Federal troops in Portland

I have spent a lot of time in Seattle and Portland in the last 30 years. If you had too, you would be impressed by the spirit of community, the courage of its leaders and even more importantly it’s citizens, and the vision of a greener future. Real freedom and intelligence always scares bucolic little men like Trump and his cronies. The hippie spirit of peace, love, and oneness with the earth is alive and well on the Pacific Coast and is not going to be intimidated by the storm troopers.

 

The casual reader must be wondering who on earth you're talking about. I think you're talking about Professor Noah Feldman, all the way back at Post #140. He draws a regular salary from the Harvard Law School. It's seems important to you that he also wrote articles for Bloomberg. Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and host of the podcast “Deep Background.” Of course he gets paid for those activities. How much does he get paid, and how extensive are his reponsibilities for Blumberg? I don't know. You say $73,0009-81,885, but that's full time. If he is a full time Harvard Law Professor, I doubt he's a full time Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, too. Also, so what? How is this relevant to the price of beans in Bulgaria or anything else? Your remark about "lying" also is obscure and needs to be clarified.

To make sense of these statements, one would need to know a context for them. What are you talking about? Makes no sense at all to me!

Generally speaking, peaceful protests are acceptable; riots (violent civil disorder) not, because they result in mob action. At Seattle and Portland, there seem to be examples of each. Huge Portland protest crowds, standoff with feds go on are the demonstrators at Portland rioters - Yahoo Video Search Results
Just as some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time, we can distinguish between riots and peaceful protests, and condemn the former while condoning the latter.

 

Actually Pinochet's coup was against President Allende !!!

 

I’m still waiting for a shred of evidence showing that BLM has improved black lives, somewhere...

 

Ahhhh - but it has - everywhere !!! - its made many more Black people politically aware and politically active !!!

 

As their communities go up in flames, and the police won’t respond to any calls in these areas when they call for help

Sure bruh, whatever you say

 

Not what I say, its what they say, or, more likely, its what they DO !!! - prepared to demonstrate on the streets and the more they do, the more politicised they become and the more they politicise their friends, relatives and neighbours !!!

 

there is zero evidence. they are creating and have created a racial divide, or widened it. These violent trained marxists have never been about black lives. Never!
As their website stated.
the organization itself was quite radical from the very beginning. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors described herself and fellow co-founder Alicia Garza as “trained Marxists”

“We actually do have an ideological frameWork” Cullors State. “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on ideological theories. We are organizers.l And organized they are, Cullors, was is the protege of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview, Weather Underground was part of the Black Liberation army. Cool huh? The weather underground set off bombs, Yet people here insist the terrorist group is dead. That BLM is not about violence and is about black lives, Even though Eric Mann mentored Cullors for over a decade When he spoke. She spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology From him. Black liberation army, weather underground, black lives matter. Same shit. The black liberation army operated under the belief that only through covert means, including but not limited to retribution, could the movement be continued until such a time when an above-ground existence was possible. Yet the fact that another member of the weather underground heads up BLM funding means nothing and it means nothing that another member of the weather underground is friends with Obama and held the first party in his home, for a Obama to gather funding for his presidency,

Well they created a name that people can not deny. Yes, black lives matter, of course they do. BLM also means Black Liberation Movement. Life matters, all lives matter, but for saying that you can get shot in the head and killed as what happened to one girl in the USA not long ago, but media isn’t publicizing that at all.

in 2015, The official website stated a specific call to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”

official Black Lives Matter and chapters are essentially A far left front that use racial justice as a Trojan horse for leftist policy and ideology. the official organization Black Lives Matter DC openly dedicates itself to creating the conditions for Black Liberation And destruction to achieve this. Just like the official site does. Wording slightly different but same goals, to destroy.

 

Regardless of where you stand on the protests one thing is true. A person was murdered by heavy handed police officers. As a white dude I have very little to fear from the cops. I can't imagine what it must be like for minorities dealing with harassment and profiling. Had Briana Taylor been white, asian, or hispanic do you think there would have been just as much as outrage? George Floyd may have not been squeaky clean but that does not mean he deserved to die. When the president does not care and or have any empathy for people then we are are not living in a democracy any longer.

 

You mean Burn, Loot, & Murder?

 

I stand corrected.

 

Your racism is showing. Not that you care.

 

You’ve got nothing to offer the discussion except ad hominems. As usual.

 

I agree that what happened to George Floyd was disgusting. I can’t call it racist though. Police brutality yes.

i can’t say that the government in the USA does not care about what happened to George Floyd. Neither can you assert that. Trump actually called the family members personally, there are interviews with the family... his father. No media source reached out to his family other than fox. The mayor of minneapolis never even called the family,...you can look up the videos from his father yourself, Still has not received a call by the way. Further more, the kid shot and killed in seattle. By blm riots was never contacted by the city mayor either, but trump contacted them. Left news sources never interviewed or reached out to family members, but fox did and let them speak... didn’t interrupt them or make it political, just let them speak.

here is trumps comments.

 

Trump might have called the Floyd family but according to Floyd's brother the president would not let him even talk and seemed more interested in talking about himself. I don't doubt that for a moment. He is very self-centered as is all of his kids. I'm not including Barron because he is never talked about. In every protest/demonstration there are going to be those who are seeking to take advantage of the situation. They DO NOT...I repeat...They DO NOT represent the majority of the demonstrators. Yes things often get out of control but those troops should hold themselves to a higher standard. That means refraining from pepper/tear gassing people in the face or breaking their hand as in the case of a Navy vet. It's a sad fact that the police are more likely to be more heavy handed in black communities then they are in white neighborhoods. They're not "Dirty Harry" or "Rambo". Maybe former Mayor Daily was right when he said the police are there to preserve disorder. Let's face it President Trump is no mental genius. If he does win in November we may very well have an armed uprising and nobody on either side of the aisle want that. It's like we all failed history class and we are doomed to repeat it. That's my opinion so yeah.

 

The date on the Trump Video above is May 29, 2020

George was killed On May 25. Too little to late. Stuff was already burning.

 

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Hands up! Don’t loot!

 

Hey... That's almost clever. It's not really, but almost.