Georgia judge suspended for comparing anti-Confederate protesters to ISIS

[struggle4progress]

BY MAX GREENWOOD - 08/16/17 10:33 AM EDT

... Gwinnett County Judge Jim Hinkle called protesters opposing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee in Charlottesville, Va., “snowflakes.” He said they had "no concept of history" and should “leave history alone.”

In a follow-up post, he likened taking down Confederate statues to ISIS’s destruction of historic sites and artifacts in the Middle East.

Hinkle was suspended by Chief Magistrate Judge Kristina Hammer Blum, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday. Blum is considering further action against the judge ...

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/346780-georgia-judge-suspended-for-comparing-anti-confederate-protesters-to-isis

[SharonClark]

1. Golly, he sounds just like his president.

[Mr. Ected]

2. Gwinnett County is very multi-cultural and diverse

To think a man like this sits in judgment of people of color and differing ethnicities is enough to turn one's stomach.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Georgia's most diverse county, indeed. And here's the young lady who canned his ass...

I'm sure THIS makes his blood boil...

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. You don't have to be a lawyer to become a judge in some of those places.

[muntrv]

5. Memo to Hinkle: The Confederates, like ISIS, were shooting at American soldiers.

[progressoid]

6. Another one of Trump's "fine" people.

[Azathoth]

7. "he likened taking down Confederate statues to ISISs destruction of historic sites"

I've seen this cartoonish line appear in white nationalist troll postings over the past few days. This nonsense must be coming from some central source.

[disillusioned73]

11. Me too..

it is definetley a concerted effort..

[Phoenix61]

8. His defense of what he did is even worse

He didn't see anything wrong with what he wrote. Hope she shitcans him for good.

[Caliman73]

9. What is that saying ? People in glass houses....?

It is ridiculous how idiots like Hinkle accuse people of having, "no concept of history" when it is them who have no concept of history. First of all Lee was a traitor the United States. He may have fought for the US in the Mexican-American War, but he took up arms against the US. That makes him like Benedict Arnold in US history. So perhaps we can put a Boot Statue up next to Arnold's boot statue, with no markings (like Arnold's statue). Second, that statue was not put up during the Civil War period. It was commissioned 52 years after and not put up till 60 years after the war during a period of resurgence of the KKK. Third, the comparison to ISIS is beyond idiotic. ISIS is destroying ANCIENT works of civilizations that preceded them because they want to impose their ideology. The citizens of the United States are demanding that statues of traitors to the United States be removed from the public square so as to not commemorate traitors to the United States and to reflect the actions of those traitors to the United States accurately in our history. There is no "Lost Cause" or any nobility in the Southern states treason against the United States. The Confederacy wanted to defend and expand chattel slavery and the North, which had the majority of the US population at the time said "NO", so the South left the country (which was legally ambiguous), attacked the United States, invaded the United States, then got its butt kicked. The failure of the United States government was in not making illegal, any commemoration of the Confederacy, like the Allies did to Germany and Japan after the fall of the Nazi regime and Japan in WWII.

[disillusioned73]

10. Yeah..

"In a follow-up post, he likened taking down Confederate statues to ISIS’s destruction of historic sites and artifacts in the Middle East."

That seems to be a current talking point.. again, false equivalancy - using ISIS is disingenous, best to compare to post WWII Germany & how they handled the losing sides monuments.. I wish the United States would have done the same after the Civil War..

[oxbow]

12. This is why we need to take down all his appointments

These are the type of "quality" people that he is nominating as attorneys and judges.