09-28-2017, 07:46 PM
(09-28-2017, 06:46 PM)Dill Wrote: He liked the page then, and is "friends with Falarca." That doesn't seem conclusive evidence of membership.
Had he liked a KKK or neonazi facebook group, I would not have assumed he was a member of either. Even if he was friends with David Duke. If I said was a KKK member for merely liking, I would just be creating my own facts.
You may have exposed a bias on my part, though. I would not view a friend of Falarca quite the same way as I would view a friend of David Duke. For me, anti-racism and racism do not reduce easily to the same level. BAMN is not just an equally evil mirror image of the KKK.
When your motivation for engaging in acts of violence against others is that you don't like their opinion you are absolutely as evil as the KKK. They are not anti-racism, they are anti their political views and brand any political views they don't agree with as racist. This should sound familiar to you. You are equally wrong about another thing, I didn't expose any bias on your part just now, we've all been well away of your bias in this regard. You've been exhibiting it for months now.
Quote:I think everyone agrees the police were told not to arrest for property crimes. But it doesn't look like rioters had "free rein" to attack people. At least 11 were arrested.
When someone is being assaulted directly in front of police and they do nothing about it that is the very definition of being given free reign.
Quote:But to keep on track here, are you arguing that this is a failure of local law enforcement on the level of, say, a refusal to prosecute civil rights violations in 1960 Mississippi, so a federal law against domestic terrorism is necessary?
Wait, are we arguing degree now? I wasn't aware that the severity or scope of the hindrance to prosecution was the topic at hand.
Quote:Good, then let's see what the definition of domestic terrorism actually is before we presume it can be simply applied to "riotous actions," even because of political beliefs.
This was addressed superbly in the seventh post in this thread. Check it out.
