I fail to see how George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton could help this situation.
I think Jimmy Carter and Queen Elizabeth must share a geriatric doctor.
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Jimmy Carter's presidency was marred by a few things outside his control and the Iran hostage situation (which was largely driven by Carter's role in trying to help broker a peace deal between Israel and the PLO, among other things). Carter has been a much more effective negotiator and influence around the world AFTER leaving the White House. He's also that Christian who walks the walk...he gives his time and his money to a ton of worthwhile causes.
No, they could have just got thousands of people sick and put them in the hospital or in the grave.
<Eyeroll> But we all know they all don't and the ones who don't make it worse for those that do. That goes for cops, civilians, and any other civil service/military service profession. And worse yet, they have this internal gang type mentality that snitches end up in ditches. What on Earth would ever compel a good cop to turn in a bad cop knowing there was retribution coming from a loose cannon who legally can carry a weapon wherever he wants?
I think we underestimate the ratio of assholes per goodguy. I also think that their training should do better to weed out the assholes. It says something that there are so many who not only make the force, but enjoy long careers where they have many complaints against them.
And this is what happens when POTUS encourages this. Back in the 90s he said the Chinese government showed great strength in killing the protesters in Tianneman Sq. In his quote yesterday, he told the governors they needed to show more strength and toughness. That they were not strong enough.
From all that's being reported, the guy wasn't agro towards the police. He would feed them for free at his barbecue stand. Seems like they probably shot the wrong person (if they should have shot someone at all)
I wasn't faulting the calling of the guard... maybe just their failure to protect the innocent and to punish the unjust. That's on the state / feds.
That’s a pretty good fairy tale. Iran is a religious oligarchy. The USA covertly paid the religious leadership vast sums not to over throw the Shah. They were incredibly greedy and lazy. Eventually the Shah became so marginalized with the people, and so much destabilizing money was pumped in from Russia who was eager for a winter ocean port only possible through regime change, that the mulahs had to move on the Shah to avoid religious and secular extremists. It didn’t work. But they still wanted their covert checks from the USA. Carter refused to pay. The religious extremists with the backing of the religious hierarchy overthrew the Shah. And they took the hostages to try to force the resumption of payments and the unfreezing of bank accounts of key religious leaders who had previous payoffs in US banks. They dressed it up as religious extremism, but it was simply a state actor kidnapping scheme. Reagan promised to resume the payments in exchange for certain actions and inactions in the region, as well as the shipment of arms to the contras. That’s why they were realized as Reagan took office and it led to what we now call the Iran/Contra affair because people in Congress loyal to Jimmy Carter refused to accept how the Middle East works.
The guy hadn’t done anything. The crowd hadn’t done anything. They were’t belligerent. They were kneeling. Still the cops grabbed the guy and drug him off. It’s practically Hong Kong.
No one in the crowd knew why he was taken either. That’s the point. People are speculating that the PD’s are trying to sequester the voices that are leading the crowds (probably to maintain order, but it’s unconstitutional if he’s constitutionally exercising his rights)
I'll give you what context I know. The rioting and violence had calmed down when the man spoke, and the protesters were simply kneeling, standing, as the man spoke. That much you saw. And it was an hour+ before curfew. What was not given in context, was that the police were trying to break up a hotspot of the riot which had been in that same place before it calmed down. So they said that they needed to move out of the area, or be arrested. The fact that they arrested the man speaking when tensions calmed down, was why the protestors were upset. They felt it was inhibiting freedom of speech, when that man had not even been involved in the violence. In fact he was one of the protestors that had earlier in the day, volunteered to clean up some of the damage done by looters. He was going around and helping put up playwood on the buildings that had been broken into.
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