Re: It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence.
ponder stibbons Send a noteboard - 02/10/2010 10:26:40 AM
According the posted article people were chaining themselves to tress and had brought tarps to defend themselves against water cannon. 1000 police officers in riot gear showed up so it can't have been much of a surprise.
Now they may or may not have done anything to deserve the violence, I really don't know, but they should have known it was likely to get ugly.
Now they may or may not have done anything to deserve the violence, I really don't know, but they should have known it was likely to get ugly.
As I mentioned before, the tarps were there because people had been camping in nasty weather. And it wasn't the first demo here, we've had dozens since last year. Weekly in the beginning, twice a week after the working had started. None of them went violent.
The normal way it goes if you stand in the way of the police on such occasions is this: You get warned three times, and you get time to walk away during and after the warnings. If you don't, you get carried away by the police, get a fine (usually 80 €) and that's it.
This time (according to eye-witnesses and footage available on the internet): no warnings, whoever was in the way of police putting fences down in the park was watered, peppered and/or beaten.
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- 01/10/2010 03:32:58 PM
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the parents should be ashamed for bringing their kids there
- 01/10/2010 06:11:04 PM
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er... I thought you missed some vital points (or I forgot to mention them)
- 02/10/2010 12:53:20 AM
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know I just noticed point in your article you over looked
- 02/10/2010 04:27:47 AM
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Yeah, I'm gonna have to kind of agree with you.
- 02/10/2010 07:34:12 AM
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the article was wrong on both points
- 02/10/2010 10:16:46 AM
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That's irrelevant.
- 02/10/2010 10:59:35 AM
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Re: That's irrelevant.
- 02/10/2010 11:43:43 AM
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Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children.
- 02/10/2010 01:11:01 PM
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Re: Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children.
- 02/10/2010 02:40:46 PM
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No, I, uh, I think we're still not talking about the same thing. 
- 02/10/2010 04:04:36 PM
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- 02/10/2010 04:04:36 PM
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I went to lots of demonstrations when I was a kid
- 02/10/2010 10:23:04 AM
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. . . as a child? *NM*
- 02/10/2010 10:46:52 AM
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I think I was 12 on my first one.
- 02/10/2010 10:49:33 AM
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You're gonna have to share this story.
- 02/10/2010 11:00:58 AM
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I was a political kid!
- 02/10/2010 11:03:36 AM
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Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . .
- 02/10/2010 11:08:36 AM
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Re: Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . .
- 02/10/2010 11:10:21 AM
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Yeah, I guess it really depends on how they ended up there. . . *NM*
- 02/10/2010 11:14:10 AM
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Or they didn't have good reason to expect voilence. Which would seem more likely here. *NM*
- 02/10/2010 01:14:41 AM
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It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence.
- 02/10/2010 04:38:52 AM
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Re: It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence.
- 02/10/2010 10:26:40 AM
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I read this about it
- 02/10/2010 01:18:16 AM
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"Some reports indicate that stones were thrown at police from the crowd of protesters. "
- 03/10/2010 03:38:19 PM
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