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https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article242972241.htmlReeks of hate. Politicians condemn effigy of Beshear hung at KY Capitol protest
By Morgan Eads
May 24, 2020 07:24 PM
Kentucky politicians from both major political parties spoke out Sunday against an effigy of Gov. Andy Beshear that was hung in a tree at the Capitol in Frankfort during a protest.
The Patriot Day 2nd Amendment Rally was held Sunday afternoon at the Capitol with the aim of getting people to be more like the original American Patriots who would not stand for their God-given right to protect themselves and their loved ones to be taken away by tyrants, according to a Facebook group created for the event.
Pictures and videos taken during the protest by the Courier-Journal and others show an effigy of Beshear that was hung in a tree along with a sign that read Sic Semper Tyrannis.
State Senate Minority Leader Morgan McGarvey, D-Louisville, was among the first to speak out Sunday.
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'Reeks of hate.' Politicians condemn effigy of Beshear hung at KY Capitol protest (Original Post)
dalton99a
May 2020
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RockRaven
(14,959 posts)1. Reeks of sedition and a variety of felonies.
In other words, Republicans.
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)2. Yet this is what the GOP has become.
In a way, it's good that they are loudly and proudly flaunting their hatred. Let there be no mistake who they are and what they stand for.
mbusby
(823 posts)3. "Sic Semper Tyrannis"
Is what John Wilkes Booth shouted after he shot Abraham Lincoln.
dweller
(23,628 posts)4. Hate Crime
pure and simple
✌🏼
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)5. "Our Mr. Rogers", as DU's Corgigal dubbed him
Only idiots would think "Our Mr. Rogers" is a tyrant.