09-21-2020, 02:28 PM
(09-17-2020, 10:32 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: As to solving the problem, it's really not that complicated. Have the governor declare martial law, impose a strict 6 pm curfew, restrict gatherings to "x" number of people.
You have to have someplace to house thousands of inmates. And it would probably get pretty bloody.
When Bull Conner "cracked down" on Martin Luther King's protestors in Birmingham it just generated sympathy for the protestors cause around the country. Same thing with the level of violence used by the Chicago police at the 1968 Democratic convention. Since the Portland protestors have not destroyed the city in almost 4 months of rioting many people don't think extreme force or violence would be justified against them.
It is easy to just make a rule against it. But the the violence required to enforce the rule may cause more problems than it fixes.
