Comments on: Sunday Connect The Dots https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/20/sunday-connect-the-dots/ Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Trebuchet https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/20/sunday-connect-the-dots/#comment-17684 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:02:06 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1341#comment-17684

I was thinking that surely I wasn’t the only one to make the Kent State-UC pepper spray connection…

You weren’t. See item six in this link, which I got from a PZ post. http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/11/seven_awful_things_ann_coulter.php

]]> By: noastronomer https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/20/sunday-connect-the-dots/#comment-17683 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:07:18 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1341#comment-17683 Raging Bee’s (not Raging Bees) comparison to the non-tear-gassing of Tea Party protests is more appropriate than the contrast with the Westboro Baptist Church protests.

For two reasons:

a) Although loud and obnoxious WBC make a point of generally not getting in anyones way or actually preventing people from getting around. Because that would be illegal and would therefore prevent them from earning a living.

b) Which they do by suing those people and municipalities who step over the line. Tear gassing Fred Phelps would make his year*.

WBC is not a protest group. They’re a legal practice.

Mike.

* Of course the lesson here is if you were tear-gassed or pepper-sprayed at an Occupy protest now is the time to ‘lawyer-up’.

]]> By: Raging Bee https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/20/sunday-connect-the-dots/#comment-17682 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:56:25 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1341#comment-17682 Yeah, I don’t remember any cops with tear-gas showing up when the teatards deliberately disrupted peaceful town-hall meetings either.

]]> By: Lauren Ipsum https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/20/sunday-connect-the-dots/#comment-17681 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:23:11 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1341#comment-17681 I was thinking that surely I wasn’t the only one to make the Kent State-UC pepper spray connection…

]]> By: miles670 https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/11/20/sunday-connect-the-dots/#comment-17680 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:17:15 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1341#comment-17680 I would have gone for the reel big fish tune instead. But i’d have been wrong, tracy chapman is lovely.

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