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Old 11-17-2011, 08:35 AM
 
Location: San Francisco, California
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why dosent the city use the Fire Dept and use high pressure hoses to hose down the Occupy camps? I bet they wont be staying long during cold weather if they get hosed down regularly

 
Old 11-17-2011, 08:46 AM
 
Location: San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties
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why dosent the city use the Fire Dept and use high pressure hoses to hose down the Occupy camps? I bet they wont be staying long during cold weather if they get hosed down regularly
Using the fire department to hose down protestors would be socialism, and we don't want that now do we?
 
Old 11-17-2011, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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why dosent the city use the Fire Dept and use high pressure hoses to hose down the Occupy camps? I bet they wont be staying long during cold weather if they get hosed down regularly
Water is in short supply in California.
 
Old 11-17-2011, 09:36 AM
 
Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA & El Pescadero, BCS MX.
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As a former firefighter, if I was ordered to turn the hose on people, I'd shut the nozzle off and walk away. Hell, I'd probably not even charge the line. A pressurized water stream can do serious bodily harm to people. Firefighters are not in the habit of hurting people.
 
Old 11-17-2011, 10:08 AM
 
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As a former firefighter, if I was ordered to turn the hose on people, I'd shut the nozzle off and walk away. Hell, I'd probably not even charge the line. A pressurized water stream can do serious bodily harm to people. Firefighters are not in the habit of hurting people.
And there you go: a voice of sensibility

Could it be that the protests have a legitimate voice and this is one of the ways in which that voice can be heard above the Muzak of insidious corporate influence that pervades and controls our democracy? Sure, hose it away -- and your democratic freedoms with it.

When civil discourse is ignored, it becomes incumbent upon the citizens to engage in civil disobedience. Read the Declaration of Independence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,"
...
The Declaration of Independence
 
Old 11-17-2011, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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As a former firefighter, if I was ordered to turn the hose on people, I'd shut the nozzle off and walk away. Hell, I'd probably not even charge the line.
Hey nozzleman, let the engineer do his job.
 
Old 11-17-2011, 11:35 AM
 
Location: South Korea
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Why don't we just submit to an eternal Republican monarchy? I'm sure they have our best interests at heart.
 
Old 11-17-2011, 12:23 PM
 
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What is it with all you former fireman on here. Oh that's right. Your great pensions.

Most of those Occupiers need a good bath anyway.
 
Old 11-17-2011, 12:51 PM
 
Location: San Francisco, California
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they should post signs up like street cleaning 7 days a week so they have a legal excuse to hose down the area and clean up the city anytime
 
Old 11-17-2011, 12:54 PM
 
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I am not amused ... and neither is Dorli Rainey, an 84-year-woman given a "bath" with pepper spray while exercising her right to free speech at a Seattle protest yesterday ... says Darli: "I guess I'm pretty tough ... I'll be back out here tomorrow".

I don't think she stinks. I think she is what made America great.

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