Milwaukee County Sheriff and apparently four-star general of Trump’s army, David Clarke, says he really meant it with that torches and pitchforks thing.
And because it’s always comforting when someone in law enforcement encourages a insane mob to storm … everything, he clarified his position by suggesting that history was on his side.
“I’m suggesting the same thing the Founding Fathers did in the 1770s, when they drew up the Declaration of Independence,” the Milwaukee County sheriff and Donald Trump supporter said on “Fox and Friends." “Go back and read your Declaration of Independence. It's right there.”
Calling on the people to grab their pitchforks. Saying he wanted to do the same things as the Founding Fathers in the 1770s—that certainly seems clear enough.
“Were they inciting violence? No, what they wanted was self-rule, they wanted a government controlled by the people and not the bureaucrats in Washington.”
So, in David Clarke’s mind, the Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence, apparently scratching it out with pitchforks, so they could peacefully gain independence from … the bureaucrats in Washington. Yeah, it was totally like that.
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Clarke would be the same fellow who, at the Republican Convention, began his speech by shouting “Blue lives matter!” and following it up with:
Many of the actions of the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements “transcend peaceful protest” and “violates the code of conduct we rely on,” Clarke said. "I call it anarchy."
Anarchy bad. Torches and pitchforks good.
Clarke accused both Obama and Hillary Clinton of fueling “misplaced anger” by African-Americans at law enforcement officers earlier this month after the Dallas shooting.
Oh, we absolutely wouldn’t want any misplaced anger. That’s why Clarke places his everywhere.
Clarke's Twitter feed is full of posts calling on the American people to "rise up" and claiming that the U.S. justice system "ceased to be legitimate" with its investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server as secretary of state.
So … there you go. A sheriff is telling you that the justice system is illegitimate and that people should rise up—with torches and pitchforks—to be like the Founding Fathers. But, um, peacefully.
According to his own blog post, “The People’s Sheriff” is being completely misunderstood. Or not.
When I tweeted the above image, I meant it. I wasn’t speaking in code. It’s time to run those corrupt politicians out of Washington DC and back to whatever crevices they crawled from. It’s time to put Mrs. Bill Clinton behind bars, where she belongs. And it’s time that the DOJ learns what the “J” stands for in their name.
Why might anyone take this kind of talk seriously? Here’s a small reminder:
Three militia members were arrested in Kansas on Friday for plotting to bomb a apartment complex home to Somali immigrants the day after the election, and authorities said a local North Carolina Republican party office was firebombed on Sunday.