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Riots
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No sex, no drugs, no wine, no women
No fun, no sin, no you, no wonder it's dark
Everyone around me is a total stranger
Everyone avoids me like a cyclone ranger
This is bravery.If you have a few minutes, give a listen...another perspective on things.
97M views · 790K likes | Confession: I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr. But I hope his family receives justice. | By Candace Owens | Facebook
Confession: I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr. But I hope his family receives justice.www.facebook.com
The truth pill swallowed dry.
No chaser, no spoonfull of sugar.
Candace Owens is a true leader.
Hey maybe your leader and her hubby will invite you for a game of backgammon? Don’t hold your breath, unless their toilet is clogged.
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Heaad of the National Guard Bureau gets his troops in line ==
From a Sacramento Quaker newsgroup --
Walter Lasseigne Parenteau
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“Friends,
I don't normally take to these emails to share, but I feel deeply moved to do so tonight.
I was a long-time attender of [the San Francisco Quaker Meeting], but my wife (who is a member) and I now live in Sacramento. Like you in San Francisco, we are also under a mandatory curfew and are under the surveillance of the guns of the national guard. Two hours ago, five armored humvees with gun mounts drove passed our bedroom window.
An hour ago I noticed flashing lights outside. I hadn't heard any commotion whatsoever. Looking out my open window I saw a man being arrested. He was surrounded by several officers who had arrived in: 2 cruisers, a covered pickup, an unmarked SUV, and a SWAT wagon. The man was on the phone, presumably with someone he lived with--maybe a spouse, a significant other, or a roommate.
I could overhear him telling the person on the phone that he was being arrested. He said that he was only a block away from home. He said that he'd told the officers that, but that they had said that it didn't matter, as they were operating under "maximum enforcement" of the curfew. He then proceeded to tell them what jail he was being taken to. The police then put him in a car and all of the vehicles drove away.
Let me tell you what this made clear to me.
If our elected officials were somehow able to be so certain, without any doubt whatsoever, that it was in fact in the public good for every citizen to stay at home, so certain in fact that they were going to back that up with the force of the law, then it would logically follow that their first priority would be to take people home. If the police saw you out after the curfew, they would stop you, issue you a warning, and then take you home. If you were stopped again, perhaps they would issue you a misdemeanor citation, and then take you home again. At every turn, the point of enforcement would be to keep you safe at home.
If you wonder how an overtaxed police force would manage taking all of these people home, then ask yourself how that same force manages to take those same people to jail. This is not academic; I just watched the police arrest my neighbor and take him to jail, which is much further away than home was for him.
But this lays bare the fact that keeping people safe at home is not the point of the curfew. It reveals that the point of the curfew it is to intimidate. A curfew does not make illegal activity illegal; those laws are already on the books. A curfew criminalizes legal activity. It formalizes the same broad net of suspicion that the police regularly see their fellow citizens through--especially when it comes to black men--that people are in the streets protesting this very moment.
What I saw tonight reveals that the goal of a curfew is not to keep people safe at home, but to create an intimidating show of unchecked police force and to criminalize legal behavior. That, in my view, is fundamentally immoral.
One thought has been coming to me these past few days: A peace kept with a weapon is not peace. This curfew has revealed to me that our country's police powers have absolutely no tools at their disposal beyond intimidation. Intimidation is the only tool that they have. If it were in any way otherwise, then they would have driven my neighbor home. This is deeply sad and troubling.
I now find myself considering what actions I might take against that immorality. Tonight I used social media to convey this message to my mayor and to our governor. Tomorrow, I'm not sure what I will do. I suspect that this moment is calling for me to use my privilege as a young, educated, white man to resist this immorality so that others who are less privileged than me are not subject to it.
I humbly ask this community to hold everyone effected by these curfews in the light. I also ask you to help me, as imperfectly as you can given the medium of email, to help me consider further actions. I also ask you to help me see this curfew in a different light if I am in need of eldering.
I also wonder, if my assessment of these curfews is correct, and if you share my sense, if one course of action might be for us all to allow ourselves to violate this unjust law and to allow ourselves to be arrested, collectively, as Quakers.
But it is late, and I have to sleep, and I eagerly await your reflections on this subject.
Much love in these hard times,
- Devin”
Walter Lasseigne Parenteau
ttSScp2go0n somredhrslm
“Friends,
I don't normally take to these emails to share, but I feel deeply moved to do so tonight.
I was a long-time attender of [the San Francisco Quaker Meeting], but my wife (who is a member) and I now live in Sacramento. Like you in San Francisco, we are also under a mandatory curfew and are under the surveillance of the guns of the national guard. Two hours ago, five armored humvees with gun mounts drove passed our bedroom window.
An hour ago I noticed flashing lights outside. I hadn't heard any commotion whatsoever. Looking out my open window I saw a man being arrested. He was surrounded by several officers who had arrived in: 2 cruisers, a covered pickup, an unmarked SUV, and a SWAT wagon. The man was on the phone, presumably with someone he lived with--maybe a spouse, a significant other, or a roommate.
I could overhear him telling the person on the phone that he was being arrested. He said that he was only a block away from home. He said that he'd told the officers that, but that they had said that it didn't matter, as they were operating under "maximum enforcement" of the curfew. He then proceeded to tell them what jail he was being taken to. The police then put him in a car and all of the vehicles drove away.
Let me tell you what this made clear to me.
If our elected officials were somehow able to be so certain, without any doubt whatsoever, that it was in fact in the public good for every citizen to stay at home, so certain in fact that they were going to back that up with the force of the law, then it would logically follow that their first priority would be to take people home. If the police saw you out after the curfew, they would stop you, issue you a warning, and then take you home. If you were stopped again, perhaps they would issue you a misdemeanor citation, and then take you home again. At every turn, the point of enforcement would be to keep you safe at home.
If you wonder how an overtaxed police force would manage taking all of these people home, then ask yourself how that same force manages to take those same people to jail. This is not academic; I just watched the police arrest my neighbor and take him to jail, which is much further away than home was for him.
But this lays bare the fact that keeping people safe at home is not the point of the curfew. It reveals that the point of the curfew it is to intimidate. A curfew does not make illegal activity illegal; those laws are already on the books. A curfew criminalizes legal activity. It formalizes the same broad net of suspicion that the police regularly see their fellow citizens through--especially when it comes to black men--that people are in the streets protesting this very moment.
What I saw tonight reveals that the goal of a curfew is not to keep people safe at home, but to create an intimidating show of unchecked police force and to criminalize legal behavior. That, in my view, is fundamentally immoral.
One thought has been coming to me these past few days: A peace kept with a weapon is not peace. This curfew has revealed to me that our country's police powers have absolutely no tools at their disposal beyond intimidation. Intimidation is the only tool that they have. If it were in any way otherwise, then they would have driven my neighbor home. This is deeply sad and troubling.
I now find myself considering what actions I might take against that immorality. Tonight I used social media to convey this message to my mayor and to our governor. Tomorrow, I'm not sure what I will do. I suspect that this moment is calling for me to use my privilege as a young, educated, white man to resist this immorality so that others who are less privileged than me are not subject to it.
I humbly ask this community to hold everyone effected by these curfews in the light. I also ask you to help me, as imperfectly as you can given the medium of email, to help me consider further actions. I also ask you to help me see this curfew in a different light if I am in need of eldering.
I also wonder, if my assessment of these curfews is correct, and if you share my sense, if one course of action might be for us all to allow ourselves to violate this unjust law and to allow ourselves to be arrested, collectively, as Quakers.
But it is late, and I have to sleep, and I eagerly await your reflections on this subject.
Much love in these hard times,
- Devin”
97M views · 790K likes | Confession: I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr. But I hope his family receives justice. | By Candace Owens | Facebook
Confession: I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr. But I hope his family receives justice.
www.facebook.com
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1. We were divided under Obama. Telling back criminals they're victims was a stupid idea.
2. Liberals have kept us divided since the day Trump took office. It's called 'being butthurt over getting your ass kicked at the ballot box.'
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Did google give you the 3 names of innocent black men, killed by police, I asked you to produce? I'm still waiting.
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That was 5 years ago. Who was the black man police brutalized?
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How hard would it have been to watch if he ran over and killed a small child because he was on meth and fentanyl while driving? Oh, wait, nevermind... black lives only matter if it's white-on-black crime.
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We do need change. We need black people to be outraged at themselves when they murder each other 2,300 times per year... not just the 200 or so when they're criminals, resisting arrest, and die at the hands of police. I already know that asking them to stop being 13% that commit over 60% of the violent crime, in our country, is asking too much.
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I don't label everyone. The Sacramento Kings announcer was just told to resign because he said "All Lives Matter". Sorry, Spicoli, but that's some bullshit. And all because another black criminal died, while full of drugs, committing multiple felonies and resisting arrest.
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If you have a few minutes, give a listen...another perspective on things.
97M views · 790K likes | Confession: I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr. But I hope his family receives justice. | By Candace Owens | Facebook
Confession: I DO NOT support George Floyd and I refuse to see him as a martyr. But I hope his family receives justice.
And the black community will call her an "uncle tom" for not taking the party line.
Disregard
Has everyone forgotten about Ahmaud Arbery?
www.cnn.com
Ahmaud Arbery was hit with a truck before he died, and his killer allegedly used a racial slur, investigator testifies | CNN
William Bryan told investigators he heard Travis McMichael use a racial epithet after fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified Thursday at a preliminary hearing.
www.cnn.com
Hey ELLEJ you’re gettin’ a dose of a real winner there, aren’t you? Keep trying to show him love...it may work, you never know!
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Has everyone forgotten about Ahmaud Arbery?
Ahmaud Arbery was hit with a truck before he died, and his killer allegedly used a racial slur, investigator testifies | CNN
William Bryan told investigators he heard Travis McMichael use a racial epithet after fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified Thursday at a preliminary hearing.
Nope. He was pretending to be jogging, while casing a construction site looking for tools to steal, because he was a thief, and ran around the truck to grab the gun out of a former cop's hand.
Is that the guy you're referring to?
What I wanna know is how did you manage to superimpose pics of Poconos and Outlaw and MSK into that article? Well done!Has everyone forgotten about Ahmaud Arbery?
Ahmaud Arbery was hit with a truck before he died, and his killer allegedly used a racial slur, investigator testifies | CNN
William Bryan told investigators he heard Travis McMichael use a racial epithet after fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified Thursday at a preliminary hearing.
When I pointed out that you were acting like a racist, you responded with posts justifying racism. When I posted the names of unarmed black people killed by the police, you responded with reasons why it was okay to kill unarmed black people, some of which included obvious lies.
Now that I have called you a liar, are you going to find reasons why it is acceptable to be a liar?
I guess you didn't read the article.