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Originally Posted by Chris Bell
Desperately seeking their Kent state moment.
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Summed up in a nutshell.
The protesters WANTED an incident to get their 15 minutes of fame and energize their so-called movement. But instead of the National Guard and M-14's, they get one cop that's tangled with one too many doughnuts and a can of bear repellent. Hardly the generational history-making moment they'd hoped for.
Police brutality, excessive force, pigs, chemical force, etc, etc? Give me an effin break.
I'll see your pepper spray and raise you a dozen clips of 30 caliber full metal jacket. Kent State was all of the above and worse, a godawful tragedy where people were KILLED. This was nothing but a bunch of wannabes that blocked a public sidewalk, got some pepper spray in their faces, and got sent packing home to mama.
All these pages of sturm und drang over this supposedly horrific incident of these students getting pepper sprayed for obstensibly disobeying the police, yet hardly any comment besides some snickers and jokes on another thread concerning a woman indiscriminately spraying adults and small children with the same substance in a Walmart simply so she could get a clear run at an Xbox and HDTV - "where's the outrage" in that case I might ask, if spraying someone with pepper spray is such a hideous war crime?
From looking at that Walmart video, other than the people that took a direct hit, it didn't even faze that mob stampede - some of the people they interviewed even said they ran into the pepper spray, but didn't give a hirsute rodents posterior, because they were determined to get their cheap Chinese goodies and get to the register. Either the "people of Walmart" are a tougher bunch than the UC Davis students, or pepper spray doesn't deserve the fearsome reputation it's seemingly been given in this thread.
All the "outrage" was probably on the part of those Walmart shoppers when they got to the checkout, and found out they were only getting ten bucks off on that laptop they snagged.
Comparing this thread, and the one on the Walmart pepper spray incident, the level of hypocrisy is truly something to cause "outrage".