Well, if Democrats are right and these are peaceful protests, then at least they won’t be coming to the Federal government and asking all taxpayers to bail them out. There won’t be any major damage.
In order to generate this “hypocrisy”, you have to make up statements out of whole cloth, and then put them into my mouth.
How about you stick to things I actually said?
Violence will never go to zero. Period. I can accept that and condemn violence and support policies that get as close to zero as possible.
I’m not seeing the outrage over a few violent protestors. Arrest them, prosecute them, throw them in jail. I feel conservatives are over looking the overwhelming majority of protestors who are peaceful
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I did.
You claimed people could be considered peaceful protestors in Portland. Yes?
You also implied no “innocent” could protest in Charlottesville. Yes?
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So there were non-Nazis attending a rally to save statues, but you don’t see why non-violent protestors would mix with arsonists and rock throwing rioters?
Yes.
No. I did nothing of the sort.
Cut the BS…
Gotta stop you right there. It was not a “rally to save statues”. It was an explicitly and openly a white supremacist rally. I imagine most of the people there were “innocent” of any crimes - but I still question why they showed up.
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I don’t understand why you’re having such a hard time with this. My posts have all been in plain English, there’s no secret code involved.
If you are part of a protest group that you know contains people throwing missiles and blasting lasers at police and federal officials, or destroying cars or setting fires, and you stay in that group, you are no longer part of a peaceful protest. You are at that point a part of a mob.
Yeah. By his own logic there haven’t been any peaceful protestors in Portland in weeks.
If this was just the first couple days this had gone on I could cut some slack and give em the benefit of the doubt.
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So I guess you lump all cops in the “bad cop” category. then eh? .Since good cops work with the bad cops, I guess that makes them all bad cops.
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In a sense I’ll actually agree with that. The system in general covers for the bad ones way to easily.
For those interested in what the ACLU has to say on the subject, the following site.
If you don’t have a permit, you don’t get in the street.
If violence occurs, then the police order a dispersal. After that, if you stay there…you are part of a rioting mob.
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Yeah, I think we all get that.
Then please feel free to express that rather than a ratio you believe to be in an acceptable ratio.
A few? Imagine a bar where just one is one too many.
We agree on this.
Why? No one has any problem with folks who are peaceful.
Well, you basically overlook the majority of everybody who is peaceful. If a building is burning, you sort of notice the arsonists.
But once the violence occurs and the police have order the crowd to disperse, then anyone who doesn’t is a willing part of a mob.
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How many times have we heard those on the Right call liberal or black activists agitators,? Doesn’t exactly sound like no one has a problem with them does it?
If they are violent and breaking the laws who cares what their skin color is.
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Rally organized by neo-nazi, with neo-nazi speakers.
it had nothing to do with a statue.
