Posted on 01/17/2005 10:05:05 AM PST by Alouette
A Berkeley rally against terrorism that featured a bombed Israeli bus turned briefly violent Sunday when angry counter demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags marched into the mostly pro-Israel crowd.
Riot police quickly separated combatants, some of whom came to blows, during the afternoon event organized by the Israeli Action Committee of the East Bay. Police cited one man on a charge of misdemeanor battery.
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I'm only 30 but I can't believe I'm witnessing this. What a nightmare!
"The chant "Two, four, six, eight, we are martyrs, we can't wait" would clearly constitute fighting words, in fact they constitute a clear death threat. Any reasonable person in the anti-terrorism crowd would be justified in believing that their lives were in immediate jeapordy. Any reasonable bystander would also be justified in assuming that he was witnessing a terrorist threat of immediate murder. "
You are correct, but remember of course... This is the USA, you'd be arrested and executed very quickly if you tried to defend yourself, and even faster in CA.. Much less there, where the mayor himself would probably chop your head off and dance in your blood.
Thank you.
It was this kind of crap that made me question my liberalism..and while I have encountered a few anti-semites on the right, they don't pretend they are something else. And this bears repeating: Any Jew who stays on the left is going to die with the rest of us if the islamic hordes prevail.
Why these filth weren't arrested for making terroristic threats is puzzling. It wouldn't fly in my town, where we Protest Warriors get surreptitious thumbs up from our local police.
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