Doug Jones: Trump's words can lead to violence, just like George Wallace's did in 1963

[japple]

https://www.al.com/news/2018/10/doug-jones-compares-bomb-threats-with-1963-church-bombing-words-mean-something.html?fbclid=IwAR38SaJDAmSDAdlla1qIJtwmRuaDry6-YdgnwMgUXMcSjpJxzV7Nyg_Zvkc#incart_river_index

Senator Doug Jones drew comparisons on Wednesday between the 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham to the pipe bomb threats that targeted several prominent Democrats this week.

“I can tell you that there was a bomb that exploded in Birmingham in 1963 that killed four girls because (former public safety commissioner) Bull Connor and (former Governor) George Wallace said things that empowered them,” said Jones, who as a federal attorney, prosecuted two of the four KKK members responsible for the bombing in the early 2000s.

“None of those folks meant to do something like that,” Jones said about Connor and Wallace. “But words mean something. We need to be talking about positive things, not hateful things.”

[msongs]

1. sorry doug but they meant "to do something like that" . nt

[The Blue Flower]

2. What Wallace unleashed came back to cut him down

"Those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind." I still believe that the howling mob will finally turn on the anti-president and tear him apart.

[Roy Rolling]

5. Great Quote

Lots of karma-like quotes recently. After two years of simmering, the pot will eventually boil over because that's what happens. The same fire level over a longer period of time makes a pot eventually boil over with no additional fire.

The anticipation is that some single event will lead to a crisis. The reality is, the longer Trump fuels the fire, to belabor the analogy, "the pot will boil over". It's simply too much fire.

[Stallion]

3. I Suggest that Everybody Watch PBS George Wallace-Setting the Woods on Fire

...you can find it with a simple google video search. Trump stole his script more than any other politician. He is doing George Wallace 50 years later. Its the kind of show you don't look forward to-I detested the man with every fiber in my body -but once you turn it on its hard to look away. Plus there is some redemption to his story as he renounced his racist past and won re-election years later with strong minority support. Its also interesting that he started out as "liberal" judge (for Alabama) but largely used the desegregation issue for cynical political gain. Its one of the best in the American Experience series

[KT2000]

4. JFK was advised

not to go to Dallas because of the violent rhetoric at the time.