White House staff 'relocated' after pro-Palestinian rioters damage anti-scale fencing, hurl objects

"Fundamental change" in action...

 

Were there any counter demonstrators?

I wonder what would have happened if a large group of pro-Israel demonstrators similarly "marched" in celebration of the US "supporting" the Israeli government?

 

It’s been confirmed that no one hid in the White House Trump Room, also know as the basement broom closet.

 

For some reason this immediately comes to mind.
Trump took shelter in White House bunker as protests raged
If you're trying to draw an analogy with January 6, 2021, those demonstrators that entered the White House grounds and assaulted the uniformed Secret Service officers guarding the White House could very well be sent to prison although from the description in the article that number appears to be zero.

 

Frankly, I think we need to start seeing that. I said from the beginning that the pro-Hamas demonstrations need to be given the same letter-of-the-law treatment we would give to neo-Nazis. They can march in accordance with their 1A rights, but they have to have a permit, stay in their designated area under police protection, and cannot obstruct traffic or commerce in any way. If they exceed that, then they go to jail. It may take some violence like happened at Charlottesville to get to that point, though.

 

I know what would have happened if they damaged fencing and “hurled objects” at cops.

I loved the “mostly peaceful” card getting played again.

 

Did you love the way the card was played by those right-wing politicians and those in the right-wing media who denied that the January 6th attack on the Capitol wasn't really an insurrection or attempted insurrection?

 

LOL .... TDS is strong in this one. VAg ...... you are truly obsessed with Trump, who lives rent free in your head.

 

That’s the problem with using code words like “mostly peaceful.” They eventually bring instant recognition as to their true meaning.

 

Surely, this is a topic we can mostly agree on and leave Trump out of?

 

No, I didn’t. All who crossed the line should be punished. But no one got shot by police at this most recent “mostly peaceful protest”. Someone did on January 6th.

As long as these punks and thugs come out to “peacefully protest” knowing that there are no repercussions, we can expect more of this nonsense.

Your post really says it all about your POV. There is no such thing as a mostly peaceful protest if it’s right wingers. There is no such thing as a riot if it’s leftists.

The hypocrisy here is astounding. But it isn’t anything new.

 

It's a valid analogy and the remark is to be expected from someone apparently afflicted with TWS (Trump Worship Syndrome). By the way the real Trump Derangement Syndrome is the extreme form of Narcissistic Personality Disorder frequently demonstrated by the defeated indicted former president. As I've stated before I wouldn't be concerned with Trump if he graciously accepted his defeat like virtually every other defeated incumbent president in American history and acceded to the peaceful transition of power rather than attempting to remain in office through an attempted coup d'état based on the false premise that the election was stolen from him through fraud.

I would also add and more significantly that he is the likely nominee of one the two political parties, that there is the very real possibility that he could be elected and that if elected he has essentially promised to govern as an authoritarian and that his primary motivation would be retribution against political enemies both real and perceived.

 

Unlike the Capitol, the reason that nobody got shot or was even remotely threatened with deadly force was because not a single protestor yesterday even attempted to enter the grounds of the White House much less the building itself. Someone may have very well gotten shot yesterday if he or she managed to enter the White House with a proximity to the President to the point that they were deemed to have posed a direct threat to the president. Keep in mind that Ashli Babbitt was shot because she was the point person of an enraged mob that was entering a part of the Capitol where they would have posed a direct threat to members of Congress.

 

Other than this never would have happened if Trump was still in office? Sure.

 

It'll be interesting to see how Arabs and Muslims vote here in the U.S. in November. Clearly, there's a large group of people who are very upset with the Biden administration's handling of Israel/Gaza. And it would seem prior to the events over the past 3 and a half months, at least some of those people would have been more sympathetic towards Biden than towards MAGA. But now, I think the tables might be turning. Biden is being exposed. And while I don't condone violent or destructive protests in any way, shape or fashion, these people have a reason to be frustrated with the Biden WH. Many of them probably feel betrayed, as they should.

 

What power microscope do you use to split hairs like that? That may be one of the more asinine comparisons you have made. Are you going to tell me tha Secret Service would have taken a point blank center of mass shot on the first “peaceful protester” that cleared that fence? I think we both know the answer to that.

 

You're the one who made the comparison when you mentioned that no one was shot yesterday and if a protestor cleared the fence he or she would have been immediately arrested. Deadly force would not have been employed unless the individual who cleared the fence was armed. If an individual or especially a group of individuals physically threatened the President or came close to doing so deadly force may have justified.

 

Actually, you made the comparison in post #8.

 

You think it’s “splitting hairs” to point out the obvious differences between this protest and the events of 1/6? You are lost dude.

I’ve seen several videos of this protest. What is it that is criminal? Some people are rattling the fence. Did anyone try to scale the fence or bust through the line? Supposedly some protestors tossed bloody dolls over the fence to represent the children killed in the war, not sure that is what was considered to be thrown “at officers”. Probably illegal and anyone that threw something could potentially be arrested (for littering?), but not a big deal compared to actual violent protests such as 1/6 or some of the post George Floyd looting. If someone intentionally threw something AT an officer that would be more serious. But I don’t see that it happened. This one actually does look “mostly peaceful” even if we don’t much like some of the message.