Georgia Judge Suspended for Comparing Attack on US Monuments to ISIS Actions

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Georgia Judge Suspended for Comparing Attack on US Monuments to ISIS Actions

August 18th, 2017

Awake Goy

“The nut cases tearing down monuments are equivalent to ISIS destroying history,” Judge Jim Hinkle wrote on Facebook Tuesday, the same day protesters in Durham, North Carolina toppled a statue honoring Confederate soldiers.

Judge Jim Hinkle suspended: “The nut cases tearing down monuments are equivalent to ISIS destroying history.” https://t.co/xVPslLurWJ pic.twitter.com/BIQcy5bnZ8

— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 16, 2017

On Saturday, Hinkle had written that protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia were “snowflakes” with “no concept of history,” as they came to counter a rally of white nationalists who gathered to oppose the planned relocation of a statue to Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

“In Charlottesville everyone is upset over Robert E. Lee statue,” Hinkle’s post said. “It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history. It is what it is. Get over it and move on. Leave history alone – those who ignore history are deemed (sic) to repeat the mistake of the past.”

That post was written approximately an hour before a car crashed into a group of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, killing a woman and injuring 19 other people. Police have charged the driver, who reportedly took part in the white nationalist rally, with second-degree murder.

“I have suspended Judge Hinkle effective immediately while I consider the appropriate final action,” Gwinnett County Chief Magistrate Judge Kristina Hammer Blum told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) Tuesday.

Hinkle told the AJC he didn’t “see anything controversial” about the posts.

“But you know, with the way things are going in the world today, I guess everything’s controversial,” he told the outlet…