A woman in a hidjab who silently stood up during a public rally to elect the U.S. president was escorted by the South Carolina state police for "public disturbance".
Many news media sources characterized the actions of 56-year-old female flight attendant Rose Hamid as a "silent protest".
Yet, what she did can hardly be characterized as such. She simply stood up to make herself visible to the presidential candidate who claimed to a rally full of people that Muslims are dangerous.
She simply wanted Mr. Trump to see her.
The State Police was instructed by Mr. Trump's staffers to escort out from the rally anybody who causes a "public disturbance".
So, as of today, the definition of what may constitute a public disturbance in this "land of the free" and the "beacon of democracy" for other countries is when a beautiful and well dress woman in a hijam stands when everyone else is sitting.
"Standing while Muslim" is now a public disturbance that my trigger governmental action.
I wonder how soon Mr. Trump will start advocating for Muslim reservations in this country.
I also wonder what other "enemies of the people" will become a target of hate-mongers, in addition to Muslims.
After all, finding some enemies ad re-channeling people's discontent is a rule as ancient as is the government.
Divide and rule.
Mr. Trump wants to divide Americans - with the help of police forces which first violate a person's constitutional rights and then (maybe) think - in order to distract their attention from real problems, many of them caused by waste, misconduct and corruption in the government.
What happened to Rose Hamid is not simply discrimination. It is fascism.
Consider me standing with Rose Hamid.
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