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[jamesd at echeque.com]

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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.

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