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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'."
Those people are clearly terrorists. Anyone who is against or disagrees with the president is a terrorist. We should just do what the president says and not question anything. Isn't that the meaning of a democracy?
Bullshit.
Let's say I come to your family's bah mitzvah wearing a shirt that says "Hilter was right." What would you do? Probably exactly what the event organizers did.
It's their party and they only want guests that agree with them. Is that so hard to understand?
"What about the rights of these three teachers?", you ask.
First of all, this is not a "rights" issue. It is a private function - the owners of the establishment and the people paying them (not the ticket holders, see below) have final say a to who can come in and who can't.
Second, I guarantee you that the back of the ticket says, "This is a pro-Bush, pro-Republican rally. You presence is contingent upon not pissing in our Cheerios" or, something to that effect.
Third, what about the rights of other 99.9% to gather peacefully and have a feel-good, rah-rah session without having to deal with Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkills?
Now, do not take this as pro-Bush - I would be posting the same thing if it were a Kerry rally and three Bush-heads did the same thing.
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.
Honestly, if you can't convince a person with simple point-by-point arguments and feel the need to "trick" people into your plight by becoming a down-trodden news-byte, then, frankly, you get what you deserve.
As for the AP story linked above, I have no comment because I haven't RTFA yet.
- Tony
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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- Charles Darwin
Straight out of the DNC playbook! The Party salutes you MH!
This is how it goes. I got an advance copy, so it is still subject to change.
BEFORE USING MILITARY FORCE, YOU MUST ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
1. Did you get a blowjob from an intern, get caught, and lie about it?
(YES) - War is justified. Bombs away!
(NO) - Proceed.
2. What does France think?
(YES) - I'm sorry, this isn't a valid option. France NEVER supports a war.
(NO) - Continue.
3. Did you ask the Chinese?
(YES) - Continue.
(NO) - Go back and ask the Chinese. While you are on your way to Beijing, stop by Pyongyang and give Kim Jong Il some more nuclear rods.
4. How much did the Chinese give to your election campaign?
(A LOT) - Good. Continue.
(NONE) - War is not justified. Obviously, you are not supported by the Chinese. You can't win a war without the support of billions of communist Chinese. What war have we ever won without the support of the Chinese?
5. What does the UK, Australia, Poland, and South Korea think?
(YES) - Trick question. Those are not countries, so their opinion won't matter anyway. Continue.
(NO) - Maybe it's time to get a different PM in office. Continue.
6. Have you held peace talks with the enemies, and promised to reduce your production of nuclear arms, and pay them billions of dollars in aid?
(YES) - Continue.
(NO) - Mr. Reagan, you are not allowed to take this test. (Reagan was the source of all evil until he got Alzheimers.)
7. Does the country have a significant population of Muslims (IE, more than 1)?
(YES) - War is not justified. It will only encourage terrorism. Killing terrorists in their homeland only encourages more terrorists to spring up from their dead bodies like the magical pixies you saw when you took too much LSD. PIXIES! PIXIES! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!?!
(NO) - Consider transplanting some Muslims there. There are plenty in Guantanamo Bay that would love to set up a terrorist camp - err - a "peace camp" for the "religion of peace" where they can convince children to "peacefully" blow themselves up in Israeli pizza parlors to bring "peace" to the Middle East.
8. Does the country have a fascist dictator or is the country known to be openly communistic?
(YES) - War is not justified. Remember, the only evil in the world comes from the US, in the Republican party headquarters. (Karl Rove is the source of all evil.) As we all know, the second coming of Christ occured on a train when Karl Marx conceived of communism. All socialists and communists are inherently good.
(NO) - Continue.
9. Will you be imposing Democracy on the people after the war?
(YES) - War is not justified. The Americans should never ever impose their ideals of "justice", "liberty", and "equality". The last thing we want is a bunch of happy, prosperous people who aren't being suppressed.
(NO) - War is justified. Bombs away!
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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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....
---- Go ahead, mod me down, I'll just post it again and you lose your mod points.