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Originally Posted by Hugh
Nothing in there about the army being used to quash civil unrest.
There appears to be the conflating of two separate points to arrive at an unsubstantiated conclusion.
As I quoted previously, in less inflammatory versions of this story, the military would be called upon for transport and supply duties - no one (to the best of my knowledge) has shown any evidence that military personnel would be involved in riot control.
It’s an old tabloid trick - put two separate things close together, and hope readers will be fooled into thinking they are linked, thus stoking outrage/upset/whatever...
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You could well be right, but if we do end up in a situation where there is civil unrest or riots, I doubt that the police and military will sit back and do nothing.
I have seen the way that some of the police behave in demonstrations in my younger days too, I can't speak for the military.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Truely impartial news is becoming more difficult to find. People just want news they like to hear. Whether it's true or not seems to be an after thought.
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True. People often post links to confirm what they are saying, but whose to say they are true? Similarly, the absence of a link doesn't mean that the information isn't true!