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a demand on those that are just going to and fro to work and with their kids that they are now involved in a revolution. A revolution that demands we hold civil disobedience to a higher respect than that of legal positivism. What say you? When you're in the streets tearing people out of cars, why shouldn't they speed up and run you over? Isn't civil disobedience exactly that, or must we stop and now nod knowingly while we're torn limb from limb?

Who are the idiots (and I mean that) on this board that would argue that civil disobedience must be met with sycophantic obedience to their notions of the disobedience in the first place?  

How dumb is that expectation?  

 
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It's dumb but a lot of the protesters get free stuff & get to start fires.  I'm white & Irish.  I'm pretty sure it's partly my fault.   So there you go & go & go.

 
rockaction said:
a demand on those that are just going to and fro to work and with their kids that they are now involved in a revolution. A revolution that demands we hold civil disobedience to a higher respect than that of legal positivism. What say you? When you're in the streets tearing people out of cars, why shouldn't they speed up and run you over? Isn't civil disobedience exactly that, or must we stop and now nod knowingly while we're torn limb from limb?

Who are the idiots (and I mean that) on this board that would argue that civil disobedience must me met with obedience to their notions of it?  
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Do not get how they get the justification from some on the board to riot in the street when they're blocking public thoroughfares and beating people to death at times (not often).

 
there are legal implications here, no? ie: you can argue that when running someone over, you were acting in self defense.  but does that hold up in a court of law when you get sued and/or prosecuted criminally?

 
I will protect those I care about to an extreme degree and will employ extreme measures when I perceive them to be necessary with little concern for whether others would find extreme measures justified.  Less so for defense of property or to remedy inconvenience.

 
rockaction said:
Do not get how they get the justification from some on the board to riot in the street when they're blocking public thoroughfares and beating people to death at times (not often).
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rockaction said:
a demand on those that are just going to and fro to work and with their kids that they are now involved in a revolution. A revolution that demands we hold civil disobedience to a higher respect than that of legal positivism. What say you? When you're in the streets tearing people out of cars, why shouldn't they speed up and run you over? Isn't civil disobedience exactly that, or must we stop and now nod knowingly while we're torn limb from limb?

Who are the idiots (and I mean that) on this board that would argue that civil disobedience must be met with sycophantic obedience to their notions of the disobedience in the first place?  

How dumb is that expectation?  
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Did I miss something?

 
"i'm totally not a racist. in fact i work with a black guy. he calls me his "boy". but shouldn't people, that are innocently on their way to the office at midnight, with their kids in the car, be allowed to mow down "protesters" that have gathered in a crowd... who are surrounded by police in riot gear... and news cameras... and gawkers.  i mean, it's in the constitution, right?

38th amendment "thoueth shalt be able to mercilessly dispatch of  anyone thou deem fit in the event that thou art inconvenienced after thou hath gone well out of your way to drive to the scene of a protest. you shouldn't have to drive 2 blocks out of the way.. you're legally protected by the flag.. go ahead on and punch that gas pedal.  anyone out there deserves to die anyways.  GODSPEED, not a racist!"

 
rockaction said:
a demand on those that are just going to and fro to work and with their kids that they are now involved in a revolution. A revolution that demands we hold civil disobedience to a higher respect than that of legal positivism. What say you? When you're in the streets tearing people out of cars, why shouldn't they speed up and run you over? Isn't civil disobedience exactly that, or must we stop and now nod knowingly while we're torn limb from limb?

Who are the idiots (and I mean that) on this board that would argue that civil disobedience must be met with sycophantic obedience to their notions of the disobedience in the first place?  

How dumb is that expectation?  
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People are being torn out of cars? I watched the protests last night and didn't see that.

I have seen protestors blocking a road or highway and stopping traffic, and not allowing cars to continue, but that is not the same thing as physically removing people from their cars and does not give anyone a license to run people down.

 
The free stuff people are chicken ####. Just employing the welfare queen stuff that reagan did. There's this assumption that the black people get all the really good welfare or something. There is a lifetime limitation of 24 months in Kansas regardless of circumstance. They just want to proliferate the myth that the lazy blacks are living off the hard work of good whites. And it's cowardly.  

 
I've never experienced this protest stuff you speak of in my own personal life, so I'm pretty sure you are exaggerating it, if it even exists at all.

If it does exist, I bet it's the presidents fault.

 
moleculo said:
Did I miss something?
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Last night in Charlotte could have ended poorly for someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  These protests are out of control and there is no leader for the BLM cause which makes every event a crap shoot as to how crazy it will be. 

 
Max Power said:
Last night in Charlotte could have ended poorly for someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.  These protests are out of control and there is no leader for the BLM cause which makes every event a crap shoot as to how crazy it will be. 
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so no one was torn limb from limb, we are just cared that it could happen?  just trying to understand.

 
moleculo said:
so no one was torn limb from limb, we are just cared that it could happen?  just trying to understand.
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Not to my knowledge.  There was only a murder, multiple assaults, an attempt to burn a man alive, and they did move to stop traffic/throw rocks off the overpass at oncoming vehicles. 

 
rockaction said:
a demand on those that are just going to and fro to work and with their kids that they are now involved in a revolution. A revolution that demands we hold civil disobedience to a higher respect than that of legal positivism. What say you? When you're in the streets tearing people out of cars, why shouldn't they speed up and run you over? Isn't civil disobedience exactly that, or must we stop and now nod knowingly while we're torn limb from limb?

Who are the idiots (and I mean that) on this board that would argue that civil disobedience must be met with sycophantic obedience to their notions of the disobedience in the first place?  

How dumb is that expectation?  
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Really dumb because that expectation doesn't exist.

 
Max Power said:
Happened this week.  Was the Jeep in the wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeUL_vEClQk
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That video sucks... but if people are surrounding my vehicle hitting it and threatening myself and my occupants, I'm existing the scene post haste. I'll do my best to not hit anything/anyone, but no guarantees. 

Option two is use sidearm to clear a path but that's a last resort and a terrible move in a crowd.  

Sitting there and letting people beat their way through my vehicle and attack the occupants isn't an option. 

 
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rockaction said:
I'm beginning to think you're a disturbed little person. 
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part of that is true - furley is barely 11 inches tall and posts by tapdancing Big-style on a keyboard. when he's not posting, ACP puts him in his shirt pocket and takes him to county fairs & discotheques

 
mr. furley said:
congratulations, another horrible post in another awful thread
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Every single rockaction thread reads like what would have happened if William F. Buckley spent his entire childhood eating paint chips and sniffing glue.

 
Twitter Suspends Instapundit For Tweeting 'Run Them Down' About Rioters


On Thursday morning, Twitter suspended the account of University of Tennessee law professor and USA Today columnist Glenn Reynolds, supposedly over this tweet:
Reynolds’ critics suggested that he wanted people to target protesters, although the linked story said that the “protesters” in question were “stopping traffic and surrounding vehicles,” menacing their occupants. Here's the video:


VIDEO: People surrounding vehicles driving along 277 near College Street. #CharlotteProtest #KeithLamontScott #Charlotte pic.twitter.com/2tCHUJgFuc

— WBTV News (@WBTV_News) September 22, 2016


Reynolds responded to the suspension:




 




Can’t imagine why they’d do that, except that it seems to be happening to a lot of people for no obvious reason. It’s as if, despite assurances to the contrary, Twitter is out to silence voices it disagrees with or something.

UPDATE: Ah, it was about this tweet.

Sorry, blocking the interstate is dangerous, and trapping people in their cars and surrounding them is a threat. Driving on is self-preservation, especially when we’ve had mobs destroying property and injuring and killing people. But if Twitter doesn’t like me, I’m happy to stop providing them with free content.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Was just on Hugh Hewitt talking about this. Since Twitter won’t let me respond to — or even see — my critics, let me expand here.

I’ve always been a supporter of free speech and peaceful protest. I fully support people protesting police actions, and I’ve been writing in support of greater accountability for police for years.

But riots aren’t peaceful protest. And blocking interstates and trapping people in their cars is not peaceful protest — it’s threatening and dangerous, especially against the background of people rioting, cops being injured, civilian-on-civilian shootings, and so on. I wouldn’t actually aim for people blocking the road, but I wouldn’t stop because I’d fear for my safety, as I think any reasonable person would.

“Run them down” perhaps didn’t capture this fully, but it’s Twitter, where character limits stand in the way of nuance.

Meanwhile, regarding Twitter: I don’t even know that this is why I was suspended, as I’ve heard nothing from Twitter at all. They tell users and investors that they don’t censor, but they seem awfully quick to suspend people on one side of the debate and, as people over at Twitchy note, awfully tolerant of outright threats on the other.

Twitter can do without me, as I can certainly do without Twitter.



Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has long been an advocate for Black Lives Matter, conducting events with race-baiting riot cheerleader Deray McKesson, who once taught a seminar at Yale with required reading including an essay titled “In Defense of Looting.” McKesson has also come out in support of convicted cop killers Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu Jamal on Twitter. He’s talked up the value of the racist New Black Panther Party.

All of this is not just acceptable but praiseworthy according to Dorsey. But Reynolds crossed the invisible line. ...
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If I were surrounded by rioters in my car and feared for my life, I'd run over whoever was dumb enough to be in front of me.

But if a bunch of protesters blocked the freeway I'd stop and wait them out. 

Only if I thought my life was in danger would I hit the gas and not look back.

 
“Run them down” perhaps didn’t capture this fully, but it’s Twitter, where character limits stand in the way of nuance.
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Blame Twitter's character limit when only using 13.

:lmao:

 
I find it hard to believe Twitter would shut an account down for that.  They must be getting a lot more political.

 
Glenn Reynolds getting shut down on Twitter is a joke. He's a law professor with a long history of building the political blogosphere. That's insane. 

 
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