the only thing that would be surprising would be if they did not do so.</font></p><div class="p37_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Virtually every major mass-murderer who has committed hate crimes, both in this country and others, has referred to Trump as their leader and example, including the man who murdered 11 people in the Pittsburgh synagogue (and wounded four police officers); the man from Florida who mailed bombs to several Trump opponents such as Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, George Soros and others; the man who killed a woman and grievously injured many others by driving his car into pedestrians in Charlottesville, Virginia; the man who killed people in two mosques in New Zealand; and so forth, on and on.</font></p><div class="p38_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That these individual examples are not just “cherry-picked,” atypical or exceptional anecdotes has been shown by the recent quantitative, statistical finding that the American counties that hosted a Trump campaign rally in 2016 experienced an increase in reported hate crimes that was more than three times higher than in comparable counties that had not hosted such a rally.</font></p><div class="p39_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp; *&nbsp; *</font></strong></p><div class="p40_41" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the 2016 presidential campaign Donald Trump infamously bragged that he could shoot someone in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and still get elected. 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</div><div>CHARLOTTESVILLE — An avowed neo-Nazi who killed one woman and injured 35 other people when he plowed his car into a group of counterprotesters at an infamous white-supremacist rally here pleaded guilty to hate crimes in federal court Wednesday.</div><div>
</div><div>James Alex Fields Jr., 21, of Ohio admitted guilt to 29 of 30 counts in a federal indictment as part of a deal with prosecutors, who agreed they would not seek the death penalty in a case that has come to symbolize the violent resurgence of white supremacism in the United States. Fields is set to be sentenced July 3.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Late last year, Fields was convicted in state court of first-degree murder and other charges for killing Heather D. Heyer, 32, and injuring dozens at the chaotic Unite the Right rally on Aug. 12, 2017. The jury in that case recommended a life sentence, and a state judge is scheduled to formally impose it in mid-July.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Admitting guilt to hate crimes marks a dramatic shift for Fields, whose attorneys argued during his trial in state court that he sped toward the crowd out of fear for his safety and confusion. They said he immediately regretted his actions.</b></div><div>
</div><div>On Wednesday, Fields, who has grown a bushy beard in the months since his state trial, entered a federal courtroom here in a gray-and-white-striped prisoner’s jumpsuit and handcuffs. He spoke only to answer a judge’s questions and displayed no emotion during the hour-long hearing.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Susan Bro, Heyer’s mother</b>, said after the hearing she was satisfied with the result.</div><div>
</div><div>'He needs to be kept away from society': Charlottesville car attacker sentenced to life in prison</div><div>A jury sentenced James Alex Fields Jr., an avowed neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a group of counterprotesters at a white-supremacist rally, to life in prison. (Reuters)</div><div>
</div><div>“There’s no point in killing him. It would not bring back Heather,” Bro said.</div><div>
</div><div>“It’s a relief to think we don’t have to go through another trial. It was exhausting the first time. I can get on with my life, and the other victims can, too.”</div><div>
</div><div>Thomas T. Cullen, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia, said he was&nbsp;<b>gratified that Fields finally admitted he was motivated by hate</b>, calling the crime “an indelible mark on the city of Charlottesville, our state and our country.”</div><div>
</div><div>Fields pleaded guilty to one count of a hate crime that resulted in the death of Heyer and 28 counts of hate crimes that caused injuries and involved attempts to kill other people in the crowd. Each of the 29 counts carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Attorney General William P. Barr approved the deal.</div><div>
</div><div>[Fields sentenced to life in prison in fatal Charlottesville car attack]</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>U.S. Attorney Thomas Cullen speaks to the media Wednesday after a plea agreement with Fields, who was charged with 30 counts stemming from the car attack in Charlottesville. (Steve Helber/AP)</div><div>The violence in 2017 and President Trump’s assertion afterward that there were “very fine people” on both sides of the Charlottesville rally sparked intense criticism and a fresh focus on the renewed forces of ethno-nationalism.</div><div>
</div><div>The events began on Aug. 11 when far-right groups mounted a torchlight march through the University of Virginia campus shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans, including, “Jews will not replace us!”</div><div>
</div><div>Fields was already on his way to Charlottesville, arriving the next day for a white-supremacist rally that was nominally held to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The event, involving hundreds of marchers, generated national media attention after rallygoers carrying Nazi flags and shouting racial epithets clashed violently with throngs of counterprotesters. Police eventually dispersed the groups.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A short time later, Fields was seen driving his gray Dodge Charger up to a group of counterprotesters on a narrow street.&nbsp;<b>He slowly backed up and then accelerated down a hill directly into the group.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Harrowing video, which was played at Fields’s state trial, shows protesters tumbling and screaming as the car slams into them. Fields then reversed at a high speed, hitting and dragging others. Someone repeatedly yelled: “Oh, God! Oh, God!”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heyer was killed, while others were seriously wounded. One woman who limped to the witness stand at Fields’s state trial testified she had five surgeries and was about to undergo a sixth. Another described a broken pelvis and a third how he pushed his fiancee out of the way before he was hit by the Dodge.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the state trial, a mental health expert detailed Fields’s&nbsp;<b>psychiatric disorders dating to early childhood.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He did not deny running into the crowd, but his attorneys argued that he acted to protect himself. Prosecutors forcefully countered that argument, and the jury at the six-day trial rejected the defense.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Jurors were shown a deleted Instagram post by Fields shared three months before that crash that featured a car running into a group of people. A caption read: “You Have the Right to Protest, But I’m Late for Work.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>A state prosecutor also showed a blown-up image of Fields in his car to counter the idea that he was frightened when he acted.</div><div>
</div><div>“This is not the face of someone who is scared,” a state prosecutor said at the time. “This is the face of anger, of hatred. It’s the face of malice.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As part of the plea agreement in federal court, prosecutors said Fields admitted that before the rally, he had used social media to “express and promote white supremacist views” including admiration for the racial-purity doctrine of Adolf Hitler. They said he used those accounts to “espouse violence against African Americans, Jewish people, and members of other racial, ethnic and religious groups he perceived to be non-white.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>[From wary observer to justice warrior: How Heather Heyer’s death gave her mom a voice]</div><div>
</div><div>After Wednesday’s federal court hearing,&nbsp;<b>Bro&nbsp;</b>was asked whether Heyer’s killing had raised the community’s consciousness about racial disparities.</div><div>
</div><div>“Sadly, it took a white girl dying before anyone paid attention to civil rights around here,” she told reporters. “I wish we had woken up sooner.’</div><div>
</div><div>But Bro did describe one moment of healing. When asked whether she had ever come in contact with Fields’s mother, Bro said she had seen her just once, at the state trial.</div><div>
</div><div>“She looked at me, and I looked at her,” Bro said. “I said, ‘I’m sorry.’ She said, ‘I’m sorry.’ ”</div></div></div><div style=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">punch a nazi?</font></div><div><div class="elleafmedia elleafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="zn-bodyparagraph speakable" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility">CNN)</cite></font></p><p class="zn-bodyparagraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Alameda County District Attorney's Office has filed three felony charges and one misdemeanor agains</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">t Zachary Greenberg</span>&nbsp;</b><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">after&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/us/conservative-activist-assault-uc-berkeley/index.html" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; outline: 0px;">an attack on the University of California Berkeley campus against a conservative activist.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">&nbsp;<b>The attack was caught on video.</b></span></font></p></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph speakable" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UC Berkeley campus police arrested Greenberg on Friday. He bonded out of jail and his arraignment is set for Wednesday. CNN has reached out to Greenberg's representatives for comment.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph speakable" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The attack occurred at Sproul Plaza on February 19, officials said. Turning Point USA identified the alleged victim to CNN as<b>&nbsp;Hayden Williams, who had been invited to UC Berkeley to help recruit students for a yet-to-be-formed chapter on campus.</b></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Deputy District Attorney Rebecca Warren filed the charges against Greenberg. They include felony assault, felony battery, felony criminal threats and a misdemeanor vandalism charge. The criminal threats charge says it is a "serious felony" and further alleges "that the threatened crime, on its face and under the circumstances in which it was made, was so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate and specific as to convey to Hayden Williams a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution."</font></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-5 cn-zoneAdContainer" data-layout="list-hierarchical-xs" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Before the charges were filed, a media representative for Williams said he is a&nbsp;<b>field representative for the Leadership Institute,&nbsp;</b>an organization that helps train conservative leaders. Williams is not a UC Berkeley student, the representative said.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyread-all" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The fact that the victim was not a campus affiliate has no bearing on this case. He had every right to be on campus, and every right to express his point of view," said university spokesman Dan Mogulof.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px 0px -5px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 40px; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Incident caught on video, shows two attackers</font></h3></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A short video recorded by a witness shows Williams and a man struggling before the man punches Williams in the face, knocking his hat off. The alleged suspect then gets close to Williams' face, calls him "racist," and shouts profanities before punching Williams again and walking away.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Williams told CNN shortly after the assault that he was fine but declined to answer other questions.</b>&nbsp;He was treated at the scene, his media representative said.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arda Erbil, the student who shot the footage provided to CNN, said he saw two men harassing Williams. As one of the men became physical, Erbil began to record video.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Seeing something like that happen in such an open place was disheartening," he said.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The University of California Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a "report of a disturbance" on upper Sproul Plaza, a center of student activity on campus, where they found the injured victim. According to the police statement, the victim said that two men approached him, a verbal altercation ensued and he began recording the interaction on his phone.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of the men "slapped the phone out of the victim's hand," police said. "The suspect then knocked over the table the victim was at and the two men struggled over the phone. During the incident, the suspect punched the victim several times causing injury to the victim's eye and nose."</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Williams told Fox News' Sean Hannity shortly after the attack that some students were upset by a sign he had displayed at his recruitment table that said, "Hate Crime Hoaxes Hurt Real Victims" -- apparently a reference to "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, who has been accused of staging what he maintains was a hate crime against him</span><span style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254);">.</span></font></div><div class="elembedded elembedded--standard" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 780px; z-index: 0;"><div class="elstoryelement--standard elarticle--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-right: 30px; clear: both; cursor: default; margin-bottom: 30px; width: 300px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="elarticle--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div class="mediacaption elstoryelementtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 14px 10px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; position: relative; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial;"><span class="elstoryelementheader" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.5; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/us/jussie-smollett-whats-next-case/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">What's next for Jussie Smollett, in his case and his career</font></a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This person claimed we were promoting violence on campus and proceeded to take his aggression out on us," Williams told Hannity.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px 0px -5px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 40px; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">University condemns assault</font></h3></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UC Berkeley's chancellor and vice chancellor condemned the assault in a statement February 21, calling it "reprehensible."</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"That sort of behavior is intolerable and has no place here," the statement said. "Our commitment to freedom of expression and belief is unwavering."</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The statement added that university officials have "no information indicating" the perpetrators are affiliated with UC Berkeley.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The incident illustrates the "hate and anger so many on the left harbor and that our student activists encounter on a daily basis," Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA's founder and president, said in a statement last month.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"Our amazing grassroots organizers courageously face threats of violence and discrimination as they fight for the right for conservative voices to be heard on college campuses," Kirk said, adding he was proud of how the group's student activists handled the situation.</b></font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 32px 0px -5px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 500; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 40px; font-feature-settings: " kern="kern" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizelegibility"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Campus known for promoting free speech accused of bias against conservative views</font></h3></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While UC Berkeley has a long history of promoting the tenants of free speech, in recent years there have been protests against conservatives and far right ideologues that have turned violent.</font></div><ul class="cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-28 cn-zoneAdContainer" data-layout="list-hierarchical-xs" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2017, a number of protests broke out ahead of speaking engagements by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley/index.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s;">conservative commentators such as Milo Yiannopoulos</a>&nbsp;and Ann Coulter. Neither of those events went forward.</font></div><div class="zn-bodyparagraph" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.66667; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Later that year, conservative radio host Ben Shapiro gave a talk as protesters swarmed outside. Nine people were arrested, but the protests appeared to be mostly peaceful.</font></div></ul></div><p class="zn-bodyparagraph zn-bodyfooter" style="background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.375;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN's Sarah Moon and Margaret Shuttleworth contributed to this report.</font></p></ul></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This year, by contrast, a collection of white nationalists, far-right grifters and conspiracy theorists were kept at an arms’ length and mostly had to be content with roaming the Gaylord Hotel outside of the convention. Many were initially denied passes, but managed to wangle their way inside, although they had to be content themselves with posting about CPAC on Twitter, rather than having direct contact with attendees.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among those spotted was Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist podcaster who lurked around the edges of CPAC like a vulture. Faith Goldy, a white nationalist who ran for mayor of Toronto in 2018 — getting 3.4 percent of the vote — was also present. Patrick Casey, the executive director of the far-right group Identity Evropa, tried to get into CPAC before being informed that his pass had been canceled. Casey then promptly launched into an angry tweetstorm about how CPAC wasn’t a forum for real conservatives anyway.</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Certainly the most amusing example of the far-right and its associated grifters attempting to get some form of CPAC cred occurred on Thursday afternoon, when noted pro-Trump trolls Laura Loomer and Jacob Wohl — both of whom were also denied their in their initial attempts to get into CPAC — held a “press conference” along with conservative lobbyist Jack Burkman to outline another set of spurious, unsubstantiated allegations, this time against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)</span>.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The event rapidly devolved into farce, with Wohl talking over Loomer every time she tried to speak about her supposed “censoring” on social media, and journalists asking why a document marked “Strictly Private and Confidential” was being distributed to the public.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wohl and Goldy were later spotted chatting to each other at CPAC, but wearing attendee and not media badges. It is not immediately clear why Wohl especially was allowed in, after being so pointedly denied entry earlier in the day.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Later that night Wohl made an appearance at an afterparty hosted by Turning Points USA,</b>&nbsp;the conservative student group, which featured Donald Trump, Jr. and TPUSA leader Charlie Kirk. Among the (mostly college-aged) revelers was Enrique Tarrio, current leader of the far-right Proud Boys gang was also spotted roaming the halls.</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Friday<b>, two members of the Proud Boys in New York City pled guilty to charges stemming from a fight </b>outside the New York Metropolitan Republican club in 2018, where the <b>Proud Boys viciously attacked counter-protesters.</b></font></span></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But CPAC’s shooing away of far-right personalities, at least superficially, isn’t the sign of some conservative bulwark against far-right ideas</font></div></div><div style=""><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/fox-news-host-laura-ingrahams-guest-says-the-country-is-in-a-civil-war-and-people-should-buy-guns/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/fox-news-host-laura-ingrahams-guest-says-the-country-is-in-a-civil-war-and-people-should-buy-guns/</a></font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a disturbing episode of&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s “The Laura Ingraham Show Podcast” Thursday, guest Joe diGenova echoed the calls of some of the darkest parts of the far-right movement in the United States.</span></font></p><div class="p1_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“We are in a civil war in this country,”</b> diGenova, as first pointed out by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/02/21/frequent-fox-news-guest-tells-laura-ingraham-we-are-civil-war-suggests-everyone-buy-guns-prepare/222940" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Media Matters for America</a>. “There’s two standards of justice, one for Democrats one for Republicans.<b> The press is all Democrat, all liberal, all progressive, all left — they hate Republicans, they hate Trump. So the suggestion that there’s ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future in this country is over. It’s not going to be. It’s going to be total war. And as I say to my friends, I do two thing</b><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><b>s-- I vote and i buy guns [</b>video]</span></font></span></p><div class="p2_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="teadsNative" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One particularly odd fact about his claims is that they seemed to come out of nowhere. Ingraham had just ended a diatribe about how liberals supposedly shifted attention away from discussions about the imperiled Democratic leadership in Virginia government to allegations of a hate crime made by actor Jussie Smollett, who has since been arrested on charges of filing a false police report. It was a bizarre and twisted theory, completely out of line with reality. but it had nothing to do with a supposed “civil war.”</font></p><div class="p3_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But for many on the fringes of the far right, casual talk about political divisions in the United States easily slips into&nbsp;discussions of open warfare and violence.</font></p><div class="p4_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Donald Trump, it should be noted, once announced that he was hiring diGenova for his legal team, but he never came on board.</font></p><div class="p5_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC’s Chris Hayes noted on Twitter that a man prosecutors say was a domestic terrorist, Chris Hasson, had, according to a court filing, googled “civil war if Trump impeached.”</font></p><div class="p6_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Where could he possibly get such an insane idea?”&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1098720707318435841" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Hayes</a>&nbsp;asked — and then he linked to diGenova’s comments. “Oh.”</font></p><div class="p7_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Hasson was also found with an apparent “hit list” of Democratic politicians and media figures, according to prosecutors — a list that included Hayes.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div style=""><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/fck-the-media-trump-supporter-goes-berserk-and-attacks-bbc-cameraman-at-el-paso-rally/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/fck-the-media-trump-supporter-goes-berserk-and-attacks-bbc-cameraman-at-el-paso-rally/</a></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>A mark on a page, an online meme, a fleeting sound. How can these seemingly insignificant stimuli lead to acts as momentous as participation in a racist rally or the massacre of innocent worshippers? Psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists and philosophers are developing a new theory of language understanding that’s starting to provide answers.</div><div>
</div><div>Current research shows that humans understand language by activating sensory, motor and emotional systems in the brain. According to this new simulation theory, just reading words on a screen or listening to a podcast activates areas of the brain in ways similar to the activity generated by literally being in the situation the language describes. This process makes it all the more easy to turn words into actions.</div><div>
</div><div>As a cognitive psychologist, my own research has focused on developing simulation theory, testing it, and using it to create reading comprehension interventions for young children.</div><div>
</div><div>Simulations are step one</div><div>Traditionally, linguists have analyzed language as a set of words and rules that convey ideas. But how do ideas become actions?</div><div>
</div><div>Simulation theory tries to answer that question. In contrast, many traditional theories about language processing give action short shrift.</div><div>
</div><div>Simulation theory proposes that processing words depends on activity in people’s neural and behavioral systems of action, perception and emotion. The idea is that perceiving words drives your brain systems into states that are nearly identical to what would be evoked by directly experiencing what the words describe.</div><div>
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</div><div>When you read the sentence, your mind simulates what it would be like to actually live through the experience.&nbsp; Joyce Vincent/Shutterstock.com</div><div>Consider the sentence “The lovers held hands while they walked along the moonlit tropical beach.” According to simulation theory, when you read these words, your brain’s motor system simulates the actions of walking; that is, the neural activity elicited by comprehending the words is similar to the neural activity generated by literal walking. Similarly, your brain’s perceptual systems simulate the sight, sounds and feel of the beach. And your emotional system simulates the feelings implied by the sentence.</div><div>
</div><div>So words themselves are enough to trigger simulations in motor, perceptual and emotional neural systems. Your brain creates a sense of being there: The motor system is primed for action and the emotional system motivates those actions.</div><div>
</div><div>Then, one can act on the simulation much as he’d act in the real situation. For example, language associating an ethnic group with “bad hombres” could invoke an emotional simulation upon seeing members of the group. If that emotional reaction is strong enough, it may in turn motivate action – maybe making a derogatory remark or physically lashing out.</div><div>
</div><div>Although simulation theory is still under scientific scrutiny, there have been many successful tests of its predictions. For example, using neuroimaging techniques that track blood flow in the brain, researchers found that listening to action words such as “lick,” “pick” and “kick” produces activity in areas of the brain’s motor cortex that are used to control the mouth, the hand and the leg, respectively. Hearing a sentence such as “The ranger saw an eagle in the sky” generates a mental image using the visual cortex. And using Botox to block activity in the muscles that furrow the brow affects the emotional system and slows understanding of sentences conveying angry content. These examples demonstrate the connections between processing speech and motor, sensory and emotional systems.</div><div>
</div><div>Recently, my colleague psychologist Michael McBeath, our graduate student Christine S. P. Yu and I discovered yet another robust connection between language and the emotional system.</div><div>
</div><div>Consider pairs of single-syllable English words that differ only in whether the vowel sound is “eee” or “uh,” such as “gleam-glum” and “seek-suck.” Using all such pairs in English – there are about 90 of them – we asked people to judge which word in the pair was more positive. Participants selected the word with the “eee” sound two-thirds of the time. This is a remarkable percentage because if linguistic sounds and emotions were unrelated and people were picking at the rate of chance, only half of the “eee” words would have been judged as the more positive.</div><div>
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</div><div>Just activating your smile muscles tilts your emotions toward the positive.&nbsp; AshTproductions/Shutterstock.com</div><div>We propose that this relation arose because saying “eee” activates the same muscles and neural systems as used when smiling – or saying “cheese!” In fact, mechanically inducing a smile – as by holding a pencil in your teeth without using your lips – lightens your mood. Our new research shows that saying words that use the smile muscles can have a similar effect.</div><div>
</div><div>We tested this idea by having people chew gum while judging the words. Chewing gum blocks the systematic activation of the smile muscles. Sure enough, while chewing gum, the judged difference between the “eee” and “uh” words was only half as strong. We also demonstrated the same effects in China using pairs of Mandarin words containing the “eee” and “uh” sounds.</div><div>
</div><div>Practice through simulation makes actions easier</div><div>Of course, motivating someone to commit a hate crime requires much more than uttering “glum” or “suck.”</div><div>
</div><div>But consider that simulations become quicker with repetition. When one first hears a new word or concept, creating its simulation can be a mentally laborious process. A good communicator can help by using hand gestures to convey the motor simulation, pointing to objects or pictures to help create the perceptual simulation and using facial expressions and voice modulation to induce the emotional simulation.</div><div>
</div><div>It makes sense that the echo chamber of social media provides the practice needed to both speed and shape the simulation. The mental simulation of “caravan” can change from an emotionally neutral string of camels to an emotionally charged horde of drug dealers and rapists. And, through the repeated simulation that comes from repeatedly reading similar posts, the message becomes all the more believable, as each repetition produces another instance of almost being there to see it with your own eyes.</div><div>
</div><div>Psycholinguist Dan Slobin suggested that habitual ways of speaking lead to habitual ways of thinking about the world. The language that you hear gives you a vocabulary for discussing the world, and that vocabulary, by producing simulations, gives you habits of mind. Just as reading a scary book can make you afraid to go in the ocean because you simulate (exceedingly rare) shark attacks, encountering language about other groups of people (and their exceedingly rare criminal behavior) can lead to a skewed view of reality.</div><div>
</div><div>Practice need not always lead down an emotional rabbit hole, though, because alternative simulations and understandings can be created. A caravan can be simulated as families in distress who have the grit, energy and skills to start a new life and enrich new communities.</div><div>
</div><div>Because simulation creates a sense of being in a situation, it motivates the same actions as the situation itself. Simulating fear and anger literally makes you fearful and angry and promotes aggression. Simulating compassion and empathy literally makes you act kindly. We all have the obligation to think critically and to speak words that become humane actions.</div><div>
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</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN's New York City offices and studios were evacuated Thursday night due to a bomb threat, forcing the network to switch to pre-filmed programming.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We were evacuated in the middle of my live show," reported CNN host&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/donlemon/status/1070888646914527232" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Don Lemon</a>. "Bomb threat. We’re running taped programming. NYPD is investigating.&nbsp; Stay tuned."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Host Brian Stelter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1070886273513021440" style="text-decoration-line: none;">said</a>: "The NYPD is investigating a bomb threat near CNN NYC's office at Columbus Circle. Due to the threat, the office has been evacuated."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many observers&nbsp;pointed out that, not before the threat has been made public, President Donald Trump had posted a barrage&nbsp;of frantic&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1070877666654519297" style="text-decoration-line: none;">tweets</a>&nbsp;including one context-less attack on the press: "FAKE NEWS - THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!"</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Initial reports conflicted&nbsp;about the precise time of the bomb threat itself, raising questions about whether Trump's tweet might have instigated the attack. The&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/1070901406087987200" style="text-decoration-line: none;">NYPD</a>&nbsp;posted on Twitter that the threat came in at 10:35 p.m., but then later amended that to 10:07. Trump's tweet was posted at 10:08. Earlier in the night,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1070837085538525185" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a>&nbsp;had lambasted the "fake news media" on Twitter as well, falsely claiming that reporters don't mention the Republican midterm gains in the Senate.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Less than two months ago, the country experienced a wave of&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/10/26/suspected-mail-bomber-found-a-father-in-trump-former-lawyer/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mail bombings</a>, though none of the devices were activated. All the bombs targeted people Trump sees as enemies, and CNN itself received a bomb. The suspect, now in custody, was a man who was clearly enthralled by the president and his attacks on the media and others.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though the police report suggests its unlikely Trump's tweet at 10:08 p.m. was the&nbsp;<em>cause</em>&nbsp;of the threat, the close timing of the two events highlighted the danger the president is courting with his unrelenting and malicious hostility toward the press. After the mail bombings, the president can't pretend&nbsp;to be unaware of the risks he's taking by inciting such hatred — he just doesn't care.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A reminder that these threats are a(nother) attack on our free press, a fundamental pillar of our democracy, and prevent the American public from being informed," said&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa/status/1070891342195253249" style="text-decoration-line: none;">CNN</a>&nbsp;analyst Asha Rangappa. "Enough is enough."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This story has been updated with new information about the precise time of the threat.</font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After Republican Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot by James Hodgkinson in a domestic terrorist attack on June 14, 2017, far-right AM talk radio host Michael Savage</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2017/06/15/michael-savage-thinks-theres-too-much-freedom-of-speech-going-on/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">blamed MSNBC</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">for the attack—which, of course, MSNBC vehemently condemned—and made the idiotic claim that the left was uniquely violent. But only two months later, on August 12, 2017, a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia quickly turned violent—and 32-year-old activist Heather Heyer was killed in an act of vehicular homicide. One of the rally’s organizers, white supremacist Jason Kessler, applauded the killing, describing Heyer as a “fat, disgusting communist” and the attack as “</span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-charlottesville-organizer-20170818-story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">payback time</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.”</span></font></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. 2015: 9 People Slaughtered at Emmanuel AME Church</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The African Methodist Episcopal church has been a home of civil rights activism for generations. And when the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina was targeted for a terrorist attack on June 17, 2015, it was especially cruel in light of the church’s long history of fighting white supremacy—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. himself once spoke there. The confessed terrorist, white supremacist<b> Dylann Roof</b>, shot and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/dylann-roof-shooting-charleston-south-carolina-church-video.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">killed nine people</a>&nbsp;that day during a prayer service. All of them were black, which was the point: Roof’s crime was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/dylann-roof-confesses-church-shooting-says-he-wanted-start-race-war-344797" style="text-decoration-line: none;">racially motivated</a>, and starting a race war was his stated goal.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. 2015: Robert Dear, Jr. Killed 3 People During Shooting Spree at Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Planned Parenthood has been a target of violent anti-abortion extremists and Christian dominionists (most of them far-right white males) for decades. And on November 27, 2015, white anti-abortion terrorist Robert Dear, Jr. went on a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/11/planned-parenthood-shooter-happy-his-attack/32579921/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">shooting spree</a>&nbsp;at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs. Three people were killed—none of whom actually worked for Planned Parenthood—and nine others were injured. Dear was an admirer of the late Paul Jennings Hill, an Army of God terrorist who killed two people during an anti-abortion attack in Pensacola, Florida in 1994 and was executed by lethal injection in 2003.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. 2017: Anti-Islam Extremist Killed 2 People on Portland, Oregon Commuter Train</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On May 26, 2017, three people were stabbed during an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeremy-christian-portland-stabber_us_592d7a85e4b0065b20b853d8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">anti-Islam attack</a>&nbsp;on a commuter train in Portland, Oregon—two of them fatally (Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche and Ricky John Best), although one of them survived (Micah David-Cole Fletcher). Meche, Best and Fletcher were passengers on the train that day when they observed a white male shouting anti-Islam insults at two women, one of whom was wearing hijab. And when the passengers intervened, he stabbed all of them. Jeremy Joseph Christian, a white supremacist known for his anti-Islam views, was charged with murder.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. 2017: Timothy Caughman Stabbed in Midtown Manhattan</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">White supremacist James Harris Jackson visited New York City on March 20, 2017 for one purpose: to kill black men—and the person Jackson chose at random was 66-year-old Timothy Caughman, who he&nbsp;<a href="https://mic.com/articles/172157/white-supremacist-who-stabbed-nyc-black-man-says-it-was-practice-for-times-square-massacre#.EshI6pUIJ" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fatally stabbed</a>. Jackson confessed that he would have committed even more killings if given a chance, as he was planning a larger attack on black men in Times Square.&nbsp;</font></p><div style=""><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/10/24/greenpeace-energy-transfer-oil-spills-pipeline-protesters-violence">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/10/24/greenpeace-energy-transfer-oil-spills-pipeline-protesters-violence</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Battles over new shale gas and oil pipelines involving Energy Transfer, formerly known as Energy Transfer Partners, have heated up in recent weeks — an escalation that carries a tilt, as one side stands accused of acts of&nbsp;violence.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Energy Transfer (<span class="caps">ET</span>) security contractors have been accused of physically assaulting&nbsp;pipeline opponents on multiple occasions, including incidents in which security allegedly pointed a gun at one pipeline opponent,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;struck another with the butt of a shotgun, and overturned two boats carrying a television film crew and pipeline opponents into a Louisiana swamp, according to a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/greenpeace-report-still-too-far.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">new report published by Greenpeace&nbsp;<span class="caps">USA</span></a>&nbsp;on October&nbsp;18.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Pipeline opponents also ratcheted up their protests, as three women from communities impacted by&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;projects interrupted an&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;shareholder meeting and activists carrying signs locked themselves to gates outside the company&nbsp;<span class="caps">CEO</span>’s&nbsp;residence.</b></font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Name, Same&nbsp;Risks?</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy Transfer Partners, or&nbsp;<span class="caps">ETP</span>, is the company behind controversial oil and gas pipeline projects like the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/energy-transfer-partners-bakken-oil-pipeline-through-iowa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Dakota Access pipeline (<span class="caps">DAPL</span>)</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/conflict-cajun-country-bayou-bridge-pipeline-louisiana-standing-rock" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bayou Bridge pipeline</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/06/11/following-spills-and-sinkholes-mariner-east-pipeline-opponents-call-pa-governor-wolf-stop-construction" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mariner East</a>. Last week,&nbsp;<span class="caps">ETP</span>&nbsp;finished a business deal that left the company with a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;new corporate name and a new stock symbol. The new firm, Energy Transfer Equity,</span>&nbsp;trades under the stock symbol&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Greenpeace report, published the same day as that business deal, calls attention to&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>’s continuing record of what the report called “concerning corporate behavior” — not only spills and accidents, but also efforts to silence or criminalize&nbsp;critics.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Despite this new business model, Energy Transfer continues to display behavior that indicates a lack of significant changes with regards to the company’s approach to civilian opposition to its pipeline projects,” Greenpeace&nbsp;wrote.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>What’s behind that opposition? Greenpeace describes Energy Transfer's record of spills and mishaps, writing “Energy Transfer and subsidiaries have reported 15 hazardous liquids incidents so far in&nbsp;2018.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“These 15 incidents led to the release of 1,282 barrels of hazardous liquids (of which 609 barrels were recovered),” the report adds, “and caused a reported $8.4 million in property&nbsp;damage.”</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy Transfer and the&nbsp;Courts</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The report also highlights&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>’s use of the court system to jail critics&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/08/01/ellen-gerhart-pennsylvania-arrested-sunoco-mariner-east-pipeline-dispute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">like Ellen Gerhart</a>, a Pennsylvania landowner sentenced this summer to two to six months incarceration after&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;claimed she had violated a court&nbsp;order.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>And it provides an update on a<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/08/22/dakota-access-trump-greenpeace-racketeering" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;racketeering complaint filed by&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span></a>&nbsp;against Greenpeace and other pipeline opponents in August 2017,</b>&nbsp;which described an alleged $300 million in damages done by the defendants and asked the court for three times that amount.&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>’s&nbsp;<a href="https://earthrights.org/wp-content/uploads/ETP-complaint.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">complaint</a>&nbsp;alleged that the&nbsp;<span class="caps">DAPL</span>&nbsp;protests involved “a network of putative not-for-profits and rogue eco-terrorist groups who employ patterns of criminal activity and campaigns of misinformation to target legitimate companies and industries with fabricated environmental claims and other purported misconduct, inflicting billions of dollars in&nbsp;damage.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In an August 2018 order,&nbsp;<span class="caps">U.S.</span>&nbsp;District Judge Billy Roy Wilson ordered&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;to revise its complaint. “Energy Transfer has failed to state plausible&nbsp;<span class="caps">RICO</span>&nbsp;[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] claims against Greenpeace,” Judge Wilson&nbsp;<a href="https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2018/08/88%20etp%20v%20gp%20et%20al%20order%20denying%20gp%20mtd.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wrote</a>. “It has also failed to comply with basic rules of&nbsp;pleading.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Noting that&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>’s court filings offered lots of insinuation but few identifiable facts, Judge Wilson continued, “This Circuit consistently requires&nbsp;<em>pro se</em>&nbsp;parties [people who have no lawyer and represent themselves] to plead with more clarity, and less irrelevant hyperbole, than present&nbsp;here.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In its October update, Greenpeace writes that&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;used that amendment to expand its original complaint by naming five individuals as defendants, including “a recently hired Greenpeace&nbsp;<span class="caps">USA</span>&nbsp;employee.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Greenpeace report, titled “<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/greenpeace-report-still-too-far.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Still Too Far</a>,” also calls attention to so-called “critical infrastructure” bills that are under consideration in Pennsylvania and Ohio and just went into effect in Louisiana</b>, which would turn many criminal charges at pipeline protests into felonies carrying prison sentences of over a year. It notes that&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;has ongoing pipeline construction projects in all three states (other states are also considering similar laws, which appear to be based on a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/02/21/wyoming-alec-model-bill-pipeline-protests" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">model&nbsp;<span class="caps">ALEC</span>&nbsp;bill</a>).</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>From leaky pipelines and reckless actions against peaceful demonstrators to a clear disdain for the First Amendment, Energy Transfer hasn’t shown any signs of engaging in meaningful change,” said Greenpeace&nbsp;<span class="caps">USA</span>&nbsp;Global Finance Pipeline Lead Diana Best. “The company’s decision to continue with its controversial business as usual should raise an alarm for any remaining financial institutions with ties to the&nbsp;company.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The report, which includes photographs taken by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/user/julie-dermansky" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Julie Dermansky</a>, comes shortly after the&nbsp;<span class="caps">NN</span>&nbsp;Group, an investment fund managing $275 billion,&nbsp;<a href="http://email.prnewswire.com/wf/click?upn=mG6wLADgfMPhcsxlE2l7w1D6XSIAa-2F7Gho3v4aYBQHDpA12f41A0d8WvP-2FxNd40LCaUW2KuxpcE-2FY07ihcr68hHAcc-2BK7e-2BpFklYI-2FTWovk0mnqxXnsNYu1RA3byGiisvCQwrZorLVhldcSyR21JPa2CB3UxBROy7754cZssOZAAYKhYJjeKofwCM9YyqDe0-2F8vV2P8EDD4MWFjAwZiildUq2Ogya4coyIHZnk5YwlLoSVp5Pm4ZQY0d9N-2BRK6ag_dVjOKWh5yHnbixBxXvheJN8RHzUOgZQrNmzVQ4sMhVdAG7CYn4a8aNRhZHgaBFFrAObfKIB-2FS5QaDGNlyt3SScBocfEdZeTnqg5qYcD8MUTtDtAa2vpxY9-2FPEfK0T-2BkwNrEgEgJObzR9Aw8JsgtYyJRnXsKkt4lZJCt-2Bsr666fSm83Os-2Foa1xau3p8O8O4lUtyUKgge-2FisEbqTSqIa8eRlwZRVKv3k21kZSvf75f5k1ERWcYZOyZvSP0s1tUHoHPVL-2FaCKHQDF6MJ0E-2B2DnbdtPKmScQG42XoYtPZjMZOsvN6VIsXaSMI4DkaNS9Np8o" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">announced</a>&nbsp;that it would withdraw investments in&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;and a group of tar sands oil companies and pipeline builders, citing not only pollution and climate change worries, but also human rights&nbsp;concerns.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During an October&nbsp;18&nbsp;shareholder meeting, three prominent opponents to&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;pipeline projects — Ellen Gerhart, a Pennsylvania landowner who lives along the route of Mariner East; Cherri Foytlin, an activist who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/17/tribal-blessing-louisiana-activist-buys-land-path-proposed-bayou-bridge-pipeline" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">bought land</a>&nbsp;on the Bayou Bridge pipeline’s route in 2016;&nbsp;and Waniya Locke, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lakotalaw.org/news/2017-10-04/waniya-locke" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">water protector</a>&nbsp;from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation — interrupted&nbsp;discussions.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Facebook live&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/foytlinfam/videos/vb.798269089/10156976137769090/?type=2&theater" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">video</a>&nbsp;of the event posted by Cherri Foytlin has over 42,000 views. Protesters also gathered outside the shareholder meeting in Dallas, Texas, and locked themselves to the gates of the Dallas home of Kelcy Warren,&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>’s&nbsp;<span class="caps">CEO</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span class="caps"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span class="caps">e</span>nergy Transfer recently found itself facing allegations of endangering the safety of pipeline opponents after an&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>&nbsp;security boat allegedly caused two other boats carrying a group of members of the press (including a&nbsp;<b>Comedy Central film crew</b>) and protesters with L’eau Est La Vie Camp to overturn into a Louisiana swamp through which the pipeline is being&nbsp;constructed.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>DeSmog has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/10/28/private-security-firm-dakota-access-iraq-afghanistan-blackwater" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">previously reported</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<span class="caps">ET</span>’s use of a private security firm called TigerSwan</b>, which was&nbsp;<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/03/30/louisiana-bayou-bridge-pipeline-tigerswan-private-security/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">denied a license</a>&nbsp;to operate in Louisiana earlier this year over continuing lawsuits against the firm from its role on behalf of Energy Transfer in the battles over the Dakota Access pipeline. Greenpeace previously&nbsp;<a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/17214/greenpeace-usa-report-shows-pipeline-company-behind-new-anti-protest-legislation-in-the-us/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">alleged</a>&nbsp;that TigerSwan “deployed excessive force and military style counterterrorism tactics against Water Protectors while operating without a license in North&nbsp;Dakota.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy Transfer rejected the allegations in the Greenpeace report. “Our priority is the safe construction and operation of our assets,” a company spokesperson wrote in an email to DeSmog. “We value the local communities and environments in which we work, which is why our employees and contractors spend years designing and constructing these projects. To claim anything different is incorrect.&nbsp;“</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ut sharing extremist right-wing content is not a new thing for Thomas, a conservative activist who has made frequent use of social media. Earlier this year, she shared posts&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/382311-ginni-thomas-shares-posts-criticizing-parkland-students" style="text-decoration-line: none;">attacking the Parkland kids</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/clarence-thomas-wife-shares-fake-news-posts-about-blacks-leaving-democratic-party/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">praising</a>&nbsp;the "#WalkAway" movement, a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/09/russian-bots-are-back-walkaway-attack-on-democrats-is-a-likely-kremlin-operation/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">fake campaign of Russian trolls</a>&nbsp;pretending to be people of color leaving the Democratic Party.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The migrant caravan, which consists of thousands of men, women, and children fleeing civil strife in Central America and heading toward the United States, is not actually anything new or unusual; similar groups of migrants have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/09/russian-bots-are-back-walkaway-attack-on-democrats-is-a-likely-kremlin-operation/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">routinely formed</a>&nbsp;over the last 20 years, and there is no evidence anyone in the group poses a danger. But it has still become the fear du jour in the Republican Party, particularly among those hoping to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/newt-gingrich-tells-sean-hannity-two-words-will-define-2018-midterms-1175945" style="text-decoration-line: none;">gin up enough fear</a>among President Donald Trump's core voters to turn them out to the polls and counteract a blue wave.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump has claimed with no evidence that "<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/donald-trump-proof-unknown-middle-easterners-migrant-caravan/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">unknown Middle Easterners</a>" are traveling with the caravan. And last week, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) theorized that left-wing Jewish billionaire&nbsp;<a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/matt-gaetz-honduran-migrant-caravan-george-soros" style="text-decoration-line: none;">George Soros</a>&nbsp;is secretly funding the caravan, in the hope that it will somehow disrupt the midterm election in favor of Democrats.</font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/heres-why-proud-boys-claim-self-defense-when-defending-ring-wing-violence-total-joke">https://www.alternet.org/heres-why-proud-boys-claim-self-defense-when-defending-ring-wing-violence-total-joke</a></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">W<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hen far-right groups like the Proud Boys or Patriot Prayer get into street brawls, they have a go-to rationalization: It was self-defense. The argument is that fringe right-wingers&nbsp;are out there peacefully protesting or&nbsp;attending speeches, and that the violence that&nbsp;often seems to erupt afterward is merely a reaction to leftist provocation.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Antifa terrorists attacked us, not the other way around," argues a typical post at the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheProudBoysUSA/posts/759331481076443?xts%5B0%5D=68.ARAzIg-6li5-w59jR1RZLqAnBTO0Ttr8j-lYmKsCSD4N-KtJCH2tlmy6XQi-wZtREYFc41uD-r-qHqAlZ06dL5dPwrQOVN6UYw1CL2sbhKqcBWZ_WvUuWvkoarRaAKxg0lGOtf061Wy2dja5XBZCFV924ypmr2j9sLndKLJ_Iyk07OWBJjrNspa-d6xj6_6-n7z1e_CMMlfroiVSMLcB&tn=-R" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Proud Boys Facebook page</a>, after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/nypd-looks-to-charge-9-proud-boys-with-assault-for-manhattan-fight" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">members of the group were filmed beating up anti-fascist protesters</a>&nbsp;after Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes gave a speech at New York's&nbsp;Metropolitan Republican Club.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conservative media has picked up this talking point and has aggressively defended and promoted far-right&nbsp;groups — who have also gotten into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/10/patriot_prayer_flash_march_cal.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">street fights in Portland, Oregon</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20181006/state-police-intervene-as-protest-groups-clash-at-state-house--videos" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Providence, Rhode Island,</a>&nbsp;in the past month — painting them as victims who only engage in violence as a last resort to defend themselves.</font></p><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On her Fox News show,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/15/laura-ingraham-hosts-leader-right-wing-group-responsible-violent-portland-riots-softball-interview/221697" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Laura Ingraham interviewed Joey Gibson</a>, the head of Patriot Prayer, who&nbsp;denied&nbsp;"any intention to get violent" and said the violence in Portland was purely self-defense.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sean Hannity, on his own Fox News show,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/15/hannity-and-his-guests-lie-about-violent-rioting-pro-trump-supporters-claim-it-was-left/221695" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">put the blame on for these outbreaks of violence on Democratic rhetoric he considers rude</a>, even though none of the figures or incidents he mentioned were anywhere near these events. He&nbsp;explained what happened last week this way:&nbsp;"A bunch of anarchists go to the New York GOP club, Republican club, whatever it happens to be, and they’re<b>&nbsp;committing vandalism, anarchist signs that they’re putting up, etc., and then there’s a confrontation on the street there."</b></font></p></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Neiwert, an investigative journalist and author who does research for the Southern Poverty Law Center, disagrees. In&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/15/patriot-prayer-again-brings-violence-portland-flash-march-downtown-rounding-out-weekend-far" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a recent report on the Portland brawl,</a>&nbsp;he argues that both the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer deliberately assemble "a ready-to-rumble crew with out-of-town violent extremists, then troll through the urban center in hopes of confronting left-wing protesters, ensuring violence eventually will break out."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's the question that bedevils this particular issue:&nbsp;Are these groups out with innocent intentions and only acting&nbsp;in self-defense, or are they&nbsp;actively seeking to create violent confrontations, while using "self-defense" as&nbsp;an excuse and for legal cover for their actions?</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On Monday, Media Matters tweeted a video showing how frequently far-right pundits, and&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1051896829246201857" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">McInnes in particular, have praised violence</a>&nbsp;as, to quote McInnes, "a really effective way to solve problems."</font></p><blockquote data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gavin McInnes: "i cannot recommend violence enough. It is a really effective way to solve problems."&nbsp;<a href="https://t.co/XcWBWBkrh8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pic.twitter.com/XcWBWBkrh8</a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">— Media Matters (@mmfa)&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1051896829246201857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration-line: none;">October 15, 2018</a></font></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the New York event itself, McInnes,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Boub2juA2OW/?hl=en&taken-by=thegavin2000" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">as he promised on Instagram</a>, celebrated an act of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/13/inejiro-asanuma-japan-politician-assassinated-1960" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">unprovoked violence against leftists</a>&nbsp;that has become a major far-right meme.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Wearing glasses with caricatured Asian eyes drawn on the front, McInnes played Otoya Yamaguchi, a young far-right extremist who assassinated the leader of the Japanese Socialist Party on live television exactly 58 years ago on October 12, 1960</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,"&nbsp;</span><a href="https://bedfordandbowery.com/2018/10/inside-the-proud-boy-event-that-sparked-violence-outside-of-uptown-gop-club/" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">described Carol Schaeffer</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a journalist for Bedford & Bowery.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/10/15/23708319/joey-gibson-encouraged-proud-boy-violence-in-portland-they-are-going-to-feel-the-pain" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Portland Mercury has contradicted Joey Gibson's claim</a>&nbsp;that he wasn't&nbsp;looking for a violent encounter,&nbsp;sharing a video that appears to have been recorded on Friday in which Gibson tells his followers, "We will challenge and<b>&nbsp;we will instigate,</b>&nbsp;but we do it by marching through these streets."&nbsp;He makes sure to say that leftist protesters "have a right to be here as long as they are not being violent," but promises that&nbsp;<b>if "they want to get in our way, then they need to deal with the punishment."</b></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the period when he was&nbsp;forming the Proud Boys, McInnes&nbsp;<a href="https://www.compoundmedia.com/shows/the-gavin-mcinnes-show" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">had a self-titled show on Compound Media</a>. Salon has reviewed numerous clips from this show in which McInnes spoke about violence against leftists.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“If you’re wearing a MAGA hat, and some guy with a slightly punk demeanor comes up to you and says, ‘Hey, are you Sal’ or ‘Are you pro-Trump?,’ choke him," McInnes advised on Feb. 2, 2017. "Trust your instincts. Don’t give him a fucking chance. The guy’s not there to chat.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That episode was one in which McInnes spent a great deal of time dwelling on photos of Proud Boys with injuries they claimed were from fights with leftists. He praised the group members for leveling up to the "fourth degree" in their hierarchy by fighting with the left.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“This is the Civil War. If you’re dressed as a Confederate soldier and a Yankee comes up to you, don’t listen to what he has to say. Choke him," he continued during this segment.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Oh, I think I’m not allowed to say that," he added, in a joking tone. Then he turned to the camera and added, "In self-defense."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A few months later,&nbsp;<a href="https://officialproudboys.com/columns/some-clarification-on-the-4th-degree/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">McInnes posted on the Proud Boys website</a>&nbsp;to say&nbsp;that he had been joking when he praised "kicking the crap out of antifa." He added, "We don’t start fights, we finish them."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-35-05.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York state law defines self-defense</a>&nbsp;as "an emergency measure to avoid an imminent public or private injury which is about to occur by reason of a situation occasioned or developed through no fault of the actor."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"When you start griping and yelling and telling us to shut up and calling us Nazis and saying you’re going to come punch us, we beat the shit out of you," McInnes said on the June 12, 2017, edition of his show. He added that the goal of such violence was to support "freedom," but added, "We do it cause it’s fun."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“It’s fun beating you up, because you suck shit," he added.&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I think there’s not enough violence in today’s day and age," McInnes complained on March 30, 2016.&nbsp;“I want violence. I want punching in the face. I’m disappointed in Trump supporters for not punching enough.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To be clear, some of the anti-fascist counter-protesters who confront these right-wing groups are, in fact, throwing the first punches or throwing bottles. (That&nbsp;may have been the case last Friday in New York.) While some radical leftists justify this kind of response as necessary to counter far-right groups, there are questions involved not just about morality but also about tactics. If, in fact, right-wing groups are trolling for fights so they can beat people up under the guise of self-defense, it seems unwise to play into their hands.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I don’t foresee violence, but we’re happy to deliver it if it wants to rear its ugly head," McInnes declared on May 9, 2017.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-protest" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Three anti-fascist protesters were arrested immediately</a>&nbsp;after the fight in New York last Friday night. 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</div><div>Sen. Ted Cruz stares down a protestor during the Kavanaugh hearings (Screengrab)</div><div>
</div><div>I hear that the angry mob is on the march getting ready to take to the streets and destroy everything that God-fearing Real Americans care about. Again. This latest iteration of the perennial right-wing fear-mongering began when survivors and women's rights activists came to Washington to protest the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. These frightening revolutionaries scared the bejesus out of Republicans and they haven't been able to get a good night's sleep ever since.</div><div>
</div><div>President Trump has taken the lead in bravely defending the good people of our nation against these vicious street fighters, telling rally-goers in each of his many such events in the past week:</div><div>
</div><div>You don’t hand matches to an arsonist, and you don’t give power to an angry, left-wing mob. And that’s what the Democrats have become.</div><div>
</div><div>SPONSORED</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>That was a scripted line, obviously. Trump could never come up with such a literary phrase. His own words are a bit more pungent: “The Dims have gone wacko!”</div><div>
</div><div>He pulls out the "law and order" card frequently, claiming the loyalty of all police, casting them in opposition to Democrats. To a cheering group of law enforcement officers at the White House back in August, the president of the United States said, "[W]e have a little opposition called, the Democrats. I guess they just don't mind crime. They don't mind crime. It's pretty sad. ... The Democrat Party is held hostage by the so-called resistance, left-wing haters and angry mobs." Then he called himself their proud commander in chief, showing that he believes he commands the police as well as the military, which isn't true.</div><div>
</div><div>From the moment Trump was inaugurated and the Women's March was held in numerous cities the following day, the propaganda arm of the GOP has been pushing the idea that people protesting Trump's presidency are violent. The NRA was first out of the gate with a series it called "the clenched fist of truth," warning their members that the left-wing mob was coming for them:</div><div>
</div><div>The only way to save our country is to fight the leftist #MSM's violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth. via @DLoesch #NRA. pic.twitter.com/5xMsdpE9Cc</div><div>
</div><div>— NRATV (@NRATV) April 7, 2017</div><div>Today, Trump's loyal soldiers have lined up behind him to wring their hands and clutch their pearls over the nasty women who stormed the halls of the Senate to yell at men in elevators. They've never been more frightened in their lives. David French of National Review has written that "it's time to stop excusing, rationalizing, and minimizing behavior that is dangerous, menacing, and threatening," by which he apparently means people being rude to Republicans in restaurants.</div><div>
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</div><div>Report Advertisement</div><div>None of them seemed to have been concerned about the storming of town halls back in 2010, which came with written instructions from Tea Party organizers to "Artificially Inflate Your Numbers," "Be Disruptive Early and Often" and "Try to 'Rattle Him,' Not Have an Intelligent Debate."</div><div>
</div><div>The conservative protest model was very dignified and respectful:</div><div>
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</div><div>As for descending on the capitol to take the protest to the elected officials, here's how it's handled by respectable people.</div><div>
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</div><div>Report Advertisement</div><div>The Tea Party protests against the Affordable Care Act were certainly aggressive, sometimes dangerous and always inexplicable. (Why people were so overwrought that the government was trying to make health care available to more people is something for future psychiatrists to figure out.)</div><div>
</div><div>Anyone who has observed the Donald Trump phenomenon knows that he has a history of inciting his followers to potential violence. Recall that during the campaign at various times he responded to protesters with remarks like, “I’d like to punch him in the face," "maybe he should have been roughed up," "part of the problem is no one wants to hurt each other anymore" and "if you do (hurt him), I’ll defend you in court, don’t worry about it.” His reference to the Charlottesville white supremacists as "very fine people" will go down as one of the more disturbing comments made by any president in American history.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump's rally-goers still commonly launch into chants of "lock her up" at the mere mention of Hillary Clinton and, more recently, Dianne Feinstein. Perhaps some people think that crowds calling for the jailing of political opponents is all in good fun. But it's chilling for the president of the United States to stand smiling and nodding above them as they do it.</div><div>
</div><div>This current chest-beating about "the angry left-wing mob" may morph into something more threatening as we move into the presidential campaign next year and Trump and his followers start to feel the heat of possible defeat. The NRA certainly seems prepared to take it to the next level. Sure, the Republicans hope to keep their base riled up by pretending that the "angry mob" of women in pink hats and protesters embarrassing Republican officials in public presents a threat to the nation. But Trump voting right-wingers are not actually afraid. They're playing the victim to own the libs.</div><div>
</div><div>Republican officials are using this "angry mob" rhetoric for a specific purpose: They're trying to get Democratic lawmakers to feel uncomfortable and distance themselves from their most passionate supporters, in hopes that that will suppress the midterm vote. Handwringing conservative pundits are trying to make liberals in the media condemn the protesters and put them on the defensive. They want to make the Democrats condemn their own voters. So far, it's not working.</div><div>
</div><div>Protests, even violent ones, are nothing new in America. Trump copped his "I am the candidate of law and order" from Richard Nixon, who basically stole it from George Wallace during an era of political assassinations, urban riots and massive civil rights and anti-war protests. There are plenty of examples of similar political and social upheavals in our past, including a bloody civil war. The "polarization" we are experiencing in our politics is hardly unprecedented.</div><div>
</div><div>Considering how outrageous the president of the United States has become and how supine and accommodating the Republicans in Congress have been, these first two years of the Trump administration have been remarkably serene. That's because the supposedly dangerous "Resistance" has actually been feverishly organizing on the ground all over the country to recruit candidates and run campaigns to send Republicans packing. The "angry left-wing mob" isn't running wild in the streets -- it's running for office. That's what's got Republicans shaking in their boots.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see proud boys update</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the Proud Boys are beating people on the streets of New York, right-wing media figures have instead fearmongered about peaceful protesters on the left.&nbsp;Right-wing media figures likened anti-Kavanaugh protesters to&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32_zYA7uhQ6lmnhyKQX6vLBiZAO3OdoNwANYsJ7UtP3NWib8ehMDwRC5PH1PNX6FAyeggbdnPrHjAL6W5B47KRwf5xZcr-ggBsDhBqUKQdTL7vFhr0O04PDBSVyDrJy4ycUKjs4eUHehwt6tYH0TfVVP&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=40&v=1450" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">deranged monsters</a>, compared them to&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs328E1PpsPcqo5ZzfsA4qgkZUQhhqDOyzF7fISGxgHxE1P6PHMtb7FfPzY5FD2mmx4nk50ivkjWVtBEKVxDRvJSqIaEYLJ1gMTFIS6h0ey_eOJzNxSQv7KkbW7MMmeRVl03Z3ARDhbVnLXQIuQl3B0KWdaurCmHh5iUWl3oqO8Z7s4A&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=41&v=1450" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">children</a>, claimed that they are on&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32_7S4NR0Oa2JDKB7XJ6-TRMH8hfMLZY-3IA6cg3GrYEQMPdx9BknXw-4leAoKVSK0fsUAGp5MFyPWs1lNnxMLKFEowrxI68prXMKAw2KSHCUFCYy1wkdOwcgZDZCmrfX_n3TdsyeO5ENHr_C_ZxTgiTur25J9qlyB_LIBbL_A3LVg&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=42&v=1450" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">drugs</a>, called for&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32_0f1JNFt3zPs-WLgWvo5iIpJObAlV1_26BlIdsGYF-Nuxvs0jrQkP07R8iszGl0KjcrRzlgVZpGj3IA5Nu2c9le9je-ULQstuX9SKBTdTe07QOOPEEBzRcef6PrVfS5foVu8alH4Ze8f7JCj2J7FUyYwCeFqlEXTzJltkpXovicQ&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=43&v=1450" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">punitive measures</a>&nbsp;against them, and more. The attacks are&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4RAjP_eDJaOVs0HBElTxXXaCLWMaroAiYOq5gWKq4ywlmFo4Jr7Z7C5rx6en157iDmEW4fRdDxqnc6uvwWRZkjrjktKZ_mrdonWdBPVrnB9YRN7bkoUx5VRj22if7IAV1MQ7Qm81JTL11l_EZOC79WExdNCUWHYb52XndOOivTsvw&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=44&v=1450" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">out of control</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This is all part of a larger tactic on the right. As Matt Gertz&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4SJ9UDTciaTfMm199dAT8BdPBpN1MFq17yk8EfD_DX6fthtQqKJj28ARx6QQTX3Xx4n81MDdp9QdASB-aBYUAaqMCi06APorbsHL3XTdymib0yG-qK3UreGyTfcydg4z6KUj2N2EcGWoR4B4ESrDYFp&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=45&v=1450" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">explained</a>, the right-wing midterm engagement strategy is telling viewers that Democrats are coming to kill them: “With the midterm elections only four weeks away, a slew of Fox News commentators are warning their conservative viewers that they are physically imperiled by a ‘violent’ leftist ‘mob’ and must vote to keep Republicans in power in order to protect themselves. Their argument is an effort to turn out the GOP base by weaponizing conservative criticism of the protestors who opposed Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Also:</strong>&nbsp;It's&nbsp;<b>not just Fox News. CNN's right-wing pundits are running with&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4TM09-klqwQ-xesa_tDJW1waRcAI_uYlHQGXFm22NAfppuRbh2pvIqyZHX79TlzcQDJM87BbBZoH6K2FrALJDMqrLkZdNoAjO3u_np9A9cejjOfewv8hDYj6Fbik6M4Sr44IZQTcOwPVmBiUMMotXY7&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=46&v=1450" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">this same talking point</a>.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In&nbsp;&nbsp;the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, right-wing media and Republican officials have found a new favorite scare tactic: hyping nonsensical claims of radical Democrats and an “angry mob” of “scary,” violent, liberal protesters trying to disrupt American values and take over the country. This transparent effort at turning out Republicans to the polls has been parotted by a number of &nbsp;right-wing pundits paid by CNN for their political analysis.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/11/yes-its-a-mob-and-yes-its-what-democrats-want/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Right-wing</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36976/democrats-push-mob-mentality-media-repeatedly-ben-shapiro" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">media</a>, especially the Trump-aligned&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/09/foxs-midterm-engagement-strategy-telling-its-viewers-democrats-are-coming-kill-them/221620" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Fox News Channel</a>, responded to the confirmation battle of now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by accusing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/08/laura-ingraham-guest-violent-democrats-are-war-america/221613" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Democrats</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/05/fox-friends-host-women-protesters-are-attacking-senators-and-yelling-them-its-pretty-dangerous/221584" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">protesters</a>&nbsp;(many of whom were sexual assault survivors) &nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/05/fox-business-anchor-anti-kavanaugh-protesters-are-real-danger-democracy/221590" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">and</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/09/25/tucker-carlson-likens-sexual-assault-survivors-unruly-mob-complaining-about-demonic-possession/221454" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">the</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/09/tomi-lahren-tells-fox-friends-viewers-they-are-danger/221614" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">left</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/10/09/foxs-sebastian-gorka-says-democrats-have-normalized-violence/221616" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">broadly</a>&nbsp;of violent radicalism. Republican politicians, including the president, have been quick to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/an-angry-mob-republicans-work-to-recast-democratic-protests-as-out-of-control-anarchy/2018/10/08/c8648e8a-cb13-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html?utm_term=.e2da38fbc3ae" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">echo</a>&nbsp;these claims. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman&nbsp;Chuck Grassley (R-IA) argued that Democrats “encouraged mob rule” during the Kavanaugh hearings, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) commended Republicans for standing “up to the mob.” During an October 9 rally in Iowa, President Donald Trump -- who&nbsp;<a href="https://mashable.com/2016/03/12/trump-rally-incite-violence/#04fhtj10hiqY" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">regularly called for actual violence</a>&nbsp;during the 2016 campaign and who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/trump-defends-white-nationalist-protesters-some-very-fine-people-on-both-sides/537012/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a>&nbsp;last year that there were “very fine people” at a white supremacist rally that resulted in one person dying --&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-message-for-2020-the-democrats-are-a-wacko-mob" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">condemned</a>&nbsp;Democrats as an “angry left-wing mob” that is “too dangerous to govern.” The president insisted that the party cannot be trusted with power because “you don't hand matches to an arsonist.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conservative denouncements of left-wing violence are obviously absurd,&nbsp;<a href="https://theslot.jezebel.com/christine-blasey-ford-still-hasnt-been-able-to-return-h-1829595127" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">and</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/majority-2017-extremist-murders-us-committed-wingers-report/story?id=52436886" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">markedly</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/08/fox-friends-fearmongers-about-left-wing-violence-while-ignoring-violence-and-threats-right/221601" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">hypocritical</a>, but that hasn’t stopped right-wing CNN pundits from fearmongering about the supposed “mob behavior” of the left. On CNN’s<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">&nbsp;Anderson Cooper 360</em>, commentator Steve Cortes&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2018/10/11/62160/cnn-ac-20181008-mobrule" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">called</a>&nbsp;it “scary” that the left has been using “mob tactics” and “violence” to a “dramatic degree.” During the October 9 edition of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">CNN Tonight with Don Lemon</em>, political commentator Alice Stewart&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2018/10/11/62159/cnn-donlemon-20181009-mobrule" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">claimed</a>&nbsp;that Republicans were correct in calling protesters a “mob” because they were “banging on the doors of the Supreme Court and chasing senators out of public restaurants and yelling at senators in an elevator.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the same segment, CNN’s Matt Lewis equated protesters to the alt-right and specifically white supremacist Richard Spencer before host Don Lemon interrupted him. He then accused the protesters of “mob behavior,” and got into a heated exchange with Lemon about whether activists disrupting people who are complicit in the administration’s inhumane policies constitutes mob action. &nbsp;And on&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">The Lead with Jake Tapper</em>, network contributor Scott Jennings&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2018/10/11/62161/cnn-lead-20181009-mobrule" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">argued</a>&nbsp;that the Kavanaugh hearings showed conservatives “what life would be like if you let the angry mob take over,” and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2018/10/11/62162/cnn-lead-20181009-mobrule2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">claimed</a>&nbsp;that if he were running a campaign he would use “video of this angry mob.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There is, of course, tremendous irony here; CNN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/06/23/cnn-reportedly-hiring-corey-lewandowski-trump-s-former-anti-press-enforcer/211154" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">hired</a>&nbsp;Corey Lewandowski as a political commentator after Lewandowski was forced out of the Trump campaign for assaulting a reporter. CNN was also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/26/CNN-bemoans-a-lack-of-civility-after-spending-years-hiring-pro-Trump-commentators/220549" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">duped</a>&nbsp;by conservatives earlier this year into fretting over “civility” as it conflated examples of liberals being rude with conservatives being racist.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>CNN’s model of false balance and “both sides” punditry and its obsession with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/26/CNN-bemoans-a-lack-of-civility-after-spending-years-hiring-pro-Trump-commentators/220549" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">employing</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2016/10/14/video-cnn-has-trump-surrogate-problem/213824" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">and</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/25/study-cnns-paid-trump-shills-made-more-500-appearances-over-last-three-months/218325" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">hosting</a>&nbsp;a roster of right-wing ideologues is nothing new, but it does continue to lead to the espousal of extremist opinions on the network.</b></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/06/26/CNN-bemoans-a-lack-of-civility-after-spending-years-hiring-pro-Trump-commentators/220549</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Melissa Joskow / Media Matters</div><div>CNN has been on a civility kick. A transcript search shows that variations of the words were said over a hundred times on June 25 alone. One good example is the network’s June 25 highlight reel of allegedly incivil things that have recently been said by various people. As my colleague noted, the video conflated examples of liberals being mean with conservatives being racist:</div><div>
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</div><div>Steve Morris</div><div>@stevemorris</div><div>&nbsp;Hang this in the Louvre. CNN's "both sides" montage perfectly encapsulating the fallacy of mainstream media equivalence: all the conservatives examples are bald racism and all the liberal examples are...being rude</div><div>...</div><div>CNN then brought on longtime centrist commentator David Gergen and pro-Trump whisperer Salena Zito to discuss the supposed decline in civility. Apparently no progressive voices were available.</div><div>
</div><div>Later in the day, when discussing Trump’s separation and detention of immigrant families with immigration lawyer David Leopold, CNN anchor Kate Bolduan interrupted Leopold and chided him for calling White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller a white nationalist, asking, “Where is the fact on that??”</div><div>
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</div><div>John Whitehouse</div><div>@existentialfish</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;CNN anchor: "I just did an entire segment about civility here, I don't know if you want to call Stephen Miller a white nationalist"</span></div><div>
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</div><div>Calling Miller a white nationalist is not some gratuitous insult. It is a simple, straight-forward analysis of his ideology. Splinter News’ Clio Chang aptly noted the evidence:</div><div>
</div><div>There is plenty of evidence that Stephen Miller, the architect of Donald Trump’s hard-line racist immigration policies, is a white nationalist. He crafted Trump’s Muslim ban. His thumbprint is smeared all over the administration’s family separation policy, the point of which is to tear immigrant families apart and deter others from entering the country. Miller reportedly laughed during a meeting when Trump made up names for immigrants and described imaginary crimes they might have committed. He has pushed for some of the harshest overhauls of our immigration system, including cutting legal immigration by half over the next decade. A White House aide recently told Vanity Fair Miller “actually enjoys” seeing pictures of children detained at the border: “He’s Waffen-SS,” the person said.</div><div>
</div><div>As journalist Chris Hooks also noted, Miller and white nationalist Richard Spencer worked together at Duke University to bring in white nationalist Peter Brimelow to speak about immigration. Spencer even told Mother Jones that he was glad no one was reporting on this connection:</div><div>
</div><div>“It’s funny no one’s picked up on the Stephen Miller connection,” Spencer says. “I knew him very well when I was at Duke. But I am kind of glad no one’s talked about this because I don’t want to harm Trump.”</div><div>
</div><div>This determined ignorance of the Trump team’s white nationalism is particularly galling since CNN has been profiting off of Trump’s team for years now. The network has hired a parade of pro-Trump analysts who, like the children at Willy Wonka’s factory, have been inevitably dropped as they become too toxic.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The hirings started during the 2016 campaign when Trump told CNN executives to hire Jeffrey Lord.&nbsp;</b>Soon after, CNN programming was inundated with Lord, Corey Lewandowski, Kayleigh McEnany, and Scottie Nell Hughes. These hirings frequently raised ethical questions. Current Vox correspondent Carlos Maza examined the problem for Media Matters before the election:</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As Maza noted, the presence of pro-Trump voices turned discussions into screaming matches more suited to reality television than to a news network. And like reality television, the names rotated in and out with the content staying the same.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lewandowski resigned from CNN following the election (CNN refused to fire him even after reporting revealed the Trump campaign was still paying him). McEnany moved on to become the spokesperson of the Republican National Committee. Hughes left CNN before the inauguration. And most notably, CNN eventually fired Lord after he issued a Nazi salute on Twitter.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>In their stead, CNN rolled in new pro-Trump voices. One of the first was former Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller. By mid 2017, the channel’s paid Trump shills were flooding the network:</b></div><div>
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</div><div>Media Matters’ senior fellow Matt Gertz noted in October 2017 how the network continued to flood its airwaves with bullshit:</div><div>
</div><div>[Ben] Ferguson, for example, has repeatedly been called out by his CNN colleagues this month for offering nonsensical diversions in discussions of Trump’s attacks on NFL players who protest racial inequality during the National Anthem. And [Stephen] Moore -- who typically appears on the network to lie about Trump-backed health care proposals -- on Monday derailed a CNN panel discussion about then-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly paying a hefty sexual harassment settlement by saying that the real solution is for powerful men to never be alone in a room alone with a woman. [Jack] Kingston, for his part, last night attempted to make excuses for Trump’s unprecedented falsehoods, saying that “the American perception is that politicians lie” and Trump is no worse than other presidents; the rest of the panel denounced him, with anchor Don Lemon scolding him for “condoning bad behavior.”</div><div>
</div><div>When major stories break, such as Trump’s string of indefensible responses to the lethal white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA, Trump’s CNN supporters blanket the network’s coverage. That result was a trainwreck, with the president’s shills sidelining discussions with praise for Trump’s response and dismissals of the importance of the rally.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In September 2017, CNN hired Ed Martin, president of the Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund, ostensibly as Lord’s replacement.</b>&nbsp;CNN was either ignorant or tolerant of the fact that Martin had previously called CNN “fake news” and had made flatly racist statements. In 2016, Martin told a crowd at a right-wing rally: "You're not racist if you don't like Mexicans. They're from a nation. If you don't think Muslims are vetted enough, because they blow things up, that's not racist."</div><div>
</div><div>Martin predictably used his appearances to turn CNN into a trainwreck, while using his radio show to rail against the network:</div><div>
</div><div>Martin called on the air for a total end to immigration, saying, “Stop all immigration right now.” (11/2/17)</div><div>
</div><div>Martin argued that Leigh Corfman, the woman who reported that former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore molested her as a child, should not be believed, saying, “What is this woman? She’s got multiple bankruptcies." (11/11/17)</div><div>
</div><div>Martin endorsed Moore and tried to get him elected even as CNN was doing great reporting on him. (11/7/17)</div><div>
</div><div>Martin said that Trump’s racist remarks about LaVar Ball, father of one of the basketball players arrested in China, could not be a “racial thing” because Trump also attacked Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ). (11/20/17)</div><div>
</div><div>Martin defended Trump’s racist “Pocahontas” comment to World War II Navajo code talkers as “100 percent” appropriate. (11/27/17)</div><div>
</div><div>Martin contended that Trump’s racist anti-Muslim tweets were actually helpful because they were “starting a conversation.” (11/30/17)</div><div>
</div><div>After Roy Moore said that America was at its best during slavery, Martin argued that Jewish slaves had families: “When the Jews were in bondage for years, they still loved each other.” (12/11/17)</div><div>
</div><div>Martin called fellow CNN employees and co-panelists “black racists.” (12/14/17)</div><div>
</div><div>Martin praised Trump for ordering CNN’s chief White House correspondent out of the Oval Office, saying it was “amazing to see” and “really funny.” (1/18/18)</div><div>
</div><div><b>Martin gave an award to disgraced conservative operative James O’Keefe,&nbsp;</b>who had on numerous occasions run deceitful stings against CNN. O’Keefe once attempted to lure then-CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat full of sex paraphernalia. (1/12/18)</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Martin stopped appearing on CNN after December 14 when Media Matters posted audio of Martin complaining about appearing on a panel with CNN commentators “who were just rabid feminists, actually racial, racists -- two of the women were racists, they were just were racists, black racists.” CNN eventually confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on January 18 that Martin no longer worked for the network.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Martin’s role was soon taken by pro-Trump commentator Steve Cortes,</b>&nbsp;who has said that he went to CNN “partly at the suggestion of the White House itself and the president himself.” Like Martin, Cortes also had previously called CNN “fake news.” During his time as a contributor at Fox News, Cortes had compared undocumented immigrants to violent thieves. And on CNN, Cortes has not only made similar statements, he’s also made laughably false and ridiculous claims. Michelle Wolf called out CNN’s charade with Cortes:</div><div>
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</b></div><div><b>MICHELLE WOLF</b>&nbsp;(HOST): Aw man, as a fan I just love this kind of TV magic. Watching the host act like the guest forced his way into the studio is so compelling, you almost forget that he was invited on and paid! Good job, Don, you knew full well Steve was going to lie and you gave a fun clip to share, and that's exactly why you invite him back all the time.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Here’s a brief history of things that paid CNN commentators have said on-air since the inauguration:</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Stephen Moore made a completely false claim about coal jobs that an actual economist immediately corrected. (3/29/17)</b></div><div>Jason Miller made sexist remarks about Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), calling her “hysterical.” (6/13/17)</div><div>After Trump encouraged police brutality, Jeffrey Lord dismissed it as a "New Yorker sense of humor." (7/31/17)</div><div>Lord called Trump “the Martin Luther King of health care.” CNN then talked about it for an entire day. (4/13/17)</div><div>Lord compared the Congressional Black Caucus to the KKK. (2/16/17)</div><div>Ben Ferguson criticized civil rights icon John Lewis for not educating Trump about civil rights. (12/8/17)</div><div><b>Rick Santorum s</b>aid that Parkland school shooting survivors aren't taking personal responsibility and should learn CPR instead of engaging in activism. (3/25/18)</div><div>Kayleigh McEnany attacked Barack Obama for golfing in 2002 when George W. Bush was president. (3/28/17)</div><div><b>Ken Cuccinelli</b>&nbsp;told panelist Symone Sanders to shut up while discussing white supremacists in Charlottesville. (8/14/17)</div><div>Paris Dennard posited that Trump was better than Obama at calling out white supremacists. (8/14/17)</div><div>Kayleigh McEnany defended Trump’s sexist remarks to an Irish reporter: "The press should be applauding the fact that he's bringing reporters into the Oval Office, calling them out and including them." (6/28/17)</div><div>Rick Santorum attacked reporters for asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for details about North Korea and nuclear weapons. (6/14/18)</div><div>Miller dismissed reports that Trump had an affair with adult actor Stormy Daniels and paid her hush money because, according to him, the alleged payoff was nothing to a billionaire. (3/7/18)</div><div>Santorum accused Obama of exacerbating racism in America. (6/3/18)</div><div>After a suicide bombing killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert, Lord said that it would be fair for Trump to criticize Grande for not providing enough security. (6/5/17)</div><div>Lord used a Nazi analogy to attack London Mayor Sadiq Khan. (6/5/17)</div><div><b>Stephen Moore repeatedly lied about the Affordable Care Act</b>, often without CNN fact-checking him. (7/17/17)</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After Roy Moore was accused of child molestation, Stephen Moore argued that his opponent was “no saint either” because he supported abortion.&nbsp;</span>(11/20/17)</div><div>Jack Kingston pushed a conspiracy theory that shadowy forces were behind the rally against gun violence organized by Parkland survivors. (2/20/18)</div><div>While discussing sexual harassment, Stephen Moore said that he would never take a one-on-one meeting with a woman. (10/23/17)</div><div>Jack Kingston said that Bill O'Reilly's racist remarks about Waters' hair were just like liberals calling Trump “orange.” (3/29/17)</div><div>Bryan Lanza argued that discussing sexual assault allegations against Trump "seems like a waste of time." (12/20/17)&nbsp;</div><div>And it’s not only the paid commentators who are a part of CNN's “false equivalency” problem. Just last week, after Lewandowski mocked a 10-year-old with Down syndrome who was separated from her mother at the U.S. border, CNN invited him on to talk more about his remark.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Michelle Wolf called out this sycophantic relationship between the media and those in power. Wolf later told Vulture (emphasis original): “It was gross! Like, I saw [CNN President] Jeff Zucker hugging Kellyanne Conway, and it was just like, Oh! You’re all in this together! People are really getting hurt, and you guys are just celebrating your money. It’s all a game, nothing more than ‘How will we best profit off of this?’ It was icky.” Nevertheless, a CNN panel criticized Wolf’s jokes, with a CNN host saying that some of her jokes were “way too personal.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>America is not enduring a crisis of civility. America is enduring a crisis of facts, brought on largely by the rise of the filter bubble, with specious liars given credibility by feckless media and tech companies. It’d be nice if they were all at least a bit more self-aware about it.</div><div>
</div><div>Katie Sullivan contributed research to this post.</div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">also ref</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/25/study-cnns-paid-trump-shills-made-more-500-appearances-over-last-three-months/218325</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Thhis is an apple,” begins the voice-over for an&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/922402297581375488" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">ad</a>&nbsp;CNN is running as part of its new “Facts First” promotional campaign. “Some people might try to tell you that it’s a banana,” the narration continues. “They might scream banana, banana, banana over and over and over again. They might put banana in ALL CAPS. You might even start to believe that this is a banana. But it’s not. This is an apple.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The network’s new branding&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/922519904259108864" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">stresses</a>&nbsp;that “there is no alternative to a fact” and that “opinions matter” but “don’t change the facts.”</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN’s campaign seems driven by the post-truth political environment. President Donald Trump and his administration&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/03/what-journalists-can-do-when-president-liar/214908" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">lie constantly</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/03/09/how-trumps-white-house-delegitimizing-anything-could-get-way-its-propaganda/215613" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">try to undermine</a>&nbsp;the credibility of other sources of information, including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/trumps-war-on-the-press" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">CNN and other media outlets</a>. By confusing the public about what is happening, they hope to maintain power. With top White House aides openly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/kellyanne-conway-alternative-facts/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">declaring their adherence</a>&nbsp;to “alternative facts,” it makes sense for credible journalists to try to rally around the need for reporting to reflect reality.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But if CNN is truly worried about the sort of people who tell you that an apple is really a banana, the network should deal with the stable of pundits it has hired to provide viewers with knee-jerk defenses of the president. Those Trump apologists -- some of whom were previously on Trump’s payroll -- actively harm CNN’s journalism, frequently bringing panel discussions to a screeching halt with claims so dishonest they approach parody, at times drawing on-air rebukes from the network’s anchors. The pundits force the network to constantly debate whether the apple is really a banana.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August, media reporter Michael Calderone&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cnn-pro-trump-pundits_us_5991eacce4b09071f69bb6d1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">identified</a>&nbsp;13 pundits on the CNN payroll “who, to varying degrees, can be identified as pro-Trump”: former Republican Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston, former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, talk radio host Ben Ferguson, former Bush White House official Scott Jennings, former South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, former Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller, former Trump adviser Stephen Moore, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), Republican strategist Alice Stewart, former Trump campaign official David Urban, talk radio host John Phillips, former Bush White House staffer Paris Dennard and former U.S. Attorney Matthew Whitaker. Since then, the network has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cnn-fills-jeffrey-lord-role-ed-martin-1044022" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 700; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">hired</a>&nbsp;Ed Martin, former chair of the Missouri Republican Party, to round out the roster.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Calderone notes, the pundits are not monolithic, with some even offering criticism for the president from time to time. But on balance, the group reliably tilts discussions, often negatively impacting the ability of viewers to come away from the network’s coverage with a strong grasp of the facts.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-block-start: 1em; margin-block-end: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the past three months, those 14 pundits have made 510 appearances on CNN -- an average of more than five appearances a day -- according to a&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>&nbsp;review. Jennings and Ferguson have led the way, with 73 and 69 appearances, respectively. Moore, Kingston, and Stewart round out the top five, each with at least 50 appearances.</font></p></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see proud boys update</font></div><div style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While the Proud Boys are beating people on the streets of New York, right-wing media figures have instead fearmongered about peaceful protesters on the left.&nbsp;Right-wing media figures likened anti-Kavanaugh protesters to&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32_zYA7uhQ6lmnhyKQX6vLBiZAO3OdoNwANYsJ7UtP3NWib8ehMDwRC5PH1PNX6FAyeggbdnPrHjAL6W5B47KRwf5xZcr-ggBsDhBqUKQdTL7vFhr0O04PDBSVyDrJy4ycUKjs4eUHehwt6tYH0TfVVP&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=40&v=1450" style="">deranged monsters</a>, compared them to&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs328E1PpsPcqo5ZzfsA4qgkZUQhhqDOyzF7fISGxgHxE1P6PHMtb7FfPzY5FD2mmx4nk50ivkjWVtBEKVxDRvJSqIaEYLJ1gMTFIS6h0ey_eOJzNxSQv7KkbW7MMmeRVl03Z3ARDhbVnLXQIuQl3B0KWdaurCmHh5iUWl3oqO8Z7s4A&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=41&v=1450" style="">children</a>, claimed that they are on&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32_7S4NR0Oa2JDKB7XJ6-TRMH8hfMLZY-3IA6cg3GrYEQMPdx9BknXw-4leAoKVSK0fsUAGp5MFyPWs1lNnxMLKFEowrxI68prXMKAw2KSHCUFCYy1wkdOwcgZDZCmrfX_n3TdsyeO5ENHr_C_ZxTgiTur25J9qlyB_LIBbL_A3LVg&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=42&v=1450" style="">drugs</a>, called for&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7z4H6Szh2ve6Id8D7jzs32_0f1JNFt3zPs-WLgWvo5iIpJObAlV1_26BlIdsGYF-Nuxvs0jrQkP07R8iszGl0KjcrRzlgVZpGj3IA5Nu2c9le9je-ULQstuX9SKBTdTe07QOOPEEBzRcef6PrVfS5foVu8alH4Ze8f7JCj2J7FUyYwCeFqlEXTzJltkpXovicQ&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=43&v=1450" style="">punitive measures</a>&nbsp;against them, and more. The attacks are&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4RAjP_eDJaOVs0HBElTxXXaCLWMaroAiYOq5gWKq4ywlmFo4Jr7Z7C5rx6en157iDmEW4fRdDxqnc6uvwWRZkjrjktKZ_mrdonWdBPVrnB9YRN7bkoUx5VRj22if7IAV1MQ7Qm81JTL11l_EZOC79WExdNCUWHYb52XndOOivTsvw&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=44&v=1450" style="">out of control</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is all part of a larger tactic on the right. As Matt Gertz&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4SJ9UDTciaTfMm199dAT8BdPBpN1MFq17yk8EfD_DX6fthtQqKJj28ARx6QQTX3Xx4n81MDdp9QdASB-aBYUAaqMCi06APorbsHL3XTdymib0yG-qK3UreGyTfcydg4z6KUj2N2EcGWoR4B4ESrDYFp&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=45&v=1450" style="">explained</a>, the right-wing midterm engagement strategy is telling viewers that Democrats are coming to kill them: “With the midterm elections only four weeks away, a slew of Fox News commentators are warning their conservative viewers that they are physically imperiled by a ‘violent’ leftist ‘mob’ and must vote to keep Republicans in power in order to protect themselves. Their argument is an effort to turn out the GOP base by weaponizing conservative criticism of the protestors who opposed Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em><strong>Also:</strong></em>&nbsp;It's not just Fox News. CNN's right-wing pundits are running with&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://mediamatters.nationbuilder.com/r?u=3YhLhUxTGfXV40jjcf0E7zQgA_lKgFY2qUmWqav0z4TM09-klqwQ-xesa_tDJW1waRcAI_uYlHQGXFm22NAfppuRbh2pvIqyZHX79TlzcQDJM87BbBZoH6K2FrALJDMqrLkZdNoAjO3u_np9A9cejjOfewv8hDYj6Fbik6M4Sr44IZQTcOwPVmBiUMMotXY7&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1014weekly&n=46&v=1450" style="">this same talking point</a>.</font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gop eg mcconn and bret picked up left is violent meme from horo</font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Republican Senators are being targeted with death threats, harassment and violence in the midst of the political battle over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.</div><div>
</div><div>U.S. Senators have increased security this past week amid threats, doxxing of their personal information and hostile crowds of abortion activists and others who oppose Kavanaugh.</div><div>
</div><div>The Daily Wire reports Senate Republicans held a closed-door meeting Tuesday to discuss protections for themselves, their staff and their families.</div><div>
</div><div>“There’s a lot of unprecedented activity taking place,” U.S. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said at the meeting. “We’ve been through this in the past, but this is the worst it’s been since I’ve been here.</div><div>
</div><div>“I think we need to recognize that it’s not going to go away with the final determination of whether he’s is going to be on the Supreme Court,” Corker added. “There’s something underlying there that we’re experiencing throughout the country right now that we’ve got to figure out a way to address.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>The hostility and threats surrounding Kavanaugh’s confirmation have been prominent in the news. The Washington Post reports hundreds of people were arrested this week during protests against Kavanaugh at the Hart Senate Office Building.[note slippage]</b></div><div>
</div><div>Earlier this month, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a key swing vote, said abortion activists have left threatening phone messages at her offices, and one threatened to rape one of her female staffers.</div><div>
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</div><div>Here’s more from the report:</div><div>
</div><div>Just this past week, several Republican senators, including Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Andy Harris (R-MD) have found themselves in heated confrontations with anti-Kavanaugh protesters. Harris was reportedly physically assaulted as he tried to shut the door on protesters in the hallway outside his office.</div><div>
</div><div>And anti-Kavanaugh protesters seem to have no intention of letting up. In a tweet today, Planned Parenthood outlined a plan to find senators who vote “yes” to confirm Kavanaugh, and a star-studded “#CancelKavanaugh” protest is slated for noon near Capitol Hill, followed by a march to the Senate office building. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, tempers are expected to flare even further.</div><div>
</div><div>Kavanaugh, his family and one of the women who accused him of sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford, also have received death threats and threats of violence.</div><div>
</div><div>Threats and violence against pro-lifers and conservatives have been increasing since President Donald Trump was elected.</div><div>
</div><div>LifeNews has reported about dozens of threats, vandalism and other violence against pro-life advocates in the past year. These range from threats against prominent pro-life politicians like U.S. Reps. Chris Smith, Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Steve Scalise to a Missouri sidewalk counselor who had a gun pointed at him. In September, a popular conservative blogger was under police protection after she received rape and death threats because of a pro-life tweet.</div><div>
</div><div>In June, a Florida man who volunteers at Planned Parenthood was arrested after he allegedly threatened to kill pro-life U.S. Rep. Brian Mast’s children.</div><div>
</div><div>At least two state Republican offices also have been targeted.</div><div>
</div><div>The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation Saturday.</div><div>
</div><div>Kavanaugh has served on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for D.C. for more than a decade, where he wrote decisions protecting religious liberty and enforcing restrictions on abortion. Pro-life leaders believe he would do the same on the U.S. Supreme Court.</div><div>
</div><div>Pro-abortion groups have labeled Kavanaugh a “serious threat” to “women’s right” to abortion, while national pro-life leaders have expressed high hopes for Kavanaugh and the future of unborn babies’ rights.</div><div>
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sep 27, 2018 -&nbsp;</span></font></span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here's What&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">Brett Kavanaugh</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Plans to Say in His&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">Defense</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;on Thursday ... a prepared</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">testimony</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;he plans to share at his&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">hearing</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in front of the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">Senate</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Judiciary ... </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The vile threats of&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold;">violence&nbsp;</span>against my family </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">will not drive me out. ....&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">Senate</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Judiciary Committee Set to Vote on Kavanaugh</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;">Confirmation</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Friday.</span></font></font></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; 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</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">The wife of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, has received a host of vulgar threats since a California professor accused him of sexual assault.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">The volume of threats Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, a town manager in a Maryland suburb, has received has risen this week, a senior Trump administration official told the Washington Examiner.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Emails sent to Ashley Kavanaugh are currently being investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service, the official said.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">In one email Ashley Kavanaugh received to her work email account this week, the person wrote, “Please tell your rapist, lying, cheating, corrupt bitch of a husband to put a bullet in his ugly fucking skull.”</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">“My condolences to you for being married to a rapist. Although you probably deserve it,” the email, obtained by the Washington Examiner, continued.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">A second email sent had the subject line, “Did you know your husband is a rapist?????”</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
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</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">“Hey bitch, did you know your husband was a rapist before you married him? Fuck you and your fucking family,” the email read.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">A third email tells Ashley Kavanaugh to “eat shit.”</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">“Fuck you, rape enabling ct. Your husband is a liar, thief, rapist, and probably a pedophile. Burn in hell you worthless fucking ct. May you, your husband and your kids burn in hell you fucking pieces of trash,” the third message said.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">The three emails directed to Ashley Kavanaugh came from the same account.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">California professor Christine Blasey Ford accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party 36 years ago. Ford said a drunken Brett Kavanaugh pinned her down on a bed, groped her, and tried to take off her clothing.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Brett Kavanaugh has categorically denied the accusation.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Ford, too, has received violent threats since she spoke publicly about the alleged incident and has left her home.</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
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</font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/americans-outraged-after-usa-today-publishes-trump-op-ed-filled-lies-and-dangerous-rhetoric"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.alternet.org</font></a></font></font></div></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div style=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Between 2015 and 2016, fatal workplace injuries&nbsp;<a href="https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/statement/12192017" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;">increased by 7%</a>, an alarming statistic. The 5,190 workplace deaths in 2016 weren’t all in one career sector or geographical area, either. <b>Some of it is a 23% increase in workplace violence, now the Number Two cause of workplace fatalities in 2016. </b>Overdoses on the job are on the rise, too, with a 32% increase in 2016, and an increase of about 25% each year in fatalities since 2012.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.injuryclaimcoach.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;">Injury Claim Coach</a>&nbsp;has pulled 2015 and 2016 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and organized it into a series of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.injuryclaimcoach.com/fatal-workplace-injuries.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit;">visualizations</a>&nbsp;that tell the story.</font></font></font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-family: " gotham="Gotham" narrow="Narrow" ssm="SSm" a="A" b="B" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizeLegibility" line-height="line-height" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What kind injuries are we talking about?</font></font></font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015, the BLS listed workplace fatalities grouped into six categories, with transportation incidents taking the lion’s share at 43% of the total.</font></font></font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div style=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">... she also did not ask Fredericks --&nbsp;who&nbsp;<a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/trump-campaign-virginia-chairman-asks-question-in-white-house-briefing/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">describes himself</a>&nbsp;as “the Trump campaign’s Virginia chairman” and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/category/media/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">serves on</a>&nbsp;Trump’s 2020 presidential advisory board --&nbsp;about his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTw_DuakYZQ" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recent interview</a>with Scheuer, in which the latter characterized several prominent public officials as “maggots” and undocumented immigrants as “vermin.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Such dehumanizing language is, according to David Neiwert, author of “<a href="https://amzn.to/2KCbl4t" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump</a>” and the Pacific Northwest correspondent for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>, a forerunner to justifications for murder, as seen in the rhetoric of 19th-century minister and self-proclaimed Indian-hater&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chivington.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Col. John Chivington</a>, which preceded a massacre; Bill O’Reilly’s demonization of Dr. George Tiller on Fox News, before the abortion provider’s assassination; and the “<a href="https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/04/radio-rmalkin.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hate radio</a>” talk that inspired genocide in Rwanda.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Violent eliminationist rhetoric like this has a long and deep history in America,” Neiwert told Salon, “from Col. Chivington declaring ‘<a href="https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/12/eliminationism-in-america-v.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Nits make lice</a>’ at Sand Creek to Bill O’Reilly labeling Dr. George Tiller ‘<a href="https://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-blames-ge-soldiers-murder-not-o" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the Baby Killer</a>.’ It creates permission for less stable, more violent actors to murder their targets in cold blood. We saw rhetoric like this inspire the massacre of thousands of people in Rwanda, and its purpose here is to do the same for our country and its citizens. It’s not just vile, it’s profoundly dangerous and profoundly un-American.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many CNN journalists, including Costello, Tapper and Acosta, have reported on President Trump’s claims that the media are “the enemy of the people.” They and others have sought to hold White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (who has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/podcast/sarah-sanders/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">appeared</a>&nbsp;on Fredericks’ show, and who has recently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/31/exclusive-trump-endorsed-radio-show-has-promoted-ex-cia-agents-call-for-right-wing-rebellion/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">elevated and validated him</a>&nbsp;at a White House&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/media/397723-trump-campaign-virginia-chairman-asks-question-in-white-house-briefing" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">press briefing</a>)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/08/02/sarah-sanders-jim-acosta-press-briefing-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/trump-and-the-media/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">accountable</a>&nbsp;for her silence, which some observers might view as complicity.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recently, CNN’s Don Lemon held Fredericks accountable on-air for defending Trump’s characterization of nations in the developing world as “shithole countries” by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/01/12/don-lemon-cut-mic-panel-ctn.cnn" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">cutting his mic</a>. That CNN has continued to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/category/media/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">give Fredericks a platform</a>&nbsp;is surprising. CNN could have and should have known about Fredericks’ and Scheuer’s promotion of eliminationist rhetoric –– and disclosed to viewers this fact and its significance –– lest anyone come to misinterpret CNN’s silence as complicity.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Salon asked CNN&nbsp;spokesman Richard Hudock why the network continues to provide Fredericks a platform, despite his promotion of the views of an ex-CIA agent who has said it is almost time for armed Trump voters to murder journalists and other prominent Americans, including CNN's own Tapper and Acosta, he had no comment.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Kill them. Kill them all!”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scheuer is a frequent guest and occasional host of John Fredericks Radio, which routinely directs its listeners to his blog, where he&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.fo/7zKFk" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">wrote on July 14</a>&nbsp;that it was “quite near time” for “well-armed citizens who voted for Trump” to “kill those seeking to impose tyranny,” of whom there was a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/31/exclusive-trump-endorsed-radio-show-has-promoted-ex-cia-agents-call-for-right-wing-rebellion/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“long and very precise list”</a>&nbsp;of journalists, activists, pundits, abortion providers, Republican and Democratic elected officials, federal judges, law professors, FBI agents, intelligence officials and Justice Department officials, along with “all who support them.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“If Trump does not act soon to erase the above noted tyranny and tyrants,” he concluded, “the armed citizenry must step in and eliminate them.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As recently as&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.fo/5jwHj" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">July 17, Scheuer, writing on his blog,&nbsp;</a>cast as “traitors” a number of public officials – as well as journalists Tapper, Acosta, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and reporters for the Washington Post and New York Times. He said that these members of the media, along with members of Congress, federal bureaucrats, and “prominent Jewish-Americans” who participate in, oversee or report on the “Russia-hacking” investigation are “more than worthy of merciless annihilation.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The same day, Scheuer appeared on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/podcast/dr-michael-scheuer-10/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Fredericks Radio,</a>&nbsp;on which he commended the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he said killed indiscriminately in Syria – as if suggesting that were a good thing. Fredericks said this reminded him of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson, who once said, “Kill them. Kill them all!”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Kill them all,” Scheuer repeated. “And whoever supports them. Kill them, too.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fredericks echoed, “Kill them, too.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Fredericks’ signal-boosting of Scheuer’s eliminationist rhetoric escalated on the same day that Salon published its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/31/exclusive-trump-endorsed-radio-show-has-promoted-ex-cia-agents-call-for-right-wing-rebellion/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">report</a>, “Trump-endorsed radio show has promoted ex-CIA agent’s call for right-wing rebellion.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scheuer&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTw_DuakYZQ" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">told</a>&nbsp;Fredericks’ listeners that, while GoDaddy had taken down his website (archived&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.fo/non-intervention.com" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>) after his inflammatory&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.fo/5jwHj" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">July 17 blog post</a>, he planned to launch a new blog at the domain non-intervention2.com, which he said is “now registered” with JustHost, one of dozens of hosting companies&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reviewhell.com/blog/endurance-international-group-eig-hosting/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">owned</a>&nbsp;by Endurance International Group (<a href="https://twitter.com/EnduranceIntl" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">@EnduranceIntl</a>) of Burlington, Massachusetts.&nbsp;The site at that domain,&nbsp;<a href="https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=non-intervention2.com" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">registered anonymously with JustHost</a>&nbsp;on July 21,&nbsp;went live on Aug. 7.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fredericks repeated the domain name for the benefit of listeners.&nbsp;He said that Scheuer’s website had offered “insight and analysis that no one else has, and I value that.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We look forward to your getting your website back up, so your blogs can get going,” said Fredericks. “You should be able to post whatever you please.” However, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newseum.org/2018/05/01/newseum-institute-renamed-freedom-forum-institute/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Freedom Forum Institute</a>&nbsp;– the education and outreach partner of the Freedom Forum and the Newseum – has pointed out that the First Amendment does not protect some types of speech,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/about/faq/which-types-of-speech-are-not-protected-by-the-first-amendment/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">such as</a>&nbsp;plagiarism, false advertising, defamation, child pornography, blackmail, solicitation to commit crimes,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/topics/freedom-of-speech-2/personal-public-expression-overview/incitement-to-imminent-lawless-action/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">incitement to imminent lawless action</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/neal_horsley_of_nuremberg_files_died_true_threats_case_reconsidered_by_supreme.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">true threats</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scheuer told Fredericks that he was attempting to transfer all his previous blog posts to the new domain. These collectively represent years of&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.fo/E8Xb2#selection-207.493-207.999" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">his vision</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;“a collective, armed, and wide-ranging American rebellion”&nbsp;to eradicate “tyranny,” along with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/31/exclusive-trump-endorsed-radio-show-has-promoted-ex-cia-agents-call-for-right-wing-rebellion/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lists of people</a>&nbsp;whom he casts as “tyrants,” “traitors,” “miscreants,” “maggots” and&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.fo/W9Qfi" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“expendables,”</a>&nbsp;and whom he says Trump voters should prepare to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2018/07/31/exclusive-trump-endorsed-radio-show-has-promoted-ex-cia-agents-call-for-right-wing-rebellion/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">shoot or hang</a>, and soon. For example, in a&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.fo/5jwHj" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">July 2 blog post</a>,&nbsp;Scheuer advised giving Trump time to act, and holding off the “reckoning” until at least Aug. 1.&nbsp;He wrote, “If this period passes, Americans are in the happy position of already being well-armed and in possession of an initial, partial list of miscreants who are in desperate need of attrition.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scheuer’s inaugural blog post</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is why CNN’s platforming of Fredericks matters. Fredericks amplifies Scheuer’s voice and promotes his website; this call to armed rebellion is what readers will find when they go there. Scheuer filed his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.non-intervention2.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">inaugural blog post</a>&nbsp;on his new site on Aug. 7. He protested that GoDaddy had taken down his previous site due to his argument “that if Trump cannot/will not enforce the law and arrest, try, incarcerate, and, if the law allows, execute those who believe and act as if they are above it, American citizens will have to do their duty by using their weapons to snuff out the authors of tyranny” along with “those who support them.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I stand not as an inciter,” Scheuer claimed, despite his advocacy of armed rebellion, “but rather as the incited and as a responder to the clear threats of civil war” which, he said, come from Democrats, the media, academics, the financial and tech industries, antifa and Black Lives Matter activists, teachers’ unions, “the minority groups,” feminists, immigrants, members of the LGBTQ community and advocates of the value of diversity. “Those are the sources that are solely responsible for the civil war that is nearing,” he wrote. “That they are ignorant, or feign ignorance, of that fact will add to their surprise if the time for Rob Reiner’s war comes and so many of them find themselves reaping the armed whirlwind they and ol’ Rob have sown.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also embraced Russian President Vladimir Putin as a champion for white people, adding that “it seemed ridiculous to worry about Russian meddling in U.S. elections.” Scheuer mused, “I have nattered on here longer than I intended.” He then excoriated the “tech giants” for removing content from “Alec Jones” [sic]. “In banning Jones,” he warned, “those on the left again have proven that they are the ones who are seeking to provoke a civil war. ... My own hunch is that if their provocations work, they will enjoy the reality of war with considerably less gusto than they did while so loudly calling for and provoking it.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The truth shall make you free”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scheuer made clear to John Fredericks Radio listeners, in his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.johnfredericksradio.com/podcast/dr-michael-scheuer-11/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">July 31 interview</a>, that he had no intention of tempering his violent visions or inflammatory rhetoric. Indeed, in defense of his recent blog posts, he said that the Declaration of Independence provides the American people “a duty to kill those who are trying to impose tyranny.” He said that “if you have a tyranny being imposed on you, it is your right, it’s your duty, to resist it.” When he added, “And that means using the Second Amendment,” Fredericks appeared to ratify this idea of gun violence, saying, “The truth, Dr. Scheuer, will set you free. No doubt.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While any Christian listeners might have recognized “The truth shall make you free” as a quote from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+8%3A32&version=KJV" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gospel of John</a>, others who might have caught the broadcast, such as Scheuer’s wife, CIA senior official Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, would know it as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cia.gov/flash-movie-text.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the agency’s motto</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The vermin we see running around”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scheuer went on to characterize Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence, Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, prosecutor Andrew Weissmann of Mueller’s team, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper as “maggots” who, he says, “have to be eradicated.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Weissmann, Mueller, Warner, these are not men, John,” he said. “These are maggots. And our system is loaded with these maggots. Whether it’s Clapper, or any of the rest of them that we’ve talked about this morning. And the system has to be cleaned. They have to be eradicated out of the system.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fredericks introduced the topic of what to do about illegal immigration on the Mexican border, and how to respond to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/mean-abolish-ice/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">people who call for</a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/opinion/sunday/abolish-ice-ocasio-cortez-democrats.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">abolition of ICE</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I think the vermin we see running around&nbsp;–&nbsp;” Scheuer began, “without ICE, it would be up to the American people to stop immigration. And there’s only one way to do that, John. And that’s with weaponry. These people are playing with civil war, with fire, with horrible results.” He went on to suggest that without ICE, the situation would require “an armed citizenry” to take vigilante action.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a series of essays, Neiwert has&nbsp;<a href="https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/12/eliminationism-in-america-i.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">described eliminationist rhetoric</a>&nbsp;as a shunning of “dialogue and the democratic exchange of ideas” by advocating the “outright elimination of the opposing side,” often exemplified by&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3dpqCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT204&lpg=PT204&dq=dave+neiwert+vermin&source=bl&ots=LwPs2jMXIK&sig=XWorxC2x9UVulBVT2dEUm3D7BYE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoi-LQ-NrcAhVHTd8KHcS3A084ChDoATAAegQIABAB#v=onepage&q=dave%20neiwert%20vermin&f=false" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">descriptions of the “enemy” as “vermin.”</a></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Such rhetoric “always depicts its opposition as simply beyond the pale,”&nbsp;<a href="https://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2006/12/eliminationism-in-america-i.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Neiwert has written</a>, “and in the end the embodiment of evil itself&nbsp;–&nbsp;unfit for participation in their vision of society, and thus in need of elimination.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It often depicts its designated ‘enemy’ as vermin (especially rats and cockroaches) or diseases, and loves to incessantly suggest that its targets are themselves disease carriers,” Neiwert continued. “A close corollary&nbsp;–&nbsp;but not as nakedly eliminationist&nbsp;–&nbsp;are claims that the opponents are traitors or criminals, or gross liabilities for our national security, and thus inherently fit for elimination or at least incarceration.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Such depictions are “often voiced as crude ‘jokes’,” Neiwert noted, “the humor of which, when analyzed, is inevitably predicated on a venomous hatred.&nbsp;But what we also know about this rhetoric is that, as surely as night follows day, this kind of talk eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CNN commentator Ana Navarro&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/997086594908569600/video/1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">has responded forcefully</a>&nbsp;to this kind of dehumanizing talk. On CNN’s “New Day,” Navarro has accused President Trump of “dehumanizing people” by referring to “animals” during a discussion on immigration. “It’s what the Nazis did,” she said. “It’s what slave owners did. It’s not what Americans do.” She advised Trump to “measure his words.”</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week, Apple, Google and Facebook announced that they had&nbsp;<a href="https://nbcnews.to/2Mo93YJ" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">removed content</a>&nbsp;from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars show, which Facebook said&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/6/facebook-suspends-four-alex-jones-and-infowars-pag/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">violated</a>&nbsp;its policy against “dehumanizing language.” Whether one agrees with their actions or not, they were within their First Amendment rights to do so. As Freedom Forum Institute president&nbsp;Gene Policinski&nbsp;has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/2017/09/16/speaking-your-mind-when-free-speech-has-consequences/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">stated</a>, “the amendment is designed to restrain the government, not private companies.” It remains to be seen whether these corporations will respond in a similar fashion to John Fredericks Radio, which has its own&nbsp;<a href="https://facebook.com/johnfredericksradio" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook page</a>, and is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnPSyII9QOCP5TcDqm9mKPg" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">available on YouTube</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-john-fredericks-show/id1192832360?mt=2" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">as an iTunes podcast</a>.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fredericks, however, neither questioned nor challenged Scheuer’s visions of civil war and vigilantes shooting immigrants like “vermin,” and eradicating public servants he dehumanizes as “maggots.” Instead, Fredericks thanked him for his “intriguing insight” and wished him well on the relaunch of his website.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two days later,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/shows/across-america-carol-costello" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Carol Costello</a>&nbsp;hosted Fredericks on HLN to discuss characterizations of journalists as enemies of the people. No doubt everyone at CNN understands the seriousness of such&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-protests/right-wing-protesters-and-opponents-square-off-in-portland-idUSKBN1KP0Q0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">violent rhetoric</a>&nbsp;and the urgency of holding Trump’s administration and his campaign accountable for their silence, which might fairly be seen as complicity.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When CNN journalists have received threats, the network has taken them seriously. CNN media critic Brian Stelter&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/c-span-reports-caller-to-fbi-threatened-cnn-brian-stelter-don-lemon-2018-8" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recently aired</a>&nbsp;a C-SPAN clip of a caller&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/400465-cnns-brian-stelter-airs-clip-of-c-span-caller-threatening-to-shoot-him-and-don" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">threatening to shoot</a>&nbsp;him and Lemon. Stelter said such calls and emails are “coming in more often.” But the fact remains that CNN has continued to provide a platform for Fredericks while turning a blind eye towards his involvement with Scheuer, who has called for the “merciless annihilation” of numerous people, including reporters for CNN and its competitors. CNN’s confusion about how best to respond to the notion that they are the enemy of the people recalls the ironic phrase&nbsp;<a href="https://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2014/05/19/the-morphology-of-a-humorous-phrase/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">often associated</a>&nbsp;with Walt Kelly’s cartoon possum Pogo: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”</font></font></font></p></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Kansas, a federal jury convicted three white male militia members Wednesday of plotting to massacre Somali immigrants at a mosque and an apartment building in Garden City. Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen were found guilty of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, after an&nbsp;</span><span class="caps" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">FBI</span><span style="" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;informant said they were plotting to use guns and car bombs to mass murder Somalis. The three belonged to a militia called the Crusaders. At trial, their lawyer admitted the trio referred to Muslims as “cockroaches” but argued they hadn’t meant to go through with their plot.</span></font></font></font></div><div style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=


Norway:

<em>Cross-posted from <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/07/25/277564/norway-terrorist-is-a-global-warming-denier/">ThinkProgress Green</a>.</em>

</font></font></font><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Inspired by climate denial pundits, right-wing Norwegian terrorist

Anders Breivik railed against global warming "enviro-communism" in his

manifesto. Breivik -- who confessed to killing 76 people in two attacks

in Norway -- published on the web a <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20110725/NEWS07/110725017/Norway-massacre-suspect-inspired-by-Unabomber-Ted-Kaczynski">1,500-page manifesto</a> describing his Christian conservative conspiracy theories. In one

section, "Green is the new Red -- Stop Enviro-Communism!" Breivik argues

that global warming is actually an eco-Marxist plot "to create a world

government" using the "Anthropogenic Global Warming scam":</font></font></font></p>

<blockquote style="">

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You might know them as environmentalists, enviro-communists,

eco-Marxists, neo-Communists or eco-fanatics. They

all claim they want to save the world from global warming but their

true agenda is to contribute to create a world government lead by the UN

or in other ways increase the transfer of resources (redistribute

resources) from the developed Western world to the third world. They

hope to accomplish this through the distribution of misinformation

(propaganda) which they hope will lead to increased taxation of already

excessively taxed Europeans and U.S. citizens.</font></p>

</blockquote>

<p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Breivik's conspiracy theories are insane, they are <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/07/21/51881/castle-townhall/">in line</a> with mainstream opinion among American conservatives. He cites

Christopher Monckton's speech before the Minnesota Free Market Institute

in 2009, accusing President Obama of trying to <a href="http://mnfmi.org/2009/10/16/monckton-speaks-to-over-700-at-minnesota-free-market-institute-event/">cede United States sovereignty</a> to the United Nations through climate treaties. Monckton -- a rabid conspiracy theorist who claims his opponents are <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2011/06/monckton_says_that_if_you_acce.php">Nazis</a> -- was a <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2010/05/moncktons_testimony_to_congres.php">Republican witness</a> before Congress on global warming in 2010.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Breivik also believed that the "Climategate" hacking incident

"revealed how top scientists conspired to falsify data in the face of

declining global temperatures in order to prop up the premise that

manmade factors are driving climate change."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of his sources for this delusional claim is right-wing climate

conspiracy theorist James Delingpole, who regularly appears on Fox News programs,

including <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyPMRBwFVRI">Glenn Beck</a>'s now defunct show. The Norwegian terrorist also cited climate conspiracy blogger Steve McIntyre, who appeared in a <a href="http://climateaudit.org/2009/12/20/fox-news-9-p-m/">one-hour Fox News special</a> on global warming in 2009. McIntyre's conspiracy theories have been promoted by Rep. <a href="http://republicans.globalwarming.house.gov/Media/file/PDFs/Corr_Oversight/05062010EPA_Endangerment_Finding_Minority_Staff_Report.pdf">James Sensenbrenner</a> (R-Wis.) [PDF] and Sen. <a href="http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=8f16552a-802a-23ad-465f-8858beb85ac2">Jim Inhofe</a> (R-Okla.). <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate-zombie-caucus/">Dozens of Republican members</a> of Congress have endorsed the Climategate conspiracy theory.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In reality, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/06/17/247889/shawn-otto-science-is-never-partisan-but-science-is-always-political/">science is not partisan</a>.

It is a fact that the burning of hundreds of billions of tons of coal

and oil is dangerously warming the planet. The torrent of propaganda

spewed by conservative outlets and politicians to fight action is toxic

and irresponsible.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Manifesto excerpt:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.72 Green is the new Red - Stop Enviro-Communism!</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You might know them as environmentalists, enviro-communists,

eco-Marxists, neo-Communists or eco-fanatics. They all claim they want

to save the world from global warming but their true agenda is to

contribute to create a world government lead by the UN or in other ways

increase the transfer of resources (redistribute resources) from the

developed Western world to the third world. They hope to accomplish this

through the distribution of misinformation (propaganda) which they hope

will lead to increased taxation of already excessively taxed Europeans

and US citizens.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The neo-communist agenda uses politicised science to propagate the

global warming scam in order to implement their true agenda; global

Marxism. Marxism‘s ultimate goal is to redistribute wealth from

successful nations to failed nations, instead of actually trying to fix

these broken nations. Politicised science is being used by the cultural

Marxist hegemony to manipulate the unsuspecting masses. They are using

our trust and faith in science to spread lies and hysteria that will

allow Marxists to implement socialist "solutions" to a problem that

never actually existed.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To quote one of these UN eco-Marxist elites:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Isn‘t the only hope for the planet that the industrialised

civilisations collapse? Isn‘t it part of our responsibility to bring

that about?"</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This quote was from the opening statement of Maurice Strong in the

1992 ‘Earth Summit' in Rio de Janeiro. Strong is the first Executive

Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yuri Bezmenov, former KGB agent and expert on ideological subversion.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"A person who is demoralised is unable to assess true information."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are a few more sources indicating the true agenda of the eco-Marxists:</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion

"as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity,"

according to a paper written in 2007 to influence the future strategy of

the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world's would-be

environmental watchdog.[1]</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch how nations are demoralised for ideological subversion:</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">
<a href="http://www.grist.org/climate-skeptics/2011-07-25-norway-terrorist-is-a-climate-change-denier">
http://www.grist.org/climate-skeptics/2011-07-25-norway-terrorist-is-a-climate-change-denier</a>


=</font><div style=""><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/united-states-witnessing-shocking-rise-alt-right-violence">https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/united-states-witnessing-shocking-rise-alt-right-violence</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">L<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ast August's&nbsp;"Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which started with a torchlit mob chanting racist slogans and ended with a far-right activist murdering an anti-racist protester, galvanized national attention toward the growing problem of white nationalists organizing under a new branding term, the "alt-right." The death of Heather Heyer after a&nbsp;young white nationalist named James Alex Fields slammed his car into a crowd drove home that the alt-right wasn't just a bunch of douchebags playing Nazi on the internet, but a serious phenomenon that could include deadly violence.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, as a recent report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) entitled "<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/20180205/alt-right-killing-people" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Alt-Right Is Killing People</a>" makes clear, Heyer's death was not an isolated phenomenon. By their estimates, she was the 37th person murdered&nbsp;by someone apparently fueled by alt-right ideology in the past four years. Since Heyer's death, six more people have been killed by alt-right extremists, bringing the total to 43. That same increase in violence has included 67 injuries, including the 19 other people Fields hit with his car in Charlottesville.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“There is this subset of young white men that is radicalizing, and I think a lot of that has to do with perceived status and their own life outcomes," SPLC researcher Keegan Hankes told Salon. Such "disaffected" young men, he said,&nbsp;"are who we are seeing go on to commit these acts."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What makes a murderer a part of the alt-right? As Hankes explained, that's often tough to pin down. White supremacists and other alt-right activists "purposefully leave their ideology with fuzzy boundaries," leaving the question of "who’s included and who’s not" deliberately vague. In part this is to create "plausible deniability" if and when alt-right adherents do commit acts of violence. The alt-right movement is "purposefully sprawling," Hankes said, spread out over various sites and social media platforms, channeled through a variety of figureheads,&nbsp;and rejecting more centralized or coherent organizing strategies.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To cut through this uncertainty, SPLC researchers focused on a specific profile: Young white men who have radicalized themselves, usually through the internet. In most cases this means engaging with online propaganda that tells young men or teenage boys that their romantic, social and employment problems are the fault of "social justice warriors" and "political correctness," rather than bad luck or their personal failings. These young men are encouraged to lash out at women and people of color, primarily through online trolling. A few of them, perhaps inevitably, start hungering to do more serious damage in the real world.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The researchers traced this violent trend back to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/05/31/elliot_rodger_a_turning_point_for_men/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Elliot Rodger</a>, a young man who killed seven people and wounded 14 in a 2014 rampage through Isla Vista, California, before killing himself. Rodger's explicit motivation was to seek revenge against women who had supposedly rejected him sexually, though his first three victims were his male roommates. He had spent a great deal of time on misogynist forums that routinely peddle the idea that feminism has ruined dating and sex for men.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The alt-right is associated more closely with white supremacy than misogyny, but as Hankes explained it, misogyny is "a&nbsp;through-line through the whole ideology" and the alt-right community holds "a general distaste for gender egalitarianism." In fact, alt-right leaders target online forums where young men gather&nbsp;to demonize women and exchange "pick-up artist" tips, using misogyny as the bait to lure young men into a white nationalist ideology. Baiting angry young white men with the idea that men of color are "stealing" all the white women — and that's why they can't get a date — is a common tactic.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's also an idea that showed up in Rodger's 17,000-word manifesto, in which he wrote,&nbsp;“How could an inferior, ugly black boy be able to get a white girl and not me?" His alt-right fans have seized onto this passage and used it to build up their claim that interracial dating and marriage is tantamount to "white genocide."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the murders on the SPLC's list, such as Dylann Roof's June 2015 mass killing of nine people in an African-American church in South Carolina, have&nbsp;become the focus of massive&nbsp;media attention. Others, such as 21-year-old&nbsp;William Edward Atchison's murder of two students at a New Mexico high school in December 2017, have received relatively little. But they largely fit the pattern: Angry young men who took their grievances to online forums to self-radicalize and then lashed out violently in the real world.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked if this pattern resembles the way that Islamic terrorist groups like ISIS work, Hankes agreed, but emphasized differences in how social media networks and web server hosts have reacted to the alt-right. He noted that "several of the big social media companies"&nbsp;manage to get most ISIS propaganda taken down "before it’s even posted to the public." Generally speaking, the alt-right "have been given more leash and have more free range on these platforms."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last summer's fiasco in Charlottesville, Hankes added, is an example&nbsp;of what alt-right organizers were able to accomplish online: For "so many of those individuals, this was their first rally that they had ever attended. Many of them came from all the way across the country."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To be clear, these young men should not be seen as mindless ciphers who simply absorb a bunch of right-wing memes and rants on Reddit and come out the other side delivering heil-Hitler salutes and committing violent crimes.&nbsp;The alt-right is a true grassroots movement, formed from thousands of disparate young white men telling each other, over the years, that people of color and women are to blame for their problems. It's a movement many years in the making -- that got a huge shot in the arm from the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump "puts so much wind in the sails of these guys," Hankes explained. 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                    <a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/silencing-the-scientists-the-rise-of-right-wing-populism/#authordata">Clive Hamilton</a>
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                  <div class="box"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keywords: 
                  <a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/keywords/climate-change-denial/" rel="tag">climate change denial</a>, 
                  <a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/keywords/climate-sceptics/" rel="tag">climate sceptics</a>, 
                  <a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/keywords/climategate/" rel="tag">climategate</a>, 
                  <a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/keywords/fox-news/" rel="tag">Fox News</a>, 
                  <a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/keywords/glenn-beck/" rel="tag">Glenn Beck</a>, 
                  <a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/keywords/rupert-murdoch/" rel="tag">Rupert Murdoch</a>
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                  <p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last month, Americans were shocked at the attempted

murder of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of

six bystanders. The local County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik captured the

immediate assessment of many when he linked the attempted murder to the

rise of

                  <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345386/Arizona-shooting-Astronaut-husband-Gabrielle-Giffords-bedside-fights-life.html" target="_blank">violent anti-government rhetoric</a> and imagery, observing, “The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous.” 
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When asked if the Congresswoman had any enemies her

father replied: “Yeah. The whole Tea Party”. Many, including Giffords

herself, had had a premonition that the inflammatory language of radical

right-wing activists would sooner or later find real expression.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The same hate-filled rhetoric that created the

circumstances in which Gabrielle Giffords was gunned down also stokes

ferocious attacks on climate scientists and environmentalists in the

United States. Debunking climate science is official policy at Rupert

Murdoch’s Fox News; a

                  <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/12/15/leaked-email-fox-news-sammon-cast-doubt-on-climate-science/" target="_blank">leaked memo</a> from management has instructed reporters to always cast doubt on data reporting global temperature increases.</font><br/>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of the bitterest attacks on climate scientists

are made by commentators employed by Fox News. Fox ranters Bill

O’Reilly and Sean Hannity often ridicule climate science. Glenn Beck

calls global warming “

                  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft8LfE7AI2w" target="_blank">the greatest scam in history</a>”

and gives air-time to Christopher Monckton to attack the work of

climate scientists as fraudulent with his unique blend of statistical

gobbledegook, invented “facts” and off-the-planet conspiracy theories.

The network sometimes features Steve Milloy, an energy lobbyist who ran

the The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, a front group initially

devoted to denying the link between smoking and cancer. As James Hoggan

points out in his book

                  <em>Climate Cover-Up</em>, Milloy is introduced as an expert on “
                  <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-cover-up" target="_blank">junk science</a>”, meaning climate science.</font><br/>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another Fox regular is Marc Morano, the former aide to Republican Senator James Inhofe, founder of the most malicious

                  <a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/" target="_blank">anti-science blog</a>,

and the man who said climate scientists deserve to be publicly flogged.

Last April on Fox News, Morano launched a virulent attack on Professor

Michael Mann of Penn State University, calling him a “charlatan” and

responsible for “the best science that politics can manufacture”. When

Morano singles out a climate scientist for attack on his website he

includes their e-mail addresses and invites his followers to “get in

touch”. Many of them do.</font>

                    <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Cyber-bullies</strong>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last year I wrote a series of articles detailing

how Australia’s most distinguished climate scientists have become the

target of a new form of

                  <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/32912.html" target="_blank">cyber-bullying</a>

aimed at driving them out of the public domain. Each time they enter

the public debate through a newspaper article or radio interview they

are immediately subjected to a torrent of aggressive, abusive and, at

times, threatening e-mails. I have spoken to Australian climate

scientists who have upgraded security at their homes because of threats

from climate deniers.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The exposé of cyber-bullying was immediately picked up in the United States where the phenomenon is even worse.

                  <em>Scientific American</em> gave it prominence and, in Britain, 
                  <em>Nature</em> did too, and many more stories of 

intimidation emerged into the light of day. Several scientists confirm

that the volume of abuse reached a peak in the months after the

Climategate story broke in November 2009.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr Kevin Trenberth, head of analysis at the

National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, turned over to

university security 19 pages of “extremely foul, nasty, [and] abusive”

                  <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-cyber-bullying" target="_blank">e-mails collected</a>

in the four months after the Climategate storm broke.&nbsp; Another

prominent climate scientist had a dead animal dumped on his doorstep and

now travels with body-guards.</font></p>

                  
                    
                      
                      
                    
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                          <strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Debunking climate science is official 

policy at Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News; a leaked memo from management has

instructed reporters to always cast doubt on data reporting global

temperature increases.</font></strong></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

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                  <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.tierramerica.info/nota.php?lang=eng&idnews=3337" target="_blank"><br />Stephen Schneider</a>,

an eminent climatologist at Stanford University who died a few months

ago, said last year that he had received hundreds of threatening

e-mails.&nbsp;&nbsp; Exasperated he asked: “What do I do? Learn to shoot a magnum?

Wear a bullet-proof jacket?” He believed that a scientist would be

killed, adding: “They shoot abortion doctors here”. They shoot

Congresswomen too. When his name appeared on a neo-Nazi “death list”,

alongside other climate scientists with apparent Jewish ancestry, the

police were called in. Schneider said he had observed an “immediate,

noticeable rise” in e-mails whenever

                  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/05/hate-mail-climategate" target="_blank">climate scientists were attacked</a> by prominent right-wing US commentators.</font><br/>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Paul Ehrlich was quoted in

                  <em>
                    <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7286/full/464141a.html" target="_blank">Nature</a>
                  </em> saying: “Everyone is scared shitless, but they 

don’t know what to do”.&nbsp; The story noted that the bullying and threats

intensify after anti-climate science rants from the likes of Rush

Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Marc Morano and Steve Milloy. Except Limbaugh,

they are all either employed by Fox News or appear often on the network.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Mann of “hockey stick” fame said the same about the

                  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/05/hate-mail-climategate" target="_blank">hate mail</a>

he had received: “I’m not comfortable talking about the details,

especially as some of these matters remain under police investigation,”

he said. “What I can say is that the e-mails come in bursts, and do seem

to be timed with high-profile attack pieces on talk radio and other

fringe media outlets.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The most influential “fringe media outlet”

vilifying scientists is Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News. Cyber-bullies and Fox

demagogues are not the only ones out to punish Mann for his work.

Virginia Attorney General

                  <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-breaking-news/virginia/cuccinelli-subpoena-of-u-va-re.html" target="_blank">Ken Cuccinelli</a>

has attempted to use state fraud laws to force the University of

Virginia to release huge volumes of documents and correspondence in an

attempt to show malfeasance by Mann when he was employed by that

university (he is now at Penn State).&nbsp; Cuccinelli claims that Mann had

defrauded taxpayers in seeking grants for his research, but had no

evidence to convince the court to grant subpoenas. A lawyer for the

American Association of University Professors has said that Cuccinelli’s

suit has “

                  <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101210015" target="_blank">echoes of McCarthyism</a>” and will deter others from undertaking climate research.</font><br/>

                    <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Official harassment</strong>
                  </font><br/>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The campaign of harassment against scientists took a sinister turn last year when Oklahoma Republican

                  <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/08/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-climate-scientist/" target="_blank">Senator James Inhofe</a>

called for some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists to be

investigated for criminal violations. A document prepared by his staff

on the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works claims

scientists mentioned in e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit

(CRU) at the University of East Anglia are guilty of manipulating data

and obstructing its release. It lists federal laws they may have

violated and names 17 climate scientists whom Inhofe claims should be

investigated for possible criminal prosecution.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of those listed,

                  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/01/inhofe-climate-mccarthyite" target="_blank">Raymond Bradley</a>,

the director of climate science research at the University of

Massachusetts Amherst, responded: “I am worried about it, I have to say.

You can understand that this powerful person is using the power of his

office to intimidate people and to harass people and you wonder whether

you should have legal counsel. It is a very intimidating thing and that

is the point.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The accusation of criminality against leading

climate scientists takes the denialist campaign of harassment and

intimidation to new depths, and immediately conjures up images of

McCarthyism. In November 2009, Inhofe’s fellow Republican Congressman

James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin wrote to the Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change (IPCC) demanding that scientists whose names appear in

the stolen CRU e-mails be blacklisted from all further work with the

IPCC.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to

                  <em>Scientific American</em>, deniers in Congress have

used their offices to send “intimidating letters” threatening dire

consequences to scientists working on climate change. One of the

recipients, NASA scientist

                  <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-cyber-bullying" target="_blank">Gavin Schmidt</a>,

said: “That is chilling the work of science in the agencies. It’s

certainly very off-putting for scientists who want to talk about their

stuff in public but fear the political consequences. Nobody wants to

create an enemy on the hill.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an

                  <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7286/full/464141a.html" target="_blank">editorial last March</a>

on cyber-bullying, Nature reported on Senator Inhofe’s attempts to

criminalise climate scientists before commenting: “As a member of the

minority party, Inhofe is powerless for now, but that may one day

change.” That day came last November with the mid-term elections in

which the Republicans, powered by a surge of support for the Tea Party,

won a majority in the House of Representatives. Before the election

                  <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/15/tea-party-extremists-big-oil-global-warming/" target="_blank">Climate Progress</a>

noted that “every single GOP [Republican] Senate candidate now either

denies climate science or opposes even the most moderate, business

friendly, Republican-designed approach to reducing emissions”.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the elections, both houses saw a flood of

                  <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/11/19/the-climate-zombie-caucus-of-the-112th-congress/" target="_blank">new representatives</a>

who are climate deniers. “Of the freshmen Republicans … 36 of 85 in the

House and 11 of 13 in the Senate have publicly questioned the science.”

McCarthyite congressman

                  <a href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2009/12/08/rep-sensenbrenner-projects-%E2%80%9Cfascism%E2%80%9D-and-%E2%80%9Cfraud%E2%80%9D-onto-scientists-is-rebutted-at-hearing/" target="_blank">James Sensenbrenner</a> is now the deputy chair of the House Science Committee, which plans to investigate the veracity of climate science.</font><br/>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I personally believe that the

                  <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/07/sensenbrenner-house-attack-on-climate-science/" target="_blank">solar flares</a>

are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human

beings do,” Sensenbrenner said, as if the role of solar flares were a

matter of personal belief and had not been thoroughly investigated by

climate scientists. Suddenly Senator Inhofe appears less isolated and

fanatical.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A series of inquiries has exonerated the scientists

whose e-mails were stolen, and affirmed that there is nothing in them

to undermine the science. If you read them, what the hacked UEA e-mails

reveal is the enormous external pressure climate scientists work under.

They show they have constantly been accused of being frauds and cheats;

their work has been twisted and misrepresented; and they have been

bombarded with vexatious freedom-of-information requests orchestrated by

denialists.</font></p>

                  <blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s certainly very off-putting for 

scientists who want to talk about their stuff in public but fear the

political consequences.

                  <em>— NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt</em></font></blockquote>
                  <p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In short, they were caught up in a hot political 

debate that they did not really understand or want to be part of, yet

they were the target of savvy, secretive and ruthless organisations

ready to pounce on anything they said or wrote. This is the real story

of

                  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/05/hate-mail-climategate" target="_blank">Climategate</a>.

Instead, the scientists in question have seen their professional

reputations trashed in the world’s media for no cause. After the media

storm and a series of death threats, the head of the Climatic Research

Unit Dr Phil Jones was driven to the point of suicide.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moves are underway to suppress the dissemination of

climate science. Last year the South Dakota legislature passed a

resolution calling for “balanced teaching of global warming in the

public schools of South Dakota”, the type of resolution that now sees

creationism taught alongside evolution in some states. The draft

resolution noted that the climate is affected by “a variety of

climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological,

cosmological and ecological dynamics”. The inclusion of “astrological”

and “thermological” effects suggests a woeful understanding of science.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last February the

                  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/12/utah-climate-alarmists" target="_blank">Utah House of Representatives</a>

passed a resolution rejecting climate science. One supporter of the

Bill said “environmentalists were part of a vast conspiracy to destroy

the American way of life and control world population through forced

sterilisation and abortion”. In January of this year a bill titled the

                  <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/29/oklahoma-sally-kern-teachers-question-evolution-climate-science/" target="_blank">Scientific Education and Academic Freedom Act</a>

was put to the Oklahoma legislature that would require teachers to

challenge theories including evolution, the chemical origins of life and

global warming.</font>

                    <font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>The culture war</strong>
                  </font><br/>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the United States there is now a deep divide

between liberal and conservative voters in their beliefs about global

warming. As is now well documented, the opening of this gulf was due to

the fact that from the mid-1990s Republican Party activists, in

collaboration with fossil fuel interests and conservative think tanks,

had successfully associated acceptance of global warming science with

“liberal” views.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That global warming has been made a battleground in

the wider culture war is most apparent from the political and social

views of those who reject climate science outright. Among

                  <a href="http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/" target="_blank">those who dismiss climate science</a>, 
                  <a href="http://www.climatechangecommunication.org/images/files/Six_Americas_June_2010%281%29.pdf" target="_blank">76 per cent</a>

describe themselves as “conservative” and only three per cent as

“liberal” (with the rest “moderate”). They overwhelmingly oppose

redistributive policies, programs to reduce poverty and regulation of

business. They prefer to watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like those whose opinions they value — shock jocks

and television demagogues — climate deniers are disproportionately

older, white, male and conservative — those who feel their cultural

identity most threatened by the implications of climate change. While

the debate is superficially about the science, in truth it is about

deep-rooted feelings of cultural identity. This makes deniers immune to

argument, and their influence will wane only as they grow old and die.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">◊ – ◊ ◊ – ◊</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clive Hamilton is the author of&nbsp;

                  <em>Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change</em> (Earthscan 2010).</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/silencing-the-scientists-the-rise-of-right-wing-populism/">http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/silencing-the-scientists-the-rise-of-right-wing-populism/</a><br /></font></p>
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