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I didn't know there was a difference.
Tree huggers eat granola and communists eat babies.
I didn't know there was a difference.
Tree huggers eat granola and communists eat babies.
You know what I love about tree huggers(and I now live in an area full of them). Its the paradox of being a tree hugger. They all want to embrace nature, and emulate what they believe to be natural, but yet abhor violence on even the most miniscule level(cutting down a freaking tree). Have they not gotten the memo that nature is extremely violent? Or have they simply smoked so much of nature, its rotted their brains out?
Tree huggers eat granola and communists eat babies.
If they've been ordered to get off their asses and clear out, they're in violation of the definition of "lawful assembly", and can be hauled off like sacks of trash.
We've had some sick **** here too. The other day a guy cut his little sister's head off on her fifth birthday as she was cutting her cake. After that he stabbed his other sister multiple times. I don't know if she lived or not. I think this is symptomatic of our cultural decline.
Laila,
Did you know these protesters use phony... theatrical blood.
Some deserve a good smacking, and I'm surprised more aren't injured or dead.
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Absolutely, and there were hundreds of others also there.
The enviromental protestors no less! That was disgusting, if it was the BOE one, that is understandable despite the fact i was trapped. There was people there causing trouble but the enviromental protestors did NOTHING to warrant such police activity and the legal observers who oversee this was trapped with us and was not allowed to leave
Of course you got to agitate the crowd into violence when the timing is right.
LiveLeak.com - Reporter Gets Charged By Riot Police
Did the protesters attack the police or did the police attack the protesters in this video below?
LiveLeak.com - Police Attack On Peaceful G20 Climate Camp In London
And do we need to be using hounds on people?
LiveLeak.com - G20 Summit, London, G20 London, G20 Protests, G20 Demonstrations"
Lets make it easier. Who is aggressing who? I don't see protesters wearing gear to beat the **** out of anyone.
I think protesters need to learn how to all grab for a singled out officer with shield/club and have 3 people rip it out of the cops hand and start divying them out to those willing to hold the line without actually hitting a cop. Disarm them, then then continue the protest.
I don't think a cop will be willing to stifle you without his tools.
When it comes to this kind of protest, there are going to be so many volatile emotions on all sides. I do think that the police are treated to too readily shut down a relatively peaceful demonstration due to singular incidents, and this is a policy that needs to change. Unless there are signs that a riot is going to start any moment, there is no excuse for disbanding everyone on the guise of violence when only one person has fallen down.
In Canada a few years ago, during the G8 summit, an agent provocateur was actually caught red handed by one of the organizers of the protest. The organizer saw a man with a mask heading towards the front of the protest with a rock, and chased him, ripping his mask off. He was a member of the RCMP who was instructed to cause a violent incident that would give the riot officers justification to fire tear gas. This incident was highly embarrasing for the Canadian Government and shed light on this worldwide practice. Most of the developed nations do this to suppress demonstrations.
In this case, I think the guy genuinely did have a heart attack, and the crowd assumed the worst. The police have too much power in general but in this case you can't really blame the police. The guy passed out and the crowd over reacted.
So then police violently shoving the man to the ground didn't cause his heart attack to fire off? Maybe it was the walking then.
There's no way to know if his heart attack was already impending or not when he was shoved to the ground. Frankly, if you have a heart condition you shouldn't be at a massive protest. It's an intense place to be even for healthy people.
Government has no rights, government is not an individual and hence can possess no rights. Government has granted duty and power, but not rights. The government is not to act against the rights and liberties of the individual. Thus the government does not have the right to control such acts. They have the responsibility and duty to act when the rights of others are infringed upon; riots, property damage, assault, etc. But that's it, they don't have the lawful ability to prevent assembly, association, redress, and protest less the rights of others are being infringed upon.
I do not prefer anarchy, but I do prefer freedom.
One part of me thinks the police should have Tasered them all. Or bashed their heads in. All of 'em.
Another part of me is more reasonable.