I was pilloried and pelted with dung elsewhere for writing back in May about attending and participating in one of the protests in the immediate wake of George Floyd’s death.
But I will always be glad I did it
I am an anthropologist trained in the “participant observation“ technique. Yes, I lay on the ground, I chanted I can’t breathe. I marched with the fairly small, overwhelmingly white crowd ( this was Wilkes Barre, after all! ) and obediently called the names of the black dead. That made me a quisling in some people’s eyes.
I’m glad I saw this movement while it was, still, what it started out to be: Americans expressing compassion and their simple human horror at having seen police kneeling on a man’s neck, jiggling his weight to ensure submission. It is to our credit, America’s credit, all of us, that we reacted to that video the way we did.
So come out in broad daylight, In your own neighborhood, when your friends and neighbors can see who you are ( yes, even with the useless mask you can distinguish people you know) and let the country know you are horrified by that image (which can’t be erased unfortunately by reports that Floyd may have already been dying from a drug overdose). And you want the police to cease and desist from such tactics.
That is what the demonstrations were in May, true “peaceful protests”.
In another month, they became a mere cover for anarchists, black-clad America-haters With black umbrellas , all kinds of projectiles, and deploying man’s oldest weapon: fire.
If I hadn’t attended, I would not be able to bear witness.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
What annoys me beyond belief is that once again, the MSM paints the picture of the ‘heartless conservative.’
NOBODY was less than appalled by Floyd’s death but our argument has always been:
What about the ginormous black-on-black crime particularly in South Chicago that has resulted in 538 homicides this year alone? Where is the protesting over that?
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Exactly, and I’m glad I mingled in up close’n’ personal with those first demonstrations. That was NOT the radical Left, it was all stripes of Americans imagining that knee onTheir own necks. It really was a love fest. Damn, the Left is good: somehow they took an issue we ALL agreed on and made it divisive.
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“Damn, the Left is good: somehow they took an issue we ALL agreed on and made it divisive.”
ST Unleashed Comment of the Decade!
Congrats Hypatia.
For those who have eyes to see this also reveals just how damned satanic the left actually is. Our so-called ‘public servants’ evil intentions and actions on full display in broad daylight (so to speak); and in response, we put on our masks and shelter in place.
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Hyp, have been listening to AMR and Maj. Mac’s breakdown of the statistics in the WaPo’s database, (begun in 2014, after Ferguson) on the number of actual killings/deaths of ‘unarmed’ black men in police custody; and, most-recently, discussing a phenomenon called “agitated/excited delirium” in certain individuals in custody. (I’ll link when at the PC.) The video we’ve seen isn’t the whole story; Mac has even come to a different conclusion about this since then. Glad you paid homage to Margaret Mead; but why are these “die-ins” happening in Wilkes-Barre, not in Detroit or Watts?
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Yes, I think it’s clear Floyd was already dying, But as I said, nothing will erase that video from people’s minds. In May, right after the incident, protests like this were occurring all over the country, in small towns as well as big cities. I’m telling you that, like the one I attended, they were, initially, truly peaceful expressive assemblies. And they didn’t morph into nighttime looting and arson, as they did in the cities.
I don’t understand why the FBI can’t infiltrate the professional agitators who are traveling around supplying projectiles and accelerants. I always thought breaking up domestic crime rings is what the FBI is for.
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As promised, links: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
and: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088378/ or: https://allmarineradio.com/2020/09/14/what-is-excited-delirium-two-los-angeles-county-deputies-ambushed-protesters-chant-hope-they-die-at-the-hospital-wtf/
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I don’t understand why the FBI can’t infiltrate the professional agitators who are traveling around supplying projectiles and accelerants.
My best guess is they haven’t got the cojones. Full Stop
I wrote here or in a phonecon with one of d’Ettes during the initial phase of CHAZ (or whatevs) was bewildered by the same thing. It would have been so foxtrotting easy to infiltrate right at the beginning before things could get organized. Put in a clever street-wise operator and let him follow the money to the financiers. My guess is that none could blend nor had the survival skills. That is your vaunted G-man of the year 2020 or so I am afraid. Huge h.u.g.e. opportunity lost, I am afraid. Maybe they have some guys inside already but I am not holding my breath on that one. Like I said, no balls and no skills.
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No skills: it’s been exposed lately that what most govt agencies are teaching their recruits is n0t policing and detective skills, but “critical race theory” . Syllabus: America bad. Why the… Foxtrot (and ST I apologize for previously violating our CoC) should the CDC be getting into this? They should be worrying only about the “race” and speciation of viruses and bacteria! Trump ordered the indoctrination stopped, they defied him, he stomped it out…with the results that now Dr. Redfield is “Fauci-ized “;so he goes before Congress, says Trump,is wrong, we won’t be getting a vaccine for…..well, who knows when, but anyway these little party-favor thin paper masks . (Foxtrotting useless per my BMD) are our hope and our salvation!
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There is no CoC to violate. Liz, ‘gave’ us foxtrot and I like it but sometimes the original F-Bomb is required to make the point. Carry on!
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Thanks for the update. I am not following the play-by-play because it is too heartwrenching.
I also wonder if we are not witnessing the November election being stolen before our eyes. I fear the future will be a painful eye-opener to just how the Progs are stealing the November election tonow. PA and MI may well both have been stolen already.
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Just in case you, Hypatia, ever meet her my mom does have a no F-bomb policy which she strictly enforces.
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Then shame on our G-men for not getting a butt load of confidential informants into all of these demostic terrorist groups.
Again, there is a decent chance they did but I am not holding my breath. They are good at political intrigue not work that requires down and dirty, blood and guts.
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