Claire McCaskill Scolds Rioters: Nothing More Un-American Than Protesters Who Arent Peaceful

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite

Senator Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, scolded the people rioting on the streets in Washington D.C. today following President Trump‘s inauguration.

There are a lot of people protesting in D.C. right now, but there has been some rioting going on. People have smashed windows and set small fires, among other things.

McCaskill scolded the people rioting and said that “nothing” is more un-American than protesters who aren’t peaceful:

Claire McCaskill ✔
@clairecmc

Nothing is more unAmerican than protesters who are not peaceful. Disgusting.
2:03 PM - 20 Jan 2017
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[apcalc]

1. Probably Trumpsters who planned it so they could blame

The left, garner sympathy for Twitler. Story on Huffpost days ago...

[bdamomma]

5. yes they are Trumpsters

trying to blame us. What such BS. Trying to silence us we are peaceful protesters.

[politicat]

42. I think the gold paint gives it away.

Gold paint is pretty crappy on almost every surface *except* shiny black limos. Doesn't show up on brick, concrete, the pale granites and limestones of DC walls. Which is stupid tactics, anyway -- if you're going to carry spray paint and risk losing it and/or getting locked up before the REALLY big event tomorrow, if you encounter any sort of official presence, why carry something that's so limited in use? Red and day-glos tend to be more useful for reasons.

[msongs]

2. dear claire, america does not have a peacful culture. killed anybody with drones lately have we? nt

[Rex]

33. +1

[tenorly]

3. She's right. Such things play right into Faux News' hands.

Which is why I'm almost certain a lot of it is being provoked by agents provocateurs.

[MissKat]

20. I agree, tenderly

and my worry for tomorrow is that we'll see the violence escalate.

Anarchists will be blamed and I'm worried that the police will respond with terrible force.

Remember Kent State? 4 unarmed protesters shot dead.

People keep saying this is uncharted territory. NO. We've been here before.

I don't want to be right--but this ship is being steered towards war. There's not a doubt in my mind and his speech today confirmed it. He will say, "America needs a strong hand and l alone have the hammer." And he will bring it down.

[tenorly]

21. Next stop: a Reichstag fire.

God help us all.

[raccoon]

24. You beat me to the post. nt

[tenorly]

27. Ah.

Great minds and all that.

[YOHABLO]

4. How does she even know who they were? They could have been plants.

I think that a lot of protests were infiltrated with right wingers to insight violence.

[bdamomma]

7. of course

they are trying to blame us. Maybe they are tRumps payroll. Going by his Russian playbook.

[RKP5637]

26. That's what I think is going on too! n/t

[loyalsister]

28. She grabs any opportunity to remind people of her tough on crime bona fides

Her identity as a tough prosecutor and a brutally persistant state auditor is what got her elected. She's up for re-election next year.

[IronLionZion]

37. Of course they're plants

shit got really scary over here as they smashed windows for no apparent reason and wore masks and hoods. Liberals don't do that.

Which is why I am really dreading the womens march tomorrow. I signed up to direct visiting people from the stadium to the mall and back. But I'm sure some bad stuff is going to go down during the march as an excuse for Trump's administration to discredit those dangerous violent feminists and set back womens rights.

They'll find something similar to do about diversity. Or the might plant RWers and claim that minorities or muslims are causing the violence.

Trump's people have already taken command of our DC National Guard and visiting troops, which breaks from tradition.

[MadamPresident]

6. The Black Bloc aren't protestors. They are agents provocateur.

A lot of times they themselves are police.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Nothing

is more un-American than a political coup d'etat by a foreign power

[nycbos]

9. She is right the 1968 riots were Nixon's greatest campaign asset.

These are likely the people who didn't bother to vote.

[bdamomma]

10. this total BS

it is a set up to blame us peace loving protestors.

[elmac]

11. probably instigated by undercover police

like many of the 60's riots

[Ray Bruns]

12. Dear Claire McCaskill

Your absolutely right. Shame on them.
It's not like they armed themselves with assault rifles, took over a government facility, then threatened federal and local officials with violence.

[LisaM]

13. Counter-Sting also said O'Keefe was trying to do some instigation.

Here in Seattle, we've had to deal with anarchists (this happens in Portland, too), who manage to disrupt the message away from people who really are on the streets for meaningful reasons. Remember WTO? And the only image that made the paper was a guy wearing Nike shoes kicking in a Nike store window.

[geek tragedy]

14. those rioters are hurting our cause, they're in it for their own thrills, not anything noble nt

[elmac]

15. its silly rioting right now

there will be plenty of excuses for it in the near future.

[elmac]

16. and in the future when sniffles starts stringing people up for posting on DU

should we all hold hands and sing kumbaya?

[BumRushDaShow]

17. This time "Agent Mike"

will be for real!

[Chakaconcarne]

18. For Fuck's sake... Someone has to get pissed about the attack that just occurred on our country..

She can go sit on a stick.

[DRoseDARs]

19. Nothing more traitorous than Sens/Reps w/intel knowledge of rigged election and letting it stand.

Careful, Claire, your complicity is showing...

[Sunlei]

22. ONLY violence was by group of about 30 dressed in black, faces covered, with no signs. organized.

that group did all the window breaking, trash can throwing, pried up street bricks & threw them at police, lit trash on fire.

covered, masked faces were forbidden. I don't understand why security didn't grab and remove them immediately.

[olddad56]

23. A rigged election by our enemy is more unamerican, and the new dictator is a traitor.

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. Yes. While I don't approve of violent protests

I can think of LOTS of things more Un-American.

[Paladin]

25. If ever violent protests were called for in this country's history, it's now. (nt)

[The_Casual_Observer]

29. Dear Claire, I believe that there would have been no New Deal and no end to the Vietnam War

had those in power not been so shit scared of the violence that was beginning to happen.

[Botany]

30. ATTN Claire

Those were plants.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

31. ApResident who is not peaceful,

whole other story, though, right?

[yallerdawg]

32. Peaceful protest is one thing.

Civil disobedience is another.

[brooklynite]

34. I'm sorry, but anyone who's going to yell "false flag" operation needs to show some evidence

It may make you feel good; it won't convince anyone else.

[7962]

41. I think we'll be waiting for some time.

i get slammed for asking the same thing.

[Bradical79]

35. It was practically inevitable

So I'm not going to hand wring over it, or admonish protestors, or say they were stupid. Even if every actual protestor keeps their cool, you have both independant groups that will show up to the biggest protests with the goal to cause violence, AND right wing people looking to conduct a false flag operation. Hell, there was even specific proof before these protests of O'Keefe trying to organize such a thing before hand.

[DonCoquixote]

36. hey Claire

if you want to know why Hillary didn't get inaugurated today, look at yourself in the mirror and we wise that you are part of the problem. By the way, before you write the office sexist,, think about how many women are getting pushed in the squad cars and getting their heads bashed in by a bunch of cops were getting their macho fix. If Roe V Wade is going to be defended by the likes of you, then it's going to be the 1900s again before we know it.

[sarcasmo]

39. Claire trying to save her job in a red state.

[pstokely]

40. it won't help turn out the progressive vote

early signs point her to running a Koster-like campaign in 2018 rather than a Kander-like campaign

[JI7]

43. they aren't progressive if they are not going to come out to vote considering everything

[pstokely]

47. Missouri Dems haven't done much turn motivate progressive voters

nt

[Raine]

44. Sometimes violence is all that gets their attention. Hundreds of thousands peacefully protest

and get ignored, I've seen it happen time after time.

[Scruffy1]

45. Breaking windows is not violence.

I am so sick of this crap from our politicians. They have no problems with drones killing people, police murdering people, thousand of deaths due to fossil fuel pollution, the violence of bombing countries into oblivion but get into a tizzy when a piece of glass gets broken. We had black block people in our large anti-Trump march today and I appreciate it. It seems pretty well understood that when they are in a march they go by the marches rules and we have never had a problem.

[ck4829]

46. I wonder what Claire would have said in response to the Boston Tea Party

That the people there were "unBritish"?

You don't have advocate for it, but one can see where the rage is coming from...

There is a feeling that the votes of the people don't really count for anything.
There is a perception that we have a government of the 1%, by the 1%, and for the 1%.
And we pay taxes and we forego good schools, good services, and good infrastructures to pay for wars, prisons, and the salaries of legislators who turn around and tell us we don't need health care and give more rights to the bacteria and tumors inside the bodies of people who can not afford health care.

What is Claire doing about those things?