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How do poorer people lack a voice in local government? It seems to me their issue is that they want to extend their control over local affairs far beyond what
by mc-lovin 13y ago
How do poorer people lack a voice in local government? It seems to me their issue is that they want to extend their control over local affairs far beyond what is their right. It is simply not the right of local residents to determine what kind of person gets to live in that neighborhood. This was a block "party" to make a very specific kind of person feel unwelcome. And then they think of themselves as oppressed when the police break it up.
- markdown 13y ago> How do poorer people lack a voice in local government? ... And then they think of themselves as oppressed when the police break it up. Police breaking up a non-violent protest of only 40 people... yes, that's the definition of oppression. I don't like what you have to say so I'll shut you up is oppression. Have you ever read your constitution? These people are douchebags, but what they were doing should not have been stopped.
- mc-lovin 13y agoI agree with you about the right to protest. I wasn't aware that was an issue: pretty sure that's not what the person I was replying to was talking about. Certainly none of the articles on the issue claimed that the police were acting outside the law. Maybe the guy beating a pinata with a pole was the issue, I don't know.
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- jopof 13y agoDepends who is cleaning the area -- government, or shop owners?