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No, I, uh, I think we're still not talking about the same thing. (beat.) Send a noteboard - 02/10/2010 04:04:36 PM
Violence, threat of: irrelevant. Of course, if they did suspect violence would occur, it'd be even worse - but that's beside the point, and a completely different matter.

Obviously I don't want parents to keep their children away from lovely parks. I just also don't want parents to bring their children to political demonstrations. At all. (Unless it's some kind of exception that I haven't thought of yet where it would be appropriate; I'm sure that happens, too.) I don't know why the children were there, but the way I read this made it seem like there were a lot of them. And that they were part of the demonstration. Which. Is not cool. I don't like that combination. It's kind of obnoxious. 'Cause I feel like the kids are being used.

And I guess I didn't make it clear that whatever I feel about the parents' decision to bring their children, I'm not trying to justify any of the actions of the police at all.
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Stuttgart, Germany, September 30th 2010 - 01/10/2010 03:32:58 PM 1216 Views
That is shocking. *NM* - 01/10/2010 04:23:29 PM 473 Views
Yeah really sad that it had to come this far *NM* - 01/10/2010 04:43:07 PM 421 Views
That's horrible. - 01/10/2010 04:57:39 PM 853 Views
There's an even better one - 02/10/2010 01:13:29 AM 1004 Views
the parents should be ashamed for bringing their kids there - 01/10/2010 06:11:04 PM 976 Views
er... I thought you missed some vital points (or I forgot to mention them) - 02/10/2010 12:53:20 AM 1048 Views
know I just noticed point in your article you over looked - 02/10/2010 04:27:47 AM 975 Views
Yeah, I'm gonna have to kind of agree with you. - 02/10/2010 07:34:12 AM 829 Views
the article was wrong on both points - 02/10/2010 10:16:46 AM 865 Views
That's irrelevant. - 02/10/2010 10:59:35 AM 817 Views
Re: That's irrelevant. - 02/10/2010 11:43:43 AM 1452 Views
Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. - 02/10/2010 01:11:01 PM 887 Views
Re: Youths can organise themselves; we're talking about children. - 02/10/2010 02:40:46 PM 1529 Views
No, I, uh, I think we're still not talking about the same thing. - 02/10/2010 04:04:36 PM 916 Views
I think I got that one about the police - 02/10/2010 04:25:59 PM 1571 Views
I went to lots of demonstrations when I was a kid - 02/10/2010 10:23:04 AM 865 Views
. . . as a child? *NM* - 02/10/2010 10:46:52 AM 400 Views
I think I was 12 on my first one. - 02/10/2010 10:49:33 AM 938 Views
You're gonna have to share this story. - 02/10/2010 11:00:58 AM 840 Views
I was a political kid! - 02/10/2010 11:03:36 AM 835 Views
Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . . - 02/10/2010 11:08:36 AM 829 Views
Re: Well, your freaky childhood behaviour aside. . . - 02/10/2010 11:10:21 AM 906 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 406 Views
It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence. - 02/10/2010 04:38:52 AM 897 Views
Re: It would not take a genius to know there would probably be violence. - 02/10/2010 10:26:40 AM 1510 Views
I read this about it - 02/10/2010 01:18:16 AM 856 Views
it is really hard to tell the difference - 02/10/2010 01:30:24 AM 1031 Views
Even then it is? - 02/10/2010 01:39:52 AM 911 Views
That really is quite shocking. *NM* - 02/10/2010 10:25:22 AM 429 Views

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