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In response to "But police, military etc are accountable to a chain of command, while individual protesters are not." by Roger More

There really is. You don't get to storm government buildings because you're unhappy at a trade agreement. And if the cops tell you to back off...

Posted by Max Feb 20 '14, 13:58

you back off, because that's civilization.

From what I'm reading, it doesn't seem likely that anyone would be dead if the protesters hadn't clashed with the police. Over a trade agreement.

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But if there are a small number of protesters inciting violence, the response should be proportional - Roger More Feb 20, 14:30
There's some blame to be had by both sides, but I think that the majority of the blame lies with the government. - spamlet Feb 20, 14:16
There's very reasonable evidence that the gov't (and Moscow) has hired cossack goon squads to attack protesters. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 20, 14:09

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