A reader’s response
I read the Daily Forum on a daily basis, with that being said I can expect the liberal line to be spewed from the pen of the country boy, but from Pinney, I am really disappointed. I expected some semblance of the understanding of right and wrong from him. His article in the Forum on Charlottesville was just another hit piece on the President of the United States.
First of all, he states that the black lives matter crowd and the antifa were completely in their rights to stifle freedom of speech, just because they do not like the rhetoric or they don’t like the people. Mr. Pinney, where in the First Amendment does it provide for allowances to prohibit free speech from anyone? The black lives matter crowd and the antifa are Marxist haters that want to create chaos to ultimately tear down the very fabric of America. You support this? Come on!
Based upon what you said in your article you must believe that the BLM and antifa are righteous freedom fighters who apparently pop up from nowhere to demonstrate and/or protest and are deserving of your support, however in truth, the BLM movement, and the many other “social justice” groups being funded by Soros, now have the money to not just pay protesters, but to employ full-time activists who can devote their lives to organizing, disrupting, and shutting down planned and permitted events whose organizers or speakers they find offensive. A year ago, Breitbart reported that hacked Open Society Foundation documents showed that the George Soros-funded group gave Black Lives Matter groups $650,000. The Ford Foundation subsequently announced that it was launching a fundraising campaign to raise $100 million to support Black Lives Matter. An anti-protester, Hawk Newsome, president of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, said the police response to “Unite the Right” in Charlottesville was different than at rallies he’s attended in the past. He said the police in Charlottesville were too far away to prevent any violence. Mr. Pinney, I ask you if the anti-protest was spontaneous, what was a guy from New York doing protesting in Virginia? And, moreover, why are you not questioning the lack of action by police?
The national press should be arrested for hate crimes. Not a day goes by that the airways are filled with anti-Trump reports. Many times, a reporter reports a speculation of what is going on and then the remaining news outlets prints or states it as it was completely true. This is the fake news that Mr. Trump talks about. The president was correct when he stated that there is fault on both sides. It seems pretty sophomoric to me when politicians, businessmen, and especially media types criticize the President for an accurate statement.
After eight years of the Obama liberal agenda, I guess what is right is wrong?
— John Schroeder
Maryville
