NATO 2012 - DNC 1968

[Palehorse]

After 44 years, some things never change!

[The Troll]

  Yep, the super rich using the cops to beat up people.  Since the first tribal leaders to the kings and the super rich.  Nothing has changed.      Total domination.   

[Henry Hawk]

 

[The Troll]

  Henry, did you see in the top picture the cop kneeing the guy in the nuts.  Really fair play.  How would you like me kneeing you in the balls.     Now that I said that, that might be fun.   

[Henry Hawk]

and those people were not doing anything wrong were they?  just minding their own business, and the cops attacked them.

[The Troll]

and those people were not doing anything wrong were they?  just minding their own business, and the cops attacked them.

  Yep, the people were protesting, covered under the constitution and the cops attacked them.  Henry you really missed a calling.  You could have been a real asshole cop.        

[Henry Hawk]

  Yep, the people were protesting, covered under the constitution and the cops attacked them.  Henry you really missed a calling.  You could have been a real asshole cop.        

Yes, they CAN do so, under our constitution...to do so PEACEFULLY.........these guys pushed their way, forward into the line, some hurling bottles and at one point a metal barricade at police.

The police did not just arbitrary start beating these guys like you have been brainwashed into thinking...and btw, protesters were carrying rocks, cans of spray paint, pry bars, urine-filled bottles and other "dangerous weapons."

You just LOVE the propaganda...don't ya.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-21/news/ct-met-nato-chicago-protests-0521-20120521_1_protesters-clash-hundred-protesters-andy-thayer

[Henry Hawk]

After 44 years, some things never change!

Hardly a comparison....only 90 people were arrested this week with the protests, and most of them were released without charges being filed.  In the 1968 protests there were 668 people arrested..with many injuries.

more propaganda.

[Exterminator]

more propaganda.

Just because you learned a new word doesn't mean you have to use it in every post.

[Henry Hawk]

Just because you learned a new word doesn't mean you have to use it in every post.

It seems to be the only appropriate word there is to explain some of the posts....

[Palehorse]

It seems to be the only appropriate word there is to explain some of the posts....

Mostly your own. . . 

That being said, please elaborate as to how my posting of this topic is propaganda. I merely pointed out that after 44 years, another major gathering results in the exact same results in Chicago.

After 44 years the methods and equipment have not changed very much at all. (With the exception of the addition of a visor to protect those administering a beating from blood-borne pathogens.)

Oh, and during the DNC in 1968 the Illinois National Guard was involved in inflicting a major portion of those injuries. . . All while carrying live rounds within the magazines of their weapons.

[Henry Hawk]

Mostly your own. . . 

That being said, please elaborate as to how my posting of this topic is propaganda. I merely pointed out that after 44 years, another major gathering results in the exact same results in Chicago.

After 44 years the methods and equipment have not changed very much at all. (With the exception of the addition of a visor to protect those administering a beating from blood-borne pathogens.)

Oh, and during the DNC in 1968 the Illinois National Guard was involved in inflicting a major portion of those injuries. . . All while carrying live rounds within the magazines of their weapons.

My point exactly...there is NO comparison between the two.  Other than there was a protest, and one got a little rowdy and the other was nearly out of control.

Yet, you said some things never change.  I think there IS quite a change.  At least for the most part.

[Palehorse]

My point exactly...there is NO comparison between the two.  Other than there was a protest, and one got a little rowdy and the other was nearly out of control.

Yet, you said some things never change.  I think there IS quite a change.  At least for the most part.

Spin away. . . The visuals provide documentation that there are stark similarities. Cops, protestors, nightsticks, beatings, equipment, methods, etc, etc, etc.

Proving my position that you are socially conditioned to notice only differences instead of similarities; thusly possessing a pre disposal toward pessimism without first considering where there may be common ground.

Moreover, that one got "a little rowdy" and it resulted in the administration of beatings strikes me as a knee jerk reaction. Was that reaction based upon the failure to learn the lessons of the event 44 years ago, or just a result of machismo?

[Henry Hawk]

Spin away. . . The visuals provide documentation that there are stark similarities. Cops, protestors, nightsticks, beatings, equipment, methods, etc, etc, etc.

Proving my position that you are socially conditioned to notice only differences instead of similarities; thusly possessing a pre disposal toward pessimism without first considering where there may be common ground.

Moreover, that one got "a little rowdy" and it resulted in the administration of beatings strikes me as a knee jerk reaction. Was that reaction based upon the failure to learn the lessons of the event 44 years ago, or just a result of machismo?

I'm not going to argue with you palehorse....the fact is this.  90 arrest vs. 668 arrests.

You can continue to put me down, as always.  I'm done.

[Palehorse]

I'm not going to argue with you palehorse....the fact is this.  90 arrest vs. 668 arrests.

You can continue to put me down, as always.  I'm done.

Out comes the victim card. . .