I was at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, MN on a client's behalf
The protesters smashed car windows, threw rocks, scrawled graffiti, assaulted police, assaulted people they thought were "Republicans" (even though many people attended who were not Republicans, and who cares if they were). I had to be escorted by police because I was wearing a suit and therefore targeted by vitriol-spewing, object casting maniacs.

What I still don't understand? These people were pacifists protesting violence and war.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 15:43, 9 replies)

On the other hand,
Republicans are adulterers protesting immorality.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 16:12, closed)

True. Freedom for all people everywhere
Except those who think different than I do. They can be enslaved and burned.

Yah.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 17:06, closed)

You know that these people were pacifists.
You know that they were maniacs.
And now you know that I want to enslave those who don't agree with me.

Either you have a near-psychic insight into the motivations of other people, or you make assumptions about people you don't agree with.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 19:53, closed)

Not too dissimilar to your statement on Republicans, O omniscient one.
I admit that I made a guess based upon their "Peace" signs and anti-war signs.

And it's hard not to disagree with someone who wants to clobber you because you're dressed in a suit going to work.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 22:11, closed)

The Republican Party
has public policies which don't require omniscience to talk about. Republicans being publically intolerant of their own private practices isn't a catty speculation, it's a documented phenomenon.

Furthermore, I suggest that no attendees at this conference committed suicide because of the bullying they suffered. Whereas other teenagers do commit suicide because of bullying which the Republican Party is at best indifferent to, and arguably condones or encourages.

My argument here isn't with people being upset because a hippie shouted at them.

It's with the implication that the Republican Party is an innocent victim that crazy lefties are picking on for no reason/because they're sinister hypocrities who hate freedom.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 9:57, closed)

What about people intolerant of conservative thought and policies?
Should we shun and vilify them as well? You make a huge leap in saying that the Republican party encourages or turns a blind eye at suicide. It is a facile argument to claim that those who think different from you must be automatically evil because you, in all your wisdom have come to a conclusion. That is frightening.
( BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Tue 16 Nov 2010, 19:37, closed)

was it Frank Zappa who said:
"Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity!?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Fri 12 Nov 2010, 16:25, closed)

Don't you know that this could start
On any street in any town
In any state if any clown
Decides that now's the time to fight
For some ideal he thinks is right
(Robotnik, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 11:12, closed)

No they weren't
The ones who were fighting and smashing things up were rent-a-mob thugs who come along to these protests simply to enjoy causing chaos. You will find them at all protests; they're the ones smashing McDonalds windows and throwing scaffolding poles through police car windows; they are also the ones who play right into the hands of the Powers That Be, and devalue the power of protest.

Hey, let's have a protest march against them!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 14:23, closed)