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RKP5637

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2. Eventually, freedom, free speech and what's left of a democracy will only be a distant memory in

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 08:08 PM

Mar 2012

this country on its present course. Too many often think it only affects the other guy, the ones they feel are dissonant people, and then one day they wake up and find they are on the list too, and then it's too late.

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Silencing Occupy: Big protests are planned. So is suppression [View all] marmar Mar 2012 OP

DU Rec. woo me with science Mar 2012 #1

EXACTLY!!! "The assaults on us by the one percent are bipartisan. Wake up America." RKP5637 Mar 2012 #3

that piece of paper that Obama scrawled his signature anti-alec Mar 2012 #7

Good point! A lot of this is over the top anymore IMO. When I was in school we learned one of RKP5637 Mar 2012 #8

Well said. nt woo me with science Mar 2012 #19

Eventually, freedom, free speech and what's left of a democracy will only be a distant memory in RKP5637 Mar 2012 #2

There are far bigger threats to the right to protest than HR 347 Bjorn Against Mar 2012 #4

You tear down a building Brick by Brick bahrbearian Mar 2012 #6

That's the way I read it ... and we've been watching that since 911. Also, the security in the RKP5637 Mar 2012 #9

I agree fully with that Bjorn Against Mar 2012 #10

Yes, EXACTLY nt Raine Mar 2012 #16

The Soviet Union couldn't stop it. The US certainly won't. Zalatix Mar 2012 #14

"Get ready for the protests." unkachuck Mar 2012 #5

Unfortunately, the pigs use gas masks, so it's hard to discourage them that way. n/t backscatter712 Mar 2012 #11

Oh, there's stuff that works just fine through the masks - lots of it saras Mar 2012 #13

Remember what happened at Kent State - live fire on the kids protesting, May 4, 1970. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2012 #17

Post removed Post removed Mar 2012 #12

I don't think this is only about OWS but also the tea party "protesters" showing WCGreen Mar 2012 #15

Interesting point. Expect it to be ignored. Robb Mar 2012 #18