PIC: In Ukraine, protestors mace police

[yurbud]

I'm not advocating this for here, but it's funny how much more shocking it is to see the role reversal.

[rfranklin]

1. If we did that in the USA, they would shoot and kill the protestors...

and it would be considered justifiable.

[tkmorris]

5. Curious, would you agree that it would be justifiable?

[pennylane100]

10. Kiling the protestors or spraying the cops?

[tkmorris]

16. Killing the protestors if they maced the police.

That was what the poster I was responding believed would be considered justified.

[rfranklin]

17. It was an ironic comment not an endorsement...

I find the police in this country lacking in restraint. The OWS crackdowns showed that and there was veryh little resistance.

[tkmorris]

22. I gotcha

Very often true meaning is lost or difficult to understand when reading posts on the internet. It wasn't clear to me whether you were endorsing such a view or lamenting it. Glad we're all cleared up.

[Zalatix]

14. Which is why I cheer when police budgets are cut.

If you can't put those violent psycho-cops down, then de-fund them out of existence.

[malaise]

18. And you think the privately owned police will be

more democratic?

[Sirveri]

23. Most rent a cops I've seen have more interest in their phone than in security.

They'd most likely turn tail and run. Or join in, they only get paid minimum wage.

Unless we're talking blackwater mercs who are used to serving in war zones, then they'd probably start shooting at any provocation. My guess is that wouldn't work out to well for whoever hires them though.

[Strelnikov_]

19. Only way to be sure

they are no longer a threat to the cops masters, the 0.1% oligarchy.

[Little Star]

2. Good for the goose, good for the gander imho......

Macing protesters is not right in any country!

[sabrina 1]

3. Well, in most countries the people expect the police to work FOR them.

After all it is the people who pay their salaries. And in most other countries, people are not raised to fear the police so when they forget who they work for, the people often remind them.

But here as someone else said, things have gone so far in the wrong direction, that if that were to happen, there would be a lot of dead protesters and a lot of, even Democrats, claiming they deserved it 'for not being sufficiently submissive'. Old European countries do not like words like 'submissive'. They've had enough experience with what happens when the police become too powerful.

[villager]

6. Sadly, there would be a lot of "tsk-tskers," even here, if citizens tried to work on an even playing

...field with the armed public goon squads deployed by the 1%ers...

[backscatter712]

4. I approve! n/t

[Brother Buzz]

7. I was half expecting medieval weapons

What was I thinking?

[BOG PERSON]

8. why are those cops wearing camo?

[Enrique]

9. im hearing Yakov Smirnov in your thread title

hes from Ukraine, by the way.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. my first thought too...

Funny how his name keeps popping up these days!

[RebelOne]

11. Good to see the tables are turned,

now if the protesters would only do that in the USA. But of course not, they would all end up in jail.

[Igel]

12. Whose to say these didn't?

The guy in charge of the Internal Affairs Ministry--where the militia have their organizational home--was appointed by Yanukovich and is apparently his friend.

[Zalatix]

13. YES!!!! Hahahahah, way to go!

[maejay91]

20. I might not be that smart but..

I sincerely want to know what exactly they were protesting and why they needed to mace the police, I'm not trying to argue that it wasn't appropriate that they do so I am just trying to understand the whole story. The problem is that when I Google it or try to look it up nothing comes up but a bunch of anarchist sites and bloggers reposting the picture. I tried reading the threads and comments on some of the blogs but none of them had the back story, just opinions based of the picture. So does anyone know the whole story here? To be totally honest I may just be failing at research haha

[MagickMuffin]

21. Here's an article from the Houston Chronicle......Ukraine: Clashes in capital over use of Russian

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Opposition activists clashed with riot police in the center of the Ukrainian capital Wednesday and the parliament speaker resigned after the legislature passed a bill that would upgrade the status of the Russian language.

The bill, which must be signed by the president to become law, would leave Ukrainian as the only state language but allow the use of Russian in Russian-speaking regions in courts, education and other government institutions.

Members of Ukraine's pro-Western opposition say such as law would effectively smother the Ukrainian language by removing any incentive for millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians to learn and speak it. They also say it would bring Ukraine back into the Russian orbit and torpedo its efforts to forge closer ties with the European Union.

Lawmakers loyal to President Viktor Yanukovych, who draws his support from the Russian-speaking east and south, rushed the bill through Parliament on Tuesday night, without giving the opposition much chance to oppose it in a debate.

Snip: More at the link

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Ukraine-Clashes-in-capital-over-use-of-Russian-3683644.php#photo-3155026

[maejay91]

24. Thank you

so much!