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Another great Moral Mondays video - I think from 7/8 (Original Post) Triana Jul 2013 OP
Putting my mind past the arrests and such redixdoragon Jul 2013 #1
There are still a lot of sane people.... Triana Jul 2013 #2
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That's been my question. Triana Jul 2013 #4
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k/r nt limpyhobbler Jul 2013 #6

redixdoragon

(156 posts)
1. Putting my mind past the arrests and such
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 08:59 PM
Jul 2013

It takes videos like this to give me hope in humanity, and hope in American society in gneeral.

 

Triana

(22,666 posts)
2. There are still a lot of sane people....
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 09:57 PM
Jul 2013

they just haven't figured out how to put the loud minority out of power again.

Koch Bros/John Birch Society and Moral Majority/ALEC were rumbling in the 1970s. The public soundly rejected their extremist ideals. They went underground - off the radar - and found ways to impose their will on everyone else via AFP, ALEC, et al. Our illustrious and criminal USSC, being occupied by at least a couple Tea Partiers and 5 conservatives - has helped them via Citizens United, gutting VRA etc.

That's where we are. But we don't have to stay here.

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Triana

(22,666 posts)
4. That's been my question.
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 10:09 PM
Jul 2013

They are arresting folks for 'loitering' and 'refusing to disperse'.

While the NC cops are nice and there is mutual respect and has been no issues between them & the protesters, not sure under what authority they're being arrested given the 1st Amendment.

I wondered the same. Don't know.

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