— from the Office of Governor Jay Inslee —
Gov. Jay Inslee responded to President’s Trump’s threat to deploy the military in response to protesters tonight:
“This president has repeatedly proven he is incapable of governing. He has shown nothing but false bravado throughout the chaos that has accompanied his time in office. His admiration of authoritarians around the world should not allow him to violate 200 years of American tradition of local law enforcement. We have activated the National Guard in our state and made them available to any community who requests it.
“Our country is defined by our collective character and democratic ideals, not by reactionary calls for division and not by threatening Americans with their own military.”
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The President is not threatening Americans with our military. He is taking affirmative action because of the total ineptitude of governors like Inslee, and the Mayors of our major cities to anticipate the unlawful actions to citizens and property by groups like Antifa and other hate groups.
It was Inslee’s job to have the National Guard on alert for immediate dispersal. It was the Mayor’s and the Police Chief’s jobs to have the police prepositioned and to also take immediate action to quell any unlawful action. None of that happened because Inslee and most of the mayors are not leaders – they are political flunkies.
I dread hearing anytime Trump opens his mouth because it is such bluster and bullying. His power comes from the weakness of Trump Republicans acting as his “political flunkies”
Brute strength and bullying are not leadership.
I fear the future with the venom and hatred Trump freely unleashes and enables.
The one positive thing resulting from bunker boy’s inability to keep his mouth shut:
now it’s impossible to overlook who america’s most prolific hate group really is:
trump republicans.
Hi Margie,
So good to see you posting on Orcas Issues.
“Brute strength and bullying are not leadership.”
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Local officials and most police around the country are showing admirable restraint in dealing with generally peaceful demonstrators and some opportunistic rioters and looters. It is those rabble rousers–the president chief among them, who are paving the way for division, disruption and authoritarian response. Thank you, Governor Inslee.
Thank You, Bob Wanch for introducing logic and sanity, rather than knee-jerk political correctness.
Americans Need to open their Minds And Hearts to to be able to see the manipulation of the Agenda of the Deep State which has maneuvered We the People into Knee Jerk reactions and to suspend Critical Thinking!! God/Goddess Bless America.
Spirit Eagle.
Is anyone here on Orcas planning to stage a socially distanced show of disgust against police brutality and racism? Perhaps on the village green where we can socially distance?
I checked my memory on the internet: 6 months after taking office, I saw our President tell a law enforcement audience in New York “When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon . . . I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice’. When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head . . . You can take the hand away, OK?” That’s what I heard him say, and his message was clear: “Please don’t be too nice”. He didn’t quite go so far as to say “use your knee”, but he clearly encouraged police to rough up people being arrested, even though they (like George Floyd) still haven’t yet had their day in court. A President’s words matter, and I fear some police officers may have taken him as seriously as he wants to be taken.
Daniel Coles has a good idea about having a demonstration here on Orcas. I’m going to suggest it to a couple of friends who might be in a position to organize it.
There is a video out of Richmond, Virginia of a press conference with a Fire Chief tearing up because his fire crew couldn’t get to a burning building with a child inside because the rioters were blocking their way, and I thought, “how much longer do daytime peaceful protests that for 8 nights in a row have inevitably led to rioting, burning, and looting in nearly ever major U.S. city get to go on for?” It’s not “threatening Americans with their own military”, it’s protecting Americans with their own military. Be careful not to confuse that. The child in that burning building deserves to be protected too.
If you put a conservative’s brain in a bird it would fly backwards.
Regarding Daniel Cole’s excellent question, I belatedly discovered there was a demonstration Sunday
https://www.islandssounder.com/news/islanders-stand-with-george-floyd/
And I’ve heard there will be another one on the Village Green Thursday June 4 at 5 pm.
As far as I see it, Antifa is against facism, WE all should be against that for god’s sake. I disagree with some of you. I think Inslee is doing a marvelous job and his press conference yesterday was inspiring. Being a leader is difficult at best. Most of us do not have a clue how to do it. We are reaping what was sown with the election of 2016, among others, lest we forget the man before Obama who set the stage for much of this craziness. The Republicans are complicit in all of this and refuse to look to solutions to the very real problem of racism, institutionalized racism, that exists in this country as well as others. There is much work to be done to rectify this situation and tear gas and rubber bullets and tanks have no place in the solution.