Didn't they just arrest a member of the city government for 'unlawful assembly?'
It'll stand for the same reason it always does. People'll lose interest very, very quickly. It'll blow over and be forgotten about.
The question that has to be asked is, how do you resist something like this? Shoot a few cops and you immediately 'justify' everything they're doing. Try and be the politician who speaks out against it, and you're immediately 'weak on crime and the reason babies are being molested and toddlers shooting up playschools'. Stand in the street and people get bored because they have jobs to go to and mortgages to pay and homes to not get thrown out of. Oh, and there is the current definition of terrorism as 'any action designed to influence the government'.
At least the British army in Belfast were professional soldiers - and not just a bunch of yahoos in tactical gear playing CoD with the innocent civilians. Rubber bullets can, and have killed. They're more than capable of removing people's sight and leaving lasting injuries. The PIRA were partially a response to similar abuses of police power in Northern Ireland (Though maybe without the summary executions) - and everyone knows what the result of that was. How long before they go rip up a protest at full-auto? All it takes is one fucknut to spot a 'gun' in the crowd and then you've got a disaster.
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It'll stand for the same reason it always does. People'll lose interest very, very quickly. It'll blow over and be forgotten about.
The question that has to be asked is, how do you resist something like this? Shoot a few cops and you immediately 'justify' everything they're doing. Try and be the politician who speaks out against it, and you're immediately 'weak on crime and the reason babies are being molested and toddlers shooting up playschools'. Stand in the street and people get bored because they have jobs to go to and mortgages to pay and homes to not get thrown out of. Oh, and there is the current definition of terrorism as 'any action designed to influence the government'.
At least the British army in Belfast were professional soldiers - and not just a bunch of yahoos in tactical gear playing CoD with the innocent civilians. Rubber bullets can, and have killed. They're more than capable of removing people's sight and leaving lasting injuries. The PIRA were partially a response to similar abuses of police power in Northern Ireland (Though maybe without the summary executions) - and everyone knows what the result of that was. How long before they go rip up a protest at full-auto? All it takes is one fucknut to spot a 'gun' in the crowd and then you've got a disaster.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?