JUNE 28 AND 29, 2018


NEWS AND VIEWS


“MORE: CAPITAL GAZETTE NEWSROOM BLOODIED, NOT BROKEN: 'WE'RE PUTTING OUT A DAMN PAPER TOMORROW'” – MEMBERS OF THE PRESS TEND TO BE PRETTY COURAGEOUS, I THINK. THIS IS VERY SAD, THOUGH. NOBODY REALLY EXPECTS TO BE SHOT ONE FINE DAY, JUST SITTING AT THEIR DESKS.

“THE WOMAN EVENTUALLY CALLED POLICE AND RAMOS, IDENTIFIED IN COURT PAPERS AS A FEDERAL EMPLOYEE, WAS CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR HARASSMENT. I BELIEVE, FROM MY YEARS OF LIFE EXPERIENCE, THAT ANYONE WHO PERSISTENTLY CONTACTS AND THREATENS SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING THAT SHOULDN’T BE CONSIDERED A “MISDEMEANOR,” FOR STARTERS.

IT REMINDS ME OF THE FIRST 40 YEARS OF MY LIFE WHEN “STALKING” -- WHICH IS WHAT THIS SOUNDS LIKE TO ME – WAS NOT A CRIME. THEY ALL PUT THEIR HEADS TOGETHER – THE DIAGNOSTIC PSYCHIATRIC PROFESSIONALS, THE STATISTICIANS AND THE POLICE – AND CONCLUDED THAT A “PEEPING TOM” WAS JUST TOO TIMID TO RAPE, HARMLESS IN OTHER WORDS. THEN THEY STARTED LOOKING AT THE STATS MORE CLOSELY AND A LAW WAS MADE AGAINST THAT “CHILDLIKE” PRACTICE. POLICE WOULD TELL WOMEN THAT “THEY COULDN’T DO ANYTHING UNLESS HE WAS CAUGHT BREAKING IN OR ACTIVELY ASSAULTING HER.” IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO LAW THAT CRIMINALIZED STALKING, THOUGH EVERYONE THOUGHT THEY KNEW WHAT IT WAS – A MINOR SIN RATHER THAN A SERIOUS SIGN OF INSANITY; AND THAT IT IS NOT REALLY A SIGN OF A GUY WHO MAY COME IN THE HOUSE WHEN HE WANTS TO AND RAPE AND KILL THE WOMAN.

JUDGE JONAS LEGUM, WHO CALLED HIS BEHAVIOR "RATHER BIZARRE," SUSPENDED THE JAIL SENTENCE BUT PLACED HIM ON PROBATION AND ORDERED HIM TO CONTINUE THERAPY.” POLICEMEN AND JUDGES SHOULD NOT MAKE PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSES AND ACT ON THEM. ALSO, IF SOMEONE IS THIS BIZARRE, THE TERM “RATHER” DOESN’T ACCURATELY DESCRIBE HIM, AND BELIES THE DANGER THAT HE MAY POSE. HE SHOULD START OUT IN A PSYCHIATRIC WARD IMMEDIATELY, AND THEN AFTER A WEEK OR SO OF OBSERVATION, LET THE DOCTORS THERE SAY WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH HIM. THEN SEND HIM TO COURT AND PERHAPS TO PRISON OR AN ASYLUM.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/28/accused-capital-shooter-had-sued-paper-held-grudge/744287002/?csp=chromepush
Controversial author Milo Yiannopoulos is dropping his lawsuit against his former publisher
Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY Published 9:57 p.m. ET June 28, 2018 | Updated 10:13 p.m. ET June 28, 2018

The man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper had an ongoing grudge with the publication and brought smoke grenades and a shotgun in a "targeted" attack meant to kill people, police said Thursday night.

Police did not officially release the name of the man they took into custody following the shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis. But a law enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to discuss the case publicly identified the suspect as Jarrod Ramos, 38, of Laurel, Maryland.

"He had some type of conflict with the paper in general," said Lt. Ryan Frashure, an Anne Arundel County Police spokesman.

Court papers show that Ramos had filed a defamation suit against the newspaper in 2012. But a judge threw out the lawsuit and said Ramos "fails to come close to alleging a case of defamation." A Maryland appeals court further concluded that everything printed in the July 31, 2011 newspaper story about Ramos appeared to be true.

According to the court case, Ramos had pleaded guilty on July 26, 2011 in Anne Arundel County on a charge of criminal harassment and got a 90-day suspended jail sentence. Five days later, the Capital ran a story by staff writer Eric Thomas Hartley under the headline "Jarrod wants to be your friend."

The story described a harrowing situation of a woman who was continually harassed by Ramos after he contacted her on Facebook.

"If you're on Facebook, you've probably gotten a friend request or message from an old high school classmate you didn't quite remember," Hartley wrote in the story. "For one woman, that experience turned into a yearlong nightmare."

The story said Ramos "out of the blue" had contacted her and thanked her for being the only person ever to be nice to him at Arundel High school. But the renewed friendship turned sour quickly after Ramos turned on her, the story said.

22 PHOTOS -- Shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis -- Fullscreen

PHOTOGRAPH -- Law enforcement guard security perimeter around the location where at least 5 people where killed by shooter at Capital Gazette Newspapers in Annapolis, Md. on June 28, 2018. Jack Gruber, USA TODAY

"That sparked months of emails in which Ramos alternately asked for help, called her vulgar names and told her to kill herself," according to the story, which was part of the court record filed in the case. "He emailed her company and tried to get her fired."

The woman eventually called police and Ramos, identified in court papers as a federal employee, was charged with misdemeanor harassment. Judge Jonas Legum, who called his behavior "rather bizarre," suspended the jail sentence but placed him on probation and ordered him to continue therapy.

More: Capital Gazette newsroom bloodied, not broken: 'We're putting out a damn paper tomorrow'

More: Capital Gazette shooting: 'Gentle, generous and gifted' writer Rob Hiaasen among victims

More: 5 killed in ‘targeted attack’ on Capital Gazette newspaper, police say

The newspaper concluded at the time that "The case is extreme. But it provides a frightening look at the false intimacy the Internet can offer and the venom that can hide behind a computer screen."

That venom, according to police, manifested itself in Thursday's deadly attack in the Capital newsroom.

"This was a targeted attack on the Capital Gazette," said Anne Arundel County Deputy Police Chief William Krampf. "This person was prepared to shoot people. His intent was to cause harm."

The suspect surrendered to police when confronted. County Executive Steve Schuh said the suspect had put his gun down and was hiding under a desk when police found him. Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said he was told the suspect "wasn't a very a cooperative witness when they took him into custody."



NOW THIS IS A REAL POSSIBILITY GIVEN TODAY’S SITUATION, BUT I WOULDN’T SAY IT’S “GOING TO HAPPEN.” POLITICAL SITUATIONS ARE USUALLY FLUID. HOWEVER, I FIRST STARTED NOTICING THE “MILITIAS” SOME 10 YEARS AGO, AND I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WORRIED ABOUT THEM. I AM ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE POSITION OF THOSE WHO PROUDLY CALL THEMSELVES “CONSERVATIVE.” I WILL AGAIN SAY, AS I HAVE NUMEROUS TIMES, BEING RADICAL RIGHTIST IS NO MORE “CONSERVATIVE” THAN IS BEING A COMMUNIST, ANARCHIST, OR ANY OTHER REVOLUTIONARY PERSON.

WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE THEY WERE DESCRIBED AS BEING “REACTIONARY,” THE OPPOSITE POLE ON A COMPARATIVE LISTING OF POLITICAL POSITIONS. THIS IDEA OF A NEW CIVIL WAR WHICH TWO RADICAL RIGHTISTS IN TWO DIFFERENT NEWS ARTICLES HAVE SPOKEN OF AS “THE RACE WAR,” WITH SEEMINGLY GREAT AND JOYOUS EXPECTATION. IT NAUSEATES ME, BUT I BELIEVE THAT, YES, THERE ARE FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE DELIGHTEDLY LOOKING FORWARD TO A BLOODY WAR AMONG THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

I POST POLITICAL ARTICLES THAT I THINK ARE IMPORTANT ISSUES ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE, AND HAVE A FEW TIMES MADE POINTED COMMENTS. I DON’T HIDE THE FACT THAT I’M A BERNIE SANDERS PROGRESSIVE, AND THAT I BELIEVE IN FULL INTEGRATION BY RACE, RELIGION, CULTURAL BACKGROUND, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, ETC. IN A HUMAN SOCIETY. ONE GUY POSTED BENEATH MY COMMENT, “YOU ARE A RACE TRAITOR.” I HAD NEVER HEARD OF A “RACE TRAITOR.”

I THINK THAT MAY BE NEW TERMINOLOGY WITH THIS GENERATION OF RACISTS WHO ARE ACTIVE ON THE WEB. OF COURSE, WHEN WE SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THERE’S NO WAY TO BE ABSOLUTELY SURE WHO THEY REALLY ARE, AND THE RUSSIANS HAVE BEEN BLAMED FOR A LOT OF THAT. THEY, IN OTHER WORDS, AREN’T EVEN REAL “PEOPLE” AT ALL. WHAT CONCERNS ME MOST IS NOT JUST THAT THEY “THINK” THERE DEFINITELY “WILL BE,” RATHER THAN “MAY BE” A RACE WAR, AND HEAVEN KNOWS, EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD RACE WAR!!

SOME OF THE WHITE NATIONALISTS HAVE POSTULATED A “WHITE NATION” ON THE WEST COAST, DURING THE LAST SIX MONTHS OR SO, SPECIFICALLY CENTERED AROUND PORTLAND OREGON AS THEIR CAPITAL. THERE’S APPARENTLY SOMETHING THEY REALLY LOVE ABOUT PORTLAND. WHEN I SEE THIS KIND OF THING, I THINK “WHO THE HECK ARE THESE PEOPLE, AND HOW DO THEY FIND EACH OTHER? IT’S PROBABLY ON THE NET, OF COURSE, BUT HOW WELL-ORGANIZED ARE THEY? I DO BELIEVE THEM TO BE SERIOUS ABOUT THIS KIND OF TALK, BECAUSE THOSE VERY HOSTILE INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN EMERGING OUT FROM UNDER THEIR PRIVATE ROCKS AND INTO THE DAYLIGHT SINCE THE IMPROBABLE CREW WHO CALL THEMSELVES THE TEA PARTY POPPED UP WITH THEIR REALLY SPOOKY-LOOKING “TINFOIL HATS,” SOMETIME IN THE RANGE OF 5 YEARS AGO.

I HATE TO SAY IT, BUT WE NEED TO PROBE MUCH MORE DEEPLY INTO THE WHITE RADICAL GROUPS THAN WE HAVE SO FAR. THEY INCLUDE SOME SERIOUS PSYCHIATRIC CASES. AND WHY HAVEN’T OUR SENATE AND HOUSE DONE THAT? BECAUSE TOO MANY WHITES AGREE WITH THEM IN THEIR IDEAS, AND MAYBE EVEN THEIR GOALS. GO TO SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER FOR INFORMATION ON WHAT DANGEROUSLY RADICAL GROUPS ARE KNOWN, AND HOW POWERFUL THEY ARE. IT’S FRANKLY FRIGHTENING.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/06/27/civil-war-likely-voters-say-rasmussen-poll/740731002/
Poll: Almost a third of US voters think a second civil war is coming soon
Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY Published 11:09 p.m. ET June 27, 2018

A war may be brewing within the United States, almost a third of voters say in a poll released Wednesday.

Amid widespread political polarization on issues like immigration and recent public confrontations of Trump administration officials, 31 percent of probable U.S. voters surveyed said they think "it's likely that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years."

Democrats at 37 percent were slightly more fearful of a second civil war than Republicans at 32 percent, the poll from Rasmussen Reports found.

While more than half thought it was unlikely the USA would see a second civil war soon, 59 percent of voters were still concerned that opponents of President Donald Trump's policies would resort to violence.

During former President Barack Obama's second year in office, a similar 53% of voters thought those who did not support his policies would turn to violence, according to Rasmussen.

Wednesday's poll also found 53 percent of voters were worried that those critical of the news media's Trump coverage would become violent.

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The poll comes as the Trump administration faces harsh backlash over a "zero tolerance" immigration policy that separated more than 2,000 children from their parents who stand accused of entering the United States illegally. Trump signed an executive order last week that aimed to end family separations while maintaining a his strict policy of criminally prosecuting immigrants crossing the border illegally.

Trump administration officials, including White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House adviser Stephen Miller, have faced public confrontation from political opponents protesting the immigration policy and others.

The survey by Rasmussen Reports polled 1,000 likely U.S. voters from June 21 to June 24 with a sampling error of 3 percentage points.

Follow Ryan Miller on Twitter: @RyanW_Miller

***More: 'Fox & Friends' host Brian Kilmeade on border separations: 'These aren't our kids'

More: Protesters confront Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen at Mexican restaurant
More: Stephen Miller's D.C. home a target of immigration policy protest
Separating families, immigration policy draws protests -- Fullscreen

Emily Sophia attends a CASA in Action and Fair Immigration Reform Movement rally to demand protections for the men, women and children separated at the border as a direct result of Trump's zero tolerance policy at Freedom Plaza in Washington on June 27, 2018. JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE


THE HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE BASIC CARE OF CHILDREN HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH “WHOSE CHILDREN” THEY ARE. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS REALLY DO THINK IN A RADICALLY DIFFERENT WAY MANY TIMES ON THE SAME ISSUES. I, BEING A PRAGMATIC PROGRESSIVE, WANT TO SEE AN INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT BETWEEN THE AMERICAN NATIONS FROM CANADA DOWN TO TIERRA DEL FUEGO. TO COMMIT GOVERNMENTS “SOUTH OF THE BORDER” TO KEEPING THEIR PEOPLE AT HOME, SOLVING THEIR DRUG CRIME AND DIRE POVERTY PROBLEMS, WITH THE USA TO HELP THEM DO IT. THEY WOULD HELP US BY BUYING OUR GOODS, PERHAPS. A BONAFIDE WORKERS’ PROGRAM THAT IS WELL RUN AND FOLLOWS THE TAX LAWS WOULD BE HELPFUL IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, BECAUSE MOST OF THE ADULTS ARE COMING HERE FOR WORK.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/06/22/fox-host-brian-kilmeade-border-separations-these-arent-our-kids/726794002/
'Fox & Friends' host Brian Kilmeade on border separations: 'These aren't our kids'
Ryan Miller, USA TODAY Published 5:20 p.m. ET June 22, 2018

"Fox & Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade defended President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy Friday morning and said "these aren't our kids" when referring to migrant children being separated from their parents.

"We just can't let everybody in that wants to be here. And these are not — like it or not, these aren't our kids. Show them compassion, but it's not like he's doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas. These are people from another country," Kilmeade said.

Kilmeade claimed that regardless of who were in office, the president would have to address an influx of illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States.

However, as USA TODAY reported in May, the Border Patrol was on pace to catch 363,000 people trying to illegally cross the border in fiscal year 2018, which is lower than the total in seven out of the last 10 years, and far below the peak during the 2000s.


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Kilmeade later addressed comments on his Fox News Radio show.

"All kids are important. All kids are special. What I'm just trying to say: In this country, when they come in, that as the president of the United States, you can only do so much for so many," Kilmeade said later.

"I didn’t mean to make it seem like children coming into the U.S. illegally are less important because they live in another country," Kilmeade added on Twitter.

Trump's "zero tolerance" policy — to prosecute criminally all immigrants entering the country illegally — separated more than 2,000 children from their parents at the U.S-Mexico border from April through May. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that aims to end the separations but continue the "zero tolerance" policy.

Contributing: Alan Gomez. Follow Ryan Miller on Twitter: @RyanW_Miller
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LISTEN TO THESE EXCELLENT MADDOW COMMENTS AND VIDEOS OF THE FIRST KNOWN SEPARATION OF BABIES AND TODDLERS, FOR GOODNESS SAKE! ARE THERE SOULS IN THOSE BILLIONAIRE BODIES?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jrm1Zi8jDQ
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Published on Jun 20, 2018

Rachel Maddow points out the many ways that Americans are working in different capacities to undercut Donald Trump's policy of separating migrant children from their parents, whether by politics, business, protest, leaks to the media, or donations to advocacy groups.
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THIS IS NOT THE KIND OF THING I WANT TO SEE IN THE USA. IT IS INTIMIDATION, ISN’T IT? UNFORTUNATELY, IT’S HERE ANYWAY.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/28/cbs-was-interviewing-an-ice-whistleblower-at-home-then-government-agents-showed-up/
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CBS was interviewing an ICE whistleblower at home. Then government agents showed up.
By Kristine Phillips
June 28 at 2:21 PM

CBS News interview with ICE whistleblower interrupted by surprise visit from government agents

Our interview with former Immigration And Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson James Schwab was interrupted by a surprise visit from government agents. Our report ➡️ https://cbsn.ws/2Kv1Qbi (via CBS This Morning)
Posted by CBS News on Thursday, June 28, 2018

James Schwab was sitting in front of a camera inside his San Francisco Bay-area home, explaining to a reporter why he abruptly quit his job as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman three months ago.

He could not “fathom” continuing to work for an agency that lies to the public, he told CBS News reporter Jamie Yuccas on Wednesday.

He acknowledged spinning public statements; it is what people in those positions do. But knowingly spreading lies — that he could not stomach, he told Yuccas. So he quit, citing “false” and “misleading” statements made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and ICE acting director Thomas D. Homan.

His resignation in March made headlines. And then Schwab essentially went quiet before finally sitting down with CBS.

About 15 minutes into the interview Wednesday in San Jose, Schwab and the others heard knocks that quickly grew louder. Schwab’s husband went downstairs to check who it was. Minutes later, a CBS crew member overheard that the visitors were from the Department of Homeland Security, the agency that oversees ICE.

Schwab went down to talk to them, according to Yuccas.

“We hear Mr. Schwab ask three times, ‘What is this about?’ … They will not answer his questions. They just keep saying, ‘We’d like to talk to you,’ ” Yuccas told The Washington Post on Thursday.

Yuccas said officials identified themselves as agents from the DHS Office of Inspector General — an oversight division that investigates possible wrongdoing within the agency. From upstairs, Yuccas heard that the officials wanted to talk to Schwab about leaks involving Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf.

Months earlier, when Schwab was still working as spokesman for ICE’s San Francisco office, Schaaf warned Bay Area residents about an upcoming ICE raid, triggering an angry response from President Trump, Sessions and Homan.

After hearing Schaaf’s name, Yuccas went to the door with a photographer, introducing herself as a CBS reporter. Their camera was rolling.

[ICE spokesman resigns, citing fabrications by agency chief, Sessions about California immigrant arrests]

Former ICE spokesman James Schwab. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Standing outside Schwab’s door were two unidentified men in black suits. CBS captured the brief exchange between Yuccas and one of the men, who was carrying a folder, as the other government official and Schwab stood quietly.

“We can’t speak with you,” the agent said.

“Why are you guys here?” Yuccas asked.

“I can’t speak with you about that,” he replied.

The agent then asked Schwab to call him later. Yuccas tried to squeeze in another question, asking: “Is this about the incident … ”

“Please don’t interrupt,” the agent said, again asking Schwab to call him.

“We’re in his home,” Yuccas said.

The agent responded: “I’m talking to him. This is confidential, okay?”

Yuccas said Schwab told the officials before they left that he would talk to them at a later date but would consult with his attorney first.

The surprise visit, Yuccas said, left Schwab suspecting that he could be under investigation for possibly leaking information to Schaaf who, on Feb. 24, announced that she learned “from multiple credible sources” that ICE was preparing to conduct raids throughout the Bay Area. The raids happened the following day.

Homan, the acting ICE director, called Schaaf’s actions “irresponsible” and said in a Feb. 27 statement that 864 “criminal aliens and public safety threats remain at large.” He said that he believed “some of them” had managed to avoid arrest after being tipped off by Schaaf.

[Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tipped off immigrants about ICE raid and isn’t sorry she did]

Schwab, who helped craft that statement, said he felt uncomfortable with the agency’s claim that more than 800 “criminal aliens” escaped capture. He told CBS that the statement was a “flat-out lie” and had told media outlets that ICE arrested 232 suspected undocumented immigrants — a higher number than what federal authorities had expected.

Schwab resigned less than two weeks after the Feb. 25 raid, telling the San Francisco Chronicle at the time he quit because he “didn’t want to perpetuate misleading facts.”

ICE officials said in March that Schwab’s statements to media outlets about ICE arrests in California were inaccurate.

Three months later, and after the visit to his home, on camera, by DHS agents, Schwab told CBS that he was “completely shocked” the agents had showed up at his doorstep unannounced.

He said he believed the visit was an intimidation tactic.

“Why, three months later, are we doing this?” he told CBS News. He added: “And this is why people won’t come out and speak against the government.”

The DHS Office of Inspector General did not respond to questions about why the officials showed up at Schwab’s home or whether he was being investigated for leaking.

The Washington Post was unable to reach Schwab.

Schwab told CBS that he had never met Schaaf, let alone talked to her, and that he would never leak anything.

“But they were very serious … very stern with me,” he said. “It was concerning.”

Yuccas said the unexpected visit clearly rattled the former ICE spokesman.

“I can tell you that Mr. Schwab seemed very confused as to why they were at his house,” Yuccas said. Recalling conversations with Schwab, she said that “in the three months since he left, no one has come to his home. … No one has called him indicating anything about a leak through the mayor’s office.”

Yuccas said she does not know for certain if the agents showed up knowing that journalists were at Schwab’s home — the crew’s TV van was parked and clearly visible outside — or if the visit was simply a coincidence.

“When they saw the camera, I can’t tell if it was that they didn’t know or if they were just agitated that the camera was there,” Yuccas said.

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I BELIEVE THAT THIS SENTENCE SUMS UP HILLARY’S CENTRAL PROBLEM. “WHILE HILLARY CLINTON WAS THE FACE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT IN MANY WAYS, SHE ALSO WOULD HAVE BECOME THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IF SHE HAD BEEN ELECTED.” FOR ME, SHE WAS “THE FACE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT” INDEED, AND THE FACT THAT SHE IS FEMALE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR ME. I WISH HER WELL, BUT I CAN’T VOTE FOR HER OVER BERNIE SANDERS OR ALMOST ANY OTHER “REAL DEMOCRAT.”

THIS ARTICLE IS INTERESTING FOR INTRODUCING SOME MORE NEW NAMES TO ME, AND AFTER THE INFURIATING EVENTS OF 2016, THIS WRITER IS RIGHT. I WANT “NEW BLOOD,” AND BOLD GOALS AND OPINIONS. FOR 2020, I STILL WANT BERNIE SANDERS. AFTER THAT, I’LL KNOW BY THEN WHO ELSE REALLY APPEALS TO ME. I WANT THE SANDERS ECONOMIC PACKAGE, HIS “HUMAN TOUCH,” AND HIS PRINCIPLED VIEW OF POLITICS.

I THINK THAT’S THE SINGLE WORST THING ABOUT OUR COUNTRY FOR THE NON-WEALTHY TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN THE CONSTANT SWING BETWEEN POVERTY AND COMFORT. IT’S TOO DIFFICULT FOR MANY OF US TO GET A LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF THE GAME AND RELAX. IF WE HAVE ENOUGH, WE CAN HAVE SOME PLEASURES AND GIVE TO CHARITY. IF WE DON’T WE CAN PRACTICE THE SCOTTISH VIRTUES OF THRIFT AND CREATIVITY.

THE SECOND WORST THING ABOUT THE USA TODAY, THOUGH, IS DEFINITELY THE CLASS/RACE DIVIDES. I PERSONALLY BELIEVE, THOUGH IT DISCOURAGES ME, THAT FEAR OR SIMPLY LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH “THE OTHER” IS BUILT INTO THE HUMAN PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKEUP. HUMANS ARE CREATIVE, ENERGETIC, SPIRITUAL, LOVING, BUT ALSO WARLIKE. FIRST, WE MAKE LOVE, THEN WE MAKE WAR.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/394690-anti-establishment-fervor-grips-dems
Anti-establishment fervor grips Dems
BY AMIE PARNES - 06/29/18 06:02 AM EDT

The public debate for Democrats has centered around whether the party is drifting to the left.

But on the heels of Rep. Joseph Crowley’s (D-N.Y.) upset primary loss to 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the real battle is looking more like a fight between establishment and anti-establishment forces.

“I think it’s less about left-right and more about new-old,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who defeated a Democratic incumbent to win his seat in Congress in 2016.


Khanna was a player in the Crowley battle with Ocasio-Cortez. He backed Ocasio-Cortez, though in a move that’s won him some criticism, he also endorsed Crowley.

“To me, it's about anti-establishment, it’s about let’s have new voices in there, it’s about a sense of a failed generation of congressional leadership. I think that’s really the sentiment,” he said.

Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t the only anti-establishment winner on Tuesday night.

In Maryland, former NAACP President Ben Jealous defeated Prince George County Executive Rushern Baker, who was backed by the state’s political establishment.

Both Jealous and Ocasio-Cortez were supported by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who ran his own anti-establishment race in 2016 Democratic presidential primary against Hillary Clinton. While Sanders and his allies have suffered some losses in primaries this year, the victories on Tuesday night were huge for his movement.

They might also give some signals about how the 2020 race for the Democratic nomination will proceed.

Several possible candidates could look to grab the anti-establishment mantle, from Sanders to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who a few years ago was an unknown professor criticizing corruption in Washington, to freshman Sen. Kamala Harris, a relative upstart from California.

“If I was a Democrat running for president in 2020, I would take good notes on what happened in New York and Maryland,” said Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist. “People are sick and tired of what’s happening in Washington. They want change. They want something entirely different.”

David Wade, a Democratic strategist who served as a top aide to former Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), noted that Democrats have often nominated some kind of outsider, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to Barack Obama.

“From Kennedy to Carter to Clinton '92 all the way through Obama, we tend to choose the most different, most outside force in the field,” said Wade.

While Hillary Clinton was the face of the establishment in many ways, she also would have become the first female president if she had been elected.

Wade said she represented a “historic choice even if Sanders was the more anti-establishment candidate.”

And putting aside 2016, Wade said the “demand for someone who can shake up Washington is stronger today than ever.”

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Democratic strategist Basil Smikle, however, said the party’s current affinity for anti-establishment candidates is more about the push for new ideas.

“There’s a huge appetite for a candidate that pushes big, aspirational ideas and not someone preoccupied with shaping public policy within the constraints of their office,” said Smikle, who worked for Clinton. “Radical change over incrementalism.”

The demand for new faces is most pronounced in the House, where Ocasio-Cortez won a victory over a 10-term incumbent in Crowley. The top three leaders in the House have held their leadership positions for more than a decade, frustrating up and coming lawmakers.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joked this week that she’s a liberal and a woman.

“What’s your problem? Two out of three ain’t bad,” the 78-year-old leader said.

Smikel said he doesn’t think the tensions are about age. In fact, he thinks some older candidates would do well mimicking Ocasio-Cortez’s closing advertisement focused on helping the working-class voters of her district.

“There are even older, well-known potential candidates who could’ve spoken about 80 percent of Ocasio-Cortez’s closing ad, and I don’t just mean Bernie,” he said.

Pelosi pushed back Wednesday against the notion that the party is wrestling with an overall identity crisis.

“I don’t accept any characterization of our party presented by the Republicans,” Pelosi said. “Our party is a big tent. Each of our members is elected to be an independent representative of their district. The beauty is in the mix.”

Pelosi said she and other party leaders are “excited about another generation of people coming into the Congress.”

Republicans — seizing what they see as an opportunity — predict the jolt in direction will be too much for Democrats.

“As the anti-establishment backlash to 2016 unfolds, the race to the left has been steady but incremental among potential 2020ers like Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand,” said Alexandra Smith, the executive director of America Rising. “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proudly and unabashedly rips that band-aid off. If Democratic donors were nervous about Elizabeth Warren, this potential new direction should terrify them.”

There are also some signs that for all the talk about an anti-establishment insurgency, the Democratic establishment is alive and well.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is ahead in most 2020 polls, though that may reflect his strong name recognition.

Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, said that means there are Democrats who are okay with establishment candidates.

“Some Democrats think the party is just fine and a well-orchestrated ... others see the lesson of 2016 as being that there is something fundamentally wrong with the party,” Zelizer said. “This wing wants youth, energy, and progressive ideas injected into the party through exciting candidates.

“They want someone very different than Trump and are much more concerned with ideas and policies that the Trumpinistas, but the common impetus is that they feel the party system is old and broken,” he continued.

Democratic Pollster Celinda Lake added that 2020 will be complicated because “it will be balanced by the desire for new faces and the desire to beat Donald Trump period. But one thing is clear, nobody is going to be nominated on the Democratic side who is not for gun control, marriage equality, who doesn’t want to regulate Wall Street.”

Khanna said that the new crop of Democrats was inevitable.

“The question is, is that in two years or four years,” he said, adding, “There is hunger for generational change.”

Melanie Zanona contributed.



IN THE PHOTO WITH THIS ARTICLE, FROM “3 HOURS AGO,” MILO LOOKS LIKE THE CHILDISH SMART ALEC THAT HE TRULY IS. HE’S HAVING FUN WITH ALL THE ATTENTION. IN THE NEXT STORY THOUGH, FROM ONLY “ONE HOUR AGO,” HE’S LOOKING WORRIED. HE’S ONE OF THOSE WEALTHY AND ARROGANT BAD BOYS (THIRTY YEARS OLD AND STILL A BOY) WHOM I INSTINCTIVELY DISLIKE. SILLINESS AND CONCEIT GOETH BEFORE A PIE IN THE FACE, I SAY. HIS PROBLEM IS THAT A NUT JOB MAY POSSIBLY HAVE KILLED SEVERAL JOURNALISTS TODAY IN ANNAPOLIS, MD WITH A SHOTGUN ON HIS OPEN INVITATION FOR A VIGILANTE ASSAULT. HE, OF COURSE, NOW SAYS THAT HE WAS JUST JOKING.

THE FIRST TIME I SAW MILO, HE WAS GIVING HEIL HITLER SALUTES TO DONALD TRUMP ON ELECTION NIGHT. I’M SURE HE THOUGHT THAT WAS A JOKE, TOO, BUT OTHERS IN THE CROWD ALSO WERE DOING IT, AND TRUMP WAS RETURNING THEM. IT DIDN’T LOOK LIKE A JOKE. SOME PEOPLE WILL TOLERATE ANYTHING IN A PRESIDENT OF THE ONCE FREE AND BRAVE NATION, THE USA, BUT I’M NOT ONE OF THEM.

NOTE: AS OF ONLY 15 OR SO MINUTES AGO, THE HEADLINE WAS QUOTING HIM AS SAYING THAT HIS COMMENT WAS “A PRIVATE JOKE.” THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WON’T FIND THIS JOKE FUNNY, ESPECIALLY THE FBI, GIVEN HIS CONNECTIONS WITH THE 2016 ELECTION PROBLEMS AND THE NEOFASCISTS.

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PHOTOGRAPH -- Controversial author Milo Yiannopoulos is dropping his lawsuit against his former publisher. (Photo: Mary Altaffer, AP)

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos recently told at least two news outlets that he wanted vigilantes to start shooting journalists, but he insisted Thursday that he did so to taunt reporters.

"I can't wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight," the author and agitator told a reporter for the New York Observer over a text message. The news outlet, which wrote about the incident this week, was working on a feature story about a New York City restaurant that Yiannopoulos reportedly frequents.

Yiannopoulos, when asked to elaborate, told the reporter this was his "standard response," according to the Observer.

Yiannopoulos also also [sic] sent a similar message to Will Sommer, a Daily Beast reporter.

On Thursday, a gunman opened fired in an Annapolis, Md., newsroom, killing five people and injuring several others. Authorities have not said what the motive was or who was being targeted.

Yiannopoulos, 33, confirmed in an Instagram post that he wrote the messages about shooting journalists, but that he sent them to the reporters as a way to troll them.

"You're about to see a raft of news stories claiming that I am responsible for inspiring the deaths of journalists," he wrote. "The truth, as always, is the opposite of what the media tells you."

He continued: "I sent a troll about 'vigilante death squads as a private response to a few hostile journalists who were asking me for comment, basically as a way of saying, 'F--- off.' They then published it."

On Twitter, many condemned Yiannopoulos' remarks.

Former National Security Agency contractor and leaker Edward Snowden, who did not specifically name Yiannopoulos, tweeted "to fight words with weapons is more than violence, it is a crime against the Constitution. Those who justify such attacks are no patriots."

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Yiannopoulos put the blame on the journalists who wrote about his remarks.

"If there turns out to be any dimension to this crime related to my private, misreported remarks, the responsibility for that lies wholly with the Beast and the Observer for drumming up fake hysteria about a private joke, and with the verified liberals who pretended they thought I was serious," he wrote.

Yiannopoulos once worked for Breitbart News, but resigned last year after podcasts surfaced in which he seemed to condone sex between men and boys. He has since said he does not condone pedophilia.