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Former US Secretary of Defense and retired four-star Marine Corps General Jim Mattis denounced US President Donald Trump and described him as a threat to the US constitution.
This is the first time Jim Mattis expresses any opinion on Trump following his resignation as Secretary of Defense back in December 2018 in protest of the President’s Syria policy.
Mattis accused Trump of dividing the nation, and that ordering the US military to violate the constitutional rights of the American people.
“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” Mattis writes. “The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.” He goes on, “We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”
Mattis emphasized that what Trump was doing was essentially setting Americans against one another.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.”
He also reminded what the US troops were told when they had to arrive on the shores of Normandy to fight against the Nazis.
“Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that ‘The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was “Divide and Conquer.” Our American answer is “In Union there is Strength.”’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.”
In a previous interview in 2019, Mattis said that there would be a period of silence, which he owed, but that it wouldn’t last forever.
Mattis makes it clear that the president’s response to the police killing of George Floyd, and the ensuing protests, triggered this public condemnation.
This is a worrisome sign for Donald Trump, since this shows that an esteemed four-star general, and former commander of the US Marine Corps disagrees with him, this is showing that a large part of the US Armed Forces are likely of the same opinion, and those who were in doubt may have received an impetus from Jim Mattis’ words.
The entire statement by retired Marine Corps commander, four-star General Jim Mattis is the following:
“In Union There Is Strength
I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.
When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.
We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “battlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.
James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.
Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.
Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.
We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.
Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals—will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.”
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It’d be downright selfish to keep such fine policing learnt from the Zionist criminals to themselves.
The American empire is falling apart. But things can always get worse as the US reveals its empty soul.
Put another way, the images of the US failed state could have come straight out of Middle Eastern countries recently occupied by the US military, such as Iraq, or those in which brutal US support enables the brutal repression of internal dissent, such as Israel/Palestine, Egypt and the Persian Gulf family princelets. The imperial war machine, seen before on US streets and well known particularly to the nation’s black and Hispanic population, has come back home to kill its own.
Arrogant prick. He was in the business of “divide and conquer” for years
He was the main proponent of the Zionist wars and the destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria.Palestinian Americans draw stark comparisons of US and Israeli uses of force which they have endured for 70 years while the hypocritical western world turned a blind eye. Mattis is a big supporter of Zionist war crimes and now shedding crocodile tears for the African Americans.
Agreed fuck mattis, he is part of the problem as much as trump is.
The Black hand of Putin yet again Reveals itself in nore devious plots!.,
The rotten empire is eating itself.
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Another rat gnawing at the rotten sinking ship!
Trump to authorize night raids on American-Antifa neighborhoods in his very own U.S. kill or capture, joint prioritized effects list? (JPEL)
He can speak now and he did so with effect.
It’s pretty sad when it takes a neocon war monger to speak the truth to the American people. This will be seen as just another attack against the great and mighty Oz, uhhh Trump, by his supporters though. While he speaks the truth, this neocon is not a devotee of Israel, hence his previous departure. He is actually referring to the sedition act that Trumplet has been bellowing about. If Trump were to actually try to employ that, it would indeed be the end of constitutional rule and there would be no lipstick on the pig at all(the Israeli dream). This does show the division between those that blindly and openly follow Israeli diktat (Zionists) and those that are mere war mongers (neocons) …both sides that want the world. Then there are the truly criminal Zionist neocons (like PompAss, Pense, Barr). In the south, they are starting to have that discussion about Israeli police training. If it ever sees the light of MSM day I’ll be surprised. The closest I’ve seen was the demand by the people of Atlanta to stop said practice. The mayor disagreed and continues the practice. Oh, yeah…the group that led the protest?…members of BLM and BDS. Thanks to the machinations of Soros and other Trump (Zionist) affiliates, BLM (and other groups) has been infiltrated and discredited by their actions. But it’s worked hasn’t it? How many here attack BLM as a purely Soros group and do not recognize that there are sincere people in the group, not just neolib provocateurs(who are usually NOT local)? The strategy has been to associate them with BDS and that has worked quite well, as it resulted in a slew of pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian laws, especially in the still bigoted old south. But things may not go as planned by the exceptional and chosen few. Police in N. Carolina took to the knee with protestors the other day…definitely not an expected action. Is the Zionist hold on the old south weakening? One can only hope so, as they have owned the states for some years now. In the north, such discussions have not (to my knowledge) taken place. But the BLM assassination is going gangbusters, no matter that demonstrators are outing provocateurs (which the MSM ignores). Wait and see if they are not associated with BDS sooner or later. Ahhh, the games they play and the gullible that fall for them.
Mattis is a fag, so he doesn’t see any problem with ‘taking a knee’ in front of some black men.
Your missing the point buddy.
Who cares what he does with his penis? The point is, american society is divided, on purpose and it always has been.
Are you ok with systemic racism just to help the same dozen billionaires get richer, while the rest of us get poorer? Doesnt corporate fascism trouble you?
Or are you troubled by trivial.matters of.ones faith, sexuality or color of their skin?
Whats the problem with taking a knee? Compassion goes a long way ya know.
“Systemic racism just to help the same dozen billionaires”
“Corporate fascism”
Black Lies Matter and Antifa share the same racial politics as the Bank of America, Google, Jack Dorsey, FaceBerg, McDOnald’s, Bill Gates, Nike, The Ivy League, Goldman Sachs, ADL, CNN, CBS-Viacom, Disney, Time-Warner, GE and the Upper Management of every single governmental agency- just to name a few.
What’s this about systemic racism?
What is this a joke? I know BLM and others have been comprimised.
But BLM and others are organisations, that can change.
Why is 40% of the incarcerated population black, for only 12% of the total population. Is it because black people are just bad, nasty criminals, or is it systemic racism?
The real problem has always been racism!
There are multiple factions within the USA, that nice list you posted , is one of these factions.
Only idiots deny the racism against blacks in america.
“Why is 40% of the incarcerated population black, for only 12% of the total population. Is it because black people are just bad, nasty criminals, or is it systemic racism?”
Radical egalitarianism here is begging the question.
With radical egalitarianism, proportional outcomes across discrete populations are demanded, while only explanations congruent with left-liberal social theory are accepted.
Blacks as a whole commit roughly half the violent crime in the USA, despite being only 13% of the population.
Precisely the reason for this is another matter of debate, but for our purposes is neither here nor there.
Thus more blacks are disproportionately incarcerated.
Because maybe crimes go unreported though? Blacks are less likely to call police or testify when victimized by, or witness to, violent crime. Crime that is almost always committed by another black. Stop snitchin’
The entire state apparatus, in addition to the giant media conglomerates, silicon valley, academia, and much of the legal code is arrayed against racism – particularly white racism.
Being an open white racist in the USA is almost invariably professional suicide.
This explanation that blacks can only be victims of ‘systemic racism’ isn’t panning out by any means.