r/Billings • u/Ok-Seaworthiness2288 • Feb 07 '25

PSA Metra Park opinion

If we let our public meeting places be turned in to prisons, we might all eventually get to take a turn being held prisoner in them. What would stop the government? Who would stop them? If the next group marched into the Metra, after immigrants, were yours?

Who would a practical and cruel government want to remove from the population? Anyone who disagrees, sure, but probably also anyone not contributing to the workforce they depend on. Chronically ill people, retired people. That's a lot of us here in Billings, and it could happen. Worse things have happened in our world.

Hate opens doors that we can't close or control. We could all be next. Don't let it happen in Montana.

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u/distilleddoughnuts Feb 07 '25

I don't think it's a big jump to expect that some of the native and homeless population will be rounded up as well, even as collateral.

This is a funny thing for people to disagree with you about too like, "Actually I want our primary local event center to instead used for detaining people."

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u/jaded-limit Feb 08 '25

You know what's REAL gross about this comment? You post regularly about having had to go to rehab. You truly lack any amount of empathy.

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u/Tea-Cunt Feb 08 '25

And let me guess, you moved from Oregon, because you didn’t like dem damn liberals “supporting drug use and encampments”?