Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "News For Reasonable People" channel.

That's basically what it was. 11 out of a crowd started trouble with another crowd and now they get to face the music. Hopefully, for a very long playing album. Some jackasses just look for places to start trouble, don't need any real cause, they just like to start trouble and break shit that isn't theirs. I'm just amazed that I've not blundered into one of these shit shows. but happy as well, as someone with spray or weapon would end up badly hurt. I'm a retired war veteran, I'm also quite resistant to pepper, even bear spray and pain just pisses me off, so I share that pain with the one inflicting it in an efficient military manner not requiring a firearm. My cane will do nicely. A nice special order titanium cane. Harder than aluminum, about halfway as strong as steel and light weight.
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The weapons charges can't be dropped to misdemeanor, the rest might or might be misdemeanors, depending upon what all of the charges are and what plea bargains to save busy court time are. Weapons, that brings out the court's naughty stick and usually gets some level of time, in already overcrowded prisons and the NIMBY crowd keeps more prisons from being built.
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While some of the ANTIFA protests I at heart agree with, violence as a matter of first resort is the hallmark of the incompetent. Violence in defense is acceptable, at an equal measure, you don't shoot someone for punching you, as an example, block and hit back, is a measure in kind. Using tear gas and in one charge, a lethal weapon, big bad karma on that one, enjoy being reborn as a slug or something. Still, 11 out of such a crowd is a very small number to be trying to make international news out of. Deflecting from the 1/6 insurrection with 750+ arrests and hundreds so far convictions, including for sedition?
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First, ANTIFA isn't a fixed organization, hence it cannot be indicted. 11 idiots were indicted and rightfully so. I don't want the book thrown at them, just the entire law library. Protest is protected, counterprotest is protected, violence is not protected, save in defense of self or others.
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@seldonwright4345 so we're now ignoring the Constitution and exiling people for simple and armed assault?
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@ReasonableNews more like 11 out of how many hundred antifa counterprotestors there were. Peaceful protest should always be protected, violence, never protected, save if it's in defense of self or others.
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@alphagt62 if only there was some kind of legal defense for that purpose. They could call it something creative and new, like self defense. Alas, the Constitution requires one suicide when attacked, right? Do you have anything else stupid and entirely opposite reality to say? Given no less than the SCOTUS acknowledges the right to self defense and always has?
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The entire city, huh? So, how badly was the CDC hot labs in Atlanta trashed and burned? The city hall? Most of the homes? Oh, not the entire city. Stop lying.
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Are you talking about guilt by association or just for the actual offenders? Offenders, yes, scoop them all up and drop them into the deep end of the naughty pool for a lengthy time-out and hefty fine. Those not offending, but counterprotesting, we've not repealed the first amendment yet, so that is their protected right. Hopefully, the scoop used is the one used for dog shit...
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