Re:Half of China's millionaires want to leave country
by philwelch on Thursday November 10, 2011 @12:18AM
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Some cities have worse police departments than others, but I haven't seen any of the Occupy protests assaulted with tanks.
Re:Half of China's millionaires want to leave country
by Volpe on Thursday November 10, 2011 @12:57AM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots
Came pretty close to tanks...
Re:Half of China's millionaires want to leave country
by Selvik on Thursday November 10, 2011 @03:21AM
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That's not the same thing as peaceful protests by students and professionals. Noam Chomsky (!) is on the record saying the US is a very free country. Politically, that is, by which he means the scope of permissible political action is wide not, that it's rate of success is high. He's right.
Re:Half of China's millionaires want to leave country
by Volpe on Thursday November 10, 2011 @06:28PM
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Which peaceful protest are you referring to?
Tiananmen square protests (what the "Tanks" were implying) were not peaceful. They started that way, but they were not that way, when the military stepped in. There have been numerous reports that the 'trigger' moment, was a group of soldiers being isolated and threatened or attacked.
I love you are saying The US is a very free country in response to the L.A riots... the irony is not missed :D
Some one care to enlighten me how the censorship of wikileaks is any different to the great fire wall? (Slightly different scale, but they both illustrate censorship).
Or the suppression the of the Occupy Movement is different from the concept of "suppression of dissent". That is the forcible removal of people with views the government doesn't want to hear.
I haven't even mention the Patriot Act and how it has been exploited...
Rocks and glasshouses...