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FluxRostrum Donating Member (339 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 05:13 AM
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Pittsburgh Locals in Support of the G20 Protestors
 
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During my afternoon of running from ear drum piercing sonic weapons and tear gas canisters while being chased in circles by dog and baton wielding cops in working class neighborhoods miles from the convention center I had the opportunity to talk to a lot of locals. Here's what they said ... with a small dose of riot porn on the side.
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stuball111 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 05:32 AM
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1. Tin soldiers and EXXON comming....
Wow... using taxpayers military and police forces to protect capitalism... sure proves who is running the show ...
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 09:26 AM
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4. There is nothing like Corporatism Warping a Democracy
imagine that... we are no longer allowed to protest without facing the potential of being shot at. Yet a Tea Bagger can bring a gun to a Town Hall Meeting to protest Healthcare Reform.
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stuball111 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 08:13 PM
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30. Exactly... somethings wrong here...nt
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 05:50 AM
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2. A friend of mine was arrested for civil disobiedience yesterday.
n/t.
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joecool65 Donating Member (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 06:47 AM
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3. Being from the Pittsburgh area
Natives to the area are really upset and confused by the damage caused by these "protesters." What point are they trying to make? If your friend is not from the Pittsburgh area, can I get his home address so a few of us can go to his house and smash his windows?
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ro1942 Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 09:37 AM
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6. this is a little bigger then your neighborhood
but I'm sure they would apologize for your troubles.
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joecool65 Donating Member (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 11:34 AM
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17. Really, those anarchists idiots are going to apologize?
The protesters from yesterday who caused the damage are idiots, plain and simple.
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IrateCitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 10:07 AM
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9. Dude, Butler is hardly the "Pittsburgh area"
You're well over an hour from the city. I grew up in Freeport, and that wasn't even really "Pittsburgh area" until the last 10-15 years when sprawl finally made its way out there.

I sincerely doubt that many anarchists are showing up on your front doorstep.... :eyes:
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joecool65 Donating Member (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 11:32 AM
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16. Yes, you know all about me
Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 11:49 AM by joecool65
I was in the city of Pitttsburgh yesterday and got stuck on an exit ramp for half an hour trying to enter on the Parkway East because VIPs were travelling to a dinner function at the Phipps. Normally, I am in Pittsburgh 2 or 3 days a week. So, how can I not be from the "Pittsburgh area" when I am in Pittsburgh so much?
And Butler is in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. So is Freeport.
Are you in charge of determining the metropolitan areas for the government and suddenly decided Butler County is no longer in the Pittsburgh area?
So, what was your G-20 experience in the "Pittsburgh area" yesterday?
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pattmarty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 11:56 AM
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21. Quit your fucking whining and go join your "brothers" at the................
..............teabag scrotum party.
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 03:31 PM
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26. yoy got stuck because of vip's
and your blaming protestors?
ok.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 08:22 PM
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31. You have a
really pissy attitude. It is NOT appreciated. Why hang out with us hoodlums? Motive please?
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joecool65 Donating Member (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 11:38 AM
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19. Well over an hour?
I am at PNC Park in 40 minutes from the time I start my car until I park.
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GillesDeleuze Donating Member (841 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 10:46 AM
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11. golly mr., can we get some immigrants to fix that up for ya, cheap?
holy hell.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 04:55 PM
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29. Of course, it's also possible that at least some of the "damage"
was done by police provacateurs. It's an old trick, used by Daley in Chicago and Brezhnev in Prague.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 03:24 PM
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25. Hell no. Why should I help you harm someone who didn't harm you?
My friend was not one of the black-masked "anarchist" kids, so he's not to blame for the damage.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 04:42 PM
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 09:30 AM
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5. I'm so sick of the cops declaring everything an unlawful assembly.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 09:43 AM
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8. Not everything; they allow 9/12 teabaggers to do whatever they damn well
please.
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 12:52 PM
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22. good point. eom
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 09:41 AM
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7. An "Unlawful assembly". Now that's pretty fing unconstitutional!
Edited on Fri Sep-25-09 09:41 AM by Lorien
Talk about a police state!
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SIMPLYB1980 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 10:20 AM
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10. Glad the cops are keeping the rioters under control.
Hope no innocent bystanders are hurt. If I had nothing to do with this protest I would be nowhere near their.
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GillesDeleuze Donating Member (841 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 10:47 AM
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12. really? wtf?
the cops start this shit everytime.

they use sonic weapons against me, ill break the window of the bank that pays their bill.
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SIMPLYB1980 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 10:49 AM
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13. Yes really.
You break anything and I hope the cops come down on you like a ton of bricks. Peaceful protest is O.K.
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ro1942 Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 11:04 AM
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14. What ever it takes to save the planet is ok with me
so you disagree, that's your right.
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SIMPLYB1980 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 01:23 PM
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23. Are you willing to strap a bomb to yourself?
I hope not.
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GillesDeleuze Donating Member (841 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 11:11 AM
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15. it was peaceful! until the cops starting busting skulls.
you attack me, i will retaliate.
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joecool65 Donating Member (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 11:37 AM
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18. No, it was not peaceful
They were marching without a permit, starting breaking windows, overturned dumpsters, and knocked over garbage cans. It that peaceful?
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joecool65 Donating Member (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 11:47 AM
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20. Video of locals
http://www.postgazette.com/multimedia/?videoid=102360
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GillesDeleuze Donating Member (841 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 01:24 PM
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24. i didn't know marching without a permit was too violent for your sensibilities
after the police started using offensive weapons, then shit went nuts. whats so hard to understand
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 04:44 PM
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28. Joecool is basically saying "how dare those kids not make it easy for the cops to kill them?"
As Seattle '98 proved, the shock troops would've been called in no matter what.
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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 08:25 PM
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32. Again. You don't know what you're talking about.
I've already posted for you how the police were denying protesters WITH PERMITS.

People were arrested for breaking windows. YOU would deny them the right to even march.

What have you to say about the 912 teabagger bunch? Were they idiots too?
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FluxRostrum Donating Member (339 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-26-09 06:39 AM
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33. When people are not Permitted to excercise their rights peaceful
SOME will exercise their rights FORCEFULLY
and SOME will Cower.

banks have taken billions of your dollars and Then They STILL Take Your Home...
what kind of damage does that do to society?
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