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Originally Posted by shakran
No, it doesn't. 1) I said nothing about Rage Against the Machine. 2) while there were violent protests, as I specifically said, the vast majority of protesters were peaceful. To lump 10,000 people into the category deserved by only 2 or 3 hundred is, frankly, asinine.
When the idiots, for whatever reason, tried to storm Mickey's Diner I had no problem with the police using the means necessary to stop them. But when the police won't let peaceful protesters (who, contrary to your misleading post, were not the same group as the anarchists starting fights) (I know, I was there) get anywhere near the people they're trying to get their message to, I feel that's a clear violation of the 1st amendment.
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Thanks for your clarification. I posted because I took issue with the title of the thread. I felt it was misleading - implying that there was civil disobedience at the RNC when in fact this was not the case. The links you provided shed more light on what happened and it was indeed Rage Against the Machine that incited the riots in the streets of downtown but NOT at the actual RNC. It appears however, that we are talking about 2 separate things that occurred in proximity to each other. There is a difference between peaceful protesters and rioters.
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