NOT MY pres drumpf/trump ordering a military parade in his honor is as disgusting as his draft dodging ("medical" deferments) during the Vietnam War, his comment during the 2016 presidential campaign about always wanting a Purple Heart his disrespectful comments about Gold Star families like the Kahns and his disrespect for Sen John McCain's military service. Besides, the drumpf/trump-pence administration already had their military parade on charlottsville in August 2017, see the pictures and watch the video below.....
Ex-SEAL who says he fired final bin Laden shot calls Trump's military parade 'third-world b-------'
(CNN)The former Navy SEAL who claims he fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden is blasting President Donald Trump's desire for a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.
"A military parade is third world b-------. We prepare. We deter. We fight. Stop this conversation," Robert O'Neill tweeted Thursday.
O'Neill was part of the military operation ordered by President Barack Obama that killed the al Qaeda leader in 2011. He also has been a guest host on a favorite morning show of Trump's, "Fox & Friends," and dined with the President at the White House last year.
Reports surfaced Tuesday that Trump asked the Pentagon for a parade that would rival France's Bastille Day celebration that he attended last year. Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday that the Pentagon is preparing options for a possible military parade to send to the White House for a decision.
O'Neill's is just one voice in a chorus of concerns and criticism from veterans, former military leaders and lawmakers about the proposed parade. Some are uneasy over potentially high costs, while others question Trump's motives and argue that such a parade calls to mind displays of military power by authoritarian regimes such as North Korea or Russia.
The last major military parade held in the United States was in 1991 under President George HW Bush to celebrate victory in the Gulf War.
The protesters carried tiki torches — yes, there is some irony here — as they marched to the University of Virginia
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Anti-racism and anti-fascist counterprotesters were surrounded by the demonstrators at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson
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Some of the racist protesters were very passionate and angry — leading to a brawl that police broke up later in the night
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The protesters marched through the University of Virginia, which quickly condemned the torch-wielding demonstrations and the violence they caused
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The most powerful images from the violent far-right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.
- People were thrown into the air as a car ploughed into crowds - the incident capped up a day of tension and clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia
- Hundreds of far-right protesters had descended on the US city to protest against the removal of a statue of a Southern Civil War hero
- Many carried Confederate flags - and weapons. This man wore a German World War Two helmet
- Counter-protesters were out in force to face them
- Clashes erupted between the two rival groups, with fighting in the streets
- There was violence from both sides: this man was punched in the face after giving a Nazi salute
- This man doused himself with a liquid, most likely milk of magnesia, to cope with the effects of pepper spray
- Donald Trump has been criticised for not explicitly condemning far-right groups, which have been energised under his presidency
- A man has been arrested after driving the car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring 19 people
- By the evening on Saturday, makeshift vigils had been made
- Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville on Saturday, Aug. 12, produced demonstrations ahead of the event Friday night and afterwards on Sunday. Saturday's rally against the removal of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the name change of Lee Park devolved into violence. CLICK HERE TO VIEW PHOTOS ON THE RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH WEBSITE.
A KKK group from North Carolina called the Loyal White Knights protested in Justice Park (formerly Jackson Park) in early July because they weren't happy with decisions being made by the city that will affect Civil War memorials in city parks. This KKK member gave a "White Power" salute to protestors who were giving him the one-finger salute. | Getty
Vice’s documentary on Charlottesville is really worth watching
It shows the white supremacist protesters for what they really are.
Charlottesville: Race and Terror – VICE News Tonight (HBO)
If there was any doubt about what kind of person went to protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, Vice News’s documentary should put those questions to rest: One side was white supremacists, some of whom openly endorsed violence.
The documentary, posted online on Monday, follows a group of white supremacists, led by white nationalist Chris Cantwell, as they march and protest through Charlottesville — purportedly to stand against the city’s plans to take down Confederate monuments, but really to spread a message of white supremacy.
Here are a few quotes from the white supremacist protests and participants, made up of members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and white nationalists:
- “Jews will not replace us! Jews will not replace us! Jews will not replace us!”
- “When the Trayvon Martin case happened, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and all these different things happened, every single case it’s some little black asshole behaving like a savage, and he gets himself in trouble, shockingly enough. Whatever problems I might have with my fellow white people, they generally are not inclined to such behavior — and, you know, you gotta kinda take that into consideration when you’re thinking about how to organize your society.”
- “This city is run by Jewish communists and criminal n*****s! That’s exactly what it is.” “And that’s true, by the way.”
- “We didn’t aggress. We did not initiate force against anybody. We’re not nonviolent. We’ll fucking kill these people if we have to.”
- “Right now we have people on the ground at the statue with equipment, and they’re being told they’re not allowed to have a vehicle come through and pick them up or anybody come and pick them up. I’m about to send at least 200 people with guns to go get them out if you guys do not get our people out.”
- The car attack by a Nazi sympathizer on counter-protesters, which killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer, “was more than justified. The amount of restraint that our people showed out there, I think, was outstanding.”
- “I think a lot more people are going to die before we’re done here, frankly. … People die violent deaths all the time. This is part of the reason we want an ethno-state. The blacks are killing each other in staggering numbers from coast to coast. We don’t really want to have a part of that anymore.”
This is who showed up to protest plans to take down a Confederate statue in Charlottesville. This is who President Donald Trump argued is equivalent to the counter-protesters who showed up to stand against racism and fascism.
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