It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by mf2hd
I absolutely agree that the comparison cannot be exact as no historical comparison can.
I also agree that there are similarities in the political situation and the behaviour of the leading political class.
Originally posted by LAES YVAN
I'm done on this subject, I'm debating with immature anarchists.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. - Thomas A. Edison
Originally posted by ANOK
Personally I think you're just frustrated 'cause everyone of your arguments has been shot down, so you now revert to personal insults.
...your constitutional rights to peaceably protest are void when that protest becomes violent...
This topic is about the FTAA protest - I have shown video's, photos, and documents supporting my argument that the protest was violent. There was fires, assault, destruction of property, and graffiti on walls, mainly giant A's with circles around them. Yeah that's right an Anarchy symbol. And what do you know... we have an anarchist trying to twist the peoples illegal activities around, and make the police look like the bad guys.
I truly hope you are at the next protest that gets out of control like this one.... I want to see the video of you getting a pellet in the head.. I do..
Grow up... If there ever is a "police state" it wont ever be in your lifetime.
President Bush pushed a hard line Wednesday on trying terror suspects through military tribunals, exhorting Congress to allow evidence to be withheld from a defendant if necessary to protect classified information.
Another potential point of conflict is whether coerced testimony should be admissible. Administration officials have said allowing coerced testimony in some cases may be necessary, but McCain said the committee bill would ban it entirely.
Originally posted by LAES YVAN
Better yet, I hope you anarchists get your way, and the police do NOTHING about the protest, so that your whole city will break out into riots, and you wont even be able to leave your house without worrying about getting killed. Then your business goes bankrupt because everybody is afraid to go to it, and nobody wants to enter it because the windows are broken and all the merchandise is gone. Your business loan isn't fully payed off, and now you are in debt because your store front is totaled, meaning the repairs will cost more then the whole building cost when it was new. state" it wont ever be in your lifetime.
Originally posted by ANOK
This is just paranoid ranting...
Originally posted by ANOK
...What if the police and the authorities get their way?
No right to protest? No freedom of movement? If cops had their way I know my neighborhood would be a war zone.
Where on Earth do you get the idea that cops want to end all protests? And suppress your freedom??? THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU PROTEST!! WAKE UP!!! THEY DONT CARE!! Do you understand that?? They only care if you are violent, and destroy property and take rights away from others... IF YOU CAN PROTEST PEACEFULLY, YOU CAN PROTEST ALL YOUR DAMN LIFE!
Originally posted by LAES YVAN
You are thick, really thick.
JESUS, I'm talking to a thick brick wall. GET A CLUE.
I can't believe I'm even wasting my time on you..