quote:Ah, but just breathing gives SOMEONE reason, especially when you're high-profile.
But not Clinton, that was completely different.
quote:And hundreds of dead people will vote Democratic again that year.
Well, if they continue with the trend established before the last election, that of removing the right to vote from members of minorities (who'd traditionally vote Democrat) convicted of felonies, then in Florida at least the dead will be the ONLY people who CAN vote Democrat. Especially when you take into account all the other members of those minorities voting for Buchanan. 8)
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that of removing the right to vote from members of minorities (who'd traditionally vote Democrat) convicted of felonies
Funny, that we do also remove the right to vote of criminals who based on racial statistics would have been more likely to vote Republican...
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Back to protesters for a moment, why are anti-war protesters so violent? Not all, of course, but enough that it make me wonder if those that are stand for anything at all.
Oh, and every dollar we poorish folk make is taxed twice, look at your telephone bill, check your receipts form the stores, see what kind of taxes the employer pays on that money in your pay check, between Social Security and Medicare it is 7.85% for tax matching, so I don't care if stocks are taxed 'twice'.
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"Back to protesters for a moment, why are anti-war protesters so violent? Not all, of course, but enough that it make me wonder if those that are stand for anything at all."
Just because someone is against this war, that doesn't mean they necessarily find any and every kind of violence automatically abhorrent. There are some who go beyond the "accepted" protest forms (sitting out of the way somewhere and chanting to themselves) because they're pretty sure everyone just ignores that.
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Well, we see how well these protests have worked too, oh, so well.
THen the ones that laid out across 5TH Ave in NYC. They were heard also, good news coverage, but they should have been heard screaming as the taxis ran them over.
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I can't seem to uncover any law dealing with the "right to be heard."
You can speak. That doesn't mean you can compel other people to listen to you, or inconvenience or endanger them in order to be 'heard.'
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quote: ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police said they arrested 106 anti-Iraq war demonstrators after two hours of violence close to the scene of an EU summit in Athens on Wednesday.
Don't go to war, or we will protest violently and possibly kill people....
Okay....
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What, you're against killing people? Well, we can't have that, so we're gonna punish you and make sure you can't speak out against us again... See, it works both ways.
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Most places do though, Creating a Public Nuisence, Disturbing the Peace, Inciting a Riot....
So the 5th ave blockers are guilty of a crime, which I would imagine NYC has.
I like the second one, getting busted for Disturbing the Peace while in an anti-war protest.....
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Bah. You lose all points for believing that there are no laws against being a nuisance. That's like, major doltage, on a Barcalow level.
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