Posted on 06/04/2024 6:09:37 PM PDT by wastedyears
The article you linked was posted day-of, in 2004, as it was happening.................
That’s funny
People become iconic symbols for things.
For blacks it was George Floyd, a guy using counterfeit money, high on drugs, resisting arrest, a big dude that’s strong, and with a mile long rap sheet to include assaults...
But the difference is that one side gets a lot of sympathy from a MSM and Hollywood, one side is willing to organize around these events and people and protest, with major main stream politicians jumping on board. One side gets police officers that technically did nothing wrong thrown in jail and has the FBI go on a witch hunt...
I do not doubt what you say one bit.
it was fun going through all 441 comments, a few are still here
Not quite as much fun as the guy you stole a tank and took it down the San Diego freeway...
I started on Free Republic back in 2004... I’m still here. Albeit, with a different ‘handle’, as I made a cardinal sin and chastised Ronald Reagan for {REDACTED REASONS}, and that account got banned.
I’m still here.
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“I do not doubt what you say one bit.”
As you say many of things have more than one side.
I read a detailed article about this and put things in a different light.
This guy had moved to Granby and felt dissed because he wasn’t accepted right away .
Small towns are different .
Outsiders are looked at different until locals going through spending time and doing things, that can take years.
I think some in our side put him up as an anti govt hero; that doesn’t seem accurate.
He was obviously a nut job as judged by what he did.
If I moved to a small town and people didn’t accept me, I would simply leave!
Not armor up a bulldozer and try to destroy the town !
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