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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
But they weren't free to peacably assemble in that spot, were they?
totalitarian, authoritarian, or whatever. It wasn't a free state. I don't care how liberal or conservative you are, any time you have police lined up 3 deep with heavy riot gear, nightsticks, and shields marching towards you while you are being told that if you do not leave the area, you will be arrested is not a free state. It was a clear cut violation of the peoples right to peacably assemble.
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But that's the thing. We don't know if they were peacefully assembled. We don't know if they were violating laws, disturbing the peace, etc.
If it were totalitarian/authoritarian state, we'd probably not be talking about it right now. Actually, we wouldn't even know about it.
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