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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
There is a legitimate element that makes it worse that someone who survived through two tours in a foreign war zone to instill 'democracy' nearly lost his life for exercising his right to freedom of assembly in his own country.
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It's not proper to say in polite company, but Occupy Wall St. was very fortunate it was an Iraq Vet who got beaned in the head by the police.
They were riding those public relations coat tails for days and weren't hesitant to exploit it in statements and press conferences.
This photo below from Kent State in 1970 was ugly but also, again, very productive for the anti-Vietnam war side, one of those seminal, turning point moments. The people in the photo, of course, are now in their early 60's, except the dead guy.
For the City of Calgary and other municipal authorities, the goal is to avoid photographs or video like this. There's no shortage of history to demonstrate you shouldn't give gifts like that.
And, in Time Magazine, "God 1, Occupy London 0"
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/201...inst-st-pauls/
Cowperson