Maine governor says "The 'enemy' is people of color"

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Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said “the enemy” in his home state is overwhelmingly made up of people of color.

“Look, a bad guy is a bad guy, I don’t care what color it is. When you go to war, if you know the enemy, the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, you shoot at red, don’t you?” he said at a press conference about suspected racial profiling by police, the Huffington Post reported.

“You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy. And the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority right now coming in are people of color or people of Hispanic origin. I can’t help that. I just can’t help it. Those are the facts.”

LePage made headlines Friday when an explicit voicemail that he left a state lawmaker, lashing out after apparent accusations of racism, was released.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/293534-maine-governor-the-enemy-is-people-of-color
 
He challenged a state legislator to a duel. To the death.


We would have a duel, that’s how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you, I would not be Hamilton. I would point it right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he’s been in the Legislature to help move the state forward.




http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/paul-lepage-latest/497693/
 
Celticguy said:
Is it true ?
There us no sense in ignoring facts over political correctness.
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Well, no it's not true and if you need to have the "why" explained then you shouldn't be voting. Not if you consider us at war with fellow citizens. That's not only sedition it borders on treason.

Who died and made you rednecks God that you can unilaterally decide who is an enemy of the State?
 
“Let me tell you this, explain to you, I made the comment that black people are trafficking in our state, now ever since I said that comment I’ve been collecting every single drug dealer who has been arrested in our state,” LePage said Wednesday. “I don’t ask them to come to Maine and sell their poison, but they come and I will tell you that 90-plus percent of those pictures in my book, and it’s a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut, the Bronx and Brooklyn.”

LePage also said—again, despite a plain reading—that he was really only referring to the origin point for narcotics, not the race of the traffickers. “Nobody wants to give you the real story, but the fact of the matter is, sir, I am not a racist,” he said.

The publicly available evidence does not support LePage’s idea that minorities are behind the heroin epidemic. Several recent arrests of dealers involved predominantly or exclusively white people, and a survey from the National Drug Intelligence Center suggested that most heroin entering Maine actually came from Massachusetts, via Caucasian traffickers. The epidemic has largely affected white people as well.

Naturally, reporters were interested to get their hands on LePage’s binder full of minorities.

On Thursday, they asked the governor for it. He refused and stomped off. “Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers. You ought to look into that!” he said. “You make me so sick!”

The Portland Press Herald has filed a public-records request for the binder.




http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/paul-lepage-latest/497693/
 
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