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"Robert McClelland" <robert.mcclelland@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<bVlka.3634$N94.299783@news20.bellglobal.com>...
> OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Oakland police fired rubber bullets to
> disperse about 750 anti-war demonstrators on Monday in what was
> believed to be the first use of the projectiles against U.S.
> protesters since the American-led war on Iraq began.


Historical question: Have U.S. police _ever_ used projectiles against
protest demonstrators before? The most likely recent instance would
have been in Seattle against the anti-globalist demonstrators in 1999.
Does anybody recall? What about Chicago, 1968?

A Google newsgroup search reveals that as of this morning (Tuesday)
this news event is being discussed only on newsgroups such as
alt.rush-limbaugh, where historical musings are in short supply
among other things, including possibly the ability to spell "history".

So...Oakland. Assuming the police action had the mayor's approval,
then Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown has come a long way, eh? 

I had even forgotten his last name. So I went to the Oakland Web site 
and, interestingly enough, I had to click down another level to the 
"City Hall" page even to find reference to the mayor's office, where 
it was listed among "City Officials" after "City Manager", requiring
another click to find out who the mayor is. This led to the question 
of how prominently other cities' Web sites position their mayors... 

	Chicago: Web site not responding; browser times out
	Seattle: Front and center, "Ask the mayor..."
	San Francisco: Link "Mayor's Office" prominently featured

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