The blood of whom?
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Reverend Nancy Jo Kemper has called for Gov. Matt Bevin to be impeached.
The “tree of liberty” quotation is taken from a letter written by Jefferson in 1787 to his friend, William Smith: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants”.
He continued with a rhetorical question, asking, “Whose blood will be shed?” to stop the “slippery slope” of the “degradation” of society and its “gender-bending”.
Bevin said during an appearance at the Value Voters Conference that, while the U.S. could “survive” if Clinton were to be elected, “At what price?” He acknowledged that, while some have said “no”, he does think the USA could “recover”. The tyrants to be sure, but who else.
“I would encourage anyone who truly cares about this issue to invest 15 minutes of time and listen to my comments in their entirety”, Bevin said.
“It’s in the context of discussing our presidential election that he made those remarks”.
He referenced the rise of the Nazis preceding the Holocaust twice, invoking German pastor Martin Niemöller’s oft-cited quote that ends, “then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me”. “And the two choices he presented are to either elect Donald Trump to the presidency or to shed blood, even if it costs patriots’ lives, even if it costs his own children’s lives”.
In a statement Monday, the governor said “any intelligent person” should easily understand his message, which he linked to military service and the need to guard against radical Islamic extremists and any homegrown passivity that could cause our culture to “crumble from within”.
To say that Bevin’s remarks were extreme would be an understatement. “We must fight to preserve the exceptionalism and the promise of America, because America is worth it”.
“I believe lawmakers of both parties have an obligation to consider impeachment on the grounds that calling for the taking of innocent lives is a violation of the governor’s binding, legal responsibility to uphold the laws of our commonwealth which clearly prohibits murder”, she said.
“Using religion as a tool of violence and frightening people has no place in politics”, Gray said.
Kemper is facing incumbent Republican congressman Andy Barr in the November general election.
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Republican Party of Kentucky spokesman Tres Watson called Kemper’s comments “a desperate act by a desperate candidate”.
