I Support Protesting!

[SpeareChucker]

I do not support the destruction of property that does not belong to you.



I am an evil Capitalist, but my question is,



Do you feel that public monuments



are your property?

 

[JohnnySavage]

I worked on 16th and Connecticut (katty corner from Lafayette Square) for over a decade in the 2000s. There was a fella that had been living there the whole time. He was protesting nuclear weapons. I wonder if the new protesters rousted him out.

 

[hogjack]

I support the right to protest. It is one of the great freedoms of the United States of America.

I do not support rioting, looting, and destruction. Rioters, looters, and destroyers need to be taken down. Hard. A vast majority of Americans agree except for the Antifa and communist sympathizers.

 

[bellisarius]

If had $500 million or so laying about I'd buy all of those statues and then start a statue theme park, "Bronzeville." Charge admission and all that.

 

[HisArpy]

I protest support!

Fucking jocks. Let 'em all hang.

 

[SpeareChucker]

What can you do when a Progressive is shown people
in the protest carrying AK47s who dismisses it as


... just a rumor?



Let Peace and Love rule the day!


[My AK is from Czechoslovakia (pre-wall fall) and I am sure that is what is says!
just like the protestors...]

 

[SpeareChucker]

I protest support!

Fucking jocks. Let 'em all hang.

Just like Progressive boobs!

 

[Saint_Ann]

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[Lazaran]

I do not support the destruction of property that does not belong to you.



I am an evil Capitalist, but my question is,



Do you feel that public monuments



are your property?

If you were a farmer, and someone built a dam om their property, on the stream that irrigated your fields, would you destroy it???

It's the same concept for racist statues.

Those statues are blocking Americans right to breathe freely in the public square and they want to destroy them.

Just like you the farmer would ask the person who dammed the stream to remove the dam before you destroyed it, people have asked to have the offensive statues removed many times before they finally decided to start destroying them.

It's even worse for the people who want the statues removed, because their tax dollars pay to build and maintain those statues, and those statues are also on public property.

It isn't that hard to understand.

Only a racist or a sociopath would continue to search for arguments to defend racist statues.

 

[Ziggins]

Peaceful protests don't work anymore. Governments learned how to neutralize and ignore them. Escalating to violence is a predictable result. The rioters still need the support of the general public. Without that support they're just destroying property and going to jail with injuries. So rioters need to be sure of how much support they have before they riot, like any partisan on the internet betting all on polling data.

 

[SpeareChucker]

If you were a farmer, and someone built a dam om their property, on the stream that irrigated your fields, would you destroy it???

...

This is an analogy which does not apply.



At all...

 

[SpeareChucker]

Peaceful protests don't work anymore. Governments learned how to neutralize and ignore them. Escalating to violence is a predictable result. The rioters still need the support of the general public. Without that support they're just destroying property and going to jail with injuries. So rioters need to be sure of how much support they have before they riot, like any partisan on the internet betting all on polling data.

MLK is rolling in his grave.

He believed in weaponized peaceful protest.

Resorting to violence only implies lack of popular support...

 

[Saint_Ann]

This is an analogy which does not apply.



At all...

That's becoming its thing.

 

[SpeareChucker]

That's becoming its thing.

Small and hung to the Left?

 

[hogjack]

It's even worse for the people who want the statues removed, because their tax dollars pay to build and maintain those statues, and those statues are also on public property.

It isn't that hard to understand.

This makes sense. All public structures that offend anyone can be removed. The public does pay for it. Cannot argue with that logic.

My list of tax-payer funded entities to take down:

• NPR

The Catholic Pedo Church is also offensive but does not fit these rules.

Others may have their own list. Feel free to share!

 

[HisArpy]

This is an analogy which does not apply.



At all...

The analogy fails because in a land that obeys the rule of law, individuals don't get to decide what should be destroyed at their own hands.

 

[Lazaran]

This is an analogy which does not apply.



At all...

Wrong. The dam would offend you and interfere with your ability to prosper.

You would even destroy the dam on the other persons property, which is worse.

The obvious solution is to move these monuments to private estates or destroy them.

 

[bellisarius]

Peaceful protests don't work anymore. Governments learned how to neutralize and ignore them. Escalating to violence is a predictable result. The rioters still need the support of the general public. Without that support they're just destroying property and going to jail with injuries. So rioters need to be sure of how much support they have before they riot, like any partisan on the internet betting all on polling data.

MLK is rolling in his grave.

He believed in weaponized peaceful protest.

Resorting to violence only implies lack of popular support...

Taken to the extreme what is going on now is not going to result in arrest and a hospital visit, it's going to result in a trip to the morgue.

Last week some "vigilantes" showed up to a "protest." One of the "protestors" thought it was a good idea to attack the "vigilantes." The "protestor" is still in the hospital in stable but critical condition and the community won't give a shit if he dies. After the surveillance videos were reviewed and witnesses interviewed the shooting charges have been dropped against the "vigilante." Of course the national media aren't going to report that the charges have been dropped like they sensationalized the shooting when it occurred.

The point being that if the police bow out the citizens are going to respond and they're going to respond with unrestrained violence.

 

[SpeareChucker]

We see a lot of that echoed here...



One of the most ludicrous ideas is that I cannot fathom a way to profit off a DAMN!

 

[Rightguide]

I do not support the destruction of property that does not belong to you.



I am an evil Capitalist, but my question is,



Do you feel that public monuments



are your property?

Nobody has a right to deface or take down any publicly owned edifice or statue, or damage publicly owned property. People haven't voted on this, no legislature has acted, no judge has ruled. The people behind all of this are not demonstrators, they are domestic enemies. It's time for force.

 

[Lazaran]

The analogy fails because in a land that obeys the rule of law, individuals don't get to decide what should be destroyed at their own hands.

And that's where institutional racism comes in.

When the laws are written by white people that don't care about black people, justice is often not served.

Why do you think people are taking matters into their own hands.

Just like old time land Barron's used to dam streams to force nearby farmers and ranchers off their land, and then buy off the local judges and politicians to support their damming of the stream.

In America you often get the justice you can afford.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Oh good lord...

 

[Rightguide]

And that's where institutional racism comes in.

When the laws are written by white people that don't care about black people, justice is often not served.

Why do you think people are taking matters into their own hands.

Just like old time land Barron's used to dam streams to force nearby farmers and ranchers off their land, and then buy off the local judges and politicians to support their damming of the stream.

In America you often get the justice you can afford.

Because they are ignorant, like you. There is no institutional racism in America.

 

[HisArpy]

And that's where institutional racism comes in.

When the laws are written by white people that don't care about black people, justice is often not served.

Why do you think people are taking matters into their own hands.

Just like old time land Barron's used to dam streams to force nearby farmers and ranchers off their land, and then buy off the local judges and politicians to support their damming of the stream.

In America you often get the justice you can afford.

This is nothing more than angry whining over how unfair it is that the neighbor kid got a new bike for Christmas and you didn't.

Violence is NEVER the answer. You want to change what you see as a problem? Then RUN FOR ELECTED OFFICE AND CHANGE THE DAM LAW.

Otherwise, STFU with this nonsense.

 

[HisArpy]

Oh good lord...

Stained glass windows and statues of Jesus are next on the hit list.