DNC 2008 Not Quite A Riot (yet)

[The Sushi Bandit]

Run time: 05:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pheGZ2F1OS4   Posted on YouTube: August 25, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 25, 2008 By DU Member: The Sushi Bandit Views on DU: 1334

 

[Old and In the Way]

1. Ah, to be young and stupid again.

Been there, done that. Sorry, being on the club end of a policemen's stick resolves nothing. But go for it! Be useful for John McCain's campaign.

[Starlight]

20. Exactly. Are they protesting anything in particular? Or just being dicks?

[still_one]

2. This won't be like the Chicago Convention /nt

[L. Coyote]

8. It will be if the agent provceateur get their way.

It may not become a police riot, but, expect the distruptors to make a scene, and expect the M$M to be in position and to exaggerate it.

While I have no objection to demonstrating, those who do so do so at the risk of electing the Republicans.
Everyone needs to understand how this stuff plays on Main Street in the Red States.

[still_one]

11. From what I have seen so far the police appear to be pretty professional about it /nt

[stillcool]

3. I don't get it ...

the protests during the RNC Convention got no coverage at all. Oh to be a Dem.

[Bobbieo]

4. Can someone please tell me why my videos have halted

conversations and circles. I have to wait until they are finished to see them run normally. I delete most of them and miss a great deal of info. Does this happen to everyone???

[L. Coyote]

6. Slow loading or disconnecting. Are you on high speed?

[Bobbieo]

9. No - I don't think I am on high speed. I just know computer basics.

And not very many of them!

[L. Coyote]

13. On a 56K modem, YouTubes will not play continuously.

You have to allow them to download (w/ sound down is more tolerable), then replay.

[stillcool]

7. Not to me...

Hope someone can help you out.

[tridim]

5. I have nothing against protesting, but geez have a damn point!

Very, very lame.

[niceypoo]

12. I am curious how many of the 'protesters' are republican hacks...

...hoping to stir unrest...

[kaiden]

10. Dudes! Don't protest on the light rail tracks! They'll run you over.

[barack the house]

14. This is making me feel ill it feels so wrong. Hideously wrong.Elect progressives don't destroy any--...

hope. What are these protesters thinking, it's s disgrace. The world is watching and in this instance I don't think they will be siding with the protestors, it's havoc for the sake of it.It kinda feels like stamping on someones birthday party. You might not like the person having the party but no call to ruin the party.

[DWinNJ]

15. Seeing the cops

I felt sorry for them
watching the video I had to turn up my AC

[stlsaxman]

16. Aww wook at the cute witto ditto-monkeys dwessing wike "hippies"

is it Hawwoween?

[Oilwellian]

17. The anarchists

I've seen them at the protests in D.C. as well. They're certainly not Democrats and I find it interesting they're protesting our convention. We'll probably also see them at the Republican convention as well.

[DFW]

18. There was an army of police out there this evening

They were trucked in from all over the place, all in heavy duty riot gear (must
have been boiling inside of those things). I went up to one of them and asked if
something evil had happened or was about to happen, and he said no, it was just
preventative. Tom Hayden spoke about how it was in 1968, and said that these guys
had been pre-programmed to expect and therefore give back violence. I did see a few
bandit-masked types, but there were very few (less than ten) that I saw, and so far
no provocations and no reactions.

Still, if these guys are there in full battle gear and completely on edge, it won't
take much to set them off. So far, I just engage them in conversation, ask a question,
just say, "got it, thanks, man!" and act as if they were fellow tourists instead of
a force armed to the teeth. So far, mellow begets mellow. I realize that could change
at any second.

[JDPriestly]

19. These protests seem pretty pointless to me.

What are the protesters trying to accomplish? Demonstrations did not stop the War in Iraq although the demonstrations were huge. No one is moved by demonstrations any more.

These people just look like a bunch of troublemakers at this point.

Obama is against the war. And if they wanted a more progressive candidate, then they should have gotten out and worked to get one nominated during the primary. It's a bit late to be making noise about this now.

I'm the first to criticize the Democratic Party when it does not stand up on issues like impeachment and FISA, but demonstrations just don't change anything any more. It just makes progressives look chaotic and stupid.

[knixphan]

22. AGREED!

[The Sushi Bandit]

21. What is wrong with all of you??

are you comfortable in your police state??
do you like your free speach zones?
do you think there are no issues the dems need to listen to?