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302 PC – Disturbing a Religious Meeting – California Law
Criminal Defense » Penal Code » 302 PC - Disturbing a Religious Meeting
Penal Code 302 PC sets forth the crime of intentionally disturbing or disrupting a religious meeting by way of
profanity,
misbehavior or
unreasonable noise.
The offense is charged as a misdemeanor punishable by
up to one year in jail and/or
a fine of up to $1000.00.
We will quote the full language of the code section and then provide legal analysis below. The code states that:
302. (a) Every person who intentionally disturbs or disquiets any assemblage of people met for religious worship at a tax-exempt place of worship, by profane discourse, rude or indecent behavior, or by any unnecessary noise, either within the place where the meeting is held, or so near it as to disturb the order and solemnity of the meeting, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(b) A court may require performance of community service of not less than 50 hours and not exceeding 80 hours as an alternative to imprisonment or a fine.
(c) In addition to the penalty set forth in subdivision (a), a person who has suffered a previous conviction of a violation of this section or Section 403, shall be required to perform community service of not less than 120 hours and not exceeding 160 hours.
(d) The existence of any fact which would bring a person under subdivision (c) or (d) shall be alleged in the complaint, information, or indictment and either:
(1) Admitted by the defendant in open court.
(2) Found to be true by a jury trying the issue of guilt.
(3) Found to be true by the court where guilt is established by a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.
(4) Found to be true by trial by the court sitting without a jury.
(e) Upon conviction of any person under this section for disturbances of religious worship, the court may, in accordance with the performance of community service imposed under this section, consistent with public safety interests and with the victim's consent, order the defendant to perform a portion of, or all of, the required community service at the place where the disturbance of religious worship occurred.
(f) The court may waive the mandatory minimum requirements for community service whenever it is in the interest of justice to do so. When a waiver is granted, the court shall state on the record all reasons supporting the waiver.
heckling a pastor during a religious service
yelling rude comments at people on their way into mass
making obscene gestures to those present at a church service
You can challenge a charge under this statute by asserting a legal defense. Common defenses include:
no intent to disrupt,
no religious worship, and/or
necessity.
A violation of this statute is a misdemeanor. This is opposed to a felony or an infraction.
The offense is punishable by:
imprisonment in county jail for up to one year, and/or
a maximum fine of $1,000.
A judge may award misdemeanor (or summary) probation in lieu of jail time.
Our California criminal defense attorneys will discuss the following in this article:
1. Is it a crime to disturb a religious meeting?
2. How can I fight Penal Code 302 charges?
2.1. No intent
2.2. No religious worship
2.3. Necessity
3. Can this lead to jail time?
4. Can a 302 PC conviction be expunged?
5. Are there related offenses?
5.1. Disturbing the peace – PC 415
5.2. Disturbing a public meeting – PC 403
5.3. Hate crimes
Penal Code 302 PC is the statute that makes it a crime to disturb religious worship in California.
Yes. A prosecutor must prove the following to convict you under PC 302:
you disturbed an assemblage of people for religious worship at a tax-exempt place of worship,
you accomplished this with profane discourse, rude or indecent behavior, or by unnecessary noise, and
you intentionally disturbed the religious meeting.1
Note that you can violate this statute by:
making a disturbance inside the place where a religious meeting is taking place, or
making a disturbance outside the place.
If outside, the disturbance has to be near enough to affect the order and solemnity of the meeting.2
Example: Kelly leaves a church after having a disagreement with the church's minister. During some Sunday services, Lisa enters the church and yells rude comments at the minister.
Here, Kelly is guilty of disturbing religious worship. She intentionally engaged in rude behavior during an assembly of religious worship. She would also be guilty if she yelled her comments outside of the church, provided she was still near enough that those inside could hear.
You can beat an accusation of disturbing a religious meeting with a legal defense.
Three common defenses are:
no intent,
Recall that you are only guilty under these laws if you:
disturbed a religious meeting.
This means it is always a defense to show that you did not act with criminal intent. Perhaps, for example, you disrupted a meeting by accident.
This statute only applies to disturbances at places of religious worship. Therefore, you can defend a charge by saying that:
while you may have disrupted a gathering,
it was not being held for religious purposes.
Note, though, that you might then be guilty of disturbing a public meeting.
A necessity defense is when you:
try to avoid guilt,
by showing that you had a good reason to commit the crime.
People sometimes refer to this defense as "guilty with an explanation."
In the context of PC 302, you could attempt to show that you:
committed the crime since,
you had no other choice (for example, because of an emergency or other lawful purpose).
A violation of this law can result in a fine and/or jail time
A violation of this statute is a misdemeanor.
county jail for up to one year, and/or
a maximum fine of $1,000.3
The judge may permit you to complete several hours of community service in lieu of paying a fine.
You can get a conviction under these laws expunged.
This is true provided that you:
completed your jail term, or
completed probation (whichever one is imposed).
An expungement is a good thing since it removes many of the hardships associated with a conviction.
There are three crimes related to disturbing a religious meeting. These are:
disturbing the peace – PC 415,
disturbing a public meeting – PC 403, and
hate crimes.
Penal Code 415 PC is the California statute that defines the crime of "disturbing the peace."
You commit this offense – also called disorderly conduct – when you:
disturb someone with loud music,
fight someone, or
use offensive words in public.
If a disturbance involved a religious meeting, then:
a prosecutor would charge the offense under PC 302,
rather than PC 415.
Penal Code 403 PC is the California statute that makes it a crime to:
disturb,
any lawful public meeting or assembly.
If such meeting is a religious service, then the crime is charged under Penal Code 302.
California's hate crime laws impose punishment for harming, threatening or harassing someone because of the person's
nationality,
race or ethnicity,
sexual orientation, or
These laws punish you for:
harming or harassing people because of their religious beliefs,
and not for disturbing them during a religious service.
For additional help…
Contact our law firm for help and a consultation. We serve clients in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and throughout California.
For additional guidance or to discuss your case with a criminal defense attorney, we invite you to contact us at Shouse Law Group.
For information on similar crimes in Nevada, please see our article on: "Nevada Laws for Disturbing Religious Meetings (NRS 201.270)."
California Penal Code section 302 PC. See also Church of Christ in Hollywood v. Superior Court (2002) 99 Cal.App.4th 1244; People v. Cruz (Cal. App. Dep't Super. Ct. Mar. 2, 1972), 25 Cal. App. 3d Supp. 1.


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POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: -- big picture when it comes to likability (ph) and the president because we know how involved the president wants to be in midterms. How much he will be on the road with these candidates, in Texas there happy, right for Cruise.
HARRY ENTEN, CNN ANALYST: Sure.
HARLOW: But Mulvaney (ph) said this, you may hate the president and there's a lot of people that do, but they certainly like the way the country's going. If you figure out a way to subtract from that equation how they feel about the president the numbers go up dramatically. Ouch.
ENTEN: Yes. I mean look, that would be very nice if you could do that. Maybe you could teach me that magic trick and maybe I can get a free Wendy's meal or something like that.
HARLOW: Wendy's again. You're always with Wendy's with you.
ENTEN: I do love Wendy's. But yes, I mean look people like the direction the counties going, certainly more so than they did during the Obama years. They like the way the economies going. The problem here is that Donald Trump is so unpopular that's he's basically brining down a bunch of republican's with him, if you believe the polling numbers.
HARLOW: What is going on in Tennessee? There you have Marsha Blackburn running for senate against the democrat Phil Bredesen, the former governor. And it's neck and neck.
ENTEN: I mean look, if your talking about likability matters here's the race that illustrates that more than any other. Because Phil Bredesen a democrat, Tennessee is a state Donald Trump owned by 26 points. But Phil Bredesen a democrat has a favorable rating of 61 percent. Because they love the way he was governor back in the early 2000's. He was a very popular candidate, and despite some attacks that some republican's have thrown at him he has managed to maintain a high favorable rating.
HARLOW: And remember out going Tennessee senator Bob Corker whose seat their running for. Anything but sort of a glowing endorsement of Blackburn, he said she'd get his vote but that's about it.
ENTEN: Yes, I mean look Bob Corker and Phil Bredesen have been friends for a very long time. Back to when they were both mayors in Tennessee. And you know I think that's an illustration of a good personal relationship. But I do feel that there are a lot of people who have voted in republicans in recent elections in Tennessee who might have formerly been voting for democrats who feel that same way. And that's why Bredesen is doing so well.
HARLOW: OK, good to have you. Harry, thank you very, very much. So our Marty Savidge went to take a closer look at that race. Why the democrat Phil Bredesen is proving to be a tough challenger in Tennessee.
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's dove season in Tennessee. But Phil Bredesen's hunting something much more illusive in this reliably red state. He's a democrat aiming to win the senate seat of retiring republican Bob Corker. And many believe Bredesen actually has a shot.
The former Nashville Mayor and two term governor is a moderate who is widely known and liked.
LOGAN YARDELL, BREDESEN BACKER: Mr. Bredesen has a proven track record for fighting for this state against the federal government or with the federal government.
SAVIDGE: But Bredesen isn't the only popular politician in the state.
SAVIDGE: Donald Trump swept Tennessee, putting 61 percent of the vote and 92 of 95 counties. The last time Bredesen faced voters he got nearly 69 percent of the vote and won every county. But that was 12 years ago and Tennessee's a lot redder.
Is popularity enough for him?
TOM INGRAM, POLITICAL CONSULTANT: No, he will have to persuade enough of the middle undecided, undetermined voters that he will be independent of the democratic national leadership if he goes to Washington.
SAVIDGE: Which means attacking Trump, a tactic democrats can use elsewhere won't work in Tennessee.
Do you go after the president?
PHIL BREDESEN, TENNESSEE GOVERNOR: No, no I make a point of saying I'm not running against the president.
SAVIDGE: Bredesen may not be attacking Trump, but Trump is attacking him.
DONALD TRUMP, US PRESIDENT: This guy, we'll 100 percent vote against us every single time.
SAVIDGE: The presidents backing republican congressional firebrand (ph) Marsha Blackburn. She's a Trump stalwart which conservatives like.
Is that appealing to you? Does that work for you?
RICHARD DION, BLACKBURN SUPPORTER: Yes. I'm pro Trump, all the way.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think Marsha more fits with were I am politically.
SAVIDGE: We repeatedly reached out to the Blackburn campaign for an interview. They never responded. Blackburn's message is simple. As she told FOX News, a vote for Bredesen is vote to put democrats in control of the senate.
MARSHA BLACKBURN, US SENATE NOMINEE: What their going to do is to repeal the Trump tax cuts. Their going to push for government run single payer healthcare. They are going to push to abolish ICE.
SAVIDGE: That kind of polarize politics may fire up her base. But it could turn off moderate republicans.
INGRAM: It's a risk. I mean she's got to tell us who she is. Not who Trump is.
SAVIDGE: According to campaign officials and election finance records Bredesen's already winning support from some of Tennessee's top GOP donors. Tom Cigarran co-owner of the National Predators hockey team, and Pitt Hyde the founder of AutoZone.
Do you think there's still a place for a moderate like yourself in to day's very polarized political environment?
BREDESEN: Yes, I really do. I think the people are - that a lot of real people are just yearning for someone to find some compromises. And just to stop - to stop the standing on the opposite sides of the room and shouting at each other, and throwing bricks at each other. And start to move some things forward.
SAVIDGE: Martin Savidge, CNN Bell Buckle Tennessee.
HARLOW: Fascinating report, Marty. Thank you for that. Coming up next for us, Serena Williams calls out what she says is blatant sexism at the U.S. Open, and now her fellow male tennis stars are running to her defense.
HARLOW This morning, Serena Williams is fined $17,000. As many in the tennis world, including many of her male colleagues are accusing the umpire of sexism after she lost the U.S. Open final to Japan's Naomi Osaka. Here is how it unfolded.
She was warned by the chair umpire, Carlos Ramos, after he said that her coach was giving her signals from the stand, which is illegal.
She says he wasn't. Later, Serena slammed her racket in frustration. That's another automatic violation. And because of the earlier strike against her, she was docked a point.
Well the, she, right there, approaches the ump, calls him a thief. She was penalized an entire game for that. He said it was verbal abuse. She lost what could have been her 24th Grand Slam title. This is what she said after the match.
SERENA WILLIAMS: I'm here fighting for women's rights and for women's equality and for all kinds of stuff, and for me to say thief and for him to take a game, it made me feel like it was a sexist remark. I mean, like how - he's never took a game from a man because they say thief. For me, it blows my mind, but I'm going to continue to fight for women.
All right, well this is just a few weeks after she spoke in detail about the discrimination that she's also faced as a new mother. Let me read you what she told Time Magazine for this cover story.
"It would be nice to recognize that women shouldn't be treated differently because they take time to bring life into this world."
With me now, Sean Gregory, who wrote that Time cover story and spent a lot of time with Serena Williams at her home, et cetera, perfect voice to have this morning. Thank you for being here.
SEAN GREGORY, TIME MAGAZINE AUTHOR: Thank you, Poppy.
HARLOW: So you've written, obviously, since this all unfolded over the weekend, and you said, "amidst the ugliness of the U.S. Open final, both Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka offer lessons." What are they?
GREGORY: I think from Serena's point of view the lesson was how she turned things around during the awards ceremony, and it was a very - it was devolving (ph). I mean, I was there. I've been to a lot of U.S. Open finals. The loudness of the booing, the crowd was really, really turned against the umpire, and by turning against the umpire it kind of looked like they were turning against Osaka, and Serena Williams felt that during the ceremony and kind of took over and said everybody, let's stop booing. Let's have a nice moment here, and kind of helped the fans appreciate what Osaka did.
And the lesson from Osaka really, she's really good. And she's really, really good, and she's the future of American tennis, and she deserved to win that match.
HARLOW: You know, we have seen so many of Serena's male counterparts - Andy Roddick. James Blake, you know, famous tennis player, tweeted, "I will admit I've said worst and not gotten penalized." People point to Rafeal Nadal with that same ump having a very different outcome. And then you heard the champion on the male side yesterday, Novak Djokovic, say this. Let's listen.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Maybe this umpire should not have pushed Serena to the limit, especially in a Grand Slam final. He did change the course of the match and, in my opinion, maybe unnecessary. We all go through out emotions, especially when you're fighting for a Grand Slam trophy.
HARLOW: What does it mean to her broader fight? You know her broader fight for true equality for women to have all of those men standing in her defense this morning.
GREGORY: Yes, it's really, really important, and Serena throughout her career has had darts thrown at her, racism, sexism, and this is the next thing that she's taken and tried to turn it into a positive. And yes, having the male players on her side really, really helps her stance big time.
HARLOW: Talk about the time you spent with her, with her, her husband, with their daughter, I mean, on her overall fight because it is so far beyond the U.S. Open, beyond this match. I mean, it is a fight for true equality when it comes to gender, when it comes to race, and when it comes to being a parent, a working parent.
GREGORY: Yes, so she - when she came back from having her daughter, she pushed for rankings to be changed, for her ranking not to be docked just because she was pregnant. So that was another thing that she kind of added to her ledger. But, you know, Serena Williams over her career has kind of taken a step forward to move beyond tennis, and she's become and outspoken voice over the last 10 years for so many other things, and here we see another example of it. And she's kind of stirring the national conversation once again.
HARLOW: What do you think her goal is in all of this beyond tennis? I mean, few people from the outside journalists get to spend as much time with as you did for this cover story. I mean, she almost died first of all, you know, any aftermath of having her daughter, and to come back like this, it's extraordinary and it has certainly changed her perspective. What is her goal in the end on all of this?
GREGORY: I mean, her goal is to be remembered as an athlete in the same veil as like a Muhammad Ali in the sense of being bigger than her sport. And so, she's taken on these issues. And from a tennis point of view, the remarkable thing of what she's done is that week that I spent with her in early August, she had the worst professional loss of her career and she was going through a very tough time. She had learned that her - the man who murdered her sister was released from prison. She had all this going through her mind a month ago, and I - you know, so I saw her practice that week. She was working hard, but I wasn't about to bet that she was going to make the U.S. Open final, you know? It was only a month later. So what she has accomplished here. It was only a month later, so what she has accomplished her is really remarkable. Obviously it didn't end the way that she wanted it to. But it was still an unbelievable story.
GREGORY: Who has a very very bright future.
HARLOW: Extraordinarily. And frankly, maybe it is a win in the end for everyone, because we're all talking about this. And not just talking about who won a match or who didn't win a match, right?
GREGORY: Yes, sometimes these controversies, they're ugly in the moment but there are some broader lessons to be learned.
HARLOW: That's a fascinating story, with a whole new lens now given that people should go back and read it if they haven't. Thank you very much.
HARLOW: Appreciate you being with me. So, the economy is great. No one is disputing that, and that's a great thing. But not everything the president says about it is true. Why a claim he made this morning is just flat out wrong, next.
HARLOW: This morning, the president is making a claim about the economy that is just not true. He tweets that the unemployment rate is lower than the GDP, lower than economic growth for the first time in more than a century, more than 100 years.
Again, it's just not true. You actually don't have to go back 100 years or even 20 years. Our chief business correspondent, Christine Romans, here with the facts which are important this morning.
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's happened 62 times. 62 times. So, the president's wrong that this is the first time it's happened in a 100 years.
And even when you look at GDO statistics, Congress will tell you that before like 1948, the post World War II ear, that GDP was kind of squishy. Those numbers were a little squishy to measure.
So we kind of like to just look at the post World War II era, but this has happened before many many times. Two examples where this has happened in recent, we chose the second quarter of 2000. June 2000, GDP was 7.5 percent; the unemployment rate was four percent.
Let's fast forward to 2003, seven percent economic growth, 6.1 percent unemployment. So I don't know why the president's putting those two statics together in the first place. And looking at that inflection point and saying that this somehow shows how magnificent his economy is, because that's really not relevant. And it's happened a bunch times.
So it raises questions about how the president is processing economic information and what he thinks is important for the people around him to think this or maybe he heard this or misheard this n a radio show or on a TV show or a TV interview. But it - it's just not true.
What is true is the economy is strong.
ROMANS: Or - or embellish because GDP growth, 4.2 percent. The unemployment rate's 3.9 percent, those numbers stand up well.
HARLOW: And especially job growth for some of the places where the president has done the best.
HARLOW: And - and among groups in which a president has performed the best. Blue collar job s, right?
ROMANS: In the Washington Post this morning pointing the blue collar job growth fastest rate that we have seen in three decades.
Yes, since 1984, 3.3 percent, the best rate for good producing jobs. I mean this is - this is good. This is good news. And it shows you that ten years in to the recovery, it maybe is broadening out a little bit.
One of the complaints about the recovery is that it had been slow and that (inaudible) quality had worsened. Maybe this is a good sign of that. So again, it goes to the credibility issue.
The economy is strong and the president tends to throw superlatives and facts that are - are just wrong. And I don't know how that advances - advances the conversation.
HARLOW: With this statement yesterday. What happened?
ROMANS: It's - this is fascinating. So a few weeks ago, we found out that Ford was going to get rid of this plan to build a small car in China and ship it to the U.S.
ROMANS: This hatchback - right, the president's tariffs made it untenable for them to build this little car in China and ship it to the U.S. market. So the president tweeted that's fine, build them here. These can built in the United States. And Ford said no, we really can't.
We're only going to sell 50,000 of them. We won't - that scale isn't big enough to make a profit. And really quite honestly, the focus in this country right now for the automakers is selling SUVs and electric vehicles and - there's a different focus.
It's not these small cars. The small cars would - they could've made then in China and instead f sending them here, they're going to keep making them in Europe. They're going to sell them around the rest of the world.
They're not going to - so Ford's saying very quickly I will poit out, they're saying no, we're not going o take business advice from the president. We will not be building that small car in the U.S. after all.
HARLOW: Good to see the job growth that we are seeing.
HARLOW: Appreciate it. Ahead, Hurricane Florence is now a category three hurricane. The path, millions of people are in the way along the east coast. We'll have much more on this straight ahead.
[10:55:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK) HARLOW: The first Sunday of the NFL's regular season saw two players kneel during the national anthem. Miami Dolphin's wide receivers, Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson continue their protest of police brutality and social injustice.
Dolphin's defensive player, Robert Quinn didn't kneel, but he did raise a fist on the sidelines during the anthem. The former 49er's quarterback, Colin Kaepernick who was the first to protest during the anthem took notice.
Here's what he wrote on Twitter in part quote, "They have not backed down, even when attacked and intimidated. Their courage will move the world forward."
Also this, a special moment a the Arizona Cardinal's home opener, Cindy McCain, the wife of late Senator John McCain was the honorary captain at Arizona's game with Washington on Sunday.
Cindy McCain met with Cardinal's wide receiver, Larry Fitzgerald beforehand. Fitzgerald was a very good friend of Senator McCain. And after the game, Mrs. McCain posted a tweet thanking the team and Fitzgerald for the touching tribute.
The Cardinals also tweeted out a photo of her hugging Fitzgerald, do you see it right there? The star wide receiver spoke at John McCain's memorial in Phoenix.
Thanks so much for being with me today. I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. I will see you back here tomorrow morning. Let me pass it over to my colleague, Kate Bolduan.


Oh hi…I have a blog. One that I used to post to regularly, even. Then baseball happened.
Scorch got pulled up a division, so he's going 3 days a week. Bean is playing t-ball so that's 2 days a week. Most days we're rolling home after school at 5 pm, then leaving again at 5:30. Things like homework and dinner have fallen completely to the wayside since we don't get home until after 8 most days. Thank goodness Scorch gets up early to do his work and that both kids love breakfast and PB&J for dinner.
Don't get me wrong, we really love baseball. The kids love playing it, the Hubs loves coaching it and I enjoy socializing in the stands. Win/win/win. But, I'm tired.
Add in a kitchen remodel and well, you get even more craziness. The upshot is that our kitchen remodel went so very much more smoothly then I had hoped. We bought our kitchen through Lowes and while they were wonderful during the design and buying process, they basically disappeared once the contract was signed. Thankfully our contractor went above and beyond to make this as painless as possible. I can't say enough good things about the contractor and his crew.
Here was our kitchen before.
It was small and cramped with next to no storage space. The cabinets were cheaply made and the white laminate was peeling off. The cabinets over the fridge were basically inaccessible because they sat so far back. What you don't see in this picture is all the stuff that normally sits on my counters because there is no other space for it. Bread, medicines, fruit and mail cluttered our counter tops because there was literally no space to store it all. I loved it because it was wide open- to the left is our dining room and I'm standing in the thresh hold to our living room. But something had to change.
So, here's our new kitchen. We're waiting on the counter tops to be edged, so that isn't installed yet, nor is the backsplash. The cabinet handles are on order so those will go on soon. And the new flooring? Well- that was the one snafu we hit but that should be in within a month. But the rest of the kitchen, I *love*. We have storage space for everything! I can see what's in my cabinets and access it all. I'd marry my pantry if it was legal. Once the counter tops go on, they'll hide the outlets on the island so they aren't as visible.
It's so much more functional and well worth the dust and disorganization we lived through last week! I cannot wait to see everything completed.
So, here's to 2 more weeks of baseball! You know, before lacrosse and 4 different camps start for the kids. At this rate, I'm pretty sure life will slow down when I'm 50.


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While Terrible Choices Lead Nomination Battles, Bernie Sanders Is Nation's Most Popular Senator
April 30, 2016 — Ron Chusid
I've already noted that a Clinton versus Trump race would place us on the darkest timeline. While I it might not be the most accurate polling outfit, Rasmussen reports that 24 percent of voters would stay home or vote third party if left to this choice. Many liberal Democrats will never support Clinton, seeing conservative DLC style Democrats as being little better than Republicans, and many Republicans will similarly not accept Trump. Republican Senate candidates are considering distancing themselves from Trump, and Republicans are saying they would not be his running mate. While some conservatives are reaching the acceptance stage, George Will still writes, If Trump is nominated, the GOP must keep him out of the White House.
As bad as this choice might be, having Ted Cruz be the GOP nominee would probably be even worse. Although his views appear to be more in line with conventional Republican thought, he is so hated by many Republicans that they would still take Trump, whom some Republicans irrationally see as a Northeastern liberal. John Boehner sees Cruz as Lucifer in the flesh. Don't think this means that Satanists want anything to do with Cruz:
Prominent Satanists want to be clear: Ted Cruz need not apply.
After former House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday called the current Republican presidential candidate "Lucifer in the flesh," saying he found it difficult to work with him, staunch Satanists decried the comparison.
"Having a conservative Christian likened to Lucifer — one who opposes equal rights for same sex couples and promotes the ability to deny services to any with different values — we Satanists see as besmirching the positive, heroic aspects of that character as portrayed by Milton in his epic 'Paradise Lost,'" Magus Peter Howard Gilmore, the high priest of The Church of Satan, said in a statement.
Lucien Greaves, a spokesman and co-founder for the Satanic Temple, told ABC News he thinks Cruz engages in "clearly deplorable behavior" and that Boehner's comments were "thoughtless and ignorant."
"Christians can't just push Cruz off on Satanists," Greaves said. "All he's trying to say is that Ted Cruz is some type of embodiment of evil. I think that's a rather destructive, backward mindset, because when you take clearly Christian individuals, clearly Christian activities, and things go sour, you pass them off as the influence of Satan.
"It really prevents you from thinking clearly," he said.
I doubt Cruz will mind being rejected by Satanists, or by the KKK leader who endorsed Trump over Cruz.
Of course things could have been different if not for Democratic Party rules which rigged the system in Clinton's favor. Bernie Sanders is the one candidate running who is well-liked, and would bring in independent and Republicans would happily vote for him as opposed to holding their nose to possibly vote for Clinton or Trump. In one of the latest examples of his support, Bernie Sanders was ranked the most popular Senator in America. Sanders has an 80 percent approval rating, while surprisingly Cruz is above water at 55 percent.
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Clinton and Trump Battle For Sanders Supporters
Susan Sarandon created a lot of controversy last month when she questioned whether Trump or Clinton would be worse. She did it again this week when interviewed by Stephen Colbert (video above). She criticized Clinton on her environmental record and on her hawkish foreign policy views: "I'm more afraid of, actually, Hillary Clinton's war record and her hawkishness than I am of building a wall, but that doesn't mean that I would vote for Trump." She also questioned the possibility of Trump being elected: "Come on, who's going to vote for Trump, seriously?"
With Donald Trump within three points of Clinton in one recent poll (compared to an eleven point lead for Bernie Sanders over Trump), there are apparently some people who would vote for Trump. Both Trump and Clinton are going after Sanders supporters.
As Sanders has said, his supporters will not automatically back Clinton if she wins the nomination, and many will not learn to like her. Clinton says she will go after Sanders supporters in a "very aggressive" manner. No matter how aggressively she goes after my support, nothing she can do can negate her utterly unacceptable record.
Trump will have even greater difficulty in his attempts to obtain the support of Sanders supporters. He could attract the support of some Sanders supporters on issues such as trade. While his foreign policy speech was seriously flawed, he is still to the left of Clinton on foreign policy (as is pretty much everyone). Trump is significantly to the left of Clinton on the drug war. As Sanders has warned, Trump will use the email and Foundation scandals which he has stayed away from, which could also wind up putting Trump to the left of Clinton on government transparency, where she is already extremely conservative, as well as on matters such as government corruption and reducing the influence of money in politics. It is also refreshing to see a Republican candidate who does not advocate the destruction of Medicare and Social Security.
Despite all of the negatives for Clinton, Trump has serious negatives of his own, including the manner in which he has pandered to racism, xenophobia, and mysogeny. Only thirteen percent of Sanders supporters have a favorable view of Trump, and currently only ten percent say they would vote for him. However, it could affect the election results if ten to thirteen percent of voters who otherwise might have voted Democratic should not vote Democratic due to opposition to Hillary Clinton. Many more who don't like either Trump or Clinton are also likely to sit out the election or vote for a third party.
Walker Bragman has raised the question of who is the greater evil at Salon and tried to make a liberal case for Trump. While I do not agree with all of his points, it is good that there are writers on the left who are not falling into the tribalistic support for Clinton and exaggeration of Trump's faults (as big as they are) which has become common among many Democrats. Even if Trump is the greater evil, the real question is which candidate will do more harm in the White House.
It is very likely that Trump will do less harm out of a combination of having less interest in going to war than Clinton and not being able to get sixty votes for his agenda in the Senate. On the other hand, many Democrats who would oppose conservative policies from Trump would defend comparable compromises from Clinton.
Clinton has already indicated a willingness to compromise with Republicans on areas from Social Security to access to abortion. We have seen the damage from compromise with Republicans and triangulation by Bill Clinton. Similar compromises by Hillary Clinton with Republicans would be more likely to move the country to the right than policies from a Republican president who face opposition from Democrats. We would be more likely to see cuts in Social Security, and restrictions on access to abortion, if Clinton is elected compared to Trump or another Republicans. Plus we would be more likely to go to war under Clinton, more people will be incarcerated for drug crimes, and we will have a president more concerned with how she can profit monetarily from the presidency than working for the good of the country.
Posted in Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Drug Policy, Environment, Foreign Policy & National Security, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Scandals, Television. Tags: Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Drug War, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Scandals, Stephen Colbert. 10 Comments »
Quote of the Day: Jimmy Fallon & Conan O'Brien On Ted Cruz Choosing A Running Mate
Today, Carly Fiorina was announced as Ted Cruz's running mate. Fiorina said it's always been her lifelong dream to lose twice in the same election. –Jimmy Fallon
Bonus Quote:
Earlier today, despite losing five primaries, Ted Cruz stunned everybody by announcing his vice presidential candidate is Carly Fiorina. This means Fiorina is now just a heartbeat away from never being president. –Conan O'Brien
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A Majority Agree With Sanders & Trump That The System Is Rigged
Our two-party political system generally acts to limit consideration of political views to those in one corner of the authoritarian right political spectrum. In a typical election year we would not have discussion of subjects such as eliminating the influence of Wall Street, ending the drug war, and opposition to American interventionism. Bernie Sanders, despite trying to limit his campaign to economic issues, did broaden the range of discussion this year. In addition, the campaigns of both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump exposed how undemocratic our system is.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll showed that over half of voters consider the system to be rigged:
More than half of American voters believe that the system U.S. political parties use to pick their candidates for the White House is "rigged" and more than two-thirds want to see the process changed, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The results echo complaints from Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders that the system is stacked against them in favor of candidates with close ties to their parties – a critique that has triggered a nationwide debate over whether the process is fair.
The United States is one of just a handful of countries that gives regular voters any say in who should make it onto the presidential ballot. But the state-by-state system of primaries, caucuses and conventions is complex. The contests historically were always party events, and while the popular vote has grown in influence since the mid-20th century, the parties still have considerable sway.
Trump and Sanders have encountered different obstacles to beat the establishment of their party. Trump has led in the delegate race, but there has been talk of using convention rules to keep him from winning the nomination, especially if he fails to win on the first ballot.
Sanders has had to deal with party rules which have made it difficult for insurgent candidates to win since George McGovern won the nomination. Party leaders subsequently thought the party was best off with moderate candidates who do well in the south despite significant changes in the country since 1972. The use of super delegates, restrictions on independents voting in may states, and front loading of southern primaries make it harder for insurgent candidates to win. Plus the Democratic Party showed even more favoritism this year, including with the debate schedule, failing to release the popular vote in Iowa, as was done eight years ago, which Sanders very likely won, Harry Reid's actions in Nevada, and changing rules on contributions from lobbyists to help Clinton.
Imagine how different things could have been if Sanders was declared the winner of the popular vote in Iowa, Harry Reid hadn't intervened and Sanders won or came closer in Nevada, Sanders wasn't faced with a string of early southern losses, and if the news media wasn't showing Sanders to be far behind from the start by counting the super delegates into the totals. Plus we have seen how much better Sanders does in states where independents can vote.
If we lived in a European parliamentary system, where it was possible for new parties to get established, then it might make sense to limit who can vote in a party primary to allow a party to preserve its ideological identity. However, the structure of our system is quite different. It would be very difficult for other parties to seriously challenge the two major parties. This creates a greater need for voters to be able to influence the candidates chosen by each party. With such input being artificially limited by the Democratic Party, we are seeing the party nominate a candidate who is popular with a majority of hard core partisans, but who is vastly out of step with those who lean towards voting Democratic. At the same time Clinton is probably clinching the nomination, her popularity is falling, she is struggling against Donald Trump and other Republicans in head to head polls, and she has lost in multiple recent states where independents were allowed to vote.
Posted in Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Election Reform, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Polls. Tags: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Polls. 4 Comments »
Mainstream Media Reporting On Monday Night Attacks On Pro-Sanders Facebook Pages
On Monday night those of us going pro-Sanders Facebook pages found that some were not available, seeing the message above. Word quickly spread that people believed to be Clinton supporters were posting porn on the pages and then, in a coordinated attack, multiple people would file complaints with Facebook, leading to the sites pages being taken down.
The sites did return later on Monday. Since then, many have changed from public to private groups, and some have restricted posting to prevent unknown members from repeating this tactic.
The attacks are believed to be from Clinton supporters considering that posts from Clinton supporters were found bragging about the attack. In addition, similar tactics had already been used on Facebook on a smaller scale. Clinton supporters would harass Sanders supporters in attempts to receive hostile responses, and then report responses from Sanders supporters in attempts to have their Facebook accounts restricted or terminated. This also follows reports of the the pro-Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record, which has been coordinating with the campaign, paying people to "push back" against progressives opposing Clinton on social media.
Heavy.com reported:
Supporters were concerned about potential Clinton PAC involvement because, according to the Daily Beast, a pro-Clinton Super PAC is spending $1 million to counter people on sites like Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter. The group is Correct the Record's "Barrier Breakers." According to the PAC's press release, the digital task force will share positive content and "push back" against online progressive communities to counter "false narratives" and negative attacks. The Super PAC openly coordinates with Clinton's campaign, Daily Beast reported.
However, there's no proof of any connection between that PAC and this attack, and definitely no proof of any connection between the PACs and the pornography posts, which were likely from unrelated trolls and spammers.
They also included screen grabs which do suggest that Clinton supporter were behind this action.
The story was picked up by the mainstream media. The Hill reports:
Multiple Facebook pages supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders were abruptly removed from the social media network late last night following a cyberattack.
The pro-Sanders pages — which include Bernie or Bust, Bernie Believers and Bernie Sanders is my HERO — were collectively followed by over a quarter-million supporters of the Vermont senator, and many had been operating continuously since Sanders launched his campaign last year.
The attack began around 9 p.m. EDT and lasted until just after midnight, when most of the pages recovered their accounts…
According to eyewitness reports, the pages were flooded with pornographic images in what appeared to be coordinated fashion and then flagged for obscene content, prompting Facebook to remove them.
"We had what looked like a kiddie porn posted in one of our groups today," said Sanders supporter Erica Libenow, according to Heavy.com. "I reported that one. Seriously made me want to vomit."
A Facebook spokesman confirmed to The Hill that a number of pro-Sanders groups as well as other pages "were inaccessible for a brief period" due to the company's automated policies being "applied incorrectly."
"We corrected the problem within hours and are working to improve our tools," the spokesman said.
At least one Facebook user linked to the pro-Hillary Clinton group Bros 4 Hillary was reported to have participated in the attacks.
The Bros 4 Hillary team disavowed the user in a statement posted Tuesday morning, which condemned any "harmful or offensive rhetoric or harassing behavior targeting supporters of any other candidate in the race."
Several websites and online forums and website attempted to draw a connection between the attacks and Clinton ally David Brock's social media initiative, Barrier Breakers 2016, after noting that the former Bros 4 Hillary member had recently "liked" the initiative on Facebook.
In a statement to The Hill, Correct the Record denied any involvement in the attacks.
"Correct the Record's Barrier Breakers 2016 had nothing to do with this," said Elizabeth Shappell, the group's communications director. "Currently, Barrier Breakers is exclusively engaged in positive messaging supporting Hillary Clinton."
Former right-wing hit-man turned Clinton hit-man David Brock is one of the slimiest people in politics, but the desire to prevent opposing viewpoints from being discussed has been a hallmark of many Clinton supporters during this campaign. I doubt that the campaign itself was directly involved, and there is no way to know whether David Brock and his group were involved, or if this was organized by other Clinton supporters. Regardless of who was involved, the prospect of seeing so many Democrats turning into thought police to defend Clinton's conservative views is one reason why many on the left think that electing Clinton would be even more dangerous to liberal and progressive principles than a Republican president.
There is more at AOL News and New York Magazine. The later shows a tie to the Bros4Hillary group, but also presents an alternative conspiracy theory blaming Donald Trump. While not impossible that the Trump campaign did this to further divide Democrats, I have seen a lot of cases of Clinton supporters trying to suppress discourse from Clinton's opponents, while I have not encountered any similar on-line premise from Trump supporters. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have expressed a similar disregard for freedom of speech in the recent past.
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Clinton's Lead Over Trump Down To Three Percent While Sanders Leads By Eleven
For the last few months it appeared that it might not matter how unpopular Hillary Clinton is in terms of a general election victory as at least she could beat Donald Trump. There are three major flaws in this viewpoint. The first is that even if Clinton could win the general election, having her as president is quite undesirable. The second is that it is far from certain that Trump will win the nomination considering how hard the Republicans are trying to prevent a first ballot victory, freeing delegates to support another candidate. Clinton has not been polling well against potential candidates other than Trump. Thirdly, Clinton's lead over Trump is evaporating.
The GW Battleground poll shows Clinton only beating Trump by three points (within the margin of error), while Sanders beats him by 11. The poll also shows that 46 percent say they would consider voting for Clinton while 53 percent say they would not consider voting for her in the general election. In comparison, 51 percent say they would consider voting for Sanders and 47 percent say they would not. Trump's numbers are also under water here, but the head-to-head battle shows that many who would not consider voting for him would do so if Clinton was his opponent
It is notable that Clinton's support is already falling while in a primary battle in which Sanders is not even mentioning many of the scandals involving Clinton, which would probably hurt her further in the general election. Plus, with Clinton tying herself so closely to Obama during the primary battle, any bad news on the economy or internationally this fall could seriously hurt her.
Of course before looking ahead too much to the general election, we still need to concentrate on the primary battle. Public Policy Polling shows Sanders narrowing the gap with Clinton in tomorrow's primaries, but he needs strong victories to reduce Clinton's delegate lead.
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SciFi Weekend: New Companion Announced For Doctor Who; Supergirl Finale; Krypton; The Girl On The Train; Person of Interest; Mr Robot; The Blacklist; The Night Manager; Catastrophe; Mick Jagger
The next companion has been introduced in the video above to replace Jenna Coleman on Doctor Who. Pearl Mackie will play a character named Bill, who clearly has not encountered the Daleks in the past. The Guardian has a little more information on her:
Capaldi said it was "a genuine delight" to welcome Mackie to Doctor Who. "A fine, fine actress with a wonderful zest and charm, she's a refreshing addition to the Tardis and will bring a universe of exciting new possibilities to the Doctor's adventures."
Steven Moffat, outgoing lead writer and executive producer, said: "A new face in the Tardis, a new voyage about to begin: welcome aboard, the amazing Pearl Mackie! This is where the story really starts."
Mackie trained as an actor at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2010. Since drama school, she has worked across theatre, film, radio and television. Her acting credits include Svengali, a British film released in 2013, and she is currently appearing in the stage production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Gielgud Theatre in London.
Among other actors who had been thought to be in the running for the role were Coronation Street's Michelle Keegan, Rakhee Thakrar, who impressed many with her performance as Shabnam Masood in EastEnders, and Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark in Game of Thrones and guest-starred in the last season of the sci-fi show.
Supergirl ended the season well. While the two part season finale had its plot holes, they did end many of the plot thread of the season, while leaving one major one for next season (the search for Jeremiah Danvers) and ended the episode with a cliff hanger. Prior to the last second cliff hanger, there was a feel-good moment for the cast. Plus there is the question (as of now undecided by the writers) as to exactly Kara's new job will be.
Entertainment Weekly interviewed Andrew Kreisberg about the finale. Here are a couple of excerpts:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let's start off with the reveal that someone else has landed on Earth. What can you tease of who this is? Are they friend or foe?
ANDREW KREISBERG: Obviously it's our big cliffhanger of the season, so I'm not fully inclined to let everyone know who shot J.R. It's an important character, and they'll play an important role in season 2.
Is this a character we may have seen in the comics before?
Again, I don't want to give too much away, but it'll be cool. The fans are going to be excited. It's going to definitely shake things up for season 2.
Especially with something like Project Cadmus in the ether, the first person I think of is Superboy.
[Crickets.]
Moving on, Kara was willing to risk her life for the world. How does that change her in season 2?
This whole season has been about her embracing being Supergirl. In a way, this was her graduation episode. She hadn't fully figured out how to integrate being Supergirl into her life. This whole season has been a learning experience for her. At the end of this episode, she's fully Supergirl. Next season, you're going to see a Supergirl who is more mature, and a bit more of a cohesive character. She's taken the identity of Kara and the identity of Supergirl and merged them in a better way. You're just going to see a more confident, stronger Supergirl than we've ever seen before.
Is it safe to say the world is now on her side?
Oh yeah. You don't save the world without dispelling all doubters…
Even though Fort Rozz is gone, are the prisoners who were once inside it still an ever-present threat?
What can you say of the fates of Non and Brainiac?
If you're a fan of the comic books, you know that Kara's heat vision took away Non's — lobotomized Non. How and when we see him again, he'll probably be very different. I think Indigo is probably the hardest person in the world to kill given that she's a living computer, so I wouldn't be surprised if she pops up again.
What would you say was your point of pride for the first season?
I'm so proud of the show. As much expectation there was for the show, there was also a lot of like, "Yeah, prove it!" [Laughs.] I think the show really works. Melissa is a star. Like any first season show, there were missteps and not every episode was as strong as the others, but I can point to a whole bunch of episodes, like "Red Faced," like "Human for a Day," like the crossover, like "Falling" as being some of my favorite episodes that I've gotten to do over the course of all the series that Greg [Berlanti] and I work on together. I'm just super proud of the show. We've proven that there's an audience for a female superhero. Hopefully there will be many more years to come.
Syfy has ordered a pilot for a Superman prequel Krypton, set on the planet two generations before its destruction. The idea reminds me of Gotham, and even more of Caprica. Hopefully it is more successful than the later.
The trailer is out for The Girl On The Train. The mystery novel, often compared to Gone Girl, should make a good movie, and does have a strong cast.
The cast and crew of Person of Interest haven't given up on saving the show, which CBS is ending after the upcoming season which will air this spring. From TV Guide:
A potential reboot doesn't mean, however, that the June 21 series finale will lack closure. "We had to hurry up and end it. They had 13 episodes to turn a very large, slow-moving boat," Emerson says. "But I think the idea that we had to do it in 13 was actually a plus rather than a minus. I think it allowed the writers' room to set aside their need to create palatable side stories or a murder-of-the-week or whatever, and really just get focused on wrapping up the loose ends of this thing."
Adds executive producer Jonathan Nolan: "I would have loved to have kept making this thing for a long, long time, but you don't want the show to become creatively moribund. We saw the writing on the wall before this season started, but we had the incredible luxury of having 13 episodes to really finish our story. And so, as much as I would have loved to have kept working on the show … I'm very proud of what we've made here for the final season, and I'm very glad that we had a chance to finish telling our story, an opportunity that's denied to so many great network TV shows. So I'm very satisfied with the way we've told our story, and I certainly hope our fans are."
After evolving from a CBS procedural to a true genre show, I certainly can see reason to keep it going if any other networks are interested.
Mr. Robot will be returning on July 13. Presumably we will be seeing the aftermath of the first season finale, unless Elliot just imagined it all.
Some additional brief thoughts on the past week which will be kept brief due to limited time this week:
Better Call Saul had a great second season, but certainly left a lot hanging in its season finale.
Cape May was an unusual episode of The Blacklist. I'm still not certain if Lizzie is really dead, but it is looking less likely that Reddington faked her death. If she is alive, Reddington does not appear to be aware of it.
The Night Manager's premier was excellent. As soon as time permits I will probably be downloading the remainder of the season rather than waiting for it to finish its run here.
Speaking of shows from the UK, Amazon recently released the second season of Catastrophe, which is well worth watching. The show is much like You're The Worst in tone with a somewhat older couple. Like You're The Worst, Catastrophe got a little more serious in its second season, but it did so without any drop in quality or humor.
In other entertainment news, Mick Jagger is not portrayed very well in a new book:
Rich Cohen delivers the unflattering portrayal of Jagger in "The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones."
"There's something monstrous about Mick Jagger," Cohen writes after exhuming details from the band's dark past.
"The Stones had been shedding people from the start. Use 'em up, toss 'em aside," Cohen continues. "It's a machine that runs on bodies."
Prince was honored in this week's Saturday Night Live, hosted by Jimmy Fallon.
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What To Do With Bernie's Email List Rather Than Giving It To The Democratic Establishment
The nomination battle isn't over yet, regardless of the odds, but Democratic strategists are already thinking about picking up something of great value from the Sanders campaign–the email list. Politico reports:
The post-campaign fate of Sanders' list — his 2016 crown jewel, and the backbone of the Vermont senator's online fundraising juggernaut — is the topic of frequent conversation among operatives working with the Democratic Party committees, down-ballot candidates and a variety of liberal interest groups. Some have already begun strategizing about how to access the list through informal conversations with people close to the Sanders campaign.
For those fighting for the issues Sanders has made the centerpiece of his campaign — like campaign finance reform, the environment and economic justice — his list of several million fervent activists willing to volunteer and donate money, often repeatedly, is regarded as something of an electoral gold mine…
Sanders' staffers won't comment on the exact size of the list, but his campaign has said it has 2.2 million donors, and the New York-based firm eDataSource estimates there are 5.2 million email addresses on it. The very fact that Sanders' online fundraising prowess has become a focal point means that the question of what to do with the list is all the more complex.
"There's this view among the Washington consultant class that these members are an ATM and you throw some words at them and they'll give you money no matter what," said Neil Sroka, a former Obama 2008 campaign aide now working as communications director of Democracy For America, which has endorsed Sanders. "Everyone in the Democratic Party is going to want Bernie Sanders' seal of approval and a chance to share their message with the people on his email list."
The Democrats' eagerness to get their hands on Sanders' list took off after he sent emails for congressional hopefuls Lucy Flores of Nevada, Zephyr Teachout of New York, and Pramila Jayapal of Washington. While it's still unclear exactly how much of a Bernie bump they all got, Las Vegas ABC affiliate KTNV reported earlier this week that Flores had already raised $428,000 in mostly small-dollar contributions. Sensitive to any implication that Sanders may lose the nomination to Clinton, the campaign has yet to offer any hints of its plans for the list.
I'm sure that the Democratic Party would like to have this list, but they should not be so certain that those on the list will be willing to continue to contribute money should Clinton win the nomination. There are many Sanders supporters who are coming out of this campaign questioning whether the Democratic Party supports their views. As Sanders recently warned, Clinton and the Democratic Party cannot just assume that his supporters will automatically support them.
I suspect that Sanders will wind up backing the party in the end, but that is far from certain. What we do know is that, regardless of whether any of the Republican candidates or Hillary Clinton wins the election, we will have a president with views and agenda far different from that of Sanders supporters.
Should a Republican get elected, we will probably see Sanders and Clinton supporters united in opposing their agenda. If Clinton is elected, her agenda might not be all that different from that of the Republicans on many issues, and she is to the right of them in areas such as interventionism. The difference is that if Clinton is president, rather than having the Democrats united in opposing her more conservative views, many Democrats will be defending her, as they have done during the campaign.
If Clinton is elected, a top priority will be in establishing an opposition to her from the left, to oppose the corrupting role of money in politics, to oppose her neoconservative foreign policy, and to oppose restrictions on civil liberties which she has been far too comfortable with. I do hope that, rather than falling in the hands of the Democratic establishment, Sanders' email list is used to help organize such an opposition.
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Bernie Won't Back Off, And His Supporters Will Not Learn To Like Hillary
Bernie Sanders continues to attack Hillary Clinton while campaigning in Pennsylvania. I'm glad that he is not listening to party leaders who think he should back off. This is not a case of one Democrat with similar views running against another Democrat with similar views. There is a large ideological difference between the candidates, and the fight should continue regardless of how difficult it might be for Sanders to win the nomination.
Former Obama speech writer Jon Favraeu has been writing articles lately about how he learned to like Hillary, and why we should too. Today he wrote, "Primaries are often a clash of personalities and magnified policy differences." No this is not about personalities (other than Clinton's dishonesty) and the policy differences are rather major. I have opposed Clinton this year for the same reasons I opposed her in 2008. More significantly, I oppose her for the reasons I opposed the reelection of George Bush in 2004. Her militaristic foreign policy views, conservative views on civil liberties, and opposition to government transparency are little different from the views of the Bush administration, and are unacceptable, regardless of party.
Rather than leading us to learn to like Hillary, we learned, as Conor Lynch discussed, how the Democratic Party does not represent our values. He pointed out areas where Obama has continued the policies of the Bush administration, and Hillary Clinton is significantly to the right of him. He concluded:
How much will partisan Democrats be willing to forgive a Hillary Clinton administration? Many neoconservatives have already admitted that they prefer Clinton over Trump. At this rate, Clinton could fulfill most of Trump's reactionary platform and still find widespread support among the Democratic faithful.
Earlier this week, the Clinton campaign accused Sanders "of trying to convince the next generation of progressives that the Democratic party is corrupt." But do progressives really need to be persuaded that the Democratic Party is part of a corrupt political system, or that it is more reactionary than progressive on many issues? This is self-evident, and the Democratic party has done an excellent job over the past few decades making that case itself. The question is: how long will Democratic voters remain blindly loyal to their party?
Hillary Clinton probably could move the country much further to the right than Donald Trump or any Republican can. The same partisan Democrats who would loudly protest conservative actions from Republicans will defend the same actions if promoted by Hillary Clinton. We already saw how much Bill Clinton moved the country to the right when he was president.
Sanders recently warned that his supporters will not necessarily support Clinton. The Washington Post reports today that Sanders said he "would wait to see what Hillary Clinton includes in her platform before deciding how actively to campaign for her in the fall, if she is the party's nominee."
"I want to see the Democratic party have the courage to stand up to big money interests in a way that they have not in the past, take on the drug companies, take on Wall Street, take on the fossil-fuel industry, and I want to see them come up with ideas that really do excite working families and young people in this country," Sanders said.
The problem is that, regardless of what the platform says, Clinton will probably do what she chooses if elected. When hearings were underway to confirm her as Secretary of State there were concerns about conflicts of interest. In response to such concerns, Clinton agreed to divulge the names of all contributors to the Foundation while she was in office. Clinton failed to provide this information, while making unethically making decisions regarding parties which were contributing to the Foundation, or paying Bill unprecedented amounts of money to give speeches. She has continued this pattern of unethical behavior after leaving office. In order to promote increased transparency after the Bush years, Obama instituted stricter rules to limit the use of private email, which Clinton then violated.
If Hillary Clinton failed to abide by rather limited agreements to act in an ethical fashion before she was confirmed as Secretary of State, why should anyone believe she will pay attention to any progressive planks she allows in the Democratic platform in order to obtain the support of Bernie Sanders? She has demonstrated too many times that she cannot be trusted–and certainly should not be trusted with the powers of the presidency.
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New York Times Magazine Looks At How Hillary Clinton Became A Warmonger
The New York Times Magazine features an article on How Hillary Clinton became a warmonger, although they are a little gentler with her, just calling her a hawk. The article began by pointing out how Clinton supported more aggressive military intervention than Obama when she was Secretary of State. She often sided with Robert Gates where others in the Obama administration were less militaristic, surprising Gates as to how conservative she was on foreign policy:
The two quickly discovered that they shared a Midwestern upbringing, a taste for a stiff drink after a long day of work and a deep-seated skepticism about the intentions of America's foes. Bruce Riedel, a former intelligence analyst who conducted Obama's initial review on the Afghanistan war, says: "I think one of the surprises for Gates and the military was, here they come in expecting a very left-of-center administration, and they discover that they have a secretary of state who's a little bit right of them on these issues — a little more eager than they are, to a certain extent.
While Clinton has probably flip-flopped on more issues out of political expediency than any politician other than Mitt Romney, that is not the case with her foreign policy views: "Clinton's foreign-policy instincts are bred in the bone." The article ran through Clinton's biography as related to military matters, including one embarrassing episode:
In March 1996, the first lady visited American troops stationed in Bosnia. The trip became notorious years later when she claimed, during the 2008 campaign, to have dodged sniper fire after her C-17 military plane landed at an American base in Tuzla. (Chris Hill, a diplomat who was onboard that day and later served as ambassador to Iraq under Clinton, didn't remember snipers at all, and indeed recalled children handing her bouquets of spring flowers.)
The article makes it clear that in any discussion of foreign policy, Hillary Clinton is the most hawkish person in the room, and will be to the right of the GOP candidate should she win the Democratic nomination:
Clinton's foreign-policy instincts are bred in the bone — grounded in cold realism about human nature and what one aide calls "a textbook view of American exceptionalism." It set her apart from her rival-turned-boss, Barack Obama, who avoided military entanglements and tried to reconcile Americans to a world in which the United States was no longer the undisputed hegemon. And it will likely set her apart from the Republican candidate she meets in the general election. For all their bluster about bombing the Islamic State into oblivion, neither Donald J. Trump nor Senator Ted Cruz of Texas have demonstrated anywhere near the appetite for military engagement abroad that Clinton has.
While there are other issues where Clinton is preferable to Trump and Cruz, the president has far more direct control over whether we go to war than matters such as reproductive rights. Clinton's foreign policy views, along with her corrupting ties to big money in politics, could be the deciding factor which keeps many Sanders supporters from turning out to vote for Clinton in the general election if she is the nominee.
Kevin Drum, who I have often found to ignore other major faults in Clinton, was disturbed by her foreign policy views:
And Landler doesn't even mention Libya, perhaps because the Times already investigated her role at length a couple of months ago. It's hardly necessary, though. Taken as a whole, this is a portrait of a would-be president who (a) fundamentally believes in displays of force, (b) is eager to give the military everything they ask for, and (c) doesn't believe that military intervention is a last resort, no matter what she might say in public.
If anything worries me about Hillary Clinton, this is it. It's not so much that she's more hawkish than me, it's the fact that events of the past 15 years don't seem to have affected her views at all. How is that possible? And yet, our failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria and elsewhere apparently haven't given her the slightest pause about the effectiveness of military force in the Middle East. Quite the opposite: the sense I get from Landler's piece is that she continues to think all of these engagements would have turned out better if only we'd used more military power. I find it hard to understand how an intelligent, well-briefed person could continue to believe this, and that in turn makes me wonder just exactly what motivates Hillary's worldview.
On the right, Daniel Larison, whose foreign policy views are far preferable to what is commonly accepted by conservatives, adds:
In virtually every foreign policy debate, Clinton can be counted on to endorse the more aggressive option available, and she is the least likely to favor making significant changes to the way the U.S. acts overseas. Her judgment has been reliably bad because she buys into conventional, wrong assumptions about the U.S. role in the world and the ability of the U.S. to "shape" events in other countries, and when Obama has come around to her view he has made some of the worst mistakes of his presidency. One would be hard-pressed to find a single instance from her time as Secretary of State when Clinton was on the winning side of a major internal policy debate that didn't produce poor or disastrous results. If Obama had always sided against Clinton's preferred course of action, he would have had fewer foreign policy failures and embarrassments.
The article also goes into some depth about her relationship with Gen. Jack Keane. Among other things, it was a briefing from Keane on establishing a "no-fly zone" in Syria that won Clinton over to that reckless position. This is one of Clinton's main weaknesses: she typically assumes that military options are more efficacious and capable of "solving" problems in foreign conflicts than they are, and it doesn't seem to take much persuading to get her to endorse an aggressive policy. Clinton normally errs on the side of using force or threatening to use it, and because of that she repeatedly takes the wrong side in debates over whether the U.S. should intervene in another country.
Both assessments above are accurate. Another recent article provides an even scarier insight into how Hillary Clinton thinks about foreign policy. Although it was not Obama's intention, his discussion of Clinton in an interview in The Atlantic definitely shows that Clinton is unfit to be president and certainly does not consider war to be a last resort. While many thought it was a good thing when Obama was able to negotiate a way to avoid military intervention in Syria, Clinton was one of those who disagreed:
For some foreign-policy experts, even within his own administration, Obama's about-face on enforcing the red line was a dispiriting moment in which he displayed irresolution and naïveté, and did lasting damage to America's standing in the world. "Once the commander in chief draws that red line," Leon Panetta, who served as CIA director and then as secretary of defense in Obama's first term, told me recently, "then I think the credibility of the commander in chief and this nation is at stake if he doesn't enforce it." Right after Obama's reversal, Hillary Clinton said privately, "If you say you're going to strike, you have to strike. There's no choice."
No Hillary, if you have a way to accomplish your goals without going to war, you should not go to war. And if you cannot accomplish your goals without going to war, it might be time to reexamine your goals.
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While conducting ethnographic social research, one immerses oneself within the mundane normality of everyday social life, and engages with local people in a multitude of different ways. Drinking in a local bar, attending rallies of local politicians, joining a church congregation for Sunday mass, and a thousand other moments of interaction can all generate a kaleidoscope of experiences and insights which form part of the researcher's process of dwelling. All of which must eventually be refined into that most elusive of resources – 'data'.
I would here like to discuss a specific ethnographic 'encounter' which unfolded during my recent PhD research, not because it generated a great deal of 'data' – whatever that might mean – but because reflecting on this interaction gives a concise window into some of the themes the wider research project analysed.
My PhD contributes to the broad field of disaster studies, specifically, the emerging literature focussing on the cultural impact of and recovery from multiple large scale catastrophes (joining such scholars as Kearnes, Klauser, and Lane 2012). I was based in the town of Buras, Plaquemines Parish, in southern Louisiana and most acutely focused on Hurricane Katrina (which struck in 2005) and the BP oil spill (which occurred in 2010, the year before my research was conducted).
This particular encounter was showing a photograph (shown below) to some members of the town's volunteer fire department. The image in question is black and white, and shows four men posed alongside an American fire truck. It was probably taken at some point in the 1950s and it is possible it marked the founding of the local volunteer fire department.
Members of Buras Volunteer Fire Department. Probably 1950s. © Plaquemines Parish Historical Society. Used with permission.
As part of this research, I joined the local volunteer fire department as a first responder, and it was at one of the regular training evenings that I shared this photograph. I had been given it earlier in my research by the local historical society, and it was amongst a large number of historical photographs offering a glimpse of Parish life from the late 19th century up until the late 1960s.
I suspected that my fellow volunteers would enjoy the image, as it represented part of their history as members of the department, but I was also interested in how the image replicated and reinforced certain social norms, particularly in relation to masculinity, class, and race, and how these social norms had changed and remained the same in the intervening decades, particularly with relation to the on-going disaster processes of the region. Indeed, following Booth and Davisson (2008), how the image could be both rhetorical and a focus for action and interpretation.
The representation of a particular hegemonic cultural ideal rooted in post-WW2 America is especially meaningful. This normative American identity (discussed elsewhere by Hurley 2001) was particularly valorised by these local men, and being able to align their own participation in the fire department with their interpretation of the era represented by this photograph was clearly very pleasing to them.
The discussion of this photograph at the time, and the more extended remembrances and imaginings of the lived reality of this historical era reflected the increasing precariousness felt by those who wished to maintain a singular vision of 'American' culture. The civil rights movement, feminism, and the on-going impact of disaster had all contributed to the perception that 'true' American culture was under threat, and the conversation about what this photograph displayed was interesting both because it opened a discussion of those 'good old days', but also because it demonstrated how such an image can continue to be constructed long after it has been created.
However, despite the intervening decades, and the impact of major disaster, images of the local volunteer fire department can remain fairly unchanged in their style, as I unwittingly demonstrated by taking my camera to a different training sessions (see below). As an anthropologist reflecting on my positionality in the field this begins another fascinating discussion, but perhaps one for another day.
Members of Buras Volunteer Fire Department (with author). 2011. © Author.
Hurley, A. (2001) Diners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in the Postwar Consumer Culture. Basic Books.
Kearnes, M., Klauser, F., and Lane, S. (2012) 'Introduction: Risk Research after Fukushima' in M. Kearnes, F. Klauser, and S. Lane (eds) Critical Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell.
Seumas Bates recently passed his PhD in Anthropology looking at the cultural impact and recovery from large-scale catastrophe in a landscape of normalised disaster processes. He co-convenes the European Association of Social Anthropologists Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network and can be reached via their website (http://www.easaonline.org/networks/dican/index.shtml) or through s.bates.1@research.gla.ac.uk.


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