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Old 10-28-2011, 10:31 AM  
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Originally Posted by cykoe6 View Post
Certainly if an OWS protestor does fire on the police then the general public will turn against the protests full bore and the government will have free reign to shut them down with extreme prejudice...... so anyone who does that would be playing into their hands.

Furthermore that kind of violence would seriously damage Obama who has aligned himself with the OWS movement.

In other words it would seriously damage the cause of the radical left. Anyone who thinks the US public at large is ready to support political violence and blood in the streets is truly delusional. The leftist violence of 1968 led to the election of Nixon.
Or you could end up with a break off group of people not disimilar to the IRA. Wonder if this will spread to other occupy groups having armed "gaurds" to try and stop the police from moving them.
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