The thing about black-on-black crime that people overlook in all this, is that people who kill people get investigated, arrested, tried, convicted and jailed. Mostly. Cops who kill people rarely progress beyond the investigation stage and pretty much never get to the jailed stage.

The point of the knee protest is not the killing per se, it's when such killing is unjustified or at least due to the want of the legally required duty of care yet goes unpunished. It's really about law and order.

Edited by Ray in Houston (26 Sep 2017 5.24pm)

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Exactly. Trump purposefully brought this issue back from the dead in Alabama of all places, with inflammatory language and suggestions of firing, specifically because of how he could leverage the racial aspect with his populist base. He's done this several times in his presidency. It's effective as you see with those more susceptible to this here. 'Identity politics' isn't only something that applies to the left. This is dog whistle politics of the highest order.

Of course none of that matters to the usual suspects , nor has anyone had anything to say about one of his surrogates saying that the players are lucky not to get shot in the head for what they're doing. It's all just about how it's 'not appropriate' for the players to do this. Give me a break.

I remember the thread. No misrepresenting going on here. You're bang to rights.

Sometimes the communists are nicer than the socialists.

But yeah....the far left are human nature denialists who end up having to force people to behave how they think they should....It never ends well...the ends never justify the means because we never reach the ends.

The far right are similar.....But we aren't on here arguing with the far right....not saying they are all far left though.

I suppose it's more an authoritarian/libertarian thing.

Edited by Stirlingsays (26 Sep 2017 5.45pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Unfortunately your hair trigger reaction to the left and shrug to anything on the right is very obvious to see. You just don't recognise it. It's not about 'point it out I'll I'll tell you' if anything that just proves your lack of concern in one direction. But like I said who cares, this is the monkey on your back.

I spotted your post the other day about how you're repeatedly trying to convince your partner to give up the BBC. I mean what a sad state of affairs. Life isn't about being the loudest voice in the room and trying to convince others into fringe ways of living and adhering to your outlook. You're interested in freedoms certainly, your own.

Edited by wordup (26 Sep 2017 5.55pm)

First in line for the purges usually, the nice or decent communists. Lennin, Mao, Stalin - first thing they do is get rid of them.

Actually, first thing they usually do is purge the Anarchists, then the nice and principled Communists. You can't establish a totalitarian authoritarian regime with people who might be interested in something other than power.

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