Fwd: 'Go in there!' Texas cops dithered during killer's rampage, onlookers say
The Huffington Post issues a series of headline articles every day. This is a very trusted news source to me. It has been branded as “Liberal”. It feels as though Liberal is now the term that the right wing uses to denigrate the truth. After 19 people were mowed down by a crazed kid with an assault weapon, Ted Cruz is blaming lack of school security and Tucker Carlson is blaming COVID prevention restrictions. I am lying here in bed in pain from a bike ride but the degree of pain and the length of time it's taking doesn't make sense. I am trying to get better with rest and medical help. But as I lay in my bed at age 74 I feel like I am watching our country, The United States of America, The greatest country in the world and by shear luck, My Country… I'm watching my country being destroyed by our own right wing. The aggressive nature of these people tend to make the rest of us simply shut up. We don't want to cause trouble. It won't do any good. People aren't going to change. And so we are basically silent and we watch. We watch while guns and lies destroy our lives. While our constitution with its protection of legitimate, truthful and responsible free speech is attacked, suppressed and dismantled by an aggressive pack of hateful people who have no concern or respect for the truth and want to rule our country by force. We, I, acquiesce. I withdraw. I inhibit myself from speaking up except to very trusted friends. I'm afraid to alienate my daughter, my son, my mother and father in law or even the guy in the grocery store. I stay quiet while they speak out. Criticizing Biden. A bag of rocks said the grocery guy to a woman shopper. They speak out. They intimidate us. We shutter down in place. We feel fear. We feel sadness in seeing our country suffering it's loss of humanity and yet we don't want to rock the boat so we go about our business in silence. We don't wave the flag or the Bible and yet we hope and pray that somehow God will save us.I thank God for Joe Biden and others like him. He is 79 years old. He is a good and honest and hard working, well meaning man. He is trying to save the souls of America. Can he? Will he? Or will Barabbas rise again?
I'm reminded suddenly of the words in John Lennon's song.
Hey, you've got to hide your love away
Pete and Tess
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From: HuffPost Morning Email <info@mail.huffpost.com> Date: May 26, 2022 at 6:54:31 AM EDT To: peteandtess@gmail.com Subject:'Go in there!' Texas cops dithered during killer's rampage, onlookers say Reply-To: dailybrief@huffpost.com
Trump supported "hang Mike Pence" chant on Jan. 6.
TEXAS SHOOTING ONLOOKERS SAY 'UNPREPARED' POLICE FAILED TO GO INTO SCHOOL Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a mass shooter's rampage killed 19 children and two teachers. Investigators worked to piece together a timeline of the massacre that lasted upward of 40 minutes. "Go in there! Go in there!" nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began. [AP]
ANOTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSACRE NOT ENOUGH FOR GOP TO RECONSIDER GUN CONTROL The second-deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school wasn't enough to shock GOP lawmakers into dropping their objections to gun control."We've had guns forever and we're gonna continue to have guns," Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told reporters. The Senate likely won't immediately take up gun legislation, said Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and the scheduled two-week recess will go ahead. Meanwhile, gun-friendly Republicans, including Donald Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz, are sticking with plans to speak at an NRA convention in Houston Friday. [HuffPost]
TRUMP EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR JAN. 6 'HANG MIKE PENCE' CHANTTrump expressed approval of rioters chanting "hang Mike Pence," witnesses told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Trump has said that his vice president, as president of the Senate, should have refused to certify the electoral votes. [HuffPost]
THE MOST EXTREME ABORTION BAN IN THE COUNTRY WAS JUST SIGNED INTO LAW Oklahoma is now the state with the most restrictive abortion legislation in the country, after Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed a total abortion ban, effectively outlawing the procedure at fertilization. [HuffPost]
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JURY FINDS 'HOW TO MURDER YOUR HUSBAND' AUTHOR GUILTY OF MURDERING HUSBAND An Oregon writer who wrote a 2011 blog post titled "How to Murder Your Husband" was found guilty of murdering her husband of 26 years. [HuffPost]
BETO O' ROURKE ESCORTED OUT OF UVALDE NEWS CONFERENCE AFTER CONFRONTING GOV. GREG ABBOTTFormer Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) confronted Gov. Greg Abbott over gun control policy at a news conference where officials were giving updates on the mass shooting. "You're doing nothing. You're all doing nothing," O'Rourke told the officials assembled on the stage before being removed by law enforcement. [HuffPost]
RIGHT-WINGERS ACCUSE TRANS WOMAN OF BEING THE TEXAS SHOOTER TO DEFLECT BLAME There is zero evidence the 18-year-old responsible for the Texas school shooting was a transgender woman, an undocumented immigrant or a Democrat. But that hasn't stopped the churning of a massive disinformation campaign in right-wing media falsely claiming all of these things to deflect blame. [HuffPost]
FEDERAL WORKERS UNIONIZE IN WAKE OF TRUMP-ERA UPHEAVAL
Federal workers who help oversee hundreds of millions of acres of federal land have formed a union. Headquarters employees of the Bureau of Land Management voted in favor of joining the National Treasury Employees Union. The new union would include roughly 200 workers based in Washington and regional offices around the country. [HuffPost]
POLICE SUSPECT ARSON IN ABORTION CLINIC FIRE An abortion clinic set to open next month in conservative Wyoming, as only the second place in the state to offer abortions, was damaged in a fire that police believe was deliberately set. [AP]
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