[PAA-Discuss] A new May Day

[Lee Loe]

Robert, I didn't read the entire report, but I know that the Chicago police
force supposedly discussed a better way to have layers of control, or
something like that. I agree that Daly told them to corral the protesters,
but they evidently went quite a bit further than he thought they would. I
still remember tv footage of women in high heels being pushed vigorously
with batons as they dutifully were trying to step up into a police paddy
wagon. I though sure the US public would be enraged, but my mother-in-law
who was watching said, "Well, those people are somewhere they shouldn't be."
they were in a public park. Lee


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From: robert [mailto:rgg-629 at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:30 PM
To: 'Lee Loe'; 'Massoud Nayeri'; 'A. Artemis'
Cc: discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: RE: [PAA-Discuss] A new May Day



Lee, are you saying that Mayor Daily did not give the order to clamp down on
the protesters/media?  Sure, the police then went on to 'go out of control'
but they had to have had an initial order from up above.

 

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From: Lee Loe [mailto:leeloe at igc.org] 
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:13 PM
To: 'robert'; 'Massoud Nayeri'; 'A. Artemis'
Cc: discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: RE: [PAA-Discuss] A new May Day

 

Robert, this is not necessarily true of all cases. After the clashes of the
1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago, a respected report (I forget
the name!) was made which declared that it was a police riot because there
were no leaders, no one in charge. Wish I could remember the name of this
report, which is famous. Lee L

 

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From: discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org] On
Behalf Of robert
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:18 AM
To: 'Massoud Nayeri'; 'A. Artemis'
Cc: discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] A new May Day

Nothing happens without orders and the

orders always come from the top.  

 

 

 

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From: discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org] On
Behalf Of Massoud Nayeri
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:13 PM
To: A. Artemis
Cc: discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] A new May Day

 

To "review the use of force" means absolutely nothing. The attack by police
was an act of intimidation against immigrant workers and like other
countries, this was a calculated political decision and was not accidental. 

 

The 2008 May Day will answer this question.

 

Massoud

 

 

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From: A. Artemis <mailto:a_artemis9 at yahoo.com>  

To: discuss at paa-tx.org 

Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:24 AM

Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] A new May Day

 

I wonder what "review the use of force" means:   Practise firing more rubber
bullets?   Developing better aim?   Convincing us all that rubber bullets
are the new, improved, "non-lethal" upgrade over archaic bullets?

 

1.	Study Says  <http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0524-04.htm>
Rubber Bullets Too Dangerous For Civil Crowd Control 

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commondreams.org
<http://www.searchmash.com/search/police+rubber+bullets+kill+site:www.common
dreams.org> 

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rubber bullets used by police to restrain protesters kill and maim too often
to be considered a safe method of crowd control, .



Massoud Nayeri <massoud1 at alltel.net> wrote:

UNITED STATES:   ... a clash in Los Angeles where officers fired rubber
bullets and used batons against demonstrators. Police promised to review the
use of force.


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