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protestors are revolutionaries.</p><p id="4b34">Trump is King George and he would likely label the bygone revolutionaries as terrorists if he judged them by the same standards he judges protestors today.</p><p id="c652">The British were not all bad, in many ways the colonists had more freedoms than we do today, but the USA’s founding myth is based on the overthrow of tyranny.</p><p id="cebf">Protestors are the spiritual inheritors of the founders.</p><p id="b715">This protest is simply inconvenient for the establishment, so the powerful have done what they can to make sure that these protests turn violent and are then discredited in the mainstream media.</p><p id="37f8">Police have responded to peaceful protestors with Gestapo tactics, which is exactly what is being protested.</p><p id="6bc4">This police-instigated violence has had the natural effect of further inflaming the situation.</p><p id="3dd1">Then when people start to fight back against the status quo by rioting and even looting, people like Tucker Carlson get to point to

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that and scare up Trump’s base.</p> <figure id="4fbf"> <div> <div> <img class="ratio" src="http://placehold.it/16x9"> <iframe class="" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F3n5_D59lSjc%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3n5_D59lSjc&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3n5_D59lSjc%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=d04bfffea46d4aeda930ec88cc64b87c&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" width="854"> </div> </div> </figure></iframe></div></div></figure><p id="6c65">Carlson portrayed the protestors as being almost entirely made up of looters, but you can see from footage of places like Philadelphia (a revolutionary city) that the vast majority of people are peaceful.</p><p id="8fe6">However, that does not get attention, certainly not in Conservative America.</p></article></body>

The Boston Tea Party Was a Riot, Revolutionaries Looted

This Is a Justifiable Uprising

Photo by Matt Briney on Unsplash

One of the most celebrated moments of the American Revolution was when the Sons of Liberty looted the British merchant ships.

America is addicted to the concept of Revolution, but it is obvious that that only extends to white people.

When armed white men protested Coronavirus Lockdowns, they were called freedom fighters.

When unarmed, largely peaceful and diverse Americans protested police brutality, they are called “thugs” and further brutalized.

The Police are the modern day Redcoats and the protestors are revolutionaries.

Trump is King George and he would likely label the bygone revolutionaries as terrorists if he judged them by the same standards he judges protestors today.

The British were not all bad, in many ways the colonists had more freedoms than we do today, but the USA’s founding myth is based on the overthrow of tyranny.

Protestors are the spiritual inheritors of the founders.

This protest is simply inconvenient for the establishment, so the powerful have done what they can to make sure that these protests turn violent and are then discredited in the mainstream media.

Police have responded to peaceful protestors with Gestapo tactics, which is exactly what is being protested.

This police-instigated violence has had the natural effect of further inflaming the situation.

Then when people start to fight back against the status quo by rioting and even looting, people like Tucker Carlson get to point to that and scare up Trump’s base.

Carlson portrayed the protestors as being almost entirely made up of looters, but you can see from footage of places like Philadelphia (a revolutionary city) that the vast majority of people are peaceful.

However, that does not get attention, certainly not in Conservative America.

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