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30 April 2020 (imported to correct account)
We’ve now seen armed protestors storming state capitols a couple of times. Today it was Michigan. What’s amazing is that it’s legal for them to bring their weapons into the capitol but there are metal detectors in the entrances for, what exactly? I had to take off my belt last time I went to get my drivers license and leave it at the metal detector.
I really wonder what the reaction of the police would be if people of color showed up with their legal guns and tried to legally enter the capitol?
These people are being overtly supported by our own president, which is stunning. First, he abdicates all responsibility to the states, then publicly supports “liberating” those states from those he gave up authority to. He is a master of playing both sides. He lives on conflict. It is literally his fuel of life. And it will get worse.
You cannot have that many angry, armed people, feeling justified by the president, without it eventually turning bad. They will view it as their “Boston Massacre” moment, except the point is, the people with the heavy weaponry are the protestors, not the police. Isn’t it odd that the same people who scream about supporting the police are more than willing to confront them when they feel entitled.
