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Ok, if you want to use a whitecollar/bluecollar example (which is a bogus comparison) it's like a huge WTA protest with thousand and thousands of people and some of them toss trashcans through the windows of businesses so the cops toss teargas into the crowd and fire rubber bullets. Some of the people who get hit weren't those involved in trashing someone else's property.
The innocent ones who got hurt were hurt because the ones who weren't innocent hid among the crowd and nobody did anything. The crowd didn't take part in the destructive act, but condoned it and allowed the guilty people to hide among them. If the crowd had pointed them out, and told them this kind of behavior wasn't acceptable, and turned the bad guys over to the police, the innocent ones wouldn't have been harmed or gotten beaten unconscious with a club.
Don't blame the police because they were forced to bust heads when some of the crowd started throwing glass bottles at them. Don't blame the businesses for using the police to defend their property. Blame those who started the problem in the first place when they deviated from peaceful protests into violent clashes or the destruction of property.
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11-04-2007, 02:17 PM
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