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Re: Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. ponder stibbons Send a noteboard - 02/10/2010 02:40:46 PM
Ten year-olds do not organise themselves. You can keep saying these children did, but I'm just not gonna believe it.

(Also, expecting violence or not: still irrelevant.)


All right, maybe I used the term "kids" where I meant "youths". We Germans often do when talking in our mother tongue, because the word "Jugendlicher" for youth is inconveniently long. Sorry about that.
Concerning the 10year-olds present: they were most likely taken there by parents or elder siblings. But why shouldn't they? Remember, we are talking about a park in the midst of a 600,000-people city, the most important patch of green here. Should we keep our kids away from that just because the first use of watercannons against people in the history of our town might happen? You might reply that they should have moved away as soon as the police started to clear the scene. Well, several people told me that they had no chance to get away in time.
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Stuttgart, Germany, September 30th 2010 - 01/10/2010 03:32:58 PM 1521 Views
That is shocking. *NM* - 01/10/2010 04:23:29 PM 622 Views
Yeah really sad that it had to come this far *NM* - 01/10/2010 04:43:07 PM 587 Views
That's horrible. - 01/10/2010 04:57:39 PM 1123 Views
There's an even better one - 02/10/2010 01:13:29 AM 1292 Views
the parents should be ashamed for bringing their kids there - 01/10/2010 06:11:04 PM 1231 Views
er... I thought you missed some vital points (or I forgot to mention them) - 02/10/2010 12:53:20 AM 1352 Views
know I just noticed point in your article you over looked - 02/10/2010 04:27:47 AM 1266 Views
Yeah, I'm gonna have to kind of agree with you. - 02/10/2010 07:34:12 AM 1132 Views
the article was wrong on both points - 02/10/2010 10:16:46 AM 1139 Views
That's irrelevant. - 02/10/2010 10:59:35 AM 1079 Views
Re: That's irrelevant. - 02/10/2010 11:43:43 AM 1853 Views
Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. - 02/10/2010 01:11:01 PM 1147 Views
Re: Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. - 02/10/2010 02:40:46 PM 1914 Views
No, I, uh, I think we're still not talking about the same thing. - 02/10/2010 04:04:36 PM 1178 Views
I think I got that one about the police - 02/10/2010 04:25:59 PM 1936 Views
I went to lots of demonstrations when I was a kid - 02/10/2010 10:23:04 AM 1151 Views
. . . as a child? *NM* - 02/10/2010 10:46:52 AM 563 Views
I think I was 12 on my first one. - 02/10/2010 10:49:33 AM 1227 Views
You're gonna have to share this story. - 02/10/2010 11:00:58 AM 1115 Views
I was a political kid! - 02/10/2010 11:03:36 AM 1130 Views
Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . . - 02/10/2010 11:08:36 AM 1089 Views
Re: Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . . - 02/10/2010 11:10:21 AM 1183 Views
Or they didn't have good reason to expect voilence. Which would seem more likely here. *NM* - 02/10/2010 01:14:41 AM 573 Views
It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence. - 02/10/2010 04:38:52 AM 1174 Views
Re: It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence. - 02/10/2010 10:26:40 AM 1906 Views
I read this about it - 02/10/2010 01:18:16 AM 1110 Views
it is really hard to tell the difference - 02/10/2010 01:30:24 AM 1300 Views
Even then it is? - 02/10/2010 01:39:52 AM 1183 Views
That really is quite shocking. *NM* - 02/10/2010 10:25:22 AM 605 Views

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