I heard that when Judge Kavanaugh was being sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice, there was a huge mob outside protesting the event. I wish the Capitol Police had been there with fire hoses! Hal
Here is a video showing the mob chanting and yelling and beating on the doors of our Supreme Sourt building. How can they wave the flag and think they are patriots when they are trying to vandalize this building , this is NOT a peaceful protest ! The only video I found was this one from CNN, but at least you can see what was going on from the pictures. Isn’t that the Nazi “fist salute” that they are doing ?
The fist is a salute of solidarity, good or bad, right or wrong. When I see protests of this type I always wonder how many of these people will actually go to the polls and vote on election day. I'm also more concerned about the media fanning the flames of protest to fill air time than I am about the actual protesters.
That has long been the case to some extent, but I think there's a lot more money involved in protests today than in the 1960s. Not only are the organizers and other key personnel paid for what they do, but protestors are bussed to where they are needed, fed, housed, and then bussed back to where they came from. If they are arrested, they are bailed out, attorneys are arranged, and they probably manage to ensure that they come up in front of a friendly judge. Colleges and universities are organizing these events today, and in some cases, participants are given college credit. In the 1960s, some universities tolerated protests but they didn't arrange them, and those who spent too much time protesting would feel it in their grade-point average. Most of the people participating in these posts are there for a good time, while the ones who are drumming up the emotion are the paid employees.
@Ken Anderson "Friendly Judge"! (??) You suggest the possibility of existence of partiality, discriminatory action, at that level of the Law, where impartiality is guaranteed to us all? (Facetiousness intended). Frank
College level civics courses are not what they used to be. In days past it was all about learning about our government, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and citizenship. As it presently stands, many of the college courses are more concerned with diversity, lgbt (etc)groups and socialism and yes, the students do get credit when they attend demonstrations and other civic functions. I think, if some proper research into the matter were perused that we would find Obama’s Dept. Of Education partially responsible for the not so subtle changes from a basic civics course to a democrat progressive movement course.
Organized protests are nothing new. Even back in the Civil Rights Era. Rosa Parks was not just some random gal that decided that she was no longer gonna take crap from whitey. Her act was planned and orchestrated by the NAACP and the Montgomery improvement Society. The particular bus was chosen because the driver was a known prick who enjoyed hassling black folks. Koch Bros. and other conservative groups provide just as much support their team as Soros does to his. I am still waiting for my check from George, been almost two years. Think he may have forgotten about me?
I don't think anyone's arguing that organized protests are not a new thing. Of course, they are organized. It's not like a bunch of angry people just happened to find themselves in the same place at the same time. The change today is that protests are so well financed, and that is new. In the past, other than a very few people at the top, who made their living from it, protesters paid their own way. In the 1960s, protesters drove, hitchhiked, or took a bus to the site of the protest. There were no reimbursements, no one paid your bail if you were arrested and, other than some class action suits, no one hired an attorney for you to fight your case.
I think large-scale PAID protesters are relatively new and used mostly by Progressives. Using social media and paid actors is how these things can happen so quickly. These Alaska ACLU paid 100 women to go to Washington to protest at Murkowski's door. Even though most of these people were well-off, they were sent, all expenses paid to stage protests. Some women's rights groups up here are a little upset that so much money was spent to protest Kavanaugh when it could have been better spent on rape and sexual assault prevention programs here, where we have the highest rate of sexual assault in the country. It is just the hypocrisy of the Left, I guess, where intentions mean much more than results.
That's a good point. Another is that when Democrats use fake sexual assault claims as a political tactic, what does this do to actual victims of sexual assault?
Although I don't like it when protests are used for the wrong reasons...I am glad that the topics of these protests are being brought out in the open. For to long sexual assault by those in power positions has been hidden behind closed doors and it is time these crimes (with real victims) and those who committed them are brought out from behind those closed doors and justice is brought forth for the real victims. If along with the true victims who deserve justice we will also have to put up with some "cockroaches" coming out too...then that is just something we will have to put up with. The real victims deserve to see their perpetrators "pay" for their crimes against them and also the victims deserve to know that they have helped to stop these crimes from being committed against other innocent people too.
'Just wanted to say, just in case any are in agreement with Trump that Bart was found innocent. No lack of corroboration does not equate to innocence. Not by a long shot. All the bible thumpers are jumping with glee that Roe vs. Wade is going to be gutted. What a bunch of short sighted idiots. Just some red meat hung up for the less educated. This whole Kavanaugh appointment was for one thing and one thing only. To remove the wall of separation between the executive branch and the judiciary. The Supreme Court is now nothing but an advocacy group for the White House. Keep your eye on the stage and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Not that it means a Damn thing, but "Bart O' Kavanaugh" in my opinion is more than likely guilty as charged, if not with Dr. Ford,with some other girl. Kavanaugh was and is a spoiled brat jock from a tony prep school, and as such felt he was absolutely was entitled to the pussy. You know it and I know it. I don't think that I am the only one who lived through American High School where this story is played out every day. I realize on the internet people are washed of all their past sins,never have used drugs or drank alcohol to excess, have never engaged in risky sexual behavior, never felt the vibration of a police interceptor purring under their cheek as their head is laid across the hood of a Crown Victoria. I should be wowed to be in the presence of such perfect souls, but somehow am not!
I tend to agree with you..even now on college campuses and in fraternities there are rapes and alcohol related deaths. It's happened at Cal Poly which really isn't a a big party school like some are.