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In your Twitter account, you seem ready enough to admit the reality of political violence, and even to commend it. (Retweet: "If US folks wanna see more nazi punching, just look at the attempted Pegida rally last year in Dublin. alt-hugs given freely")

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By _protesters_ against other _protesters_. There's surely a difference between someone at a political rally being punched by someone with a different political opinion (especially by someone from the "black block", which largely serves to make these crimes harder to attach to a single individual), and LEOs or EMTs being attacked during routine circumstances.

I don't quite understand you. Are you saying that attacking political activists is more acceptable than attacking someone during "routine circumstances" (such as a pub brawl, I presume)?

I live in Finland, where our criminal code actually has a separate crime called "infringement of freedom to political activity", for threat of violence or endangering well-being of others who express their opinion, participate a demonstration or set up an association for peaceful political activity. So attacking someone at a political rally is a worse crime than a random violent attack.

So obviously you're gonna try to follow me down all over the internet. Wonderful. Stay on point./

Hardly. I followed the Twitter link given in your profile. The quoted retweet was at the top.

I personally agree with him, I can't see the problem.

Having myself been attacked by a frothing gang of leftist 'protesters' at a legitimate and absolutely peaceful demonstration, I guarantee you, I can see the problem.

To avoid misunderstanding, are you saying that it's acceptable to physically assault people because of their opinion, or do you "agree" with something else?

>To avoid misunderstanding, are you saying that it's acceptable to physically assault people because of their opinion

Of course it depends on the opinion, but I see nothing wrong with it in principle.

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