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Can We Please Stop Rationalizing Political Violence?
Allen, a mechanical engineer and former teacher, was carrying multiple weapons when apprehended, authorities said.
- On Saturday evening, Cole Tomas Allen was apprehended outside the Washington Hilton while allegedly attempting to enter the White House Correspondents' Dinner ballroom carrying multiple weapons. He was charged today with attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.
- In an alleged manifesto, Allen identified White House officials as 'targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.' Multiple security layers at the Hilton and Secret Service agents intercepted him before he reached any targets.
- Despite his background as a tech programmer and educator, Allen held a graduate degree from Cal State University Dominguez Hills, earned just last year. Investigators are examining how someone with such professional credentials became radicalized.
- President Trump called Allen a 'lunatic,' a characterization Democrats largely accepted. Critics, however, argue Trump's own rhetoric has rhetorically embraced political violence, complicating unified condemnation.
- The nation remains constantly 'flirting with disaster' regarding political violence. Experts emphasize the lesson should not be that 'usually, everything turns out OK,' but rather recognition of ongoing systemic risk.
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Everything that is wrong with politics is summed up in the recent assassination attempt on Trump
The attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Saturday captured everything that is wrong with the nation: violence, incompetence, hypocrisy, toadying, corruption, conspiracy theories, and the destruction of democratic values, all neatly wrapped up with a made-for-television bow. Let’s start with the obvious. Violence of any kind is wrong, and political violence is especially destructive. Whatever the reasons the alleged s…
Can we please stop rationalizing political violence?
On Saturday evening, Cole Tomas Allen was apprehended while carrying multiple weapons and apparently trying to enter the ballroom at the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held. In his manifesto, Allen said White House officials1 were “targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest”. President Trump, Vice President Vance, and other Cabinet officials and VIPs were in attendance at the dinner. This was t…
Cole Tomas Allen Case Raises Questions About Anger, Achievement, and Political Extremism.
(ThyBlackMan.com) The instant Cole Tomas Allen was identified as the alleged would-be assassin apprehended outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner one thing immediately caught my eye. Allen got his graduate degree from the same university where I got my graduate degree, Cal State University Dominguez Hills. It’s a California university with high academic and professional standards and ratings. That was just the first of several other thin…
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