Do we classify throwing tea into the harbor and destroying the boats that were bringing it into the harbor as protesting? Or was that also looting?
Printable View
Do we classify throwing tea into the harbor and destroying the boats that were bringing it into the harbor as protesting? Or was that also looting?
It shouldn’t have counted; it was staged.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncos78087
If anyone really truly has a problem with consequential and actually damaging looting, you'd be running off to find the nearest Columbus statue and ganking that **** down. Talk about looters....
No need to go into history; there are plenty more looters in operation today who need to be taken down. I’ll start with Goldman Sachs, move on to JP Morgan and Wells Fargo — all just the tip of the iceberg (keeping in mind that, according to our Supreme Abortion, these institutions are considered “persons” and therefore have rights — like being suffocated).Quote:
Originally Posted by ManRam
what Derek Chauvin did could have been personal.
https://thehill.com/changing-america...derek-chauvins
Quote:
George Floyd's brother says he believes Derek Chauvin's motivation was 'personal'
Philonise Floyd told lawmakers he believes Derek Chauvin kept his knee on his brother George Floyd’s neck for “personal” reasons.
Quote:
“No, sir. I don’t really know why he did it,” Floyd answered. “But personally, I think it was personal because they worked at the same place. So for him to do something like that, it had to be premeditated.”
George Floyd and Chauvin worked security at the same nightclub for years before their deadly encounter.
A former co-worker told CBS News this week that the two had a history of not getting along.
“They bumped heads ... It has a lot to do with Derek being extremely aggressive within the club with some of the patrons, which was an issue,” former co-worker David Pinney told CBS Evening News.
What is it that you are saying??? I'm not sure if I am getting your point.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManRam
Are you saying that Columbus and all the Europeans that came here "looted" the continent??? Is that your point???
Is that it??? If so, what do you thoink we should do here and now in 2020.
So what should we do???Quote:
Originally Posted by Crovash
OK, I don't comprehend protesting. Good. That's all cleared up.Quote:
Originally Posted by mike_noodles
Now let's answer the original question;………
Question I will ask (again)……
Do you think the police went out there and just started shooting tear gas (and it was smoke, not tear gas) and pepper bullets or do you think they asked the crowd to move back (most likely several times) and the crowd would not move???
Seriously…what do you think happened????
Yes, lets go back to days of bloody Selma when peaceful protest is met by vicious attack dogs (which was used at Standing Rock) with cops swinging batons.
Gotta damn peaceful protests. What country do they think they are living in? Get the military involved isn't that what they here for? Let's copy the foreign dictatorships tactics in controlling the mass. MeriKa. Power to the Status Quo.
Even the military is getting tired of being used as a photo-op for Trump's ego. The church elders are pissed that their church was used. The bible he handles threw itself into a wood chipper in despair of being used by Trump. Donnie T from the Bronz will be going back to the Bronz come Nov. 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenny Powders
I do thank Donnie for bringing so many people together in opposition to him. I thank the republcian party for staying on the Trump train because some of them will be gone as well.
Can you imagine the **** cops were doing before they were being filmed all the time? Especially considering they are doing rampant police brutality at police brutality protests now, where they're being filmed all the time. They just know there's no accountability. For as long as there has been police in this country they have acted with impunity. I can't imagine how much worse things were then when no one was filming them. Certainly worse than we've ever been led to believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES445
I mean, Europeans certainly looted the continent and committed mass, mass, mass genocide. That's not controversial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sluggo1
What should we do now? I'm not trying to litigate that. I'm just preemptively trying to shut down people like you from crying about some stupid statues. Nothing more.
Just waiting for one of you to complain about what's happening to your precious Confederate flags....
First Para……Show me a period in history where this hasn't, hasn't, hasn't happened. Still happening, happening, happening today. Unfortunately, this is how human beings are. Syria, Sudan, Iraq, Cambodia etc. Regrettable but we are who we are. And I'm pretty sure you can't go back in time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ManRam
Second and Third Paras……I don't get the Confederate statues nor do I get the Confederate Flag (we have a huge one on display [private property, so just relax] that you see as you enter Tampa along I-4). But I also don't get making a big deal about it. Seems like it would be easier to ignore statues and flags that you don't like rather than riot over them and damage property.
Some people don't like the obligatory MLK streets (soon to be followed by George Floyd Streets). One woman posted a letter to the editor about how wrong it was to abbreviate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on envelopes. That bothered her. No MLK Blvd, don't leave of the Jr. Don't leave off the Dr. St Petersburg wanted to name a community center named after someone who killed a police officer…is that OK??? Big mess over that.
Everyone needs to stop getting so worked up so easily. Use a little common sense.