On 1/24/19, Clifford <clifford@tds.net> wrote:
> Dear Frank and List Members:
> You and I heard quite different accounts of the events involved here. It
> is my understanding that the catholic school students were on a trip to D.
> C. and most were wearing caps with a pro-trump initials which drew the
> attention demonstrators in the area and that is was the demonstrators and a
> few under the influence who aggressively challenged the students. The
> mainstream reporters initially put the same spin on this, which is reflected
> in your statement. It appears that school age children are targets of the
> media, if they dare to wear a cap with, MAGa on their caps.
> These are trying times and the "mainstream" media are a large part of the
> problem
> News should be factual and not simply anti Trump spin.
> Yours Truly,
>
> Clifford Wilson
>
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> From: Frank Ventura via acb-chat [mailto:acb-chat@acblists.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 8:17 PM
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> Cc: Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@littlebreezes.com>; my blog carl jarvis
> <carjar82.carls@blogger.com>; blind-democracy@freelists.org
> Subject: [acb-chat] Hatred, intimidation and make America white again
>
> Now that the hour plus long video has surfaced of a group of Catholic School
> students engaging in multiple confrontations in our nations capital the
> picture is clearer and worse than ever. There was a group of black Hebrews
> loudly protesting the president's policies, namely the wall. The group of
> teens and their chaperones, wearing MAGA hats loudly counter protested with
> build the wall and go back to Africa chants. At this point the confrontation
> was mostly peaceful with the teens staying about 15 feet away from their
> intended targets. At that point 3 native Americans started playing their
> drums and chanting. This is where things took a turn for the ugly. The teens
> surrounded them and started to close in their circle around them, blocking
> their exit or retreat. Taking it a step further one of the teens, in a
> threatening move, took off his shirt and got directly within inches of the
> native Americans who were powerless to retreat. While the apologists will be
> quick to point out that no
> assault occurred, lets look at another crime that doesn't get as much air
> time. It is called menacing. Yes, in many locales that is a felony. It is to
> act in a manner which would make the victim believe they are in jeopardy of
> injury or death. Evidentially those lads were willfully ignorant of the
> legal consequences of their actions. If a group of black, Hispanic, or
> Muslum males surrounded a member of the privileged class or a police officer
> in the manner these lads did they would have been shot. Let's look at
> another example that occurred on this list. There was a theory set forth by
> some here who believe their status as members of the privileged class allows
> them to forego tipping a wait staff. Those folks are willfully ignorant of
> something known as "theft of service", which is a very real crime in many
> places. What these two aforementioned examples teach us is that when you are
> a member of the privileged class you can be as willfully ignorant of the law
> as you choose to be; be cause in the end the laws don't apply to you. So
> like it or not, those fine lads from their wealthy, plaid tie, blue blazer,
> embroidered breast pocket private school have become the face of the new
> privileged class and an icon of everything that is wrong with the
> ever-increasing socio-economic divide.
>
> Frank
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