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In reply to the discussion: Charges dropped against Newton County homebuyers [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)90. RIGHT. They TRESPASSED on the couple's PRIVATE PROPERTY.
The property is 11 acres. That wasn't just a little jog over the fence there. But it had been, it would have still been wrong.
It has seemed to me for many years, that the actions of white people regarding POC, are always excused and justified. If done to another white person, they would find no defenders. Instead, we hear all this claptrap until it finally has no excuses left.
Look at this old couple. No respect for an old man and and an old woman, are these their version of family values and looking out for the community?
And the sacred private property that the conservative shriek about, where does that come in? Second Amendment rights? How about property rights?
This could have ended up exactly like Zimmerman with the 'not going to let these ___ get away' mentality. That's vigilantism, it's criminal.
It's not standing your ground, it's invading someone else's.
Why is the imagination so stunted in this country, that people cannot for a second put themselves in another person's shoes?
Would these guys have liked to see their parents or grandparents in the position to have people trespass on to their property and confront them at gunpoint?
A little bit of respect for others, a little empathy, would go a long, long way in preventing this crap.
You know, I'm beginning to empathize with the 1%.
If you have money, you can escape this ignorance. You can have security and not put up with this. So I understand their disdain for the masses, now.
It has seemed to me for many years, that the actions of white people regarding POC, are always excused and justified. If done to another white person, they would find no defenders. Instead, we hear all this claptrap until it finally has no excuses left.
Look at this old couple. No respect for an old man and and an old woman, are these their version of family values and looking out for the community?
And the sacred private property that the conservative shriek about, where does that come in? Second Amendment rights? How about property rights?
This could have ended up exactly like Zimmerman with the 'not going to let these ___ get away' mentality. That's vigilantism, it's criminal.
It's not standing your ground, it's invading someone else's.
Why is the imagination so stunted in this country, that people cannot for a second put themselves in another person's shoes?
Would these guys have liked to see their parents or grandparents in the position to have people trespass on to their property and confront them at gunpoint?
A little bit of respect for others, a little empathy, would go a long, long way in preventing this crap.
You know, I'm beginning to empathize with the 1%.
If you have money, you can escape this ignorance. You can have security and not put up with this. So I understand their disdain for the masses, now.
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Read the Article, the Neighbors did NOT make the arrest, the local police did.
happyslug
Apr 2012
#6
I have dealt with armed people all my life, not a threat unless it is pulled.
happyslug
Apr 2012
#19
“He say to put the hands up and get out from the house, otherwise he would shoot us”
thc420
Apr 2012
#23
Not in the Article, all the article said was the new owner was apprached by an armed neighbor
happyslug
Apr 2012
#26
No shit. The neighbor should have been arrested too for the same charge plus threatening.
savalez
Apr 2012
#31
If someone comes onto my property with a gun and asks me to justify being there they're
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#63
WTF that is... Is insanity on a mass scale. Looking at the cover of the book, only. Non-thought.
freshwest
Apr 2012
#93
they came onto the people's property with ASSAULT RIFLES and accused them of breaking and entering.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#64
A reasonable response would have been to call the police and report a prowler and let them handle it.
Lochloosa
Apr 2012
#49
but her husband isn't. if she were alone, doubt it would have played out as it did.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#66
"As long as violence is not threatened" -what do you think brandishing firearms is? (nt)
Posteritatis
Apr 2012
#21
"If that was the case every time someone was given a ticket by a police officer wearing a pistol
Blue_Tires
Apr 2012
#82
In what universe is "We live here" not a reasonable response? I didn't realize we now had to
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#62
When being held against their will at gun point, it is hard to say they weren't under arrest.
Bandit
Apr 2012
#81
The headline should be that they are suing the shit out of those psychopaths! n/t
drdtroit
Apr 2012
#4
If they are really "concerned neighbors" they'll all be over there with tools and paintbrushes...
bluesbassman
Apr 2012
#9
Confront is NOT an assult, and that is the only word used in the Article that comes close an assult
happyslug
Apr 2012
#39
hard to "wear" an assault rifle. they stick out of your pockets pretty much.
HiPointDem
Apr 2012
#67
I would have called the real estate agency right there and then and have them vouch for me. n/t
patricia92243
Apr 2012
#34
"Second Amendment right"!?! I don't remember threatening people on their own property being a...
Humanist_Activist
Apr 2012
#95