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Any "vandalism" (see plain clothes uniform) won't be from joe nobody.
Originally posted by Siberbat
Our country suffers from paranoid delusions on both extreams. The sad fact is, people such as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would be profiled as domestic terrorists for practiceing non-violent civil disobedience. What does that tell you folks. Whether you believe in the conspricacies or not, look at the state of the nation from an unbiased, unemotional, historical light. This country has become what it resisted in decades past. We are in for very dire times.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
Originally posted by CaptChaos
My advice to any REAL protesters is to not go there. They will have saboteurs mixed in to incite riots and cause mass arrests.
It would be better if the saboteurs were the only ones who showed up.
And so they win. No more protests about anything because the people have successfully been scared into silence.
America has only just woken up and actually started to have a public opinion about the way their leaders are running the show, and now people are telling them to shut up because they might be arrested?
Come on!
This is scary stuff, but this SHOULD be encouraging many hundreds of thousands MORE to get out there and protest THIS instead. What are they going to do, arrest everyone? Let those causing the damage be arrested and locked up. When you see something happening you walk away from it, or point them out to the thug cops so they can come and "fake arrest" their off-duty stooge.
This is not the time to wimp out and be terrorized into silence. This is the time for people to get damned angry about being threatened like this.
If I were there I would be going, and I wouldn't let their tactics scare me. The most you'll get is a night or two in a cell, and then you're free to condemn them for months and draw more attention to their actions. They're making a rod for their own backs, so let them try this BS and see how angry it makes the rest of the country.
Originally posted by Americanist
reply to post by Lysergic
supposedly called the officer a racial slur
The officer has apparently has a history of bad choices
Two supposed wrongs don't make an apparent right. Is that what's being said here? Please...
Originally posted by Lysergic
Originally posted by Americanist
reply to post by Lysergic
supposedly called the officer a racial slur
The officer has apparently has a history of bad choices
Two supposed wrongs don't make an apparent right. Is that what's being said here? Please...
If you read my post I said it doesn't make it right.
so your point again is?
Originally posted by Swills
reply to post by Blaine91555
How many anarchists do they assume will be there? Enough to fill an entire prison? I see your point and I agree, as do others, that among peaceful protesters are trouble makers who ruin it for everyone. The conspiracy surrounding the trouble makers can go either way, but how big are these anarchist groups?
Originally posted by IndieA
reply to post by Americanist
No! Stop derailing the tread.
What's important is that the people that run the country see protesters as more of a threat then convicted felons, so much so that they have released convicts on the streets to make room for unhappy Americans that wish to express their first amendment right.
edit on 25-8-2012 by IndieA because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Alxandro
Wait a cotton pickin' minute.
The occupy movement came out and said they were intentionally planning on disrupting the convention, and now you want to blame those trying to keep the peace?
Where is the logic in that?
BOSTON — More than 150 residents, elected officials and religious leaders in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood have bid farewell to workers headed to the Republican National Convention in Florida to protest against poor working conditions at companies owned by a firm founded by presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Those traveling to Tampa, Fla., include current and former workers at companies currently or previously owned by Bain Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm that bought and restructured companies.
Originally posted by Alxandro
Wait a cotton pickin' minute.
The occupy movement came out and said they were intentionally planning on disrupting the convention, and now you want to blame those trying to keep the peace?
Where is the logic in that?
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by jude11
Perhaps this is related to the fact that people who are known to engage in illegal activities have already telegraphed their intent to cause trouble at the convention all over the Internet?
Or, perhaps the fact they already found a rooftop full of dangerous projectiles, stashed by a group who painted one of their symbols on the wall of the building?
Article on Tampa Bay Online
Late last week, he walked up to the roof and got a surprise, finding a pile of bricks and some metal pipes.
"It was quite disturbing," he said. "I'm not trying to make big deal of it and the police responded Friday night and took the bricks as evidence."
Graffiti on the roof seemed to be painted by anarchists; at least that's what he was told by police.
"There was the head of a witch or something," he said, "and next to it '99' in red letters."
Seems to me they would be incompetent if they did not prepare in advance, knowing full well crimes are planned by Anarchist groups. Bricks and pipes seriously hurt innocent people or destroy innocent peoples property.
This is 100% the fault of Anarchists who have made it necessary to anticipate violence and crime, because violence and crime is what they do.