Iraqis get protest warning

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/05/1060064188960.html

The US-led coalition occupying Iraq issued a stark warning that violent demonstrations in the war-ravaged country will be met with force.

The Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) posted dozens of posters near the gates to its Baghdad headquarters, stating that protests must be peaceful.

The area has been the scene of dozens of demonstrations by Iraq's bloated community of unemployed and other groups taking advantage of the freedom of speech that came with the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in April.

"Liberty equals responsibility," the posters read. "After the liberation, you have the right to demonstrate without fear, but with this right you have the responsibility to protest peacefully.

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[karlschneider]

1. "peaceful". Meaning "silent". Bah.

:grr:

[expatriot]

6. peaceful means no verbal negativity towards the coalition!

Being critical of the Occupation is violent protest since you may be inciting others to violence. Therefore any criticism of the Occupation will be met with pre-emptive force.

[Jacobin]

2. but but but but, now they are "free"

and are not longer "repressed" (uhm, well not repressed by Saddam)

And Saddam is no longer stealing their oil (oops, I guess we are now).


And they are soooo much better off with the U.S. "in charge"!!

/sarcasm

[PurityOfEssence]

14. free of work, free of electricity, free of hope, free of safety,

unbounded and untrammeled by the many shackles of oppressive modernity.

Of course, this is just another symbol of their shame and repression. In a way, we're doing their own artwork for them.

[htuttle]

3. Everything is going according to plan

The question is, "Who's plan?"

Oppressive directives like this are a gift to the Iraqi resistance.

[Atlant]

16. Going according to Osama's plan, I'd say. (NT)

[dArKeR]

4. Or we're not going to feed you!

Sharon mentality!

http://darker0darker.tripod.com/

[madrchsod]

5. be peaceful

or we will open up with our truck mounted machine guns.....

[LeftistGorilla]

7. Aint freedom....

A Bitch???
:grr:

[IndianaGreen]

8. This is so Orwellian! Bush is giving "freedom" a bad rap.

The only freedom that capitalism gives to workers is the freedom to be exploited.

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. Orwellian, perhaps, but perhaps it's just a repeat of something else

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=121




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[Nambe]

10. Does the 'coalition' ever consider the fact that they are outnumbered.

Slaughtering thousands of civilians now is out of even dimson's hands. Do they know how to spell diplomacy?

[shanti]

11. well

we now know how chimpy will treat the hordes of unemployed HERE in the good old us of a...

[Voltaire99]

12. What happened? Isn't freedom "untidy" any more?

"Freedom's untidy," Rumsfeld said. "And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things."

Donald Rumsfeld, quoted in USA Today, April 14, 2003, explaining why the U.S. failure to halt looting and violent crime after demolishing the civil infrastructure of Iraq wasn't really a problem.

[jamesinca]

13. Well I guess they are addressing the untidiness of it

They are taking away some of the freedom. As Janis Joplin once said "Freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose"

[joanski01]

15. Thanks. Rumsfeld's quote

is exactly what I was thinking of when I read the above article.