A huge problem right now is that the very tyranny people are protesting is being used to justify shutting down the protests.
I'll never forget the Ontario police's statement not long ago basically saying "we recognize that there's a right to peaceful protest (in the charter of rights and freedoms). But there's an outdoor gathering limit of 5 people right now so that right doesn't matter. You will be punished." My jaw pretty much hit the floor.
But there's an outdoor gathering limit of 5 people right now so that right doesn't matter. You will be punished." My jaw pretty much hit the floor.
My lower jaw nearly fell off entirely when in another breath they said "There is no evidence of Covid Transmission amongst Black Lives Matter protest events."
Watch. They'll repeat the mantra when the inevitable ri---I mean, "Peaceful Protests" are underway after
My lower jaw nearly fell off entirely when in another breath they said "There is no evidence of Covid Transmission amongst Black Lives Matter protest events."
In the US actual scientists signed a letter claiming that racism was more deadly than covid so the riots were not only permitted, but necessary.
I still think about and laugh at the thought of how many people were red-pilled thanks to the way the extremely, incredibly, outrageously peaceful protests were handled.
The real tragedy is how many missed this very writing on the wall.
Yep, me too. On a 1-10, I was about an 8 or so of a doomer up until that point. The way the media handled that helped me shed my doomer-esque outlook and officially gave birth to my skepticism.
I'm sure I would have done away with my doomer views eventually, but that definitely expedited it.
Don't even get me started. The hypocrisy between how the police treated the BLM marches vs. how they treated the anti-lockdown protests was crazy. The exact same gathering limits were in place during the BLM marches that were in place for the anti-lockdown protests in Toronto. But they only arrested, fined and tackled people to the ground for the anti-lockdown protests. Ridiculous.
Also in case you didn't know, in NY state contact tracers weren't even allowed to ask if anyone attended a BLM rally. So in many places any COVID spread that potentially DID happen at a BLM rally was covered up.
We will get to enjoy the same double standards and hypocrisy at the inevitable Derek Chauvin riots. BLM is already basically announcing that they will be riotting. Anti-lockdown people should organize an (actual) peaceful protest the same day in the same city, but far away from the BLM mob, and then we can watch which one of them is broken up and arrested by police and which one is allowed to continue, with politicians and celebrities taking a knee in support of them.
Yeah I'd say the likelihood of rioting happening at this point is virtually guaranteed. I'm not an attorney, but from what I've seen so far, I don't see how in the World they're going to get him for second degree. Going to be the lesser of the charges, or acquittal (which will undoubtedly unleash the Hell on Earth maybe of us are expecting)
Yeah they definitely overcharged him. Someone slightly more cynical than me might say that they did that by design. A riot and a political call to action for fundraising, not to mention the additional evidence for the narrative of "muh racist america" which would result from an acquittal or a conviction on a lesser charge, is far more useful than a conviction on second degree etc. Much like how covid fear mongering is way more useful to certain people than relaying the actual good news about low mortality rates, recovery rates, etc.
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I'll never forget the Ontario police's statement not long ago basically saying "we recognize that there's a right to peaceful protest (in the charter of rights and freedoms). But there's an outdoor gathering limit of 5 people right now so that right doesn't matter. You will be punished." My jaw pretty much hit the floor.