Here is the one hundred forty-second article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Republican Nazi terrorist, Robert Bowers. He is so honored for his use of Republican hate to murder Jews, because he blames them for the caravan.
Jewish people bear the brunt of religious bias in America, even though just two percent of U.S. residents are Jewish.
The synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh where 11 people were killed and six were wounded on Saturday, including four police officers, typically has police guarding its worship services on the holiest Jewish holidays—but not for a normal Saturday morning service. President Trump, upon arriving in Indianapolis Saturday afternoon, confirmed that the shootings took place at “a baby-naming ceremony at a sacred house of worship.” Police sources told the local CBS station that the gunman walked in and yelled, “All Jews must die.”
“On a day like today, the door is open,” the congregation’s immediate past president, Michael Eisenberg, told CNN. “It’s a religious service. You could walk in and out. Only on the high holidays is there a police presence at the entrance.”…
…FBI hate crime statistics for 2016, the most recent year available, show that more than half of reported anti-religious hate crimes in the United States were motivated by anti-Semitism. That’s been consistent in recent years, while bias against Muslims, who make up about 1 percent of Americans, was responsible for about a fifth of hate crimes.
And anti-Jewish crime may be rising. The Anti-Defamation League, a century-old advocacy group for Jews and other people targeted by discrimination, found that 2017 saw a nearly 60 percent surge in reported anti-Semitic incidents—which came on top of a 35 percent increase the year before….
Inserted from <The Atlantic>
To be fair, Bowers is not a Trump supporter. Trump is not violent enough for him. Nevertheless, Trump and the entire Republican share responsibility, because the atmosphere of hatred and violence they promote empowers people like the MAGA Maniac and Bowers.
Reverend Al Sharpton reflects in how people with differing beliefs should act.
Unfortunately that is not possible, as long as the Republican Party enables hate and violence. The Nazis know who is on their side, as Richard Spencer demonstrated to celebrate Trump’s theft of the White House.
Barf Bag Alert!!
There’s only one way to fix this.
RESIST!!
VOTE BLUE!!
9 DAYS!!
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Rev. Sharton spoke with words/views to which I emulate every day. Well said !!
BBA: .48 seconds for me….Enough!
Yes, please! Get out and VOTE!!!
Bowers is a very sick puppy! I ask anyone with information on a killing perpetrated by a Jewish person in recent memory, to please let me know about it. Yet, Bowers claimed that the immigration program that this synagogue supports lets in killers. Even if we enlarge the group to include Muslim immigrants, any takers? When you start a presumed logical argument from a faulty premise, you still get the good old “Garbage in, garbage out,” result. So it is with any bigoted position.
Al Sharpton says it simply and elegantly.
Spencer speech- No mas pantalones, no mas barf bags!
Pat made it forty more seconds than I did.
Stephen and Doctor Phil’s conversation kind of devolves into what the hardest part is of getting to the point of being able to disagree and not be disagreeable.
Does anyone besides me think “Bowers” was once “Bauer” or maybe “Bauern”?
So what happened after the assault-weapon ban in Australia?
1. Australian independence didn’t end.
2. Tyranny didn’t come.
3. Australians still hunted & explored & big-wave surfed to their hearts’ content.
4. Their economy didn’t crash; Invaders never arrived.
5. Violence, in many forms, went down across the country, not up.
6. Somehow, lawmakers on either side of the gun debate managed to get along & legislate.
7. As for mass killings, there were no more!!Not one in the past 22 years!!
http://fortune.com/2018/02/20/australia-gun-control-success/
Very well said!
Agree with all so many others above about what a sick minded evil bas*ard bOwer is. Rev. Sharton video: Spoke of such truth. Just wish out leader would step back, listen and learn from it. I know he won’t but he’ll learn or wake up one of these days and it may be too late for him.BBA: After him just saying, “Hail to tRump”, I clicked it off, and only can say one thing back to him and that’s go to hell, Richard Spencer.
Excellent points, Animae! I should save them and shove them in the face of any gun freaks that piss and moan about Australia’s assault rifle ban.
Bowers is definitely one sick f**k, but Spencer is even sicker. How dare the slime blobs that gave stiff-armed salutes think of themselves as Americans! They wipe their swastika-spangled arses with the Bill of Rights and piss on the figures of Liberty and Justice like evil, mange-ridden curs. Even North Korea is too good for them. The bloodbath in Pittsburgh is a direct result of the Orange Ogre’s fomenting hatred, bigotry, division and violence. What’s worse is, unless we get the Blue Wave we desperately need over the next week and change, we will see a lot more horrors like this. We could even see an attack that results in more death and destruction than the Oklahoma City bombing. Hold on to your hats!
Baruch Dayan Ha’Emet (Blessed is the True Judge)
[Hebrew blessing during time of bereavement]
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1582773/jewish/The-Jewish-Blessing-on-Death.htm
People like Bowers, but especially the man who inspired him even though both of them refute that, make me want to take a rest from American politics, perhaps until the midterms are over.
sigh…
First let me say that I mourn with the families of the murdered victims of Bowers’ violent act. I pray for those families, for the wounded and their families, for the greater community of whatever religion (or not), and for Bowers too, twisted as he is.
Without doubt, Bowers is a very sick person who is more than deserving of this parade. But also,
to which I say AMEN!!!
According to USA Today, the charges against Bowers have been released:
Although perhaps it is included in the first charge, I would like to know where are the 11 charges of first degree murder. This heinous crime is clearly premeditated murder many times over.
I am also heartened by the response from the interfaith community, but particularly the Muslim community as noted in a Huff Post article:
To AniMae’s comment about gun control, I say a very big AMEN!!!
In Canada, we have much stricter gun control than the US and statistics proves the difference. The Liberal government of Justin Trudeau is asking citizens about tightening those regulations to which I say another AMEN! Unfortunately, Andrew Scheer, leader of the Conservatives (he replaced Herr Harper), wants to dramatically loosen the regulations.
We cannot let the Bowers and Trumps of this world dictate hate and death. As Rev Sharpton said, “… we all have a part in setting the tone.”, we all have a responsibility to our brothers and sisters in our own backyards and around the globe to promote love and respect.
Thank you for your post!
Thanks and pooped hugs!