(01-08-2021, 02:58 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Look man, gonna be honest with you. I don't think Hurricane gives a [BLEEP] about this chick. Gonna go out on a limb and suggest that many of the original posters who were so quick to respond to this post wanted to use it as an example to justify their own beliefs, rather than anything productive. Over a million people were in DC and a handful was stupid enough to break into the Capitol. She is responsible for her own actions. She died tragically, because she made a bad decision. Trump didn't tell her to do it. She chose to do it. Now, we have a memorial thread dedicated, in her honor, to lambast Trump supporters. What makes this worse is that many of these same posters justified criminal behavior for MONTHS. It's crude at best. I didn't see conservatives creating fake memorials to emphasize their political positions. Correct me if I'm wrong.
OK. I saw the thread as a discussion about the tragic death of a rioter.
I didn't see it as a place to honor anyone or to lambaste anyone.
Just discussing what happened.
I'm not as in tune with what this poster or that poster has said in the past as I don't frequent the forum consistently and I've been swamped with work from August-December.
Hurricane's motives have no bearing on my posts.
You'll not find posts from me justifying criminal behavior of rioters from "leftist" protests etc.
(01-08-2021, 03:14 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: (01-08-2021, 02:19 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: JIB.
They killed a cop, injured 13 other cops, destroyed federal property, and planted pipe bombs for chrissake.
You are severely attempting to gloss over the actions of these violent trespassing criminals.
What percentage of them were "peaceful" felons? 80% 85% 94.3%?
Who gives a [BLEEP]?
They became violent rioters when they crossed a guarded threshold and entered a federal building by force.
I think you are kind of missing my point.
It appears to me that you are referring to "they" and "them" as everyone that was at the Capitol building. If I am mistaken about that I apologize. I watched the events unfolding on live television and flipped between a few different news outlets to see the coverage. By far the vast majority of the people there were peaceful and mostly standing around with patriotic flags/displays and such. It was a VERY small minority that breached the Capitol building, caused damage and got into altercations with authorities. I am certainly not "glossing over" the actions of those very few. As I said before "They broke the law, caused destruction, etc. and should pay the price for it".
Contrast that to what happened last year when you had crowds of people physically attacking police officers, smashing windows, starting fires, etc. and the MSM called that a "mostly peaceful protest".
Here's a little experiment to try to explain my point a bit better to you. Watch video of news feeds from say the riot in Kenosha from last year with the sound off. Do the same thing with the protest at the Capitol. Which one looks "mostly peaceful" to you and with one looks like a violent riot?
I'm referring to every protestor who crossed the line from peaceful protester to criminality. There were many. 69 arrests made and counting.
How does that percentage of violent vs peaceful protestors compare to some other demonstration, at some other time, about some other perceived injustice? I don't care. Not my point here at all.
Didn't realize the point here had morphed into quantifying the percentage of bad apples at various protests.
And I'm certainly not going to take
stab in the dark guesses about those numbers based on random video footage.
