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3391 200,000 Protest the "War Without End -- rank: 92

... com> said: > Thomas Seay wrote: > > >I am sure the DC police prefer good little boys and > >girls who sing Peace songs ... Amusing brand irony: DC cops ride Honda "Rebel" motorcycles. The police have been out in force all weekend, but I got ... sense that they were a bit scattered and understaffed. The police did attack activists this weekend: my friends who participated in ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sun Apr 21 10:33:54 PDT 2002

3392 200,000 Protest the "War Without End -- rank: 92

... you choose MLK to promote. > > I am sure the DC police prefer good little boys and > girls who sing Peace songs ... Well, from the intelligence I've gathered this weekend, the police are saying that they've adopted a new strategy. From ... avoid confrontations that make the cops look bad. The DC police may prefer good little protesters, but I'm gettign the ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Sun Apr 21 10:27:57 PDT 2002

3393 [lbo-talk] Skinheads in Russia -- rank: 92

... net> wrote: And there's > concern that some in the police sympathize with > their xenophobia. I forgot to addres this point ... as thugs. They have a very bad reputation. Cf. Mexican police. I do not think I have ever seen a non ... itself. I have met non-Slavic higher-ups in the police though (specifically, a Georgian). Higher-level cops have a much ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Sep 7 07:49:51 PDT 2007

3394 [lbo-talk] WSJ 9/8/07: What made Norman Hsu run? -- rank: 92

What Made Norman Hsu Run? He charmed friends, investors and politicians. But behind lurked failures, a kidnapping and lawsuits By *IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN *in New York, *JONATHAN CHENG *in Hong Kong and *BRODY MULLINS *in Washington September 8, 2007; Page A1 / The Wall Street Journal/ At a New York restaurant overlooking ...

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Author:	Rick Kisséll
Date:	Sun Sep 9 18:51:41 PDT 2007

3395 Concordia bans Middle Eastern events -- rank: 92

... to speak. The protesters eventually entered the building, and Montreal police officers used tear gas to disperse them. Afterward, broken furniture ... they have not been charged. Neither the university nor the police could confirm wheth

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 12 09:21:54 PDT 2002

3396 Hitchens on ME -- rank: 92

... inhabitants of miserable refugee camps become the victims of horrifying police-state tactics. At the other end - in the south of ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Tue Apr 16 18:03:22 PDT 2002

3397 [lbo-talk] TXPD (was NYPD) act like pigs -- rank: 92

Dennis (and others), You mentioned being caught with pot -- well, here's the kicker for me: I do not use illegal drugs! I drink, yes! (God yes) - but no illegal drugs. No arrest record, either. (Unfortunately in some activist circles this means you are not as hardcore or something. :/) The irony ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Mon Feb 19 23:07:07 PST 2007

3398 Illegalities of Bush War Against Afghanistan -- rank: 92

> > The Illegalities of the Bush, Jr. War Against Afghanistan* > >by > >Professor Francis A. Boyle > >USA Patriot Act Legal Briefing > >National Lawyers Guild > >Chicago, Illinois > >17 July 2002 > > > >[Verbatim Transcript Revised] > >The "Blowhard Zone" > >. . . On September 13 I got a call from FOX News asking me to go on >the O ...

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Author:	Mark Pavlick
Date:	Fri Sep 13 16:02:26 PDT 2002

3399 Russian anti-Semitism -- rank: 92

BTW, I suspect the real number of neo-Nazis is around 20,000. It depends on who you count, of course -- I don't consider the National Bolshevik Party to be neo-Nazis. The idea of Russian Nazis is pretty dumb, actually, considering the place of Slavs in Hitler's world ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Tue Apr 16 02:40:48 PDT 2002

3400 [lbo-talk] Michael Lerner tattles: the state of the antiwar movement -- rank: 92

--- Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote: > andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > > However, I'd estimate that Doug is about right > about > > what would happen with an attempt to have stopped > its > > operations for real. In fact, people doing that > would > > risk being charged under the new anti-terrorism > laws, > > not available then ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Sep 11 22:56:59 PDT 2007

3401 Cooper on the anniversary -- rank: 92

... favor a truly international effort, and one more > oriented towards police action rather than a military assault. Actually, there is an ... either favored doing nothing or engaging in some kind of "police action." When asked how this "police action" might differ from what actually happened -- I mean, what ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Sat Sep 14 05:46:24 PDT 2002

3402 [lbo-talk] NYPD acts like pigs -- rank: 92

... crime and you have a > constitutional right to taunt the police at a demo. > If > they bust your head for doing ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon Feb 19 19:50:47 PST 2007

3403 Venezuela: Not Another Banana-Oil Republic by Gregory Wilpert -- rank: 92

NACLA, I think, had a recent piece by Wilpert. M.P. Received: 4/14/02 11:09:37 PM From: Gregory Wilpert <wilpert at cantv.net> Add to People Section To: wilpert at cantv.net CC: Subject: Venezuela: Not Another Banana-Oil Republic MIME Ver: 1.0 Attachments: Part Number: 1 ...

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Author:	michael pugliese
Date:	Mon Apr 15 15:22:50 PDT 2002

3404 Afghan war dead? -- rank: 92

... Even some, like the anarchist Chomsky were okay with a police action under UN auspices. Did most anarchists feel that way? The reasons for a "police action" seem obvious, to prevent another atrocity which would surely ... going to stop. And yet it has. But a mere "police action" probably woudn't have gone far enough to catch ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sat Sep 14 10:42:21 PDT 2002

3405 Afghan war dead? -- rank: 92

Peter K. wrote: >>>The difference is that Al Qaeda set out to kill thousands of civilians >>>while the allies or "Empire" didn't. Seems rather elementary. >> >>Even if this were true, so what? > > I wrote this in response to someone who said the allies killed more > civilians in Afghanistan than Al ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Sat Sep 14 12:44:47 PDT 2002