Missouri GOP Rep. Wants Confederate Monument Vandal to be 'Hung From a Tall Tree'

[highplainsdem]

Source: Mediaite

Weeks after a state senator got into hot water for openly wishing on Facebook for President Donald Trump‘s assassination, State Rep. Warren Love (R-Osceola) seemed to call for a vandal of a Confederate monument to be lynched.

Sharing an article about a Confederate statue being vandalized in Springfield National Cemetery, Love posted the following to Facebook:

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As shown above, Love wrote: “This is totally against the law. I hope they are found & hung from a tall tree with a long rope.”

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When asked for a comment on the post by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Love denied he was calling for the vandal to be lynched, instead claiming he was using “an exaggerated statement” that was nothing more than “just a western term.” He added that he uses terms like that because he’s “the cowboy of the Capitol.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/missouri-gop-rep-wants-confederate-monument-vandal-to-be-hung-from-a-tall-tree/

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More from the Post-Dispatch:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/missouri-representative-appears-to-call-for-lynching-in-social-media/article_ce20f2a9-41e1-547c-a3ba-7fe380923905.html

In a February Facebook post, the Pitch, a Kansas City news site, reported he shared a blog post calling President Abraham Lincoln the “greatest tyrant and despot in American history.” In a House committee hearing in January, during debate on a prevailing wage bill, Love referred to “the black Negro.”

Love told the Post-Dispatch on Wednesday he is not a racist.

“Listen, I’ve got good friends in the Capitol,” Love said. “Me and Tommie Pierson (a black St. Louis County Democrat) was co-captains of a softball team. And you can ask anybody in that Capitol. I probably have a better relationship with the minorities than anybody up there at the Legislature.

“I play softball with them, I’m good friends with them. I, you know, I sit on the same side of the aisle with them and they’re on my softball team,” Love said.

[CentralMass]

1. Doh !

[Docreed2003]

2. Ignore my racist diatribes cause I've got loads of black friends!!

I'm sorry but anyone who's using the term "black Negro" and talking about "hanging folks from a tall tree" in the 21st C is a racist fuck, no matter who his friends are!

[DBoon]

3. Supporters of race based slavery

Should be hanged as war criminals , as they were at Nuremburg.

The confederacy was based on the idea that human beings from the continent of Africa were meant to be farm animals.

Their followers in the 20th century were executed as war criminals.

[oneshooter]

9. " Supporters of race based slavery"

So what type of slavery do you support?

Slavery has always been mostly because of race. Some is religious, some is tradition (warriors placing their captives in slavery).

Please expand on what type of slavery do you approve of?

[DBoon]

10. I support no type of slavery

What type of troll are you?

[oneshooter]

11. Not a troll.

Just asking questions. You object to race based slavery, but apparently are ok with other types of slavery.

I am against ALL forms of slavery, not just race based. As you stated.

[Crowman2009]

4. Well that nips the whole "Heritage, not hate" BS in the bud.

[yardwork]

7. This is their heritage. Their heritage is torture, murder, and genocide.

Every time somebody says that these symbols represent their heritage, remember what that heritage is.

[riversedge]

5. "he uses terms like that because hes the cowboy of the Capitol.

He seems to think it is OK--like Trump saying his sexist comments are 'locker-room talk'


.......................When asked for a comment on the post by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Love denied he was calling for the vandal to be lynched, instead claiming he was using “an exaggerated statement” that was nothing more than “just a western term.” He added that he uses terms like that because he’s “the cowboy of the Capitol.”
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Link to tweet

[raccoon]

6. So it's OK because he's the cowboy of the capital?

Could he be a love child of Trump?

[raven mad]

8. One of my best friends is.............

(multiple choice with bigots like him)
(a) Black
(b) Mexican
(c) Asian
(d) Hispanic (not Mexican)
(e) Native American
(f) Alaska Native
(g) LGBT

"I've got good friends........................"

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