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Just to give some context: huge volumes of variants of these products were used this summer in Portland. We're talking enough to reduce visibility to 10 feet ov
by jasonwatkinspdx 6y ago
Just to give some context: huge volumes of variants of these products were used this summer in Portland. We're talking enough to reduce visibility to 10 feet over several block areas.
This was blocked by a court order, which was skirted by the local police department soliciting the irregular fed squad to do so instead. The feds were overstepping their jurisdiction in doing this outside of the very narrow perimeter of the ICE facility and fed court house, but in the current environment the proper legal channels to address this are willfully deaf.
One of the more reprehensible tactics the police bureau used was to deliberately kettle and push protestors down residential streets, delivering massive amounts of gas as they did so. This resulted in children trapped in their homes unable to escape the gas as well.
What happened in my town this summer should alarm everyone, no matter your political creed.
- KittenInABox 6y agoWhat do individuals even do when the proper legal channels are willfully deaf?
- gilrain 6y agoThey use collective action to protest, and doing so they make themselves more powerful than any individual.
- kridsdale1 6y agoHistorically, rise up in armed rebellion.
- MengerSponge 6y agoIt doesn't alarm auth-right authoritarian bootlickers. What's alarming to the rest of us is just how many of our "friends" and families actually fall into that camp.
- sershe 6y agoOk, let's burn some karma. This is a question of lesser of two evils, or ends justifying the means. Not everyone agrees with the far left (the faction doing most of the rioting); being from an ex-socialist country I quite literally, not exaggerating, think they are morally equivalent to nazis. I think the US constitution really needs a "self-protection" amendment that would remove the first amendment protection for an enumerated list of ideologies explicitly hostile to the rights that it gives (free speech itself, freedom of/from religion, due process, to some extent racial/gender equality/private property/gun rights, etc.), then make them a crime and throw anyone marching with a hammer and sickle (or swastika) in jail; but you don't need to go that far to think roughing up rioters is justified as a deterrent. Kinda like shooting a burglar in your house is a justifiable self-defense, although shooting a burglar who is running away is not.