It does not matter if a person or several people are killed. It does not matter if it was calculated and deliberate or an unavoidable accident. Hurting or killing more people will not change anything. It will not bring them back nor will it resolve anything. Gathering in protest, rioting, and destroying other people’s property that had nothing to do with it does not make it better either. It does not make the world look at whatever you are trying to get them to see, instead, it points out your own stupidity. It makes the world wonder why you do not take a similar stance when the children next door to you were shot down while playing in front of their homes. It makes the world wonder why you do not take a similar stance when drugs are being sold on your streets, killing your own children. It makes the world wonder why you are okay with the gangs that patrol your neighborhood killing your family members because they had on the wrong color shirt or shoes. All the bad things you do trying to get attention to a particular situation or event, in fact, do just the opposite. It brings all the attention towards your stupidity and everyone is more focused on punishing you, stopping you more so than thinking about the event you want them to focus on. One of the biggest problems law enforcement has catching someone who did something wrong or prosecuting them if they do catch them is getting anyone to stand up and testify what they know or witnessed. Yet these same people will gather in numbers, conceal their faces, and destroy their own community if they even suspect a government official has done something wrong. Yet when their own do something wrong, no matter how brutal, how evil, how sickening it may have been, or if it was done to an innocent child, aging adult, or even a family member, they will cower down behind their doors and keep silent out of fear of repercussion. Yet they will gather in numbers and stand up against a far more powerful people, their government. How can you seriously expect anyone to believe you actually care what happens to someone you know or just someone of your own ethnic culture? When so many innocent people in your own communities are killed, beaten, raped, robbed, and overdosed on drugs, and absolutely nothing is said or done. No one gathers in protest, no one riots and burns down the abandoned houses they know the drugs are sold from. No one gathers in protest and drives out the gang members that kill randomly just because they can. How can you expect anyone to possibly take you seriously when you destroy your neighbor’s business and steal from them claiming to make a point and raise attention towards an event you say was wrong? Rioters are mindless sheep, thieves, gang bangers, and people that are using an event as an excuse to hide their faces and show their asses. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, will hitting the other one make it any better? You cannot, and will not ever make anything right by doing something wrong. Two wrongs will never make a right.
My Thoughts
Dean Butler
