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seriously, i would not waste my time trying to figure out if there will be demonstrations or not in the streets next week should bush manage somehow to win. just as you had no way of anticipating the debacle in florida last time out, we will all have to wait and see how things shake out. what kind of circus it is this time around.
too often police do not make any rel distinction betwene protest and riot. too often police actions tip things from one into another. i would not take any particular solace in the ability of militarized urban police force to react in a coherent manner to protests, should they occur.
but if i were you, i would worry much more about the political consequences of electoral shenanigans, should they transpire. and i would worry in particular about those consequences if it turns out that bush "wins" another deeply flawed election. those consequences will not be enacted and contained in any given series of street actions. those consequences will drive a far more radical wedge between positions than anything you have seen up to now. no amount of police actions will change that.
which puts me in the curious position of hoping for an election with minimal problems. one that bush looses, of course.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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