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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima No. 1 engineer’s warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)43. I think it adds a layer of implied legitimacy to any such action
Take the degree to which Zimmerman's role in neighborhood watch worked to add legitimacy to his actions.
And then take the degree of wanton violence that line police are able to get away with.
The "security guard" level is somewhere between I'd think. As to the claim that they wouldn't be able to shoot protestors, well, cops aren't able to shoot kids answering the door with Wii controllers either...
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Fukushima No. 1 engineer’s warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable [View all]
kristopher
Jan 2014
OP
By that standard MLK, Ghandi, Thoreau, John Lewis, Bill McKibben, Nelson Mandela,
Iterate
Jan 2014
#23
Not surprised you'd call that (too short) list a "rogues gallery" and hold them "in EXTREME disdain"
Iterate
Jan 2014
#30
Martin Luther King protested using Civil Disobediance, do you think he shouldn't have?
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#36
Nuclear power justifies extending use of deadly force authority to rent-a-cops?
kristopher
Feb 2014
#40
Well, all of our energy systems are vulnerable--if not to people trying to breach
MADem
Mar 2014
#46