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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 09:48 AM
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Spain - what the shit??? Graphic video captures Barcelona police beating protesters
Graphic video captures Barcelona police beating protesters
Posted on 05.27.11
By David Edwards

Police in Barcelona used violence Friday to force protesters from a camp in the city’s Plaza Catalunya before Saturday’s Champions League final.

Demonstrators were expressing opposition to austerity measures and corruption.

Watch this video from 20minutos.tv, broadcast May 27, 2011.
http://www.20minutos.tv/video/bmuvFKLO-brutalidad-en-la-plaza-de-cataluna/0/

MORE:
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/graphic-video-captures-barcelona-police-beating-protesters/
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littlewolf Donating Member (920 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 09:55 AM
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1. at least they didn't shoot em ...
Be happy you are in America .... do stuff the gov't doesn't like overseas .... you could wind up dead or missing ....
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 09:57 AM
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2. So glad protesters have never been shot in the USA.. n/t
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:05 AM
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6. Right you are. Just ask these guys>
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:13 AM
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8. ...
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:24 AM
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13. May the sarcasm icon rain on me till I've lost consciousness . . .
and most of my recall of events that might be relevant to this interrogation. - Poe's Law in action.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:26 AM
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14. Hey, don't feel too bad..
I've got caught exactly the same way before.
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socialist_n_TN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 09:59 AM
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3. Heard of Kent State?
nm
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littlewolf Donating Member (920 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:02 AM
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5. yeah I have heard of Kent State ..... but overseas it can
happen with regularity ... and your family disappears with you .....
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:10 AM
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7. Who do you think trained and protected those "overseas" juntas and death squads?
Edited on Fri May-27-11 10:11 AM by leveymg
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socialist_n_TN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:19 AM
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12. A solid point. AND just because it hasn't happened here
for a while now, doesn't mean that it CAN'T happen here tomorrow. IF (when) it heats up here to where it starts to scare the PTBs, you can BET it WILL happen here.

The FBI/Justice Department is already starting to try and intimidate the antiwar and socialist left. It's coming. We're about a year behind Europe in this Shock Doctrine and reaction to same. Look for it next year, if we resist like the Europeans are.
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mod mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:01 AM
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4. WTF drives the individual who accepts orders like this?
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:15 AM
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9. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Before conducting the experiment, Milgram polled fourteen Yale University senior-year psychology majors to predict the behavior of 100 hypothetical teachers. All of the poll respondents believed that only a very small fraction of teachers (the range was from zero to 3 out of 100, with an average of 1.2) would be prepared to inflict the maximum voltage. Milgram also informally polled his colleagues and found that they, too, believed very few subjects would progress beyond a very strong shock.<1>

In Milgram's first set of experiments, 65 percent (26 of 40)<1> of experiment participants administered the experiment's final massive 450-volt shock, though many were very uncomfortable doing so; at some point, every participant paused and questioned the experiment, some said they would refund the money they were paid for participating in the experiment.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:18 AM
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11. There's a film on Netflix loosely based on this
It's simply called "The Experiment".

There's another one loosely based on the reverse of the Milgram experiment titled "The Exam". Both are actually halfway decent.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:16 AM
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10. This:
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:30 AM
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15. Once upon a time there was a useless loser who hated life, so he became a cop.
Edited on Fri May-27-11 10:34 AM by chrisa
No "The End" because the story is ongoing.



(On edit: Not all cops are bad. However, it attracts some people who have no interest in the least bit in law enforcement who just want a free pass to do whatever they want without consequences).
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 10:54 AM
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16. They were having genes flashbacks to the FRANCO days n/t
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SOS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 11:21 AM
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17. Capital enforces
It was always so.

"The Ludlow Massacre resulted in the violent deaths of 19 people during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914."
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-27-11 12:07 PM
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18. The uniform protecing the ruling class.
Nothing new here.
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