A student-led initiative at the University of Vermont is calling not only for the university to cut ties with city police, but also to defund and disarm its own campus police.
There is nothing random or spontaneous about the “peaceful protests” we see on the nightly news. None of the riots that incite violence, looting and vandalism are “our youth expressing their frustration.”
The Pledge of Allegiance was tossed into the wastebasket of history this week by the Windsor Selectboard. Board members say there can be no “liberty and justice for all” until “black lives matter.” So they’ve stopped saying the pledge.
Their policy of provocation is cold-blooded, cynical and deceptive. Get some unprepared schlub to blurt out statements on camera, convince the public that everyone who supports the police is just like this Bad Guy, and create division. It’s a ploy.
A growing number of young Americans are not only ambivalent, but are outright hostile, toward America’s national origin.
The Associated Press, a U.S. wire service and news outlet, announced Monday that it will capitalize “black” when referring to the racial group in its stories, but not “white.”
Less than three weeks after protecting Black Lives Matter graffiti, the Vermont Agency of Transportation has scrubbed away anti-BLM roadway messages in the same town.
Police departments are facing dramatic cuts due to threats from social justice groups and COVID-19, and two police chiefs in Montpelier — one retired and one new on the job — say the trend will have a negative impact on communities.
Fortunately, constitutional law is pretty clear about this type of abuse of power. Having granted BLM a permit, the city cannot constitutionally deny a competing political claim — in this case, a depiction of the American flag, and a phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Due to a decision by the city of Montpelier, there will be no “Liberty and Justice for All” street mural painting party Friday, July 3, organizer and Republican gubernatorial candidate John Klar said Wednesday.
Gov. Phil Scott is fine with gubernatorial candidate John Klar’s plan to paint “Liberty and Justice for All” in big red, white and blue letters next to the Black Lives Matter mural on State Street.
In an appeal for unity, gubernatorial candidate John Klar has asked the Montpelier City Council for permission to paint the U.S. flag and words from the Pledge of Allegiance in red, white and blue next to the Black Lives Matter mural on State Street.