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Phaenx said: Oh wait no, they were protesting England, not their own country.
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England was their own country at the time. Nice revisionist history on your part.
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Phaenx said: And frankly, you should know the rules of this forum by now, calling people stupid, arrogant and disgusting is not acceptable.
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Actually, it is your comment: "Lets set them on fire and send them to hell instead of 6 years in prison." that I found disgusting.
Apparently, you find setting nuns on fire exciting, patriotic, and beyond reproach. Please, e-mail the admins now and tell them "I suggested setting nuns on fire and someone called me disgusting." If that gets me censored or banned, I'll gladly leave here forever.
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reconmike said: You do not get it, THEY WERE IN A RESTRICTED AREA THAT HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS !
They were not sitting in or peace marching for love and drugs.
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And you don't get that the comments from many on this thread were not directed to this act in general, they were directed to the whole idea of civil disobedience being "not ok" under any circumstances.
This goes back to the protests against the war, where people here were saying that if ANYONE in the protest broke the law, all the protesters were in the wrong.
The right to peaceful protest, freedom of speech, and right to object to the actions of the goverment are hallmarks of a free society. Every day I see more evidence that the conservatives, who used to be the party that respected freedom, who used to be the party that passed the civil rights laws in this country in the 1960's, turn more and more into nun-burning, protestor shooting, rights-revoking fascists. Osama Bin Laden must be proud whereever he is hiding right now, his attacks on 9/11 have successfully put the USA on the route to being a totalitarian religious state just like the one he was trying to create.