Quote (Goomshill @ May 29 2020 10:24am)
How many businesses, homes and government buildings need to be reduced to rubble before force is authorized to defend them?
Frey declared that a building cannot outweigh human life to justify withdrawing from precinct 3 and letting it be burned down
The national guard aren't authorized to use force, the police are given stand-down orders and will not use force to arrest anyone, only to repulse attacks
And the state showed its priorities when the only arrest out of the entire protests so far, despite all the televised crimes, was a business owner defending himself from looters.
So lets take this to its logical maxim. How far will it be allowed to go? If the rioters start up again today and torch a hundred more businesses, is that okay? If they torch some more schools, some churches and hospitals? How about if they make it into the suburbs and start going home to home, smashing and grabbing and burning. Will homeowners be arrested for defending themselves despite castle doctrine? Will Frey get on twitter and tell people that they must leave their homes and allow them to be ransacked and burned because lives are worth more than property?
If all of the Twin Cities was reduced to cinders and rubble and rioters no longer had homes, food, health services or any other necessities, would the insurrection still be tolerated?
Minneapolis is expendable but St Paul must be protected. we're going to establish a Berlin Wall in the center after the fires die down and order will be established on one side while the other becomes a libertarian utopia for Santara to rule as moderator of New Minneapolis. name subject to change.