[B5JMS] And So It Begins...

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From: velovich at aol.com (V-Man)
Date: 06 Apr 2003 05:30:18 GMT
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>Another point that V-man seems to be missing is that the way that
>Nightwatch-like conditions develop is through an escalating process.

   If there was an escalating process, I'd be happy to say there is one.  But
these unfounded charges of "suppression" are just that - unfounded.  there is
no escalating process.  There is dissent in every major city of the US over
this conflict, there are no name takings, there is mass arrest of PEACEFUL
demonstrators...

  WHAT escalating process?


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 08 Apr 2003 03:09:27 GMT
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>There is dissent in every major city of the US over
>this conflict, there are no name takings, there is mass arrest of PEACEFUL
>demonstrators...
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Not true.  There have been a number of articles published which detail that the
names of people protesting the war, who are detained or questioned by police,
are then passed on to law enforcement, specifically to those handling airline
transportation.  The articles -- and if I have to go dig them up I can --
detail that on several occasions, people who'd protested and been detained,
without being arrested, were held for questioning at airports and detained,
often missing their flights as a result.  (In one case, a group en route to 
see their congressman had to reschedule because they were detained for exactly
this reason.)

How you can make these blanket statementa that NOTHING is going on, when the
facts say exactly the opposite, just astonish me.

Unless you actually have no interest in the facts, only in trolling for
arguments, which is starting to sound more and more like the case....

 jms

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