Cemetery Staffer Declines To Press Charges For Fear Of Retaliation

This is part of a statement put out by Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign spokestroll:

For a despicable individual to physically prevent President Trump’s team from accompanying him to this solemn event is a disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hollowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. Whoever this individual is spreading these lies are dishonoring the men and women of our armed forces, and they are disrespecting everyone who paid the price for defending our country.

I don't know what makes me angrier, his assault on the English language (it's "hallowed," you utter dipshit), or his pathetic attempt at DARVO.

Stop treating these fucks with kid gloves for fucks sake. Press the goddamn charges! Quit being fearful of retaliation because that is exactly what the rapist and his cult want. This is frustrating.

And so, the brown shirts are making them think twice. What a sad day for America as domestic terrorism wins.

Makes sense, Trump’s cult will come after you and will literally send you death threats.

Fucking USSR-level shit.

Moral of the story is that terrorism works. Remember this once voting no longer does.

We have to stand up to fascists even when they threaten us with violence otherwise the fascists win. There is no sign up sheet to stop fascism. There is no safe way to stand against fascists. There is no future worth living in under fascist rule. Fascists do not go away if the society that spawned them stays the same.

If threats to someone's safety is where we decide our resistance to fascism ends that is where our freedoms end. We do not have to shame this woman, but we do have to disagree with her decision. If we allow her decision to be incorrectly labeled as a reasonable strategy for self-preservation then we will all be living in a christo-fascist dictatorship.

It's liberty or death. That idea is one of the last remaining cornerstones of our democracy. If living is more valuable to use than freedom then we will be incapable of stopping the fascists.

Fascism proceeds one step at a time. One day you wake up and everything is different. Today is that day. The people saying to stand up to fascists got it right. The people calling them armchair warriors and telling people to choose life over liberty lost the plot. The fascists plan is to take power by any means necessary and then kill the people they hate indiscriminately. To stop them we must stand against them even if that means risking death.

So it's not illegal then, seeing as there are no consequences for doing it.

An aide to Donald Trump “abruptly pushed aside” an Arlington National Cemetery employee on Monday when the former president visited the site with family members of U.S. service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, NBC News reports.

The Trump aide pushed the cemetery employee out of the way to get past to take photos and video at Section 60, where service members killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried.

Any decent organization would have apologized to the employee and her boss a long time ago. But, we're talking Trump here.

Isn't having knowledge of a felony enough for a public prosecutor to indict someone independent of the victim?

That's how it works in Germany at least - if the authorities get information about a criminal offense, they are obliged to start a criminal investigation. A victim not pressing charges only matters in terms of a civil lawsuit.

Trump is a cunt and anybody who ever voted for him is a cunt.

I know it's obvious and everybody already knows it but I saw his abortion of a face on my feed so now you have to hear it again.

This is how fascists win, by being free from consequences.

This is why it works

They really can ruin your life; ask Michael Cohen or Gabby Giffords

I still don’t understand why any human but the worst would even consider voting for this maggot.

Donald Trump just threatened Mark Zuckerberg with jail for life because he THINKS Facebook could be used against him.

Zuckerberg is in Trump's fucking pocket already.

Trying to save yourself by not pressing charges won't make Trump forget your face, your name, or the fact that you told him "No," once in his life, which is enough for him to want to destroy your life entirely.

Everyone who said this person is protecting themselves and their family is missing the point that if Trump takes power in November he will absolutely go out of his way to ruin this person's fucking life (and their families lives) even though they didn't press charges.

Is that fucking worth it? To save your family for a short time just for fascists to never forget you told them no and ruin your fucking life anyway?

He is willing to attack people who are literally in his fucking pocket and threaten to jail them for life. He has worse in mind for this person. I guarantee it.

All it takes for evil men to triumph...

The silent fear of Trump and his cultists strikes again. It is one of things he does a lot where people know how deranged his base is and don't want to hold him accountable.

I always thought it was the DA that brought charges. What do they mean by won't press charges?

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Conservatives are violent and sadistic by nature. There are some who are openly willing to fight them, but most people would rather avoid such dangerous confrontations. I don't blame her.

This enemy is best fought when they aren't sure who is hitting them. Smile. Blend in. Look friendly. Do what's needed when they least expect it and get away. Rinse, repeat. Attracting negative attention from these cockroaches is not worth the risk, no matter who you are. Guerilla tactics work well against loud, arrogant, unintelligent fascists.

Cool and normal.

And right wing sites everywhere are framing this as Trump clearly doing nothing wrong because nobody charged him. Disgusting.

And by "fear of retaliation", I'm assuming that means fear of death threats (and worse than mere threats) from the likes of the party that thinks it is FUNNY that one of their own attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband, nearly killing him.