Don't get mad, we regularly use those concrete barriers and only concrete barriers for precisely this reason. Yeah one might injure people behind the barricade but not badly, the main impact is to the perps car. It was a serious suggestion. Another is to copy our secret service and shut down all road traffic within a mile of the parade so only pedestrians get through. When Bob Dole came to town they inspected and locked manholes, post office mailboxes etc from the day before the visit and nobody could drive near him. Consider that stuff before you give up Queens Day like I saw a Dutch cop quoted as suggesting

While you're reading this an American died in a car wreck. Every 2 minutes. We're sorta inured

I was kinda shocked that cops doubt they can do the parade again because he rammed "barricades"

it isn't spelled out what sort of "barricades" but I presume since he rammed 2 and was still doing a lethal speed that it was wood or soemthing

NOT tank trap, meter-high concrete blocks...try those Dutchies.

damn, now Americans gotta teach the Dutch how to build walls! we're THAT GOOD

--another one is park police cars to block access

and the French like to park trucks someplace and let the air out ofthe itres

I think you'd like Porkchop Hill and Steel Helmets, Voracity

and Usual Suspects is a must see of course

is thru the looking glass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evt0Hti_QX4

I'm doing backflips over the awesomeness of that clip

Obama spouted crap about Winston Churchill refusing to torture "detainees" during the Blitz.

Winston Churchill was gonna use mustard gas on the first wave of German troops in Britain. If we'd shared the ABomb with Churchill, the Ruhr would be a toxic lake with a glass bottom.

And much of occupied France. And the Allies didn't make it to Holland after the failure of Market Garden, so they'd have caught hell too.

Spare us a lecture on the MERCY of Churchill.

Watches the star wars prequels with a box of tissues because it makes him cry

well I think the consensus view is, don't do it.  And if you do it, better throw down and kill all comers.  Because if you lose, then we'll say you did it and punish you for trying it.

knows socialism creates weak bikes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IifFJp_nCnI

actually the Republicans following Lincoln decreed that the South HAD seceded, and had to buy back entry into the Union as states, forcing them to ratify the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments.  until they did, they refused to seat their representatives and senators in Congress.

I remember loading Flight Simulator from a tape cassette for 40 mins

when you kill people you make it black and white

I yield to the 11 million dead Krauts from WW2 to explain it to you

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see?

Obama has already been very insulting to our enemies, for instance the OAS summit where Dan Ortega the Commie ranted for an hour about US oppressions against "them" since 1850, and then Obama told them to give up the "stale debate" and move on.  Or in other words, "whatever".  The business of pretending real opposition is just a foggy gray "yes but" is more foolish than recognizing a real divide.