Ted Rall for May 03, 2021

I don’t think he’s allowed to wear that uniform any more.

No, I think the message is to shoot an irrefutable video and have as many witnesses as possible.

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Ted, choosing to believe that the fires were set deliberately as a cry for justice.

Sorry bud. That was raw anger, being released to relieve the pressure of repressed emotion.

We need to honor the court system and jury for making a clear, just decision. Not one based on anger.

Me too, I’m not quite getting the point. I’ll wait until someone smarter than me explains.

You are absolutely right, Ted. It’s a shame that these extreme measures were needed.

This is absolute dreck, as vile a commentary as any from Q-anon or the GOP stalwarts. You can get justice if someone is brave enough to film police-crime in action. Burning a police station is an act of desperation from those with historic reason to fear there will BE no justice.

The a anarchists who burn down Government Buildings are no different than Patriots who threw Tea into Boston Harbor./s I see you Ted, I see You.

The police station was burned down by a white supremacist and his friends. He was just found guilty recently.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floyd

The people who burned the police station in Seattle were arrested.

The right figures it has all the guns and can put down an uprising of brown people and liberals. But you don’t need a gun to make a point. No justice, no peace.

Sure Ted, and the millions of people who collectively marched don’t mean squat. For someone who seems to want a massive movement of people to effect change, it seems dumb to discount a massive movement of people trying to effect change.

This will not be received well. What’s the difference between this and Trump inciting a riot?

Although burning down a police station is not justifiable violence, it also does not mean that the officer should not have been charged or tried.

Bet law enforcement had the anarchists (not the peaceful BLM protesters that were in other places) caught on video bragging like the Jan 6th insurrectionists did. Note the difference, you just have to catch the suspects and charge them with the crime with sufficient evidence. They spent too much time going after unarmed protesters doing nothing instead protecting private property and businesses.

Rall is engaging in the fallacy of “first this happened then that happened, so ‘this’ caused ‘that’ ”. In fact, the world’s a lot more complicated than “just one cause”.. and some folks probably did take that precedent as being the most important. But IMO, the biggest one was that cell phone video. MY take away from Chauvin’s conviction is that even when it’s the cops you have a chance of justice if you have irrefutable evidence. And, cell phone video is a very good form of evidence — though I’m expecting a defense lawyer to talk about chain of custody and deep-fakery “real soon now”.

As usual, Theodore’s ahead of the curve!

Well bugger me, if that’s what it takes, then that’s what it takes. Since before the Civil War.

The message actually was “If you can’t get justice from a police station what purpose does it serve?”

Rall’s provocative point, of which he may or may not be aware, is that “justice” is NOT doled out evenhandedly as it should be in our democracy, but that civil disobedience, including property damage, à la the Boston Tea Party, seems to be the ONLY message that the 1% and their benighted thugs understand. Like Paul Revere, we, the 99%, rely on our compatriots’ disgust with the notion of “Just Us” rather than “Justice.” “Justice” is what we vote for. “Justice” is what we pay our taxes for. “Justice” is our heritage and we want it to be our posterity, for our children, our grandchildren, and on and on and on, regardless of race, gender, religious beliefs, or any other self definition, all of which make up humanity. That is all we want and it is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM for which we’ll settle. We, the 99%, are the sine qua non of America.

not really

Talking of justice for burning down a police station, the guy who did that (who was neither local, nor part of the protest — he was a hooligan from northern Minnesota just there to cause trouble) was sentenced to prison just this past week.