“What started as a convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 mandates has snowballed into a blockade in the Canadian capital and the obstruction of a US-Canadian border crossing,” CNN reported on Monday, January 31, 2022. But that’s not the half of it. Their behavior has been unruly a[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Protests’
A reminder that Hong Kong’s freedom is gone
The “Pillar of Shame,” 26 feet high, had stood on the University of Hong Kong grounds since 1997 “as a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.” The sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt included an inscription that said, “The [...]
Why the right targets BLM and “critical race theory”
It’s simply about white supremacy. Conservatives like a status quo that puts white people in charge, gives white people preferential treatment, and keeps black people “in their place.” After George Floyd became yet another black man murdered by a white cop, millions of Americans pa[...]
November 19th, 2021 - 6:57 pm § in Law and Courts
Kenosha vigilante acquitted
A Kenosha jury let a killer off the hook. The facts of the case are fraught, and Wisconsin law favors self-defense. But stripped to basics, the jury let an immature teenager come to their community from out-of-state, shoot at four people no one else considered a threat, and kill two and wound one wi[...]
November 18th, 2021 - 7:53 pm § in Politics
Fired Ferguson cop shows up in Kenosha with AR-15
Jesse Kline was a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, from 2015 until 2018, when he was fired for “allegedly following an ex-girlfriend to another man’s home and poking the man’s chest with the barrel of his gun” (see story here). Further details of that incident are recounted here[...]
November 13th, 2021 - 12:16 pm § in Law and Courts
Were the Kenosha vigilante’s courtroom tears fake?
Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse is on trial for killing two men and wounding a third with a gun he was too young to possess at an anti-racism protest he crossed state lines in order to mix it up with protesters. On the witness stand, testifying in hopes of bolstering his self-defense claim, he let [...]
November 7th, 2021 - 8:19 pm § in Politics
Some people like to fight and cops should let them
“Are you ready to rumble?” As I recall that how the W.W.E. announcer introduced wrestlers to fans. Everyone knows professional wrestling is fake. People pay money to watch it, because it’s entertaining. I wonder when Portland — long a scene of slugfests between freaks of the [...]
Anti-maskers harass kids walking to school (video)
Anti-maskers are widely viewed as a rogue element in American society. Objecting to being required to wear a mask is somewhat understandable; people don’t like being told what to do, even for their own good. (The problem is that going unmasked not only puts them at risk, but also endangers oth[...]
September 15th, 2021 - 12:54 am § in Law and Courts
How bad police squander tax dollars
“The city of Philadelphia will pay $2 million to a Black woman who was pulled from a car, beaten by officers and had her toddler used for social media fodder by the police union,” NBC News reported on Tuesday, September 14, 2021. (Read story here.) “Nursing aide Rickia Young was he[...]
Judge blocks Florida law targeting protesters
A federal judge has struck down an “anti-riot” law championed by Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and passed by the Republican legislature, Huffington Post reported on Thursday, September 9, 2021 (read story here). Rioting, arson, looting, and vandalism were already crimes in Florida. This [...]