So here in Pittsburgh we've been hosting the G20 conference. It's been a fucked up, bizarre police state here for a week now. Tons of military presence, police brutality, etc. Constitution basically being treated like a piece of toilet paper for the sake of political expediency.

[Ask] me about living in an Orwellian parody

9/26/2009 9:47:37 PM

So… how about living in an Orwellian parody?

9/26/2009 9:48:40 PM

It's bullshit, man. Students who showed up to watch a protest that went through their own campus were hemmed in from both directions by police and gassed. Gotta love the bunch of peckerwood country cops that they pulled from the surrounding counties with boner-pipe fantasies about slapping liberal college students

9/26/2009 9:50:14 PM

so, fuck tha police?

9/26/2009 9:52:17 PM

Talk more about this "boner-pipe."

I'm interested.

9/26/2009 9:53:02 PM

Yeah pretty much.

It's pretty surreal to see mechanized infantry roll through your own city

^ lol

[Edited on September 26, 2009 at 9:54 PM. Reason : .]

9/26/2009 9:53:56 PM

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"Constitution basically being treated like a piece of toilet paper for the sake of political expediency."

and thats way worse than the constitution being treated like a dated parking ticket by the rest of the government right

9/26/2009 9:56:43 PM

well, i mean, it's more of a guideline than a rule book, right?

9/26/2009 9:57:53 PM

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"and thats way worse than the constitution being treated like a dated parking ticket by the rest of the government right"

oh my gawrsh my tax monies <<<<< getting your ass kicked by the police for stating that corporations should treat the poorest elements of our society like human beings

imo

9/26/2009 9:57:54 PM

you probably need to take a step back and look at that again

9/26/2009 9:59:59 PM

we beat their football team if it makes you feel any better :shrug:

9/26/2009 10:00:55 PM

i actually forgot about that game today and was walking around with my NCSU sweater on

was wondering why people were yelling at me

9/26/2009 10:10:15 PM

their rival board is imploding, its good times

9/26/2009 10:11:36 PM

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"It's pretty surreal to see mechanized infantry roll through your own city "

Now you know 1/10th of what it feels like to be the average Iraqi.

9/26/2009 10:22:49 PM

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"Now you know 1/10th of what it feels like to be the average Iraqi."

no shit

9/26/2009 10:23:23 PM

liberals are the real facists, RIGHT?

9/26/2009 10:52:55 PM

i've been seeing some pretty fucked up video from it

9/26/2009 10:56:46 PM

I would say Obamas socialist utopia dream state is closer to the Orwellian police state you describe than a bunch of cops keeping violent protesters in check. And Obama and his "living breathing document" interpretation of the constitution is more of an erosion than anything Bush did.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJPPaeHxSuo&feature=related

9/26/2009 11:08:53 PM

^ its a fact: this guy wishes so badly he could go over to unc and bust some skulls of some liberals open

beating up some vegan punk kids with masks: not tyranny

taxing pollution: THE WORST FORM OF TYRANNY

[Edited on September 26, 2009 at 11:12 PM. Reason : .]

9/26/2009 11:10:31 PM

chit chat is not soap box #2

9/26/2009 11:10:52 PM

blah blah blah

SHUT UP FAGGOT

[Edited on September 26, 2009 at 11:11 PM. Reason : not you fred]

9/26/2009 11:10:55 PM

yeah, because i said that i love how mature converstaion with liberals always ends with ad hominem attacks

9/26/2009 11:11:53 PM

STRAW MAN

9/26/2009 11:12:36 PM

^^ so says the man who believes that we're living in an orwellian nightmare b/c we might get a (bad) universal health care bill.

but yes, liberals are the real fascists, i read a book that said so and it had a lot of end notes.

[Edited on September 26, 2009 at 11:13 PM. Reason : /]

9/26/2009 11:13:29 PM

Hippies are always bitching about tear gas. Look, it ain't that bad. If I can eat Chinese food in a cloud of it without bitching, then you can man the fuck up.

9/26/2009 11:13:50 PM

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"OBAMALIAN SOCIALIST UTOPIA DREAM STATE"

9/26/2009 11:14:07 PM

Battle in SeattlePittsburgh!!1

pics or it didn't happen

[Edited on September 26, 2009 at 11:15 PM. Reason : SHOW US WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE]

9/26/2009 11:14:22 PM

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"Hippies are always bitching about tear gas"

yeah really, pepper spray and tazers are way worse. not to mention less than lethal ammunition

9/26/2009 11:15:36 PM

obama is lame.

orwell was a socialist.

pittsburgh can suck my dick.

9/26/2009 11:16:24 PM

whatever hipster

9/26/2009 11:17:42 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwjAjcQnqM

9/26/2009 11:17:57 PM

can i move this to soap box now?

or at the least, trash bin?

9/26/2009 11:18:21 PM

i just realized that i'm only funny in text form when i'm not trying to be

which is to say, im not funny ever

[Edited on September 26, 2009 at 11:21 PM. Reason : .]

9/26/2009 11:19:12 PM

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"less than lethal ammunition"

if there's just a small percentage of a chance that someone can survive, it can be considered less than lethal.

9/26/2009 11:26:23 PM

just watched a bunch of shit on youtube

the electronic voice was creepy

9/26/2009 11:26:56 PM

the sonic crowd control noise sounds like a sound effect Independence Day

9/26/2009 11:30:02 PM

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"the electronic voice was creepy"

that would be the LRAD 500x (loud range acoustic device). it focuses sound waves on targets and it can be as loud as 148 db.

it's been in iraq to control insurgents and it can cause significant damage not only to the ears, but to the central nervous system.

[Edited on September 26, 2009 at 11:43 PM. Reason : loud as shit]

9/26/2009 11:33:31 PM

i would have been waiting at the meeting place to take pictures of the leaders. i want to meet nicholas sarkozy or silvio berlusconi bad. they're baller.

9/26/2009 11:40:10 PM

they would've also accused you of being a "violent protester" just for being there taking pictures

9/26/2009 11:41:48 PM

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"a bunch of cops keeping violent protesters in check"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akwjAjcQnqM

check out those violent shouts from that lethal megaphone.

9/26/2009 11:43:34 PM

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Why would any city want to host a Gx summit? They always end with video on the international news of cops beating the shit out of kids.

I guess each city wants to see their own respective cops beating the shit out of kids. Sort of a regional pride thing. If I was a cop I think I might enjoy seeing myself on television.

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[Edited on September 27, 2009 at 12:31 AM. Reason : .]

9/27/2009 12:04:14 AM

I am a very level headed moderate, but that is some wild shit.

9/27/2009 12:04:33 AM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1215926/G20-summit-begins-chaos-protesters-clash-Pittsburgh-police.html

9/27/2009 12:23:42 AM

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Then they came for the people wearing plaid and I said nothing....

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[Edited on September 27, 2009 at 12:32 AM. Reason : .]

9/27/2009 12:25:23 AM

Does that sign say, "Kill capitalism while it's down?"

9/27/2009 12:25:38 AM

i believe it says "kick" not "kill"

9/27/2009 12:34:58 AM

Gotta love when idiots like Republican chime in with Obama this and Obama that. Hey Republican18, look around you, there are elements of socialism everywhere. Why don't you go protest about how having highways is soooo socialist. Me thinks the man just rants because hes afraid a black man is in office.
As to the protests, the whole sound cannon was kinda scary/cool.

9/28/2009 12:57:24 AM

^really? Really?

9/28/2009 1:01:23 AM

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"Now you know 1/10th of what it feels like to be the average Iraqi."

Look, I know what you're saying, and agree to a point...

but comparing Pittsburgh and its inhabitants to motherfucking Baghdad and its inhabitants is, well...kinda like comparing apples to rocks.

"OOHHHH, BUT WE'RE REALLY ALL THE SAME."

Well no shit, in most ways at least...but driving around Baghdad in an APC is, well, pretty much necessary, and not out of the ordinary to anyone, least of all the Iraqi who's seen nothing but war since everyone on this board was eating foods made by Gerber.

The stuff going down in Pittsburgh is, ummm, pretty crazy from the little bit that I've had time to see on the news.

[Edited on September 28, 2009 at 1:07 AM. Reason : ^^ Go put on your dunce hat and stand in the corner.]

9/28/2009 1:07:18 AM

set em up

9/28/2009 1:13:03 AM