baltimore protests across the country

[Guest shiloh357]

Actually, they boycotted the buses and public transport.   They stopped riding the buses and this caused a revenue problem in Montgomery.   MLK had marches and sit-ins.   They did not cause the kind of disruption that we see here. 

 

 

This  can't be compared to MLK.    They did not impede ambulances and the fire department.      They didn't stop people from being able to get to work, by blocking entire intersections and screaming obscenities and so on.   They faced REAL injustice.    These protesters just want everything handed to them.   They break the law and then falsely claim injustice when the law holds them accountable.

 

This  is not a civil rights movement.   To even try to compare this to the MLK marches  offensive.   MLK had a real cause. In his day there was a real problem with segregation, and huge problem with racism in the US.   

 

It's not the same, today.   This is a case of police misconduct and they should be prosecuted  This is not a civil rights issue.   This is an issue of criminal behavior by the police.   Burning down businesses and shutting down the city is NOT correct response to that.    Why make everyone else pay for what these policemen did???   Why should a guy who just wants to feed his wife and kids lose his job because of what happened to Freddie Gray???

 

This is just a reflection of what some influential black Americans cite as the self-destructive culture that infects the  black community in the US.    Blacks have waaaaay  more opportunities than they did when MLK was marching.    Baltimore is practically run by blacks.   It's Mayor is black,  the Police Department in Baltimore has more blacks than whites on the force.  This is not a civil rights problem.  

 

The blacks of today are not persecuted like they were in the days of MLK and they do not have the right to hijack his legacy to justify their immature, lazy, barbaric attitudes and practices.   It is not even close to what happened in MLK's day.  

[manofGod]

The prophet inspired by God warned us all that no form of government would ever work. God created us to be free, whenever you put a ruler or authority other than God above any human being, it will result in chaos, distinction and sorrow. There is only one form of government that works and that's an anarchists system comprised of god fearing creations.

[Guest LadyC]

The prophet inspired by God warned us all that no form of government would ever work. God created us to be free, whenever you put a ruler or authority other than God above any human being, it will result in chaos, distinction and sorrow. There is only one form of government that works and that's an anarchists system comprised of god fearing creations.

 

no, not exactly. God warned of having monarchies... of having government ruled by a king. but God never intended society to be free from authority. God was the one who placed judges over His people. His people didn't want judges, they wanted kings. they got what they asked for... rulers appointed by flawed humans rather than by a divine God. and that is what we are still dealing with all these years later.

 

but God is not an anarcist. to make such a statement is a misunderstanding of scripture.

[manofGod]

There is only one leader or governor of life and society and that's Christ the prince of peace. We were not created to be governed or overseen by any other human being. Christ resides and governs from within, there's no external system or people that can accomplish what Christ alone is predestined to. The point of there being elders and leaders within our churches is because we all have to reach the fullness of Christ. A system of judges and an hierarchy was and is for the purpose of leading the people back to God. Maybe you have a misunderstanding of the word "anarchy", or maybe I do...idk. But I do know we were created to be free with the only rules and judges appointed to us is suppose to be the indwelling son of God.

[manofGod]

I believe God's purpose for society and humanity was complete absence of any external rulers or government. If Adam and Eve would of never ate the fruit that's what the world would be today.

[The_Patriot21]

That's actually false. The Bible does indeed tell us to submit to earthy authority, I.e. worldly governments, unless what they tell us contradicts scripture. To willingly disobey those put in authority over us when what they're telling us doesn't contradict scripture is in and of itself direct disobedience of Gods commands. Look up 1 peter 2:13 if you do not believe me.

[missmuffet]

 

BE,

 

The Freddie Gray incident is being is being hi-jacked by those who are anti-establishment and ant-law enforcement.   Just like you had with the Ferguson riots, they will probably start bussing in radical Muslims, and communists and whatever else they can find, to fill the streets in these  so-called  "protests."

 

These are not real protests and  you seem really proud about all that is happening.  But,  it needs to be understood that since last fall, these protests haven't really done any good.  The United States isn't perfect, but we are not a racist nation and blacks have it really, really good here.   The opportunities are the same for everyone.   In the US, the only person keeping you poor and dumb, is you.   We have a plethora of programs for less fortunate people to help them help themselves if they would take advantage of them.  

 

These are not genuine protests.  You want to know how intelligent, thinking, civilized human beings protest???   When we protest, we file a petition.  We schedule public debates and townhall meetings and perhaps we go and stand in front of the organization we protesting, and we link arms and make our voice heard to them.  

 

As intelligent civilized people we do not:

 

1. Destroy and loot businesses and call it "protests."

2. Injure police officers

3. Set buildings on fire

4. Destroy businesses

5. Block intersections and impede ambulances and fire trucks from being able to help people who need medical or emergency attention (in the name of "peaceful" protests)

6. Impede public transportation (in the name of "peaceful" protests)

7. Block the streets and end up causing people not to be able to get to their jobs and risk being fired. (in the name of "peaceful" protests)

8. Make everyone else's life miserable (in the name of "peaceful" protests)

 

These "protests"  do not accomplish anything.  These protests do nothing to advance any cause.  They are simply a bunch of selfish, barbaric, immature people with nothing to do who want to cause trouble.   If they wanted to protest, they would do it the right way instead acting like animals.

 

They can chant about  Freddie Gray all day long, but ultimately it has nothing to do with him.  These are not rational people, and frankly  I think it is appalling that anyone supports these protests.   They are not real protests and should be shut down.   These people, peaceful or not, are really nothing more than terrorists.  And they should be treated like terrorists.

 

When you start injuring police officers and damaging property and looting other people's property, you have lost your right to have a voice.   You have nothing to say and need to be shut down.

The protesters, in general, do not support violence or burning things down.

 

I'll remind you that MLK organized many marches that blocked off traffic, he was also very disruptive.

 

The Montgomery bus boycotts involved people filling up buses and preventing people from using public transportation to get to their jobs.

 

There is a long history of disruptive protests in the civil rights movement.

 

If they blocked off traffic in past protests with MLK that is totally different than tearing the town apart.MLK would be very unhappy if he knew about all this violence.There is always the option to have a peaceful protest.

[other one]

tearing the town apart.....      out of 50,000 structures in that city they set fire to 15......      not exactly tearing the town apart....          tragic for a very few, yes......     but tear the town apart???         watching CNN one would have thought so until one realizes that they showed the same two buildings burning for two and a half days....

 

 

ten to fifteen thousand people protest and about a hundred or so riot and loot......    and most of them were arrested before it was over....

 

 

 

I still say the media is blowing this all out of proportion and destroying any sympathy that we might have for a dead man.....   and it's kind of sad.

[other one]

I don't mean to pick on you Peep......   you just happen to be the last person in a three day long string of people saying that.

[Guest]

I believe God's purpose for society and humanity was complete absence of any external rulers or government....

 

If Adam and Eve would of never ate the fruit....

 

that's what the world would be today....

 

 

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Romans 5:12

 

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