After Bomb Threats and Political Vitriol, Ohio Mayor Says Enough

[Coventina]

The mayor of the Ohio city at the center of a firestorm over immigration says that his town needs help — not the hate that has been stirred by politicians and extremists.

“We are hurting,” the mayor of Springfield, Rob Rue, said in an interview with The New York Times on Thursday.

The tensions over the growing Haitian population in Springfield exploded this week after former President Donald J. Trump used the presidential debate to spread debunked rumors that Haitians were stealing pets and eating them.

On Thursday, bomb threats led to the evacuation of Springfield City Hall, two schools and the state motor vehicle agency’s local facility.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/us/politics/springfield-ohio-bomb-threat-trump-pets.html

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The article goes on to describe the reaction to Aidan's parents saying that they are outraged by the Right's use of their son's death for political hate.

I foolishly followed the links to those sites and I almost wish I hadn't. We have some truly sick fellow citizens.
Comments calling for the execution of the parents. Saying they didn't deserve to have a son. On and on.
Horrifying.

I honestly do not know how we come back from this as a country.

I feel physically sick.

on edit: shortened for copyright.

[SheltieLover]

6. Could very well be, Chin!

Good thought!

[Think. Again.]

2. Local and Federal law enforcement have an obligation to act against trump, vance, and their "campaign"...

18 U.S. Code § 373 - Solicitation to commit a crime of violence

(a)Whoever, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a felony that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against property or against the person of another in violation of the laws of the United States, and under circumstances strongly corroborative of that intent, solicits, commands, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct, shall be imprisoned not more than one-half the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571) fined not more than one-half of the maximum fine prescribed for the punishment of the crime solicited, or both; or if the crime solicited is punishable by life imprisonment or death, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.

Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373

[SheltieLover]

7. Yes, they do. But will they?

I am extremely doubtful.

[Think. Again.]

10. My hope is to draw attention to any neglect of their responsibility on this.

[SheltieLover]

12. Great idea, but the actions resulting from slobby's public comments should be enough to get his ass thrown in jail.

If you or I did such horrible things, you bet they would be knocking on our doors.

I think it's "inconvenient."

[global1]

3. In Situations Like These - Where Tr**p Is The Main Inciter.......

we hear of all of these threats (bomb threats and otherwise) that follow.

Does any law enforcement agency follow-up on these threats and get to the bottom of them?

Do they ever catch the perpetrator(s)? Do they publicize that when they maybe do catch them and show what happens to these people?

Maybe if people that call in these threats realize that - if caught - they are in a whole lot of trouble - some of these threats would stop.

[Klarkashton]

4. Trump has stopped the dog eating stuff today. He

Has settled on the 34 thousand illegals there that have taken over the town.

[Coventina]

5. But they are LEGAL immigrants!

I am just so discouraged right now.....

[SheltieLover]

8. Awwwww

Don't be. Just think of Kamala kicking tfg's fugly ass Tuesday night. Ha ha ha!

I'm THOROUGHLY disgusted that the slob is not in solitary, with a strict gag order, and absolutely no electronic devices, but I cannot control what the "justice" system does, so I'm not going to stroke out over it.

[Coventina]

9. Thanks!

I appreciate it, truly!

[haele]

13. Not only that, they've been saving the town in an economic sense.

By moving in and providing the manpower to save and expand the major business in the local area, which in turn trickles down to the other businesses in town.
The "established" locals are mad because of three things:
local infrastructure, where housing and local services normally co-funded by the state could not handle the influx of 20k over three/four years;
language barrier - Haitians speak a French Creole; so there's some strain when it comes to education and public communications;
and finally, Haitians are Catholic and have a lot more melanin than the Protestant folks who lived in Springfield for decades prior the Haitians arriving.

But sure, tell me it's worries over crime (which had plummeted once the local economy started improving) instead of bigotry that there's a problem between the established Anglos and the arrival of legal Haitians.

Haele

[Klarkashton]

14. I should have been more precise with my wise guy

Ism. Yes they are legally here and who knows or cares how many there are but is certainly isn't 34,000 or whatever that bastard made up.

[Think. Again.]

11. He is still KNOWINGLY inciting continued violence against them.