In Response to the War Crimes caught on video Thread...

Adam

Russ_waters, I think you just entirely missed the point.

Loren Booda

Try the alternative to free assembly - outlawing groups of people.

Mr. Robin Parsons

Lived In Montreal (Quebec/Canada) during a police strike, thereafter legislation was passed making it an 'essential service' prohibiting full strikes because of the rioting/looting that happened...quickly, also in Mtl ,after an NHL win by the Habs there ensued a "Nice peaceful celebration" that was shown on television to have turned into a riot due to instigators who deliberately started 'stuff' as to follow through with looting durung the melee that followed....and the meeting in Quebec City where they had problem with the police, after trying to shower the police with rocks and stuff....clear enough who was the instigator there...was NOT the police....

russ_watters

Philly has imposed a curfew on certain key dates - Mardi Gras for example.

skywise

That's exactly what they did for a week in Miami. It was illegal for a group of seven or more people to walk down the street or be in one place for more than 30 minutes. After the protests happened they repealed the ordinance.

Monique

That is not really what I meant, I was more thinking about the year in which it happened. But since I'm offtopic, I'll just let it rest..

Michael D. Sewell

Adam,
I'm not clinging desperately to anything. As a matter of fact...yawn...sigh...
I only looked at your thread out of curiousity, during a moment of boredom. I have a business to run, and a job to do. I really don't think much about this sort of stuff on a day to day basis. I find it rather boring, and I find people like you rather boring. You probably don't work, so you have all day to sit around and get excited about this sort of stuff. I am however, happy to see that you are angry and frustrated. Maybe it will keep you from getting bored.....
It's rather pathetic...
Best wishes and God Bless America,
Mike

P.S. I started to read your little thing there, but I just didn't find it that interesting. So sorry, cheers.

Michael D. Sewell

I'll bear this in mind if I am ever tempted to respond to one of Adam's lame threads again.

Michael D. Sewell

Sort of blows your own theory out of the water doesn't it. Do you see why I have gotten bored with this yet? You guys are really just too easy.

Adam

Your posting history here at PF would suggest otherwise.

Ad hominems? Really? Ok...

Ex-navy, currently attending university and working with horses. Why do you bring up employment? Have you got something against the unemployed?

Actually I don't get angry or frustrated. I find such reactions in others interesting, but I can't empathise.

Kinda like posting in a thread only to dish out some ad hominems? Right.

Sorry Mick, but please focus on the topic of the thread, and refrain from these little personal attacks. I don't think it is necessary. Do you have anything relevent to add?

Adam

Regarding the gas and the Kurds, please read the material supplied. I notice from the responses to date that nobody actually has read the material supplied.

Ivan Seeking

You are too quick to assume what I mean. I never said we have reached this point. I said that my hope is that this is where things are going. I have seen quite a change in this respect just over my own lifetime. They called Vietnam the livingroom war and look at the effect. This helped to sour the general population and turn the tide of public perception. I watched much of the Gulf II war on TV. I had my choice of about a dozen cable channels, pretty much 24 hours a day, where this somtimes included middle eastern news agencies like Al Jazeera, in addition to many foreign internet news sources. I am quite sure that this was a first. Of course unlike Vietnam we didn't have many Americans dying. Do you remember the outrage over the Marines drug through the streets in Somalia?

Note also that China is struggling to keep a lid on the internet right now.

Njorl

It may be that Halabja was an Iranian attack. The use of a cyanide based gas suggests that it was more likely the Iranians, but the Iraqis did use a wide variety of chemical weapons. Concluding that the attack was definately of Iranian origin is erroneous. Regardless, there are many well documented cases of Iraqis gassing Kurds after the Iran-Iraq war ended, including a videotape of "Chemical Ali" proclaiming that he would kill all of them with chemical weapons. Part of that evidence is, unfortunately, the sale of neutrallizing chemicals by the US to Iraq for the purpose of covering up the attacks.

Njorl

Adam

You know, when you get right down to it, there's not a nation on Earth that hasn't done or supported such activities at some point.

Mr. Robin Parsons

Uhmmm! scuza! Canada? When has Canada gassed anyone?

Adam

Note the huge lack of native territories in Canada. The advancement of Europeans through Canada was much the same as through what we now call the USA.

Loren Booda

Not true. The lands allocated to Native Canadians surpasses greatly those allowed Natives in my United States. However, up to 50,000,000 Native Americans have been systematically eliminated since 1492.