Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
Lyle...... you and I are both in agreement on just how much a "shithole" parts of Chicago are right now. That point is not in contention.

In fact..... Trump's sending of Federal agents to Chicago to help with the runaway crime should be more than welcome. Once again..... that's not the point in contention.



What peaceful protesters in Chicago (yes..... they DO exist) want is some sort of assurance that they can protest PEACEFULLY and won't be accosted by Federal agents.

Surely that's not too much to ask.



Let's be honest here.

Both sides are equally adept and persistent in pushing their respective agendas. This isn't a one-way street.



Is it out of the realm of possibility that maybe some people (blacks AND whites) want to conduct peaceful protests in Chicago because TO THEM this racial issue (ignited by George Floyd) is STILL worth protesting over??



As long as we continue denying the existence of a middle ground on BOTH sides..... we're never going to get anywhere as a society trying to heal its wounds.
Protest peacefully and then there's no reason for ANY force....they're not "protesting peacefully" nor do they intend to.

I actually feel a little bad for the PEACEFUL protesters, but yes 100% yes there are people usurping the death of George Floyd in order to attempt some Bolshevik revolution. Maybe they're LARPing I don't know if they are mentally damaged or simply inept, but that's what they're doing...they want to overthrow the system abolish the system....are those the words of people who wish to accomplish policy? NO! They're the words of people at war against America and YES there are many of those and they're well funded too.

There's a protest oooh hey there's a palate of bricks. Nobody reports on it or asks "Gee I wonder who paid for this"

There's a protest with police attending oooooh hey a trunk full of baseball bats. Nobody reports on it or asks "Gee I wonder who paid for this"

NYPD's highest ranked uniformed officer was assaulted. He had his fucking head cracked open AFTER he kneeled in "solidarity" with BLM....so yeah that crosses my red line, I'm 100% done with it. I've gone downtown in my city, actually had a nice time, talking to people putting up murals on the plywood that covers the windows of the buildings downtown, I work downtown....my city, our problems are minuscule in comparison. I live in a city where we've seen firsthand violence in the Civil Rights era, we've had little to no issue with violence in our protests and knock on wood little to no property damage as well.

I see Portland, I see Seattle, I see NYC, I see Chicago, I see St. Louis...you know the "racist cities of the former Confederacy" and I'm sorry that ain't for George Floyd, they don't know or care who George Floyd is or give a shit how he died. They want a revolution, listen to them, "defund the police, abolish the police" who is in charge then? THE MOB...no nation stands if that is allowed. NONE.

The people currently involved in these "protests" know full well they aren't "protests" and yet they're bringing children and mothers, and pregnant women to hide behind while rocks, bottles, molotov cocktails are thrown. It's not right and it needs to be ended before we wind up with a Kent State situation. But these idiots will push until that happens it's what they want.