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Saturday, June 20, 2009 12:00 AM

Video: Teargas used on protesters in Iran

Riot police begin to use harsher tactics in Tehran, Saturday

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Saturday, June 20, 2009 09:41 AM

That's BARBARIC!

They should put them in "Free Speech Zones" and THEN teargas them and beat them.

They could learn a lot from America.

Hey, I bet we could sell them a hundred thousand TASERS.

That would help the economy, right?

Sunday, June 21, 2009 01:28 AM

Those poor oppressed Iranians

If only they could move to America, and be tear-gassed and tasered and beaten with batons here. Then they could taste what freedom means.

Department of Defense: Protests = Terrorism
http://pushliberty.blogspot.com/2009/06/department-of-defense-protests.html

”ACLU Challenges Defense Department Personnel Policy To Regard Lawful Protests As “Low-Level Terrorism” (6/10/2009)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: 202.675.2312 or media@dcaclu.org

Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense (DoD) teach its personnel that free expression in the form of public protests should be regarded as "low level terrorism." ACLU attorneys are calling the approach "an egregious insult to constitutional values" and have sent a letter to the Department of Defense demanding that the offending materials be changed and that the DoD send corrective information to all DoD employees who received the erroneous training.

Wait, it gets better...

Among the multiple-choice questions included in its Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness training course, the DoD asks the following: "Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorist activity?" To answer correctly, the examinee must select "protests." ... ”

Sunday, June 21, 2009 09:24 AM

I declare it's a war crime.

Sternly worded letter from the UN to follow

Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:22 PM

1969 Love Fest

I seem to recall that in 1969 the Chicago cops served the protesters cold drinks and sandwiches and installed huge fans to keep the protesters cool...Now that's the way it should be done-Not like in these foreign countries where they tear gas them and beat them with billy clubs--That just doesn't happen here...does it?

Sunday, June 21, 2009 03:27 PM

that must have been the one year anniversary

of the 1968 Democratic convention, it being an election year and all.

Sunday, June 21, 2009 04:01 PM

Teargas was used at the anti NGO protests in Seattle

OMG, we're all fucking Iranians!

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