I wanna buy the organizers a train horn and a 125psi 50 gallon air compressor. I’ll never hear it out in Anne Arundel, but it’ll still bring me joy knowing everyone in gtown will! |
| No it's not ok and I don't know why anyone would want to live in DC anyway. |
it's pretty asinine. |
| God you people are AWFUL! This protest was not violent and now you're complaining it was too noisy. How horrible. Do you realize the point of protesting is to disturb the peace, disrupt the status quo, get noticed? Good trouble and all. |
You really think that would have mattered? |
Thanks you! I don't understand what people don't get about this. If all protest was sweet and nice and comfortable it wouldn't matter because no one would pay attention. |
The issue is that most people living in GT grew up in civilized neighborhoods and not around riots and protests. Their parents didn’t commit crimes and they don’t either. They don’t want to be around protests and criminal activity. If you grew up in a two parent UMC or UC home you’d understand. |
Its not about sweet and nice. Was it permitted? There is a process to get permits for protests. Permitted protests are good trouble. People who demonstrate without permits are bad trouble. |
This. It’s about letting authorities prepare. In this country where all ideological groups have rights, you don’t want an impromptu far right march. |
| A good protest has a point. These protesters are just looking to agitate without any clear requests. That's no way to win. |
I would just ask them to respect the law for peaceful, permitted deminstrations - whatever their point. |
| So what? An occasional inconvenience to accommodate social protest? Don’t value freedom of expression over a bit of list sleep? |
no, I don't. This is not freedom of expression, it's abuse of expression. You should really take civics. In society, individual rights are balanced with the rights of a group. Ie. not yelling fire in a theater. Brush up. |
Not enforcing laws on gatherings also led to a 20 person shooting and one death this weekend. There is a reason that we have reasonable, lawful ways to gather whether for entertainment, protest or anything else. If you don't want laws or don't want laws enforced, or want to pick and choose which ones are--perhaps you should start your own community? There are lots of people in Michigan who live in groups with like-minded individuals and print their own money etc. You would fit right in. |
| Yeah, the “they should be allowed to skirt the rules because I agree with their cause” reasoning is a slippery slope. It shouldn’t be hard or expensive to get a permit, if so that’s on DC govt |