DONALD TRUMP - CONVICTED FELON

A Democrat prosecutor in heavily Dem territory succeeded in winning a case - getting former President Trump to become a convicted felon. Using Democratic Party enacted laws, Democrat prosecutors got Martin Luther King to become a convicted felon, also. Using Democratic Party enacted segregation laws, Democrat prosecutors got many civil rights activists to become convicted felons too. This says far more about the dictatorial nature of the Democratic Party than about its victim "felons." 

By the way, I am one of the former convicted felons, arrested in the first modern sit-in in New Orleans at the large Woolworths on Canal and North Rampart Streets.  7 of us, 5 Negroes, 2 whites, from Tulane, Dillard, Xavier, and what was then called LSUNO sat in' requesting cups of coffee. We sat for hours without being served until the then DA for the city, Richard Dowling arrived, read us the law, and had us arrested.  Sit-ins had begun in February 1960 in North Carolina and spread, but none occurred in what had been the largest city of the South for a century, New Orleans  until we did it in September 1960.  We were part of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, while the adult NAACP organization in the city opposed the sit-in.  Woolworth's was across the street from the large Saenger Theater.  Years later the five aand dime store was demolished to be replaced by a Hard Rock Cafe on that property, but a fallen crane accident and death in construction led to delays.  I do not know what is on that block now.   DA Dowling lost in the next Democratic primary and was replaced by a new DA, Jim Garrison, but his first efforts were against "vice," and so there was a raid on the racially mixed Quorum Club even in 1963.  Garrison is a hero in my eyes for his daring probe into the John Kennedy assassination, but his early years were hardly liberal.

When we went to court on our sit-in case, each of us facing up to $500 in fines and a year in jail, we sat together.  When the judge arrived, he screamed at us he might hold us in contempt of clurt with additional fines) for desegregating his court room, so we 2 whites moved away from our fellow defendants and our attorneys.  With his first words, we suspected we would be found guilty.  We were.  It took some years, but eventually the 2nd New Orleans sit in, a week after ours, made it to the US Supreme Court, and the city lost its case against all of us.  I have no regrets about having been a convicted felon.---Hugh Murray