{"id":322450,"date":"2017-08-20T07:49:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T06:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-one-gave-peace-a-chance-including-the-cops\/"},"modified":"2017-08-20T07:49:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T06:49:39","slug":"no-one-gave-peace-a-chance-including-the-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/no-one-gave-peace-a-chance-including-the-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Gave Peace a Chance, Including the Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhat has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? \u2026No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people \u2026 Whenever any American\u2019s life is taken by another American unnecessarily\u2014whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence\u2014whenever we tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.\u201d \u2014 Robert Kennedy<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let\u2019s be clear about one thing: no one\u2014not the armed, violent, militant protesters nor the police\u2014gave peace a chance during the August 12 demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va.<\/p>\n

What should have been an exercise in free speech quickly became a brawl.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about who threw the first punch or the first smoke bomb.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about which faction outshouted the other, or which side perpetrated more violence, or even which group can claim to be the greater victim.<\/p>\n

Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

One young woman is dead because of the hate, violence, intolerance, racism and partisanship that is tearing this country apart, and it has to stop.<\/p>\n

Lawful, peaceful, nonviolent First Amendment activity did not kill Heather Heyer.<\/p>\n

She was killed by a 20-year-old Neo-Nazi who\u00a0drove his car into a crowd of pedestrians<\/a>\u00a0in Charlottesville, Va.
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Words, no matter how distasteful or disagreeable, did not turn what should have been an exercise in free speech into a brawl.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? \u2026No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders\u00a0\u2026 an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people \u2026 Whenever any American\u2019s life is taken by another American unnecessarily\u2014whether it is done in the name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-322450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}