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Topic started on 26-8-2008 @ 10:42 AM by L.HAMILTON

100 Protesters Taken to Temporary Center


www.worldnetdaily.com
About 7 p.m. Monday, riot police using pepper spray forced a couple of hundred protesters out of Civic Center and then blocked them before they could reach the 16th Street Mall.

Police surrounded the protesters along 15th Street between Court Street and Cleveland Place and then moved up reinforcements, including at least two armored vehicles
(visit the link for the full news article)


reply posted on 26-8-2008 @ 03:39 PM by gimme_some_truth
UGH,this type of thing has been driving me nuts lately. They seem to be impeding on our right to protest more and more.

For god sakes having designated areas for protest far away from the actual event and then not allowing them to go ahead and prtoest is something they do in china!

How can we let them get a way with this? The founding fathers must be rolling in their graves right now. If we had not protested agains tthe king back then we would be the united states of england right about now. Or mabye the united kingdom of america. We cant let them make us afraid to protest. We just cant!

If we do then we might as well just lay down and let the NWO take over right now.

This just upsets me so much. They want us to be afraid. If we are afraid then we will let them get away with anything they want. We cant allow our selves to become afraid because as it says in our declaration of independence

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"

Simply put we cant allow our government to get away with the growing amount of injustices they are responsible for. Its our duty as americans.


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reply posted on 26-8-2008 @ 05:49 PM by TheRedneck
reply to post by TaZCoN
I would also say they are creating the so called 'homegrown' terrorists' they are supposedly protecting us from?

Of course, that's the plan. I'm surprised you sound surprised.

I'm not anti-war, nor anti-capitalism, heck, I would likely be attacked by these crowds for being a Bush lover or something (even though I despise what Bush has done). But the real agenda behind this little incident is to get everyone labeled a 'suspected terrorist', thereby stripping them of their Constitutional rights under the auspices of the Patriot Act.

It's happening under our noses and will get worse. Much worse. And the end of it all will be bad. REAL bad...

TheRedneck


reply posted on 26-8-2008 @ 06:12 PM by TaZCoN
reply to post by TheRedneck




Absolutely nothing surprises me anymore...although for the better part of a year I've realized 9/11 was indeed an inside job, it wasn't until the past few months that I started looking into the motivations behind it.

What I've found is a bitter, tough pill to swallow...red, blue, or otherwise...


reply posted on 26-8-2008 @ 06:38 PM by dunwichwitch
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
Redneck, at what point do you say they'll label them "terrorist?" Will it be when they start actually rioting and terrorizing the residents of Denver (or whatever city they decide to "demonstrate" in) or will it be when they start conspiring to do so? I love how all of this is assumed to be peacefull protests when, in reality, the organizers of this have no intention of it being peacefull. They have an agenda, and agenda which dictates that one of their top goals will be to enact self fullfilling prophecy... push, push, push the cops & the government until you finally get the response you wanted and then spin around and say "See! See! We told you! POLICE STATE! POLICE STATE!" while hoping and praying that the pleebs are either dumb enough or blind enough to not point out that the whole damn thing was instigated by the protestors themselves.



Well in said situations of oppression, people will act out. Is it okay for someone who doesn't pay attention to the chaos that is building just underneath the surface to decide that these people can't push back because it is inconvenient and because they have unsubstantiated fears of "radicals" taking to the streets?

Would you then be so surprised if these same "inconvenient" people were labeled as terrorists because they are terrorizing our so-called-freedom of convenience?

Brownshirts. I'm not familiar with that term. Why do you call the protesters that?

I'm not one to protest. May if I was old enough to realize things 15 years ago, I would be out there protesting... but not today. People are too ignorant to pay the protesters any mind, and a lot of people get downright angry that these people "get in their way".

There WILL be violence, burdman. Like it or not, the forces that are pushing against us all are ultra violent and merciless. Just look at war and who profits from it. That is the most obscene and pointless violence I've ever seen. Killing your own citizens and other people's citizens, both of which are human beings and want the same things, in the name of peace and justice and freedom and some national ideal? national security? THAT does not benefit PEOPLE. It benefits governments and who controls them, and our government is out of our hands now. The only reason we are able to talk about these things right now is the subconscious fear that capitalism and corporatism creates. You will not do anything about it if you depend on these things for your survival and your spiritual transcendence has been stripped away completely, and this is where we are at.

Let them protest. Let them riot in the streets. Let them get violent right back. People ave the right to get angry and bite the hand that feeds them, if that hand that feeds them takes that authority and uses it to do heinous things in the people's name. This isn't just about hating the USA. This is about not wanting to become the victim of corporate greed and the same rich a-holes from the past who have come to reign over this so called "free economy" with their monopolies, and they've become these giant entities with all the rights that people have and more, and they have effectively bought us all out. They are trying to buy the world out, and if they won't be bought, they will be terrorized until they break and become "westernized". This is the word we use to cover the Corporation's asses while they brainwash third world countries with terror and misery into worshiping the Western way and begging for the West to come and save it from it's "barbarianism".

I mean.... this deserves much attention, and our conveniences may get in the way of us thinking clearly about the future. Your conveniences are not rights. At the moment, they are mental traps. People protesting in the streets should be welcomed with open arms and applause. This # deserves to be taken on by the citizens. I admire protesters, even if in the end, nobody really cares about their messages.


reply posted on 26-8-2008 @ 06:55 PM by bdswetty
reply to post by burdman30ott6



FYI, while there are quite a few people out there like that... from what I've heard there are only a handful of people actually getting out of hand with their comments and gestures. And they are the only ones ending up on the news (makes you wonder if they weren't planted there to make the protest look bad on national media to justify the barbaric concentration camp)
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