12-27-2016, 08:40 PM
We protesters can carry cameras and we can use them against a rioter (as in someone who smashes a store window) or a counter-protester (at least the police have some responsibilities) and supply the police and DAs with photographic evidence of crimes. Just because we dislike Donald Trump and the Republican party does not mean that we are not good citizens. We all have legitimate concerns for law and order; someone who torches a car (it could be a one of our cars, dammit!) or smashes a store window (we might want to have a sandwich and a coffee in some store after the protest, and the store owner and staff did nothing wrong) -- let alone acts with brutality toward us (counter-protesters are more dangerous than cops!) deserves to be exposed to the full judgment of the legal process. Tough luck, crook! Law and order is necessary to allow protests like ours.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
