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If you don't want confrontation, don't advocate it. But
obviously, you do want confrontation. Then why are you surprised,
that you have it? Worse, why are you whining about it?
Precisely how many people will flood into St. Paul's narrow streets is anyone's guess, but 50,000 is a safe estimate when you lump together the GOP activists, reporters and protesters."
Government has the capacity to be an attack dog, but is chained to a fixed point by law and the Constitution. Climbing a fence and taunting the dog will occasionally lead to the dog breaking free and mauling the idiot that taunted it. Oh well.
People die from being shocked by tasers. Perhaps you hadn't heard, or perhaps you had and you are simply a pathetic sadist.
Too bad. You'll note that I specifically mentioned "rock throwers". Attack the police and odds are good that they will respond. Oh well.
Most protesters, left and right, go limp during episodes of civil disobedience and the cops simply carry them away when the disobedience actually occurs. In the U.S., we don't preemptively send militarized police to detain them, remove their personal belongings such as computers and diaries, and harass them beforehand. Until now.
Sadly this is pre-9/11 thinking. 19 guys with box cutters traumatized an entire nation. What do you think 50.000 people are capable of? Nobody knows these days, and the people responsible for the safety of many thousands don't want to find out.
god help us everyone ... "a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes" ...and reasonable search and seizure laws work how when dealing with thought crimes?
This is just idiotic. Who carries pee and poop around with them while walking in a demonstration? In the age of AIDS, it may be a lethal weapon. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but I damn sure don't want to find out.
About time society decided not to let troublemakers disrupt other people's gatherings. Enough of the noisy tiny minority who could care less about the rights of others.
If law enforcement thought that demonstrations would be peaceful, the likelihood of strong-arm tactics would diminish. But experience has demonstrated that to be an iffy proposition. When people gather that claim the RNC has no right to exist, one prepares for the worst.
Speech has consequences. Speech that advocates the withdrawal of the right to assemble and speak, are just as culpable as those that go overboard in defending those rights. That goes for BOTH sides of the conflict. And make no mistake about it this is a conflict. A conflict engineered by the left.
A camera and a laptop might do the nation good, right now, if they had the time and wherewithal to jump in a car and head for the convention. It’s hard to dismiss all this as the work of “anarchists”, “weirdoes” and “drug addled Commie freaks” when you can see it up close on YouTube.
Quite so. This is the age of instant broadcast, and almost total coverage. If something goes wrong, publicize it. Let the world watch. The caveat is that the camera doesn't blink and if the left instigates violence, I can laugh and say, told you so.
While I'm at it, the colonists were prepared to fight and die
for their cause, while you people scream and squawk, when your
rights are "taken away". You're all lip and no zip.
Pussies.
