We are the bad guys, not Russia, not China.

because we have violated everything we are
supposed to stand for.

"All men are created equal" said Jefferson, the slave owner and arguably the father of white supremacy.

For so long have people said "look at our bright shiny ideals!" (and don't look too closely at the reality). But we were working toward fulfilling those great ideals, right? That loophole did a lot of heavy lifting, and there was a lot of hope that progress was being made.

Which would win out? The democratic ideals or white nationalism and fascism?

Now we know how it all turns out.

( I hope that double negative is correct! )

So many people never got over the Civil War.

Reconstruction was key to this problem also.

I think we are headed into a plutocracy though.

And ruled by the wealthy.

Now they don't even try to lie and hide it any more.
And they are getting much much more greedy and cruel.

They used to throw us a few crumbs.
Not now.

They paid for passage on the ships that some of them owned. They came from England as they were tired of paying taxes on everything. Paying taxes for the sheriffs and patrols for the public safety and paying for roads and such. They were tired of paying for the king and his families.

They were not the poor people that people think of. (At least from my family). They were landowners (stolen land) but land owners.

I think that is why the citizens were Free, white, male landowners. Not renters, not tenants. But Land owners.

In other words, oligarchy.

Masses of poor at least.

But we have always been a country of, for, and by the rich except for a couple of brief respites...most notably the new deal era from 1946 until the 1980 election.

I could make an argument for the 1866 reconstruction until the brokered Hayes -tilden election but you had the growth of robber barons during that era...and share cropping that slavery in many ways except the name.

more. It's becoming a crowded field.

Sounds like that is the reason she was the only one arrested. Hope she sues GRPD.

So they're considered part of the road.

Was the TV Crew arrested as well?

this little video to the end, you will see that she isn't even close to the roadway, and she's obstructing no one.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-venezuela-protest-arrest-teacher-b2895378.html

So that gave the cops the excuse they needed.

Why they bothered is beyond me.

and have an interview.

But I do know what a Right of Way is, and that it (usually, not always) extends to the back of the sidewalk.

That is the most reasonable explanation for why the cops could arrest her for standing on a sidewalk.

without being arrested for obstruction of a roadway.

See the group at about 1:30 min.

Sounds like she has a great lawsuit against Grand Rapids PD.

TSF's just want to destroy peoples lives. I just hope she succeeds in her lawsuit.

She was on the sidewalk when arrested.

We don't need no stinkin' reasons! These ambulatory bags of pig shit swear by Dubya's angry protestation, "Don't wave the Constitution in my face! It's just a piece of paper!"

that were implemented to fight vagrancy. They mostly went unenforced.

Likely there are similar laws in this jurisdiction - although I have not read their criminal code to know for sure.

At ~ 1:20 min.

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They need to be famous

Our country has consistently shown a lack of respect for its founding principles. Jessica Plichta has company in a large group of very heroic activists

https://laist.com/news/entertainment/upton-sinclair-aclu

On May 15, 1923—94 years ago today—muckraking author Upton Sinclair was arrested in San Pedro as he tried to read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to a group of striking dockworkers, leading to the founding of the ACLU's Southern California branch. The national American Civil Liberties Union had been founded three years earlier, in 1920.

Back in 1923, the LAPD had banned the striking dockworkers from holding public meetings. The Marine Transport Workers Industrial Union 510, a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), had called a strike in protest of low wages, bad working conditions, and the imprisonment of union activists under California's Criminal Syndicalism Law, immobilizing 90 ships.

to protest and speak out. Fkg MAGA hypocrties.

... Trump's Gestapo, those treasonous fucks.

Is, by definition, a "lawful command."

This is patently not true.

The traitorous republican party is destroying every liberty generations of Americans fought and died for.

Shame on US. Not our politicians. US.

If so, please post an Update, thank you.