Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.
Thankfully it seems like no one said this yet, so just inb4:
She was not stupid, nor useless or played into their hand. Be inspired and take example. Being arrested for a little bit is not that big of a price to pay for resisting tyranny.
More importantly, without blindly believing it will automatically come true, at least put the scenario where you win into your heads. Going to prison for what’s right can actually be liberating, if you think about it. And people can be taken out of prison too, together with all those that were imprisoned for getting or giving an abortion, those that immigrated “illegally” but spent decades contributing to the US’s society and economy, those that only had a bunch of weed on them, etc. Maybe even the whole “for-profit prison” concept may finally come to an end. Imagine that!
USA is cooked, man. It’s no longer a free country. Party of no censorship and free speech, yeah right.
If you aren’t a rich white man it was never free. Most of us are just more adjacent to poverty(increase cost of food and housing) and injustice(ice raids in the suburbs) because we’re in an economic valley. IMO If/ win the employment number recover the median voter will forget all about this
Meh. This was the local police. They wanted the group off the road, and the group wouldn’t move. I don’t really have a problem with this. These protests that block traffic and stuff hurt the wrong people. The guy or girl driving wherever shouldn’t be the target. Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.
Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.
Economies utilize roads. Average Joe driving to work is engaging in commerce and/or production.
And the boss will take it out of average Joe’s payif he is hourly. If he is salary he will have to make up the lost time. The company will feel no pain at all.
Yeah, nah. Protests are only effective if they’re disruptive
Yes, but disruptive to who. I am saying this was disruptive to people who have no power to change anything. Go block the access point to a major commercial point of entry or something. That will at least hurt the trucking company because they have to pay the drivers either way.
A protest with no inconvenience is a parade, not a protest.
Yes, but who you inconvenience matters. Do it to the right people.
It appeared to me that she was on the sidewalk?? How you gonna say she was blocking the road when she’s on the sidewalk? Isn’t that where people are supposed to be?
What it said was that she was leading the protest, and both her and others had refused to leave the road when ordered. Likely this was by one or two cops. When they had to call more out, they arrested the people who had refused the order. At that point she was on the sidewalk, but they knew who she was.
She was obstructing stupidity. Now they can be as stupid as they want.
To paraphrase Brennan Lee Mulligan, paraphrasing Michel Foucault, “Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army.”
How paraphrased are we talking, here? Because I’m pretty sure laws like “Don’t murder” and “Don’t rape” and the ability to punish people who break those laws aren’t just an expression of one socio-economic ethnic group maintaining violent occupation over another.
Except even “don’t murder” and “don’t rape” isn’t equally applied to all citizen. In the US, you got the orange man as the prime example. Here in Canada, you just gotta look at how first nations victims are more often than not left to fend for themselves, while Mounties will ignore them if the case involves any type of effort.
I remember watching a video like this but it was on Reddit and it was top post. It was also happening in Moscow, not the USA.
“The country of freedom” accuses the other country of their censorship in media, but then it starts doing the same things.
Freedom my ass I say
For the lazy ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
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Fight back soon?
What do you think this lady was doing? What exactly do you suggest people do?
Be armed and not let police haul fellow protesters off. These half measures are nothing but performative garbage.
You’re telling me that you would personally get into a shootout with law enforcement if they tried to arrest a fellow protester?
It’s easy to talk big from behind a keyboard.
Not at all what I was getting at but you’ve proven that you aren’t united enough to stand against this tyranny and are still okay with hanging each other out to dry as long as you get to go home safe and sound. Agree with them or not but the Bundy standoff is a prime modern example of armed civilians uniting and running off law enforcement. Cowards are just speed bumps on the road to fascism. Live free or die trying.
By “the Bundy standoff,” I assume you mean the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by Ammon Bundy and his followers? The event that law enforcement took an extremely hands-off approach to because everyone involved was white, and still ended up with one of the participants dead?
If the people who took part in that occupation had been anything other than rich, white, and strongly religious, they would have had tanks rolling in to clear them out.
If you’re talking about the other Bundy standoff, where Ammon’s father Cliven decided he didn’t want to pay to graze his cattle on public lands, lost every court case, and prevented the government from seizing his cattle by showing up with an armed militia… I don’t think a rich white sovereign citizen faces the same level of consequences from their actions as everyone else does.
Good slaves like yourself know your place.
What a shithole country.
🎵 In the laaaand of the unfree… And the home of the depraved.🎵
Land of the fee, and the home of the slave.
Good American slaves make a little noise, get gassed and go home. Good for nothing.
Land of the free1, home of the brave
- Terms and conditions apply
Land of the free
Whoever told you that is your enemy
That whole ass record goes exactly as hard today as it did on release.
(Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut, shit rips)
*Land of the Thief, home of the Slave
–Brother Ali
Reporting Team Watches Women Kidnapped In Broad Daylight, Openly Wonders why Nobody Trusts Journalists
I don’t understand. ELI5?
He suggests the journalists should protect the girl from the police, get shot and die in order for him to trust journalists.
Yes, this is my stance. Anyone who would watch this happen and not intervene is a coward. If anyone reading this is tempted to interpret these words as sarcasm, you are misinterpreting me.
edit* The number of cowards downvoting this post is why I don’t expect to survive this regime. Piss off.
WW3 will have USA, Russia, China fighting on the same side.
Mark My Words
And they are fighting who exactly? World wars became world wars because the world’s superpowers were fighting each other.
I really don’t think this is correct. The US and China are at odds geopolitically, they have conflicting interests. Why would they join forces?
If this had happened in Venezuela in last couple of days the media would be loosing it’s shit. The image of that arrest would be immortalized and treated like the Saigon pistol execution.
Immediately following the attack, bombing and kidnapping of Maduro, journalists were rounded up around the country.
Our media isn’t making a stink about it because they are complicit in the manufacturing of a narrative here and you can’t have people in Venezuela contradicting that narrative.
If you ain’t protesting armed expect this. I doubt police want to commit suicide by protester.
You’re right, police officers don’t want to die from protestors. That’s why they wear body armor and have armored vehicles, and the National Guard gets deployed if those aren’t enough.
If you pull a gun on a police officer while they’re arresting someone, it’s very likely that you and everyone behind you in the line of fire are going to get shot, repeatedly.
I guess there’s no reason for anyone to protest then. They’ll ignore you or kill you. Why bother with performative bullshit that’ll bear nothing?
Land of the Free
