Posted on 08/22/2020 6:16:36 PM PDT by simpson96
> As a result, more than 20 percent of Black Tennesseans are unable to vote.
If this story were about some other community, more than 20% of community members being convicted felons might indicate some sort of cultural problem within that community.
she writes for Mother Jones, a Marxist publication that had ties to the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies and other leftist organizations.
Destroying MY property or ANY property tht doesn’t belong to YOU isn’t ‘Free Speech”.
It is outright vandalism & destruction.
IF I destroyed YOUR items, you would be incensed.
One of the worst outcomes of the civil rights movement was the acceptance of an undifferentiated “right to protest”.
There is no such right.
This is confected out of two actual rights - the right to speak freely, and the right to peaceably assemble IN ORDER TO petition the government for redress of grievances.
It is perfectly obvious that showing up with helmets, face shields or gas masks, body armor, and bats does not contemplate peaceable assembly.
And there is no sense in which breaking windows and setting fires constitute petition in any rational sense.
This is open insurrection, and it will get worse until it is stopped. The fact that the insurrectionists have governmental and military support is turning insurrection into revolution - and that means, all bets are off.
Nashville’s beautiful Legislative Plaza, where these heathens have been camping, has many water hook-ups for fire hoses. They haven’t been put to use spraying the trash off.
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