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Originally Posted by Solid Snake
Then what would be an acceptable way for the police to have removed the peaceful protest from the premises?
When you break the law, you have to be willing to suffer the consequences. The line is drawn exactly the way we've seen it in this thread. You resist the officers order to relocate, you get sprayed. Just like if you resist pulling over when the red and blue come on in the rear view, you have a GLOCK 17 pointed in your face and forceful removal from the car. Your analogy was a joke.
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People tend to get misty eyed over these creeps. They look at some of the better images of the past where some people have done similar things with good results and say it should be allowed. You can look at the Boston Tea Party and say "well, if we hadn't rebelled and fought a bloody war, we'd still be colonial citizens. OTOH, who is to say things wouldn't have evolved on their own, albeit taking more time but still get there?
In the case of the Tea Party, we, the oppressed, threw off the big bully oppressor that was England. Today, we celebrate that event. However, lets pause and ask ourselves this. Had McVeigh succeeded in getting the people to rise up and throw the shackles off from the oppressive corrupt govt (The US Govt), formed a new country from the revolution and installed a govt the way he thought would be right, what do you think the people 200 years from that might think of him? Perhaps as a visionary or a hero or both and look back with misty eyes at his rebellion which forced a change for the better.