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« on: July 02, 2018, 01:21:09 PM »Message from the top
Vice Chancellor Lothar Hilscher condemned the violence in Oberschefflenz while on a trip.
"We have no tolerance for hate and violence from Ulrichshorstian Nationalist, neo-Nazis or the KKK," the Vice Chancellor said while in Amelinghausen, Ulrichshorst. "These dangerous fringe groups have no place in Ulrichshorstian public life and in the Ulrichshorstian debate and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms."
Hilscher 's remarks come after critics blasted Kaiser Franz Ferdinand for not specifically mentioning Ulrichshorstian Nationalist or other groups during Ferdinand's remarks Saturday.
Volkshalle aides who appeared on Sunday morning political talk shows tried to walk the line between condemning a terrorist attack at the hands of a suspected nationalist and denying that the Kaiser failed to go far enough with his words on Saturday.
Sunday night Hilscher said, "The Kaiser also made clear that behavior by others of different militant perspectives is also unacceptable in our political debate and discourse."
The Vice Chancellor criticized the media, saying it devoted more time to what Kaiser Ferdinand said than the people who engaged in violence.
Earlier the governor joined other state leaders to preach about unity at a historically black church in Oberschefflenz.
"We come to you this morning to reassure you that the State of Oberschefflenz and all of us that are in this together will not and do not condone Ulrichshorstian Nationalist that brought their hatred and bigotry to the State of Oberschefflenz," Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam told Mount Zion First African Baptist Church, to roaring applause.
"That's not what we're about. So I am here this morning, as your lieutenant governor, and also as a doctor, to start the healing process."
Less than 24 hours had passed since a driver plowed into demonstrators protesting against white nationalists in Oberschefflenz.
Voss asked the congregation for a moment of silence to honor Heyer and the troopers, "who lost their lives yesterday doing what they loved doing -- fighting for freedom."
"I feel right at home here at the Mount Zion church," the governor said. "I was invited today to go on a lot of TV shows. I turned them all down, because I needed to be where I should be, here in this beautiful church here today."
Hilscher 's remarks come after critics blasted Kaiser Franz Ferdinand for not specifically mentioning Ulrichshorstian Nationalist or other groups during Ferdinand's remarks Saturday.
Volkshalle aides who appeared on Sunday morning political talk shows tried to walk the line between condemning a terrorist attack at the hands of a suspected nationalist and denying that the Kaiser failed to go far enough with his words on Saturday.
Sunday night Hilscher said, "The Kaiser also made clear that behavior by others of different militant perspectives is also unacceptable in our political debate and discourse."
The Vice Chancellor criticized the media, saying it devoted more time to what Kaiser Ferdinand said than the people who engaged in violence.
Earlier the governor joined other state leaders to preach about unity at a historically black church in Oberschefflenz.
"We come to you this morning to reassure you that the State of Oberschefflenz and all of us that are in this together will not and do not condone Ulrichshorstian Nationalist that brought their hatred and bigotry to the State of Oberschefflenz," Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam told Mount Zion First African Baptist Church, to roaring applause.
"That's not what we're about. So I am here this morning, as your lieutenant governor, and also as a doctor, to start the healing process."
Less than 24 hours had passed since a driver plowed into demonstrators protesting against white nationalists in Oberschefflenz.
Voss asked the congregation for a moment of silence to honor Heyer and the troopers, "who lost their lives yesterday doing what they loved doing -- fighting for freedom."
"I feel right at home here at the Mount Zion church," the governor said. "I was invited today to go on a lot of TV shows. I turned them all down, because I needed to be where I should be, here in this beautiful church here today."