10-11-2020, 11:13 AM
(10-11-2020, 09:41 AM)David Horn Wrote:(10-10-2020, 03:06 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The people who are there to record police brutality won't care about recording all the other violent stuff going on because that's why they're there and recording all the other violent stuff would defeat their purpose for being there...
The entire point of average citizens recording the violent acts of people in authority is simple: if not them then who? The authorities record the rest all the time.
This is no longer Detroit or Watts in the 1960's. Cameras are everywhere, and the same camera that can record an event worthy of celebration cheaply can also focus on criminal behavior. If one is out in the open or in an open place one surrenders privacy. Thus if your pants fall down at Wal*Mart and you failed to put on underwear... whoops!
So suppose you parked your car a couple blocks away... and you see someone torching a car. That could be your car instead! Peaceful protests are expressions of law and order which implies the right to peaceful assembly for redress of grievances.
I want peaceful protests to remain peaceful, and anyone who exploits one of them for an opportunity to loot or to do violence is not exercising any Constitutional right.
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.