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Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D-Md.), who is running for the U.S. Senate, on Monday accused the media of a racial double standard in covering the armed anti-government activists who are occupying a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon.
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The group took over a federal building at the refuge Saturday to protest the treatment of a pair of local ranchers who were convicted of arson on federal land. Edwards said in a statement that the activists should be called lawbreaking .?.?. militants and that they are being judged differently than black activists who have demonstrated throughout the country over the past 18 months as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.
I am deeply troubled by the media portrayal of the events in Oregon and the armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge, Edwards said in a statement. Since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists .?.?. have been referred to variously as thugs, criminals, and drug users. To the contrary, most of these protests and protesters have been peaceful, and organizers have sought and obtained permission to peaceably assemble in exercise of their Constitutional rights. But in Oregon, a group of armed men illegally occupying a federal building have been referred to as an armed militia, or simply occupiers, as though that behavior is acceptable in a nation of laws. What is happening in Oregon is not protest sanctioned by the Constitution, it is lawbreaking. Washington Post
RandySF
(58,786 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)Rep. Edwards, I fixed it for you.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What does surprise me is the sustained, respectful hearing these terrorists are getting from the popular media. Every time Ammon Bundy wants to say something, there are a half dozen cameras and a dozen microphones taking it all down. Even if what he has to say today is diametrically opposed to what he said yesterday, the story is all about what Bundy's deathless pronouncement du jour. It's been a week since anyone in the media mentioned the Hammonds (Remember them? That's what this was all about once upon a time.), but nobody wants to ask Bundy about that.
Remember the Occupy coverage? Every time the occupiers brought up another strand of the financial mess strangling the country, all the coverage was about how leaderless the movement was, and they didn't have a focused message.
msongs
(67,395 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Bettie
(16,095 posts)after all, you never know when they're going to step out of line and need to be killed.
(sarcasm, obviously)