Mall of America to Black Lives Matter: Take it elsewhere

Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 4 months ago to Culture
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Black Lives Matter said. "The Mall of America has now taken the further outrageous and totalitarian step of attempting to control the speech of individuals."

No, you idiots, they've simply told you to take your protest somewhere else. It's private property: you don't have the right to disrupt business. Free Speech is just like every other right: it has a time and a place.
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    Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 4 months ago
    Its private property.
    The demonstration is illegal.
    They want to provoke a confrontation with police.
    Fools don't matter regardless of color.
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    • Posted by blackswan 8 years, 4 months ago
      The BLM is WRONG. Period. They're doing all this in defense of criminals, not the innocent. Ferguson wouldn't have happened if the schmuck had obeyed the cop, rather than attack him. Trayvon would still be above ground if he hadn't attacked Zimmerman. That guy who got shot 16 times in Chicago was breaking into cars, and wouldn't drop his knife. In every case, the perp was engaged in the initiation of violence against the innocent. THAT'S what BLM is defending. It's absurd.
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      • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 4 months ago
        BLM defends anyone who (1) is black and (2) gets attacked by police. So far, I'd say about 1/3 of those people have been true innocent victims, and the rest criminals who asked for what they got. (I'm counting Freddie Gray and that cigarette seller in New York as innocent because what they did should not be crimes, and in any case is much too trivial to justify killing them.)

        But BLM forfeits even that small bit of moral high ground when they disrupt innocent people's fun. If any of them jump up in my face, I'd smack them down.

        Police brutality is a real problem, and it extends to excessive use of Tasers, pepper, and batons as well as killing people. But it happens to all races, and the only cure I can see is to (1) strip police of all legal immunity and (2) give every victim, or his family, the right to prosecute cases themselves.
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  • Posted by jrbirdman 8 years, 4 months ago
    "Jordan Kushner, a lawyer for several Black Lives Matter organizers named in the mall's lawsuit, called the mall's demands unconstitutional.

    "They could tell people to stay away from their property, but they cannot tell people what to say or what not to say," Kushner said. "It's trying to control their speech."

    "Our right to speak superceeds your right to exist" (to paraphrase Gary Burbank).

    The one online review of Atty Kushner (lawyerratingz.com) - "very incompetent, doesn't listen files the wrong papers. think twice before retaining this person."
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  • Posted by livefree-NH 8 years, 4 months ago
    There are video clips on YouTube where a TV reporter is doing a live shot and some doofus comes up to the microphone and yells something stupid. Is the TV station "attempting to control the speech" of that doofus when they stop the recording, or chase him away from that public place? Who gets to say which doofus goes on TV?

    (As far as "outrageous" and "totalitarian", my reply is 'those are pretty big words for a 7th grade dropout!')
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 4 months ago
    Those without a mind, for what ever reason, have a tendency to blame others for their own actions.

    No Mind...no awareness nor control of the brain.
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