The Next Rosa Parks?

[Mr Puggsly]

VAMatt said:

Mr Puggsly said:

It sounds like your gripes are with the left. They're the ones pushing the attacks on free speech, desire "free" college, and "free" healthcare. Of course free stuff isn't actually free, it just becomes much higher taxes and rationing.

My gripe is that government is constantly infringing on human rights.  Both the left and the right, as well as the loosely defined center (in the US sense) are guilty of this.  Government in the USA locks people in cages for smoking pot, murders people for selling untaxed cigarettes, kills many thousands of innocent brown people in far away places every year, feeds outright lies and propaganda to people all around the world (including, and maybe especially, the United States), steals money from Amiercans and sends it to warlords and terrible governments all over the world, and does countless other terrible things.  

Hey, I'm with ya on some of that.

Its not just government infringing on human rights though, sometimes people have the opportunity to legalize/decriminalize things and choose not to. Some people want more government regulations and ignore the unintended consequences.

First thing though, few people actually get locked up for JUST smoking pot. They get punished in some way but usually not much if any jail time. But I get your point even if you work choice was bad.

Do you REALLY think Eric Garner was killed on purpose? No, he was an idiot with a criminal record, health problems, and resisted arrest. I'm not gonna argue the guy deserved to die, but he was an idiot and was breaking the law he had several times before. The police used force to take the fat ass down and he died. If he... I dunno... wasn't an asshole he might be alive today.

Why does it matter the people killed in far off lands are brown? I thought the primary issue was terrorism, not their brown skin.

Propaganda is universal and found in every country. I mean anytime somebody is pushing an agenda there could be propaganda.

I'd argue any country with taxes is stealing money. Not like we have an option. We just hope they don't piss it away and that's not a uniquely US thing.

I'm really not interested in having a political debate... but this has been fun.