tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post3093820912182865190..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: They’d Be Dead If They Were BlackAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-15523803504881562672015-08-19T19:23:50.748+01:002015-08-19T19:23:50.748+01:00Ebony and ivory and AR-15s . It's how communit...Ebony and ivory and AR-15s . It's how communities are meant to coexist.DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-62944822089891104062015-08-18T21:50:43.697+01:002015-08-18T21:50:43.697+01:00Daithi,
Looks like we may get a chance to see jus...Daithi,<br /><br />Looks like we may get a chance to see just how hypothetical this discussion really is. The Oath Keepers have plans to go back to Ferguson, and to arm 50 black residents with AR-15s for a protest march. I've written a piece on this for my blog: <br /><br />http://www.petertrumbore.com/the-oath-keepers-have-plans-for-ferguson/PFTrumborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549998962147570012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-56740281573956132102015-08-16T22:20:12.737+01:002015-08-16T22:20:12.737+01:00No problemo Peter, its all hypothetical and judgem...No problemo Peter, its all hypothetical and judgement calls anyway. Just as an aside, I think styling the IRA as a patriotic Republican militia rather than some Government in exile is a sounder concept these days, and does not deligitimise what it sees as its purpose and function.(With the caveat this rebranding could only come from themselves.)DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-2921969117361209692015-08-16T21:43:03.215+01:002015-08-16T21:43:03.215+01:00I will have to agree to disagree. I think in the p...I will have to agree to disagree. I think in the political climate we have in the States today, it would have been suicidal for a group of African Americans to walk uninvited into a very tense confrontation with police armed the way the Oath Keepers were. If memory serves, the last time police in the U.S. were challenged by armed, politicized African Americans, it resulted in police dropping a PFTrumborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549998962147570012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-54670570465161487682015-08-16T19:13:26.647+01:002015-08-16T19:13:26.647+01:00Thanks Peter, I didn't claim they were welcome...Thanks Peter, I didn't claim they were welcomed, just that it hadn't resulted In the shoot out your logic claimed would occur, at a more tense time. I'm quite interested in the 'posse raised by a sheriff' model of law enforcement, given the routine unlawful practices of those tasked with upholding it presently. It becomes a community effort, with no standing paramilitary forceDaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-16040339104130129982015-08-16T17:04:39.811+01:002015-08-16T17:04:39.811+01:00Daithi, I disagree. First on the Panthers. During ...Daithi, I disagree. First on the Panthers. During the 1960s the NRA was a strong advocate of gun control. And Ronald Reagan, while governor of California, in 1967 signed one of the country's most restrictive gun control policies, the Mulford Act, in direct response to the Panthers openly carrying firearms at rallies in his state. <br /><br />You can read about this history here: <br /><br />PFTrumborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549998962147570012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-24350119774622916502015-08-16T15:21:31.451+01:002015-08-16T15:21:31.451+01:00I dont think you have a case.Many Black Panther ra...I dont think you have a case.Many Black Panther rallies where they carry giant rifles are/were untouched, even during the civil rights disturbances (In fact was it not Huey Newton that discovered the open carry loophole in law initially?).<br /><br />Do you see any issue with the Oath Keepers stated aims Peter? They hold Governments in the contempt they deserve. It seems to make people DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.com