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Re: Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. ponder stibbons Send a noteboard - 02/10/2010 02:40:46 PM
Ten year-olds do not organise themselves. You can keep saying these children did, but I'm just not gonna believe it.

(Also, expecting violence or not: still irrelevant.)


All right, maybe I used the term "kids" where I meant "youths". We Germans often do when talking in our mother tongue, because the word "Jugendlicher" for youth is inconveniently long. Sorry about that.
Concerning the 10year-olds present: they were most likely taken there by parents or elder siblings. But why shouldn't they? Remember, we are talking about a park in the midst of a 600,000-people city, the most important patch of green here. Should we keep our kids away from that just because the first use of watercannons against people in the history of our town might happen? You might reply that they should have moved away as soon as the police started to clear the scene. Well, several people told me that they had no chance to get away in time.
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Stuttgart, Germany, September 30th 2010 ponder stibbons - 01/10/2010 03:32:58 PM 1199 Views
That is shocking. *NM* snoopcester - 01/10/2010 04:23:29 PM 466 Views
Yeah really sad that it had to come this far *NM* ironclad - 01/10/2010 04:43:07 PM 413 Views
That's horrible. Rebekah - 01/10/2010 04:57:39 PM 836 Views
There's an even better one ponder stibbons - 02/10/2010 01:13:29 AM 987 Views
the parents should be ashamed for bringing their kids there random thoughts - 01/10/2010 06:11:04 PM 960 Views
er... I thought you missed some vital points (or I forgot to mention them) ponder stibbons - 02/10/2010 12:53:20 AM 1031 Views
know I just noticed point in your article you over looked random thoughts - 02/10/2010 04:27:47 AM 959 Views
Yeah, I'm gonna have to kind of agree with you. (beat.) - 02/10/2010 07:34:12 AM 811 Views
the article was wrong on both points ponder stibbons - 02/10/2010 10:16:46 AM 848 Views
That's irrelevant. (beat.) - 02/10/2010 10:59:35 AM 800 Views
Re: That's irrelevant. ponder stibbons - 02/10/2010 11:43:43 AM 1437 Views
Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. (beat.) - 02/10/2010 01:11:01 PM 871 Views
Re: Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. ponder stibbons - 02/10/2010 02:40:46 PM 1513 Views
No, I, uh, I think we're still not talking about the same thing. (beat.) - 02/10/2010 04:04:36 PM 898 Views
I think I got that one about the police ponder stibbons - 02/10/2010 04:25:59 PM 1555 Views
I went to lots of demonstrations when I was a kid Camilla - 02/10/2010 10:23:04 AM 844 Views
. . . as a child? *NM* (beat.) - 02/10/2010 10:46:52 AM 393 Views
I think I was 12 on my first one. Camilla - 02/10/2010 10:49:33 AM 922 Views
You're gonna have to share this story. (beat.) - 02/10/2010 11:00:58 AM 824 Views
I was a political kid! Camilla - 02/10/2010 11:03:36 AM 818 Views
Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . . (beat.) - 02/10/2010 11:08:36 AM 812 Views
Re: Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . . Camilla - 02/10/2010 11:10:21 AM 888 Views
Yeah, I guess it really depends on how they ended up there. . . *NM* (beat.) - 02/10/2010 11:14:10 AM 374 Views
Or they didn't have good reason to expect voilence. Which would seem more likely here. *NM* snoopcester - 02/10/2010 01:14:41 AM 398 Views
It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence. random thoughts - 02/10/2010 04:38:52 AM 880 Views
Re: It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence. ponder stibbons - 02/10/2010 10:26:40 AM 1492 Views
I read this about it snoopcester - 02/10/2010 01:18:16 AM 837 Views
it is really hard to tell the difference ponder stibbons - 02/10/2010 01:30:24 AM 1013 Views
Even then it is? snoopcester - 02/10/2010 01:39:52 AM 896 Views
That really is quite shocking. *NM* Camilla - 02/10/2010 10:25:22 AM 422 Views
"Some reports indicate that stones were thrown at police from the crowd of protesters. " Joel - 03/10/2010 03:38:19 PM 871 Views
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