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And MLK's way actually worked. Ghandi's way did too. Get the people's sympathy and you win the argument. Make people hate you, you've lost the argument. All they are doing is turning people away from their cause.
Dr. King confronted injustice & correctly identified its threat wherever it exists:
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...Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative. ...
Why do you think the family got $6 million. Do you not think that filing a false report is wrong?
Cops are caught lying all the time. The tragedy in the Rice case is that the force hired an emotionally incompetent.
One that had been caught lying in the past. So he lied in his first chance to be an officer. He was forced out for being unable to handle being a police officer. He freaks out and shoots a kid and then lies about it.......and what is done to him? Nothing. The taxpayers had to pay out $6 million though.
The prosecutor initially lied to the public. Is that O.K. also? The prosecutor did not do his job (it's in the link). Is that O.K?
I did not know all that about the Tamir Rice case. It's horrible, and definitely wrong. If his superiors at the police academy felt he was too emotionally immature to be a cop, why did they allow him to graduate? Maybe they should have a nationwide database on that stuff so he couldn't go to different locations and keep applying.
I wonder if a grand jury's refusal to indict makes it impossible to present it to another grand jury. It wasn't a trial, so it shouldn't be double jeopardy.
Nope - I mean a life lost is always sad but I don't have a problem with what the conceal carry guy did to protect himself. If you are getting beat up, you have the right to defend yourself.
Now what went down in Milwaukee the last 2 days, well, that is a totally different situation. You reportedly have people taking beatings just for being the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time.
It's raining in Chicago today and I've been hoping that it rains up in Milwaukee tonight so things cool down and the violence is over.
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This guy is getting out...
