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Having witnessed and arguably participated in many protests over the past few years, these guys are just doing what Occupy and student demonstrators and BLM have been doing for years. The only difference is they're doing it with guns and picked a literally useless shed in the middle of nowhere rather than a university building that hosts classes or some major automobile thoroughfare. All of this "muh white terrorist" backlash is therefore hilarious and overblown. Ammon and his clowns are nothing more than attention whores and people are literally bitching that they aren't getting enough mainstream coverage.
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blowfish posted:dumb rear end student protestors and blm hashtag activists are annoying shits but they don't go out of their way to provoke an armed standoff So the possibility of an armed standoff makes these protestors less acceptable than established protest communities that regularly cause real damage to property? Man, guns must be really scary to some people. Vice Zoomler Aestro posted:That's a big difference. The U.S. Code says terrorism is: “Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.” No act of violence has been committed nor is planned to be committed, excepting the aforementioned attention whoring (specifically in the form of apocalyptic standoff fantasies). Point is: "Top Kek Blow The White Terrorists WITH DRONES what would happen to ANYONE ELSE if they BROUGHT GUNS" casts the severity of this situation as far greater than it should ever be.
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Jan 3, 2016 13:01
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ToastyPotato posted:Arming themselves and taking over property that does not belong to them is just the straw that is breaking the camel's back for a lot of people. Especially given the treatment of other groups who have done far less and have fought far more nobler causes. But, as it stands right now, these armed protesters are the ones standing at having "done far less." I think you, and many others, are stuck on the latter half of your statement. In believing the Oregon protesters' cause ignoble—and it surely is—you convinced yourself that taking over a loving shack in the middle of nowhere is worse than the massive destruction of urban and suburban property wrought by the left's myriad protest movements in the last decade alone. Right now, unless these "militiamen" actually shoot people, they should probably be charged with trespassing and then released just like most every other Occupy protester so far.
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