Burma: Thousands dead in massacre of the monks dumped in the jungle

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  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    gue_barium wrote:
    That's what I think. You've got the massacre of 3,000 in 1988, so you have nearly 20 years to re-think the strategy. Ah, thousands of protesters again, perfect, you know exactly the reaction it's going to bring. So...
    Don't be a fucking martyr. Fight the fuck back.
    I'm not down on the monks, they did their part, but there should have been, among those thousands participating in the wings, those willing to take up arms and do some fighting back.


    Certainly a good argument for the right to bear arms/weapons.

    I wonder what would happen if these people all owned handguns, rifles and shotguns.

    I imagine many would still die. But it would certainly go a long way to aiding their ability to fight back.
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    NMyTree wrote:
    Certainly a good argument for the right to bear arms/weapons.

    I wonder what would happen if these people all owned handguns, rifles and shotguns.

    I imagine many would still die. But it would certainly go a long way to aiding their ability to fight back.

    I don't think it would help much. If protestors where to march armed with rifles and handguns, the government would counter with armored personnel carriers and tanks.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    my2hands wrote:
    i agree

    2008 is china's opportunity to showcase itself to the world

    I have a feeling they might wish they never got the olympics by 2008.

    hopefully
  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    mammasan wrote:
    I don't think it would help much. If protestors where to march armed with rifles and handguns, the government would counter with armored personnel carriers and tanks.

    If they were armed with weapons they would never march down the street, that way. That would be foolish.

    It would become an insurgence........you know, like Iraq.
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    Here is a video posted on CNN about the arrests and beatings of protestors

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2007/10/02/rivers.myanamar.beatings.cnn
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,509232,00.html
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    Bump
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    mammasan wrote:
    Bump

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=bgnOrHMWw5M

    I heard this for the first time yesterday, there's some info at the end that may be of some help.
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....

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