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Police water cannon and plastic bullets? After 50 years of the most lavish welfare state on earth?
The Daily Mail ^ | 14th August 2011 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 08/14/2011 9:36:44 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek

What an utter admission of failure, that after 50 years of the most lavish welfare state in the solar system, you cannot govern your country without soaking the citizenry in cold water and bombarding them with missiles from a safe distance. Except, of course, that it is because of the welfare system that this is so.

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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Have they even used the water cannons and plastic bullets yet? I haven’t heard the weekend news from over there.


21 posted on 08/15/2011 5:10:26 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

No, there’s been no need to as there has been no trouble since Wednesday


22 posted on 08/15/2011 5:24:36 AM PDT by Mitch86
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To: Mitch86
No, there’s been no need to as there has been no trouble since Wednesday

Ah, I guess everything worth stealing is gone.

23 posted on 08/15/2011 5:39:55 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
After the article:

Sorry we are unable to accept comments for legal reasons

I wonder what those reasons are?

24 posted on 08/15/2011 5:55:12 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge

That is often the case on Daily Mail articles, for example one of the tabloid fluff pieces about a soap star in her bikini (which I was looking at purely for educational purposes...) has the same proviso underneath.


25 posted on 08/15/2011 6:19:20 AM PDT by Mitch86
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which I was looking at purely for educational purposes

Ah, I see.

And bless you for your tireless devotion to self-improvement. :-)

26 posted on 08/15/2011 6:45:57 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: cpdiii

I’ll second that tactic. Unfortunately the gun grabbers got there before the rioters.


27 posted on 08/16/2011 11:41:23 PM PDT by tdscpa
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