The MOVE Organization vs. The Philadelphia Police pt 2
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@euansmith wrote: Holy fucking Moley! Bombing their own city? That's insane. (I didn't realise Fat Boy Slim had sampled that track for "Hey boy, hey girl"). Read full topic
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@funruly wrote: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/13/406243272/im-from-philly-30-years-later-im-still-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-move-bombing Pasted image800x525 882 KB Read full topic
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@joeair61 wrote: There was a lot more to it. I don't have the time or energy to try to explain what it was like, but just imagine gun wielding men walking up and down the rooftops of their neighbors....
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@euansmith wrote: I'm put in mind of "Red Summer" which also featured armed stand offs in American cities. I guess, like the modern "terrorist threat", you have to ask what forced these people to take...
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@LDoBe wrote: As I said in the last issue, MOVE weren't good neighbors. Really shitty neighbors and pretty scary from what I've read. But it's just simply wrong to give police the weapons of war....
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@halloween_jack_ wrote: My take on it is that it was about what would have happened at the Waco siege if David Koresh's compound had been in the middle of Waco itself. Read full topic
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@joeair61 wrote: I agree. At the time the police got the C-4 from the military, and there was a lot of debate about whether the military should have turned over the device. Many felt that if it was...
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@joeair61 wrote: halloween_jack_: My take on it is that it was about what would have happened at the Waco siege if David Koresh's compound had been in the middle of Waco itself. And just like MOVE, if...
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