Witch hunt

I got an email today from the team that organized yesterday’s protest I was a part of in Ferndale. They said the attendance was 600! And the protest went for two hours – so at least a half-hour after I left (depending how one sets the start time).

Marissa Higgins of Daily Kos created a post with tweets from the rallies. It includes a tweet from Tom Chapman with a collection of his favorite signs. Some of them:

* BOGUS POTUS.

* Good News! Mexico will pay 4 the impeachment!

* I am a Witch on a hunt for Justice! [see the next item]



The nasty guy has been calling the impeachment proceedings a “witch hunt” and variations of that phrase. He even claimed those accused of being witches had more due process than he’s getting. Kim Driscoll, Mayor of Salem, Mass., knows a thing or two about witch hunts – it comes with the job – and she’s getting a lot of notice – and an interview on CNN – for trying to teach the nasty guy some history.

Knowing about witch hunts comes with the job of mayor of Salem because (for those who forget their history), there were 200 trials of witches in Salem in 1692, resulting in executions of 20. She tweeted:

Oy vey...again
Learn some history:
1) Salem 1692 = absence of evidence+powerless, innocent victims were hanged or pressed to death

2)#Ukrainegate 2019 = ample evidence, admissions of wrongdoing+perpetrators are among the most powerful+privileged

Mayor Driscoll is getting a lot of support of descendants of those accused and killed, and of those who played Elizabeth Proctor in school productions of The Crucible.

In another tweet the mayor quoted another response:

Additionally, sorcery is not being used as evidence in the impeachment inquiry, and the sentence is not death.