Joe Portale
New member
Hi folks,
I just watched the afternoon news and heard this report from the NBC station. The jist of the report goes as follows: The Seattle Police originally decided to take a non-confrontational position when dealing with the protesters at the WTO Conference. As you all know, this has turned into a police- fed riot and many innocent people are getting caught in the middle. What the big news is, as reorted by NBC, is the THE SECRET SERVICE ORDERED THE SEATTLE PD AND NATIONAL GUARD TO CLEAR THE STREETS OF ANY AND ALL PEOPLE!!!
Now, I'm not so sure where I stand with the ideas of the protestors. Yet, I have to ask don't these people have the right to peacfully assemble and make their views known? Just because Klinton is attending the conference, do the rights of these people null and void? Isn't this sort of what happens in China, pick a South American country, or any of the many tin horn totalitarian states that run the UN and want to tell us what to do. Good God, this situation is getting worse and worse. What will be next, the Secret Service ordering people out of their homes to stand along the side of the road waving flags and cheering the little dictator as he drives along in his limo?
Watch people, it is the little things like this that will be the end of America as we know and love her.
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Joe Portale
Sonoran Sidewinder
Tucson, Arizona territory
I just watched the afternoon news and heard this report from the NBC station. The jist of the report goes as follows: The Seattle Police originally decided to take a non-confrontational position when dealing with the protesters at the WTO Conference. As you all know, this has turned into a police- fed riot and many innocent people are getting caught in the middle. What the big news is, as reorted by NBC, is the THE SECRET SERVICE ORDERED THE SEATTLE PD AND NATIONAL GUARD TO CLEAR THE STREETS OF ANY AND ALL PEOPLE!!!
Now, I'm not so sure where I stand with the ideas of the protestors. Yet, I have to ask don't these people have the right to peacfully assemble and make their views known? Just because Klinton is attending the conference, do the rights of these people null and void? Isn't this sort of what happens in China, pick a South American country, or any of the many tin horn totalitarian states that run the UN and want to tell us what to do. Good God, this situation is getting worse and worse. What will be next, the Secret Service ordering people out of their homes to stand along the side of the road waving flags and cheering the little dictator as he drives along in his limo?
Watch people, it is the little things like this that will be the end of America as we know and love her.
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Joe Portale
Sonoran Sidewinder
Tucson, Arizona territory