Re: violent antitax protest/riot in US

2001-07-19 Thread Declan McCullagh
Right, I hadn't linked that in. That was a sad day in U.S. history, though by modern standards the troops were positively restrained and cordial. -Declan On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:50:29AM +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Declan hypothesized: > > >This is amazing. If anything like this was even at

Re: violent antitax protest/riot in US

2001-07-19 Thread Nomen Nescio
Declan hypothesized: >This is amazing. If anything like this was even attempted in DC, >we'd have dozens of federal agencies, and perhaps armed troops, >converging on the U.S. Capitol. > >-Declan Something was attempted like that in DC -- The Bonus Marchers in 1932. And although there weren't

Re: violent antitax protest/riot in US

2001-07-18 Thread Petro
At 9:40 PM -0400 7/15/01, Declan McCullagh wrote: >This is amazing. If anything like this was even attempted in DC, >we'd have dozens of federal agencies, and perhaps armed troops, >converging on the U.S. Capitol. They had that happen in Nashville as well. The Cops showed up minutes into

Re: violent antitax protest/riot in US

2001-07-15 Thread Declan McCullagh
This is amazing. If anything like this was even attempted in DC, we'd have dozens of federal agencies, and perhaps armed troops, converging on the U.S. Capitol. -Declan On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 11:17:27AM -0700, David Honig wrote: > Friday July 13 6:33 AM ET > > Anti-Tax Protests at Tenn. Ca

violent antitax protest/riot in US

2001-07-14 Thread David Honig
Friday July 13 6:33 AM ET Anti-Tax Protests at Tenn. Capitol By KARIN MILLER, Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Protesters hurled rocks through Capitol windows, chanted ``no new tax!'' and banged on the locked doors of the Senate chamber where Tennessee lawmakers were

Re: violent antitax protest/riot in US

2001-07-14 Thread Brent
hurray, at least some americans don't lay down and wait for the government to sock it to them, as in Kalifornia atek3 - Original Message - From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 11:17 AM Subject: violent