Cops-1, protesters-0

don\'t get me wrong

i\'m all about democracy, freedom of speech and being able to protest.

BUT, protesting to me IS NOT standing in the street blocking traffic, verbally abusing law enforcement, throwing stones, and generally being uncivil

there was a protest in my very own city a few weeks ago, some 400 people (mostly college students suffering from identity crisis).
same thing happened: they blocked traffic, they threw bricks at cop cars, they walked ON people\'s cars in traffic, they had alcoholic beverages, etc..

they thought they with safe in thier "mob mentality", :rolleyes:


coredweller, i would make a great cop.  i would put a stop to a protest WAY before it got violent.

clowd, if you call me a "die-hard patriot" again, i swear i will never be so insulted in all my life

oh, and which country is cyprus buried behind again?

[Titan]

Originally posted by Unicron!


How many times will I have to repeat myself?

And its not the Cypriots that are calling their country "the best country in the world" LOL

Well thats my whole point. I\'m not bashing Cyprus so why bash America? A lot of Americans feel this isn\'t the best country. I dont\' think we are the best country. We are the strongest and best militarily but not America isn\'t a bed of roses. It seems to me that you are attacking America because its not perfect but I could do the same to Cyprus, but I don\'t go that low (except with France )

Originally posted by mm
don\'t get me wrong

i\'m all about democracy, freedom of speech and being able to protest.

BUT, protesting to me IS NOT standing in the street blocking traffic,verbally abusing law enforcement, throwing stones, and generally being uncivil

there was a protest in my very own city a few weeks ago, some 400 people (mostly college students suffering from identity crisis).
same thing happened: they blocked traffic, they threw bricks at cop cars, they walked ON people\'s cars in traffic, they had alcoholic beverages, etc..

they thought they with safe in thier "mob mentality", :rolleyes:


coredweller, i would make a great cop.  i would put a stop to a protest WAY before it got violent.

clowd, if you call me a "die-hard patriot" again, i swear i will never be so insulted in all my life

I am against this kind of protests too to tell the truth.The example I mentioned though didnt have any similar incidents.

In Cyprus I ve protested with many poeple but then a few stupid beings called "humans" ruined the whole peaceful image of the protest after they started throwing stones:mad: to the police.

 

oh, and which country is cyprus buried behind again?

Which?

Protestors arent the smartest people.....over all the years of protsests i have not heard of one that had a major or even medioker impact on anything significant.

 After all of that havent they noticed that all they do is end up causing violence? There pointless the government isnt going to risk having Iraq kill innocent people over a few hundred thousand people.

In Genova 2 years ago.G9.

I hope that rings a bell.

It is pretty funny. They think they are doing such great things but they actually become an huge annoyance, for that they get bitch slapped when they become 3 year olds and say No to everything the cops say.

I think I\'m going to avoid this forum from now on since all I see spam from people like that.

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Originally posted by cloud345
Protestors arent the smartest people.....over all the years of protsests i have not heard of one that had a major or even medioker impact on anything significant.

 After all of that havent they noticed that all they do is end up causing violence? There pointless the government isnt going to risk having Iraq kill innocent people over a few hundred thousand people.

Besides of course the civil rights protests.  I\'m sure you didnt forget about those.

i would classify those as rallies, not protests

i would like to put MLK in a better place that that

he was fighting for something, not against something

mm im sorry but that makes no sense, of course he was fighting against something, he was fighting against the ammount of social segregation this country had....

All protesters are fighting "For" something, and they are also fighting "Against" something....

i dun see it that way

MLK wasnt fighing against "white opression"
he was fighting for "black liberation"

A rally is where people congregate to applaud the status quo.  You know, like the Nuremburg rallies in Germany in the 1940s....

Martin Luther King\'s civil rights demonstrations were PROTESTS.  I guess the police were justified in beating up protestors in that case also?  Let\'s not forget their use of firehoses, which someone else applauded earlier in this thread.  But then that doesn\'t fit your argument, so it must be different somehow, right?

Just take it easy with the generalizations about protestors.

no it fits

people got unruly, and beating commenced

A rally is where people congregate to applaud the status quo.

thats an interpretation.

from encarta : a large meeting or gathering of people, usually organized by a movement or political party and intended to inspire and generate enthusiasm among those present

if MLK condemned the whites for thier behavior, do you think that would create enthusiasm?

and we shouldnt be comparing what the great MLK did to protestors today.  people these days have different motives

people protest today to make up for thier weak self motivation and self empowerment.  they feel they need a group of people around them if they might make a change in the world

its pathetic