This makes me sad. - by SirFreddieM
Fragony on 24/10/2006 at 13:47
Lol that is one hell of a coincidence, even a russian tank. It's just a bit too much for any country I guess, there has been a huge political scandal and the pm doesn't want to leave, which he really should, and a lot of Hungarians hate the fact that the socialists are leading the memorials as some have a communist background.
About Copenhagen, never saw the actual riots, saw a lot of police but that's it. Aweseome city, but you guys really have to work on making booze affordable. Or just about anything :p
Convict on 24/10/2006 at 13:50
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20635592-2703,00.html) The Australian
Quote Posted by The Australian
The ceremonies are uncomfortable for Mr Gyurcsány, once a communist youth leader and now one of the richest men in Hungary, also because of his own personal ties to the events of 1956.
His wife, Klara Dobrev, is the granddaughter of Antal Apró, who helped to organise the crackdown in which hundreds of freedom fighters were imprisoned and more than 200 executed.
Charming.
Renegen on 24/10/2006 at 15:13
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
Were you making a point here, because if you were, I'm having trouble working out what it was.
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Using Soviet-style crowd dispersion tactics
The impression that I got that somehow you used the term soviet-style tactics in a negative way, that somehow the west now has a more humane way of dealing with riots.
Rogue Keeper on 24/10/2006 at 15:16
lol civilized west
SD on 24/10/2006 at 15:37
Quote Posted by Renegen
The impression that I got that somehow you used the term soviet-style tactics in a negative way
Damn right I was; you
are familiar with the tactics of the Soviet Union surely?
Quote:
that somehow the west now has a more humane way of dealing with riots
Well, I don't think we go from 0-rubberbullets&teargas with quite the same celerity. It would be fair to place these former Eastern Bloc countries in the category of "emerging democracies" who are prone to teething problems of this nature.
TTK12G3 on 24/10/2006 at 16:29
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
Well, I don't think we go from 0-rubberbullets&teargas with quite the same celerity.
Yeah, clubbing usually comes first.
SD on 24/10/2006 at 16:42
Actually, violence of any kind is rarely used. People are very rarely killed or maimed in good old-fashioned British riots :D
ignatios on 24/10/2006 at 17:46
Football, on the other hand, is a different story.
TheGreatGodPan on 24/10/2006 at 18:35
Quote Posted by Renegen
Lol GodPan
That right there is the proper response for a rumination on the use of cotton candy and puffs of air as riot control. The rest of it, eh, not so much.
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http://history.eserver.org/ghandi-nobody-knows.txt) LOL GHANDI
