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Senator Rand Paul Attacked After Presidents Acceptance Speach

Watchmen

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
The fact of the lack of violence other than a police officer shoving a protester and the protester shoving back. Literally that was it. That makes them thugs?:rolleyes:
I’m also curious. When officers are protecting an elected official and shove an intimidating figure back, does that person have the right to shove the law enforcement officer?
 
I’m also curious. When officers are protecting an elected official and shove an intimidating figure back, does that person have the right to shove the law enforcement officer?
Can I answer this? No, not okay. The way they hounded Rand Paul was not cool and could have led to violence.

We all need to turn down the temperature, not up. I agree with Joe Biden on this. I also agree with General Mattis that we are seeing the result of Donald Trump turning up the temperature during his term.
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
Can I answer this? No, not okay. The way they hounded Rand Paul was not cool and could have led to violence.

We all need to turn down the temperature, not up. I agree with Joe Biden on this. I also agree with General Mattis that we are seeing the result of Donald Trump turning up the temperature during his term.

Is that the only way to get them to acknowledge their human decency? By appeasing with negative connotations of Trump?

...Deep seated radicalism in the air I smell... Hate...

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Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
I’m also curious. When officers are protecting an elected official and shove an intimidating figure back, does that person have the right to shove the law enforcement officer?
Editorialized language noted.
There is that Im aware of no right to shove a cop back. But if a protester isnt being violent the police have no right to touch.
 

Watchmen

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Editorialized language noted.
There is that Im aware of no right to shove a cop back. But if a protester isnt being violent the police have no right to touch.
You obviously don’t know the law or security protocols.
 
Is that the only way to get them to acknowledge their human decency? By appeasing with negative connotations of Trump?

...Deep seated radicalism in the air I smell... Hate...

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I don’t know who “they” are in your question. People should behave decently no matter what Trump does.

Also, General Mattis is correct that President Trump encourages division and indecency, and is a threat to the Constitution.

Both can be true at the same time.
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
I don’t know who “they” are in your question. People should behave decently no matter what Trump does.

Also, General Mattis is correct that President Trump encourages division and indecency, and is a threat to the Constitution.

Both can be true at the same time.

I'm not opposed to what you said, I just noticed the sugar you sprinkled on top.
 
Yep. It is a cinch. All throughout. Violence takes many forms. Done.
I saw in the video a lot of people in a public area shouting their anger at a public official. I believe the First Amendment gives them the right to do that. However, shoving a cop and not obeying their orders when they are simply trying to protect a public official moving through a crowd, and following him and hounding him, is not acceptable. And if it’s illegal, those guilty should be charged with whatever laws were broken.
 
I'm not opposed to what you said, I just noticed the sugar you sprinkled on top.
It’s called context. Individuals are responsible for how they behave in individual situations.

Leaders are responsible for setting tone and encouraging or discouraging a pattern of such individual situations.

It’s more than just ice cream that makes a Sundae. ;)
 

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
From The Hill ...

“I truly believe this with every fiber of my being — had they gotten at us, they would have gotten us to the ground, we might not have been killed, we might just have been injured by being kicked in the head or kicked in the stomach until we were senseless,” Paul elaborated.

Paul noted that he was the senator who introduced the “Justice for Breonna Taylor Act,” which would prohibit federal law enforcement from carrying out a warrant "until after the officer provides notice of his or her authority and purpose."

“The irony is lost on these idiots. They’re trying to kill the person who's actually trying to get rid of no-knock raids,” Paul said.​

So, they "might not have been killed" by "these idiots" who were "trying to kill" them and who apparently did not touch them. Meanwhile ...

The senator also claimed that the protesters possibly came from out of state and were “paid to be anarchists.”​

Dang. At the same time, thuggery should be prevented and protest defended.

Crowd mentality. It happens no matter your political beliefs.
 

gnomon

Well-Known Member
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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Another case of privileged folk complaining about a peaceful protest....
Protesters cause diners to flee in panic as they 'shut down' a restaurant in Rochester | Daily Mail Online
Excerpted....

'We're shutting you down': Violent BLM protesters attack stunned diners and smash up a restaurant in Rochester in shocking footage during protest over the death of Daniel Prude
  • A third night of protests took place in Rochester, New York, over the death of Daniel Prude
  • Footage on social media showed demonstrators shutting down a restaurant while residents dinned
  • It mirrored a similar incident in Washington D.C. when some protesters demanded they raise their first in solidarity for the cause
  • Authorities deployed tear gas, and reportedly pepper balls, at protesters who did not disperse at their order
  • The demonstration was declared an 'unlawful assembly' after the group marched through downtown Rochester
  • Daniel Prude, 29, died of suffocation in police custody in March, but outrage ignited when new footage was released this week
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Bingo! Privileged and shelter white boy doesn't know what it's like to be the object of hate. He doesn't know what opposition looks like. He saw anger and hate, he was the target of it, and he got scared 8n such a new environment. I have no doubt he did fear for his life. Just as I doubt he's ever actually seen an angry mob intent on violence.
It doesn't look good to make racist remarks in defense
of anti-racism protesters.
 

Cooky

Veteran Member
Another case of privileged folk complaining about a peaceful protest....
Protesters cause diners to flee in panic as they 'shut down' a restaurant in Rochester | Daily Mail Online
Excerpted....

'We're shutting you down': Violent BLM protesters attack stunned diners and smash up a restaurant in Rochester in shocking footage during protest over the death of Daniel Prude
  • A third night of protests took place in Rochester, New York, over the death of Daniel Prude
  • Footage on social media showed demonstrators shutting down a restaurant while residents dinned
  • It mirrored a similar incident in Washington D.C. when some protesters demanded they raise their first in solidarity for the cause
  • Authorities deployed tear gas, and reportedly pepper balls, at protesters who did not disperse at their order
  • The demonstration was declared an 'unlawful assembly' after the group marched through downtown Rochester
  • Daniel Prude, 29, died of suffocation in police custody in March, but outrage ignited when new footage was released this week

Smashing peoples drinks and dinner plates..? I'm glad I wasn't there because I have food aggression.

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