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I remember when the local constabulary wore badges with numbers to such events. Any more, they are hooded, goggled, helmeted, jacketed... identityless stormtroopers. Not good if we're to have open society.

The protestors have ratcheted up the level of violence since Seattle. There, the cops tried to play nice and be less obtrusive. The protestors trashed the city. Any police force that knows one of these events is coming into their town knows they have to have a show of force to keep the protestors from smashing up the city.

The protestors have no one to blame but themselves for the increased heavy-handedness of the police.

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I wonder what the protestors are "protesting" exactly.

The pro-noun...."pro" in front of "test"(short for "testimony?) implies that they are FOR SOMETHING!

I have never seen a leader (or even a follower) of "these" people on the NEWS

I neither trust

the MEDIA
the GOVERNMENT
nor.....the PEOPLE!

Sitting back, taking it ALL in, trying to see the BIGGER PICTURE!!!......(and noticing that in so doing I feel like quite a minority)

especially that their IDEAS are getting no coverage.....

as an AMERICAN......I lend them my support in that what I see here is simply THE CHRUSHING OF DISSENT....again.

What, is everything so "understood" and "acceptable" concerning Government Economic Policy? I don't think so.

Many threads here point that out.

The extent that AMERICA is being "militarized" far far exceeds the extant of the threat offered, especially in the face of the UN-ANSWERED QUESTIONS.

The "REAL FACE" of AMERICAN POLITICAL/ECONOMIC POWER........hasn't been seen in many-a year. How can one simple "support IT" so blindly?

The protestors have no one to blame but themselves for the increased heavy-handedness of the police.

Absolutely agree. The point at which "free speech" means burning cop cars and breaking store fronts is where I agree there should be ordinances against masks and bandanas on the protesters.

By this token, if the agency can be printed on the back of the flack jackets, why can't the badge number be printed on the front. Just as there are rogues in the unwashed's ranks, there might be overzealous in the blue ranks. Now take pictures of everything... not just newsweek and the leftpress. There's a reason there are videocams on cruisers... that blade cuts both ways, and it's not a bad thing.

I don't think it's a great stretch of the imagination to envision the right on the receiving end of the baton sometime in the future.