Murder most foul
Fox News, Jason Lewis, running for reelection to Congress from the 2ndcongressional district in Minnesota, and the White House focused today, August 22, on the murder of Mollie Tibbetts rather than on the guilty verdict of Paul Manafort and the guilty plea and alarming revelations from Trump’s lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, that concerned Trump’s alleged approval of the use of campaign funds to silence two accusations of sexual congress outside of his marriage to Melania Trump, thereby implicating Trump in indictable criminal acts.
This from the White House: “The loss of Mollie Tibbetts is a devastating reminder that we must urgently fix our broken immigration laws.” This from Jason Lewis,: “The unconscionable murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts at the hands of an illegal alien should NOT be happening in America. This is an outrage that demands action at our border.” This from Fox News: Tomi Lahren said “the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts should be a wake-up call on illegal immigration. Cristhian Rivera, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 20-year-old Tibbetts, who was reported missing more than a month ago. On "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday, Lahren said Americans are starting to see that border control and immigration enforcement affect the entire country, not just border states. Fox News, The White House, Jason Lewis (and other craven Congresspersons) missed this in the news: “A Utah man upset by complaints about the condition of his property summoned a code enforcement officer to his home on Aug. 9, only to fatally shoot her in the head and light her body on fire, according to an arrest document filed in Salt Lake City on Tuesday.” This man was a citizen of the United States. They also made no reference to this: Christopher Lee Watts, a Colorado man, “faces five counts of first-degree murder, one count of unlawful termination of pregnancy and two counts of tampering with a deceased human body.” He was a citizen of the United States. In Dallas, Texas, “A father was charged with capital murder Tuesday after police said he stabbed his 16-month-old son at a Dallas-area apartment complex.” The father was a citizen of the United States. Nary a word from Fox News, Jason Lewis or the White House decrying any of these or similar recent acts of murder. Indeed, as we know from Charlottesville, white citizen nationalists can kill with approval.
Why the silence? Because there is no political gain to be had from any condemnation of these white, male United States citizens. The murder of Mollie Tibbetts, like the murder of the Watts family, the 16-month-old child, or the violent death of the enforcement officer are all heart-rending events of equal import, but only the murder of Mollie Tibbetts serves the ugly, self-serving motives of the white White House or its white co-conspirators in the media and in Congress. To raise the tragic events in Iowa to set an already racist national initiative is a horrible abuse of the life and death of Mollie Tibbetts and a denigration of the lives of other victims of violent crimes, sometimes by other white citizens of the United States. Sandy Hook. Charlottesville. Las Vegas. Stoneman Douglas. The list goes on and on. If there is a conscience left in the government, let them begin impeachment proceedings. If there is a conscience left in the United States, let them vote the bums out of office.
This from the White House: “The loss of Mollie Tibbetts is a devastating reminder that we must urgently fix our broken immigration laws.” This from Jason Lewis,: “The unconscionable murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts at the hands of an illegal alien should NOT be happening in America. This is an outrage that demands action at our border.” This from Fox News: Tomi Lahren said “the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts should be a wake-up call on illegal immigration. Cristhian Rivera, a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 20-year-old Tibbetts, who was reported missing more than a month ago. On "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday, Lahren said Americans are starting to see that border control and immigration enforcement affect the entire country, not just border states. Fox News, The White House, Jason Lewis (and other craven Congresspersons) missed this in the news: “A Utah man upset by complaints about the condition of his property summoned a code enforcement officer to his home on Aug. 9, only to fatally shoot her in the head and light her body on fire, according to an arrest document filed in Salt Lake City on Tuesday.” This man was a citizen of the United States. They also made no reference to this: Christopher Lee Watts, a Colorado man, “faces five counts of first-degree murder, one count of unlawful termination of pregnancy and two counts of tampering with a deceased human body.” He was a citizen of the United States. In Dallas, Texas, “A father was charged with capital murder Tuesday after police said he stabbed his 16-month-old son at a Dallas-area apartment complex.” The father was a citizen of the United States. Nary a word from Fox News, Jason Lewis or the White House decrying any of these or similar recent acts of murder. Indeed, as we know from Charlottesville, white citizen nationalists can kill with approval.
Why the silence? Because there is no political gain to be had from any condemnation of these white, male United States citizens. The murder of Mollie Tibbetts, like the murder of the Watts family, the 16-month-old child, or the violent death of the enforcement officer are all heart-rending events of equal import, but only the murder of Mollie Tibbetts serves the ugly, self-serving motives of the white White House or its white co-conspirators in the media and in Congress. To raise the tragic events in Iowa to set an already racist national initiative is a horrible abuse of the life and death of Mollie Tibbetts and a denigration of the lives of other victims of violent crimes, sometimes by other white citizens of the United States. Sandy Hook. Charlottesville. Las Vegas. Stoneman Douglas. The list goes on and on. If there is a conscience left in the government, let them begin impeachment proceedings. If there is a conscience left in the United States, let them vote the bums out of office.
posted by Alan A. Block at 6:00 AM
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