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Content Warning: Graphic Video Shows Women Gunned Down in Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A video obtained by The Associated Press on Friday shows how women were gunned down by soldiers backing Ivory Coast’s strongman in an incident that has exposed the extent of army abuse and prompted a shockwave of criticism.

The grainy footage was shot by a cameraman working for an opposition television station whose producer gave the AP permission to disseminate the footage. It captures the minutes before the attack Thursday in the troubled Abobo neighborhood where thousands of women took part in an all-women march demanding the departure of Laurent Gbagbo. At least six women were killed.

In the video, which was also posted on YouTube, a set of successive booms is heard as women wave branches in the air in protest. The crowd of hundreds scatters as screaming is heard. Then the cameraman pans over the collapsed bodies of at least four women. The head of one of them has been torn off and people rush to cover it was a piece of cloth. Another who is still alive tries to lift herself up and collapses in her own blood.

EDITOR’S NOTE: While this edited version of the video is not quite as graphic as the AP story describes, it is highly disturbing.  A strong content warning applies.

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  • zman173rd
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:12am

    Everyone seems to be at the same point as far as the inevitability of it happening here. Funny, who would have thought it could happen 25 years ago. It’s been quetly building and is now finally coming to a head. But if SOMEhow we knock it back this time (through peacefull means of course), there’s so much in place now within the indoctrination of our children to the singleminded politicians with one goal in mind. It WILL happen here, just a matter of time. Once they get the only means we have of protest (our right to keep and bear arms) it will be all over for the United States of America.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:27am

      They are setting the stage for that right now Zman. At the UN level and at our street level like in Illinois where they want to publish guns owners names and addresses. Well if I had NO gun I would be upset as the crims now know whos home will be armed and whos will not. Supposing your a good ******* who does not believe in guns then guess your the one who would be more apt to take to the streets over the issue and demand that all guns be confiscated for the safety of all concerned. They are creating the very issue right before our eyes where no issue existed before. Make no mistake, guns is the key to our liberty and this is why we have been able to maintain it for as long as we have. They the US Gov has always been in check over our right to bear arms but instead of attacking it to much directly they’ve whittled away at what makes us want to bear arms in the first place. Lulling us into complacency and dependence. We have cops who can handle almost any given situation and a law for everything…no need for us to have guns. Now they are after the Cops guns too because if they want full control, they would have to worry about all those patriots that fill up the police ranks.

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  • kspatriot
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:10am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CCTDiuq7AM Here’s another link.

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  • kspatriot
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:07am

    Another video link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CCTDiuq7AM

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    • Jack007
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:18am

      Damn them folks sure do know how to get the unemployment numbers down

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:15am

      Jack007 is really Jack Sprat reincarnated. Jack007=King Charles I

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  • Sister_Mary
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:05am

    You have to ask yourself … A country that is surrounded by 75% beatuiful water but they live like this … WHY ???? Where are all the condos??? restarunts ??

    be honest …..

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    • Jack007
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:08am

      Lazy DNA

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:19am

      You guys discredit everyone here at the Blaze.
      The Ivory Coast is NOT surrounded by 75% water. You write nonsense. The shots you see are of a huge square with apartment buildings on the periphery. Just a few neighborhoods away there are huge neighborhoods which look very much like an American suburb, just with undulated roofing is all. The Ivory Coast is still very poor on the wide scale, and the lower classes vastly outnumber the rich, but the middle class there is larger than much of West Africa, and it’s growing.
      Jack, you racist pig, get your ludicrous comments off this site.
      As Ivorians are granted the freedoms to produce these things, they will expand miraculously, as did the US.

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  • Star Spangled
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:02am

    My God ! I couldn’t watch the whole thing .

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  • Mainer forever
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:00am

    That was sick and sad.

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  • 223lee
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:37am

    you better get ready cause here it comes

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    • starman70
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:37am

      When the “One World Order” becomes reality, this will be the order fo the day for anyone who opposes its dictatorial rule. 5, 10, 15, 20 years in the future? You decide for yourself! It is, however, coming, and Soon!

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  • YouGottaProblemWithThat
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:36am

    This is unbelievable footage and indicative of the world’s sad state. Interesting note, in a similar video where men were present, a man in the crowd mentions that since they are unarmed the government has the upper hand. If we allow ourselves to be disarmed by our government, you can see the results. Unarmed peacefully demonstrating women carrying palm branches brutally killed in the streets. Repressive governments lack any conscience.
    http://www.youtube.com/verify_controversy?next_url=http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D4g_4TZEw_l4

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:21am

      Amen! Just a few small weapons in that neighborhood OUTSIDE the hands of the dictator’s thugs would make it VERY hard for him to impose the fear he is attempting to impose here.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:23am

      Palm branches verses big guns….

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  • 223lee
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:35am

    so much for democracy. i;ll stick to my republic thank you

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  • SafeguardOurLiberty
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:34am

    Wow, I am speechless.

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  • dealer@678
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:34am

    Saw the video. Satanic is all i can say

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  • martnee777
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:34am

    Coming to a city near you….2011

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  • HardcoreAlexJones
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:33am

    Protect the 2nd Amendment

    It protects the 1st.

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  • HardcoreAlexJones
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:32am

    Absolutely horrific.

    Protect the 2nd Amendment.

    It protects the 1st.

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  • randy
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:26am

    Gee, I wonder how long it will be before King Obamas civilian army will be doing the same thing to his subjects?

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    • OhSuzieQ
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:01am

      What’s the king obmama saying about this, huh? Hmmm, I bet those men with guns feel good about following orders. Pigs!

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:07am

      As usual, Obama will be about 5 days late commenting on this. His policy will change from day to day. And in the end, he will claim he was saying what the rest of the “World Community” was saying all along, as if he was leading it in the first place.
      That‘s how he’s handled Egypt, Libya, Greece, and even the Gulf of Mexico. No surprises there…

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:55pm

      Drbage,
      Thanks for the awesome and in-depth context. I was there for a couple of years myself, and got to witness the seeds of this conflict. Coupled with the studies I have done, I add my stamp, humbly, of certification. You know EXACTLY what you’re talking about!
      Houphouet-Boigny had is own troubles as a dictator, but was generally benevolent and was perceived as such by the people, with few exceptions. His policy of mixing education was matched in the military, where he purposely mixed up leadership and rank-and-file so that units with affiliated ethnicities would be less likely to act based on ethnic interests, and more likely to act in national interests.
      What‘s interesting about the Ivory Coast is that it’s when the next dictator (Henri Konan Bédié) tried to solve his first and only real electoral challenge (not long after the death of H-B and the IMF policy to stop loaning to dictators with a single-party system) by torquing up NATIONALIST rhetoric (Ivoirité), that the nationalizing work H-B had done was UNDONE, and things collapsed into ethnic-affiliation arguments (like IS Alassane Ouattara Ivorian enough or not–remember the Constitution of the IC was ALTERED to specifically exclude HIM, by stating ONLY people who could prove BOTH parents were Ivorian coulud run for president).

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  • liriadavila
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:23am

    Terrible tragedy. Thanks God we still have freedom!

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    • randy
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:27am

      For how much longer?

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:06am

      Thank God we have had freedom at all. Its abnormal in this world! A total fluk, needle in the haystack….yes indeed that is our republic…thank you God.

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    • StrangernFiction
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:14am

      That’s like someone with half a house left, standing in the eye of a hurricane saying, “Thanks God I still have half my house.”

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:34am

      Stranger,
      Have you ever been outside this country for an extended period to have the standing to opine on how much freedom we should be thankful for?

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    • StrangernFiction
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:15pm

      So let me get this straight, you are lecturing me on my insufficient thankfulness for the freedom I enjoy living in the U.S. while at the same time telling me that only those who have lived outside the country (and I’m sure not just any foreign experience would suffice) for an extended period of time should have “standing” to opine on this subject?

      How many Democrats have you voted for in your lifetime HAPPY? I haven’t voted for a single one. Those are my credentials to “opine” on this matter jacka$$.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:43pm

      Fine. I’ll retract. Experience outside the US isn’t the sine qua non of critical “standing”.
      I just think you’re a faithless pessimist.
      And you are ignorantly unaware of how much freedom we have to celebrate.
      the US ISN’T like a half a house in a hurricane. It’s more like the only house built on stone (the Constitution) during a flood on the beach.
      Now stop name-calling and stay on substance.

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    • StrangernFiction
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:10pm

      Yes, you’ll retract only to lecture some more.

      “the US ISN’T like a half a house in a hurricane.”

      How long have the statists been chipping away at our freedoms?

      “ignorantly unaware”

      I suppose that is better than being knowingly unaware.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:37pm

      I found your misplaced rebuttal, and will repeat it here too for your convenience.
      Of COURSE we have to protect our freedoms. Of COURSE we have to prevent them from eroding.
      I didn’t suggest otherwise.
      But you DO have to admit that America is still the Reaganite “last best hope for humanity”.
      Unless you’ve seen a better model out there. Maybe you should move to Sweden?
      Signed, a knowingly aware, and STILL stubborn optimist.

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    • ArchAnG3L
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:36pm

      no freedom in CA. Gestapo state.

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:12am

    Just the thought of that video makes me sick.

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  • Getten
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:08am

    Here it is – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nU9WWBXyQ

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  • ThoreauHD
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:00am

    OK, the video is on youtube. And it’s actually a step down from what the French did with Sniper rifles on top of their Embassy in the same place. They weren’t even protesting, but sitting in the grass outside of the embassy. Head shot. Head shot. Head shot. They even blew a water bottle out of one guys hand.

    This is bad, but they were protesting in front of opposing military forces. If you know a little history of the region you know that it’s not a good idea. Terrible tragedy though.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:04am

      You’re ABSOLUTELY right Thoreau. Just a few short years ago the French DID snipe at a peaceful protest just a few neighborhoods closer to the Lagoon there in Abidjan. There was live fire from helicopters at the same event. That was partly in retaliation for Gbagbo attacking the French, though. This time it’s Gbagbo firing on political opponents. The French are laughing at this, because they know it‘s another nail in his own political coffin and they didn’t even have to do the dirty work this time.

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  • staggerlee32
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:55am

    @ThoreauHD
    ROTFLMAO

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    • bikerr
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:22am

      @staggerlee32-non-caffeine try it. Good posts

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:41am

      @Staggerlee-32

      Or try some strong Turkish coffee, that will leave you sitting there with a smile on your face, and not thinking about anything else.

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  • Shylow1959
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:53am

    Wow, just watched the video on you tube. Where is the U.N. when you need them. Do they need more money? Well, as i’ve been saying folks, coming to a town near you soon!!!!!!!

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    • Devil Dog 7175
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:02am

      The UN is a worthless sack of crap! Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN!

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:12am

      Two quotes from the Senior President Bush. The first quote from 1991 says:
      “My vision of a New World Order foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.”
      And a second quote from 1992:
      “It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.”

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:13am

      Sacred? Pledging allegiance to the U.N. is to pledge allegiance to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) because the OIC is a group of 57 Muslim majority nations that holds the largest voting bloc in the U.N. In 1990, the OIC adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, which overtly dictates that Islam is the only legitimate religion. The Cairo Declaration is bloated with hypocritical vanity and double standards. Pierce with loopholes, it is a manifesto declaring that Islamic Shari’ah Law is the only true source of human rights. Article Two of the declaration shows the ambiguity of the OIC’s Orwellian use of words and its plan for non-Muslims.

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:13am

      “(a) Life is a God-given gift and the right to life is guaranteed to every human being. It is the duty of individuals, societies and states to protect this right from any violation, and it is prohibited to take away life except for a Shari’ah prescribed reason.
      (b) It is forbidden to resort to such means as may result in the genocidal annihilation of mankind.
      (c) The preservation of human life throughout the term of time willed by God is a duty prescribed by Shari’ah
      (d) Safety from bodily harm is a guaranteed right. It is the duty of the state to safeguard it, and it is prohibited to breach it without a Sharia-prescribed reason.”

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:14am

      The OIC and its allied organizations have aggressively engaged in efforts to expand Islamic law in the West. The OIC declaration confirms that the U.N. resolution would adhere to Islamic Shari’ah law, which legalizes discrimination against women and non-Muslims, criminalizes free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience. Is this why the Pledge of Allegiance is no longer said in American public schools?

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    • staggerlee32
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:16am

      Warren Christopher, the Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, told CNN in 1993:
      “We must get the New World Order on track and bring the U.N. into its correct role in regards to the United States.”

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:32am

      Devil Dog… so true, they stood by for four days while a group raped babies as young as 1 1/2 years old. I believe it was in Sudan. Lybia is on their human rights council for crying out loud

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:00am

      Worse than Libya, ZIMBABWE is on their human rights council!

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:47am

      Stagger,

      I second you post on the Cairo Declaration (at least the modified Islamic form which is different from the original 1943 version) From wikipedia: (I know…not always a good source):

      The UNHDR has been criticised by different people. Mainly Islamic countries have pointed out that its understanding is mainly that of Christians or Jews. Muslims could not implement certain parts of the declaration, without trespassing islamic law.[1] On 30 June 2000, Muslim nations that are members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference[2] officially resolved to support the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam,[3] an alternative document that says people have “freedom and right to a dignified life in accordance with the Islamic Shari’ah”.[4]

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    • WHITE LOTUS2x
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:49pm

      walkwithme: Pull your head out of the sand and open your eyes. Two years ago I would have said the same thing. Their is evil a brewing around the world and in our own country too. I do not think the military will turn on their people or the police but their are enogh thugs to do the job. Peacefully of course. There are those calling for violance and blood arnt there. Have you not heard about the calling of violance and blood. If not , you dont know enogh to be commenting, if so, how can you say it will never happen here.

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  • Confederate
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:49am

    How soon will it happen here? http://www.rebelpowflag.com

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    • butler180
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:26am

      Faster then you think

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:39am

      I am suprised it has not happened yet.

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    • Uncle Crusty
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:55am

      go to Atlanta and read the inscriptions on the granit stones erected there in 1979 by an unknown man named R.C. Christian. The first, or top one will send a tingle up your spine.

      Quite the new world order stuff – and they are compelled to tell us what they are going to do in their by-laws. Pray hard people and buckle up!

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:57am

      I‘m quite sure it won’t. HUGE differences in cause and effect, and nature of government.
      But one element to look REALLY closely at: the Ivory Coast used to be like the US of West Africa in terms of peace, stability, and prosperity (like 1960-1990-ish). During that time they encouraged MASSIVE immigration without regard to background checks or anything. About 25% of the current population is immigrant there. The US has a huge backlash against illegal immigration when there is around HALF of that here…Points to ponder…

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    • fatjack
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:57am

      @ Uncle Crusty

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

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    • raybojabo
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:41am

      Uncle Crusty:
      “Quite the new world order stuff – and they are compelled to tell us what they are going to do in their by-laws”

      Kinda reminds me of the old vampire lore that they cannot enter your residence without being invited.by the master of the house. Only these A-holes don’t care about invitations, but they do require a proper announcement of their intensions. Still very occult in its doctrine.

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    • Ashley
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:00pm

      The inscriptions in the granite in Georgia sounds like Fabian Socialists. Interesting on the wiki site, it lists “New World Order” as a “conspiracy theory”, which we all know it is not.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:09pm

      @UNCLE CRUSTY:
      Thanks for the post…here’s a link:

      http://prophecies.us/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1191658334/0

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  • Born2Run
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:49am

    What video?

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  • ThoreauHD
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:48am

    You must have edited the heck outta that video, because it isn’t there.

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    • TheBees
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:18am

      @Thoreauhd That’s what I was thinking!

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    • pschlentz
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:58am

      Here’s the YouTube link:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JI7zkhap7E

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:25am

      Thanks Blaze for the warning , I didn’t click on the video but this shows you why Africa is still where it is today .
      Bunch of jungle savages .
      My prayers to the innocent victims .

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:32am

      Jungle savages?? Really??? Did the protest itself look THAT much different from Wisconsin to you???
      Gbagbo is a HIGHLY educated man, but because he has no respect for human life, and is clinging to power, HE’s the REAL savage here. The Ivorian people would be blossoming if they only had their freedom. Please don’t spout ignorant, almost-racist idiocy about Africa like that here.

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:45am

      @ HAPPYSTRETCHEDTHIN
      Don’t play the race card in here I was not talking about the innocent African people & don’t be like the lib loons .
      Tons of money goes to Africa each year & the money goes missing without any improvement to the people of Africa .
      Ever heard of Rwanda ?
      Wake up & face reality it’s 2011 & yes the truth hearts .

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:39pm

      Robert,
      I said “almost racist” for a reason. Steer clear of terms like “jungle savages” unless you want that card played. Foreign aid DOES get lost in corrupt hands. And I’m glad you agree that the people are innocent and have the potential, if just allowed the freedom, to succeed just the same as America could, can, and did. The truth doesn’t hurt me. The truth to be learned here is that tyrants do evil things. As long as you agree Gbagbo is the savage because of his ACTIONS, we have little argument. I just object to “jungle savage” as a cliché describing Africa in general. That’s NOT the truth about Africa. Take it from a PhD in the area (me!)

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:13pm

      I guess you missed the part that I said “My prayers to the innocent victims” so race is out of question .
      The term of jungle savages was addressed to the dictators & their thugs .We both know very well how cruel they can get .
      The problem in Africa & other nations too is when they get rid of a dictator they bring in another fresh dictator , the only successful change from dictatorship into democracy happened in East Europe .
      Africa needs democracy & the tribes needs to stop fighting & turn their focus to education & women’s rights .

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:31pm

      Please allow me to retract my criticism. You are clearly indexing ideas and behaviors, not races. The term “jungle savages” is loaded, but is NOT misapplied here. Sorry if I raised your ire.

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:45pm

      @ HAPPYSTRETCHEDTHIN
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:31pm
      Please allow me to retract my criticism
      __________________________________
      Please don’t , cause a healthy democracy needs criticism & dialogue & this is what America is about .
      I love to see Africa & the rest of the world free of dictators & their thugs .

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    • uzi4u2
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:10pm

      doesn’t matt, I’ve seen it before. Africa is a unique problem. They get a leader that tells them things will be beter and as soon as he is in power, he starts robbing the treasury and killing opposition. It’s tribal. “We killed all those poeple cause they are not the same tribe as us and we have been at war with them for a thousand years” Look at the killing Darfur, same thing, they just lie and say its civil war. Look at the blood diamond trouble. Same thing “I want power…”
      We can’t apply western style democracy on those countries so in a since the poster was right about not being far along in evolution. It’s the same way in the middle east. You CAN’T have a western style leader, it’s too tribal (read backwards) to work. A very strong , ruthless person has to run the show or nothing will get done. Saddam was an ass but at least the country ran. Same in Africa, democracy western style isn’t going to work till they at least come into the 20TH century.

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  • newspapertaxis
    Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:45am

    The world Is on Fire.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:39am

      I have seen this video posted earlier in the night on the Sydne Morning Herald (smh.com.au) yet I am not able to find it right now as well; I can say what was shown is horrendous, people shot down in front of the camera…use the imagination if you wish to.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:44am

      So much unnecessary bloodshed to depose a dictator. This expert in Ivorian society wishes Gbagbo would let go, and prays the ADO (Alessane Ouattara) these women are chanting in favor of, will prove to be a leader of healing for the country. If anyone would like to know more about the nature and roots of this conflict, don’t hesitate to ask. My PhD covers this area of the world.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:54am

      Sick!
      No warning shots!
      No tear gas!
      No conscience!
      Just live tank mortars into the crowd (sorry, not a firearms expert, but those booms were NOT small arms)
      And then they drive off.
      The UN IS acting in the Ivory Coast. They have made a perimeter around the new Pres‘s residence and are preventing the old dictator’s forces from moving in. The UN is also starving Gbagbo of funds and freezing foreign accounts.
      This is what they call action.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:03am

      There are no words… I can only cry.
      “How long, O LORD?”

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:07am

      With Obama and all his traitor buddies in government, unions and various other places churning up the Communists, Anarchists, Muslims and other groups, it won’t be long til we see this sort of bloodshed here in the US, and alot of innocent sheep that have no idea of the nefarious purposes they are being used for, will fall in the street. The gasoline is already spilled and the match is about to be struck.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:12am

      Don’t go off the deep end on us there, TX. The Ivory Coast is still working out the aftermath of a 30+ year dictator and single party rule. They’re holding it together remarkably well considering the track record of the rest of Africa as longtime dictators fall/die off. We’ve got a country divided by political difference, and the poles are getting stronger, but the checks and balances which keep the military’s power out of the hands of a true dictator like this are still working here, and I have faith that we’ll continue to be a responsible country in that regard. This is a transition of power gone wrong in the Ivory Coast, NOT a revolution like in Egypt or Libya, keep in mind.
      there’s so much still RIGHT about America, don’t give up on us yet. Prepare for the worst, of course, but act in faith, not in fear.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:23am

      HappyStretchedThin, his point was more about the world in general, not just about the Ivory Coast. I can see his point; the unrest is most definitely spreading, and Obama has done his part to encourage some of it.

      TXPilot, welcome back. I haven’t seen you here for a while.

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    • JROCCOD
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:35am

      It most certainly is

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    • montanamadman
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:58am

      im really not surprised. this is a every day accurance around the world.
      the earth is being consumed by evil.

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    • AriBenTZion
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:36am

      Where are Jesse Jackson, Louise Farrakhan and Al Sharpton? Why aren’t they infuriated that their African brothers are being annihilated?
      Thank G-d for America.

      Ari Ben TZion  
    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:01pm

      Who is in the RIGHT…The ones in power or the ones protesting?… I can not make a judgment call. All I can do is ask ” WHY?” May GOD be with their loved ones.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:05pm

      What king of misbegotten savages shoot down unarmed women. The protest was innocuous. How proud those vicious swine must be of themselves.

      As for the UN, it is a total waste of the western world’s hard-earned taxes. Incompetent, incapable, and corrupt.

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:22pm

      Oops. What *kind* of…….

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:32pm

      Nzkiwi,
      Your typo somehow got it right the first time. Race is irrelevant. Tyranny turns all colors of king, dictator, etc. into an immoral savage.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:34pm

      BigPickle is getting his rocks off re-posting the same racist tripe.
      So I’ll respond with my OWN cut and paste:
      What kind of racist ARE you. This has NOTHING to do with evolution, or maybe you think all the white liberals in Wisconsin are not similar at all to these protesters?
      This is about a people who are NOT FREE, who are just as unlimited in potential as any Americans. The only evolution that abandoned these people is the kind that would free them from dictators. And unless you aren’t up on American history (which I doubt you are), American government has formed an EXCEPTION to the normal evolution of tyranny in the world.

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    • SPOT_OF_TEA
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:05pm

      Anyonw who hasn’t read te poem called “The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling lately,should read it……..as the leftist mentality remains that we are on a continuous progressive road to Utopia on earth,history continues to repeat itself…..in the most vile ways.

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    • ArchAnG3L
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:14pm

      I fear the next revolution in america will be the christians vs the muslims. history repeats itself. We are still simmering here in the US. As more and more muslims come here and force us to tolerate them and their needs and impose their way of life on american soil its only a matter of time before things reach a boiling point.

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    • crolic9
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:07pm

      I truly do not understand some of the comments here. What do you think when a society turns its back on the true God of the people… What do you think is going to happen… If People and Governments have lost the respect for human life itself ….this is going to continue all over the world…It is time to bend a knee and seek Gods forgiveness and ask Christ into your lives… as he says he is the only way to truth and light…..
      This saddens me to see humans waste each other without a thought…. You think just because people do not believe in him… does not mean he is not there watching… HIS judgment will come one day MARK MY WORDS… ALL will see.

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    • The Big Pickle
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:10pm

      Can anybody honestly watch that video and NOT think they are watching prehistoric humans from millions of years ago? Honestly, these people are still lost somewhere in the transition from when man starting walking upright and modern man.

      The Big Pickle  
    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:18pm

      Big Pickle.
      You‘re the person I can’t distinguish from Australopithecus.
      The people here are not the problem, nor is their race. It’s the tyrants who are doing the shooting who keep their societies from freedom and peaceable demonstration.
      If you understood a shred of history and logic, you’d dump your Neanderthal racism.

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:44pm

      Apparently there’s a lot that surprises you. Like the unlimited potential of all mankind.
      Your willful ignorance will be your own downfall. Adieu. You deserve no more thoughtful replies.

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    • The Big Pickle
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:19pm

      I suppose it would be racist for me to say that I felt more sympathy for the dead squirrel I saw in the road today then the people in this video.

      The Big Pickle  
    • hud
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:46pm

      It’s in the genetic code of these people, this behavior goes back many years.It’s the fault of the US for not stopping these killings.

       
    • hud
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 5:51pm

      Reminds me of the movie Tears in the Sun. If you haven’t seen it a really moving movie

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 7:20pm

      Defenseless WOMEN! …………….COWARDS ALL! ………….NOW…there’s a fight our BOYS would probably prefer to be fighting!

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    • Wayner
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:41pm

      Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton need to go over there and march.

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    • Steven Sullivan
      Posted on March 5, 2011 at 11:33pm

      Who cares?

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:15am

      O’carter would love our street looking like this. Then he could be king.

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    • Anarcho Capitalist
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:47am

      We should have never given them the guns in order for their leaders to like us. Maybe Ron Paul is right…

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:54am

      Hillary had offered Mr. Gbagbo a “well-paying“ teaching position if he would step down”…OF COURSE…how do you get tyrants to stop brutalizing their people?…By bring them to America and putting them in our universities…wonder if he’ll get Bill Ayers to write a book for him? Amazing!

      Did anyone else on the Blaze know this? According to Mr. Gbagbo, “invisible terrorists” were responsible for this slaughter that took place on Thursday…

      Sirah Drane, 41, who helped organize the march, said she was holding the megaphone and preparing to address the large crowd that had gathered at a traffic circle in Abobo. “That’s when we saw the tanks,” she said. “There were thousands of women. And we said to ourselves ‘They won’t shoot at women’…I heard a boom. They started spraying us…I tried to run and fell down. The others trampled me. Opening fire on unarmed women? It’s inconceivable.”

      The United States has recognized Alassane Ouattara as the legitimate President of Ivory Coast and has asked Gbagbo to step down. According to allAfrica.com, Mr. Gbagbo received a letter from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sometime after the election, in which she offered him a well- paid teaching position at Boston University if he would cede power to Ouattara.

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    • Jim S
      Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:00am

      Who the heck is in charge? Do we interfere with their internal problems? Do we stand by and watch? I know our Prez will have some strongly worded statement. The truth is, we stand by and watch, we have neither the man power or money to start another shot a being the cop of the world. Its horrible in the same way all the other state crimes are horrible.

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