Serbia's prime minister was forced to flee a ceremony held to mark 20 years since the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday, when mourners hurled stones and bottles at him in what his government later described as an attempted liquidation.
Now he knows how it feels...
Bodyguards surrounded Aleksandar Vucic and rushed him away through a crowd that turned on him moments after he entered the cemetery and laid flowers to 8,000 Moslem men and boys executed after the U.N. safe haven fell to Bosnian Serb forces towards the end of the 1992-95 war.
Stones and bottles were thrown from the crowd, some of whom were heard to cry "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest), in an attack underscoring the depth of anger over Belgrade's denial of the massacre as genocide.
Serbia, which backed the Bosnian Serbs during the war with men and money, condemned the attack as an "liquidation attempt".
Vucic, without his glasses that he said were smashed, told news hounds in Belgrade: "It was not an incident. It was an organized attack."
Yup. You announced where you'd be and when. You haven't quite figured out that your people and their people have hated each other for about 1300 years or so?
The attendance of Vucic, a hardline nationalist during the Yugoslav wars but who now wants to take Serbia into the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , was intended to be symbolic of how far the region has come since the bloody collapse of Yugoslavia.
But it came just days after his government enlisted ally Russia to veto a resolution at the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... that would have condemned the denial of Srebrenica as genocide, as a U.N. court has ruled it was.
[Breitbart] Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) responded to 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's frustration with illegal immigration on Sunday's "Meet the Press" on NBC.
Haley said she understands Trump's frustration, but she also warned Trump to pump the brakes on his tone because she wants people to communicate in a tone with "respect and dignity."
"I understand his frustration. The frustration that he has about illegal immigration a lot of people have. The difference is we need to be very conscious of our tone, we need to be very conscious of how we communicate. There are a lot of legal immigrants that have made this country the place it is today. We need to make sure that we're always communicating in a way that's got respect and dignity."
The term of reference "These People" was often used by General Robert E. Lee to refer to his adversaries. Perhaps if Trump used a similar term in referring to our friends south of the border, Governor Haley's proper 'tone' could be achieved.
"I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them."
As quoted in The American Soul : An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans (1920) by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63
#3
People are responding to Trump because they are fed up with the status quo in Washington, a rogue POTUS, a rogue SCOTUS, a do-nothing Congress unresponsive to the voters, corruption and political correctness run amok.
#4
George Wallace 1968, 'law and order'. Somehow that turned the boat hard in its path in that and the subsequent elections. Suddenly, everyone was for law and order again. Took that to get the ruling class's attention.
Can't wait till he starts saying, if you have no loyalty to me as an American why should I have any for you?
#5
We need to treat legal immigrants with the same respect and dignity as any other citizen, no more and no less. If we disagree with them we have a right to say so. If they don't like it that's tough. I don't like being muzzled. If there is a criminal element among members of their ethnic group who have come here illegally we are fools if we try to ignore it.
I am highly suspicious of those who either cannot or will not acknowledge the difference between legal and illegal, even if they happen to be Republican governors. To me it makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between a sovereign nation and a failed state.
I don't need the governor of South Carolina telling me or anybody else what can and cannot be said about it.
Haley has a point: you can point out that absolutely, positively that the border needs to be controlled (fence, moat, crocodiles) and illegal immigrants need to be shown the door without being so nasty that legal immigrants start fearing a midnight knock on the door.
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Point taken, but Kathryn Steinle might be alive today had there been a few more.... "midnight knocks on doors."
#10
If the illegal aliens fear a knock on the door at midnight then they should go back where they belong.
We have a thing in this country called the First Amendment and there are those of us who resent the hell out of being shushed. It's gotten to the point where Trump had to be outrageous just to get anybody's attention, just to get the dialogue started, because otherwise it's gonna get swept under the rug just like it always has in the past. We can't keep quiet anymore and we can't have anybody setting themselves up as the judge of what can and cannot be said about it. It's like people who say we need to be more respectful of Muslims. No. We don't. They need to respect us. If they want to make trouble then we have to confront them or else submit to their tyranny.
Trump did not lie. He did not even exaggerate. He told the truth. But everybody's acting like he's some big, hateful racist. I don't know. Maybe he's just an attention whore. But it's about damn time somebody said what he did.
I don't know how it is where you live but Hispanics, legal or otherwise, have become the majority in California and the barking moonbats now control this state. That is why San Francisco declared itself a "sanctuary city" and it's why that lady got shot. We'll never, ever, have another Republican governor or legislator and all of our Electoral College votes will always go to candidates like Obama and Hildebeest. It's why businesses are fleeing this state. It wasn't always this way. I've watched it change. I waited for Republicans like Bush to do something about it and they failed. So as far as I'm concerned, Trump can say whatever he wants.
#13
...If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
The man had and has just about everything. The only thing money can't buy is immortality. However, it can be bestowed by an assassin motivated by the hate that drives the Left and it ancillary adjuncts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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