Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...best front -row spots in our section. Things were looking up as the sun rose on the first day of Obama’s presidency. The poorly-controlled crowd, however, had something else in mind. There were no longer any police officers in sight, and eventually the brewing mob mentality was set off by a few selfish fence-jumpers. Our entire section flooded forward over a flimsy three-foot plastic barrier and into a handicapped section, blocking the views of disabled people and ruining our hard earned vantage point. By the time our new president appeared in the distance...
...nice elderly woman would move aside to give me a better view of the Jumbotron. Or the fat guy squishing me against a hot dog stand would turn around and compliment me on my four Obama buttons. I couldn’t imagine a nicer mob...
...announcement came after three months of public protests over the government's role in the economic meltdown last October. On Jan. 20, as much of the world was glued to President Obama's inauguration, a mob of riotous protesters pounded on the walls of Iceland's parliament building, denouncing the government for its incompetence. "It was heartbreaking to watch America welcome a leader who they actually revere and place all their hope in, while here we are literally banging down the government's door to get them to listen to us," says Erla Bjarnadóttir, 32, an unemployed office...
...Saab was imprisoned by an opposition mob during a failed 2002 coup against Chávez that the Bush Administration tacitly supported. The State Department refuses to give him a U.S. entry visa, reportedly because it suspects that Saab, who is of Druze Lebanese descent and is an outspoken critic of Israel, has ties to Arab terrorists, a charge he strongly denies. "It goes against everything I stand for," Saab, sitting under a large photo of Chávez, told TIME at his home. The real reason he's barred from America, he insists, is that...
...believe gays should have the same rights as everybody else, and they should have the right to marry. We have a Constitution to protect us against mob rule. If we simply went by what is popular, black men probably wouldn't have equal rights...