Jäger1
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The detailed post in response is there for you to take on, if you'd prefer to rebut that instead of the emoji. Oh.... and explain your version of what "conservative" means.
Protests close to home
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You will need to go to the other thread sir, if you want to see the whole trifecta of banned topics.
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My sentiments agree with yours sir ......why should I have my (our ....include wife) freedoms stifled because a certain political party wants to "hire" protestors to disrupt. Are they protesting our country having a military or are they protesting their hate for a controversial President? Politics has become a childish farce these days and I'm sure, like me, many are sick of it. I've had to personally modify places I go for medical procedures and have missed out on a lot of my grandsons' activities simply because I don't care to travel to the larger city areas where this stuff goes on.
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I like pretty much all of those observations, but as an agnostic I think you can be decent and a positive member of your community even if you don't have anything in the way of religious faith or family.
On the other hand, I have seen religious faith and family ties used to justify and support the opposite of being a positive member of your neighborhood, community, city, state, and country.
Both faith and family should make it much easier to be a good person but as a functioning adult with an innate sense of right and wrong, we should be able to do it on our own even without that support.
Yes. Anyone with a common sense of reality is sick of the violence, lies, and the manufactured hate. The good news is the left are run, largely, by fools. These riots, like every other hateful, destructive ploy they perpetrate, will blow up in their stupid faces.
This (and the general state of things) thread is why I Live so far off the dirt rd (12 miles to town) that no one can see me and I can't see anyone... just my wildlife. Private drive so if I do see you... well, then ....I think it's essentially over, especially when I hear the speeches today... Karl would be proud of what he has wroth. I have Gunsmoke, the entire 21 seasons cued up to shut these demagogues out.
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To the OP... it is unlikely there is a credible fear when there is actual lawful First Amendment assembly and speech. Law abiding protesters might disgust or offend us, but non-violent people holding up signs and shouting is not a criminal threat.
Never say never, of course; there is always the chance of an outlier in the mix. But if we counted all the protests in this country over the last, say, 20 years, and excluded those with violence (whether the widespread violence of the Ferguson riots and then the 2020 election campaign riots or small local acts of violence), we'd still be well over 99% of protests being completely law abiding.
But after seeing how the George Floyd RIOTS began with an almost instantaneous "grass roots" protest that included violence in front of the White House, where that president had nothing to do with hiring or directing the police, chief of police, or city where George Floyd died... I don't believe anyone is safe from being affected by government allowing political anarchy and violence to become a party methodology.
There was absolutely ZERO connection between that president and that city council, police chief, and police officers. Two different political parties in fact. But there they were: "protesting" in front of the White House almost immediately.
That political violence will probably never happen in my small city in Montana if it begins again now or in the future.
But the second and third order affects of it spreading across America again will definitely touch all of us, even if only in our wallets at the lowest level, never mind the damage to our civil society and its load bearing walls.
Carry and plan your travels - but also take the time to speak to those in public office in how you expect legitimate peaceful protests to be both protected and also swift action taken when it is no longer peaceful protest. Don't limit yourself to only planning for outcomes.
Thank you for your post. Its nice to see that educated people like yourself realize what is now going on in this country toward minorities and the rule of law and that mirrors what happened in 1933 Germany when Jews, Gypsies, and political dissidents were rounded up like cattle and disappeared. We have failed as a country to teach truthful History in a meaningful way to our children. For the second time in history our country stands at an abyss, the first was the McCarthy era.
The political propaganda said first that only criminals were to be deported but now people who have an entire family "born" in the U.S. but one member of the family, say the Father or Mother was not a citizen but "legally registered" are being deported even though they are responsible people with jobs and even businesses. Again shades of 1933 in Germany. I hear the echo of Jackboots on cobblestone streets as some people sleep undisturbed by what is going on around them.
Oh please, get real! Definition of troll(ing) is posting opinion for the explicit purpose of citing controversy. Citing a reply (reply is the operative term here...) that is not in line with your maga mentality is not trolling. Your 'neighborhood' is supposed to be about S&W guns; not a safe place for maga enthusiasts.
Politics, name calling, ad nauseam, THAT'S ENOUGH! It is truly amazing the number of so called adults here who CAN NOT READ OR FOLLOW THE RULES!
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