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Originally Posted by Masque
So students lifting steel fence panels to use as weapons along with anything else they can lay their hands and destroying public property or daubing paint on everything in sight does not constitute a riot, then please explain what the students were doing as that does not come under their right to protest under any law in any country on this planet.
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Masque, I'd suggest you familiarise yourself with what 20,000 people look like in a protest. At the recent demos, there were localised areas of disorder, that is not the same as a riot. The images you saw on television were about the only scenes of violence, out of a crowd of at least 20,000. Does that really constitute a riot in the greater scheme of things?
If so, then it was merely a small riot. If only a few thousand police can manage to keep their form without water cannon or rubber bullets against a group of 20,000 or more, then it really can't be that much of a riot.
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Originally Posted by Masque
Are you for real.  
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Make an educated guess.
I'm at work now so can't provide any links for streaming media, but I can do so later if you wish.
Youtube search "greek riot dog" for some interesting clips. They use petrol bombs, explosives, and anything they can get their hands on - and these rioters obviously come prepared. Snooker balls and urine bags are childs play to the modern aspiring mainland European rioter.

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Originally Posted by martyh
where the hell have you been the last few weeks ,when fire extinguishers were getting thrown,fences thrown,snooker balls,fireworks,flares were being thrown ,police hit with iron bars ,graffiti daubed all over the place ,national monuments defaced, windows smashed police vans turned over ,members of the royal family attacked ..have i missed anything ? bloody hell FB you realy know how to be selective in what you see . These are facts ,they cannot be denied ,they are on video for all of time ,go on utube and type "student riots" and see how many hits you get ,alternatively you could go and join the holocaust denial society 
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There was ONE fire extinguisher thrown by an idiot, who was caught and charged. I never saw any police van turned over. I saw a few guys rocking one, but never saw one turned over.