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Originally Posted by Northwoods
Last night in Madison, WI a group of 200 to 300 protesters brought down statues on the grounds of the Capitol.
One of the statues decapitated and dragged into a lake was of Civil War Col. Hans Christian Heg. Heg was an anti-slavery activist and leader of an anti-slave catcher militia in Wisconsin who fought for the Union.
If BLM protesters are vandalizing statues of slave owners, obviously Madison protesters need a history lesson.
Also, Democratic WI State Sen. Tim Carpenter, was assaulted after taking a cellphone video of protesters. "Punched/kicked in the head, neck, ribs," Carpenter tweeted around 4 a.m. "Maybe concussion, socked in left eye is little blurry, sore neck & ribs. 8-10 people attacked me. Innocent people are going to get killed. Stop violence now Plz!"
I'm trying to figure out how any of this is an attempt to further the Black Lives Matter Movement.
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"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The operant phrase is "peaceably to assemble". Protesters are protected. Mobs are not.