RE: Yup. This is For Certain.
January 5, 2016 at 2:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2016 at 2:26 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(January 5, 2016 at 1:20 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Intimidation? I mean they haven't committed any violence. It's a peaceful protest, the only thing that makes it different from hippies sitting in in the redwoods is the guns.
You realize that even brandishing a gun is considered violence, right? There's nothing peaceful about taking over a building by force. The thing that is befuddling you is that there aren't any dead bodies. But that is not the sine qua non of terrorism.
(January 5, 2016 at 1:20 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Even if you accept that, the comparison to ISIS is totally silly, actually kind of offensive. ISIS enslaves and beheads people. These guys haven't done anything like that.
The article did not compare these guys to ISIS. What the article said was that if these guys weren't white, they'd be dead by now. Did you read the object of your commentary?
(January 5, 2016 at 1:20 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: That's aside from the point I was making though, which is that if the guys were Muslims or Black they would be killed. Now I can't speak for being Muslim, but Black protesters have done pretty similar armed demonstrations and not being massacred, as was implied in the first post. So I just think it's factually wrong to say that.
Wait, when have armed black protesters taken over a federal building and issued a call to insurrection?
That sounds like a load of horseshit to me. Back that up or retract it, forthwith.
