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WilliamPitt

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50. Spoken like someone who has never been to Oakland

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Sun Sep 16, 2012, 10:23 PM

Sep 2012

or dealt with the Oakland PD.

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Occupy Oakland: Arrests may top 400; City Hall vandalized [View all] renie408 Sep 2012 OP

OWS wasn't firing RPGs, mortars and AK47s. No comparison - no disconnect. Bizarre post. leveymg Sep 2012 #1

You know, I don't think so. renie408 Sep 2012 #4

Still cannot find where the rioters were firing RPG's, mortars and AK47's. One was killed, renie408 Sep 2012 #6

In how many places did that happen jberryhill Sep 2012 #9

They are saying it because it dovetails with their already formed opinion. It saves time to renie408 Sep 2012 #12

The pluralization of single events for rhetorical purposes is pretty common jberryhill Sep 2012 #43

In Benghazi, Libya. Here's some info: leveymg Sep 2012 #21

O-kay... renie408 Sep 2012 #22

I asked you for a number jberryhill Sep 2012 #42

If I answer in the singular, Bengazhi, that should be understood as one. leveymg Sep 2012 #49

Good. Now in how many places are there protests? jberryhill Sep 2012 #53

was Occuppy now or ever engaging in hate speech? xchrom Sep 2012 #2

Wait...are you saying that their speech SHOULD be limited if they engage in hate speech? renie408 Sep 2012 #5

Speech - even in this country - is not unlimited. xchrom Sep 2012 #7

That's what I think renie408 Sep 2012 #8

I'm waiting for you to demonstrate where they were violent. Aerows Sep 2012 #25

It is OK every day to judge whether or not speech HERE is OK, renie408 Sep 2012 #3

I can tell you what isn't okay Aerows Sep 2012 #26

The hypocrisy goes without saying. People trying to overthrow regimes we don't like have HiPointDem Sep 2012 #10

The point I am trying to make is that there is enough hypocrisy to go around. renie408 Sep 2012 #15

You are trying to make a point Aerows Sep 2012 #27

i don't think so to that degree. i think there are plenty of folks willing to assign fault to both HiPointDem Sep 2012 #35

Americans DO NOT have free speech, we just like to pretend we do. sabrina 1 Sep 2012 #39

At least I know what the protesters in the Middle East are protesting about frazzled Sep 2012 #11

Hey...that's a really old article. renie408 Sep 2012 #13

It happened last year Aerows Sep 2012 #34

VANDALISM??? BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #14

You are just a little too cool for me. You might have to formulate a sentence renie408 Sep 2012 #17

i dont know BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #24

I think you are just a little too cool (in your own mind) Aerows Sep 2012 #28

Because it wasn't okay for Occupy Oakland to vandalize anything! n/t Yo_Mama Sep 2012 #16

Oh yeah, you are about to start your own attack thread with that one. renie408 Sep 2012 #18

Attack thread? Aerows Sep 2012 #30

Comparing broken windows to murder? girl gone mad Sep 2012 #19

Jesus. H. Christ. renie408 Sep 2012 #20

Murders, RPG's, Mortars, oh my Aerows Sep 2012 #31

Geez. Perhaps next time concentrate on the Tea Party and their guns and racism and threats? Fire Walk With Me Sep 2012 #23

She's highly concerned Aerows Sep 2012 #29

:) Fire Walk With Me Sep 2012 #32

It's easy to be concerned about a movement Aerows Sep 2012 #33

Contradictions aren't NECESSARILY bad. That depends upon significant value traits that inher patrice Sep 2012 #36

oh my god. BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #38

k. YOU say it in fewer words, or, better yet, specify what part of it you don't understand. nt patrice Sep 2012 #40

you lost me after "Contradictions aren't NECESSARILY bad" BOG PERSON Sep 2012 #41

There's nothing in contradictions, in and of themselves, that makes ALL of them bad ALL of the time. patrice Sep 2012 #45

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Occulus Sep 2012 #57

This message was self-deleted by its author darkangel218 Sep 2012 #46

I read your posts when I see them, darkangel. You write a little like a poet, or at least that's patrice Sep 2012 #48

I'm your huckleberry Aerows Sep 2012 #37

Wow Aerows Sep 2012 #54

Protest is OK. Riots are not. Vandalizism is not. Confusious Sep 2012 #44

Agree! Personally, I think there are many many ways to protest and really PUSH the envelope hard patrice Sep 2012 #47

Spoken like someone who has never been to Oakland WilliamPitt Sep 2012 #50

I think the rioters in this case, as usual, Dash87 Sep 2012 #51

Um . . . it's the killings 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #52

Don't let rational thinking Aerows Sep 2012 #55

Now I DO think THIS IS QUITE FABULOUS! Zalatix Sep 2012 #56