Hey, now. I meant to pass along a little discernment privately. I didn't expect you to eat public crow over it. I'm in the same boat as you, really. If your cognition was temporarily impaired by all this, so has my emotionality been.
The Denver Post is a credible source. The bendable plastic orange fence you see is the same kind used to mark the boundary limits of construction sites in Colorado. Folks who want to climb over one can typically do so. People tend to take the fences as a warning and stay behind them, though. I certainly wouldn't march over one if policemen with guns were around.
If many planeloads of people are expected, I imagine all the armed police officers and other folks are there as a preemptive strike to maintain law and order while offering aid quickly to allay people's fears. I understand there are unfortunately hardened criminals and drug addicts in withdrawal mixed among the refugees. Though they are few in number, they could cause a lot of havoc if they aren't detected and sorted from the general population quickly. It wouldn't be a surprise if some tried to take to Colorado's streets rather than risk being put in jail or into cold turkey rehab.
The real test for me is what happens in a week or so. Will people be issued passes that allow them to come and go? Will the press be allowed to observe once the refugees have been sorted by officials to remove any dangerous persons? Will the orange fences disappear or be replaced by permanent fixtures? Colorado was unfortunately the location of internment camps for Asian people during WWII. I can't rule out the worst, but I hope not.
Hey, now. I meant to pass along a little discernment privately. I didn't expect you to eat public crow over it. I'm in the same boat as you, really. If your cognition was temporarily impaired by all this, so has my emotionality been.
Well, you caught me with my brain set to "stun" -- no stress. I needed to up my game and sharpen my senses.
I want to be optimistic, but I see a lot of the same old things happening that've been emblematic of the worst things of the bad days -- outright disinformation, Pollyanna politicking, the press losing its teeth, no pictures of the (flag-draped) dead kplzthx, the attempt to demonize the very act of civilized dissent.... And they'll keep doing it as long as they can get away with it.
The Denver Post is a credible source. The bendable plastic orange fence you see is the same kind used to mark the boundary limits of construction sites in Colorado. Folks who want to climb over one can typically do so. People tend to take the fences as a warning and stay behind them, though. I certainly wouldn't march over one if policemen with guns were around.
If many planeloads of people are expected, I imagine all the armed police officers and other folks are there as a preemptive strike to maintain law and order while offering aid quickly to allay people's fears. I understand there are unfortunately hardened criminals and drug addicts in withdrawal mixed among the refugees. Though they are few in number, they could cause a lot of havoc if they aren't detected and sorted from the general population quickly. It wouldn't be a surprise if some tried to take to Colorado's streets rather than risk being put in jail or into cold turkey rehab.
The real test for me is what happens in a week or so. Will people be issued passes that allow them to come and go? Will the press be allowed to observe once the refugees have been sorted by officials to remove any dangerous persons? Will the orange fences disappear or be replaced by permanent fixtures? Colorado was unfortunately the location of internment camps for Asian people during WWII. I can't rule out the worst, but I hope not.
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Well, you caught me with my brain set to "stun" -- no stress. I needed to up my game and sharpen my senses.
I want to be optimistic, but I see a lot of the same old things happening that've been emblematic of the worst things of the bad days -- outright disinformation, Pollyanna politicking, the press losing its teeth, no pictures of the (flag-draped) dead kplzthx, the attempt to demonize the very act of civilized dissent.... And they'll keep doing it as long as they can get away with it.
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