Running racism in America thread

Armed white rednecks protesting against the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) were convicted of arson and destroying Federal property. They occupied Federal property for several weeks and Trump never responded ... except by issuing a pardon.

Where were the hard-asses from DHS back then?

 

Home in bed.

 

I would like to see the Portland crowd take a night off - just have nobody there, maybe two nights. Letting the feds know they aren't the ones calling the shots.

 

Key question here: Who’s doing the throwing and attacking? Because in Richmond last weekend it wasn’t the protesters.

 

Police: 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting

 

but he was so smooth you still can't really get mad right

 

Either way, someone has to stand down. I think the protesters have more than made their point. They're not helping their cause by lobbing fireworks into the federal building.

 

The Feds are going against their own training and handbooks. It is counter-insurgency 101 not to go in heavy handedly against largely peaceful demonstrators, because all that does is push the locals over to their side. Look at what has happened since Trump's Brownshirts arrived and started kicking ass. First more demonstrators, more active. Then the Wall of Moms. Then the Dads with Leafblowers. Then the Wall of Vets. Crowds have gotten bigger and bigger since this nonsense started.

 

Did you support the Bundys?

 

Screw the Bundys. That nonsense should have been stepped on a while back. They graze cattle on public land for two or three years and refuse to pay, take the cattle and sell them to clear the debt. And if they come out with guns to stop the cattle from being removed, come out with more and bigger guns to make the point that the wish of the Bundys isn't the law. We don't live in the 1880's with an open range, and we don't cut barbed wire fences to let cattle graze anywhere we want any more.

 

You mean the people who refused to pay mandated grazing fees for two decades to the Bureau of Land Management?
You mean the people who accumulated over $1 million of debt over two decades to the Bureau of Land Management?
You mean the people who threatened violence when the Bureau of Land Management said it was going to round up their trespassing cattle?

 

Yes. I didn't support anything they were doing on federal land. I thought it was ludicrous. What did you think?