Originally posted by: jbourne77
Originally posted by: yowolabi
Originally posted by: jbourne77
Originally posted by: yowolabi
Originally posted by: nobodyknows
Originally posted by: sandorski
Originally posted by: Skoorb
There were two black panthers. Of course, they're 100% representative of all the blacks and democrats in the country. Honestly, and yeah the guy was intimidating, he wasn't a total clown, it's not like he attacked anybody. Who knows what he was thinking, but at least he was well dressed and groomed.
Is there something else confirming they were in fact "Black Panthers"?
Yeah, they just looked like "concerned citizens" to me who just happened to be carrying a big stick and wearing a beret.
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Seeing as how the old Black Panther party doesnt exist, and anyone can buy a beret or a baton, these were two people acting independently. But if people feel like taking two random busybodies and trying to extrapolate a wholly unsupportable argument, feel free.
No one should be at a polling station acting in an intimidating manner, period. There's universal agreement on that point. Why are these two brought up in thread after thread, though?
I've totally lost faith in this place. Come on people, if you can't be honest with yourselves don't even bother.
If a couple white guys with hoods - true KKK affiliation or not - were guarding the doorstep of a polling location, there would be no end to the outrage here.
I expect a lot of crap to to surface in P&N, but every once in awhile, the hypocrisy and apologizing is so crude and unnerving that even I am surprised.
Another atttack of the "if it was the other way" strawmen that seem to be the only argument anyone has nowadays. Apparently you're not mad about what happened but about the amount of outrage I felt about a situation that didn't happen. Your ability to see alternate universes, aside, i'd have exact same reaction as I have now. If it was two idiots acting independently, i'd say the two idiots should be removed.
If there was a pattern of voter intimidation, i'd say whatever needed to be done to stop that pattern should be done. I have never gone overboard over a couple of idiots and I never will.
Sorry, your logic fails. This isn't an address to you personally, but rather an address to the collective outrage that has risen historically when there's the slightest perceived intimidation at polling places. There's outrage when police are stationed to keep order, but there's excuse after excuse when a couple of armed men who, are at the very least
insinuating they are BP, are guarding an entrance.
Nothing to see here, folks... move along!