The REAL Plagiarism at the RNC: Giuliani Bites Off Hitler
July 19, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
Revolution Club delivers people's arrest warrant for Rudy Giuliani. (Photo: Special to revcom.us)
As we go to press, the media is fixated on the fact that Melania Trump’s speech at the RNC tonight was plagiarized from parts of Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democratic Convention in 2008. But they missed the bigger plagiarism story: Right before Melania Trump’s speech, Rudy Giuliani—the keynote speaker on Trump’s plan to “Keep America Safe,” plagiarized his ENTIRE message from the body of work of Adolf Hitler.
In any decent society, someone like former New York mayor and long-time, loud-mouthed fascist bigot Rudy Giuliani would have been arrested, tried, and jailed for serial conspiracy to abet and cover up the murders of Black and Latino youth, not put before a national TV audience as if he were an authority on anything besides butchery and lying.
But there he was—speaking at the Republican Convention tonight—being promoted by the mainstream media as a legitimate authority on “Keeping America Safe.” And outdoing himself in calling for police terror at home and U.S. terror abroad.
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Giuliani said that Trump would make America safe the way Giuliani did when he was mayor of New York—and overcome racial divisions—no “Black America and white America.”
Safe? No racism? No targeting of Black and Brown people? Ask the families of Hilton Vega or Anthony Rosario, both murdered by the NYPD under Giuliani. Or ask Abner Louima, an immigrant from Haiti, who was handcuffed, thrown in a cop car, and then beaten with radios and fists. At the police station, the cops pulled Louima's pants down, took him into the bathroom, and sodomized the cuffed man with the wooden handle of a toilet plunger. Then the pigs shoved the plunger, covered with blood and feces, into Louima's mouth.
This was “Giuliani time”—a reign of police terror against Black and Brown people—where none were “safe” from being stopped, beaten, tortured or worse. During this period, 187 people were killed by New York cops between January 1992 and December 1996.
And now Giuliani—who attacks Black Lives Matter as a hate group and blames it for the killings of police—agitated for Trump to do for the country what he did in New York: take police terror to a whole other, nationwide level. He demanded more savagery at home and around the world. Staring right into the camera and pointing his finger he railed: “We’re coming to get you!”
Giuliani’s hate-filled rant channeled some of the most notorious fascists in history: Adolf Hitler... Benito Mussolini… and Donald Trump.
Any system that puts this frothing at the mouth, rabid Nazi-lunatic on prime time TV, to promote another Nazi-lunatic for President, is a system with NO legitimacy. Reason enough—and there are countless more—for this system to be overthrown at the soonest possible moment.
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