Re: OT: reaction to Iraqi elections

From: richard mullens (mullensdeletethis_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:03:42 GMT

John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:41:29 GMT, richard mullens
> <mullensdeletethis@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>
>>John Larkin wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:42:38 GMT, richard mullens
>>><mullensdeletethis@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>Yes, but dissent anywhere can cause you to come to grief at the hands of the authorities,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Not in the US, unless you are violent or don't pay your taxes.
>>>>>
>>>>>John
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rector
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>USA People's park
>>>
>>>"Protesters threw rocks and bottles."
>>>
>>>If I was a cop with 6000 brats marching on me throwing rocks and
>>>bottles, I might back off a bit on my idea of civil liberties.
>>>
>>
>>Maybe, but I'm just illustrating that when the people come up against the state, the people get shot.
>>
>
>
> If you define "come up against the state" as threatening a cop with
> serious bodily harm, you might well expect to be shot. Seems fair to
> me.
>

You're entitled to believe that in a dispute over land, the state is entitled to shoot people.
I guess that those who ordered the tanks into Tiannamen square also felt that what they were doing was fair.

The events are obviously not equivalent, but there is a parallel I feel. I don't believe that it was America's finest hour.

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