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Title: Irony alert: U.S. calls on Russia to respect peaceful protests
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Published: Dec 10, 2011
Author: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/09/ir
Post Date: 2011-12-10 13:14:25 by tom007
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Irony alert: U.S. calls on Russia to respect peaceful protests By Agence France-Presse Friday, December 9, 2011 Print 70 russian-riot-police-detain-protester-afp Topics: peaceful protest ♦ Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ♦ victoria nuland WASHINGTON — The United States called Friday on both Russian authorities and protesters to remain peaceful as opponents of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin prepared major weekend demonstrations against his rule. Putin has angrily accused the United States of inciting the protests after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised concerns about the fairness of parliamentary elections that Putin’s party won but with a reduced majority. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the United States supported the right to peaceful protest in Russia as it does “anywhere in the world.” “We expect that those demonstrations will remain peaceful on behalf of all parties, whether they’re the demonstrators or whether they are those keeping social order,” she said. “So our expectation is that if there are protests, that they will be peaceful and that they will be allowed to proceed peacefully,” Nuland said. The State Department earlier denied Putin’s allegations that the United States has funded Russians so that they would challenge him, saying that Washington supports groups that work for democratic governance in general. Russia’s opposition is organizing rallies in at least 15 major cities including Moscow, where the demonstration is expected to draw some 30,000 people under the slogan “For Fair Elections.” Copyright © 2011 AFP. All rights reserved
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
Yeah, right. And after they have just pepper sprayed and evicted peaceful protesters on Wall Street and in Seattle. "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
That's nice. I wonder if they could call on the LAPD to do the same. Patrick Meighan's account of his Occupy LA arrest: -----snippet------ When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor. It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist. My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm. . . . Source: http://www.commondreams.org/vi... Vhat Constitution?! You steenking servs tink you got rhights? Ha, ha, ha. Vhat a pleasant mythology. You haf only thoss rhigts vhich fee hallow you. Now chut up und get in der vhan before you are chot! Der Fuhrer hass sspoken.
Yeah, uh huh. Anywhere in the world except the USA. But... but... but..... that's different! There's no reason to protest in the United States because you can write to your congressman instead. As long as you don't say anything that might be interpreted as a threat.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams
Well, you can even put a threat in writing to the President. Though it might get you put on the "watch list" for doing it. I think it makes no difference to say something off color to one of the Congresscritters. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
All taught to them by the Zionists. "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Exactly! Rights are like Freedom. We only have Freedom to OBEY. It is vital to understand that there is no truth without discernment and no wisdom without the truth. What then is “faith” but an effort to confound truth and wisdom?
Irony alert: U.S. calls on Russia to respect peaceful protests
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#3. To: tom007 (#2)
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#4. To: tom007 (#0)
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said that the United States supported the right to peaceful protest in Russia as it does “anywhere in the world.”
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#5. To: BTP Holdings (#1)
Yeah, right. And after they have just pepper sprayed and evicted peaceful protesters on Wall Street and in Seattle.
#6. To: tom007 (#0)
#7. To: Original_Intent (#3)
#8. To: Pinguinite (#5)
As long as you don't say anything that might be interpreted as a threat.
#9. To: Eric Stratton (#6)
So what, they're advising using only Tazers, repeatedly if necessary, sound cannons, Mace in the face at point-blank range, shooting people dead that are minding their own business, baton beatings and leg whips, knocking people off of bicycles, and warrantless house raids?
#10. To: Original_Intent (#3)
Vhat Constitution?! You steenking servs tink you got rhights? Ha, ha, ha. Vhat a pleasant mythology
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