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Tech Wars In Meat Space
Starfish writes: "Police and protesters are asking if new technologies used by both sides will turn street protests into bloodless, but also meaningless rituals. Real protest robots, phaser-like weapons, and other cool gadgets are discussed in this Village Voice article. Good heads up about the Ruckus Society's tech action camp in October."
seriously slashdot, it takes a fuckin moron to post a story this lame, michael you suck, no this isn't a troll or flame bait, but this is a bad story a bad concept and everyone thinks it sucks, don't lower the integrity of slashdot. Reply below if you think this story was insanely stupid
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I like the bloody, but meaningless rituals we have now. I especially liked that bit in Genoa where the crowd of modern-day Luddites (assorted bums, malcontents, the ignorant, the unemployable, and other various parasites) tried to show their solidarity by attacking a cop. It's amazing how little solidarity they had after Alfonse there took two in the eye.
Let me be the first to tell some of you that a real action group with real tactics and unit cohesion would have taken that cop, even if losses had been incurred. That would be taken seriously, since relatively few of the world's bottom-feeding anti-globalist whiners put anything above their own comfort, much less their lives.
But instead, now we are promised "soft" harmless mechanisms to round up Johnny Hooligan and send him back to his high-rise dorm unscarred. Great.
If these people, and I use the term loosely, want to stage an exercise in raw power by using their bodies and improvised weaponry to disrupt their society, destroy property, endanger lives, and otherwise subvert the normal democratic process (which they hate because it allows a working person to have some say in the way the country should run) then I say, let's let them have a taste of raw power in return. If they want play games designed by Mao, well, we have read that rule book too. It says "power comes out of the barrel of a gun."
If a free and democratic society is what you want, then you don't want what these malingerers want. They may use such a phrase, but their actions reveal them to be nothing but a tiny revolutionary minority that should be stamped out exactly as they try to stamp out free dialogue in democratic countries.