Reply #94: fair enough. [View All]

[Shaktimaan]

I was going by the judge's quoted conclusion, not the title. The meat of the article is a little contradictory though. We don't know if there was any violence from SOME of the protestors, as the judge's statement seems to imply, or if the line "the soldiers used violence, not the demonstrators" applies to all of the demonstrators present or just refers to the ones on trial.

Regardless, we still aren't talking about violence that rises above the level that we often see in any western country. Yes, unwarranted violence from cops/troops against protesters is bad. But everyday sort of harrassment does happen everywhere and is not the kind of stuff that porcupine was talking about. It is fine to critique this stuff. And we should. But it is not an example of Israel systematically quashing all forms of peaceful dissent leaving no one any resistance options other than terrorism, which is what Porcupine seemed to be saying.

Porc is short for porcupine.