10-07-2020, 08:48 AM
(10-06-2020, 07:40 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(10-06-2020, 06:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(10-06-2020, 04:16 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(10-06-2020, 03:07 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The police are the legitimate authority, and they are usually too busy busting meth labs, nabbing DUI offenders, and interfering in violent family arguments to interfere in the electoral process. Few of us would want them interfering in the electoral process.
I trust that if anyone tried to intimidate voters with the aid of some unofficial militia the local police would tell members of such militia that they can go somewhere else on their own or go to jail in a squad car. State police would back that up. There is a reliable number for dispersing such a militia:
9-1-1
The police are no longer the legitimate authority these days. Black Lives Matter and Antifa are now the legitimate authority today. If you need help, you best call them. If you need a loaf of bread, you best learn to call them as well.
You must be confusing Black Lives Matters with the Black Panthers.
You seem to be cracking up. Get help before you do something preventable yet inexcusable!
Black Lives Matters events are intended to be polite, peaceful protest. If I saw something else I would call the cops. People who take camcorders to document police brutality are more likely to document rioter brutality or other other crimes. Rioters are not Black Lives Matter or Antifa.
We liberals are for law and order but against criminal brutality by police which does nothing to create domestic tranquility. Many of us take cameras, still or motion picture, to document events. If we see looting or other crime we know where to take the photographic or video evidence.
Black Lives Matter is today's version of the Black Panthers. Whatever... America doesn't care because America mainly views them as a Democratic problem these days.
Your idea of what constitutes America is very different from mine. We all have the responsibility to accommodate statutory law as a basic minimum of decency in behavior. We have no obligation to accept that any people are second-class citizens or worse.
People very different from me can be just as American as I am.
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.