11-18-2021, 06:38 PM
(11-18-2021, 06:29 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(11-18-2021, 06:06 PM)ABNARTY Wrote: How is this not feeding into a degradation of law and order? We had the cops standing down and allowing arson and destruction. The governor refusing help until a week later. The prosecutor all over the map. The media gas lighting the entire situation. To what end? Qui bono?
And therein lies the rub. While the "authorities" were standing down and allowing all sorts of insane destruction, the People stepped in to do their damned jobs FOR them, and are now being branded "vigilantes". well shit, when someone doesn't do their job, someone else has to step in and do it.
That was THEIR homes, THEIR businesses, THEIR friends and families, THEIR livelihoods. If the people they hired to protect those thing refused to do so, then it fell to THEM to do it for themselves. When that is the case, it's not "vigilantism", it's doing the job their hirelings refused to do, a job that need doing, regardless of who has to do it.
Whomever was responsible for standing down law and order should be summarily fired, jailed for official malfeasance, and barred from ever holding a position above that of ditch digger ever again.
Instead, the Talking heads carry on about "vigilantes".
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We are getting into a bigger issue here other than the trial but I see what you are saying.
I don't get it either. I want to protect my property and my life but I am a vigilante for doing so. I should just "take a beating" and be happy about it. If I die, oh well. There are people who will not do that. They will not take a beating and be happy about it. I am guessing that is what the folks fueling the beaters are counting on. A great opportunity to paint the opposition as something evil who require to be put down. Not a new formula at all. So who is doing it?