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   Message 19,115 of 19,807   
   rbowman to Jos Boersema   
   Re: Huge Riots in USA ? Small protests,    
   02 Jun 20 22:39:30   
   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 06/02/2020 05:36 AM, Jos Boersema wrote:   
   >     P.S. More people in America need to stop with their hyperbole,   
   > and give the numbers. How many people in that protest, how many buildings   
   > where burned, how many protests became riots, what where the largest   
   > protests, etc. Nobody knows what you are talking about, unless you start   
   > giving numbers that have meaning. It means nothing when an American   
   > says that "the sky fell down" because Americans seem to yell that at the   
   > slightest provocation. As far as I could tell, from the numbers listed   
   > for the protests: almost nothing was going on. It was mostly peaceful   
   > very small to failed protests, with a few of them that went into riots   
   > and arson, with possibly the police themselves doing some of the arson,   
   > in order to make it seem worse (for political reasons).   
      
   Right. Burning businesses and police cars, looting the stores they don't   
   burn, shooting police, a couple fatally, that's just business as usual   
   in the US.   
      
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