White Supremacists’ July 4 March Counts as Free Speech in ‘Messy Democracy,’ Interior Secretary Burgum Says
Burgum said the masked white nationalist march was protected by the First Amendment, even as about 400 members moved toward the Capitol.
- On Saturday, July 4, hundreds of masked members of the Patriot Front marched through Washington toward Capitol Hill, shouting "Reclaim America!" during the nation's 250th birthday celebration.
- The Patriot Front formed following the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist killed one person and injured 19 others.
- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told CNN on Sunday that free speech protects the march even if it "makes democracy messy," though he declined to condemn the group or urge President Donald Trump to do so.
- The Trump administration's May counterterrorism strategy identifies "violent leftwing extremists" as a major threat, marking a shift from Democrat Joe Biden's previous focus on far-right groups espousing white supremacy.
- Separately, Burgum defended the controversial $14.7 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool on ABC's "This Week," stating the contractor will handle repairs because they did a "fantastic job.
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"I believe that Jewish and Muslim immigrants pose a great threat to the United States and its economy. They are provoking the police to shoot them and are making the social divide greater." These words do not belong to a member of the Nazi group that filled the famous Madison Square Garden with swastikas on February 20, 1939, but rather are an inflammatory statement from user Vincent KY in the encrypted chat room Rocket.
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WTVBWhite supremacists’ July 4 march counts as free speech in ‘messy democracy,’ Interior Secretary Burgum says
Federal officials had no reason to stop a white supremacist group’s July 4 rally in Washington because of free speech protections, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on Sunday. Hundreds of masked Patriot Front members who marched through the nation’s capital on Independence Day on Saturday did nothing illegal, Burgum told CNN’s “State of the Union” program. Although the organization’s white supremacist, anti-immigrant ideology is “nothing …
Free expression even if it is discriminatory and racist? For the U.S. government, that seems to be part of democracy.
On July 4th of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States he left on Saturday images of patriotic celebration, prints of a suffocating heat wave, the false alarm of an electrical storm and a lot of Donald Trump. Also, a disturbing photograph of Reuters agency. In it, an African American girl is seen in a Washington subway car, surrounded by a dozen masked racists.
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