I would imagine you meant disperse, though it doesn't much sound like you'd be bothered if they were dispensed of either, so maybe you were right the first time .

Clearly at the white house very significant numbers of entirely peaceful protestors had rubber bullets and tear gas fired at them for a photo op. Your emotion or slant on it is neither here nor there, because it is what it is.

Your almost reverence for violent disruptors on the right, like the proud boys, and lack of concern for people peacefully protesting when they don't share your view is very apparent.

Rounding on my message while giving a free pass to someone who just talked of what a laugh shooting innocent people would be furthers that reality. No doubt he's just "trolling" whereas if someone on the opposite politics said that you'd never stop talking about it. No wonder you attacked me for expressing "balance".

Edited by BlueJay (02 Jun 2020 8.26pm)

Your stance does deserve criticism because without action those 'peaceful protestors'....who aren't that peaceful judging by the videos I've seen will never move.

The streets need to be cleared and you're just like to moralise and nitpick while others have to take the hard decisions and actions to restore order.

I could imagine what it would be like with you in charge.....frigging librarians.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Jun 2020 8.47pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

So if it had been for something you regard as serious then it's ok then? I don't give a damn what's it's for.

So that's your idea of clearing rioters.....'Errr excuse me please, so sorry there, but we really have something important to do...sorry, we wouldn't be doing this otherwise.....you could just carry on for days, no weeks being 'peaceful'.

Democrats have been in charge of these states and there are many people in hospital now or have had their homes and businesses destroyed because of weak willed whiny moralising.

If what's happening now had happened at the start all of that would have been avoided.....No doubt you'd have criticised it then as you have now.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Jun 2020 9.08pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I think the video said he was a copper.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

'I prefer law enforcement norms that apply to both left and right'

Errr....excuse me...So how are you clearing these people?

Apparently, somewhere in your whiny rant I'm meant to care that if these were Proud boys protesting for days and involved in smashing crap up but then in part being peaceful that I wouldn't want them cleared.

Errr no.

These protesters were asked to leave many many times. Proud boys generally tend to respect what the police tell them to do.....But if asked to disperse after days and they didn't....Hell, yeah, feck them off.

You're just a whiny librarian Guardian reader and I claim my five pounds.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Jun 2020 9.59pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Funnily enough, both peaceful protesters and police officers get my backing. They are not on opposite sides. I'm not, unlike you, getting excited about either of those groups being attacked and killed. If you're so quick to attribute one man's death to "protesters" as a whole, then you yourself are no different from the angry mob elements gunning for "all police" as result of George Floyd's death.

If you're able to click back to the previous page, you'll be able to see that I was just talking about how despicable a filmed attack on a police officer was, and how I hoped they'd be tracked down and have to permanently forfeit their liberty as result. I am against violence against those who protect and serve as well as those peacefully protesting, What a radical view.