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[Yanny]

I spent a month in Italy, during the G8 Conference protests (I stayed outside Genoa at the time).

I find Italians very nice and cheery. The countryside was beautiful. However, damn Genoa felt like a warzone. Very riotous. The policemen, throughout the country, carry small semi-automatic Uzi lookalikes. In Venice, you’d find squads of policemen with these, some even sporting bigger weapons.

[TG Moses VI]

What is the point of that sort of protest? You just drain more money from the state in protection… :-?

[Yanny]

You get to play 70s punk rebellion songs :)

[TG Moses VI]

That American garbage!? Burn! Burn! :P

[Yanny]

No, the British stuff :)

[EmuGod]

@Yanny:

I spent a month in Italy, during the G8 Conference protests (I stayed outside Genoa at the time).

I find Italians very nice and cheery. The countryside was beautiful. However, damn Genoa felt like a warzone. Very riotous. The policemen, throughout the country, carry small semi-automatic Uzi lookalikes. In Venice, you’d find squads of policemen with these, some even sporting bigger weapons.

I dooubt they were Uzis, those are obsolete.

[GeZe]

uzis are the wons with the realy short barrals right?

[Guest]

@GeZe:

uzis are the wons with the realy short barrals right?

Uzis are the one with the crappy security.
You can … ist called “secure” …them, so that they should not be able to shoot unless you pull that “lever” again…
and still, if you drop to the ground you can be sure that something like three shots will go off.
Dangerous “toy”.

[GeZe]

ah

[cystic crypt]

@F_alk:

@GeZe:

uzis are the wons with the realy short barrals right?

Uzis are the one with the crappy security.
You can … ist called “secure” …them, so that they should not be able to shoot unless you pull that “lever” again…
and still, if you drop to the ground you can be sure that something like three shots will go off.
Dangerous “toy”.

yeah, but they’re so cute!!!

[GeZe]

a gun, cute? :o

[Guest]

@Yanny:

I spent a month in Italy, during the G8 Conference protests (I stayed outside Genoa at the time).

I find Italians very nice and cheery. The countryside was beautiful. However, damn Genoa felt like a warzone. Very riotous. The policemen, throughout the country, carry small semi-automatic Uzi lookalikes. In Venice, you’d find squads of policemen with these, some even sporting bigger weapons.

I saw a documentation on the Genoa G8 summit… and the protest…
scary indeed.

There was one (!) group, that said it would use violence. And only against things that are “capitalistic”… Still, other groups were treated the same, medical doctors were beaten up, one demonstator shot by the police, at least one journalist beaten into coma with his lung punctured (he spent several month in hospital after that). Peaceful groups of demonstrators attacked by the police before they reached the place that the government actually allowed them to go!..