This is now what peaceful look like.

[apdst]

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I said acts of violence did I not?

Those with firebombs would be arrested and would go to jail for a long time. Those breaking property would see similar rates.
The non violent protesters who were identified as leaders would probably be arrested as well.
Going in and shooting every one would be seen as failure by the government and used as a last resort.

It has plenty of other options to use first

For every person you cherry pick to arrest, five more will take his place. You're wack-a-mole strategy would be a failure.

 

[apdst]

But not if someone runs over a protester or sprays bear mace at them, right?

Get out of the road. Stop attacking innocent citizens.

 

[Tigerace117]

There's no right to riot and destroy private property.

There’s no right to drive to another state to murder people either.

 

[Novichok]

There's no right to riot and destroy private property.

That's why he put liberty in quotes.

 

[Tigerace117]

Still not an answer to my question.

I am not going to torture you any longer....The reason I asked how long the Chinese would tolerate "Portland" is to feel better that there are governments out there somewhere that have the balls to step down hard on rioting scum. If that takes live ammo, so be it.

Ours, at all levels, is an abysmal, embarrassing, pussified failure - too scared to protect the society, our properties, our lives, and even themselves. As I posted earlier, my contempt for the US and the Americans who see nothing wrong with the thugs and their sick Marxist dreams has reached the upper limit. That is why I will vote for Biden - an equivalent of giving an alcoholic a gallon of vodka wishing him an early death. No, I am not trolling.

Tsar Nicholas tried to crush the “rioters” with lethal force back in the day. How’d that end for him?

Your fantasies of massacring anyone who disagrees with you politically is completely incompatible with basic freedoms and liberties. That’s what’s truly “pathetic”.

 

[dixon01767]

China has thousands of protests every year across the country, the Chinese government does not arrest those people. Protests have caused chemical plants to close especially in Dalian, stopped building destruction.

300 in Hong Kong were arrested couple weeks ago on one day.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/06/asia/hong-kong-protests-elections-arrest-intl/index.html

or
DALIAN, China -- China has arrested or detained about 130 people in connection with recent protests in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region against compulsory Chinese-language education in elementary and middle schools.
The nongovernmental organization said on Monday that it estimates at least 4,000 to 5,000 ethnic Mongolians have been put under some form of police custody over the last three weeks.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/China-arrests-130-ethnic-Mongolians-over-language-policy-protests

 

[dixon01767]

There's no right to riot and destroy private property.

Not even a right to merely block a street.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

300 in Hong Kong were arrested couple weeks ago on one day.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/06/asia/hong-kong-protests-elections-arrest-intl/index.html

or
DALIAN, China -- China has arrested or detained about 130 people in connection with recent protests in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region against compulsory Chinese-language education in elementary and middle schools.
The nongovernmental organization said on Monday that it estimates at least 4,000 to 5,000 ethnic Mongolians have been put under some form of police custody over the last three weeks.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/China-arrests-130-ethnic-Mongolians-over-language-policy-protests

So it appears that China has lots of protests every year does it not.

 

[Tigerace117]

So it appears that China has lots of protests every year does it not.

It’s not “every year”; it’s large scale local protests in a city lucky enough to be a major center of international commerce and therefore partially protected from the CPC’s desire to pull another Tiananmen.

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

It’s not “every year”; it’s large scale local protests in a city lucky enough to be a major center of international commerce and therefore partially protected from the CPC’s desire to pull another Tiananmen.

There are lots of smaller protests across China every year, over a large variety of country issues

Hong Kong was just the largest and longest lasting

 

[Tigerace117]

There are lots of smaller protests across China every year, over a large variety of country issues

Hong Kong was just the largest and longest lasting

And the CCP(which caused the protests via its own heavy-handedness and brutality in the first place) cracks down hard on any they can’t control, subvert or ignore.

Trying to use localized opposition to the CCP’s policies as proof that the CCP “tolerates dissent and protests”(when it really doesn’t) is pretty laughable.

 

[dixon01767]

So it appears that China has lots of protests every year does it not.

And lots of arrests for protesting.