Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	Fed troops
Date:	7/23/2020 8:43:07 AM

If mayors don't want Fed troops help so be it-I say let them be & let riots continue to destroy Seattle Chicago Portland St Louis-& No give $$$ aid to help rebuild-maybe a dose of tough love is what's needed

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Fed troops
Date:	7/23/2020 9:05:12 AM (updated 7/23/2020 9:06:28 AM)

If you owned property in Portland, would you expect the Portland police to protect your property... stop looting and destruction?  Well, WE THE PEOPLE own property in Portland... FEDERAL PROPERTY.  The Portland police department is not protecting said property.  Therefore, in the absence of reliable law inforcement in Portland, WE THE PEOPLE are perfectly correct and legal in assigning FEDERAL agents to protect FEDERAL property.

My heart goes out to the innocent, law abiding citizens and property owners in these communities where their elected leaders have abdicated their obligations and have hobbled their law inforcement while coddling the lawless thugs.

THIS is what anarchy looks like.

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	right to PEACEABLY assemble
Date:	7/23/2020 9:11:09 AM

Article the third [Amendment I]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Fed troops
Date:	7/23/2020 9:19:47 AM

I think they are there mostly to protect Federal property but I could be wrong.  I know that's what they are doing in Portland.  I'm with Maj but only partially.  Yes I feel sorry for the people whose livelihoods and properties are being destroyed by these anarchists.....but only those that didn't vote for the govt they have.  If you are impacted but voted for Democrats you are reaping what you sowed and I don't feel sorry for you in the least.  And if after this you continue to vote for Democrats I question your sanity.

Name:	wix -	Reply
Subject:	Fed troops....AMEN!!!!
Date:	7/23/2020 9:23:59 AM

May dimokraps suffer in their own cesspool!!

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	on drowning in a cesspool
Date:	7/23/2020 9:47:18 AM

“…If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself…”

“…As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,

even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story….”

-- Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

You (WE) have an obligation to be compassionate towards and to try to protect even the dull and ignorant. For… if they cannot think for themselves and are politically impressionable… your duty is to stymie efforts to exploit them (e.g. you… being smarter and wiser… have good reason not to allow your dog to go into the street).

On the other hand… you have a right to the respect and consideration of those greater than you. And, you should require [of] them to look out for your best interest.

We are ALL equal in God’s eyes.

“…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”

Our beef is with the hierarchy… not with the dull and ignorant.  We can make a difference in November.

- LMF Curmudgeon

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	on drowning in a cesspool
Date:	7/23/2020 10:08:18 AM

I am more thinking of business owners in those cities.  They are not the dull and ignorant....at least they shouldn't be.  But I have more faith in people than maybe is justified given the history of voting for Democrats.  Surely at some point they will see beyond the rhetoric and be logical.  Having said all that, your admonition is well deserved.  Charity and empathy are two virtues I struggle with every day.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Question rolling around in my mind
Date:	7/23/2020 12:19:19 PM

I believe that the mission of the feds is trying to protect federal property.  However, Trump has said he is willing to deploy feds to the cities where violence has taken over.  We know that the Constitution gives us Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Peacable assembly and even the right to petition the government for grievances, but how far does that go where violence is tearing up the cities?  And what about in the cities where crime is killing people, like in Chicago?  

On one hand we have the protests - some are peacable, some aren't.  But for how long do you let that go on?  Setting aside the virus, it is bad for tourism, horrible for those trying to go about their normal lives.  How long do you let Black Lives Matter preach and paint the streets with their name?  And when it turns deadly, what do you do then?  How long do you have police force lined up, trying to contain protestors, and have people spit in their faces and get nose to nose with them, spewing profanity in their faces?  How long do you let that continue, and what do you do about it?  

Then you have the gang/drug violence in the city.  Last weekend in Chicago, 55 shot, 7 killed.  What do you do when gang violence is killing bystanders?  Who decides when enough is enough?  

You can talk about Democrats getting what they deserve, but I have a feeling that even the majority of them, this is not what they voted for.  At what point and who is responsible for bringing the law and order?  Obviously the mayor and the city counsil, but if they don't act?  Those that are worried about protecting the lives of unborn babies - who is worrying about protecting the lives of children that have already been born?  

Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	Question rolling around in my mind
Date:	7/23/2020 12:36:44 PM

apparently no Black leaders ! where are  Rev Jesse/ Al ? there's no $$ to be made so they're not there; Joe more concerned with Muslims

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Question rolling around in my mind
Date:	7/23/2020 12:37:11 PM

Tuesday Nov 3 it will either get much worse or they will go home to mamas basement.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Question rolling around in my mind
Date:	7/23/2020 4:10:06 PM

Or Benjamin Crump or anyone else that shows up when there is money to be made.  Where is BLM?  Are they there comforting the survivors, mopping up the blood from the street or speaking out about black on black crime?  No, they are running around filming traffic stops of black people by the police.