90 Miles From Tyranny

Sunday, December 1, 2019

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Hundreds of Hong Kong anti-government protesters march on the city's US consulate waving stars and stripes flags to thank American lawmakers for supporting pro-democracy demonstrations

Protesters wore Donald Trump masks to thank him for signing a law protecting human rights in Hong Kong
Some held banners reading 'Trump, please liberate Hong Kong' and 'Let's make Hong Kong great again'
The marches came a week after pro-democracy candidates won a landslide victory in district-level elections

Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters have marched to the US consulate waving American flags to show 'gratitude' for their support for the demonstrations that have roiled the China-ruled financial hub for nearly six months.

Many wore Donald Trump masks after the President signed into law protecting human rights in Hong Kong last week.

Some held banners reading 'President Trump, please liberate Hong Kong' and 'Let's make Hong Kong great again' - a riff on his 2016 campaign pledge to make America great again. One showed him standing atop a tank with 'Trump' emblazoned on the front and side.
Pro-US protesters rally in Hong Kong as one wears a Trump mask

A pro-democracy protester dressed as US President Donald J. Trump takes part in a 'March of gratitude to the US' in Hong Kong

Protesters demonstrated to thank US President Donald J. Trump for signing into law 'The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act Hong Kong'....

Dems want to impeach Trump for thought crimes, scholar says

“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”

~ George Orwell, 1984

Victor Davis Hanson, a history scholar, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution argued in a recent op-ed published by Fox News that “alleged bad thoughts are not crimes.” He spoke to Ed Henry on “The Story” Friday about his column and the case by Democrats against the president over delayed military aid to Ukraine.

He said Democrats are trying to convict the President of thought crimes.

Hanson stated that the president has done nothing illegal, and it is not against the law to “think something.”

“If I want to think about speeding 80 miles an hour and I talk about thinking about it but I actually don’t, I’m not guilty of anything other than harboring a bad thought,” Hanson said.

“So Trump may or may not, we don’t really know, the evidence suggests he didn’t think about delaying aid and that aid was delayed, but it wasn’t cut off. Maybe he thought about cutting it off. But that’s not a crime,” Hanson added.

“There was a context about it and he didn’t force the firing of anybody in Ukraine, and he didn’t interfere in the sense that the Ukrainians started an investigation at his prompt,” he told Henry. “So he didn’t really do anything, just like he didn’t collude with the Russians.”

THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE

Our political Democrat class believe in convictions for thought crimes.

As one example, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse wants to put climate deniers in prison.

The former FEC chair Ann Ravel wanted punishment for thought crimes as determined by social media data.

Ravel suggested the government collect social media data. The agency would then use it to take action against the so-called ‘disinformation’ on social media. This new government entity would be empowered to discern a person’s ‘intent’.

‘Liberal’ Attorneys General wanted to do the same thing.

James Comey let Hillary Clinton off the hook because she didn’t commit a thought crime. She didn’t have ‘intent’, he...