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In reply to the discussion: #BREAKING: Jury finds 7 Malheur occupiers not guilty [View all]brett_jv
(1,245 posts)66. See: North Dakota ... Date: TODAY ...
... to see an illustration of how the authorities 'react' to 'protests' by non-whites.
If these guys were all black, asking for redress of black grievances ... they'd almost certainly have been tear-gassed and/or forcibly removed at gunpoint (at BEST) within the first few days, and then they'd have ended up convicted and locked up for years.
If you have any serious question about this not being how things would've gone down in that case, you must be living in a cave, or cave-equivalent.
Goings on in N. Dakota today shows exactly what happens when you 'occupy' places the government doesn't want you to ... when you're non-white.
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Here's an actual news story about this. Twitter is not a news source, by the way.
pnwmom
Oct 2016
#11
lol! yeah, mind-boggling, the idea that justice might be slightly different for black people.
unblock
Oct 2016
#56
My guess is the case was contaminated by the use of FBI infiltrators actively encouraging
Monk06
Oct 2016
#19
For the purposes of being called upon to "check one's privilege" I suppose I am white
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2016
#62
BREAKING: U.S. Marshals Service: Ammon Bundy's attorney Marcus Mumford in federal custody
Coyotl
Oct 2016
#22
Screaming at the judge telling her she must release the Bundy brothers, wouldn't shut up.
Coyotl
Oct 2016
#96
oh...article didn't say so that explains it: "We own the courts!!! Donald says so!"
wordpix
Oct 2016
#109
I want the protesters at the Dakota Pipeline released immediately, and these protesters didn't have
still_one
Oct 2016
#52
Were they even charged with vandalism, destroying property, and whatever law cover the artifacts?
Crash2Parties
Oct 2016
#54
Yep... If you thought the Nevada standoff was emboldening, you haven't seen anything, yet!
Hugin
Oct 2016
#92
they will still control the House, and governors mansions and legislatures
geek tragedy
Oct 2016
#98