« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2011, 01:44:08 AM »
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-26-11 05:28 PM
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This is what is striking on this action
As a medic I got the honor to have a real riot happen. Yes, for real the police had rocks, not eggs, thrown at them. One of my rigs lost a window or two and needed a new paint job. If the cops used lethal force none would have blinked. They didn't. They used battons,shields helmets and a line walk. there were a few injured and a few helmets were sacrificed. On the other side there were a few people hurt, some arrests and on day break there was a need to clean up. It was, quite possibly, one of the scariests. Oh and the chief decided that tear gas was the last resort...
What happened last night was excessive force, what would have been acceptable in an actual riot.
It makes you wonder...it sure makes me wonder.
Alas what happened next though, I don't expect that either. It was a collective wtf happened here and working with community organizers. We could have saved us all that with a health clinic.
Wonders never cease.
>snork< heh Oh my.
What hath she done?


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Then-Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”
John Adams warned in a letter, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”