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The only logical conclusion I can see to skirmishes between black-clad anarchists, going on "street operations", and governmental riot control forces, is that the police are eventually given the right to just gun the protestors down, irregardless of whether they have *done* anything. Unless
Maybe in Finland, but here in the US, the government official that gave the orders to shoot a crowd of protestors would *not* be working much longer.
(Actually the police here have far more stringent requirements for even drawing a gun than they do over there in the States. But that's not really the issue.)
In Sweden, Gothenburg, police fired into a crowd. Arguably they had just cause. But US police, facing similar circumstances in Seattle, did not fire into the crowd. I do not wish to suggest that Swedish police are a bunch of stormtroopers. They are not. But the general trend is that the more disarmed the population, the more apt the police are to open fire. That is not merely a matter of lawsuits and stuff, but an inevitable consequence of human nature. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 4iw0kec3tTganQD7q8TbMH65nUr1tb215CbMEpSe 4trpBI/H5aOzqrzz0E7uz8A4I3JaK7CESp34reD6j