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Originally posted by StarPeace
LOL...
Peaceful group...
Hopefully someone can show them what a bullet can do....
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
If so, in a few days, protesters in NYC will find out what the NYPD are actually capable of.
Too bad, most Americans will have no sympathy for the OWS movement if they choose to go violent and destroy property.
When spoiled brats can't get their way, eventually they throw a tantrum.
Originally posted by StarPeace
LOL...
Peaceful group...
Hopefully someone can show them what a bullet can do....
Originally posted by StarPeace
LOL...
Peaceful group...
Hopefully someone can show them what a bullet can do....
Originally posted by Meekbot2000
"we are going to protest"
"ok that is your free right"
"were not leaving"
"ok you dont have to, but you are not allowed to have tents and squat,"
"we will not remove our tents we are teh 99%, you are stompin on our rights"
"no we said you can protest all you want, not tents, this isnt a camp ground it is a public park"
"we will resist"
*pepper spray and removal of tents*
"you are free to protest as you were all along"
"we will burn your city down"
typical
The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Force, while the media called it the Bonus March. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army sergeant.
Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each service certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment plus compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most popular military figures of the time, visited their camp to back the effort and encourage them.[1] On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the army to clear the veterans' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.
Originally posted by Expat888
reply to post by dc4lifeskater
as to police brutality .. in comparison with some countries that have been to the police in the u.s are showing restraint in dealing with the protesters there..
you guys have no idea what true police brutality is...
Originally posted by Syphon
Well since its seems like the words/actions of a few can be used to paint an entire group of people as being one in the same I'll leave you with a few statistics and the conclusion I draw from them.
2010 - total number of murders committed in the United States of America: 14,748.
2010 - total number of forcible rapes commited in the United States: 84,767
Conclusion: Americans as a whole are murderous rapists. These are not isolated incidents.
If that doesn't sit right with you than neither should any claim that the words or actions of a single individual are anything but their own.