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WhaTHellsgoingonhere

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2. I know what you're saying, but...

Reply to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Original post)

Tue Oct 15, 2013, 12:53 AM

Oct 2013

...the opposite is never true. Cameras don't deter riot police when the demonstrators are from the left. Sprayed, beaten, and arrested. I can't image kids pushing riot police and not getting beaten up and arrested. It just reminds me of how the Right has intimidated us at every level.

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everytime I see footage of the thugs pushing riot police... [View all] WhaTHellsgoingonhere Oct 2013 OP

exactly... however, it was deliberate provocation for the media who far outnumbered the protesters JCMach1 Oct 2013 #1

It was a STUNT, and an obvious one at that. arcane1 Oct 2013 #3

The police didn't mind taking the bait when they were beating sabrina 1 Oct 2013 #11

Authority is by definition anti-left Scootaloo Oct 2013 #15

and most of them are so ignorant of the fact that busterbrown Oct 2013 #16

I know what you're saying, but... WhaTHellsgoingonhere Oct 2013 #2

Needs more tear gas and rubber bullets mwrguy Oct 2013 #4

No kidding, theyt didn't do a fucking thing to those folks gopiscrap Oct 2013 #5

...prominent Democrats were arrested. Teabaggers? Nah... Liberal_Stalwart71 Oct 2013 #6

Don't we get it? wundermaus Oct 2013 #7

It's beyond just not being in the club. merrily Oct 2013 #8

Rec merrily Oct 2013 #9

IOKIYAR. eom Jamaal510 Oct 2013 #10

This! yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #12

So infuriatingly true. Good ole Rachel Maddow. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2013 #18

Lefties are Enemies to the 1%. And teabaggers are not. blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #13

Bingo...But Obama hasn't really been an enemy of the 1% either davidn3600 Oct 2013 #14

You think and think wrong.. busterbrown Oct 2013 #17