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[rootofnewt]

http://la.indymedia.org/

At the moment, it's the current top headline that has my attention:
MARINE APCs APPEAR AT ANTI-WAR PROTEST IN WESTWOOD

I'm going to dig around for more info, as that is my nature, but um . . . . crap doodles.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

http://www.polizeros.com/2004/11/10.html#a4686

[krasota.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting to know the real story, whatever it is.

[evilcresyluna.livejournal.com]

*Smirkle* I was very entertained by it.

[krues8dr.livejournal.com]

When I first read that, I assumed they were joining *with* the protesters. Oh well, wishful thinking.

[xiane.livejournal.com]

That would have been astonishingly cool.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/elynne/761598.html?thread=6091262#t6091262

pecunium and wcg, neither of whom trusts the gov't very well, and both of whom tend to be realists who also understand the military, both point to "it was just passing through and stopped at a light" as perfectly plausible.

[thekdog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, army reservists are smart; lets go move this shit over there.... why are people yelling baby killer at me?

Besides, only the reserve, by request of a governer or the guard by the same can be used as a police force, marines and regular army, on the other hand, cannot, except by mandate of martial law (like when the army of New York put down the Irish Protestors in New York in 1863), now, technically, we are under martial law and have been since 1931, as it never got removed and we all got distracted by WW2, mo politician would ever try use that as an excuse.

It was all just an unfortuante coinicidence blown out of proportion by a bunch of vegan college students who prolly voted Nader in 2000.

As another point, they'd never send in the army, guard or reserve as they (LA) have the largest and best trained SWAT team and riot control cops in the world.

the whole, we were moving them and got lost story is prolly the truth.

[zuggy9.livejournal.com]

Nothing like a fascist military response to people excercising their civil rights²!

²available for a limited time.

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

They were lost. Yeah right.