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Suing protest organizers

mercredi 4 novembre 2020 à 01:00

A US appeals court allowed a lawsuit by a thug who was injured by a thrown rock to sue the organizer of the protest, although the protest was not supposed to be violent. The Supreme Court reversed that decision.

The idea of punishing protest organizers for something at the protest that they didn't do reminds me of the Haymarket martyrs, who were executed for having organized a rally at which some unidentified person set off a bomb.

Protest prohibition

mercredi 4 novembre 2020 à 01:00

The UK plans to prohibit protests in the name of Covid-19.

People should be allowed to protest if they wear masks and keep their distance.

That applies to Australia, too. Thugs in Melbourne arrested 400 protesters because anything more than a small protest is prohibited.

The article fails to clarify whether they were arrested for refusing to take sanitation precautions, or for protesting. Morally, that makes all the difference.

Based on the signs that the protesters are reported to have carried, I get the impression that they were covidiots. Very likely they refused to wear masks and refused to keep distance from each other. That means spreading disease. Arresting people for that — whether protesting or not — would be legitimate. Arresting people for protesting would be tyranny.

Suing protest organizers

mercredi 4 novembre 2020 à 01:00

A US appeals court allowed a lawsuit by a thug who was injured by a thrown rock to sue the organizer of the protest, although the protest was not supposed to be violent. The Supreme Court reversed that decision.

The idea of punishing protest organizers for something at the protest that they didn't do reminds me of the Haymarket martyrs, who were executed for having organized a rally at which some unidentified person set off a bomb.

Getting rid of people

mercredi 4 novembre 2020 à 01:00

The wrecker thinks of Covid-19 as an opportunity to get rid of around two million Americans, whom he will subsequently define as "losers" because they died.

Delivery ballot on time

mercredi 4 novembre 2020 à 01:00

A US court ordered the USPS to carry out specific special measures to deliver all the ballots on time.

I wonder whether DeJoy found some last-minute form of sabotage to carry out, so as to negate that order. Republicans love defying courts that try to stop their sabotage.