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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-01-11 10:52 AM
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2. And the scary part of it is, what will they do when the 'non-lethal' weapons
fail to end the protests?

I'm thinking Kent State and Jackson State.

How many of these officers are in the Guard and Reserves, and have been desensitized to violence, and have been trained to respond to threats, or orders, on the instant because in Iraq or Afghanistan their lives depended on it?

All it would take would be one COINTELPRO type firing a shot to create a Haymarket event, except that unlike Haymarket the protesters would all be unarmed.
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