Lon
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Not 'black lives,' lives matter. In cases where there is prejudism, whatever color is downtrodden, matters. This isn't about that, but about incredibly misguided behavior and poor judgement and duped masses without critical thinking skills.
What I believe is different is 'what' lives matter to the "BLM" movement, antifa, and other attachments:
Somehow, the death of a criminal became 'every man' for BLM. How did that happen? To the exclusion of innocent childrens' lives that we'd otherwise think DID matter?
The NYDailyNews reports the first man killed after the first criminal's death, was immediately another criminal's death, shot by the pawn shop owner for looting his store.
Scared, the 59 year old pawn shop owner shot and killed one man breaking into his shop and now his life 'doesn't matter' as he is facing murder charges. Worth the marching and looting in the streets? Does "BLM" matter at the point of the loss of two lives?
A young black man, siting in his Dodge with friends, was shot and killed during protest and riots by another black man with a light complexion.
What in the world is going on when one involved with demonstrating during "BLM" kills another who's life is supposed to matter?
Did "BLM" matter when it is complicit in the killing of more "BL"s?
The next victim, Barry Perkins in this supposedly meaningful demonstration of "Lives Mattering" was a looter/protester that hoped up on a Fed Ex truck. The mob scared the driver half to death, breaking in and looting his truck. Rightfully fearing for his life, the Fed Ex driver honked the horn blasting his intention of getting out of danger. One man did not get out of the way and died underneath the semi-truck tires. Was this a 'meaningful' protest? Could it have in any way have been seen as justified? Does one thugs life warrant thug and criminal behavior? Is it even possible for any black life, be seen to 'matter' when these and others' lives are blatantly placed on the 'not mattering' list?
17 people were killed during the Altanta demonstration and looting. 2 of them small children.
The impassioned father of his shot-to-death 8 year old daughter asked "Black lives matter???!!? "They say Black Lives Matter. You killed your own," Williamson said. "They killed my baby because she crossed a barrier and made a U-turn? You killed a child. She didn't do nothing to nobody. Black Lives Matter? You killing your own. You killed an 8-year-old child. She ain't did nothing to no one of y'all. She just wanted to get home to see her cousin. That's all she wanted to do."
Television commentator Matt Walsh: "Police shot 9 unarmed black people all of last year. 25 people were shot just in Atlanta. Yesterday. And not by police. BLM says the first thing is a crisis worthy of rioting but the second is not."
Do black lives matter over an above all other lives? Do black thug lives matter so much as to end innocent lives, black or other, or even another thug's life? What is the trade off? Do any lives matter at that point when the disregard for any life is the result of demonstrations and looting? Can there possibly be a peaceful demonstration when looters and criminals are encouraged and marching right on the tail of irresponsibility?
It is my estimation that news has stoked these fires and is directly (not indirectly) responsible for these meaningless (not that they cannot be meaningful, they just aren't) marches, looting, violence, destruction, and death. They may not 'be' the criminals involved but they egged criminals and the irresponsible on, all the while disregarding the lives harmed in the wake of their angst and political maneuvering.
"BLM" doesn't matter when it and those riding on the shirt-tails are criminals, looters, and bent on rowdy mindless destruction. It isn't a protest, it is thuggery. "BLM" doesn't matter when they cannot distinguish between lives that really do matter, innocent young lives and the Fed Ex driver just trying to go to his next drop, or the child just wanting to be home, no. "BLM" doesn't matter at all and they need to be penalized no less than $500 per illegal marcher and/or 30 days minimum in jail specifically because "BLM" doesn't matter when no other lives matter. Innocent and community enriching lives matter. Thugs' lives may matter to someone but not to the exclusion or over importance of these other beneficial and potential, meaningful lives.
What I believe is different is 'what' lives matter to the "BLM" movement, antifa, and other attachments:
Somehow, the death of a criminal became 'every man' for BLM. How did that happen? To the exclusion of innocent childrens' lives that we'd otherwise think DID matter?
The NYDailyNews reports the first man killed after the first criminal's death, was immediately another criminal's death, shot by the pawn shop owner for looting his store.
Scared, the 59 year old pawn shop owner shot and killed one man breaking into his shop and now his life 'doesn't matter' as he is facing murder charges. Worth the marching and looting in the streets? Does "BLM" matter at the point of the loss of two lives?
A young black man, siting in his Dodge with friends, was shot and killed during protest and riots by another black man with a light complexion.
What in the world is going on when one involved with demonstrating during "BLM" kills another who's life is supposed to matter?
Did "BLM" matter when it is complicit in the killing of more "BL"s?
The next victim, Barry Perkins in this supposedly meaningful demonstration of "Lives Mattering" was a looter/protester that hoped up on a Fed Ex truck. The mob scared the driver half to death, breaking in and looting his truck. Rightfully fearing for his life, the Fed Ex driver honked the horn blasting his intention of getting out of danger. One man did not get out of the way and died underneath the semi-truck tires. Was this a 'meaningful' protest? Could it have in any way have been seen as justified? Does one thugs life warrant thug and criminal behavior? Is it even possible for any black life, be seen to 'matter' when these and others' lives are blatantly placed on the 'not mattering' list?
17 people were killed during the Altanta demonstration and looting. 2 of them small children.
The impassioned father of his shot-to-death 8 year old daughter asked "Black lives matter???!!? "They say Black Lives Matter. You killed your own," Williamson said. "They killed my baby because she crossed a barrier and made a U-turn? You killed a child. She didn't do nothing to nobody. Black Lives Matter? You killing your own. You killed an 8-year-old child. She ain't did nothing to no one of y'all. She just wanted to get home to see her cousin. That's all she wanted to do."
Television commentator Matt Walsh: "Police shot 9 unarmed black people all of last year. 25 people were shot just in Atlanta. Yesterday. And not by police. BLM says the first thing is a crisis worthy of rioting but the second is not."
"In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population," Heather Mac Donald wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
"In 2018 there were 7,407 Black homicide victims," she went on. "Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed Black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a Black male than an unarmed Black male is to be killed by a police officer."
Mac Donald continued: "A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that White police officers were less likely than Black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed Black suspects. Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. Any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police."
Do black lives matter over an above all other lives? Do black thug lives matter so much as to end innocent lives, black or other, or even another thug's life? What is the trade off? Do any lives matter at that point when the disregard for any life is the result of demonstrations and looting? Can there possibly be a peaceful demonstration when looters and criminals are encouraged and marching right on the tail of irresponsibility?
It is my estimation that news has stoked these fires and is directly (not indirectly) responsible for these meaningless (not that they cannot be meaningful, they just aren't) marches, looting, violence, destruction, and death. They may not 'be' the criminals involved but they egged criminals and the irresponsible on, all the while disregarding the lives harmed in the wake of their angst and political maneuvering.
"BLM" doesn't matter when it and those riding on the shirt-tails are criminals, looters, and bent on rowdy mindless destruction. It isn't a protest, it is thuggery. "BLM" doesn't matter when they cannot distinguish between lives that really do matter, innocent young lives and the Fed Ex driver just trying to go to his next drop, or the child just wanting to be home, no. "BLM" doesn't matter at all and they need to be penalized no less than $500 per illegal marcher and/or 30 days minimum in jail specifically because "BLM" doesn't matter when no other lives matter. Innocent and community enriching lives matter. Thugs' lives may matter to someone but not to the exclusion or over importance of these other beneficial and potential, meaningful lives.