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Things like this remind us all, I hope, to stay alert and fight for the weaker ones in our midst.<br><br>And, again -- if you're not outraged, you're either not paying attention, or you're contributing to the outrage yourself . . . a reminder for for myself, and only then for the rest of the world.<br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br>> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:56 -0800<br>> From: tiedye@turbonet.com<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Happy 10th<br>> <br>> This is the tenth anniversary of when I found out for sure that the <br>> first amendment of the Constitution was dead. i.e. when the government <br>> used toxic chemical and percussive weapons on me for exercising my <br>> rights of free speech and to assemble.<br>> <br>> This picture is a clip of stock footage used by Democracy Now! this <br>> morning which I highly recommend that people see. Actually people <br>> really need to see and understand the very good Greg Palast segment that <br>> precedes the WTO one to understand why we were there.<br>> <br>> Anyway, I am in the bottom left of this shot, and I am about to witness <br>> the officer (with the arrow conveniently pointed at him) shoot a woman <br>> (in yellow) at point blank range with a percussive grenade launcher. <br>> This is a crowd control weapon which is "supposed" to be fired over <br>> peoples heads.<br>> <br>> Later, after we were brutally forced off of OUR street (I got peppered <br>> by rubber bullets, which I tell you hurt like the dickens! They left <br>> welts that lasted for weeks.), I heard a cry for help, someone needed <br>> water. Turns out it was a friend of mine from Moscow, and she was <br>> providing assistance to the same woman. The victim was fairly dazed and <br>> probably had a concussion, we later turned her over to a first aid <br>> patrol. I hope to someday re-meet this woman, she would be easy to <br>> recognize with a star shaped scar on her forehead and all.<br>> <br>> Oh yeah, and I guess it is also now illegal to enter Canada if you MIGHT <br>> be going to say anything bad about the Olympics (first segment).<br>> <br>> Dave<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Windows, OSX, or Linux is the same choice as:<br>> McDonalds, Burger King, or a (real) Co-Op.<br>> <br> <br /><hr />Windows 7: I wanted simpler, now it's simpler. <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?h=myidea?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_myidea:112009' target='_new'>I'm a rock star.</a></body>
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