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I guaran-fucking-tee there's more to this story than this pre-chewed thoughtbite summary. Conveniently, there are no links to any news item or independent witness. Funny, you'd think Bush having people arrested for dissenting opinions would have made the news.
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Why do you automatically assume people are only telling the half-truth if their statements are at odds with your own emotional response?
http://www.legitgov.org/front_pittsb...st_090202.html
http://www.legitgov.org/front_pittsb...st_090302.html
It's not funny that it didn't make big news, it's a sad testament to the state of US mainstream media. Protesters being arrested don't make big headlines; as stated in another thread, they are conveniently thought of as yet another group of usually young people who just want to make trouble. The example given of Fox making a 'world's scariest protest riots', with mocking voiceover, only compounds that impression. Protesters being arrested for 'misbehaving' - well, they obviously did something wrong.
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PS: If you doubt the truthfulness of that stement, entering <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pittsburgh+bush+campaign+arrested">four search terms</a> into Google would have shown the given links on the second result. It would have taken roughly the same time to verify the veracity of the statement that it took you to write a protesting posting claiming that there's more to it and that it's convenient that there were no links. I don't blame you, though (and I am being perfectly earnest here): I'd be more inclined to complain rather than check for myself, if I disagreed with something. It's human nature.