Why didn’t you reply to my post upthread?
Because I don’t know the answer. I don’t know the ratio of knuckleheads to legitimate protesters. And I sure as hell don’t know why the troublemakers have the implicit blessing of these leftwing local government officials. The police don’t do shit and that’s not by accident.
You think the army, if deployed, is going to play nice?
Seriously?
Good lord - did you think they purchased the tea dumped into Boston Harbor? Absolutely the colonists attacked other peoples’ property, that was merely the most prominent example.
The “facebookers” are fucking idiots, if not outright trolls or schills, and I can’t help but think your only motive for positing this shit is to stir the pot.
If the police can murder at will without consequence then we shouldn’t be “carefree”.
Oh, poor you - inconvenienced by someone else’s oppression and the protest against it. :rolleyes:
Milk’s good for treating teargas in your eyes and face.
Maybe the guy needed milk more than whatever else was available. That’s also in short/limited supply at the grocery store.
You don’t know because there were no government officials who gave their blessing, implicit or explicit, to their city being set alight.
You have confused empathy for the suffering caused by racism with blessing the burnings.
The police are out of control outsiders and racist fanatics who brutalize and kill the people who vote for them, that’s why the local government is sympathetic to the protestors. The police are the troublemakers.
And the army isn’t legally allowed to be deployed, while the National Guard both has a better reputation than the police and is acting much more restrained. The National Guard and the military in general has a history in the US of often being horrified by the brutality and lack of self discipline of the American police whenever they cooperate on anything. And that’s not because* they* are super nice people, it’s because the police are just that awful and out-of-control.
I saw the mayor of Atlanta begging the protestors to stop. I saw the governor of Minnesota begging the protestors to stop. I saw the mayor of Minneapolis begging the protestors to stop.
If this is “blessing” the riots in Minneapolis, Atlanta, and elsewhere, then you and I have different definitions of what the word “blessing” means.
What channel were you watching? I saw police deploy teargas and flashbangs in Minneapolis; I saw police arrest many in Atlanta, some even in the lobby of the CNN building; I saw police and Secret Service tussel with protestors in Washington; I saw police in Los Angeles slowly advance, nightsticks at the ready, trying to push the crowds back.
If the police “don’t do shit” (your words), then given the above, which was broadcast on national and international TV, then just what are they doing?
Please provide a cite for this claim. Thanks in advance.
Thanks- I thought it was pretty good, and I was a bit disappointed when it got no response.
Blow it out your ass.
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Agitator is a St Paul Cop:
They weren’t using fire hoses and attack dogs (or better yet, deadly force). Yet. Where is Bull Connor when we really need him?
Huh, remember about checking things up? Snopes reports the status as unproven.
BTW when fake protesters show up doing things like that, the usual is that they are not the police itself, but mercenaries in the payroll of well to do people that want to keep the injustice going on.
And the tea wasn’t owned by Britain either. It was owned by the largest company in the world, and arguably the largest company ever.
It was destruction of private property, plain and simple, and should receive the same condemnation as those who burn down a Target.
It was an astroturf protest by private companies hoping to compete with the monopoly. Whether one set of capitalists attacking a corrupt crony capitalist is justified is orthogonal to the question of whether the colonies had the right to defend themselves against subsequent British reprisals.
However, I feel ambivalent about the average protester since some of them feel sympathy for the riots and others don’t. I was with the Atlanta Mayor when she said
But then she said, point blank,
What about the majority of protesters who are peaceably demonstrating against this undeniably undefendable killing? Should they go home too?