[kj] (OT) Dangerous Dancing?
sade1
saulomar1 at yahoo.com
Mon May 30 15:09:43 EDT 2011
Ooh, didnt mean to imply that. I was just reflecting back supposedly "accepted" standards at a POV that hinted at other standards.
On Sun May 29th, 2011 8:04 PM PDT Brendan Quinn wrote:
>The last several administrations in the US have done more to denigrate the
>memory of the forefathers than a bunch of 'dirty whiney hippies' did by
>dancing.
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>How can you say you have a democracy when you don't get democratic outcomes?
>Who got to vote over the hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars spent
>to bail out the banks who created a global Ponzi scheme which dissolved
>around themselves? Was that the will of the people, was it in their best
>interests? Who would have voted for that?
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>Perhaps the one in seven Americans who use foodstamps.
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>Or the 938 000 people who were turned down for - mainly part time -
>McDonalds jobs.
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>From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
>Behalf Of sade1
>Sent: Monday, 30 May 2011 2:41 p.m.
>To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
>Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Dangerous Dancing?
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>> ..its just ingrained......
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> that, what.. despite the Constitution & the Bill Of Rights (that should be
>ingrained deeper than anything else even police may 'encourage'/'discourage'
>at any given place/moment) stating all unstated rights are the People's
>unless expressly legislated by Congress, that despite such 'quaint' and
>'antiquated' principles (they are 200+ yrs.old, after all) we shouldn't do,
>nay, we are wrong and fuckeen' criminals - outlaws! - in doing!, anything
>that, at most, the police won't like simply because they don't like?
>Is there a law criminalizing "F[ucking] around and be[ing] 'cute'?" That
>would be THE ONLY decision worthy of defending then, not that (just/only)
>some cops just didn't like it. Right? I mean, LAWS are supposed to be
>defended, not cops' pet-peeves, and not cops just because they're cops and
>our love for Authorit-[attach suffix of choice here]. Right? I guess.. dunno
>anymore.
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>> ..and were provoking the cops...
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>So, being [only] a smart-ass is now illegally Criminal (redundancy for
>emphasis)? I'm guessing if they would've actually crossed the line (i.e. the
>Law) you wouldn't hesitate a second to say so, so I may assume that you
>meant only a smart-ass?
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>I think the comment about that misses the real point, that the cops can
>indeed be provoked (by self or others) over something not rising to the
>legal-&-Constitutional standard of what is sufficient for A COP - not you,
>not me, not even a reasonable citizen-bystander - being provoked over. Or do
>the police now interpret the Constitution, the Bill Of Rights, and every
>other prekkin' law out there now, or law-to-be AND set their own thresholds
>for provokation, as opposed to the Law?
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>> ..you gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk
>away- that was a walk away
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> instance--those guys got exactly what they knew they had coming...
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>Since the subject is people's rights (to gather, assemble, dance, not take
>legally unsupportable police policy lying down, and similar) to the dancers'
>decision to dance, then your comment can reasonably be understood as, "you
>gotta know when to hold [your rights], know when to fold [your rights], know
>when to walk away [from your rights], - that was a walk away [from your
>rights] instance-- I'm sure it is - for some.
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>> ..those guys got exactly what they knew they had coming...
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> According to what law (whether statutory or case), Constitutional
>amendment, or section of the Bill Of Rights?
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>If we're gonna live acquiescing without question whenever Authorit-[attach
>suffix of choice here] arbitrarily decides it wants from us, well, there's
>plenty of countries already there where that's already existed since
>Forever. If we're gonna live in America, we need to fuckin' show some spine.
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>Or else, of course,
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>"Ich hasse
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> die Masse
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> die kleine,
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> gemeine,
> den Nacken
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> gebeugt,
> die isst und schlaeft
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> und Kinder zeugt .......
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>"The crowd was won/one - Oblivion ran deep
> A consciousness of cannon fodder walking in its sleep," -- Beautiful
>Dead
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>From: "Devacor at aol.com" <Devacor at aol.com>
>To: gathering at misera.net
>Sent: Sun, May 29, 2011 2:14:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) Dangerous Dancing?
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>I met that guy Adam at a (organized) Rally a few weeks before- the one for
>the Amish farmer the FDA raided...
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> anyway, well being from the DC area its just ingrained you don't really go
>and F around and be 'cute' at the monuments and memorials...
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> I'm all for freedom of speech, expression and organizing, and on paper that
>was really F'ed up and totally silly- but at the same time they were being
>smart asses and were provoking the cops- The cops did warn them and warned
>the guy Adam like 2-3 times before they put him down. I didn't see how any
>of that (on Adam) was really excessive, esp since he was resisting- he could
>have got it worse (which I get the feeling, that's what he was hoping for)
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> you gotta know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk
>away- that was a walk away instance--those guys got exactly what they knew
>they had coming to them after the cops warned them and they started being
>smart asses...
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>In a message dated 5/29/2011 2:33:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>folk.devil at hotmail.com writes:
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUU3yCy3uI
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