Not long ago at a town hall meeting, Representative Martha McSally, (R-Arizona) was met with the now usual raucous crowd of left-wing demonstrators who disrupted the meeting, making it impossible for her serious constituents to discuss issues with her. Among the crowd were those bearing signs reading, “”Stop Trump’s crusade of hate.” This slogan is one of the left’s favorites and plays well to Democratic audiences, but a closer examination of the facts might surprise those same Democrats.
“Stop Trump’s crusade of hate.” What crusade of hate is that? They can only be referring to the two executive orders, both overturned by liberal judges, that attempted to restrict entry into the United States of immigrants from the primarily Muslim countries of Libya, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Syria and Sudan. However, the accusation, lovingly embraced by Democrats, that this is a Muslim ban, an outgrowth of President Trump’s “hatred” of Muslims is totally wrong. The travel ban is intended to prevent the entry into this country of terrorists or those with extremist leanings and is centered on these countries for the simple reason that Iran has proven over the years to be the single greatest supporter of terrorism world-wide and the other five countries are in the midst of civil strife with Islamic extremist groups that makes it impossible to check the background and ideology of anyone from those countries wishing to come to the U.S. They are effectively failed states. Muslims from the other 214 countries with large Muslim populations were not affected.
No logically thinking American— Republican, Independent, or Democrat, should wish to invite a terrorist into our country, and to allow immigrants from any of the countries on the travel ban list into our country is to potentially do just that. Unfortunately, the Democrats are now so lost to reason that they are willing to jeopardize even their own lives in their frenzied rush to demonize the president in any way they can. Wake up, Democrats. ISIS just took responsibility for a bombing in Manchester, England that killed 22 and wounded many others. According to the National Counter Terrorism Center, radical Islamic terrorists carried out 18,535 attacks world-wide between 2001 and 2010, killing 40,182 individuals, wounding 91,201 others and taking thousands as hostages. There have been 73 terrorist attacks, many on single individuals, in the U.S. since 9/11. We hear of terrorist attacks frequently now, but a terrorist attack in Manchester is like having a terrorist attack in Cleveland or in Terre Haute. . . or in San Bernardino or Orlando. If the left remains complaisant or continues to stick their heads in the sand, and the rest of us don’t take action, we will see more such attacks here.
So, then there is no hate? Oh, yes, there is hate, all right, but it isn’t coming from President Trump. Here are some examples: On inauguration day, the mob of protestors in Washington D.C. screamed “Love Trumps Hate” as one of them reached through the crowd with a cigarette lighter and set fire to the hair of a young pro-Trump girl. This terrorist attack was caught on video, but did not fit the narrative of the mainstream media and was therefore not widely shown.
The demonstrators continued in their frenzy, terrorizing those who had come to watch the inauguration, smashing windows and cars, and hitting police officers and passersby with metal poles. They also set fire to a limousine. . . owned by a Muslim immigrant, Muhammad Ashraf, who was not a Trump supporter, and driven by a Hispanic employee, Luis Villaroel, whose injuries sent him to the hospital.
On the Women’s March on Washington, Madonna welcomed her audience to the “revolution of love” and then related she had “thought a lot about blowing up the [Trump] White House,” as she used the F-bomb and other vulgarities to refer to Republicans.
In the same march, Ashley Judd called President Trump racist, Nazi, fascist, KKK, and misogynist.
Ted Kornblum Founder and CEO of the Magnatone guitar amplifier company posted on his personal Facebook page on January 30 “Rest easy people, it’ll take only 100 days till Trump get a bullet in the head!” He later took the post down, saying it was a careless mistake.
Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos was prevented from speaking at UC Berkley because the violent demonstrations threatened his safety. Windows were smashed and university buildings damaged in the now expected mob violence. Prior to that evening, the college administration of a school that has prided itself on being the originator of the free speech movement in the 1960’s wrote to the Berkley College Republicans saying: Our student groups enjoy the right to invite whomever they wish to speak on campus, but we urge them to consider whether exercising that right in a manner that might unleash harmful attacks on fellow students and other members of the community is consistent with their own and with our community’s values.” Obviously Berkley’s “values” no longer include the exchange of opposing ideas. . . free speech!
Yiannopoulos did speak at the University of Washington amid more violent protests that saw one man shot in the altercation. The victim was a Bernie Sanders supporter and an anti-fascist demonstrator, shot by a non-white shooter who thought he was a Nazi. (Because he was White?) Police declined to press charges since the shooter claimed the man he shot was a “white supremacist.”
In the days following the election of President Trump, over 2,000 educators around the country reported racist slurs and other derogatory language leveled against white students. However, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Federation of Teachers who conducted the survey did not include these figures in their reports of Trump-related “hate crimes.” Apparently white children can not be victims of hate crimes.
Representative Maxine Watters (D-CA) has repeatedly called for the impeachment of President Trump for his “collusion with the Russians to tamper with the election” even though not an iota of proof to substantiate that charge has been found after 10 months of investigation by numerous agencies and even though the President can not be impeached for something that happened before he was elected.
And this is not new with the left. They have been spewing this kind of vitriol for years, and not only about white conservatives.
Actor Alec Baldwin urged a television audience of approximately 3 million viewers to murder Congressman Henry Hyde.
Liberal professor of sociology Joseph B. Tamney claims that conservative Christians are as hateful as the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton referred to a subordinate as a “Jew b*stard.”
Former Vermont Governor and former DNC chairman, Howard Dean joked during a speech, “You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here.”
Condoleezza Rice was the first African-American woman to be Secretary of State, something the liberal left should have applauded. But instead, liberal columnist Ted Rall called her President Bush’s “House Ni****.”
Former Democratic President Bill Clinton, when asking Sen. Ted Kennedy for his endorsement of Hillary Clinton, said of Obama: “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”
Have people on the right uttered hate speech? No doubt. Unkind and intemperate people belong to both parties. But the examples from the left are so multitudinous, so unrelenting, so vitriolic, so fanatic that they now approach insanity. So, my liberal friends, put down your signs accusing Trump of hatred. Remember the old adage: “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones!”