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Police pepper spray peaceful students @ Davis

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Police pepper spray peaceful students
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11-23-2011 at 12:55 PM.
11-23-2011 at 12:55 PM.
Quote from Hawk2007 :
Ryu is basically a pro-anarchist who sit in the Podium reminding us how terrible our government is and how the people need to tear down the establishment.

The funny thing is, I don't want to live under the hellish plantation that people like Ryu and his fellow occupiers would enslave me and the rest of us in.




MLK was probably smart enough to get a permit.
Sounds about right. I shudder to think of what kind of world that would be..

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Wait...I thought it was a pricate college campus? If so, that's not public. And we can play the "if" game all day if you want. I'd be willing to bet that if a senior citizen, person in a wheelchair, etc walked up to them, they'd gladly move aside and let them through. If someone is levelheaded enough to have a peaceful protest to voice their opinions, what automatically makes you guys think that they would choose to be dickheads to everyone? How exactly would that help their cause and help them gain supporters? Some of these hypothetical scenarios that people come up just don't seem like they have an iota of thought put into them.
Don't like the law, then work to get it changed. Until then, don't be surprised when you get a face full of pepper spray.
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11-23-2011 at 12:56 PM.
11-23-2011 at 12:56 PM.
Quote from Ryu-bom :
did school administrator come down and see a MESSAGE THEY DID NOT LIKE and want the po-pos to do something about it.. So the po-pos started looking at their list of laws that they can use or make up as a excuse to STOP THE MESSAGE

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The Davis faculty and administration are largely sympathetic to the students causes.

They believe that tuition should be free and you should get a $100K plus salary without benefits for a BA in transgender studies degree.
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11-23-2011 at 12:57 PM.
11-23-2011 at 12:57 PM.
Quote from Hawk2007 :
Ryu is basically a pro-anarchist who sit in the Podium reminding us how terrible our government is and how the people need to tear down the establishment.

The funny thing is, I don't want to live under the hellish plantation that people like Ryu and his fellow occupiers would enslave me and the rest of us in.




MLK was probably smart enough to get a permit.
It is a whole lot better then living in a police-gov't authoritarian right wing corporate rich state..Smilie
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11-23-2011 at 12:57 PM.
11-23-2011 at 12:57 PM.
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Really were there handicap and senior citizens complaining that a bunch of students were blocking the roadway?

or

did school administrator come down and see a MESSAGE THEY DID NOT LIKE and want the po-pos to do something about it.. So the po-pos started looking at their list of laws that they can use or make up as a excuse to STOP THE MESSAGE

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It doesn't matter if someone is bitching or not, they broke the law. That's like saying I can park in a handicapped spot as long as no one complains about it.
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11-23-2011 at 12:58 PM.
11-23-2011 at 12:58 PM.
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It is a whole lot better then living in a police-gov't authoritarian right wing corporate rich state..Smilie

Tell me, where have you lived or visited this utopian experience? Please explain....
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11-23-2011 at 12:58 PM.
11-23-2011 at 12:58 PM.
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Don't like the law, then work to get it changed. Until then, don't be surprised when you get a face full of pepper spray.

You MEAN LIKE PROTESTING and STANDING UP for something OMG
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11-23-2011 at 12:59 PM.
11-23-2011 at 12:59 PM.
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You MEAN LIKE PROTESTING and STANDING UP for something OMG
No, protest all you want. Do it legally. For some reason you have supreme difficultly with understanding what is legal and what is not.
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11-23-2011 at 12:59 PM.
11-23-2011 at 12:59 PM.
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You MEAN LIKE PROTESTING and STANDING UP for something OMG

Is it someone's hypothetical Constitutionally protected right to stand up for a police state that pepper sprays those who go against Obama's opinion?
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11-23-2011 at 01:00 PM.
11-23-2011 at 01:00 PM.
Quote from Hawk2007 :
Tell me, where have you lived or visited this utopian experience? Please explain....
No where yet, but I wouldn't want to allow MY HOME to be turned into a rigth wing police -gov't facist state either
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11-23-2011 at 01:01 PM.
11-23-2011 at 01:01 PM.
Quote from Ryu-bom :
No where yet, but I wouldn't want to allow MY HOME to be turned into a rigth wing police -gov't facist state either

Well, I don't want MY home to be turned into your anti-liberty with do as I say, not as I do, public defecating, smelly, unbathed populace protesting leaders.

Boo, ya!
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11-23-2011 at 01:01 PM.
11-23-2011 at 01:01 PM.
Quote from Hawk2007 :
Is it someone's hypothetical Constitutionally protected right to stand up for a police state that pepper sprays those who go against Obama's opinion?
How many Tea Partiers were pepper sprayed ... and these people BROUGHT GUNS to supposely "peaceful protests"
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11-23-2011 at 01:02 PM.
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Well, I don't want MY home to be turned into your anti-liberty with do as I say, not as I do, public defecating, smelly, unbathed populace protesting leaders.

Boo, ya!
Oh, snap.

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How many Tea Partiers were pepper sprayed ... and these people BROUGHT GUNS to supposely "peaceful protests"
Lemme guess.. having a gun makes you "anti-peaceful"..

Hell, if I was going to any one of these occupy rallies, I'd bring a weapon. Too much rape, drug use, and assault occurring. Just makes sense to be armed. Occupiers have no room to talk when it comes to "peaceful protests".
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Quote from Ryu-bom :
How many Tea Partiers were pepper sprayed ... and these people BROUGHT GUNS to supposely "peaceful protests"

None, because they were following the LAW.

Quote from Ryu-bom :
How many Tea Partiers were pepper sprayed ... and these people BROUGHT GUNS to supposely "peaceful protests"

How about all the people at Occupy protests that had their personal freedom assaulted by fellow Occupy protestors through sexual assault?
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11-23-2011 at 01:05 PM.
11-23-2011 at 01:05 PM.
Quote from AngryPirate :
You make a valid point here. The students could of handled it differently. However, I didn't see anything in the video/article that warranted the need for pepper spray (other than police ego). Does it mention if anyone (from the college) even asked the students if they could just slide over some and they would be allowed to continue to protest? I'd be willing to bet that never happened. What's more likely, IMO, is that some college admin staff came down and TOLD them to move (which I'm sure he'd be well within his authority to do so), but in a manner that would leave anyone standoffish and resistant. At that point the cops were probably called to remove them. Again...just my opinion, as I don't know the whole story.
The thing is, this action wasn't against protesting, this action was against blocking the sidewalk
If you watched the video, the protestors who went on the grass were left alone
Only these few students insisted on defying the rules and "chained" themselves up.

The police asked them to clear the tents and move out of the sidewalk by 3PM that day, they refused.
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11-23-2011 at 01:09 PM.
11-23-2011 at 01:09 PM.
Quote from Landers :
Don't like the law, then work to get it changed. Until then, don't be surprised when you get a face full of pepper spray.
Secret I'm pretty sure that's what they were doing.

And as much as some people want to make a huge deal out of the legalities of "blocking a sidewalk", we all know it's a farking retarded excuse. Every single one of us probably break 50 laws a day...granted not murder or rape or theft, etc. but driving 1MPH over the speed limit is illegal, not crossing in a crosswalk, etc. In fact here is a list of absolutely retarded laws in various states (http://www.dumblaws.com/). These laws are mostly ignored because everyone knows they're pretty much meaningless/useless. From what I saw, they weren't blcoking access to any buildings or anything else on campus...just that someone would have to walk a few steps in the grass to get around them. Could they have handled it better? Probably. But the college could of also just left it alone and let it play itself out and no one would of got hurt.
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