{"id":57220,"date":"2021-03-23T06:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T11:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57220"},"modified":"2021-03-23T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T14:11:59","slug":"water-cannons-tear-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57220","title":{"rendered":"Water Cannons? Tear Gas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header title-container fix\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"Water Cannons? Tear Gas?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2021\/03\/water-cannons-tear-gas\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Water Cannons? Tear Gas?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FloraFrescoRoman1stCenturyADLarge.jpg\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/FloraFrescoRoman1stCenturyAD.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>\u201cFlora\u201d (Roman Goddess of Spring), Villa di Arianna\u00a0<\/b>1st Century A.D.<\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HorLine300px.png\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>[..] the rifleman\u2019s stalking the sick and the lame<br \/>\nPreacherman seeks the same, who\u2019ll get there first is uncertain<br \/>\nNightsticks, water cannons, tear gas, padlocks<br \/>\nMolotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain<br \/>\nFalse-hearted judges, dying in the webs that they spin<br \/>\nOnly a matter of time \u2019til night comes steppin\u2019 in<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bob Dylan, Jokerman<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen huge amounts of riot police in many cities this weekend, in Holland, Germany, UK, Sweden, Canada, Florida and money more places (Miami Beach declared a state of emergency), using water cannons, horses, dogs, in some cases tear gas, to disperse relatively small and peaceful crowds. These things are normally used in case of serious rioting. But now the \u201cjustification\u201d is that people are standing and walking too close together, and not obeying the \u201cmeasures\u201d and restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>But that is exactly what they\u2019re protesting. If you protest the measures, and they say you can only do that if you comply with those same measures, which includes asking permission beforehand, that is not a protest, that is theater. And the right to protest is not something that can just arbitrarily be taken away in a democratic country. Until now. Until Covid came along.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clip of 14 countries with protests. They don\u2019t include the water cannons etc. footage, which is fine by me.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all countries have rising numbers of Covid cases again, so their only response will be re-activated: lockdown. Well, yes, the response now also includes vaccines as our only hope out of this, but those will take a long time to arrive everywhere, and both their efficacy and adverse effects remain major and untested questions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water Cannons? Tear Gas? \u201cFlora\u201d (Roman Goddess of Spring), Villa di Arianna\u00a01st Century A.D. [..] the rifleman\u2019s stalking the sick and the lame Preacherman seeks the same, who\u2019ll get there first is uncertain Nightsticks, water cannons, tear gas, padlocks Molotov cocktails and rocks behind every curtain False-hearted judges, dying in the webs that they spin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29341,18478,395,2144,656,13924,1168,4466,5177,1698,29389],"class_list":["post-57220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-covid","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-lockdown","tag-protest","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-riot-police","tag-tear-gas","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-vaccines","tag-water-cannons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57222,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57220\/revisions\/57222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}