To use violence in your fight against violence is hypocritical. It's like saying "war of peace" like Bush did. If you wanna be against violence, it is incumbent on YOU to find a different path forward for your goals. You don't get to just call off violence once you've violenced your way to your goal, because once you have done that, the people you out-violenced will in turn be the ones who will be seeking for an end to violence through violence, against you, and the cycle will keep going and going, so you in effect will not have been anti-violence, you would have just purported to do so.
I don't think they are seeking an end to violence, as much as an end to violence used as an expression of state suppression against relatively defenseless groups. If violence is one of the tools used to that aim, that is completely internally consistent.
Well that's a really dumb idea then because you won't out-violence people with fighter jets and warships without the force of a country behind your back, so you will never achieve your goal. If that's it then they're putting a short-term cathartic moment over the long term fulfillment of their goals since this will only go up to a certain point and then it is doomed to be overpowered when the government takes it seriously and starts actually putting some effort to suppress it, so to proclaim that they care for those goals when this is how they behave is also hypocritical in this sense too since they are putting other things before actually fulfilling those goals.
That has literally never worked in the entire history of the United States.
Your older brother is sitting on you punching you. You complain loudly telling him to stop. You manage to twist free and punch him in the face, responding in the desperation of the moment. He calls you a hypocrite for punching him back.
Why am I being punished for making shitty choices?
So does having a lot of angry people now unable to easily get home in a location they're already being told they're wanted by authorities. Some of them could well go "Well might as well do something to actually be make the news and push "the cause" if we're going to jail anyway.
Should have thought of that before they took part in a Riot(if we're being nice) or Sedition(if we're not) that made them wanted by the law.
You don't need to out-violence them, you need to reduce the public's willingness to stomach the violence. See pretty much every 'terrorist' organisation.
You'll excuse me if I'm not heartbroken that people wanted on felony charges are not able to skip the state.
It will get there at some point, as they got a lot of the assholes already. Either way, it's nice seeing people getting punished for bad and idiotic things. I am in a really good mood.
That's why we pacified Iraq in a week, with our fighter jets and warships and the force of a country behind our back.
