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Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio

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Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio - Kenneth Rapoza - BRIC Breaker - Forbes

Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio
A molotov cocktail was launched in front of the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro late Friday in protest of the arrival of President Barack Obama, the O Globo newspaper in Rio reported. Military police reacted by firing rubber bullets into the gathering of 200 at around 18:30 local time. A CBN news reporter suffered a minor injury from the shots and traffic was blocked.

“They came after us with clubs and tear gas and attacked,” according to protestor Thiago Hastenheiter. “They chased us through the streets and started firing rounds of rubber bullets.”

If only the United States would elect the Biggest Leftist and Most Inexperienced President in History......

........the world would love us........
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What is most ironicabout the Brazil protests is that the PSTU is a hard core socialist party in Brazil. While anti-Obama protests in the US consider Obama a socialist, the socialists in Brazil consider him a yankee capitalist, the bane of the Latin American left.

Now that is really funny right there.
 
These practices are quite common in developing countries no matter what the protest is about.

I know. Im south African.

But yes. This is most definitely obamas fault :coffeepap
 
Another complaint was that Obama wanted Brazilian president from the Workers Party, Dilma Rousseff, to sell Brazil’s newfound oil to the US. One of the world’s largest deep sea oil discoveries was made by Brazilian oil company Petrobras in the so called Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin off the coast of Rio back in November of 2007.

Mmmhmm.

This was actually VERY interseting
 
Shouldnt the world be denouncing the oppression of protestors by police using rubber bullets?
 
That'd be alot of denouncing, youd get tired pretty quick.
 
Shouldnt the world be denouncing the oppression of protestors by police using rubber bullets?

They were tossing molotov coctails and injuring people.

I'd say rubber bullets were quite nice.
 
Shouldnt the world be denouncing the oppression of protestors by police using rubber bullets?

I think the world is calling for The Kenyan Tyrant to be removed........
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They were tossing molotov coctails and injuring people.

I'd say rubber bullets were quite nice.

So the 'rebels' in Libya are just chanting peaceful slogans and singing Kumbayah? I dont know...Im seeing rocket launchers, .50 cal machine guns, anti-arcraft weapons, fully automatic weapons...the works...
 
So the 'rebels' in Libya are just chanting peaceful slogans and singing Kumbayah? I dont know...Im seeing rocket launchers, .50 cal machine guns, anti-arcraft weapons, fully automatic weapons...the works...

All such situations can be viewed the same - but different reasons go behind different actions of these said civilians.

In Brazile this isn't a 'we the people banded together to overthrow our prick leaders who we don't support and who don't support us' - this was a 'we don't want someone coming here for a visit so we'll hurt innocent people to show how angry we all are.'

Huge difference.

But still - rubber bullets are rubber bullets. I say that's still rather nice to use on any protestor, crazed gunman, or armed civilian opposition force.
 
"A CBN news reporter suffered a minor injury from the shots and traffic was blocked."

I think I found what was bothering him...One of Pat Robertson's guys got hurt.
 
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