A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind in one eye after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim.
If this administration doesn’t succeed in overthrowing democracy, and we ever get legitimate leaders again, I wonder if we could get some kind of official recognition or honor given to the people who have been wounded or killed while standing up for their rights and the rights of everyone in the U.S.?
I guess I just feel like if you’re not at least dreaming about a better future, even if it’s a distant one you won’t live to experience, you’ve already surrendered.
My cynical take is in 20 years you’ll have a day of remembrance and in 80 years your grandchildren will have official apologies, unless this current administration ends doesn’t get thrown out within 5 years - then it will take even longer. My less cynical take is that these people aren’t losing their lives or ability to see because they want official recognition or honour, they want freedom because that’s the thing really matters. I do agree though, once the freedom (and rule of law) is back, these people definitely deserve some kind of official recognition or honour.
Your cynical take is far more optimistic than mine. I am more of the opinion that these incidents will be treated like the race massacres from post-civil war reconstruction: almost entirely forgotten and barely talked about. Actually, it will be even more forgotten than those. People died in those incidents by the thousands. No one is going to remember a few protests with a handful of injuries.
You could definitely be right. I believe current day US behaves a lot like 1938-ish Germany, which makes that my expectation on how we will look back on this time is influenced by how we looked back on ww2 in the first decades after it ended. The current regime could easily take another route than Hitlers Germany did.
Now THAT’S the real pie in the sky idea. I think you could realistically get the government paying $5M to some architectural firm to design le “haunting” brutalist monument which is le “stark reminder” of “dark times” that we will “never let happen again”, but zero chance anyone gets reparations unless they pay a lawyer and go to court over it
If this administration doesn’t succeed in overthrowing democracy, and we ever get legitimate leaders again, I wonder if we could get some kind of official recognition or honor given to the people who have been wounded or killed while standing up for their rights and the rights of everyone in the U.S.?
We couldn’t even get a plaque put up commentatoring the police who died on January 6th. Wishful thinking.
I guess I just feel like if you’re not at least dreaming about a better future, even if it’s a distant one you won’t live to experience, you’ve already surrendered.
My cynical take is in 20 years you’ll have a day of remembrance and in 80 years your grandchildren will have official apologies, unless this current administration ends doesn’t get thrown out within 5 years - then it will take even longer. My less cynical take is that these people aren’t losing their lives or ability to see because they want official recognition or honour, they want freedom because that’s the thing really matters. I do agree though, once the freedom (and rule of law) is back, these people definitely deserve some kind of official recognition or honour.
Your cynical take is far more optimistic than mine. I am more of the opinion that these incidents will be treated like the race massacres from post-civil war reconstruction: almost entirely forgotten and barely talked about. Actually, it will be even more forgotten than those. People died in those incidents by the thousands. No one is going to remember a few protests with a handful of injuries.
You could definitely be right. I believe current day US behaves a lot like 1938-ish Germany, which makes that my expectation on how we will look back on this time is influenced by how we looked back on ww2 in the first decades after it ended. The current regime could easily take another route than Hitlers Germany did.
I hope so, and I hope these people and families get the reparations they deserve.
Now THAT’S the real pie in the sky idea. I think you could realistically get the government paying $5M to some architectural firm to design le “haunting” brutalist monument which is le “stark reminder” of “dark times” that we will “never let happen again”, but zero chance anyone gets reparations unless they pay a lawyer and go to court over it
And I hope it all happens. Especially the lawyer part.
If things go how they historically have in the US likely not