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Trump should send border troops to guard churches, schools against angry, white terrorists

White House hate speech stirs up the cockroaches ... even in Eagle

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November 1, 2018, 10:22 am
Donald Trump

President Donald Trump

I am the enemy.

As an angry, aging, white, protestant male in America – who may or may not be heavily armed — I am more of a danger to my fellow citizens than any migrant army of desperate women and children allegedly infiltrated by Islamic extremists slowly creeping toward our southern border.

The O Zone by David O. Williams

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by David O. Williams

And yet my tax dollars are now being spent for purely political reasons to send more combat-ready troops to the border to meet these asylum seekers than we currently have stationed in Syria and Iraq to take on the Islamic State itself. Just so President Donald Trump can score more points with his dangerously xenophobic and increasingly anti-immigrant base ahead of the midterms.

Those troops would be better deployed guarding synagogues, mosques, churches, schools, movies theaters, malls, concert venues and other public gathering places across America that are currently and increasingly in the crosshairs of domestic, white-nationalist terrorists being whipped into a frenzy by the White House. And the estimated $35 million the deployment will cost would be better spent combating Big Pharma’s opioid epidemic or building infrastructure.

Again, demographically, my fellow Americans are in much more danger from guys like me than the boogie men Trump relied on to get elected in 2016 – MS 13 gang members, Jews, Islamic extremists, people of color in general. More Americans are being killed by disgruntled white men in America than Muslim foreigners, but Trump embraces the “very fine” white nationalists.

Why? Because it’s working at the polls. Trump got elected by dividing the country and stoking racist fears of replacement. Heterosexual white men are afraid the others will take their jobs, guns and women, when in fact billionaires running global corporations have marginalized the white middle class, and Trump rewarded them with fat tax breaks.

No doubt nearly 50 percent or more of the voting populous will once again be fooled by Trump’s calculated and corrosive bullshit on Nov. 6, but that doesn’t mean reasonable people shouldn’t stand and shout their resistance from the highest rooftops. As I wrote back in November of 2016, the majority of the nation must come together to chase the fear-mongering minority back into the shadows of society. They didn’t do enough of that in 1930s Germany and look what happened.

In recent days and weeks, hate crimes aimed at Democrats, African-Americans and Jews have shattered our sense of security and stoked the general sense of fear and unease Trump brought to the surface starting in 2015. That has emboldened back actors to act out.

Some idiot recently went to the trouble of printing up hateful, homophobic bumper stickers aimed at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis, then plastered them all over Eagle and other parts of the Vail Valley. I almost didn’t write about it, not wanting to give such a scumbag the satisfaction of increased notoriety.

But then I remember my pledge dating back to 2015 to continue to daylight the cockroaches that Trump has stirred up in our society, and I’m hopeful the story I wrote for the Vail Daily  and that Denver’s Westword picked up will lead the police to finding the bigot responsible and charging them with bias-motivated criminal mischief.

Bumper stickers today are the gateway to pipe bombs and AR-15s tomorrow, so let’s hope that on Nov. 6, despite such cowardly acts, more people vote for unity and acceptance than fear and division.

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David O. Williams

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David O. Williams is the editor and co-founder of RealVail.com and has had his awarding-winning work (see About Us) published in more than 75 newspapers and magazines around the world, including 5280 Magazine, American Way Magazine (American Airlines), the Anchorage Daily News (Alaska), the Anchorage Daily Press (Alaska), Aspen Daily News, Aspen Journalism, the Aspen Times, Beaver Creek Magazine, the Boulder Daily Camera, the Casper Star Tribune (Wyoming), the Chicago Tribune, Colorado Central Magazine, the Colorado Independent (formerly Colorado Confidential), Colorado Newsline, Colorado Politics (formerly the Colorado Statesman), Colorado Public News, the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Springs Independent, the Colorado Statesman (now Colorado Politics), the Colorado Times Recorder, the Cortez Journal, the Craig Daily Press, the Curry Coastal Pilot (Oregon), the Daily Trail (Vail), the Del Norte Triplicate (California), the Denver Daily News, the Denver Gazette, the Denver Post, the Durango Herald, the Eagle Valley Enterprise, the Eastside Journal (Bellevue, Washington), ESPN.com, Explore Big Sky (Mont.), the Fort Morgan Times (Colorado), the Glenwood Springs Post-Independent, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, the Greeley Tribune, the Huffington Post, the King County Journal (Seattle, Washington), the Kingman Daily Miner (Arizona), KUNC.org (northern Colorado), LA Weekly, the Las Vegas Sun, the Leadville Herald-Democrat, the London Daily Mirror, the Moab Times Independent (Utah), the Montgomery Journal (Maryland), the Montrose Daily Press, The New York Times, the Parent’s Handbook, Peaks Magazine (now Epic Life), People Magazine, Powder Magazine, the Pueblo Chieftain, PT Magazine, the Rio Blanco Herald Times (Colorado), Rocky Mountain Golf Magazine, the Rocky Mountain News, RouteFifty.com (formerly Government Executive State and Local), the Salt Lake Tribune, SKI Magazine, Ski Area Management, SKIING Magazine, the Sky-Hi News, the Steamboat Pilot & Today, the Sterling Journal Advocate (Colorado), the Summit Daily News, United Hemispheres (United Airlines), Vail/Beaver Creek Magazine, Vail en Español, Vail Health Magazine, Vail Valley Magazine, the Vail Daily, the Vail Trail, Westword (Denver), Writers on the Range and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Williams is also the founder, publisher and editor of RealVail.com and RockyMountainPost.com.