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ohio_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:05 PM
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WTF is up with "Staged Arrests"?
These whackjobs in Florida are making arrangements with police to be arrested?
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noonriser Donating Member (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:07 PM
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1. Where'd you hear this?
More information please?
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ohio_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:08 PM
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3. CNN TV
Just turned it on a few minutes ago. They're saying that protestors are "carefully orchestrating" their arrests with the police. :wtf:
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noonriser Donating Member (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:09 PM
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4. Well, I hope the cops carefully arrange to lock 'em up
and lose the key! What a bunch of wack jobs.
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Anakin Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:07 PM
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2. Too Bad These Won't Go on
the PERMANENT records! Or will they? This whole Schiavo thing's turned into a FARCE!
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Donailin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:10 PM
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5. civil disobedience, doncha know.
all I know is, I'm grateful to the PTB that Randall terry is the guy in the eye (media celebrity who won't walk past a camera without spewing his insanity) for this circus. He's giving Pat Robertson/James Dobson/Jerry Falwaell a run for their money. He should sufficiently give the radical right the new posterboy face that we will find quite useful for future reference.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:10 PM
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6. A common tactic in peaceful protests
It's been used for years by nonviolent resisters to ensure that the arrested aren't mistreated.

I just wonder if Jeb!'s Justice Department is going to go through with the prosecutions of the law-breakers the same way his brother's Justice Department has gone after 83 year old nuns who violate the damned ground of the School of the Americas.
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ohio_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:17 PM
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7. Thanks for the info
I've truly never heard of arranging your own arrest. I guess I'm too accustomed to seeing the pepper spray and plastic cuffs in action. :shrug:
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canadajoe Donating Member (7 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:17 PM
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8. Staged arrests
What sort of parent permits their child to trespass and be arrested "to make a point"?

This is insane.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 06:28 PM
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9. Insane they may be . . .
But you have to concede that it got your attention.

Think of this whole episode as a public catharsis for the religious whackos who claim to value life above everything else while they support the death penalty and Stupidhead's illegal war. They're coming to terms with a major cognitive dissonance in a very public way. It isn't pretty, and it isn't nice, but it will be necessary if our country is going to break its addiction to fundamentalist delusionaries.
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