Brutkey

crow
@crow@irlqt.me

@coop@denton.social @sidereal@kolektiva.social

i try to explain we don't have freedom of speech (or association or to petition your government for redress of grievances) because anyone who's ever been to a protest knows the cops will beat your ass and shoot chemical weapons at you if you try

it's very frustrating talking to my father who solemnly avows freedom of speech as sacred even if he finds it distasteful like nazis on college campuses and trying to get him to understand why that "free speech" is considered sacred and protected but palestinian protesters get the boot, if not literally a thousands boots

Daughter of Discord
@CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro

@crow@irlqt.me @sidereal@kolektiva.social @coop@denton.social

The people of Standing Rock petitioned the government for a redress of grievances and had water cannons turned on them. Students at Kent State were murdered. So were Fred Hampton and MLK Jr. Abbie Hoffman and Timothy Leary were subjected to such outrageous FBI harassment that they had to go on the run. The 1999 Seattle WTO protesters were beaten, tear-gassed, and arrested. So were the Occupy Wall Street protesters. All these movements were crushed by our government but the first amendment is important, right? Bullshit. I mean, if you just look at The House Un-American Activities Committee or the FBI’s Counter-Intelligence Program and its list of victims or the Sedition Act of 1918 the American government has a LONG history of ignoring the first Amendment.