Reply #95: You are skirting the issue entirely. [View All]

[UdoKier]

The people who came to Miami were there to conspire with our business "leaders" to undermine our own laws with a trade agreement that supersedes them. The automatic assumption on the part of the police that the demonstrators are the ones prone to break the law and the foreigners are law-abiding is a big part of the problem.

The gear is solely for our protecting. I am not going to let someone hurt me. We all know that protesters throw things and some come to cause trouble.

No, it also serves to intimidate, especially when you have phalanxes of thousands of these stormtroopers moving in on peaceful demonstrators, rapping their batons on their shields, attacking protesters who fail to do as the officers want. You need to research what happened at FTAA a bit more. The Police presence was way over the top - stormtroopers facing down union guys with walking sticks. so many people were injured who did absolutely nothing wrong.

And no, I DON'T know that protesters come to throw things and cause trouble. I see cops starting the trouble with confrontational tactics.

But my real question is why would cops help these thugs to destroy our country. A better day for a "blue flu" I cannot imagine.

But it's okay. You know which side your bread is buttered on, and you don't really care that it's only the thinnest film of cheap margarine.