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On 6/11/2025 6:38 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 6/11/2025 5:47 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 6/11/2025 3:37 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 6/11/2025 3:06 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>> On Wed Jun 11 05:02:30 2025 Catrike Ryder  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have to wonder how the protestors make a living.
>>>>
>>>> More significantly - they have come from all over the 
>>>> country - where did they get the money to do this?
>>> Good grief, you two are sunk in MAGA mud up to your ears. 
>>> Look, I don't approve of burning cars. But _non_ violent 
>>> protests are legal, and cops could have handled the tiny 
>>> minority who were violent.
>>>
>>> But how do protesters make a living? Well, there were 
>>> non- violent protests near here weeks ago. I didn't 
>>> attend, but I knew people who did. Retired teachers. A 
>>> retired electrician. A librarian. A restaurant owner. A 
>>> couple engineers, and more. It doesn't take a fortune to 
>>> hold a picket sign.
>>>
>>> And how would they have gotten across country? Well, I 
>>> recently did it just on saved-up credit card points; but 
>>> most protesters probably traveled less than a day's drive.
>>>
>>> Your political views are built almost entirely on fantasy 
>>> - murder rates that are surging (except they're actually 
>>> going down), millions of false election votes (that have 
>>> never, ever been found despite searches in hundreds of 
>>> jurisdictions), immigrants eating people's dogs and cats 
>>> (got evidence? got recipes?), "peaceful protesters" who 
>>> accidentally assaulted police and smashed Capitol windows 
>>> to burst in, and tacky gold plated billionaires who 
>>> really, really care about _you_.
>>>
>>
>>
>> With video:
>> https://ktla.com/news/local-news/overnight-looting- 
>> follows-4th-day-of- anti-ice-protests-in-downtown-l-a- 
>> bass-blames-raids/
>>
>> Peaceful assembly and petitioning of grievances is a good 
>> thing. I have participated many times.  We agree strongly 
>> on that.
>>
>> Burning your own car is probably legal, but burning other 
>> people's cars, looting, attacking LE and such is described 
>> in the law as 'mob action' or 'riot' and goes well beyond 
>> protected rights.
> 
> Right. Mob violence is illegal and should be prosecuted. As 
> your video promised, those perps will be prosecuted.
> 
> I just hope the perps are dealt with properly - as opposed 
> to the perps who attacked the U.S. Capitol intent on 
> disrupting critical congressional procedures, who assaulted 
> police, damaged our most sacred public property, horrified 
> all conscientious observers worldwide, but who were pardoned 
> by the guy responsible for generating it all.
> 
> 

We agree again.

About two dozen people on 6 January attacked police.  Out of 
some 1500 persons jailed, most for 'misdemeanor trespass' in 
a public building/park.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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