re: #210 albusteve

would you protect you own life and property?…how?…of you go out and break shit, start fires, steal what’s not yours, commit to mayhem that disrupts others lives, create fear and generally be a viking, you can expect to get yourself dead…if that’s what’s cool then go for it…when you get beat to shit by the cops, it probably isn’t for laying in the street quoting Ghandi

Ahem:

A lot of Indians were beat to shit for laying in the street and quoting Gandhi.

Indeed, you could summarize the entire Satyagraha movement as: “You will lie on the ground and be beat to shit, but keep lying on the ground and remember this quote from Gandhi.”

That protestors can and do suck does not means that individual law enforcement agents don’t abuse their power or engage in their own, equal-and-opposite exercise of entitlement to do as they will.