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Post by pieter on May 9, 2016 16:15:19 GMT -7
I have understanding for the Dutch, German and Danish police. They show discipline, restraint, controlled violence and manage to isolate the radicals and use their decades old strategic and tactical experience. They are trained in special riot police camps in crowd control, violent mobs, being attacked with bricks, stones, wooden sticks, iron rods, bottles and molotov cocktails.
Next to the radical left autonomen these same police officers have experience with extreme Hooligan violence of various notorious Dutch and foreign Hooligan firms, biker gangs, militant migrant youth, violence on going out nights and other disturbances. Still autonomen or squater riots are dangerous phenomenon, because these people are political extremists in their radical views and way of life, and often or sometimes under the influence of alcohol or drugs. They attack the police officers with everything they can get their hands on. A police officer in their view is a pig, animal, fascist and oppressor whom they can hurt. So the police has to take care of the safety and securiruty of the civilians in these neighbourhoods and in the same time watch their own backs and the safety of their colleagues.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on May 13, 2016 12:00:02 GMT -7
Dear Karl, How similar in this case look Germany the Netherlands and Denmark in the sense of Copenhagen. Because excactly the same took place in Amsterdam, Groningen, Nijmegen and other Dutch area's with squaters. They resisted against house owners, large real estate agents, project developpers, muncipalities, mayors, aldermen and the police and the Dutch legal system. Their radical left idea of self rule, autonomy, workers pride, and the anarchistic anti-state version of socialism clashed with liberal democracy, capitalism (free market and corporate structures) and the idea of propperty, because their squated propperty is collective possesion of the group. The squater ideology was also called ' direct action' or ' Autonomism'. It is almost gone now. Most squats have disappeared and former squaters have become citizens with a job or unemployment benefit. In Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark Autonome was used during the late 1970s to depict the most radical part of the political left. These individuals participated in practically all actions of the social movements at the time, especially in demonstrations against nuclear energy plants ( Brokdorf 1981, Wackersdorf 1986, nuclear energy plants Borssele 1979, and Dodewaard 1980) and in actions against the construction of airport runways ( Frankfurt 1976–86, and the het Bulderbos near Schiphol airport in 1999). The defense of squats against the police such as in Hamburg's Hafenstraße and the Vondelstreet in Amsterdam in 1980 was also a major " task" for the " autonome" movement. The Dutch anarchist Autonomen movement from the 1960s also concentrated on squatting.Tactics of the " Autonome" were usually militant, including the construction of barricades or throwing stones or molotov cocktails at the police. During their most powerful times in the early 1980s, on at least one occasion the police had to take flight. Because of their outfit (heavy black clothing, ski masks, helmets), the " Autonome" were dubbed der schwarze Block by the German media, and in these tactics were similar to modern black blocs. In 1989, laws regarding demonstrations in Germany were changed, prohibiting the use of so-called " passive weaponry" such as helmets or padding and covering your face. Today, the " autonome" scene in Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark is greatly reduced and concentrates mainly on anti-fascist actions, ecology, solidarity with refugees, and feminism. There are larger and more militant groups still in operation, such as in Switzerland or Italy. These guys with the flags in fron of them used the closed block group tactics of the typical Black Block movement. They are the most radical and extremist group of the radical left autonomen squaters. They are violent against civilians, the police and their far right oponents. Here you see the police tactics of the uniformed riot police and undercover arrest teams. They isolate radicals and arrest them and seperate them from the group and carry them away to police stations or prison cells.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 19, 2016 6:33:57 GMT -7
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Post by karl on Jun 19, 2016 6:53:19 GMT -7
J.J.
Congradulations are all around for both your daughter and you and your wife. Such an event and on this rare Summer Solstice Full Moon at that.
For all of you, a very enjoyable day..
Karl
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jun 19, 2016 7:11:41 GMT -7
J.J. Congradulations are all around for both your daughter and you and your wife. Such an event and on this rare Summer Solstice Full Moon at that. For all of you, a very enjoyable day.. Karl Thank you Karl, today we are celebrating 'Fathers Day'. So we are going to have a barbecue with lamb and beef kabobs. Cucumber salad with sour cream in the Polish style and much refreshment.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Oct 5, 2016 2:36:05 GMT -7
ON THIS DAY
On October 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry and eggs on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Nov 22, 2016 6:50:33 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 22, 2016 16:19:34 GMT -7
In 1963: Assassination of John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Sad day indeed. It was a shock to America and the whole West (Europe too).
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Post by pieter on Nov 22, 2016 16:22:26 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Nov 22, 2016 16:28:56 GMT -7
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Nov 24, 2016 6:27:09 GMT -7
On this day of November 24th, 2016, my wife and I do wish you all
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sosna
Freshman Pole
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Post by sosna on Nov 29, 2016 9:19:56 GMT -7
Karl, My daughter Ela woke up and stated that today is 9/11, but when this happened she was not even one year old. I saw rainbow pictures which were posted recently, since apparently one day before there was a nice rainbow in NYC, with the towers visible. I was pregnant with my first when this happened.
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Post by Jaga on Nov 30, 2016 0:25:20 GMT -7
Hello Sosna! Welcome to the forum. So, your oldest child is in the high school now. The time goes so quick!
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Post by Eric on Dec 1, 2016 18:45:02 GMT -7
It's very frightening that a whole generation is growing up knowing nothing BUT constant fear-mongering, vague and nebulous threats, and, in general, that they've lived their whole lives in what can accurately be called a culture of fear.
This is NORMAL for them. Certainly not for me. Many of my high school classmates already have children of their own, and for them terrorist drills and security lock-down drills at school are just as normal as fire drills were for me. In fact, I couldn't even have fathomed the idea of any kind of security exercises at school. It was a very safe existence for me. In fact, the doors to my schools were often left open during the day for extra air when it was hot outside since we didn't have air conditioning. I started kindergarten in 1987 and graduated from high school in 2000, and I really think I got out just in time, before schools changed into high-security institutions, almost at the level of prisons. This was before school shootings became a reality. It's a very sad, scary, and depressing time, and I'm so glad my childhood existed before any of this.
But for children such as Ela, this is truly all they know. I feel very sorry for her generation, really.
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Dec 7, 2016 10:39:46 GMT -7
On this day
Remember the 7th of December
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