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A friendly reminder from over the pond (that is Europe).

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392

You need to speak up now, or one does not know where this will end.

> "First they came for the Socialists..."

Yep, and we are already all the way up to "arresting 6 journalists covering public protests against the unpopular ruler"

My understanding of that event is that protestors were starting fires and the police arrested 230 people near the incident. Of those 6 were journalists. I think that's somewhat different than police targeting journalists for their viewpoints, of which I don't see evidence.

You're right we are early into that event. It's still not clear how the arrest played out: (a) they were grabbed along with "rioters" and later turned out to be journalists on the side or (b) they were with media badges and video cameras clearly covering the riots on the ground, then still arrested as a sign of force. Sadly journalists get arrested relatively often, but it's important to insist that medics should be aimed at as rarely as possible, despite the heat of the moment.

um aren't you missing "or c) they were actively rioting along with hundreds of others"?

Some will speak (Hollande already has I think?), but no-one will do anything to risk their precious $$.

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