Posted on May 2, 2015
Another day ... another demonstration. What is happening to our country?
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I know it sounds simple. But, I believe what is happening to our country,or has happened, is that we have abandoned truth.
It has become the norm to sensationalize one's own viewpoint and totally demonize the opposing view.
Seldom is one view 100% correct and the other 100% wrong.
It has become the norm to sensationalize one's own viewpoint and totally demonize the opposing view.
Seldom is one view 100% correct and the other 100% wrong.
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GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad
You're right, it sounds very simple ... but it is also very true. We see this demonstrated daily with the press. I can remember a time (and am sure that you can too) when the political leaning of the press was no where near as obvious as it is today. Now we have "journalists" that report the news from a viewpoint that supports their particular political perspective and/or agenda.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
Capt (Join to see) Never tell the whole story. Then you won't have a story for tomorrow! But half a story is a lie by omission...
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IMHO, we as a country have too many freedoms for our own good. We're reaching the tipping point where the "entitled" and "extremists" are pushing the envelope on every possible issue so that containment is becoming almost impossible. The police that maintain the peace are being scrutinized to the point that they may not be able to do their jobs effectively out of fear of legal reprisal.
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Burning question, how do working people have time to continue demonstrating?
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Honestly, and sadly, I think that this May day in Seattle was more peaceful than the last several, at least to judge by media accounts.
Which may partially explain why I know fewer and fewer people who go into Seattle willingly...
Which may partially explain why I know fewer and fewer people who go into Seattle willingly...
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GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad
I actually should have lead with the Washington Post story detailing that there were more than one demonstration around the country ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/may-day-rallies-broaden-to-address-police-brutality-race/2015/05/01/185b42be-f05f-11e4-8050-839e9234b303_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/may-day-rallies-broaden-to-address-police-brutality-race/2015/05/01/185b42be-f05f-11e4-8050-839e9234b303_story.html
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I don't think anything is wrong with our country. The ability to protest, demonstrate, say and do things that you or I disagree with is the foundation of our nation. What is the point of having these freedoms if be neglect to use them? As far as I am concerned protesting is a patriotic act. Let that differentiate from my view on looting, those two are not the same things, though the history of country is rooted in that as well... Just look at the Boston Tea Party.
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GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad
A protest is one thing ... a violent demonstration is something else altogether. Or am I missing something?
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CWO2 (Join to see)
I got a kick out of the one individual that ripped into Geraldo, that was awesome. I see the ENS point, he isn't condoning the riots, but the ones peaceably protesting. There are many of those...the mainstream media doesn't choose to report those because there's no ratings in it.
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CPL Jay Freeman
I agree with that it is fine to protest March down the street sit in front of a building what ever but looting striking at cops is horrible and should be stopped there is the Martin Luther King protest there was no looting so if they where protest of old then great but you have the opertunist who are now stealing and taking advantage of our depleted law enforcement system so I know we have issues with cops but they are ill equipped to deal with it and to be honest they have damaged them self with the cops killing people I understand that there are maybe more information then they let on but it is still difficult to over come the few bad
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GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad, to quote an old song, "everything old is new again." Protests have been popular for many decades, everyone nowadays has a cause. My personal cause is civilian ignorance, complaints about the military, government and ethical treatment of this or that have become the norm. The only things missing from these protests as compared to when I was younger are the drug culture, misconceptions, and hippies.
I hope that someday someone will stand up and say ENOUGH! I want to be in with that group and if I get enough support I may be willing to be among the first organizers of such a movement.
Until that day these things I will defend:
My God
My Country
My Family/Friends both military and civilian
My Property
and the right of others to be wrong/stupid.
I still have a belief in the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution of the United States!
I hope that someday someone will stand up and say ENOUGH! I want to be in with that group and if I get enough support I may be willing to be among the first organizers of such a movement.
Until that day these things I will defend:
My God
My Country
My Family/Friends both military and civilian
My Property
and the right of others to be wrong/stupid.
I still have a belief in the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution of the United States!
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As a Seattle native who lived there for the first 25 years of my life, I'm not surprised. With every march that the majority of people out there want to be peaceful, there's always the very small minority of anarchists who go out there starting shit. I mean it's never going to be as bad as it was for the WTO in December 1999 ( I was a bystander during my senior year lunch break for the first day), but that was also severly piss poor planning on the city's part with every local law enforcement agency out there.
Seattle normally prides itself on keeing these things as peaceful and with minimal destruction, but it seems especially the last two May Day rallies/marches have turned violent. Some of it is people just getting fed up on what's going on at the national level. Some of it is just people trying to march for worker's rights. And then there's the asshole anarchist who just want to smash things.
Seattle normally prides itself on keeing these things as peaceful and with minimal destruction, but it seems especially the last two May Day rallies/marches have turned violent. Some of it is people just getting fed up on what's going on at the national level. Some of it is just people trying to march for worker's rights. And then there's the asshole anarchist who just want to smash things.
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**** RELATED STORY ABOUT 5/1/2015 DEMONSTRATIONS IN OTHER CITIES ****
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/may-day-rallies-broaden-to-address-police-brutality-race/2015/05/01/185b42be-f05f-11e4-8050-839e9234b303_story.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/may-day-rallies-broaden-to-address-police-brutality-race/2015/05/01/185b42be-f05f-11e4-8050-839e9234b303_story.html
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