re: Twenty NOFD firefighters protest, call for Chief to step down

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And I don't consider this civic tradition a waste....it's as American as 1776. Protesting is in our flags fabric. 1st amendment

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Protesting is a civic tradition.....not rioting, looting and destroying property. Everybody hopes it stays peaceful, but recent history suggests otherwise when these verdicts or investigation results don't come down the way protesters want

You win. I'm going to go do something with my Sunday that doesn't upset me and make me want to cry...and yes I'm a female. An old female. I give up on any hope that anything but bad is able to come from this. You spend a great deal of time just waiting to see something on here that will give you the opportunity to try to get people banned. Yet you aren't banned. I give up. The place that I call home is falling apart and none of it makes sense.

Looks like the fire chief was trying to score brownie points with the freaks/liberals.

Fire him.

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. I don't get why they aren't being more obedient

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They don't work for the city,

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Pathetic. Don't waste my tax dollars protesting, get to work and obey you freaking orders

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GTFO. Their orders are to save lives. They are not construction workers and it is not in the job scope to take down statues.

If your community wants those statues down bad enough they'll gather the money up amongst themselves and pay professionals to do it. I don't want MY tax dollars being spent on fixing butt hurt feelings.

Boom

Rioting and looting is pretty American too

False. Looting and rioting IS in our nations fabric.

Burning of Norfolk

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The Whig militia resisted the landing parties, but did little to stop the flames, which were spread by advantageous winds. Some Loyalist properties were targeted for burning and looting by the Whigs shortly after the bombardment began, including a local distillery.[16] Although the British ended their operations that day, the fires continued to rage; the next morning Colonel Howe reported that "the whole town will I doubt not be consum'd in a day or two."[16] The burning and looting by the occupying Whigs continued for three days. By the time order was restored, much of the town had been destroyed.[14]

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Where's fiancé that is is dumb.. "divisive" so you just keep it up?

Yeah that's smart...just to appease those that rather do wrong to piss the majority of the city other than do the right thing.

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The statues had been up for decades and nobody was offended. It's a very recent and overblown phenomenon. It's merely a conjured political battle started by a failed mayor.

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There is no good moral argument to keep those statues up.

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There is no argument to take them down either unless one is stupid enough to believe that statues that none of the current opponents cared about three years ago are suddenly harming those opppnents by their existence. There are none that have been harmed by them.

BTW, I'm no fan of the confederacy and view flying the battle flag as an embarrassment.