I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.
A few years ago I was at a church service in northern Chester County, PA. Someone plopped into the not masked congregation not knowing it was a Christian church might think they were worshiping Donald Trump.
“All of this suggests that DeSantis is taking the wrong approach when he tries to appeal to MAGA voters by dismissing the war in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” and declaring that he cares “more about securing our own border in the United States than I do about the Russia-Ukraine border.” While Trump’s MAGA base is slightly more likely than most Republicans to oppose helping Ukraine, these voters are a minority of GOP primary voters — and they will never abandon the former president. DeSantis gains nothing by trying to appeal to them. He only looks weak, and he alienates pro-Ukraine voters who are open to supporting his candidacy.”
"Zignal’s analysis found tens of thousands of mentions calling Trump a martyr. The number more than doubled immediately after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., linked the prosecution of Trump to the persecution of Christ during an interview.”
“As Trump prepares to appear in court in New York, and as his legal woes elsewhere grow, one thing can make him rest easy. Whatever he says, and apparently whatever he does, white evangelicals will always have his back.”
As a toddler at Christmastime in my grandmom Pitcherella’s house, my favorite thing next to la frit (frittelle) was Uncle Tony’s Jewish business partner Julius Gordon making me laugh.
Raised Catholic, my Grandmom Cavallucci was the organist and choir directer at the Holy Rosary a block from our home. She made sure I was at church on Sundays.
My parents called on Dr. Stokes when I had medical emergencies at night. I went to his office on Chestnut Street in Coatesville. I don't know what he put in those big syringes. I got better quickly when I saw him.
Cutting through my Black neighbors yards on my way to school where I had Black and White friends it was hard to be racist.
When we lived in Philadelphia in the 60s & 70s, we were affiliated with the Catholic Vietnam peace movement (Father John McNamee, Friends Meetinghouse).
War and anti-war.
My wife Betsy worked at the Red Cross linking people on the homefront with officers in the field in Vietnam by ham radio. We talked with then Minister Bob Edgar about the war.
Betsy's Red Cross friend the wife of David Douglas, recently home from serving in the Marines at Khe Sanh. He knew about David Douglas Duncan who arrived just as he was leaving Khe Sanh.
Betsy volunteered as a tour guide at the 1976 July 4th celebration in Philadelphia.
Getting Frank Rizzo's autograph. She actually knew him.
***
“The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, was “handpicked and funded by George Soros,” the former president declared on Thursday as news of his indictment was breaking.
The right’s fixation with Mr. Soros has waxed and waned for years, but the tumult surrounding Mr. Trump’s indictment has given new life to what critics have long contended is a fixation tinged with antisemitic bigotry. Mr. Soros, a Hungarian Jew, survived the Holocaust, fled communism and became one of the single largest funders of democracy promotion, anti-Communism and liberal education around the globe.
“We understand that when someone makes comments about ‘Soros-backed prosecutors,’ that on its own is not necessarily antisemitic,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights group.
“But when a person or a political party repeatedly and relentlessly makes wild claims such as that there is a ‘cabal of globalists backed by Soros destroying our country,’” Mr. Greenblatt said, “that is invoking a classic anti-Jewish conspiracy theory, and it should be condemned.” Mr. Trump and his allies have singled out Mr. Soros for years, Mr. Greenblatt added.”
Conspiracy theorists have long attributed wildly varied events to George Soros, in attacks often viewed as antisemitic. His indirect donations to a prosecutor’s campaign are animating Trump allies.
“Feel the love” is said in church and at concerts. I could feel the love at my grandmom’s home. Love is a thing that floats in the air.
Hate can also be felt, maybe transmitted through the eyes.
Invited to a small gun club on top of a hill near Coatesville PA to shoot clay pigeons I felt the hate in the air. A couple of years later I learned the men were remnants of the 1930s & 40s KKK.
It seems that hate and love can be felt in our bodies, terror and comfort somehow transmitted in the air. In my near to 80 years I’ve developed a keen sense of hate and love, terror and comfort.
I’ve known people who generate love like Othmar Carli and Father John McNamee
I learned furniture restoration from Othmar Carli while working in a cabinetmaker shop in Hanover PA. I had to stop. Couldn't handle the dust.
Father Michael Doyle, John McNamee’s friend at Sacred Heart in Camden was at an event Betsy & me were invited to at my teacher Othmar Carli’s studio. My connection with John McNamee & Othmar came full circle.
The SS scarred his back. He wouldn’t submit to the Hitler Youth. Othmar's kindergarten teacher took his class to see a burned out synagogue. At 6 years of age he made a pledge to himself to devote his life to rebuilding places of worship.
Othmar is the kindest man I ever knew. I found this video about Mr. Carli's work at Sacred Heart in Camden:
“There’s a difference in scale with the N.Y.P.D. — they can push a button and get 1,000 officers,” said John Miller, the department’s former deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, who served as a senior official at the F.B.I.
“Then if that isn’t enough, they can push the button again, and get another 1,000 without too much trouble,” he added.
Some of Mr. Trump’s most extreme supporters seem to recognize this fact.
'NYPD won’t fall as easily as Capitol police did,” one person wrote in a March 20 post on Patriots.win. “There needs to be multiple events to scatter and distract them. Be careful though. NYPD are brutal and even more so when protecting one of their own. They have militarized units that are trained to round up and kill.'
Robert Reilly, a former F.B.I. agent in New Jersey who handled domestic terrorism cases, said the city itself is not as fertile a protest ground for conservative activists who were able to mobilize easily in Washington and during the violent neo-Nazi protests in 2017 in Charlottesville, Va.
“This is New York City,” he said. “You’re not going get the protests you would in Charlottesville or the Capitol. It is too far and too many tolls and nowhere to park,”
Even as Donald Trump’s arraignment differs from the Capitol riot, law enforcement’s response is informed by lessons learned from that day and the nationwide protests against police violence.
Domestic terrorists were here long before Trump ran for president. Trump did not cause domestic terrorism.
Domestic terrorists ramped up with the election of Barack Obama.
For about 7 years Trump & Fox News grew the armies of the terrorist linked right wing.
Their target is the United States and government agencies linked to the United States. Timothy McVeigh was the most successful of the terrorist right wing.
Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday seems to me an unlikely day for a terrorist attack.
"As of November 2022, Donald Trump has been credibly accused of committing at least 56 criminal offenses since he launched his campaign for president in 2015. That total only reflects allegations relating to his time in or running for office and omits, for instance, Trump’s criminal exposure for fraudulent business dealings."
Trump knows he did the crimes. He seems to believe his only chance to stay out of prison lies outside the law.
Trump knew the anti-government terrorist’s history revolving around Waco Texas. April 19th might be the most dangerous day. Trump has just begun to call out his dogs defending him from prison.
One of the most dangerous terror groups is the Atomwaffen Division
Ideology
"In its propaganda videos, Atomwaffen burns copies of the United States Constitution and flag and it also advocates attacks against the federal government of the United States, attacks against minorities, attacks against gays, and attacks against Jews.[66]Atomwaffen Division has engaged in several mass murder plots, plans to cripple public water systems and plans to destroy parts of the continental U.S. power transmission grid.[66] Atomwaffen has also been accused of planning to blow up nuclear power stations.[66] The organization's aim is to violently overthrow the federal government of the United States via terrorism and guerrilla warfaretactics. Since 2017, the organization has been linked to eight killings and several violent hate crimes in the US, including assaults, rapes and multiple cases of kidnapping and torture.[67][23][80][14]
The organization explicitly advocates neo-Nazism, drawing a significant amount of influences from James Mason and his publication Siege, a mid-1980s newsletter of the National Socialist Liberation Front that paid tribute to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Tommasi, Charles Manson, and Savitri Devi.[81] It was published into a book with the same title that is required reading for all Atomwaffen Division members. Mason, a neo-Nazi and a Holocaust denier who advocates murder and violence in order to create lawlessness and anarchy and destabilize the system, is the main advisor to the group.[82][44]
Atomwaffen also draws influences from Nazi esotericism and the occult, and its recommended list of reading materials for aspiring initiates includes the works of Savitri Devi and the works of Anton Long, a founding member of the Order of Nine Angles, a British neo-Nazi and a Satanist leader.[44][23] Some members of the group also sympathize with the Salafi and jihadist forms of Islam. Atomwaffen Division's founder, Brandon Russell, is alleged to have described Omar Mateen, who perpetrated the Orlando nightclub shooting and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, as "a hero". The group also idolizes Osama bin Laden in its propaganda, and considers "the culture of martyrdom and insurgency" within al Qaeda and ISIL as something which should be emulated.[83] A member of the Atomwaffen Division, Steven Billingsley, was photographed at a vigil in San Antonio, Texas, for the victims of the Orlando shooting, with a skull mask and a sign which read "God Hates Fags", a motto connected to the Westboro Baptist Church.[84][85][86][87"
A gag order limiting the speech of Trump might be imposed.
"Donald Trump spent the weekend posting dangerous and bizarre messages following his indictment by the Manhattan Grand Jury. MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports."
Veterans group DESTROYS Fox ‘News’ with POWERFUL new ad
By Jen Smith, Chief Reporter and Rob Crilly, Senior U.S. Political Reporter and Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com 08:23 EDT 31 Mar 2023 , updated 21:51 EDT 31 Mar 2023
