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Re: Gasoline Riots in Iran

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From: gl4316
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:08
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In article <h3bhi.56865$9X1.10040@fe03.news.easynews.com>, fact check
local 225 <hoff@cem.ent> wrote:

> gl4316@yahoo.com wrote:
> > In article <Mencken-A90F82.12443128062007@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
> > Ockham's Razor <Mencken@pdx.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Perhaps its time to invade.  We can bring along umpteen gasoline tankers 
> >> and soon the population will be strewing flowers in the streets.
> > 
> > 
> > It would be cheaper and easier to just let the local population "throw the
> > bums out" as the saying goes.
> > 
> > It worked in Argentina 
> 
> Are you brain dead?
> 
> Do you need to LIVE in Argentina?


It's the only place I know of where the civillian population got so upset
that they mobbed the capital building (despite the armed guards), broke in
and trashed the place.

Sure, that happens from time to time during military overthrows of
civilian governments.  But an unarmed and unorganized civilian population
overthrowing the capital with its own bare hands by shear riot force?

The only place I can think of where that has happened in the last 6 years
is Argentina.

Most other places (Los Angeles, Paris, etc.) when they riot they trash
their own neighborhoods or some innocent bystander.  The December 2001
riots in Argentina went right to the source of the troubles.

-- 
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Subject: Re: Gasoline Riots in Iran
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