Zalatix
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Back in 2012 I "ranted" about the violence of the police and the right wing, from cops beating and arresting Occupy protesters to Tea Partiers punching people, bringing firearms to brandish in public, bullying liberals and even incidents of chasing them out of parks all the way up on their own home driveways. I got in trouble for merely saying that Democrats needed to learn how to defend themselves from the ongoing and coming waves of violence that were coming their way.
Somehow, talking about liberals getting armed was evil, but the growth of right wing armed militias screaming about armed rebellion was somehow okay.
Since then?
Police have escalated to killing legions of unarmed black people. And almost always get away with it. (In comparison: cops in Japan and Britain literally NEVER kill unarmed people, and they're doing just fine.)
Black Americans shot dead by police are twice as likely to be unarmed as white counterparts | The Independent
https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab...t-two-years-without-fatally-shooting-someone/
In contrast, white people point guns at cops all the time and aren't killed
https://blavity.com/11-times-police-successfully-disarmed-white-people-without-killing-anyone/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-it-away-sheriff-says/?utm_term=.506b3f054bd4
White Man in California Shoots at Cops With Gun, Gets Shot With Beanbags and Arrested | Complex
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/new...two-fake-guns-two-different-results/80758152/
Including two white people who walked into a police station, ARMED, and were arrested but didn't die.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...6/dearborn-police-station-gun-rifle/97544076/
Right wing militias have utterly exploded in number and their militancy has gone all but unchecked.
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016...-militia-groups-grew-more-one-third-last-year
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/265062-militia-movement-growing-at-rapid-rate
Cliven Bundy and his rebel army pointed actual sniper rifles at FBI agents in the intent to gun them down over land that he refused to pay his grazing fees on. They even talked about using women as human shields. Cliven Bundy also talked about how slavery was better for blacks than welfare. Then his army started harassing drivers coming through on public roads.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjmacn...e-they-now-the-bundy-supporters/#7e7babcc2b3e
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/0...-up-at-the-front-during-bundy-ranch-standoff/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjmacn...he-cliven-bundy-standoff-part-2/#2b0ca5bf4eb7
Bundy's relatives and buddies went and occupied Federal buildings in Oregon, and were acquitted for this:
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/10/oregon_standoff_defendants_fou.html
Then came Trump. Trump supporters attacked peaceful opponents at their rallies, even going so far as to sucker punch one guy and shove around a black woman. Even the ultra right wing Red State website pointed out the fact that Trump supporters started this cycle of political violence:
redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/06/06/trump-supporters-pepper-spray-non-violent-protesters-video/
Donald Trump endorsed violence against nonviolent people for speaking out against him at his rallies (so much for free speech):
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...rly-killed-after-trump-says-take-him-out-reno
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/article147677454.html
Trump has a history of doing this:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-protester-violence-20160311-story.html
Donald Trump admits his supporters are violent and crazy - this source again being the far right Red State website, not a "biased" liberal snowflake rag:
http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2016/12/17/trump-says-knows-supporters-vicious-nasty/
Since the Trump election:
Republican Congressmen defend white supremacist terrorism, saying we "cannot prevent it" and it's somehow "different" from Islamist terrorism:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/sean-duffy-white-terrorism-cnntv/
To date no Conservative pundit or Congressman (or woman) has publicly condemned white supremacist terrorism in America. All they've done is make excuses.
And pro-Trump political violence is still ongoing:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch...ed-planning-violence-shooting-uw-milo-protest
(Continued, second post, due to posting size limits)
Somehow, talking about liberals getting armed was evil, but the growth of right wing armed militias screaming about armed rebellion was somehow okay.
Since then?
Police have escalated to killing legions of unarmed black people. And almost always get away with it. (In comparison: cops in Japan and Britain literally NEVER kill unarmed people, and they're doing just fine.)
Black Americans shot dead by police are twice as likely to be unarmed as white counterparts | The Independent
https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab...t-two-years-without-fatally-shooting-someone/
In contrast, white people point guns at cops all the time and aren't killed
https://blavity.com/11-times-police-successfully-disarmed-white-people-without-killing-anyone/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-it-away-sheriff-says/?utm_term=.506b3f054bd4
White Man in California Shoots at Cops With Gun, Gets Shot With Beanbags and Arrested | Complex
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/new...two-fake-guns-two-different-results/80758152/
Including two white people who walked into a police station, ARMED, and were arrested but didn't die.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...6/dearborn-police-station-gun-rifle/97544076/
Right wing militias have utterly exploded in number and their militancy has gone all but unchecked.
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016...-militia-groups-grew-more-one-third-last-year
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/265062-militia-movement-growing-at-rapid-rate
Cliven Bundy and his rebel army pointed actual sniper rifles at FBI agents in the intent to gun them down over land that he refused to pay his grazing fees on. They even talked about using women as human shields. Cliven Bundy also talked about how slavery was better for blacks than welfare. Then his army started harassing drivers coming through on public roads.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjmacn...e-they-now-the-bundy-supporters/#7e7babcc2b3e
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/0...-up-at-the-front-during-bundy-ranch-standoff/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjmacn...he-cliven-bundy-standoff-part-2/#2b0ca5bf4eb7
Bundy's relatives and buddies went and occupied Federal buildings in Oregon, and were acquitted for this:
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/10/oregon_standoff_defendants_fou.html
Then came Trump. Trump supporters attacked peaceful opponents at their rallies, even going so far as to sucker punch one guy and shove around a black woman. Even the ultra right wing Red State website pointed out the fact that Trump supporters started this cycle of political violence:
redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/06/06/trump-supporters-pepper-spray-non-violent-protesters-video/
Donald Trump endorsed violence against nonviolent people for speaking out against him at his rallies (so much for free speech):
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...rly-killed-after-trump-says-take-him-out-reno
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/article147677454.html
Trump has a history of doing this:
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-protester-violence-20160311-story.html
Donald Trump admits his supporters are violent and crazy - this source again being the far right Red State website, not a "biased" liberal snowflake rag:
http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2016/12/17/trump-says-knows-supporters-vicious-nasty/
Since the Trump election:
Republican Congressmen defend white supremacist terrorism, saying we "cannot prevent it" and it's somehow "different" from Islamist terrorism:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/sean-duffy-white-terrorism-cnntv/
To date no Conservative pundit or Congressman (or woman) has publicly condemned white supremacist terrorism in America. All they've done is make excuses.
And pro-Trump political violence is still ongoing:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch...ed-planning-violence-shooting-uw-milo-protest
(Continued, second post, due to posting size limits)