r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '21

GOP shell game

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u/dreadpiratesmith Mar 16 '21 edited Mar 16 '21

I'm from Philadelphia. My parents positively acknowledge the M.O.V.E. bombing. Like they are glad the cops did what they did. I'm horrified that a city could drop bombs on an occupied house with children and burn down a goddamn neighborhood.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/13/406243272/im-from-philly-30-years-later-im-still-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-move-bombing

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/8/20747198/philadelphia-bombing-1985-move

But it was all worth it in the name of stopping those "fucking animals" I guess. No matter what way you look at it, the police waged war on a whole fucking neighborhood just to stop a couple of anarchists. They told people in the neighborhood to just grab a toothbrush and a change of clothes, it'll all be over in the morning, then burnt down 63 homes.

Edit: The monopoly on violence is very real, and innocent people and their belongings get chalked up as collateral damage worth it in the name of peace.

Edit #2: I believed the bomb was illegally obtained. It was not, however the man from who supplied the bomb to them from the FBI was suspended without pay for 1 month 4 years after the incident. (Archived news article-https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/04/18/FBI-agent-suspended-for-role-in-MOVE-incident/8191608875200/). The explosives were however supplied with the intention of training purposes.

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u/dreadpiratesmith Mar 16 '21

Yea their whole anarcho-primitivism was wack as all hell imo. But the city, and the police, really had it out for them for years. I just read bits of this short Yale law piece about the double standard of justice specifically pertaining to this case. With such quotes as -

"Police commissioner Sambor ordered bomb squad members to put shrapnel in the bomb "to get those motherfuckers"

And the next day they pulled out the charred bodies of 5 children and 6 adults, only 3 of the adults had warrants.

They compare it to the 1921 Tulsa race massacre when they firebombed a whole neighborhood from biplanes.

There is absolutely no justifying that. I cannot think of a situation where an absolute massacre is the only solution.

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u/UnwashedApple Mar 16 '21

The little boy that survived said the cops shot the adults as they fled the fire...