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Confidentiality. They can't discuss information regarding their client, even indirectly. If a client is lying the lawyer who finds out can't disclose it to the world.

The problem with chemical weapons is that they are indiscriminate. They affect peaceful participants and non-participants and can be lethal to the vulnerable. That is the reason why they are banned.

Further, just because the US made a reservation while joining the treaty does not make the treaty invalid or tear gas an appropriate riot suppression tactic. It's just typical US hypocrisy.

What Obdigore said. You can't excuse it by saying it's not as bad as other chemical weapons. It is also a violation of art. 21 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to tear gas peaceful protestors. Systematic and widespread violations of article 21 are crimes against humanity.

So not only a war crime but also a crime against humanity.

I'm sorry Cause but I don't think you're getting the entire point of these protests.

The point is that the cops are using their power granted to them by the law to systematically oppress certain groups of people. When people protest, the cops fail to do their legal duty to facilitate that protest and instead react with a level of violence only matched by that of the most heinous dictatorships in the world. In fact, even in Iran, when the police and military were brutally repressing protesters a few months ago, no one started shooting at people's homes.

Your response to this situation is that, "yeah, I know the cops have their knee on your brother's neck, but if one of 'em tells you to bend over you should bend over because they are the cops."

If you bend over at what point does anything change? for one and a half century blacks in America have been trying to reach something resembling equality with everyone else. Everything they have done during Jim Crow, the 20s, and the Civil Rights Movement has only done so much. They are still disadvantaged in almost every sense that it is possible to be disadvantaged in. At some point, you have to admit that this system is not just.

So the choice here is between protecting tyranny or admitting that it should be done away with. I don't have any trouble saying the people patrolling black neighborhood in riot gear and tanks are the bad guys and I have absolutely no sympathy for them. "I was only following orders" & "peace and security" justify very little.

Sorry to bring the convo back to the rioting issue, but I thought this would be interesting to share:

https://www.facebook...ts/941183240798

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Obviously, this is unconfirmed claims by a private individual and not a reputable news source, so take it with however much salt you want to take. However, from my work this past year on the freedom of assembly (I was working with a member of the Human Rights Committee in developing the HRC general comment on the topic), I know that agents provocateur are nothing new and have always been there. They are people who try to steer assemblies towards violence to deprive them of legitimacy and legal protection.

In fact, it is the State's responsibility under international law to stop such attempts at derailing peaceful assemblies and ensure individuals can assemble without threat of violence.