Does Anyone Remember When 30 Armed Members Of A Militant Group Stormed The California Capitol And Took It Over In 1967? (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

Haven't heard a thing about it today on the news as a historical example of things like this happening. Why is that?

 

[Yenrub]

Was that the Black Panthers protest against the state trying to take away their rights to carry weapons in California?

 

[Sea Duck]

Haven't heard a thing about it today on the news as a historical example of things like this happening. Why is that?

Because they didn't take it over? They were stopped by security and escorted out of the building.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/history/article148667224.html

 

[Sea Duck]

"After the state police questioned the men, they returned the weapons to them because the intruders had broken no law."

Sounds like one of those "open carry/2nd Amendment" demonstrations that tend to be popular these days.

 

[rockaction]

Was that the Black Panthers protest against the state trying to take away their rights to carry weapons in California?

Yeah, not "their" rights, per se, but everybody's right to carry unconcealed, loaded weapons, especially on public grounds.

But hey, you've got your version. Might as well run with it. SeaDuck, too. Sounds a lot like the open carry/2nd A demonstrations that take over state capitols these days that everybody is generally up in arms about, at least on this board. Just a friendly reminder that the left started these tactics long ago and keeps doing them, giving the right a playbook for civil disobedience.

But let's be obtuse and miss that main point, instead concentrating on the minutiae of it all.

 

[AAABatteries]

Yeah, not "their" rights, per se, but everybody's right to carry unconcealed, loaded weapons, especially on public grounds.

But hey, you've got your version. Might as well run with it. SeaDuck, too. Sounds a lot like the open carry/2nd A demonstrations that take over state capitols these days that everybody is generally up in arms about, at least on this board. Just a friendly reminder that the left started these tactics long ago and keeps doing them, giving the right a playbook for civil disobedience.

But let's be obtuse and miss that main point, instead concentrating on the minutiae of it all.

I'll be honest man, I almost never get your points.   

 

[Sea Duck]

Yeah, not "their" rights, per se, but everybody's right to carry unconcealed, loaded weapons, especially on public grounds.

But hey, you've got your version. Might as well run with it. SeaDuck, too. Sounds a lot like the open carry/2nd A demonstrations that take over state capitols these days that everybody is generally up in arms about, at least on this board. Just a friendly reminder that the left started these tactics long ago and keeps doing them, giving the right a playbook for civil disobedience.

But let's be obtuse and miss that main point, instead concentrating on the minutiae of it all.

Your main point is that they "took over" the Capitol. But the 1967 article clearly states that they did not actually do that. In fact, the police confirmed that they had not even broken the law.

That's not "my" version -- that's the original 1967 article talking.

 

[SoBeDad]

Today's events made lots of immigrants in Miami feel at home.

From a Haitian lawyer in a chat room:

>> The Republic of Haiti warns Donald Trump and his supporters to respect established laws. If not, the Haitian nation will send its troops to American soil to uphold the constitution and the truth of the ballot box.”  He concluded: “In the meantime, the Ambassador of the Republic of Haiti to the United States has been asked to start a dialogue between Trump and Biden.”<< 

A Venezuelan in Miami:

>>We are behaving as a banana republic, showing no respect for the institutions and showing that after all is said and done we inhabit a country where there are no sacred institutions,” he said.<<

I thought about a worse case scenario when I saw the scene at the capital, the Supreme Court Seige in Colombia in 1968 which left 12 justices killed.

 

[Yenrub]

Yeah, not "their" rights, per se, but everybody's right to carry unconcealed, loaded weapons, especially on public grounds.

But hey, you've got your version. Might as well run with it. SeaDuck, too. Sounds a lot like the open carry/2nd A demonstrations that take over state capitols these days that everybody is generally up in arms about, at least on this board. Just a friendly reminder that the left started these tactics long ago and keeps doing them, giving the right a playbook for civil disobedience.

But let's be obtuse and miss that main point, instead concentrating on the minutiae of it all.

Of course it was everyone’s rights to carry however if I recall properly the catalyst for the bill was the Panthers openly carrying in their neighborhoods while policing the police.

Maybe no one bought up the Panthers on TV today is because the Panthers weren’t protesting based a lie that the President has repeated over and over, a lie that has been tossed out of just about every court someone has tried to tell it in.

 

[timschochet]

Hippies took over Peoples Park in 69 I think. And Native Americans seized Alcatraz. 
California is where the fun is at! 

 

[Mister CIA]

Hippies took over Peoples Park in 69 I think. And Native Americans seized Alcatraz. 
California is where the fun is at! 

Symbionese Liberation Army.

Ooh rah!