{"id":366732,"date":"2018-06-25T20:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/u-s-is-heading-towards-a-second-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T20:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:56:53","slug":"u-s-is-heading-towards-a-second-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/u-s-is-heading-towards-a-second-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. is Heading Towards a Second Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Polarized political environment increases threat of violence<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>June 25, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/250618king1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Republican Congressman Steve King warns that America is heading towards a second civil war as a result of the increasingly polarized political environment gripping the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is heading in the direction of another Harpers Ferry. After that comes Ft. Sumter,\u201d tweeted King, with a link to an article about how \u201cOccupy\u201d protesters shut down an ICE office in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">America is heading in the direction of another Harpers Ferry. After that comes Ft. Sumter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5PmwlwcdSQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/5PmwlwcdSQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve King (@SteveKingIA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKingIA\/status\/1011030489182932994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harpers Ferry is a reference to the Battle of Harpers Ferry, when Gen. Robert E. Lee\u2019s Confederate army invaded Maryland in September 1862 and defeated Union forces. Ft. Sumter refers to the second battle at that location during the Civil War when Union forces attacked Confederate forces.<\/p>\n<p>King is by no means the first prominent figure to discuss the prospect of civil war in the context of America\u2019s intense political climate.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Politico, historian Michael Beschloss said that the recent confrontations between activists and Trump administration officials is, \u201ca new disheartening sign of a country that is becoming more divided by the hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is almost beginning to sound like some of the things that happened before the Civil War. It\u2019s a polarized country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about civil unrest have increased in recent days following a number of incidents where people connected to Trump have been aggressively harassed.<\/p>\n<p>California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters told a rally on Saturday, \u201cIf you see anybody from that Cabinet \u2014 in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station \u2014 you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they\u2019re not welcome anymore,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/congressman-u-s-is-heading-towards-a-second-civil-war.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polarized political environment increases threat of violence Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comJune 25, 2018 Republican Congressman Steve King warns that America is heading towards a second civil war as a result of the increasingly polarized political environment gripping the country. \u201cAmerica is heading in the direction of another Harpers Ferry. After that comes Ft. Sumter,\u201d tweeted King, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}