CHICAGO, Illinois – Earlier today businessman and entrepreneur Mr. Donald J. Trump rolled in to town for a one day only event at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Montgomery Pavilion BUT things took a turn for the worst when protest broke out throughout the event.
As recently as yesterday evening a collective called Not1More [Deportation] got on MoveOn.org and organized a formal petition against Mr. Trump being granted permission to conduct his campaign rally/event at the pavilion citing to the University’s leadership the following in their petition:
“Donald Trump is running on a platform of hate and dangerous intolerance. … at an institution of higher learning. … UIC should not be host to hate. Please cancel the event.”
In the interests of full disclosure I added my real name, David R. Davidson, to this petition late yesterday evening and shared it on my petition page [on Facebook].
Please read, sign & share this #petition from Not1More … Thank you! cc: University of Illinois at Chicagoh/t: MoveOn.org
Posted by Petition Page – Democracy In Action on Thursday, March 10, 2016
And as order is restored and the main and alternative news media streams, replete with pollsters and pundits, lament and wax poetic about the horrors that were former Alabama Governor and disavowed, later in life, Klu Klux Klan member George Wallace and his 1968 campaign for President under the American Independent Party and former Vice President and long-time United States Senator and Congressman from California Richard M. Nixon’s 1968 Republican campaign for President in comparison to that of the Trump Campaign for President with the very same ‘tone and tenor’. – Which, no doubt, there is very fair comparison to be made. I can’t help but wonder WHAT must Mr. Donald J. Trump be thinking?
I mean surely he must know by now that his words, deeds and actions as a candidate for President of the United States of America anger so many Americans and insight millions more to heights and depths that we haven’t seen since the days of Wallace, Nixon and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
But don’t take my word for it. Watch!
History, folks, has a way of repeating itself. Rightly or wrongly. US History. Political history period has a way of repeating itself. And unless and until we learn from our mistakes these kinds of things will happen again, ONLY next time, next time folks it will be far worse than some concerned collective exercising their first amendment rights to peacefully assemble and protest.
Or as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said so eloquently in the last words that he ever spoke publicly: (My favorite!)
“All we’re saying is just be true to what you put down on paper…the right to protest for rights!”
— Rhett.
Say What News?! 