Posted on 04/17/2024 1:27:30 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Sen. Tom Cotton on Tuesday doubled down on comments urging people delayed by traffic stemming from pro-Palestinian demonstrations to "forcibly remove" some protesters who are blocking streets.
"Absolutely, I support people, if they’re blocked by traffic, by pro-Hamas vigilantes in the street, they should get out of their cars, they should move them to the side of the road, and they should let traffic continue," Cotton, R-Ark., told NBC News on Tuesday.
Asked whether he was calling for violence against protesters, Cotton said he wasn't.
"I’m saying that if people are trying to get to work or pick up their kids from school or take a sick kid to the doctor and you have pro-Hamas vigilantes blocking the streets, they should get out and move those people off the streets," Cotton said. “The police will get there eventually. But a lot of damage will be done in the meantime."......
“If something like this happened in Arkansas, on a bridge there, let’s just say I think there’d be a lot of very wet criminals that have been tossed overboard — not by law enforcement, but by the people whose road they’re blocking,” Cotton said.
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On this issue, I agree fully with Senator Tom Cotton. Nobody has the right to detain me - their blocking of roads constitutes kidnapping and false imprisonment. They deserve to be run over.
That’s right, the ruling class corrupt have they’re hired muscle and hired guns to protect them. The cops are de facto all the king’s men.
They know who butters their bread.
I like it.
What!I ran someone over.
I thought I hit a smart car or a racoon.
I wouldn't even slow down.
And that is the point, really, to cow normal people into tolerating outrages.
They are terrorists. They should be treated like terrorists.
It is a shame that we no longer have any FedMob agencies that deal with terrorists.
These people are committing felony abduction and yet no one has been charged.
I thought no one was above the law.
That is not free speech. Anyone blocking traffic ANYWHERE should be
arrested, fined and possibly jailed immediately!
An elderly woman was arrested for silently praying outside an AC.
But that’s another story. Depends on who, what, where, bias politics.
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