The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

YouTube seems to have a search engine going for videos one would like to watch.  One recently came up which was an old MSNBC Rachel Maddows piece done some time after the Charlottesville attacks.  It seems that some time ago, when we still had lynchings, the went beyond criminal cases to civil suits, and beyond the individuals who committed racial terror to the organizations that such people belonged to.

The first such case involved members of the KKK.  The family of the murdered man got 7 million, and basically eliminated one branch of the KKK.  The KKK didn’t have the 7 million.  Their headquarters, any donations, property of the members, wages of the members, all went against the 7 million.  A string of such cases was thrown up by various victim families which took out various white supremacy organizations.

Rachel ended with Charlottesville and the conjecture that the Trump / Barr ‘justice’ department would not push this sort of action.

But these days one starts wondering about the January Sixth insurrection.  Could one or more Capitol Police bring civil suits against the Oath-keepers, Proud Boys or Trump?  If individuals and organizations did harm, are they responsible for it?

Another chapter in the upcoming litigation.