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  • Well I get the feeling you were just being the devil's advocate here but I won't call you a liar. Anyway you might think a boss was an asshole for firing you but let's take my job okay? If I don't show up it doesn't get done. There's nobody within the company that can do my job. There's probably no way they could get at short notice that could replace me satisfactorily. So it's not like they would fire me but it would be an extreme hardship for me and for them. Just so the Westboro Baptist Church until the world that God hates fags.

    Also if you are so concerned with their rights to make their point why would two days be worse than one, three worse than 2?

    WSS

  • Well I get the feeling you were just being the devil's advocate here but I won't call you a liar. Anyway you might think a boss was an asshole for firing you but let's take my job okay? If I don't show up it doesn't get done. There's nobody within the company that can do my job. There's probably no way they could get at short notice that could replace me satisfactorily. So it's not like they would fire me but it would be an extreme hardship for me and for them. Just so the Westboro Baptist Church until the world that God hates fags.

    Also if you are so concerned with their rights to make their point why would two days be worse than one, three worse than 2?

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Well I get the feeling you were just being the devil's advocate here but I won't call you a liar. Anyway you might think a boss was an asshole for firing you but let's take my job okay? If I don't show up it doesn't get done. There's nobody within the company that can do my job. There's probably no way they could get at short notice that could replace me satisfactorily. So it's not like they would fire me but it would be an extreme hardship for me and for them. Just so the Westboro Baptist Church until the world that God hates fags.

    Also if you are so concerned with their rights to make their point why would two days be worse than one, three worse than 2?

    WSS

    I am not playing devils advocate, I just don't like the idea that would try to limit peaceful protestors, if you start telling protestors they are financially obligated to reimburse companies that may lose money or someone could not make it to work, then you start limiting or restricting peoples capabilities of protesting.

    If I told you that anyone who joins a protest to support gun rights has to pay $100 dollars to cover the potential loss of a business in the area you are protesting, would you still protest? How many people would not join? at what dollar amount would you decide it was something you couldn't afford to protest?

    Rights to make ones point should not endanger others, hence why police usually set up areas for people to protest to limit this( having protestors on one side of the street, directing traffic, road blocks, etc.)

  • I maintain that restricting my freedom to live my life is not part of a peaceful demonstration. That's about all I can tell you.

    WSS

  • And I don't care what the purpose of the protest is if I stop someone else from going about what he needs to do and it affects him financially the protesters should be liable.

    Basically I think all protesters are assholes at least to some extent.

    WSS

  • And I don't care what the purpose of the protest is if I stop someone else from going about what he needs to do and it affects him financially the protesters should be liable.

    Basically I think all protesters are assholes at least to some extent.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    And I don't care what the purpose of the protest is if I stop someone else from going about what he needs to do and it affects him financially the protesters should be liable.

    Basically I think all protesters are assholes at least to some extent.

    WSS

    Sometimes it takes people being an a-hole to keep this country great, Boston Tea party, woman suffrage, Labor strikes of the early 1900's, civil rights movements

  • How would something like this even be enforced?

  • How would something like this even be enforced?

    @mld-woody said:

    How would something like this even be enforced?

    I would guess if it was an organized protest then you would be able to sue the organization for lost wages\business.

  • How would something like this even be enforced?

    @mld-woody said:

    How would something like this even be enforced?

    One example might be that everyone blocks access for an automobile in which someone's taking it loved one to a medical appointment could be held jointly and severally liable.

    WSS

  • @westside-steve said:

    And I don't care what the purpose of the protest is if I stop someone else from going about what he needs to do and it affects him financially the protesters should be liable.

    Basically I think all protesters are assholes at least to some extent.

    WSS

    Sometimes it takes people being an a-hole to keep this country great, Boston Tea party, woman suffrage, Labor strikes of the early 1900's, civil rights movements

    @sadbrownsfan said:

    Sometimes it takes people being an a-hole to keep this country great, Boston Tea party, woman suffrage, Labor strikes of the early 1900's, civil rights movements

    So rioting and destruction of property (let's not pretend those demonstrations were peaceful) are perfectly legitimate Vehicles toward letting the world know that you hate Trump or that god hates fags.

    WSS

  • @sadbrownsfan said:

    Sometimes it takes people being an a-hole to keep this country great, Boston Tea party, woman suffrage, Labor strikes of the early 1900's, civil rights movements

    So rioting and destruction of property (let's not pretend those demonstrations were peaceful) are perfectly legitimate Vehicles toward letting the world know that you hate Trump or that god hates fags.

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    So rioting and destruction of property are perfectly legitimate Vehicles toward letting the world know that you hate Trump or that god hates fags.

    WSS

    I said before I do not agree with rioting, destruction of public or private property is something I do not support. Peaceful protesting I do fully support, even if I do not agree with the protestors.

    Yes, it has happened with some of things I posted (ie the Boston Tea Party was not a peaceful protest).

  • @westside-steve said:

    So rioting and destruction of property are perfectly legitimate Vehicles toward letting the world know that you hate Trump or that god hates fags.

    WSS

    I said before I do not agree with rioting, destruction of public or private property is something I do not support. Peaceful protesting I do fully support, even if I do not agree with the protestors.

    Yes, it has happened with some of things I posted (ie the Boston Tea Party was not a peaceful protest).

    @sadbrownsfan said:

    d (ie the Boston Tea Party was not a peaceful protest).

    U hush now!!

  • @westside-steve said:

    So rioting and destruction of property are perfectly legitimate Vehicles toward letting the world know that you hate Trump or that god hates fags.

    WSS

    I said before I do not agree with rioting, destruction of public or private property is something I do not support. Peaceful protesting I do fully support, even if I do not agree with the protestors.

    Yes, it has happened with some of things I posted (ie the Boston Tea Party was not a peaceful protest).

    @sadbrownsfan said:

    I said before I do not agree with rioting, destruction of public or private property is something I do not support. Peaceful protesting I do fully support, even if I do not agree with the protestors.

    Yes, it has happened with some of things I posted (ie the Boston Tea Party was not a peaceful protest).

    Yes well that's why I mentioned it. There are plenty of civil rights riots as well as the Boston Tea Party. Anyway I don't remember the suffragettes burning anything down for the record.

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    WSS

  • @sadbrownsfan said:

    I said before I do not agree with rioting, destruction of public or private property is something I do not support. Peaceful protesting I do fully support, even if I do not agree with the protestors.

    Yes, it has happened with some of things I posted (ie the Boston Tea Party was not a peaceful protest).

    Yes well that's why I mentioned it. There are plenty of civil rights riots as well as the Boston Tea Party. Anyway I don't remember the suffragettes burning anything down for the record.

    πŸ˜‰

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Yes well that's why I mentioned it. There are plenty of civil rights riots as well as the Boston Tea Party. Anyway I don't remember the suffragettes burning anything down for the record.

    πŸ˜‰

    WSS

    They didn't loot and say 'colonist's lives matter'?

  • @sadbrownsfan said:

    I said before I do not agree with rioting, destruction of public or private property is something I do not support. Peaceful protesting I do fully support, even if I do not agree with the protestors.

    Yes, it has happened with some of things I posted (ie the Boston Tea Party was not a peaceful protest).

    Yes well that's why I mentioned it. There are plenty of civil rights riots as well as the Boston Tea Party. Anyway I don't remember the suffragettes burning anything down for the record.

    πŸ˜‰

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    Yes well that's why I mentioned it. There are plenty of civil rights riots as well as the Boston Tea Party. Anyway I don't remember the suffragettes burning anything down for the record.

    πŸ˜‰

    WSS

    a little off topic but..

    A group of more "extreme women suffrage" protestors did get arrested for obstructing traffic for protesting in front of the White House, fined and jailed...then when they returned to protest beaten and tortured. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_Terror_(event)

  • @westside-steve said:

    Yes well that's why I mentioned it. There are plenty of civil rights riots as well as the Boston Tea Party. Anyway I don't remember the suffragettes burning anything down for the record.

    πŸ˜‰

    WSS

    They didn't loot and say 'colonist's lives matter'?

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    They didn't loot and say 'colonist's lives matter'?

    Well, it didn't work out for the British when they tried to make the colonists pay for the financial loss of the East india Company.

  • https://m.landofthebrave.info/boston-tea-party-facts.htm

    Some interesting stuff here. By the way arrested and fined for blocking traffic, perfect.

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    WSS

  • https://m.landofthebrave.info/boston-tea-party-facts.htm

    Some interesting stuff here. By the way arrested and fined for blocking traffic, perfect.

    πŸ™‚

    WSS

    @westside-steve said:

    https://m.landofthebrave.info/boston-tea-party-facts.htm

    Some interesting stuff here. By the way arrested and fined for blocking traffic, perfect.

    πŸ™‚

    WSS

    Reading the fact sheet...and found this to be funny\ironic, that an act of rebellion by British subject (at the time) was on Guy Fawkes Day.

    Boston Tea Party Fact 27On November 5, 1773, Guy Fawkes Day, celebrated as Pope’s Day in colonial Boston, Samuel Adams called a town meeting at Faneuil Hall in response to the β€œtea crisis” and declared anyone who aids or abets the β€œunloading receiving or vending the tea is an enemy to America!”

  • Boston Tea party = peaceful. Liberals love to change definitions to make fake justifications for their emotional knee jerking.

    : devoid of violence or force The opposing groups used peaceful tactics.

  • Boston Tea party = peaceful. Liberals love to change definitions to make fake justifications for their emotional knee jerking.

    : devoid of violence or force The opposing groups used peaceful tactics.

    @calfoxwc said:

    Boston Tea party = peaceful. Liberals love to change definitions to make fake justifications for their emotional knee jerking.

    : devoid of violence or force The opposing groups used peaceful tactics.

    The TEA party of today = peaceful protests...many times they even would clean up their garbage and trash after their rallies unlike the messes the left usually leaves behind after any of their protests/rallies for others to clean up after them.

  • yep - we went to some Tea Party rallies - nothing but terrific Americans there, no garbage.

    reminds me of the phoney anti-war protests at Kent State - a whole lot of garbage....

    and arson - the ROTC building was burned down. Threats to any student with a camera -

    they would assume you were a "narc"