today a bunch of piece of shit neo-nazis decided to go "demonstrate" in an all black neighborhood here in my town. the result? a fucking riot and at least one building and one car set on fire. there was even a curfew in effect in half the city because the cops didnt want people running all over and fucking eachother up.
quote from one of the news stories:
"The Neo-Nazis organization's goal is to confront local minority gang members.
A memo to the media says members of the National Socialist Movement will march through what they call a "gang ridden neighborhood" Saturday, Oct. 15.
The notice threatens to "challenge two local black gangs" and that they claim have made "racial threats against white residents."
another quote:
"At least two dozen members of the National Socialist Movement, which calls itself "America's Nazi Party," gathered at a city park just before noon and were to march under police protection. Organizers of the march said they were demonstrating against black gangs that they said were harassing white residents in the neighborhood."
i support freedom of speech as much of the next guy, but COME ON!!! this was obviosly going to create some shit, so why do it? and why did they haul ass out of town after they starting getting fucked up by the locals? because theyre a bunch of FUCKING COWARDS!!!
I support the twin pillars of an enlightened society. Free speech for all and a complete social boycott of people stupid enough to thrown in with Nazi's.
Is there any legal reason why, say, every shop, store, restaurant, and everywhere would be prevented from pointing to the 'We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone' sign when these guys walk in?
Point, Laugh, turn and go about your buisness. Once you stop showing them it pisses you off, you then take power away from their meaningless lives.Thus they dissapear into nothingness. Who cares what they say, or where they march at. It pisses you off so they do it, that simple. Otherwise they'de be standing in a park jerking each other off to a goosestepping polka! But no, ya'all have to make a big deal of it, so they keep doing it. /Golf Clap
Just because you have the right to say what you want <sorta>, doesn't mean we have to listen.
"Finally those capitolists pigs will get what they deserve, eh comrads, eh?"
"Austin, we won"
"Groovy baby, Yay capitolism!"
This thing was no surprise. Americans have proven time and time again that they loooove to riot and just go batshit crazy at the drop of a hat. Winning an NCAA championship? Grounds for a riot. Winning a professional sports title? Grounds for a riot. Public school laptop sale? Riot. Disagree with a verdict? Grab a brick, it's riot time. Natural disaster levels your city? Fuck it, let's go nuts. You can loot and I will handle the burning.
Funny thing is, Americans are not as wild as they used to be. Check the history books for the kind of shit that used to go down.
I'm no Nazi, but I'm very pro-speech. I don't think that it should be illegal to hold or express those views (as abominable as they may seem), or to demonstrate against gangs, as was the group's alleged purpose. Furthermore, the article states that "A crowd that gathered to protest a planned march Saturday by a white supremacist group turned violent, throwing baseball-sized rocks at police and vandalizing vehicles and stores, including setting a bar on fire." This implies to me that the Nazi protesters were not acting in any way violent (simply making use of their rights to speech), it was actually those OPPOSING their ability to voice their views who were acting violently.
I understand that the expression of those opinions can be incendiary, and it's easy (and justifiable) to hate those views. But I'm not going to condemn their right to express them when they haven't done anything else worng. Peaceful protest, whatever the views, I've never had a problem with. In my opinion, if you don't like what they have to say, ignore 'em.
Viscount_Slick said:
This thing was no surprise. Americans have proven time and time again that they loooove to riot and just go batshit crazy at the drop of a hat. Winning an NCAA championship? Grounds for a riot. Winning a professional sports title? Grounds for a riot. Public school laptop sale? Riot. Disagree with a verdict? Grab a brick, it's riot time. Natural disaster levels your city? Fuck it, let's go nuts. You can loot and I will handle the burning.
Funny thing is, Americans are not as wild as they used to be. Check the history books for the kind of shit that used to go down.
As opposed to, say, Brazilians or Brits who only riot over really important issues like the outcomes of soccer games.
What pisses me off the most is that the fucking cops protected them!
Could you imagine being a African American or Hispanic police officer that was assigned to protect these guys?
I say FREE SPEECH! I say we all, even these Nazi fucks have a right to it, BUT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU SAY! Don't use the fucking state to protect your rights, protect your own. COWARDS! Having to hide behind the state's power in order to do something that hurts the health and welfare of a neighborhood is pathetic. The only reason these riots happened was because the cops protected these guys!
There wouldn't have been riots and hurt cops if the cops were never there.
Should of just let the people solve it on their own. THing is thoug the National Socialist Movement, the American Nazi Party are all a bunch of cowards. They do this to get a reaction like the one we saw yesterday, and they use the cops to instigate it while they run away laughing while we fight the state that protects them!
"[Liberals are] ten degrees left of center in the good times; ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally." -Phil Ochs
Free speech and equal protection under the law exist for everyone. The right to riot, no matter how much you are taunted, exists for no one. Yes, Nazis are bad, but why in God's name should their presence cause a bar to be set on fire? There is no justification for that.
Viscount_Slick said:
This thing was no surprise. Americans have proven time and time again that they loooove to riot and just go batshit crazy at the drop of a hat. Winning an NCAA championship? Grounds for a riot. Winning a professional sports title? Grounds for a riot. Public school laptop sale? Riot. Disagree with a verdict? Grab a brick, it's riot time. Natural disaster levels your city? Fuck it, let's go nuts. You can loot and I will handle the burning.
Funny thing is, Americans are not as wild as they used to be. Check the history books for the kind of shit that used to go down.
As opposed to, say, Brazilians or Brits who only riot over really important issues like the outcomes of soccer games.
RatBug said:
i support freedom of speech as much of the next guy, but COME ON!!! this was obviosly going to create some shit, so why do it? and why did they haul ass out of town after they starting getting fucked up by the locals? because theyre a bunch of FUCKING COWARDS!!!
[Edited on Oct 15, 2005 by RatBug]
Why did they do it? I'm guessing to express their opinions.
Why did they haul ass out of town after they started getting fucked up by the locals? Maybe because they wanted a peaceful demonstration. Would you rather them "fight back" and encourage more violence and possible injuries?
RatBug said:
i support freedom of speech as much of the next guy, but COME ON!!! this was obviosly going to create some shit, so why do it? and why did they haul ass out of town after they starting getting fucked up by the locals? because theyre a bunch of FUCKING COWARDS!!!
[Edited on Oct 15, 2005 by RatBug]
Why did they do it? I'm guessing to express their opinions.
Why did they haul ass out of town after they started getting fucked up by the locals? Maybe because they wanted a peaceful demonstration. Would you rather them "fight back" and encourage more violence and possible injuries?
I would.
They encourage violence and then they can't deal with violence when it errupts?
You don't walk up to a guy with one eye, tell him he's a stupid fucking freak with one eye, that looks like a piece of shit, and is less then human since he only has one eye, and then expect to get a "peaceful" response. Your words are INSTIGATING violence! Your words are not peaceful, they are VIOLENT!
Getting a violent reponse from that should be no surprise.
It's like walking up to single african american, calling them the "n" word, then being surprised if they guy socks you in the face.
If you can't take responsibility for the words you speak, then you shouldn't speak them.
RatBug said:
i support freedom of speech as much of the next guy, but COME ON!!! this was obviosly going to create some shit, so why do it? and why did they haul ass out of town after they starting getting fucked up by the locals? because theyre a bunch of FUCKING COWARDS!!!
[Edited on Oct 15, 2005 by RatBug]
Why did they do it? I'm guessing to express their opinions.
Why did they haul ass out of town after they started getting fucked up by the locals? Maybe because they wanted a peaceful demonstration. Would you rather them "fight back" and encourage more violence and possible injuries?
I would.
They encourage violence and then they can't deal with violence when it errupts?
You don't walk up to a guy with one eye, tell him he's a stupid fucking freak with one eye, that looks like a piece of shit, and is less then human since he only has one eye, and then expect to get a "peaceful" response. Your words are INSTIGATING violence! Your words are not peaceful, they are VIOLENT!
Getting a violent reponse from that should be no surprise.
It's like walking up to single african american, calling them the "n" word, then being surprised if they guy socks you in the face.
If you can't take responsibility for the words you speak, then you shouldn't speak them.
If someone walked up to you and call you an asshole and you punch him, I wouldn't say he didn't deserve it. However, I would also not say you don't deserve to be arrested, because physically assaulting someone is illegal.
RatBug said:
i support freedom of speech as much of the next guy, but COME ON!!! this was obviosly going to create some shit, so why do it? and why did they haul ass out of town after they starting getting fucked up by the locals? because theyre a bunch of FUCKING COWARDS!!!
[Edited on Oct 15, 2005 by RatBug]
Why did they do it? I'm guessing to express their opinions.
Why did they haul ass out of town after they started getting fucked up by the locals? Maybe because they wanted a peaceful demonstration. Would you rather them "fight back" and encourage more violence and possible injuries?
I would.
They encourage violence and then they can't deal with violence when it errupts?
You don't walk up to a guy with one eye, tell him he's a stupid fucking freak with one eye, that looks like a piece of shit, and is less then human since he only has one eye, and then expect to get a "peaceful" response. Your words are INSTIGATING violence! Your words are not peaceful, they are VIOLENT!
Getting a violent reponse from that should be no surprise.
It's like walking up to single african american, calling them the "n" word, then being surprised if they guy socks you in the face.
If you can't take responsibility for the words you speak, then you shouldn't speak them.
By this logic, you can't have a peaceful pro-choice demonstrations, because religious individuals think that you're promoting murder and should fight back. Etc. etc.
This is assuming that the only way to legitimize your views is to back them up with violence. I don't understand this at all. By definition, if you are protesting, you are protesting against something or someone, but that doesn't confer a right to reactionary violence. In any civilized society, you shouldn't have to defend your viewpoints with violence.
By encouraging this reactionary violence, you are encouraging that the Nazi's engage in violence to defend their views. You are saying that they should stay and fight? Next time they want to voice an opinion, should they bring billy clubs and shotguns to properly defend themselves and not be "cowards"?
Let's say it's 1967 and you're marching through a conservative, warhawk town with a sign that says "Yankee Go Home!" and the residents there consider you a traitor to America and its values and they rough you up. Are they justified in doing so?
Clov said:
If someone walked up to you and call you an asshole and you punch him, I wouldn't say he didn't deserve it. However, I would also not say you don't deserve to be arrested, because physically assaulting someone is illegal.
[Edited on Oct 16, 2005 by Clov]
If someone walked up to me and said that my race deserved to die, that they were willing to do it themselves by encouraging it politically, and that thus myself, my family, my lovers, and my world deserved annihilation. I would be complacent to war and hate crimes if I DIDN'T do something about i.
Some things are worth fighting for, legal or not.
But your right, it would be illegal. Point taken. There's a difference though between the words "asshole", and "your race does not deserve to live". but maybe that's just me.
RatBug said:
i support freedom of speech as much of the next guy, but COME ON!!! this was obviosly going to create some shit, so why do it? and why did they haul ass out of town after they starting getting fucked up by the locals? because theyre a bunch of FUCKING COWARDS!!!
[Edited on Oct 15, 2005 by RatBug]
Why did they do it? I'm guessing to express their opinions.
Why did they haul ass out of town after they started getting fucked up by the locals? Maybe because they wanted a peaceful demonstration. Would you rather them "fight back" and encourage more violence and possible injuries?
Well if you ever heard any of them talk they are trying to start a race war.
RatBug said:
i support freedom of speech as much of the next guy, but COME ON!!! this was obviosly going to create some shit, so why do it? and why did they haul ass out of town after they starting getting fucked up by the locals? because theyre a bunch of FUCKING COWARDS!!!
[Edited on Oct 15, 2005 by RatBug]
Why did they do it? I'm guessing to express their opinions.
Why did they haul ass out of town after they started getting fucked up by the locals? Maybe because they wanted a peaceful demonstration. Would you rather them "fight back" and encourage more violence and possible injuries?
I would.
They encourage violence and then they can't deal with violence when it errupts?
You don't walk up to a guy with one eye, tell him he's a stupid fucking freak with one eye, that looks like a piece of shit, and is less then human since he only has one eye, and then expect to get a "peaceful" response. Your words are INSTIGATING violence! Your words are not peaceful, they are VIOLENT!
Getting a violent reponse from that should be no surprise.
It's like walking up to single african american, calling them the "n" word, then being surprised if they guy socks you in the face.
If you can't take responsibility for the words you speak, then you shouldn't speak them.
By this logic, you can't have a peaceful pro-choice demonstrations, because religious individuals think that you're promoting murder and should fight back. Etc. etc.
This is assuming that the only way to legitimize your views is to back them up with violence. I don't understand this at all. By definition, if you are protesting, you are protesting against something or someone, but that doesn't confer a right to reactionary violence. In any civilized society, you shouldn't have to defend your viewpoints with violence.
By encouraging this reactionary violence, you are encouraging that the Nazi's engage in violence to defend their views. You are saying that they should stay and fight? Next time they want to voice an opinion, should they bring billy clubs and shotguns to properly defend themselves and not be "cowards"?
Guess the worlds all fucked up huh?
This demonstration DID NOT HAVE THE INTENTION OF BEING PEACEFUL that is what I am saying. Nothing more, nothing less. It's simple.
RatBugDave
Nashville, TN
July 2003
OCT 15, 2005 09:31 PM