Matt Taibbi has a suggestion about the next group the UC-Davis police should take on:

[Are_grits_groceries]

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How strong can anyone defending those causes be? These people are weak and pathetic, and they’re getting weaker. And boy, are they showing it. Way to gear up with combat helmets and the submachine guns, fellas, to take on a bunch of co-eds sitting Indian-style. Maybe after work you can go break up a game of Duck-Duck-Goose at the local Chuck E Cheese. I’d bring the APC for that one.
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Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/uc-davis-pepper-spray-incident-reveals-weakness-up-top-20111122#ixzz1eTZLcmgA

Heh!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. K & R. nt

[qb]

2. New motto for American police: "We are defending ourselves, against the citizens

who insist on keeping their rights and their principles."

[freshwest]

3. Their bravado masks gut wrenching fear, which they act upon to ease their pain.

Peaceful protesters are like water. They wear the stones in the heart down and carry all opposing them in their path, because it is what nature has decreed.

'The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry lifetime after lifetime.' - Alex Collier.