"State Patrol: We won’t arrest people at anti-I-594 rally for exchanging guns"
“We are asking them for good gun-safety practices,” Calkins added, such as handling the weapons safely and not intimidating people.In those cases, there might be other laws that demonstrators would be breaking, and patrol officers will respond accordingly, Calkins added.But, “these are law-abiding folks, they have a political statement,” Calkins said. “We don’t expect a huge problem.”
RetiredUSNChief said:Rosa Parks did what her "rank" wouldn't allow here to do...and she willingly paid the consequences for the greater good....
Let's understand the real story of Rosa Parks. Her story is not about simple civil disobedience. It's about a coordinated, multilayer program of protest and legal and political action.happygeek said:Not to detract from Rosa Park's stand, but she wasn't the first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin).....
... joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter's youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President E.D. Nixon—a post she held until 1957...
Frank Ettin said:Let's understand the real story of Rosa Parks. Her story is not about simple civil disobedience. It's about a coordinated, multilayer program of protest and legal and political action.
Also she was a communist and groomed by themLet's understand the real story of Rosa Parks. Her story is not about simple civil disobedience. It's about a coordinated, multilayer program of protest and legal and political action.
- Rosa Parks had a long history of being actively involved in the organized Civil Rights Movement:
- At the time of her arrest Mrs. Parks was an adviser to the NAACP.
- On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was the third African-American since March of that year to be arrested for violating the Montgomery bus segregation law. One was Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old girl who was arrested some nine months earlier. E. D. Nixon decided that Claudette would be a poor "poster-child" for a protest because she was unmarried and pregnant.
- The night of Mrs. Parks' arrest, Jo Ann Robinson, head of the Women's Political Council, printed and circulated a flyer throughout Montgomery's black community starting the call for a boycott of Montgomery's city buses.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association and pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, together with other Black community leaders, then organized the boycott of the Montgomery bus system. That boycott reduced Black ridership (the bulk of the bus system's paying customers) of Montgomery city buses by some 90% until December of 1956 when the Supreme Court ruled that the bus segregation laws of Montgomery, Alabama were unconstitutional (Gayle v. Browder, 352 U.S. 903 (1956)).
- So the Rosa Parks incident is more than a matter of not moving to the back of the bus. Her arrest was part of a well orchestrated, well organized, multilayered program reflecting good planning and political acumen leading to a successful conclusion. If it had not been she would have just been another Black person arrested for violating that ordinance.
- Please note especially that prior to the Rosa Parks incident E. D. Nixon rejected one "arrestee" as standard bearer for the protect because of possible image problems.
Absolutely. And I've made similar comments regarding the [lack of] parallels between the Civil Rights Movement and the RKBA. I posted because someone else brought up Rosa Parks. And the other half of the lesson she teaches us is that successful advocacy is not based on a single event, but rather on a coordinated campaign.316SS said:The parallels with the civil rights movement and the situation in Washington State are pretty tenuous....
Frank Ettin said:I've made similar comments regarding the [lack of] parallels between the Civil Rights Movement and the RKBA.
So what's going to happen after the rally? Is everyone going to go home and forget about it the next day? Have the organizers planned their next moves?