Blogs Aug 28, 2012 at 2:46 pm

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It's almost like we need some sort of constitutional amendment protecting the rights of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Aren't "peaceful assembly" and "redress of grievances" in the Bill of Rights somewhere? I know it's not as important as owning a gun, and that these are your more traditional people, not your corporate people - hell, they're not even white. But shouldn't we at least make a show of supporting *all* of our constitutional rights, not just the flashy ones?
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It is private property and the GOP convention is not a government group like congress, and, sorry as all get out, but becoming a commercial pilot on your own without having the background of being a pilot in the military is pretty unlikely. A more realistic choice might have been easier to achieve.
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@3, I know you didn't mean this, but what should he aspire to be—a bellhop? Time was when aptitude and hard work would get you wherever you wanted to go. The post-WWII-GI Bill led a lot of people all the way to science and engineering PhD's without crippling financial burdens. Today's thank-you for multiple tours in Iraq/Afghanistan seems to be a choice between sketchy degrees from for-profit schools and $80,000 or so in personal debt, or $100,000+ in loans for a bachelor's from a well-respected public university.
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@3, the illegalization of protest is the end goal of all private enclosure of public space.
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@3

They were asked to leave even after they left private property.
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The hell did "tresspassed from" come from? Did I jump into some alternate universe where my dictionary lies about usage?
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And I'm not being prescriptivist here: Google returns only 22,000 results for "trespassed from". Maybe it's gaining in usage, but it's weird.
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@7,8 - it's a legal term when there is a charge of trespassing. I don't know a lot of "usage" for that phrase, outside of police encounters, arrest reports and courtrooms. If you don't spend time in/with those, you wouldn't use/hear it much.
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The Republicans and their minions haven't learned the art of dealing with protest. They respond with police state, which is the opposite of the facade they are trying to bring off. Like the Dems, they should just co-opt them, let them have their say, go 'yes, yes', and then go on with business as usual. Protesting was a hard won (alleged) 'right' coming from the King years, often at the price of violence against the protestors. I remember those New Yorkers beating up on Vietnam war protestors. Right on camera. And there were the Berkeley riots over a piece of dirt. Authority figures relish their power and as we all learned in high school, power corrupts.
BTW Some thing is wrong when self-styled intelligent commenters obsess over the use of the word, 'trespass'. Get out of the house and go wiggle your butt where it is not supposed to be wiggled. i.e. get your head out of the anal retards' butts.

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