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Rome demonstrations

FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
edited October 2011 in A Moving Train
Thoughts, comments?

http://news.yahoo.com/police-demonstrators-clash-rome-teargas-fired-171843737.html
CONservative governMENt

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
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  • whygohomewhygohome Posts: 2,305
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Thoughts, comments?

    http://news.yahoo.com/police-demonstrators-clash-rome-teargas-fired-171843737.html


    When in Rome.
    Sometimes I see no other way to get your point across. I hope it doesn't get like this here, but when the people get ignored, they get angry.
    Just look at the riots that occur after the World Series or the Stanley Cup: violence, fights, fires, destruction of public and private property, fights with police, arrests.

    What's a more dire situation to be in: the fact that your favorite sports team just lost or the fact that your life is spinning down the toilet bowl because you can't get a job, you can't find a job with a decent enough salary, you can't find a job that offers health benefits, you suffered financially due to corporate/banking negligence, you lost your home--and it was taken away by the same banks that severely damaged this country, your kids are hungry, you're one of the 14 million who are unemployed, or you're one of the 46 million (out of 310 million) who live in poverty?

    Let's wake up, people.
  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    People have a very short-sided memory. Most people don't even remember Seattle in 99'.

    As for people in our culture rioting and causing problems related to entertainment like sports, that's just mindless. In politics and society, everything, including protest (non-violent or violent) have their place, and it has been as such through the course of human and US history. Howard Zinn's masterpiece is filled with it.

    Malcolm X
    "We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary."

    "It doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence."

    "Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."


    Thomas Jefferson
    "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
    CONservative governMENt

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Mama Miaaaaa!
    About time.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    rome is taking it up a notch...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,432
    Roma- the only European city I've been to- early '70's. Unknown to me, a big convention of world Communist Party members happed to be scheduled at the same time. With my hair long over my shoulders and a pea coat on I must have looked like a radical because I was spit on, had garbage thrown on me got lots of nasty stares. But what a city- especially the last day! Fell in love with an Italian girl behind the counter in a record store, wandered around the labyrinthine streets, ate good food and had one of the best days of my life.

    I assume it's still pretty much that kind of place, wild, passionate, energetic. Not surprised the people are crankin' things up a bit there.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Absolutely beautiful city, probably my favourite in the world.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • whygohomewhygohome Posts: 2,305
    FiveB247x wrote:
    People have a very short-sided memory. Most people don't even remember Seattle in 99'.

    Thanks for the perfect example; it seems like there is more than one Seattle '99 on the horizon these days.
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