May 21, 2012 -- 11:50PM, LeahOne wrote:

May 21, 2012 -- 7:52PM, Dostojevsky wrote:

May 21, 2012 -- 10:38AM, Mlyons619 wrote:

Yup, saw the protesters storming the barricades.  Saw the rocks, sticks and bottle being thrown at the police.  Peaceful protest my @ss...

The people involved put American Domocracy to a test, and it failed.

Just what are you talking about, Dos?  There's nothing in the Constitution protecting the 'rights' of people to storm barricades, or throw rocks and bottles at the people assigned to keep order during a protest.

There were protest marches in the '60's and early '70's in the US with tens or hundreds of thousands of demonstrators - and NO rock-throwing.  (Let alone making of Molotov cocktails!)  I know.  I was part of several of them.   A large protest gathering need not be violent.  

Can you back up with proof that protesters this past weekend threw rocks????
Can you back up your other claim that someone made molotov cocktails////

There were tens of thousand people in Chicago, in an interview with the Chicago police commission he even said there was little violence that is by the peace protesters to bad we can't say the same for the storm troopers.

And you shouldn't just mimic what other posters say.

It seems like our government and the Israeli government are in a shouting match  to see who can yell terrorist the loudest when accusations are made against those that do not agree with them, it all reeks of McCarthyism.

I was reading an article that said another outcome of this past weekend is the Occupy Movement which was very involved in events in Chicago has gotten their second wind.

On another note of what I see how our country is well on it's way of going down the road to facism is the why independent media members have been treated since last October , link below is what happened to several of these media members in Chicago.
As is mentioned in video below they provide raw footage that has not been censored, that a camera in the hand is truth.
As the one person mentioned video/pictures can be used in defense of peaceful protesters which has happened in New York already, I have also supplied copies of pics I have taken to the lawyers of some of those that have been arrested down here in the D.C. area.

While for the most part I do get along with most police at the events I have cover there has been times where certain police have acted hostile towards me and have prevented me from shooting.
From talking to  police officers I can say without doubt there are those that are sympathetic to the cause of the protesters.


www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_emb...

I was afraid that the Occupy movement was going to melt like a winter snowfall, but our meatball establishment in their fear-driven responses is doing its best to keep the pot boiling.

This is kind of like playing rope-a-dope with a not-too-bright, 300-pound ten-year-old kid.

"While for the most part I do get along with most police at the events I have cover there has been times where certain police have acted hostile towards me and have prevented me from shooting. From talking to  police officers I can say without doubt there are those that are sympathetic to the cause of the protesters."

And this  is why you've referred to Chicago's police as  'fascist storm troopers' several times right in this thread.