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Home Front: Culture Wars
Jeh Johnson: Removal of Confederate Statues a Matter of ‘Homeland Security'
2017-08-20
[Free Beacon] Former Obama administration official Jeh Johnson said the removal of Confederate statues was a matter of "public safety and homeland security" on Sunday.

In the aftermath of deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., when a man with white nationalist ties was arrested for ramming his car into a crowd of counter-protesters last week and killing a woman, Confederate monuments across the country have been taken down. The furor in Charlottesville began with a protest by white supremacists against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee.

Johnson served as Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, and he said on ABC's "This Week" that the monuments to Confederates were helping to rally white nationalists.

"What alarms so many of us from a security perspective is that so many of the statues, the Confederate monuments, are now, modern-day, becoming symbols and rallying points for white nationalism, for neo-Nazis, for the KKK, and this is most alarming," Johnson said. "We fought a world war against Naziism. The KKK reigned terror on African Americans for generations."

"I salute those in cities and states who are taking down a lot of these monuments for reasons of public safety and security," he added. "And that's not a a matter of political correctness. That's a matter of public safety and homeland security and doing what's right."

Host Martha Raddatz said she felt the Trump administration would call that a "slippery slope," referring to local Washington locations like Washington-Lee High School and Jefferson Davis Highway.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Well, Jeh Bush is on his payroll so I would bet he would.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-08-20 20:12  

#10  Wanna bet Jeh Bush totally agrees?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-08-20 19:55  

#9  "I salute those in cities and states who are taking down a lot of these monuments for reasons of public safety and security," he added. "And that's not a a matter of political correctness. That's a matter of public safety and homeland security and doing what's right."

I don't agree with any of those statements. It's another instance of this guy trying to insert DHS into one more thing. It is another instance of political correctness. It's like when he tried to declare the voting process a part of “critical infrastructure" and taking it over; thus making it easier to rig elections.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-20 18:03  

#8  What, and derail the Soetoro gravy-train?
Posted by: Pappy   2017-08-20 16:09  

#7  And why wasn't this a crisis the past 8 years?
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-08-20 15:55  

#6   So he didn't do it while he was Secretary of HS because...?

They wanted to be re-elected
Posted by: Airandee    2017-08-20 15:02  

#5  "slaughter us all"? Nah, I think the first thing those statues will do is kill every pigeon in sight.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2017-08-20 14:39  

#4  And it needs to happen TODAY because they will come to life during the eclipse and slaughter us all!
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-08-20 14:21  

#3  So he didn't do it while he was Secretary of HS because...?

Good question. Some of those statues have been there for over 150 years and never caused any trouble. Now it's suddenly a matter of great urgency that they be removed. Might be they think they can blame the trouble of removing them on Trump.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-08-20 14:19  

#2  So he didn't do it while he was Secretary of HS because...?
Posted by: Tom   2017-08-20 13:24  

#1  Continuing to hear from these bitter einder Soetoro appointees is troubling.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-20 13:15