Posted on Jul 27, 2020
Opinion | I'm tracking protesters rammed by cars. The data should scare you.
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"In the U.S., vehicle rammings gained popularity on the far-right as a violent anti-protest tactic during the early waves of Black Lives Matter street-blocking protests in 2015. Memes online then normalized this behavior and encouraged drivers to take matters into their own hands. But these memes are not limited to the dark corners of the internet, and neither are these attacks. We are now seeing everyone from an avowed extremist in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a reported Ku Klux Klan member in Lakeside, Virginia, to an older woman in Indiana charged in this kind of attack."
Opinion | I'm tracking protesters rammed by cars. The data should scare you.
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LTC Eugene Chu Protesting Against Racism, Fascism Can and Will Always be Hazardous to Your Health and Continued Existence on this Earth. I am Grateful for those Standing Up to Racist and Fascist.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
I was in Jackson, MS in the early 60's, helping register voters. Some "good old boys" took exception to my efforts and arranged a 2 week stay for me in the local hospital. Did not change my beliefs.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
MSG Stan Hutchison - I Notice You Don't Listen Too Good! Bloody Outstanding!
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SSG Robert Perrotto
The fascists and racists are anyone that disagrees with Chip's liberal worldview. It is totes ok for protestors to pound on vehicles, pull people out and beat them, but if you defend yourself, or speak out against it, well then, you are a racist fascist. Remember, only the progressive liberals have the enlightenment to determine racism and fascism, and they must pontificate and launch the holy inquisition in the name of Grievance studies and Social Justice. All others are infidels and must be converted by the sword, or be socially ostracized.
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First of all this is not right! Second, since this is not then armed protesters
from the left that are rioting/looting/beating/killing others from the right that don't agree with them is not acceptable either. But those don't make the news because they don't fit the narrative...both are wrong!!! If we are going to show one side let's show and talk about all of them.
One of these said protesters almost cost a little girl her life in Memphis. There was a protest that shut down the interstate coming across the river from Ark to Memphis. This little girl was being transported to Mem Childrens Hosp for life saving treatment and it was time sensitive. They couldn't get through because of the protesters not allowing an ambulance with lights flashing to get through...finally the police escorted them through after an hour by slowly driving through the crowd not hitting anyone dispersing them enough for the ambulance to arrive in time to save her life. Another 30 minutes and she would have died. Her blood would have been on their hands. All for protesting as that is every Americans right but use some damn common sense. Had that been my child I probably would have grabbed the wheel from the ambulance driver and hit anyone in my way to save my child but the headline would have read " Angry White right wing republican hijacks ambulance to run over protesters."
Now what was done at these other protests was wrong and done with hate but there is no difference between what the left is doing now and what those people did then. Hate for an ideology is still hate.
:Maj Marty Hogan Lt Col Charlie Brown 1stSgt Glenn Brackin
Cpl Craig Morton SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC Stephen C. CPL Dave Hoover PO3 Bob McCord
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sgt Wayne Wood PVT James Strait
SFC Jack Champion MSgt David Hoffman MSgt Stephen Council
PO1 H Gene Lawrence 1SG Steven Imerman SGT Steve McFarland SSgt Terry P. Cynthia C.
from the left that are rioting/looting/beating/killing others from the right that don't agree with them is not acceptable either. But those don't make the news because they don't fit the narrative...both are wrong!!! If we are going to show one side let's show and talk about all of them.
One of these said protesters almost cost a little girl her life in Memphis. There was a protest that shut down the interstate coming across the river from Ark to Memphis. This little girl was being transported to Mem Childrens Hosp for life saving treatment and it was time sensitive. They couldn't get through because of the protesters not allowing an ambulance with lights flashing to get through...finally the police escorted them through after an hour by slowly driving through the crowd not hitting anyone dispersing them enough for the ambulance to arrive in time to save her life. Another 30 minutes and she would have died. Her blood would have been on their hands. All for protesting as that is every Americans right but use some damn common sense. Had that been my child I probably would have grabbed the wheel from the ambulance driver and hit anyone in my way to save my child but the headline would have read " Angry White right wing republican hijacks ambulance to run over protesters."
Now what was done at these other protests was wrong and done with hate but there is no difference between what the left is doing now and what those people did then. Hate for an ideology is still hate.
:Maj Marty Hogan Lt Col Charlie Brown 1stSgt Glenn Brackin
Cpl Craig Morton SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC Stephen C. CPL Dave Hoover PO3 Bob McCord
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sgt Wayne Wood PVT James Strait
SFC Jack Champion MSgt David Hoffman MSgt Stephen Council
PO1 H Gene Lawrence 1SG Steven Imerman SGT Steve McFarland SSgt Terry P. Cynthia C.
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SPC Erich Guenther
MSG Stan Hutchison - Worked for MLK, his protests were largely on public sidewalks and the protestors did not accost passers by.
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SSG Robert Perrotto
MSG Stan Hutchison - you have a right to protest, you do not have a right to be seen or heard, if you take it upon yourself to block roads, highways and interstates without getting a police escort to do so, then your dumb ass deserves to be run over. Second, do you really want me to post every instance of when a vehicle stopped, the protestors then began to beat the vehicle. and terrorize the driver and passengers? You have a right to protest, you do not have the right to accost or terrorize fellow citizens.
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SSG Robert Perrotto
MSG Stan Hutchison - https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-riots-spread-eugene-oregon-antifa I am just going to leave this here.
Crowds launch fireworks at brewery, draw guns on drivers as riots spread from Portland to smaller...
A smaller Oregon city less thana two-hour drive from Portland experienced rioting Saturday night as hundreds targeted a county jail and federal courthouse with fireworks before attacking businesses downtown while employees remained trapped inside.
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
MSG Stan Hutchison - They can hold protest anywhere they are peacefully assembled. When you are blocking business and people from getting to and from work to their families and necessary errands etc, you are not being peacefully assembled.
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SPC Erich Guenther
The protestors of the Tea Party accepted what their methods were at the time instead of denying them publicly.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Vas Ist Lost Boston Tea Party? Respectfully the Great Grandson of William Dawes. Many Thanks for the "Perspective".
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