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2010-12-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2010-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 And if they were never heard of again, it could be Iran.

Posted by Bobby 2010-12-18 06:53|| 2010-12-18 06:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Judges have done no one a service by giving slaps on the wrist to protesters who break the law. And this is a two sided failure.

Both the need for security, and the RIGHT to protest need a clear dividing line between them. This ideally means that legal protesters can do whatever they want, but only so long as they keep it legal. There should be no gray area of "maybe legal", or defining down the law.

By playing this game, it inclines protesters to break the law, but it also inclines government to violate the civil rights of the protesters. And this can get very bad in a hurry.

I watched with great concern when there are international meetings, held in major cities, for what seems to have as their sole rationale, to incite riots, which will then be suppressed. Police are encouraged to break the law, with the idea that by the time the city must pay a settlement to the abused, a year down the road, those who ordered the abuse will be long gone, and the settlement will be made with taxpayer monies.

This is so full of wrong it's hard to know where to begin to describe it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-18 08:04|| 2010-12-18 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 some protesters went limp

You could make a million jokes from that line alone.

Posted by badanov 2010-12-18 08:05|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-12-18 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 It seems to me that someone could innovate a device that looks somewhat like a stretcher, but when a limp person was laid on it and covered, it would somewhat form fit to them, then become rigid, all but their head would be somewhat frozen in position.

Then they could be stacked like cord wood, or stood upright. Or just slide them into bays in a paddy wagon.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-18 12:11|| 2010-12-18 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5
Holy Frankenphuck. "Veterans"? You are either a veteran or not a veteran. And just because a Vet was for one war or another, or fought in one war or another doesn't mean its binding upon the vets to like or support ALL or even close to ALL wars. This is a common stereotype heaped on veterans, that if you oppose a particular military action you are less of a veteran or did not serve. It is suspect to even imply this.

Posted by Fire and Ice 2010-12-18 16:52|| 2010-12-18 16:52|| Front Page Top

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