Freaking blackshirts: “Police say black-clad May Day marchers hurled wrenches and rocks at officers and hit police with sticks as a Friday evening march through Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood turned violent, injuring three officers — two seriously.” …Which is their habit, as well as being the increasing habit of any fools that let the blackshirts march with them. I’ve never quite understood that, really. Don’t the liberals and even the progressives know that, should the blackshirts ever take over, they’re going to be going right into the work camps, too?
Sorry: this particular faction of the Left aggravates me. Particularly since they’re apparently trying to get a cop to be sufficiently fearful of his or her life to go and shoot a charging blackshirt in the head. That’s probably going to happen at some point, by the way. And, in anticipation of the moment? The moment that you pick up a rock and throw it at an armed man, or you take a heavy metal club and swing it at an armed man, you have formally offered to be involved in a battle to the death. I have very little sympathy for anybody who discovers, too late, that the offer was accepted.
Moe Lane
i think they have better sense than to march someplace where the cops would shoot them. but, one can hope…
Two words: Kent State.
This ain’t the 60s. If some dumb Blackshirt gets put into the ground, I doubt he’ll gain any sympathy.
IIRC the protestors at Kent State didn’t receive much sympathy from the populace at large, just from the revisionist press. There had been so many protests/riots in such a short span of years that the well of sympathy for protestors had done gone bone-dry.
Saying that the march “turned violent” implies that it wasn’t that to begin with.