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Mississippi Republican Says Trans Rights Supporters Should Face a Firing Squad
Robert Foster tweeted that “groomers” and supporters of trans rights should be executed by firing squad, then doubled down.
www.vice.com
A former candidate for Mississippi governor tweeted last week that “groomers” and supporters of trans rights should be executed by firing squad.
On Thursday, Robert Foster suggested—apparently unprompted—that “those who want to groom our children and pretend men are women,” the latter a reference to supporters of transgender rights, should be “lined up against [a] wall before a firing squad and sent to an early judgment.” Foster reiterated his call for the state-sanctioned murder of trans rights supporters in a message to the Mississippi Free Press. “The law should be changed so that anyone trying to sexually groom children and/or advocating to put men pretending to be women in locker rooms and bathrooms with young women should receive the death penalty by firing squad,” Foster told the website, declining an interview.
“Now the Godless have power and they are destroying our country,” Foster tweeted at Ritchie. “Soon we will have to deal with this directly.”
That tweet was still up as of Tuesday morning, as was another where Foster said that a firing squad was a “civilized and efficient way of disposing of evil” and cheaper than it would be to “fly them all up high over the Gulf of Mexico and push them out of a helicopter.”
“Transgendered people are merely victims, it’s their pedo groomers that are consumed by evil,” Foster said in another post.
So, can we all agree that people like this need to be completely ostracized from politics and that if the GOP doesn't actively excise people who use this type of rhetoric then they are culpable for allowing it to continue and persist within their movement?