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Thunderbeast

(3,383 posts)
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 01:48 PM Sep 2016

The Dangers of Certitude

Donald Trump took bows this week for his early intuition that the explosions in New York and New Jersey were the result of a bomb placed by an Islamic extremist. He wants credit for identifying the cause, and the profile of the perpetrator before law enforcement had the opportunity to discern the facts of the case. When he was proved correct about the matter, he claimed that "political correctness" prevented the facts to be know much sooner. He, of course, was wise to nail it based on his superior intuition and "common sense".

His proposed solution is, of course, is to implement profiling on all Muslims as they do in Israel, and to stop immigration of a targeted ethnic population.

I am reminded of Mr. Trump's similar analysis during the prosecution of the "Central Park Five" after a terrible attack on a woman walking through the park. Police interrogated five young minority teens, and compelled false confessions. Donald Trump took out a full page ad in the New York Times calling for the suspension of law in order to execute these teenagers. His intuition told him that these young men MUST be guilty, and that any hint of Police misconduct HAD to be a fabrication. His unique "common sense" told him what the racists wanted to hear.

The confessions of the Central Park Five were discovered to be a fraud. The actual criminal in the case was discovered after the teenagers spent over ten years in prison. Donald Trump has never been held to account for his bluster and fear-mongering.

The bluster and certainty of Donald Trump's pronouncements are dangerous in the hands of a Commander in Chief.

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