It's great in theory but you're trying to reach the people who aren't listening. Once you've got a group who set themselves up as judge and jury (and, metaphorically speaking at least, as executioner as well) there is no other version of events. Man is racist, man must be fired, the end. Anything less is justifying racism.
And if that narrative remains in place in action, radicals will continue to think they have the upper hand.
What would make more sense would be for the silent majority to become less silent, but then the silent majority doesn't want to paint a target on its back any more than the company currently in the cross hairs does.
The entire ANTIFA/BLM terror plot was designed to make Trump look bad from the beginning.
When I first became involved in political activism, addressing one subject in particular at that time, I thought as soon as people heard about these certain abuses they'd stand up and demand change. That's what got me involved.
Then I grew to realize rather quickly that the dumbing down of America campaign activated shortly WW2 to date, has made for an indifferent passive society for the most part. People are so attached to what they own, they're afraid to get active for the change they carp about wanting to see in the world because they're afraid of what they'll lose if they go for it.
The political is personal, the personal is political. Radicals, those who have nothing to lose, gain concessions because of that very thing. They act out as if they have nothing to lose. Not even their freedom or life.
You can't inspire courage to rise in a people who have none. However, for the majority of Americans all it takes for the push back against radical terrorists is for their behaviors to become personal enough that they too arrive at the decision, if they don't do something they're going to lose everything. More than what they've already lost.
That's when we'll see people fight back. We'll see, rather than negotiating with the mob of terrorists, firetrucks driving straight through the human blockade that positioned itself across a street so that the house they had set on fire continues to burn.
With a family, including a child, inside.
Domestic Terrorists in this country like to think they have nothing to lose. I assure you, when they're no longer pandered to, placated, given concessions, tolerance even as they occupy a terror-tory they've taken and then kept by force , even using arms (AR-15's), while holding retailers hostage$ , and after begging the police for port-a-potties and food so they could survive, (Let them live in their own filth and starve for their poor planning), and instead are removed by force, are shot when they shoot unarmed innocents, the equation of having nothing to lose will become reconfigured as they gaze on the corpses of their fellows.
Everybody thinks they are ready for the fight until they get punched in the face.
The Terrorist Racist Anarchist uprising of ANTIFA and BLM that we witness today and still, I assure you would have never happened in 1945, 1957. Nor in the 60's all the way to 2016. It would have never jumped off during Obama's terms in office.
The reason this is happening now, on the coattail of the near national lock down due to Covid-19, is because it is a vehicle to not only further impact the economy, but to make Trump look bad.
Automated guarded gates are all well and good but for as long as some people need to get in and out you've got a weakness. If people are allowed in and out in cars you can't stop a person on foot getting through while the gate is open unless you're prepared to use force, possibly deadly force. And if you go there, sooner or later you'll take out a non-white person and provide the mob with all the proof they need that you're racist to the core. If only people on foot can get in, those people become targets between their vehicle and the gates.
Guarded gates work spectacularly at military bases and the White House, and at government installations, and other corporate properties. Furthermore, all one need do is post signs on the company property at entry points and on the fence itself that warns against Trespassing, promises prosecution, and warns of deadly force.
All issues are covered because the warnings are universal, not racially exclusive.
Yes, to a point, as long as you can be confident the police and courts have your back.
Well, when they don't, there's always the God given right of self-defense.
In which case how does the guy have a wrongful termination case - if it could be argued that he brought a problem to the company and they fired him what basis does he have to fight it?
At will employment in the U.S. means an employer does not need a specific reason to dismiss an employee. However, if the employee is fired for a specified cause or reason that is unlawful, the employee has recourse.
In the case in question, the employee should seek legal council. An employer thinking someone cracking their knuckles, or even making the age old "OK" sign with their fingers, is cause for dismissal, is wrong.
Further, what should be suspect for anyone, especially the employer in this case, is that someone followed this employee/driver so closely that they photographed his hand while it was outside the cab of his vehicle as he cracked one finger at a time. He would have started with his thumb. The punitive complaint that was made against the employee pertained to his index finger being the next one to be cracked.
If someone is caught in a still photo picking their nose while they drive for UPS, should we then expect them to be fired because the person capturing the image claims the driver was giving them the bird? If the camera perspective does not make clear it is the index finger, not the middle finger, up the nose?
IF that did happen and an employee with UPS did lose the ability to continue to pay the mortgage and feed themselves and/or their family, and it all makes news, where does it stop?
Were I the offended in question, I'd go so far as to see if I could file against the person who took the picture and started the liable and defamation assault against my character, and that caused me my job.
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