I like a good protest - I always have.
At university in the 1970s I marched along in Wellington against the Vietnam War and against Apartheid in the early 1980s.
A couple of years ago I marched along Queen Street in protest against the GCSB bill.
The ability to Protest is one of the good things about our democracy and the democracies of many other countries. Of course it's best if this is done legally, sensibly and that others with different agendas don't take over and turn the protests into riots.
This is what's happening in the USA at present. Legitimate protest is, as usual, over there, morphing into civil unrest, riots and crime like the LA Riots of 1965 and 1992.
The big orange idiot isn't doing anything sensible to deflect these and guarantee safety though.
He might as well be part of the extreme elements who are causing the problems. Instead of doing the presidential thing and showing responsible leadership he's chosen to inflame the situation by advocating use of the military against civilians.
President Donald Trump, declaring himself a "president of law and order" has threatened to deploy the military to cities where, he said, governors and local officials have "failed to take necessary action" to end civil unrest.- STUFF 2 June 2020
"These are not acts of peaceful protest," Trump declared during a brief speech in the White House Rose Garden, referring to the demonstrations and sometimes violent acts that have broken out in dozens of major cities. "These are acts of domestic terror."
Trump said he was dispatching "thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers" to end civil unrest.
Even as he declared himself an ally of legitimate protestors, police fired tear gas into peaceful crowds near the White House and advanced on horseback. Reporters in the Rose Garden could hear booms in the background.
The guy is out of control. He blusters and rants behind his protectors and gates - at one stage hiding in the secure vault at The White House. What a turkey. He wants to appear to be a strong leader - a 'wartime president' but shoots himself in the foot every time (the only way he would get a war injury). He's behaving like that fool President Hoover did in 1932 when he sent in troops against the veterans (see my earlier post).
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As I said at the beginning "I like a good protest - I always have" but they have to be for the correct cause and also to be relevant. The protests in New Zealand yesterday in support of the George Floyd 'I CAN'T BREATH' movement don't really make sense. They are out of context to this country. This of course didn't stop a lot of people taking part pushing their own, and sometimes silly agendas.
GENOCIDE!
Really?
2 comments:
It takes a lot for ordinary folk to get out and protest.
I see alarm bells when there is rioting.
Do remember that old game Civilization.
In that game when you didn't do it right the people rioted.
That comment by Robert is a lesson in the lack of logic and how silly ideas can be made to seem logical, even though they are just a list of unconnected statements.
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