Tacoma Protest (March 10/07)
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Stumble ThisInteresting news story you probably won't see on any major news outlets. It's probably scenes like this that have helped contribute to many people avoiding protests these days. The video below is the local news coverage of the protest. But by lurking youtube you can find some first hand footage of the event.
Here is the first clip: Apparently rubber bullets aren't enough to control crowds, why not toss a few rounds of tear gas to make sure everybody in the area is effected.
Here is second clip: The crowd shows solidarity even after being sprayed with rubber bullets and begin singing some John Lennon. The police will have none of it, no peace tonight.
Democracy now, did cover the story.
And John Lennon - Here is the Music video to Give peace a chance And here is a segment from the documentary "US vs John Lennon" about that song in the 60's
Here is the first clip: Apparently rubber bullets aren't enough to control crowds, why not toss a few rounds of tear gas to make sure everybody in the area is effected.
Here is second clip: The crowd shows solidarity even after being sprayed with rubber bullets and begin singing some John Lennon. The police will have none of it, no peace tonight.
Democracy now, did cover the story.
And John Lennon - Here is the Music video to Give peace a chance And here is a segment from the documentary "US vs John Lennon" about that song in the 60's
-The way to protest war, is to protest the mechanism, not a symptom arising from the gears of that mechanism grinding. How??
Take a lesson from MLK and Malcolm X. How about an entire state not using Fuel for a week.....that message hits home, not a bunch of confused, angry, frustrated proles, who eat veggies, driving to buy them on the way to the Light company to pay THAT bill......
money.....follow the money to the end of all war......
Still this one little chance to rebel is all they think they can spare, so they do it. It may seem pathetic, but it's probably more than you or I have done.
We have this great democracy held hostage by an administration that ignores the fact that the majority think they are wrong. An administration that can override even The Peoples Branch, a branch that we're told is supposed to be the strongest branch of our government. An administration that has made laws where they can jail us with a mere suspicion and hold us indefinitely without trail by the power of a simple label.
It makes us feel weak and yet some of us still rebel. This war is, by any measure, far more protested that the Vietnam war and yet the news reports that far far less. We as an American people are against it, the whole world is against it, and yet they carry on. Of the people, by the people and for the people is a punch line.
Where's the money in that?
The fragile self-esteem of a generation of spoiled ignorami spawned by the Worstest Generation depends on repeating history by sabotaging the Iraqi war effort like their treasonous breeders sabotaged Vietnam. But unlike Oriental communists, sandthugs aren't content to stay put and murder their own, but migrate to other lands and kill for the sake of mullah-fabricated hogwash.
Can't believe this must be explained, but here we go again: islamofascists aren't going to stop killing around the world because the US pulls out of Iraq, if anything the opposite will occur.
islamofascists aren't going away except by death; therefore I prefer it be their deaths, not ours.
What really pisses me off is the way the protesters do nothing in response. Cops are people too, they don't have any special exemptions from decency, and what that means is when they attack you for no reason you have the right to fight back. What they should have done is formed up, found some weapons and stormed the line. Pound their piggy fucking faces into the pavement. Or at least made the effort.
And what pisses me off even more is no-one will agree with that.
you don't put a band-aid, on a punctured femoral artery...
I wonder what the real motives are for being against the war? It can't be the loss of life since 13,470 Americans died in drunk-driving accidents in 2006. Where's the protest monkeys for them?
Without American public opinion on its side, the war in Iraq would fail quickly. "Your" bold new socialist Congress STILL couldn't get anything done (thank the gods) and not a single socialist Presidential candidate except Kook-cinich claimed immediate withdrawal would be a priority. So the delusional sphere of alternate Zinn-esque history that "The People" want out of Iraq must remain basketball-sized around your head.
The elitist lefty world-view never trusts "The People" they proclaim to love so much. The Founders knew the people were smarter than any tyrant and set out to LIMIT government power. Now the socialists want government to run everything in the name of "the common good". See the disconnect?
It's the Red Chinese who are the real enemies of the entire globe; not enough difference between them and the platform of leftist Democrats to place them in separate categories. One already funds the other.
I'll be calling the left on its BS until they pull the plug. So for now, pay for three more baseballs and keep trying to knock the bottles down.
Yes the Founding fathers limited the influence of government, yet this doesn't apply to the current government who have appointed the US president as the ultimate power in deciding the application of law, wire tapping, spying, elimination of heabus corpus, increasing government spending without thought on economic costs.
Not to mention lying to the people about the threat of Iraq in the first place by using the threat of nonexistent WMDs.
Every once in a great while, I like to see comments like this. It serves as a reminder of how utterly morally bankrupt modern conservatism is.
The party of Lincoln has has become the party of Nixon, folks. May it go the way of the Whigs.