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Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Scheduled to coincide with Guy Fawkes Night, a centuries-old day of remembrance typically celebrated in Great Britain, the Nov. 5 protest is something of a tradition for the hacktivist collective. Anonymous, which is often identified by the Fawkes mask used in the Hollywood blockbuster V for Vendetta, hosted a similar rally in 2011, dubbed 'Night of a Thousand Masks.' Protesters in Washington, D.C. clashed with police before noon. By approximately 10am, an arrest was made. The incident was livestreamed, and Anonymous claimed that the individual was grabbed and arrested after stepping off a sidewalk and into the street. A spokesperson for the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department declined to comment."
The whole reason for a protest is to go to jail.
What the fuck are you talking about? You only go to jail for protesting for two reasons:
1. Your protest is illegal, perhaps because your country bans protests, or you're intentionally trying to incite a riot.
2. You decided to be a dick and smash stuff up instead of just marching peacefully.
I think you've confused protest with coup.
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I can't, if I get arrested in an Anonymous parade/protest, I'll lose my job with the NSA.
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No. People of America just don't actually care all that much. Just because YOU and a few of your friends get all uppity about some 'cause', doesn't mean anyone else gives a fuck, and THAT is the problem.
The problem is that in America, even with the government doing 'horrible' things ... life is WAY to good to rock the boat very much for 99% of the population. You still wake up in a warm bed, with food and drink, and a job (or you can get a job if you put even a tiny amount of effort in it). America, for all its problems, is just a fucking awesome place to live.
Somalians have something to protest about. Kenyans have something to protest about. American's are whiney bitches too lazy to do anything other than bitch about ... and too lazy to even bother voting properly ... thats how little Americans ACTUALLY care about the 'causes' that these protests are for.
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Lol.. you mean in the land of junior getting expelled because the way he ate a pop tart left the food looking like a gun? Or a land where people think it is just that veterins face arrest in order to see open air memorials built to honor the sacrifice they and their generation made, to honor the bravery they were forced to summon under threat of death or worse while illegal immigrants protest in the same area over not being given citizenship rights and having their illegal status abolished?
The brave are still here. They just care about different things and are being pushed to the sidelines. The new brave replacing them step outside of conformity all the time, except they end up being branded terrorist for coloring outside the lines and have their crayon promptly confiscated until they can be good little liberals.
That statement from an AC makes it lose all value.
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