Summer of Riots and Demonstrations

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Dubee

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I’m a news junkie, and I’ve observed over the years that riots and demonstrations tend to occur more so during the summer. I’m afraid that will be even more so this summer from what I’m seeing on the news. How about you? Do you see that happening this summer?
 

Yes. Drinking, driving & vandalizing get togethers. It’s the new summer thing.
I’m the opposite of news junkies. I avoid the news altogether. It’s too depressing .
 
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Dubee said:
I’m a news junkie, and I’ve observed over the years that riots and demonstrations tend to occur more so during the summer. I’m afraid that will be even more so this summer from what I’m seeing on the news. How about you? Do you see that happening this summer?
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None yet.
Demonstrations are a 1A(First Amendment) right.
Riots- not related to demonstrations per se.
 
I wondered where a good place to post this was. I don't necessarily equate demonstrations with violence. I consider an opportunity to show that:
Demonstrate that!
 
Humans love their comfort, and freezing your bum off protesting in the dead of an icy winter isn't all that comfortable. Plus, the dire expectations of protests and riots this summer, with increased lawlessness, depends more on which TV news opinion network you watch. Election day, is Nov 5, 2024, so you might as well get the folks all riled up about crime, so they'll vote the bums out.
 
Those that take part in these things probably are just waiting to riot and destroy things AKA (FREE STUFF) I have no use in my world for any of them at all and my way of stopping it would not be very well received by all, the Oregon mess should never have been allowed to happen.
 
Pepper said:
It's a Love-In, chic. Make sure to wear flowers in your hair.
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Like the Summer of Love the mayor of Seattle mentioned in 2020? About 10 city blocks taken over by people with guns and muscle. Police were ordered out by somebody. Nobody knows who OKd that. Two young men murdered. property defaced and destroyed. Residents afraid to leave their homes, especially at night. Look it up.

Oh, I5 was closed for hours in the late afternoon for 15 straight days by demonstrators who line danced on the freeway among other things. That ended when one young woman was killed by a car going the wrong way and another received serious life changing injuries.

Yes, a real Love-In.
 
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Good way for young people to pick up a date...many really could care less about 'protesting'....
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Remember the long, hot summer of 1967? I was, or almost was one of those young people then.

I was 15 and lived just across the Bay from Tampa, we were all excited about the news of riots breaking out all over the country. Then we one broke out in Tampa a friend and I decided to go, he had a car. We took off across the Courtney Campbell Causeway into Tampa. It was late afternoon but we could already see several fires and smoke plumes coming from Tampa. It was maybe at that point we started to have second thoughts.

My friend pulled over and we started watching the other cars streaming into Tampa, a rough lot, saw a lot of men with guns and baseball bats. At that point we decided there might be a safer way to spend the evening and turned back. Gave me some insight into the excitement of mob mentality...

We had no political agenda, were just out for fun and excitement.

1967 Tampa riots​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Tampa_riots
 
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Most riots consist of many different groups of people. Some up to no good, a few who actually want to protest something, and those who hope to find a date/ party plus a few protestors, protesting the protest. It is seldom just one of these groups...
 

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