Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Occupied

Getting almost no coverage by the mainstream media, rancers in protest have occupied a Federal building (unoccupied by the way) because the arrest of father and son ranchers who did a controlled burn on their land. They were charged with act of terrorism. It should be noted that government has been trying to take the land from these people.

Regardless of what their protest stood for, they have been labled terrorists ans white supremacists. I'm sure how ethnicity factors in to this (our race is human by the eay). We almost had to accpet people burning downtown Baltimore and occupying busy highways with Black Lives Matter; but these people are immediately vilified without question.

This is a double standard, only certain people are allowed to protest apparently. As a society, we need to look more deeply in why people protest, what are their motivations. The Constitution allows all of us to protest the government, not a select few, regardless of ethnicity. Something to think about.

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