stokeimp
Vital 1st Team Regular
A state that needs to deploy its own military against its citizens is a failed state.
And if it was happening in China (again), Trump would be first on his soap box (or Twitter account)
A state that needs to deploy its own military against its citizens is a failed state.
And if it was happening in China (again), Trump would be first on his soap box (or Twitter account)
Trump gets law enforcement, including park rangers (hint: these aren't the guys who chased yogi bear around) to charge and tear gas protesters so he can walk to a nearby church for a photo opportunity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-52876499
Australian press hit with rubber bullets and cameraman punched. Australia not happy
PM Scott Morrison has spoken to US President Donal Trump after an Australian TV crew was allegedly assaulted by police in Washington, reports say.
Mr Morrison has also asked the Washington embassy to investigate the incident.
Channel 7's US correspondent Amelia Brace and cameraman Tim Myers were attacked while covering Monday's protest outside the White House.
Police used tear gas to disperse the protests, leading to a stampede of sorts as the crowds fled - and that's when the attack appears to have occurred.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-52876499
There was an interview with Adam Gray, a British photojournalist in New York, on Today this morning. who was charged with Unlawful Assembly, despite wearing all his press credentials
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000jmsb
This is America...
Hard to watch
What I don't get is that black officers are assaulting black people along with their white colleagues
Ironically, I've read 2 articles in today's paper talking about the world's free democracies uniting to provide a more effective alternative to the UN, and in a coordinated defence policy towards China.
Hard to reconcile 'the Land of the Free' as a key member of those groupings with what's currently happening there.
Particularly as their imbecile of a president cynically visits a church and stands in front of it with a Bible, playing to the alt right electors he'll need to rely on come November, despite showing no evidence himself of ever having a religious conviction and plenty to suggest the opposite. And lets not mention the peaceful protestors tear-gassed out of the way beforehand hey, Mr President?
What is all this crap about Antifa? Is that a way of Trump just labelling literally every opponent antifa and arresting them as a terrorist? I'm not aware of some huge Antifa group with clear leaders. Not surprised to see the right in the States lapping it up.
What a mess. Wouldn't surprise me if some of this grim bait from Trump makes him more popular in November. Not that Biden is a silver bullet, but it's got to be better than this.
In irony so thick you could stick a pitchfork in it and call it "a heap of irony", Mike Pompeo meets today with? Drumroll please...
The survivors of Tianamen Square..
One assumes they mean the protesters and not the thousands of troops who gunned down their own civilians, but with this administration one can never really actually be sure...