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I’m assuming you are referring to BLM and those who support them. I don’t know of anyone who supported the destruction of entire city centers. One person conv
by syki 5y ago
I’m assuming you are referring to BLM and those who support them. I don’t know of anyone who supported the destruction of entire city centers. One person convicted of burning a building down in Minneapolis was not from Minneapolis and was a right wing supporter. I do know that people felt that police abuses had gone too far and with impunity. In places like Minneapolis police no longer had the consent of the governed. Quoting the Declaration of Independence:
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Perhaps you view the protestors as terrorists but I suggest this is a twisting of that term. I do not embrace a domestic office of terrorism for the same reason that I oppose the Department of Homeland security. We Americans have become a divided people wallowing in fear of those fellow countryman who adhere to the wrong ideology. It is too easy for a demagogue to usurp the normal functioning of the law enforcement to go after “domestic terrorism”. Too many people will willingly support the infringement of the rights of those with the wrong ideology.
One thing we should all agree with is that major police reforms are badly needed.