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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 - 01/10/2010 03:32:58 PM 1134 Views
That is shocking. *NM* - 01/10/2010 04:23:29 PM 437 Views
Yeah really sad that it had to come this far *NM* - 01/10/2010 04:43:07 PM 387 Views
That's horrible. - 01/10/2010 04:57:39 PM 785 Views
There's an even better one - 02/10/2010 01:13:29 AM 928 Views
the parents should be ashamed for bringing their kids there - 01/10/2010 06:11:04 PM 897 Views
er... I thought you missed some vital points (or I forgot to mention them) - 02/10/2010 12:53:20 AM 970 Views
know I just noticed point in your article you over looked - 02/10/2010 04:27:47 AM 904 Views
Yeah, I'm gonna have to kind of agree with you. - 02/10/2010 07:34:12 AM 751 Views
the article was wrong on both points - 02/10/2010 10:16:46 AM 786 Views
That's irrelevant. - 02/10/2010 10:59:35 AM 738 Views
Re: That's irrelevant. - 02/10/2010 11:43:43 AM 1365 Views
Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. - 02/10/2010 01:11:01 PM 810 Views
Re: Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. - 02/10/2010 02:40:46 PM 1457 Views
No, I, uh, I think we're still not talking about the same thing. - 02/10/2010 04:04:36 PM 841 Views
I think I got that one about the police - 02/10/2010 04:25:59 PM 1499 Views
I went to lots of demonstrations when I was a kid - 02/10/2010 10:23:04 AM 788 Views
. . . as a child? *NM* - 02/10/2010 10:46:52 AM 366 Views
I think I was 12 on my first one. - 02/10/2010 10:49:33 AM 859 Views
You're gonna have to share this story. - 02/10/2010 11:00:58 AM 758 Views
I was a political kid! - 02/10/2010 11:03:36 AM 756 Views
Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . . - 02/10/2010 11:08:36 AM 759 Views
Re: Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . . - 02/10/2010 11:10:21 AM 816 Views
Or they didn't have good reason to expect voilence. Which would seem more likely here. *NM* - 02/10/2010 01:14:41 AM 372 Views
It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence. - 02/10/2010 04:38:52 AM 820 Views
Re: It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence. - 02/10/2010 10:26:40 AM 1427 Views
I read this about it - 02/10/2010 01:18:16 AM 775 Views
it is really hard to tell the difference - 02/10/2010 01:30:24 AM 951 Views
Even then it is? - 02/10/2010 01:39:52 AM 826 Views
That really is quite shocking. *NM* - 02/10/2010 10:25:22 AM 399 Views

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