Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

[radon]

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"The 8,000-strong security forces were opposed not (as expected) by a few 'gang leaders,' but by a great part of the population. This made violent dispersal of the demonstration impossible. In the following weeks, the SED tried in vain to hinder the public from further protests. The people of Leipzig were not satisfied by cosmetic changes. Through their courage, their determination, and rejection of violence, the people of Leipzig made history with the Monday demonstrations. Pictures of the protests of autumn, 1989 spread throughout the world. Determined people demanded democratic basic rights in an encrusted community. Leipzig--the poor cousin of the GDR--used peaceful means to express itself and laid the foundation for German reunification by means of a Peaceful Revolution."

Good thing they were lucky enough that the central power in the region was distracted by their own problems or they would have ended up like these guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

[Diarmuid]

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Good thing they were lucky enough that the central power in the region was distracted by their own problems or they would have ended up like these guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

Its ironic no, that the soviet army which crushed the Czech population was its self the product of a violent revolution to purge the so called proletariat from the yoke of (as Marx would say) "bourgeois imperalistic" oppression?. It seems oft violence begets violence.

[pwcmba]

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Strange - I just watched a story on CNN about the following and yet when I search the cnn web site for a video and story I only get:

http://txfx.net/2009/04/07/campaign-...e-he-had-cash/

[pwcmba]

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http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ltm.html

Anyone see the story here?

Bill Cafferty flippantly said "the guy should be fired" He missed the point that this is systemic and obviously he has not listened to the tape because there were more than two guys; I listened to the tape back in April when it appeared on the internet. Why did it take so long for CNN to pick up this story?

"I don't believe I was legally required to tell them. Carrying cash is not a crime," Mr. Bierfeldt said. "It is a dangerous precedent if the government can order you to tell them where you get your money, and no law requires them to know where I work or where I spend my free time and where I go on vacation."

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009...on-paul-group/

[dummass]

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Great post, pwcmba.

It reminded me of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOBqo68IpE

[*T*]

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Rubbish, it they had been living in China you never would have heard of either of them. They would have been jailed, a media blackout enforced and their supporters quietly rounded up afterwords.

This is exactly what the British did in India.

[Slimprofits]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

From the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, US Army Center for Law and Military Operations (CLAMO)

Domestic Operational Law Handbook for Judge Advocates

(July 20, 2009 edition; 289 pages. Supplement: 1,147 pages.)
First published in April 2001, this handbook is a product of the Center for Law and Military Operations (CLAMO). It is designed as a resource for operational lawyers involved in domestic support operations. The handbook’s contents are based on statutes, national policy, Department of Defense Directives, joint publications, service regulations and field manuals, and lessons learned. The purpose of the handbook is to serve as an advisory, working reference and training tool for judge advocates. The Supplement to the Handbook provides hundreds of documents in support of Chapters 2 through 13.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_L...dbook-2009.pdf