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	<title><![CDATA[VIDEO: Tacoma Police Gas Peaceful Anti-War Protesters]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-goldstein/video-tacoma-police-gas-p_b_43256.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Via <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/blog/2007/03/this_is_what_democracy_looks_like" target="_blank">Slog</a>...<br />
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If this is how Tacoma police respond to a peaceful anti-war protest -- <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/03/11/18375541.php">tear gas and rubber bullets</a> -- imagine what might happen should protesters eventually be provoked into more aggressive actions?</p>

<p>This was a peaceful sit-in with the crowd chanting "give peace a chance." The appropriate response to such a classic act of civil disobedience would have been to handcuff and arrest the...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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