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Police Disperse Bush Protesters with Pepper Paintballs

Posted by michael on from the welts-will-fade-in-a-week-or-two dept.

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'."

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  1. Re:According to TFA... by Atzanteol · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you even know what the fsck "fascist" means? Or does it simply mean whatever you will it to mean?

    "The word means precisely what I want it to mean, and nothing else."

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  2. Re:In Southern Oregon by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Straight out of the DNC playbook! The Party salutes you MH!

  3. Re:Teachers' T-shirts bring Bush speech ouster by Rayonic · · Score: 1, Troll

    The protestors' t-shirts did two things:

    1) Implicitly argued that the President was curtailing Civil Liberties.

    2) Identified the wearers as protestors (and thus uninvited to that private gathering).

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  4. Slashdot bias by Vile+Slime · · Score: 0, Troll

    Once,

    Again the editors of Slashdot are biased against Bush.

    If you RTFA is does not say Kerry supporters were hit by pepper balls.

    It says protestors, which could have just as easily been Bush supporters who were there protesting the fact that Kerry supporters were protesting.

    Per the article there is no way to tell who got hit. Just that it was 'protestors'.

    My guess is that anybody who happened to be around the gatherings may have got hit....

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