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Date Posted: 13:29:05 12/02/99 Thu
Author: Robin
Subject: Don't believe everything you hear in the news...
In reply to: fate_777 's message, "Re: whooops correction" on 11:57:33 12/02/99 Thu

> > > It seems I should have read the morning paper
> before
> > > commenting on the Seattle Riots, my position has
> not
> > > changed however, but I see that Seattle Police
> > started
> > > cracking down on the protestors compared to what I
> > saw
> > > last nite. I still think Seattle Police are doing a
> > > very good job at trying to maintain order with
> > minimul
> > > arrests. I hear a lot of people saying they are
> only
> > > peacefully protesting, but do peaceful protestors
> > > break windows of stores, loot stores, throw moltaiv
> > > cocktails at the police, overturn cars as well as
> > > patrol cars, break out windows on cars, block busy
> > > urban intersections, throw rocks and bottles at
> > > people? If thats peaceful protesting I would hate
> to
> > > see violent protesting. Granted now every protestor
> > is
> > > doing that, and those that are trying to peacefully
> > > protest should distance themselves from the others
> > and
> > > they they all wouldnt look bad
> >
> =======================================================
> > =====
> > I have commented that there are some scabs there,
> > but you cannot bash peoples heads for the simple fact
> > that some are doing bad shit. In addition, have you
> > seen some of the footage of people getting beat?
> That
> > is not justifiable under any standereds.
>
> Seattle Police tell them to move, they move if not the
> suffer the consequences, people peacefully protest all
> he time with no police involvment, these people on the
> other hand have no interst in keeping it peaceful,
> theres always more than meets the eye than what the
> media shows, if you see the whole Rodney King tape it
> suddenly appears that yest they crossed the line, but
> not as badly as the media made it out too be

Do you think the reporters, the TV stations and news papers aren't
aware that the people sitting in that meeting are the very same
people who sign their pay checks? And that those people do
not want the protesters heard?

Tell ya what I'll let you know whats really going
on there after I spend tomorrow there...

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