Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:20 PM
Howler (4,022 posts)
WOW!!! Just Wow!!! I dont believe some of the posters here!!
I am so disappointed in the so called liberals who are bashing the protesters for their strategy of blocking traffic and highways. Must be nice to sit in a warm and comfortable house behind a keyboard and criticize the supposed "stupidity" of protestors actually out there trying to instigate change for a safer America where unarmed black youths aren't executed by police officers for walking while black!
Have these judgmental assholes and critics forgotten civil rights history so completely that They don't remember Mario Salvios Speech on the Berkley Campus in 1964?
Heres just a taste of what he said in the entro To the song Wretches and kings By Linkin park!
Some YouTube drivel
Response to Howler (Original post)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:22 PM
bigdarryl (11,569 posts)
1. There not liberals
They are trolls
Response to bigdarryl (Reply #1)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:31 PM
rock (8,866 posts)
8. Agreed
DU has a large percentage of disrupters.
Response to Howler (Original post)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:26 PM
jberryhill (35,418 posts)
2. "strategy of blocking traffic and highways"
Beyond your apparent misunderstanding of the words "tactic" and "strategy", I fail to see how "blocking traffic" is meaningfully related to the strategic goal in any productive way.
Chris Christie's camp apparently had the same understanding of the relationship between blocking traffic and a political goal of some kind.
People in "warm comfortable homes" are not concerned about traffic, being as they are in a "warm comfortable home".
People in homes warmer than that, such as in homes on fire, do tend to be concerned about whether fire and rescue vehicles can arrive; as are those obviously ignorant and uncaring people who think they have some God-given expectation that an ambulance may arrive and timely transport them to an emergency room.
Response to jberryhill (Reply #2)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:34 PM
Howler (4,022 posts)
13. Bet me
That the protesters would let emergency vehicles pass. But you can feel free to keep convoluting and distracting from the subject like a good little brick in the wall. ROFL!!
Response to Howler (Reply #13)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:50 PM
heaven05 (7,688 posts)
47. you are of course correct
on the convoluted BS, the willful distraction and may I add obfuscation. I mean this word has gotten quite a workout with people like you're responding to in the last week or so. Man! So many intent on encouraging the shooting of a running away unarmed black male. Truly disheartening to me. I don't want to call myself liberal, progressive or even a democrat if people like the wilsonthepig lovers are accepted as such. I'll just be a compassionate, empathetic potential victim of the same kind of execution.
Response to jberryhill (Reply #2)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:39 PM
sabrina 1 (47,552 posts)
20. It's called 'civil disobedience'. What do you suggest people do in order to end the killing of
civilians by the so-called 'civilian police'??
Unless you're content with the way things are in this dysfunctional country, what strategy do YOU think will work, considering it's been decades of NOT blocking traffic?
How about our Elected Reps do something, how about they LISTEN to the people instead of attending DC Cocktail parties with their Wall St funders?
But they are doing something, excuse me I forgot, they are sending out the NG and their Robo Cops to trash the people.
So, the people have had it. Finally
Response to sabrina 1 (Reply #20)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:56 PM
rhett o rick (40,154 posts)
55. I support civil disobedience but it should be aimed at those that are the problem.
Burning down small businesses isn't helpful. Stopping traffic may get the apathetic to pay attention but most likely turn them against the cause. Civil disobedience should be directed toward the Oligarchs. Also, I am anti-violence because I believe it's anti-productive
Response to rhett o rick (Reply #55)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 01:12 PM
starroute (11,832 posts)
71. Sometimes there is no direct target to aim for
The best kind of civil disobedience is doing what they try to tell you not to do -- like the lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s. But how do you "disobey" police brutality? How do you "disobey" dark money in elections?
Sometimes all you can do is what Mario Savio called for 50 years ago next week and throw your bodies onto the gears to bring the machine to a stop.
Response to jberryhill (Reply #2)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:41 PM
still_one (33,567 posts)
27. In my view what it has the tendency to do is antagonize some people who could be sympathetic to
their cause.
People have appointments, work, and of course emergency vehicles may need to get through.
I am very skeptical that tactic furthers their cause. It does give them publicity, but most likely that publicity would not be presented in a favorable light.
Response to still_one (Reply #27)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 01:04 PM
Howler (4,022 posts)
61. Really.
Has ANY of the mainstream publicity since the announcement of Wilson not being indicted for the murder of Michael Brown been favorable to Michael, or The protesters? must be nice to be able to go about your daily 9 to 5 business because Trayvon Martin,John Crawford,and Michael Brown cant. You mean the same business that keeps the machine running? the same machine that perpetuates and supports these murders? Oh Wow! Wait! another 12 year old just shot down in Cleveland. Do you think Any of that is worth a little delay in your busy day? And please tell me where, when an emergency vehicle was blocked by protesters!!! or is this just another excuse to continue business has usual/
Response to jberryhill (Reply #2)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 01:15 PM
zeemike (15,251 posts)
76. Quite a difference there.
Between Christie blocking traffic for political gain and protesters doing it for justice to be done don't you think?
Christie sought to manipulate the system for power, and the protesters to stop the system from denying justice.
But he who would give up justice for a little fire protection deserve neither.
Response to Howler (Original post)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:29 PM
liberal N proud (48,317 posts)
4. When did liberal become synonyms with hating cops
Response to liberal N proud (Reply #4)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:41 PM
sabrina 1 (47,552 posts)
28. When did liberals decide that cops killing unarmed civilians and getting away with it, is not a
social justice issue that needs to be seriously addressed?
Response to liberal N proud (Reply #49)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 01:31 PM
socialist_n_TN (10,448 posts)
95. Not a believer in self defense then?......
That's OK, although I don't know how else you can stop the fascists taking over here. But being a pacifist is cool. It just seems like most of us aren't pacifists.
Response to Howler (Original post)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:30 PM
RiverLover (618 posts)
7. Not liberals!!
If they claim they are, they're outed rethugs saying that. Posers.
Response to DesertFlower (Reply #10)
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:41 PM
RiverLover (618 posts)
29. They will live, unlike black Americans if they scare a cop.
That's the point. And unfortunately, just standing around with a poster sign doesn't get attention.
Would you rather they just set stuff on fire? If I were black in this country, I don't even want to think about how I'd react to the injustice. Put yourself in their shoes & give them the short time they want to protest this peacefully.
And do not call yourself a liberal. Please. You make us look bad.
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:20 PM
Howler (4,022 posts)
WOW!!! Just Wow!!! I dont believe some of the posters here!!
I am so disappointed in the so called liberals who are bashing the protesters for their strategy of blocking traffic and highways.
Maybe "don`t rob convenience stores." "don`t try to take an officers gun away" and then "don`t bull rush an officer"?
Seems simple but since you are too stupid to understand just go suck off a hobo.
Star Member cwydro (14,303 posts)
84. It's a discussion board.
Not an echo chamber.
OK, now this one is just darn funny:
LOL -- that is all it has EVER been!
(note, the thread was locked)
Howler (4,022 posts)
The fact that they still believe Brown was shot while running away when 3 different autopsies show differently automatically makes them too stupid to have an opinion that matters.
Cindie
I agree with the OP. I am all for leftists milling around in the traveled portion of the road.
Absolutely. Knock yourselves out, retards. I have reverse.
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:34 PM
Howler (4,022 posts)
13. Bet me
That the protesters would let emergency vehicles pass. But you can feel free to keep convoluting and distracting from the subject like a good little brick in the wall. ROFL!!
Hey asshole, these idiot criminals have blocked interstate highways and the traffic backed up for miles. Emergency vehicles get blocked and the criminals trespassing on the roadway don't have a clue about it. I would run a protester down if an emergency vehicle was coming up behind me.
It's probably not true that rioters would let emergency vehicles pass through.
One of the most disgusting sights I ever saw was in Boston circa the early 1990s, when an ambulance tried getting through traffic, and no one would give way.
Out here, that would be a hanging crime, not allowing an emergency vehicle through.
And this happened on an ordinary summer day, not during any time of civil disorder and insurrection.
Drivers in Boston are asses.
I've went through a red light before when a fire truck was coming up behind me. Check the traffic and get out of the way.
I still remember it as if it were yesterday.
An older-style ambulance, unlike the modern ones here, two fat guys of obviously Italianate derivation in the front seat, one driving, the other sticking his head out the window shouting at people to make way. It was obviously a critical case, a matter of life or death, but the other drivers didn't care. It was more important to them that they get home in time for supper, than that someone might die if they didn't make way.
Not only is it the law, but i was raised to give emergency vehicles the right of way, and also do the same for funeral processions. Unfortunately people don't seem to do either of those any more.
Thu Nov 27, 2014, 12:20 PM
Howler (4,022 posts)
WOW!!! Just Wow!!! I dont believe some of the posters here!!
They don't remember Mario Salvios Speech on the Berkley Campus in 1964?