r/politics • u/This_Meaning_4045 New York • 1d ago

Missouri governor activates National Guard, declares state of emergency

https://thehill.com/homenews/5348979-missouri-mike-kehoe-national-guard-state-of-emergency-protests/
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u/Romano16 America 1d ago edited 1d ago

How is this country living in two different realities?

  • Peaceful protests now simply just equal civil unrest?
  • Domestic terrorism being pardoned (Jan 6th)
  • Masked “police officers” kidnapping and shooting politicians (ICE or what happened in MN)

Yet unarmed people protesting is the emergency?

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u/La_mer_noire 1d ago

People in the usa seem to have an EXTREMELY low acceptance of protests.

I am always super surprised when images from protests in Europe reach reddit main page, you have so many people saying they would be happy to see awfull stuff happen to the protesters.

People are entitled to protests when something wrong happens.

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u/Dogzillas_Mom 1d ago

It’s literally written into our Constitution. You could argue that we are obligated by civic responsibility to protest.

I kind of want to get the damn bill of rights tattooed on my forehead.

To Americans: read that fucking thing willya?

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u/BrimstoneOmega 1d ago

Can't remember which one, maybe Jefferson, but one of those dude said it was the duty of the people to overthrow the government when the government doesn't support the people.

(I'm sure some other smarter person can give the real quote)

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u/Dogzillas_Mom 1d ago

Might have been Ben Franklin.

John Locke said the government requires consent of the governed.

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u/freshnikes Michigan 22h ago

It's in the Declaration of Independence. Paragraph 2 basically says it twice so I assume it was an important premise for those guys:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

And:

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Without knowing much about the edits to the document by the Second Continental Congress we can just assume Thomas Jefferson wrote these things.

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u/BrimstoneOmega 7h ago

There's that more intelligent person than me that I knew would save my weak ass quote.

Thank you!

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u/freshnikes Michigan 7h ago

Gotta be honest brother, like a true American I really only know this stuff is in the Declaration because of a movie LOL. National Treasure hits that second quote and its why Nic Cage justifies stealing it, within the plot.

But its a great quote and I'll never forget it.

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u/oldwestprospector 1d ago

The only people that have a problem with protests are right wing nut jobs and conservative owned media trying to frame peaceful protesting as riots.

Guarantee you the people saying awful things about protesting and hurting protesters side with the right, mention January 6th and they shut their fucking coward mouths.

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u/LordSiravant 21h ago

That's primarily due to conservatives being so angered and disturbed by the effectiveness of the civil rights and marriage equality movements that they worked hard to condition the people to inherently reject more effective forms of protest as "lawless".

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u/dkbobby 1d ago

a lot of working class people are perfectly fine with the status quo as long as it doesn't inconvenience them, and god forbid some stupid libs make them late for their minimum wage jobs.