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Cueball
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posted 19 September 2007 10:11 AM
You really think its a better title? It was the first idea that popped into my head.
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N.Beltov
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posted 19 September 2007 10:14 AM
Well, yea. Mind you, I like to use the word "America" to describe this hemisphere, as Spanish speakers do, rather than to describe the country that's managed to appropriate the word, much as it's appropriated a lot of other things...
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quelar
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posted 19 September 2007 10:18 AM
How is this any different from blockading leaders from public protests?
How is this any different from detaining people without criminal prosecutions?
How is this any different from refusing citizens entry to the country and sending them to states that are known to torture?
How is this any different from the Police dressed up as protestors stirring up violence in a crowd?
Oh...and all of these things happen in CANADA.
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kropotkin1951
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posted 19 September 2007 10:18 AM
The really scary thing is that not only did the other students not offer support but it looks to me like they were cheering the cops. I'll bet those students are very concerned that there is no democracy in Cuba and support the Amerikan blockade.
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kropotkin1951
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posted 19 September 2007 10:25 AM
I like to use the old Yippie spelling for the evil empire. Amerika is and always has been a Puritanical oligarchy which is why the title that America is no more is wrong. Amerika was never the guiding light it believes itself to be.
Canada's elite on the other hand have always been the stauncest supporters of the dominant empire. There was a brief period in the 60's and 70's when Canada looked like it might try to be something more than a province of the empire but sadly that did not come to pass.
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marzo
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posted 19 September 2007 03:14 PM
It's terrible and I noticed that some of the cops and spectators were smiling and laughing while he was screaming. The guy should have known better than to yell and resist when the cops cut his microphone. In a conflict with cops, one man is unlikely to win and he only makes things worse for himself. I wonder if the cops will get in any trouble for their sadism and heavy-handedness. Probably not. Kerry did not speak up to defend this persecuted citizen who was only speaking freely on a matter of democracy and justice.
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Fidel
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posted 19 September 2007 07:30 PM
Notice how the news commentator Tucker is smiling and sort of laughing it off. The person given the hook by security and tasered was a student news journalist. Apparently he is a tuition-paying student exercising his right to question Kerry, a guest at the college. And this particularly violent show of intolerance is all taking place within what the U.S. claims is a "Liberal democracy."
When other countries crackdown on political protests, governments in those countries are automatically labelled totalitarian or repressive while those U.S.-friendly nations almost never make the news until something like our PM's visit to Bogota happens. I can think of a few countries where it's happened. And sometimes, there is "outside influence" involved, instigators, and paid protesters are bused and flown into cities around the world to capital cities where the west desires "regime change." Usually the protests are in countries where nationalist governments are controlling mineral or oil wealth, or maybe they are considered a military vantage point by the west. And those unspecified countries' governments don't usually get away this same shit, with state-owned or otherwise news journalists laughing it off on national TV. Not while paid protesters or political opposition propped up by Washington or London or both are raising hell about it at the same time. Just an observation.
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