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Greg Abbott declares open season on protesters in Texas (www.motherjones.com)

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[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 154 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Those that make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. - John F Kennedy 1962

I do hope no violence happens in Texas, I really do.

Though anyone who has picked up a history book knows how this ends. And usually forced to sit as a bystander as it happens.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago

Yeah the problem is that the other side says the exact thing, with the difference that they aren't oppressed, they simply lost the "right" to oppress others

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 10 points 5 months ago

Americans are at war with their history books

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 99 points 5 months ago

This is how we descend into vigilantism - when the justice system is fundamentally unjust people need to seek their justice elsewhere.

This isn't an endorsement of vigilantism either - it's fucking horrible and can be used against justice just as easily for justice.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 32 points 5 months ago

This is the true price we pay for our sham supreme court. It’s a strong indicator to all that justice is not done. It encourages dangerous vigilantism and violence because as you write, where will it come from then? How are the wronged to be made whole?

This is seriously dangerous territory and I’m quite concerned for where we are headed.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

How's that saying go again — "The only way to stop a bad vigilante with a gun is with a good vigilante with a gun?"

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 85 points 5 months ago

Texas is undemocratic. If you can't protest you have no power as people

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

That's not specific to Texas, protesters are always silenced by the state when they are deemed a threat to the status quo.

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Can't have a government without people to govern.

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago

It’s even worse than it seems, because the killer can pull a Kyle Rittenhouse and go on the MAGA speaking circuit and get rich.

They’re not just incentivizing killers. They’re going to make them the MAGA version of rich and famous.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

The family of the person he killed need to file civil charges. Sue this asshole into destitution

[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

How long til the killer is running for office somewhere?

[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago

...so they're encouraging the escalation of peaceful protests into actual riots... in Texas... where at least half of the pop is armed... sure, that'll go well.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Gov. Abbott is definitely teaching the lesson that anyone who tries to drive into protestors should immediately be shot and killed, because all attempting to deescalate does is get more protestors murdered with no recourse.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago

People need to protest using all rights afforded to them by the Constitution. The right to free speech, which they use, the right to protest, which they do, and the right to carry arms, which they need to do.

People need to address the state in the only language it knows.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

and the right to carry arms, which they need to do.

The victim was doing exactly that (he was open-carrying an AK-47), which is the pretext the murderer used to falsely claim "stand your ground."

In retrospect, the tactically correct thing to do would've been for Foster to have preemptively shot Perry through the car window, citing the same "stand your ground" defense (with infinitely more legitimacy, since Perry had just been trying to run over protestors).

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

People need to address the state in the only language it knows.

All the state knows is obstruction and violence. So that's what they should get and deserve.

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Freedom?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Freedom to hunt down anyone left of the GOP!

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 0 points 5 months ago

But look at these shiny guns, now THAT'S freedom

[-] BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Or, scary!, depending on who's holding it. Guns are either a god given right or the devil's playing depending on the presumed political leaning of those holding them.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 5 months ago

I'm declaring open season on Greg Abboott. Someone please let a bear into his home while he's at work.

[-] greentreerainfire@kbin.social 9 points 5 months ago

Someone please let a bear into his home while he’s at work.

Wish granted… a large, hairy man now waits in his bed.

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

For Greg Abbott that might be equally terrifying

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

All right, you surpassed my expectations. Well done.

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

What's this all aboot?

[-] Coach@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Maybe asshole Abbott will find himself in the middle of one of these violent protests.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Abbott would never go to a protest because he doesn't stand for anything.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

May his ass holes ever increase in number

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

First time a protester kills one of these murderous maga fools they will do a speed run getting them to execution.

[-] Dreizehn@kbin.social 11 points 5 months ago

The Deregulated Texas Oblast is turning into f'n Muscoviteville.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

Remember: If you see someone with a gun, shoot on sight. It's your constitutional right to use guns to defend yourself against people with guns.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This sounds like protestation, therefore it's open season on Piss Baby.

Peaceful protesting only works for so long.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Peaceful protest accomplishing anything is basically a myth anyway.

[-] SpaceBishop@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

Yes, and you can tell how ineffectual it is with how much effort they are going through to stop it!

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Are they going to offer out-of-state permits? /s

[-] AnAnonymous@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Wasn't fundamentalist protestants "protesters" before?

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but 1517 isn’t exactly recent memory.

[-] AnAnonymous@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Apparently they already forgot what it means...

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Feeling is mutual

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