"...the NBC report puts the number at a half million and reports police horses where driven into crowds causing injuries - and for what? the crowds were peacefull, just kept from going to the rally which it was their right to go..."

Larry

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It's symbology. Horses are used to drive cattle. Seriously. New York and Los Angeles are the media centers in the U.S., and consequently the media centers, so the rest of the nation picks up it's cues from those places. Those cities set the fashion. And the fashion now is going to be to treat American citizens like cattle. Cops all across the nation now have images of horses trampling over citizens, and they will base their future behaviors on that. Really. It's as simple as that. People are more influenced by symbols than words.

It's good to see political activism, but folks...conservative America is steamed right now. Images of 'Hanoi Jane' (symbol/icon), popped into millions and millions of minds during the peace marches, and conservative convictions that GWBush is their man, hell or high water, were reinforced. The liberal left is being used to re-inforce the mindset of the right-wing, while the right-wing does the radical social re-engineering the left-wing leaders desire. Your left-wing leaders are using your numbers to bring about a tyrannical govt.

And the sad thing is, there IS no left/right anymore. Never was. For the past hundred years our colleges have TAUGHT there is, just to obscure the old tension between labor and management, boss and worker. One percent controlled the world a hundred years ago, and it still does now. And we're all quibbling over left vs. right. Democrat vs. Republican.

And the next move in the game is...the upper one percent will convince you that you are either with them (the govt and it's CIA al Qeada) or with the terrorists. So as the liberal / conservative paradigm fades into the mists of history, you'll still be serving the upper one percent in the phony war against terrorism.

That's the reason for the horses.