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Ferguson protesters shut down malls, trains on Black Friday

Were you around in the 60's? I recall the very same thing happening. Some people believe they need to tear stuff down and burn it to the ground before anything tangible in their favor happens. They think that is the only way to be heard, it worked in the 60's.
Why is it always black people doing it? What's that about?
 
Yet the dead thug wasn't dead when he left the car was he?
And the dead thug you refer to went for the gun because he didn't have one didn't he?

Which is why the cowardly cop got out of his car and unloaded his gun on a gun-less man right US Conservative?
All very legal under the Missouri law also .

:lamo
 
Yet the dead thug wasn't dead when he left the car was he?
And the dead thug you refer to went for the gun because he didn't have one didn't he?

Which is why the cowardly cop got out of his car and unloaded his [Weapon of Mass Destruction] on a gun-less man right US Conservative?
All very legal under the Missouri law also .
That's a little more accurate for you.

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Physical evidence doesn't lie and can't be accused of bias, like racism. In this case the physical evidence lines up with Wilson's story.
 
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Ferguson protesters shut down malls, trains on Black Friday | Fox News

Good, this is the next level to raise awareness of how cops have become lawless and brutal themselves.

Then, a handful of around 15 protesters were arrested, so much for freedom to assemble, now they're trampling on constitutional rights, trying to tamp down peaceful demonstrations, how despicable.

There is a freedom to assemble on public land, not private property. Protest on the street, you're good. Protest in a Mall, you're in jail.
 
Ferguson protesters shut down malls, trains on Black Friday | Fox News

Good, this is the next level to raise awareness of how cops have become lawless and brutal themselves.

Then, a handful of around 15 protesters were arrested, so much for freedom to assemble, now they're trampling on constitutional rights, trying to tamp down peaceful demonstrations, how despicable.

These malls, I would assume, are privately owned.

If these protestors are so pissed off at the cops, then demonstrate outside of police stations or municipal buildings.

These people that are shopping or trying to take the train are almost entirely made up of people that had nothing whatsoever to do with the shooting...why bother them? Public awareness? Please - almost every American has heard about Ferguson ad naseum.

Imo, mostly what these protests are doing is pissing off normal, mostly decent people who just want to get on with their lives. Of course, the shoppers won't say that aloud because it's not PC.


And (this is for the protestors) save the nonsense about this is a protest about police brutality...this is (IMO) about poverty and racism...and we have ALL heard it ALL before. The former won't be helped AT ALL by disrupting private enterprise and the latter won't be helped by whining about it all the time.
You want less poverty? Get the government out of the evonomy as much as possible. And look to yourselves for wealth and prosperity, not others. IMO, America owes you basic rights, enough food/shelter/clothing to survive and basic medical/dental care. You want more, get it yourselves.
You want less racism? Stop going on and on and on and on about it, stop self segregating yourselves, start fully integrating into 'white' society (which I realize is not easy) and eventually people will stop thinking of others as a different race and just think of them as a different person. Whining about is getting you nowhere.

But whatever you do, protest those you are mad at - cops and government. Yelling at and disrupting people who have other things to do is not helping your cause...it's hurting it.

20 years ago, I was very sympathetic to the protests about racism and poverty of 'black' Americans. Now, I am starting to get sick of it.
 
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Why is it always black people doing it? What's that about?

I've often wondered about that too. I've wondered why, no matter what city you are in, MLK Drive (or road, street, whatever) is the armpit of the area. Do hey find the worst part of town and rename the road or does the area go to crap because of the name?
 
Ferguson protesters shut down malls, trains on Black Friday
Which is wrong.


See how they're working things now, instead of burning, they're legally protesting, cops are arresting and violating people's first amendment rights,
Not only were you wrong above you continue the hackery with a false statement. Figures.


If I am a protester, and I walk in front of you on public property, namely a street or avenue, and say to you I am protesting the legal system, and I briefly make you stop and listen to me, I am not violating your rights. If you see me protesting on that avenue or street, and you choose not to go to the train entrance or a business because you want to avoid me, that is your prerogative, you don't have to face me if you do not want to, that is your right.
If you briefly stop them you are impeding them, you are acting illegally.
If you are on private property without permission you are acting illegally.

You believe protests should be illegal, and cops have the right to gun down anybody they perceive as a threat to them.
:doh
Brown was a threat.
 
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There is no constitutional right to chain doors shut, trespass on private property or block traffic. If these folks want to protest public policy then do so in the proper public spaces. Demanding the right of thugs to forcefully loot, rob and assault without allowing the right of self defense is not going to happen. Perhaps picking Brown as the "poster child" for their movement should be examined for what it is. These morons are not fooling many - they simply want to "protest" where others provide them climate controlled comfort because braving the elements is too much for most of these sissies.
 
Was the policeman's life still in danger when Brown got out of the car and walked away?
Your question is dishonest.
He wasn't shot walking away from the Officer. He was shot advancing on the Officer.


I'd call unloading your gun on a petty criminal who was unarmed pathetic--wouldn't you Canada John ?
Not in this case as he had already established himself as a threat prior to charging the Officer.


Yet the dead thug wasn't dead when he left the car was he?
And? Irrelevant.


And the dead thug you refer to went for the gun because he didn't have one didn't he?
Holy ****! You are trying to justify the thug taking an Officer's firearm. :doh
He shouldn't even be thinking it let alone reaching for it.


Which is why the cowardly cop got out of his car and unloaded his gun on a gun-less man right US Conservative?
Another dishonest presentation.
 
I can see your confusion, or delusion concerning protests and cops who kill citizens.

You believe protests should be illegal, and cops have the right to gun down anybody they perceive as a threat to them.

Were you around in the 60's to see how the police state treated protesters? Sometimes extreme measures are taken by some protesters to amplify the meaning of the thing they're protesting for. Do you really believe other people would stand up and take notice if extreme measures weren't taken? I believe protesters would likely be ignored if they didn't do something to garner more attention.

Being arrested for such, chaining yourself to a door, probably falls under disorderly conduct, probably a $100 fine, a small price for a point to be given and taken well. Resisting arrest might be a $200 fine, again, a small price for asserting an opinion and someone taking the point of the demonstration well. Isn't that better than setting things on fire? It's a peaceful protest.

Did Brown have a right to violently attack Wilson and attempt to take his service weapon? Is there no right of self defense when violent thugs decide to attack folks and take what they want?
 
Shutting down private property and legal commerce licensed in a community is illegal and not an expression of first amendment rights - do you actually know what the first amendment is about? You don't support freedom of expression, unless it's your expression alone - you actually support freedom from police so you can do whatever the **** you want whenever you want whomever else has to suffer a lack of freedom in the process. You want to exercise your freedom of expression, find a hill in a park and rant and rage against the moon all you want - no one will hassle you.

Good morning, CJ. :2wave:

Chaining the doors shut on a building so people cannot enter or leave? What is that supposed to accomplish? What if someone has a heart attack in the building? If help isn't allowed to enter and the person dies, is that murder? Heart attacks can happen to anyone - they are not race specific. Don't these protestors realize how much they harm their cause in public opinion? It's a turn-off to anyone who may have been sympathetic prior to this. Stupidity reigns! :thumbdown:
 
Did Brown have a right to violently attack Wilson and attempt to take his service weapon? Is there no right of self defense when violent thugs decide to attack folks and take what they want?

That certainly is what it seems like defenders of MB are saying doesn't it....
 
Are you not in favor of a person's constitutional rights? I think your sense of right v wrong is severely flawed, now, say something about the protesters shutting down the malls, you know, the topic of the thread?

Oh the irony.
 
Since your location is Canada, I can't even begin to discuss American Constitutional rights vs Canadian rights. Please read our first amendment so as to derive a gist of what Americans are allowed to do.

So now you're narrowing the 1st to only certain groups of people? After all CJ's message is coming through this web site that is based in the US.
 
So is modern liberal your new phrase Canada John?
And then directly tell me that I believe someone else is to blame for the consequences of my actions!
Which is a blatant irrational lie that even you must have had a hard time typing.

I'm glad to hear that you don't think the cowardly policeman's life was in danger when Brown left the car though .

Fantasize in your own mind what I posted if that makes you somehow feel better.
 
Good morning, CJ. :2wave:

Chaining the doors shut on a building so people cannot enter or leave? What is that supposed to accomplish? What if someone has a heart attack in the building? If help isn't allowed to enter and the person dies, is that murder? Heart attacks can happen to anyone - they are not race specific. Don't these protestors realize how much they harm their cause in public opinion? It's a turn-off to anyone who may have been sympathetic prior to this. Stupidity reigns! :thumbdown:

Good morning Lady P,

And oh no, if anything went wrong with their illegal and stupid actions, it would be someone else's fault for sure. The poor babies were just exercising their first amendment rights in support of the little angel, Michael Brown. :roll:
 
Ferguson protesters shut down malls, trains on Black Friday | Fox News

Good, this is the next level to raise awareness of how cops have become lawless and brutal themselves.

Then, a handful of around 15 protesters were arrested, so much for freedom to assemble, now they're trampling on constitutional rights, trying to tamp down peaceful demonstrations, how despicable.

Would you support such actions when a police officer is shot?

Shutting down a mall, stopping trains/public transportation is not exactly peaceful protest. If I was a business owner I would sue in civil court those who disrupted my business.
 
This is rich coming from a second amendment hater. But not surprising.

Not only that, but someone who called the Bundy Ranch demonstrator rebels; they should be tried for treason.
 
The legal - justice system is broken, this is basically why these protests are ongoing. People want to see some changes made.

Much like the riots of the 1960's, people are making a statement now, they're fed up with the biased legal system, the establishment.

And, to date, none of these protestatards have said what changes they want.
 
They're going to raise awareness of how stupid the protestors are.

It would be interesting if someone researched the protesters to see how much they really know about the case. I would speculate that most have not read the GJ reports.
They know only what some talking head told them.
 
When does a Black adult become an adult Kal?
What measure of age or "looks" should we be using?
18 for going in the service or 21 for buying alcohol and pot where it's legal?

Don't know what country you live in but last I knew in the US a person is considered an adult at the age of 18. Doesn't matter if the person is black, white, Arab or any other race out there. I do think that its cute that so many that protest his shooting loves to imply that he was just a kid and find all kinds of ways to imply that. Such as your rhetoric here in questioning when a person is considered an adult.

How about 12-YO boys with toy guns?
Do they look adult because of the long braids so a rookie cop can shoot him while the veteran cop stays in the car?

If you're referring to that kid that was shot by the cop because the kid had a toy gun and when told to raise his hands and instead went for the gun...kid was an idiot. A Darwin Award type idiot. When a cop has a gun on trained in your direction the last thing you do is go for something that looks like a gun. And if I recall correctly that toy gun had had the orange tip taken off of it and as such looked real.

Since you like to compare with Canada John in open forum, his word for this type of action by cops is "pathetic" .

So? That's his opinion and he's entitled to it. I have no problem with people voicing their opinions. I do have a problem with mobs that burn stores, cars, interfere with private property businesses all because a punk decided that it'd be a fine idea to rob a store and hit a cop and go for that same cops gun. The people that support that idiot are imo idiots themselves for supporting that thug.

What's REALLY stupid about all this is that they are doing all this crap to people that not only do not have a say in how cops conduct their business and how the courts are but have also done absolutely freaking NOTHING to them in any way shape or form. If you're mad at someone you don't go after the 2 year old sitting next to the person that you're mad at. You go after the person that you're mad at.
 
Ferguson protesters shut down malls, trains on Black Friday | Fox News

Good, this is the next level to raise awareness of how cops have become lawless and brutal themselves.

Then, a handful of around 15 protesters were arrested, so much for freedom to assemble, now they're trampling on constitutional rights, trying to tamp down peaceful demonstrations, how despicable.

You missed the point and probably due to lack of knowledge in who these groups behind the protesting are. They are social justice and left-wing activists which include Occupy members are using the Ferguson's grand jury's decision to not indict officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown to condemn capitalism.

Like Obama's buddy Rahm Emanuel, current mayor of Chicago once stated "never let a good crisis go to waste", these activist groups are squeezing it for all they can get.

First you had the activists like the Black Panthers, ambulance chasers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and Nation of Islam ratcheting up the violence in the name of "social justice" attacking our institution of law enforcement using race baiting. Now you have leftist groups doing the same only this time the institution they are trying to bring down is Capitalism.

These people were protesting on private property in mob mentality laying down on store floors keeping people from doing their shopping. They all deserved to be hauled away.
 
Ferguson protesters shut down malls, trains on Black Friday | Fox News

Good, this is the next level to raise awareness of how cops have become lawless and brutal themselves.

Then, a handful of around 15 protesters were arrested, so much for freedom to assemble, now they're trampling on constitutional rights, trying to tamp down peaceful demonstrations, how despicable.

Freedom to assemble doesn't mean being able to break the law, at least to rational people. Closing malls, stopping the flow of traffic, no big deal. Just like attacking a police officer I guess.

Peaceful demonstrations? :2rofll:

Protests continued in Ferguson during the night leading to the arrests of 15 people for disturbing the peace and impeding flow of traffic. Two others were arrested with resisting arrest and the other with assault.

"We want to really let the world know that it is no longer business as usual," Chenjerai Kumanyika, an assistant professor at Clemson University in South Carolina, said at a rally at a Wal-Mart in Manchester, another St. Louis suburb.

The assistant professor should have probably waited until becoming a full professor to do something like this; you know, the tenure thing.

Ferguson protests continue leading to mall closures, arrests | Fox News
 
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