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Italian Police Attacked With Fireworks
- Posted on October 23, 2010 at 1:00pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The video’s description on YouTube says that residents of southern Italy town were fed up with “poor conditions at a local rubbish dump.” So how did they respond? Well, they did what any reasonable upset community would do — they attacked police with fireworks. Duh:
The video‘s description adds that the government blames the facility’s state on bad management, and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has pledged millions of euros in compensation while denying that health risks exists for the town’s residents.
Oh, and for good measure, protesters have also set vehicles ablaze, burned Italian flags, and hurled stones at police. You know, just in case the the exploding fireworks didn’t send the right message.
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JohnDoe
Posted on October 24, 2010 at 11:29pmOur great country was founded by and for the citizens of the thirteen colonies. It was designed to insure that a central government was controlled and limited by representatives of those citizens. It was given a limited amount of power, with many checks and balances, to secure the rights and freedoms for its citizens. They were making sure that an American Government would and could not become as Britian had. England enacted laws and taxes on their American subjects, but without allowing the colonies a say in their government. Ignoring the will of the people of America, they bullied and took away what limited rights they had and tried to force them to comply. Sound familiar? Yes, we don’t have to look far across the Atlantic at a despotic leader, we have only to look at the Oval Office in Washington, D. C. and to those whom we had entrusted the liberties of the people and the country. Our representatives, Senate and the House, are there to represent the will of the people. Instead, they have consistently lied to their constituents, both during campaigns and when in office. They have consistently robbed the American people, not only of their money, but also by stealing their liberties, little by little. The incumbent office holders allow themselves to be above the law, they allow themselves to steal by back-room corrupt deals and the like. They ignore the very people who put them in office, they even resort to passing laws, under cover of darkness. They hide laws and corrupt deals in the midst of thousand of pages of laws. This has always been a trick of unethical lawyers. Their mindset is to bog down any opposition by inudating them with mountains of paperwork. Then, they laugh and call the people stupid and ignorant, or worse! No doubt, I could go on and on. Their lack of character, morals and ethics makes them unfit to be employed anywhere, let alone entrusted with the security, freedom, and economic growth of this great country. They have taken your freedom to worship, especially targeting Christianity. They have tried to rewrite the American history, to further their agendas, just like the Moslems continue to do with Israel.
Soon after deciding what sort of Government America was to become, that very question was asked of Benjamin Franklin. In reply Franklin said, “A Republic….if we can keep it”. This is a question that should be upon the lips of all true American patriots. If we can’t or more correctly, if we won’t, then we don’t deserve it. The choice is up to us, the American people, and the answer should be and must be yes we will!
You’re probably asking how do we insure that we will keep this nation a free Republic. Oh, we voted for only those who promised no more taxes, no more spending, etc., etc. Of course they all were proven to be liars again (or should I have said they were just not quite forthcoming or perhaps they were a little disingenuious?). Then we did the “best of the two evils” choice. This was no different than the “Magician’s Choice” trick! We now know that there is no difference between Republicans and the Democrats when it comes to which is telling the truth. Neither has the best interest of America at heart, probably not even in mind! Their goal is simply to acquire power, money, more power and more money while doing and saying anything to remain in office.
So what is the answer? They don’t listen when the people, overwhelmingly, protest and tries to voice their opposition. So the American people need to get their UNDIVIDED attention. How? WE THE PEOPLE, must vote any and all incumbents out of office. It doesn’t matter if they are better than most. If they haven’t been part of the solution, then they are part of the problem. THEY MUST KNOW AND WE MUST LET THEM KNOW THAT GOVERNMENT WILL NO LONGER BE RUN BY ROUGUE LAWYERS AND OPPORTUNISTS, PROGRESSIVES (AKA SOCIALISTS), ETC. THEY ARE NOTHING MORE THAN MODERN-DAY CARPETBAGGERS OR WANNA-BE DICTATORS. THEY MUST BE EDUCATED TO THE FACT THAT THEY WILL BE VOTED OUT AGAIN AND AGAIN, UNTIL THEY LEARN THAT OUR REPRESENTATIVES ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO RUN THEIR OWN VERISON OF CRIME, INC.
AND THOSE THAT ARE ELECTED TO OFFICE, BUT CONTINUE TO DO WHAT IS BEST FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT WILL SOON LEARN THEY WILL HAVE ONLY ONE TERM IN OFFICE.
We, the people, need to lobby our newly elected representatives to enact new laws to insure ALL our freedoms, our security, etc. Enact laws that ethical or criminal behavior of representatives will be prosecuted swiftly and severly, with no possibility of any pardon…not by a state Governor nor by a President! Enact laws or amendments to limit a President to one term only, ensuring that any damage to our country will not be as damaging as is obvious with this Government. Further limit the terms of our Representatives, both in the Senate and the House. Imperative to limit the term of all Supreme Court Justices to no more than an eight year term and make an amendment that the justices can no longer re-interpret the Constitution, but uphold the laws as it was written and intended by the original framers.
So, the bottom line is this: unless the American people get the undivided attention of those in government…when you and your family members are homeless and hungry or at the very least jobless…remember, you have only yourselves to blame.
THE ONLY WAY TO INSURE THAT YOUR FUTURE REPRESENTATIVES WILL LISTEN TO ITS CONSTITUENTS IS VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBENTS!!! FROM THAT POINT ON, EACH REPRESENTATIVE MUST KNOW WE WILL VOTE THEM OUT AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL WE HAVE RESPONSIBLE REPRESENTATIVES THAT UNDERSTAND THEY ARE THERE FOR THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
Report Post »EPROM
Posted on October 24, 2010 at 8:28amSince this was in Italy …do they mostly shoot Roman Candles at the police?
Report Post »EPROM
Posted on October 24, 2010 at 8:28amSo in Italy …do you mostly want to shoot Roman Candles at the Police?
Report Post »Race
Posted on October 24, 2010 at 12:31amFireworks certainly add a festive flair to any demonstration or riot, don’tcha think?
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 10:44pmBoy these Europeans are something else aren’t they. Weak socialist governments ,lazy ,pissed off at the drop of a hat citizens .Want it all but not willing to make any sacrifices themselves . This is what many in this country are becoming .We need to nip it in the bud before its too late.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 7:51pmIdiots. Kinda pretty though.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 6:37pmThis is a perfect example of why the liberals want to take away our guns. It is hard to fight tyranny with bottle rockets.
Report Post »JD Carp
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 5:27pmBrace yourselves friends. After the “blood bath” next Tuesday, I fully expect Obama and his minions to mobilize the Union hordes to protest the elections and once the new congress is seated this sort of thing will be commonplace as the budget cuts are implemented. Remember, these folks have absolutely no conscience, no morals and no semblance of principles. Expect the worst and if I am wrong, then I will apologize nut it is coming to a location near you.
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 10:20pmim all about it. Bring on the fun. Lets have the 4th in November.
Report Post »roughneck.seay
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 5:00pmWell, they made them look there way anyway. It could have been worse. Where I come from, that’s just a really good party… lol. You can see them better on the ground. We shoot them that big at eachother for fun!
Report Post »BarryDead
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 3:11pmHey… its just Italian for “do you hear me now?”
Report Post »roberja
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 3:02pmThis is how socialist countries behave when they get upset. e.g. France ( they want to retire at 60 instead of 62)
Report Post »YellowFin
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 8:53pmI think we should just forget about retiring. Most of us will just have to keep working till we go belly up. Especially if you are a fish…oh my, is that my future?
Report Post »missmarie
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 2:39pmItaly has been doing battle over “trash” for some time now. Environmental activists have protested and successfully prevented the government from opening new dump sites-bad for the environment, which was followed by anti-garbage activists who protested when their garbage wasn’t picked up, piling up on the streets-there was no place to put it, and now, the citizens are protesting because the over filled landfills are unsanitary and they want the government to do something to fix it. In my humble opinion, the safety of the humans should be the top priority and new garbage dumps should be opened and the old ones closed and sealed, but then again, I’m one of those that puts man at the top of the food chain, so…..
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 5:46pmI agree. I lived in Italy for three years and they’ve had a problem with the trash for quite a while. The mafia is also involved. Additionally, Italy doesn’t make it very easy for the Italians to protest. They don’t have the same right to assemble as we do.
We’re headed in the same direction though. We’re just years behind them.
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Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 2:09pmLooks like Detroit in the video. Yup, unions, socialists and violence.
Report Post »just the facts
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 2:01pmTheir people do not have guns.
Report Post »Nvrforget
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 2:37pmActually, they do. About 7 million legal and privately owned firearms exist in Italy, owned by about 12% of the population.
But it’d be pretty damn stupid to go rioting with guns, don’t you think? Because that would quickly turn a riot into something REALLY nasty.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 1:20pmif that happened here the Cops would have been beating people to death.
Report Post »TNgirly
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 1:12pmGrats, moronos (that’s my Italian equivalent of morons)
Report Post »moelarrycurly
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 2:27pmI think we have a bistro called that here…Lol…
Report Post »firerybutterfly
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 1:08pmWhile rioting is just a bad plan…..I do have to applaud their creativity!!
Report Post »MAULEMALL
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 1:19pmThe squeaky wheel DOES get the grease…
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 1:23pmerm, yeah. should have looted the local stores too. That is also effective. Socialist protestors make me think of a bunch of chimps at their first fire.
Report Post »snowleopard3200
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 1:59pmOh, and for good measure, protesters have also set vehicles ablaze, burned Italian flags, and hurled stones at police. You know, just in case the the exploding fireworks didn’t send the right message.
Yes I have to add, the fireworks do provide an extra incentive to things when the usual burning cars, buning flags, burning buildings, chaos all over the place, etc, simply do not work.
How long until it comes here?
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Report Post »moelarrycurly
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 2:06pmMy cousin and I have fond memories of shooting roman candles at each other. fun fun fun! I have the scars to prove it!!! Hopefully the police were into having fun too and countered with a firehose and some confetti! These Italians are just getting in touch with their inner redneck!!! Lol!
Report Post »WestOfThePecos
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 2:35pmCreativity was my first thought too. I can’t remember ever seeing this before, even in China.
Report Post »DE OPPRESSO LIBER
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 2:53pmIn this country start storing ammo. The EPA will come after lead bullets, saying that they are harmful to the environment. They won’t need to go after the guns, just the ammo.
Report Post »TruthLover
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 9:17pmMakes for some good looking news footage.
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on October 23, 2010 at 10:13pmmay be the best thing i have ever seen. awesome. smash the state!
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