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Police Disperse Bush Protesters with Pepper Paintballs
help_cecil_help writes "The AP has this story on how Bush protesters in Jacksonville Oregon were dispersed by local police using 'pepperballs.' The Jacksonville City Administrator described the projectiles as 'like a paintball filled with cayenne pepper'."
Don't we sound retarded!
IT is not a question who or wether anyone told the police to use excessive force.
IT is more of a question who did not tell the police not to use excessive force. (Which has always been the pattern, the police force need to be controlled by overview, otherwise it becomes fascist...)
Code poet, espresso fiend, starter upper.
Apparently, you didn't get the new version of the NewSpeak dictionary.
Fascism - The idea that protecting civil liberties (the right for Bush and his supporters to assemble at the hotel of his choosing) from people who would take them (those who would physically block Bush's right to assemble at the hotel, and attack the police) is a good thing. Also, the idea that having terrorists who are known to be terrorists freely roam the country without survelliance is a bad thing.
Tolerance - A crowd of young protestors show their tolerance by throwing rocks and pushing police officers and preventing others from peacably assembling. Reporters show their tolerance by reporting the incident casting the protestors as innocent angels and the police as brownshirts. Others can show their tolerance by burning swastikas into Bush supporter's lawns with grass killer or by burning campaign signs. Shooting at campaign offices is also a good way to show tolerance. Forcibly entering a private office and assaulting its inhabitants is also a good way to show tolerance, as long as it is a Bush-Cheney office. However, freeing 40 million Muslims from tyrannical rule is not tolerance. Appointing a record number of minorities to key cabinet positions is not tolerance. And most of all, implimenting an act (NCLB) that forces and funds schools to make changes so that minorities succeed is also not showing tolerance.
Brownshirt - A brownshirt is any campaign volunteer for a political party, as long as that party's name begins with an "R" and ends with "epublican". If they are peaceful, cooperative, and kind, that just means that they are one of the top echelon of brownshirts, and will probably kill you in your sleep or take your social security check away.
Vote Fraud - Acts committed by people who try to inform others who is and is not allowed to vote and who try to purge the voter roles of duplicates, illegal immigrants, people who have moved, and felons. Also, any vote for Bush is a fraud, but any vote for Kerry is not, by definition.
Evil - By definition, evil is President Bush and his party. Everything else is inherently good.
Ex. "Invading Iraq to depose a tyrant and set up a democracy is evil, but bombing Serbia for the same reasons is good."
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.
Which democratic candidate is talking to their protestors? The ones who put them in a cage in Boston during the DNC?
This is bipartisan folks. A few 10s of police facing 500 people (half protesting - half in support of the President), with the President staying in the area? You're damn right the cops are gonna be nervous. This has "Powder Keg" written all over it...
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
boy i am so upset i spent my moderation points before checking politics section. and now with my comments i'll receive a flamebait mod and lose karma, but i won't go AC.
you are a troll, because i don't think anyone can be this stupid. many comments already refuted what you said but i don't want this last point go unnoticed:
Also, this does not mean I think the rights of a public protester should be curtailed or trodden on. However, going to a pro-candidate event and doing something decidedly anti-candidate serves no real purpose but to generate ill-will. Is there a snowball's chance in hell of changing anyone's mind at that gathering? No.
The right to express your opinion is independent of other's opinions. Not to bother someone is not a reason for cencorship. This is not a private function, it is a political function and showing up and stating you opinion serves a purpose. if the people there were thinking they were all right and feeling cozy, expression of opinion would serve to show them there is another side to the issues discussed there; if the reason for gathering was gaining publicity then by showing up there and expressing your opinion you have chance that your opinion and dissent will be heard when this function is e.g., shown on TV. For my son's bar mitzvah I would not invite TV crews or sell tickets, if you want public access, you will get public access with all strings attached.
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someone should shoot you before you say any more lies..