• anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    People need to protest using all rights afforded to them by the Constitution. The right to free speech, which they use, the right to protest, which they do, and the right to carry arms, which they need to do.

    People need to address the state in the only language it knows.

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      and the right to carry arms, which they need to do.

      The victim was doing exactly that (he was open-carrying an AK-47), which is the pretext the murderer used to falsely claim “stand your ground.”

      In retrospect, the tactically correct thing to do would’ve been for Foster to have preemptively shot Perry through the car window, citing the same “stand your ground” defense (with infinitely more legitimacy, since Perry had just been trying to run over protestors).

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      People need to address the state in the only language it knows.

      All the state knows is obstruction and violence. So that’s what they should get and deserve.