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Hey did you guys hear about the two tanks used to break up an antiwar protest in westwood L.A. last night. I just saw the footage, go to www.prisonplanet.tv and click on where it says tanks in LA you'll see it.
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all the tanks did was just park in front of the protestors and tell them to stay out of the street. And it looks like there's barely 30 or 40 people out there. That's so pathetic. The crowd chanting "Bring the troops home now" is pretty redundant. If I were there I would've tried to chant, "Iraq needs more tanks, so go away!" That would've made more sense. -
I heard about that... That's wrong. There shouldn't have been tanks there.
The crowd ignored the tanks basically. Which is good. The last thing we'd want to happen is for the tanks to make the protesters angry and turn the whole thing into a giant mess.[COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
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tanks? thats a little too much... ohh yes all those darn peace groups, they will come with their flowers and signs and make you read those signs and then make you take the flowers... WOW! what a threat!
i say, the government of this freakin country is getting out of hand...Comment
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An anti-Bush demonstrator broke into the Mexican consulate several days ago and kidnapped a woman at gunpoint. I'm sure they're just covering all bases. Why complain if there wasn't even an altercation?Comment
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yes, but i have also herd of "antibush" demonstrators going door to door in small cities and saying please vote for kerry so that we can ban the bible and gay people can live next door to you...
now, that doesnt sound like a peaceful person, and neither of thoes people fit the decription, and in EVERY single protest where things got out of control, it was proven that the reason why there were problems, was because the republican party hired people to go into the protests and to cause problems by pepper spraying people, and hitting people...Comment
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Sure thing, Nune. Republicans are the source of all evil in this country, and no demonstrator has ever gotten out of control. What does this have to do with the use of tanks anyway? Since when was the LAPD under the control of the Republican party? Whatever the source of disruption, it is the PD's duty to contain it and pre-empt it whenever possible.Comment
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no the current form of neo (meaning new) republicans...
although i dont think any pd is on any ones side, so i guess i would like to know what happened in NY when RNC was happeneing??? i was listening to kpfk 90.7 and people were being rounded up and taken to "holding places" and being kept there without any outside contacts for 48 hrs, and the only reason we knew about it was because some people had cell phones and they called the radio stations and they passed the phones around... the holding places had signs of toxic material and a lot people because affected and started getting rashes, and many others were tourists and they missed their flights... some were not even involved with the protests but, they were also gathered up...
but do you remember the protestors at the inauguration in 2000? well the protestors were mostly peaceful, just holding up signs and then came in some hired republicans, they came in pepper sprayed on people, kicked, hit and spit on people, so a lot of anger errupted and it looked like the protest was violent, when it wasnt...Comment
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Since when does the LAPD have tanks? If they had PD on horses or foot or something on standby that's one thing, but what does having tanks accomplish? What are they going to do? Shoot at the protestors?Originally posted by loseyourname
I think that's what was overkill. Police presence is fine, but tanks are a bit much.[COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
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The same thing happened at the DNC here in 2000. Blaming republicans does nothing but obscure the truth to further your political agenda.Comment
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