'Burn that rag!' Activists to desecrate the flag at Trump July Fourth rally

Sparks will fly in Washington as activists torch an American flag to protest President Trump's July Fourth "Salute to America," which Trump claims will be one of the largest events in city history.

Longtime flag-burning activist Gregory "Joey" Johnson of the Revolutionary Communist Party told the Washington Examiner, "I'm going to be there in D.C.," and "that rag of empire and oppression is going to burn." Johnson is well known for winning a 1989 Supreme Court case that invalidated state laws against flag burning. He declined to share the time and location of next week's protest or say how many other activists will participate.

Trump will appear at the Lincoln Memorial at 6:30 p.m., ahead of fireworks at dusk. Last week, Trump endorsed a proposed constitutional amendment that would recriminalize flag burning, overriding the Supreme Court. Trump tweeted the amendment was a "no brainer!"

There's no reason to doubt Johnson's seriousness. He and about a dozen fellow members of the Revolutionary Communist Party staged high-profile flag burnings in 2016 at the Republican and Democratic conventions. This month, he won a $225,000 settlement from Cleveland, Ohio, over his arrest protesting Trump's nomination. The group that aided Johnson at the 2016 conventions announced the burnings in advance. At both protests, outraged veterans attempted to stop him, saying they would not tolerate disrespect to the flag. The communist group chanted "burn that rag!" Johnson told the Washington Examiner he considers himself an internationalist and supports a vision for global communism. Trump wants to turn the traditionally nonpartisan Washington celebrations "into a fascist extravaganza of 'make America white again,' xenophobia, jingoism, and American chauvinism. And this is all dangerous to humanity," Johnson said. "I'll be in town to make it happen and to help expose Trump's fascist agenda with the message that America was never great. America was built on slavery, genocide, and war," Johnson said. "Instead of trying to go back to some dreamland America that never existed, we need to go forward to a world without America and everything it stands for."

Johnson said he's upset about many recent Trump policies. He's angered by escalating tensions with Iran and detention of people who cross the border illegally. The activist said the flag is "flying over the pens of mass incarceration, filled with 2 million people" and over the "thousands of refugees in dog pens" along the Mexican border. "And yeah, it's the flag of this shameless fascist jackal Trump," he said. Johnson traces his political radicalism to his time as an Army brat in the late '60s in West Germany, where at age 12 he said he met anti-Vietnam War soldiers while selling copies of the Stars and Stripes. "Vets are not all of one mind," he saidnewspaper in mess halls.

Though socialism is ascendant among Democrats, Johnson says he's not encouraged by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman. "Bernie contributes to and backs up American chauvinism," Johnson said. "Bernie or AOC, when you are talking about the [Democratic Socialists of America], you are talking about sharing the spoils of imperialism.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/burn-that-rag-activists-to-desecrate-the-flag-at-trump-july-fourth-rally

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson

>>6832989

This guy is an Army brat throw back from the 60's when he was in West Germany, he should have moved himself over to the East side of the wall, it seems it would have been more preferable to him. In this mans case schools had little to do with his mindset.

>>6832999

Indeed, I think it's important to know who plans to be there and start problems, just as they did with the Inaugural Day Festivities.

>>6833086

I am thinking this is the perfect opportunity to find those hiding in the shadows and get them into the light, for no other reason than they hate America. So with that said will they be seditious by inciting violence..I guess we will find out.

>>6833223

Sauce it if you want a serious discussion other wise.. Try Harder!

Police injured, more than 200 arrested at Trump inauguration protests in DC

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/trump-inauguration-protests-womens-march/index.html

Trump inauguration protests

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/donald-trump-inauguration-protests/

Violence flares in Washington during Trump inauguration

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inauguration-protests-idUSKBN1540J7

Here Are Some of the Events Planned to Protest Donald Trump's Inauguration

https://time.com/4623995/donald-trump-inauguration-protests/

Here's some reading material Since you are too much of a coward to find it yourself.

We expect a report when you are finished.

>>6833275

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>>6833339

Got it! Thanks Anon!

Joe Biden’s biggest political scalp: Jeff Sessions

The high point of Joe Biden’s first presidential bid arguably occurred more than a year before he announced for the 1988 Democratic nomination. In March 1986, the Delaware senator played a leading role blocking Jeff Sessions from a federal district judgeship.

Sessions later would become a household name as a senator from Alabama and President Trump’s first attorney general. For Biden, the boost was more immediate — it turned him into a leading opposition figure against the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Biden, with his eye on the next presidential race, scored a rare, direct political hit on Reagan, after the president’s 49-state reelection romp in 1984. Biden’s campaign against Sessions is often glossed over in biographical sketches of the 2020 Democratic front-runner. Even Biden’s 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep, fails to mention the episode. But the Sessions confirmation brouhaha takes on renewed relevance in light of Biden's recent musings about working civilly in the 1970s Senate with some of the most notorious segregationists of earlier decades. Biden and Sessions, in fact, went on to have a longtime genial, if not particularly friendly, relationship while serving on opposite ends of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That’s the same body that years before rejected Sessions’ nomination.

In early 2009, as Biden became vice president under President Barack Obama, Sessions said he and his former Judiciary Committee colleague joked about his failed nomination. “Vice President Biden said, ‘Sessions, if I [had] let you be a judge, I wouldn't have to put up with you now,’” Sessions said.

Jim Manley, formerly a top adviser to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the pair symbolized a Senate camaraderie of even the recent past. "You didn't go out of the way to personalize the debate," Manley told the Washington Examiner. That was a sharp shift from the raw feelings of spring 1986. Then, in a series of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, critics, led by Kennedy, essentially branded Sessions a racist. Among other charges, one of the nominee's former deputies accused him of making racially insensitive comments to staff members while serving as the United States attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, based in Mobile.

At one committee hearing, Biden sharply questioned Sessions over his attitudes toward blacks and about his 1985 prosecution of three African Americans who were eventually acquitted on voting-fraud charges. “Sessions, at a minimum, was much too flippant with regard to matters relating to race. He joked about it. He made comments about it,” Biden said. Sessions disclaimed any racial animus and vigorously defended himself. “I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create," he proclaimed at one hearing, his voice rising. “I am not a racist; I am not insensitive to blacks; I supported civil rights activities in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.” But the damage was done.

On June 5, 1986, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10–8 against recommending the Sessions nomination to the Senate floor, with two Republican senators joining the Democrats in opposition. It then split 9–9 on a vote to send the nomination to the floor with no recommendation. The Reagan administration withdrew the nomination on July 31, 1986. Sessions was Biden’s highest-profile political scalp, though he had used such tactics before. In 1983, he helped block a Reagan nominee to the Board for International Broadcasters, Tom Ellis, who was a longtime political adviser to Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. Under questioning from Biden, Ellis acknowledged he belonged to an all-white country club and owned extensive holdings in apartheid South Africa.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-bidens-biggest-political-scalp-jeff-sessions

>>6833445

SENATOR URGES WITHDRAWAL OF JUDICIAL NOMINATION

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/20/us/senator-urges-withdrawal-of-judicial-nomination.html

Forgot to add this.

>>6833478

Indeed!