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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (166723)	6/5/2020 4:49:31 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 377695

If you looked at the detail on those 'police', you'd notice they had removed their name tags. The ones that had badges had the badge numbers covered with a black strip of tape. WHY?

To: i-node who wrote (166723)	6/5/2020 4:52:40 PM
From: Lane3	5 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 CentralParkRanger J_F_Shepard Ms. Baby Boomer Terry Maloney Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 377695

what I saw was police (clearly marked) dressed in unmistakable riot gear: There have been pictures of unmarked riot police posted right here on this thread. Maybe you only see what you want to see. You will allow that large, angry crowds do require controlling, right? I am not talking about this crowd or any need to police it. You are missing the point. You have it in your head that I simply don't like Trump even though over and over and over I have gone on and on about The Enlightenment and the Founders and the Constitution and Western liberal democracy and human dignity and lanes and the coequal branches of government. That's because my major impetus has been fear for the foundations of my country. The Great Experiment that is the US is being flushed down the toilet. Meanwhile you're engaged in disputing arcane details of crowd hygiene. Now, we have demonstrations that were triggered by an event having to do with the longstanding issue of lack of police accountability, And, in response, we have Trump wanting to use active duty military to put them down without the consent of governors, a Constitutional lane violation bigly. And, we have somebody or other moving to control crowds using armed actors who are totally unaccountable because they can't even be identified. It doesn't get any more bass-ackwards than that. Or any more illiberal. We're in Fascist territory here. Yet, you want to make a federal case out of the variations among lachrimatory agents? Wake up and see that your country is in trouble a whole lot bigger than protest-facilitated bad actors. Have you just brushed off all these renowned generals who have finally been provoked into finally standing up and saying something?