"Trump has called for the shooting of citizens exercising their constitutional rights" - Granite Grok

“Trump has called for the shooting of citizens exercising their constitutional rights”

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The Nashua Teachers Union (NTU) is sharing a link on their Facebook page to a letter from the Teachers Union in Minneapolis (MFT). In it, the President is accused of calling for citizens exercising their constitutional rights to be shot. Well, now, this, I must see!

From the NTU Facebook page,

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If you follow the link from the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT), via actionnetwork.org,Minneapolis Demands Justice,you find a lot of boilerplate. The good part is that it is a call to stand up for George Floyd and to ensure justice is served in his name. But the bit I found interesting is this.

We are seeking justice not just for Floyd but for all who continue to fight for social and racial justice while being labeled as “thugs” and despite the fact that President Trump has called for the shooting of citizens exercising their constitutional rights.

Just so we are clear, Unions are run almost entirely by far-left socialists. 

Next, it is almost comical that an ideology obsessed with undermining the Constitution would insist that someone has any rights protected by it. Or, that this President is asking law enforcement to shoot people peacefully exercising such rights.

But let’s pretend for a moment that is true. This means that the MFT and the NTU also believe that destroying minority neighborhoods and businesses is a protected right. Beating up innocent people who are protecting their property is a protected right. That’s the message I get from this because those are the people who would be most likely to get shot by anyone. It’s the right to riot, or room to destroy (for those who wish to do that), to borrow a democrat phrase, a very strange thing for a Teachers union to advocate even indirectly.

So, where or when did Mr. Trump call for “the shooting of citizens exercising their constitutional rights? I can’t find it, but I did find this from the President.

My Administration is fully committed that for George and his family, justice will be served. He will not have died in vain. But we cannot allow the righteous cries of peaceful protesters to be drowned out by an angry mob.

And,

Innocent people of have been savagely beaten, like the young man in Dallas, Texas, who was left dying on the street. Or the woman in upstate New York, viciously attacked by dangerous thugs. Small business owners have seen their dreams utterly destroyed. New York’s Finest have been hit in the face with bricks. Brave nurses, who have battled the virus, are afraid to leave their homes. A police precinct station has been overrun. Here in the nation’s capital, the Lincoln Memorial and the World War Two Memorial have been vandalized. One of our most historic churches was set ablaze. A federal officer in California, an African-American enforcement hero, was shot and killed.

These are not acts of peaceful protest. These are acts of domestic terror.

So, no, he is not calling for “the shooting of citizens exercising their constitutional rights.” He has called for the protection of those rights. And for those whose violence makes that expression impossible to be arrested and charged accordingly.

Whether you agree on who has hijacked the protests or why is immaterial, it has happened. And until some semblance of order is restored, the people hoping to exercise their right to peaceful protest not only cannot do that but attempting to do so puts them in mortal danger.

In other words, the President is trying to protect people who want to exercise their constitutional rights from getting shot, clubbed, beaten, or robbed.

Once again, the Nashua Teachers Union showers glory upon the city it claims to serve.

Here is a complete transcript if the NTU would like to share that.

Periscope has the actual words coming from Mr. Trump’s mouth here if that helps.

 

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