War on Freedom
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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/323417.shtml
Boy am I glad I don't party over there...
As it happens this is common in all heavily populated areas, and the degree of police terror and force grows exponentially as the size of the population base increases. Why terror tactics and highly unnecessary force like this is used on private property at legal gatherings in the middle of a garden state like Utah may be explained by the entries below, commenting on the various alledged factors.
What cannot be denied is the horrifically illegal manner in which people we pay to protect us through our taxes commit crimes of abuse against us because we happen to be in a place that they cannot evaluate properly as acceptable and legal to be in.
It happens every time a large protest goes on in any major city, and the root cause of it as far as I can see makes it very tricky to establish which is proper and which is improper in terms of popular gatherings: in the past the police have been brutally attacked in protests.
The discrepancy lies in the nature of those previous attacks and when you are breaking up a National Front *spits* rally then you are well-advised to come in riot gear and bring all the tear gas you can carry, but in breaking up a bunch of clubbers, in the middle of the night (regardless of the fact that it was wholly illegal) you hardly need to bring any kind of offensive weaponry at all.
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This is something close to my heart as the events described in that article mirror dozens of events I have been to, although very few have ever been broken up by the law and none have actually been invaded by the military 
But I know many people who hold such parties/raves/gatherings/festivals so dear to their hearts that they would stand up to a man with a gun and proclaim their right to be there.
Most of the promoters and organisers that I know or have met would do so in an instant because the success of their enterprise (the whole *fruitcage* ing point why they would spend £10,000 + for a single evening/night's entertainment) relies on the fact that it is LEGAL and PROPERLY ORGANISED.
If I was the promoter I bloody well would too.
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Its a hell of a sad state when a legal party, on private land, full of bleary, loved-up hippies who are so incredibly far removed from violence in their own minds that they "dislike being called pacifists because it contains the word `fist`", has to be tear-gassed in order to make the people in power feel safe that the youth of today are not being allowed to be thinking for themselves, and, perish the thought, doing what they decide to do independent of the whims of conservative sensibilities.
Now, I'm normally against a lot of drippy hippy protests because they often argue against the common good; such as vivisection research that cures fatal human illnesses; but protests against the war in Iraq are perfectly valid and need not have been disrupted violently by state forces as they have been in many countries in the last few years.
Its where one of the lovely Palpatine quotes comes in (no, not "you must learn to take...a wider view of the force... 
) but the one that says "all that have power are afraid to lose it".
So true, but resorting to illegal terror tactics using armed soldiers on legal, innocent partygoers really is taking things waaaaay too far. What kind of threat were these people for Chrissakes??? They are the generation of the future and they have every right to build it however they bloody well choose.
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