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The Pepper Shot Heard ’Round the WebPosted on Nov 19, 2011
In what could turn out to be a recruiting coup for the Occupy movement, a clip showing a UC Davis campus police officer blithely pepper-spraying a group of seated students is stirring outrage from all corners of the Web. Like a magician beginning a trick, the officer waves his chemical canister in front of the anxious crowd before releasing the spray. Many of the students try to protect themselves by covering their faces. Some have their mouths forced open by officers who shoot the chemical into their throats. Others stumble away. The crowd erupts in chants of “Shame on you!” as cops begin removing the sitters. The confrontation finally ends after officers arrest about 10 students and at least one woman is taken away to be treated for chemical burns. Courts have deemed similar uses of pepper spray to disperse a peaceful crowd “excessive.” One brave UC Davis professor, Nathan Brown, demanded the resignation of Chancellor Linda Katehi following the incident, noting the discrepancy between her stated commitment to student safety and her decision to call in cops to forcefully end the protest: I will leave it to my colleagues and every reader of this letter to decide what poses a greater threat to “a safe and inviting space for all our students” or “a safe, welcoming environment” at UC Davis: (1) Setting up tents on the quad in solidarity with faculty and students brutalized by police at UC Berkeley? or (2) Sending in riot police to disperse students with batons, pepper-spray, and tear-gas guns, while those students sit peacefully on the ground with their arms linked? Is this what you have in mind when you refer to creating “a safe and inviting space?” Is this what you have in mind when you express commitment to “a safe, welcoming environment?” No one answered when I tried to contact the officer who sprayed the students, Lt. John Pike. His voice mail inbox was full. I left a message with the UC Davis press office and will update this post if I hear back. —Alexander Reed Kelly Advertisement maroony07: Previous item: 'Left, Right & Center': Occupied by Occupy Next item: Lobbying Firm Proposes 'Hit Job' on OWS New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
By JDmysticDJ, November 23, 2011 at 2:17 pm Link to this comment
conception not inception
Report thisBy JDmysticDJ, November 23, 2011 at 10:47 am Link to this comment
RE:OzarkMichael, November 21 at 6:30 pm
This is JDMysticDJ’s attack: Yes it is!
O[B]zerk Michael takes an outrageous and cruel act perpetrated by the Right; twists it and turns it and directs it at the Left, as if the Left were the real perpetrators.
“Liar. My first post was an admission that the police went too far. They crossed the line. My second post was a response to some Lefties here who want to push kids to the front and put them in harm’s way.”
First I must say that I was unaware of the incident posted on U-tube so I apologize for jumping to conclusions. In my own defense I’ll say that after witnessing your many fantasies and distortions jumping to the conclusion that you were fantasizing is not an illogical progression.
Putting kids in harm’s way is an example of very poor judgment indeed. Staying out of harm’s way is almost always the best course of action for us all, and that would be especially true for children. Adults who choose to put themselves in harm’s way do so for a variety of reasons. People who choose to put themselves non-violently in harm’s way for a good cause are courageous and as is the case for the students at U.C. Davis, heroic. The use of the word harm is interesting. I’ll ask what is the source of the mentioned harm? My opinion is that the source of harm comes from battle clad goons whose only weapon against non-violence is violence.. I frequently ponder the psychology behind wanting to become a police ossifer [sic]. I suppose the rationale given by Police State types is that they want to bring “Evil doers” to justice. Justice is a noble concept indeed, and actually upholding justice would be an admirable profession. I’ve noticed that Police ossifers [sic] are very big on this justice thing, ascribing to themselves the duties of Judge, Jury, and Executioners. If one wishes to avoid the type of justice administered by police ossifers [sic] the first thing is not to resist arrest in any way shape or form. Two types of resistance seem to be most infuriating to police ossifers [sic]; the first being non-violent resistance and the second being having a smart mouth. I’m familiar with the sound of police batons bouncing off of my skull for the crime of having a smart mouth. Regarding the psychology of becoming a Police ossifer [sic], that psychology seems to be only more pathological after becoming a member of an us against them cult of brother hoods. I’ve noticed that the first order of business for Police ossifers [sic] when investigating a crime is to investigate the victim. Occasionally bad cops go really, really bad; stealing drugs and money from drug dealers and sometimes using people for target practice pumping so many bullets into them that they have to reload and start all over again. Of course these incidents are rare and just punishments for these incidents are also rare. Many people wonder why certain evil doers go unpunished while other lesser evil doers are abducted by the evil doers and warehoused in jails and prisons deprived of all privileges and privacy; being herded around like cattle or dangerous beasts that must be restrained by chains, having their rectums examined and whatnot. When one stops to think about it, it is quite humorous but only the not so dangerous and chained evil doers see the humor. The Police are generally not endowed with much of a sense of humor, unless it is a sick and cruel sense of humor. When in prison it becomes obvious that there are dangerous and cruel prisoners, they’re most often called trustees. Meanwhile there are corporate conglomerates getting fat on the warehousing. But I digress.
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Report thisBy JDmysticDJ, November 23, 2011 at 10:37 am Link to this comment
RE:OzarkMichael, November 21 at 6:30 pm (Cont.)
Now, back to the issue at hand, you have accused me of being a liar but I dispute the contention that I am a liar. A lie is most often defined as being, “a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.” I have not deliberately or intentionally made a false statement about you. If I am guilty of anything I am guilty of noticing that you are an irrational, right-wing, Left hating, looney who offers his distorted, perceptions without compunction, and an obfuscator devoid of rational thinking perhaps intentionally and deliberately. Do you deny that you have attempted, by twisting and turning, to obfuscate the event under discussion here and to redirect the perception of evil towards those harmed and away from those who are doing the harming. Your apparent contention is that both sides are equally guilty of causing harm, but they are not, unless one has a warped sense of what causing harm is. Yes, non-violent occupiers and others may be doing some harm to Wall Street types and other reprobates but that harm is not violent, is it? Other than the single incident in Oakland where self proclaimed anarchists (Outside agitators) burned a barricade and perpetrated some acts of vandalism can you provide any U-tube videos of Occupiers committing acts of violence? The kinds of violence I’m thinking of here would be fracturing a skull, rupturing a spleen, inflicting blows that cause a still birth in a young pregnant mother who declared her pregnancy and asked for permission to leave a protest, spraying chemical weapons and beatings with clubs, tasers, etc.
You correctly write:
“I am not the one who suggested putting kids and old ladies first. Nor would I ever do such a thing.”
I’ll take you at your word that you would not suggest or do such a thing, nor would I. It might surprise you to learn that I am opposed to the killing of fetuses, by Doctors and by brutal thugs who call themselves public servants. This incident of two public servants beating and in tandem heavily spraying pepper spray into the eyes of a young woman who revealed that she was pregnant should arouse the ire of Right to Lifers, don’t you think? You’ll have to admit this incident might reveal some hypocrisy; Right to Lifers ordinarily believe that life is sacred from inception to birth, but following birth not so much, after birth it seems that life loses its sacred status to many Right to Lifers.
After viewing the U-tube videos you linked to, not surprisingly, I have different interpretation than yours as to what transpired.
You write:
The Occupy mom answers “This is our protest and they ought to allow us” and “The police are the only ones who harmed them!”
My point exactly.
An Occupy sister says “We are the 99% so we have a right to speak up!”
I’m uncertain as to whether the women in these videos were sisters. I’m not saying they weren’t sisters; maybe you have some evidence proving that they were sisters. If you do then I can understand why you would identify them as sisters. If not, your identifying them as sisters is curious.
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Report thisBy JDmysticDJ, November 23, 2011 at 10:33 am Link to this comment
RE:OzarkMichael, November 21 at 6:30 pm (Cont.)
You write:
“They planted their kids in front of their confrontational protest, so the guards have to move the children in order to open the doors. The mom stepped back to film it while a sister hugs the kids and holds them down. i find this disgusting.”
In the U-tube videos you provided I was unable to identify the mother. If the particular protest here was too confrontational it is not revealed by the videos. Comforting children who have been terrorized by police is not at all unexpected. What you call “holding them down” is clearly an attempt to comfort them.
I have attended many demonstrations and protest marches where parents brought their children, holding them in their arms with obvious pride. Those children were an inspiration to protestors. It takes a very sick and twisted mind to believe that those children were intended to be human shields. Having visited Breitbart TV (Incidentally “Breitbart TV” has become a synonym for yellow journalism) and having read the comments there, such as, “The children should be taken away from the parents and the parents should have the crap beaten out of them only reinforces my belief that many from the Right are cretins of the worst sort. It should be pointed out that the videos provided came from “Conservative” sources. Having seen Breitbarts previous videos that were falsified and creatively edited to put forth falsehoods intended to falsely incriminate members of a grass roots get out the vote organization and a former government employee Shirley Sherrod I give little credence to these videos you have provided. It’s only normal that single mothers of limited income who want to participate in Occupy Wall Street events would bring their children. Given the police’s propensity for violence doing so is questionable but claiming that they bring their children to use as human shields is what is “disgusting.”
You write:
“This next video is a little more dangerous. The same kiddie cart is now on the street(probably the same two kids) with a wall of Occupiers, blocking a car from moving forward. The driver might not have seen the kids down that low. Very dangerous. If the driver happened to have gotten scared and slowly puished forward, what would have happened?”
This scenario by you is convenient for your argument. Given that there is a video of an Occupy Wall Street protestor being hit by a car, (I once new a cretin such as you who proudly proclaimed that he ran into a bicycle rider, out of anger, who was directing traffic during a protest) putting children in harms way shows poor judgment but the contention that the children were being used as human shields is pure fabrication coming from those who have an irrational hatred of the Left. You O[B]zerk Michael like to portray yourself as being rational and fair but your hatred of the Left is palpable, and you, in each and every post, seek to demonize the Left.
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Report thisBy JDmysticDJ, November 23, 2011 at 10:26 am Link to this comment
RE:OzarkMichael, November 21 at 6:30 pm (Cont.)
You write:
“These people are clearly putting the kids in harms way at Occupy confrontations, just like bpawk was saying.”
[B]pawk’s comment was thoughtless and I firmly believe that the comment was only made with the suggestion that the police might be given pause before becoming violent if children and old people were involved. Sadly your video and the incident in Seattle where an 82 year old woman had pepper spray sprayed directly into her eyes, leaving her in pain for days, shows that the police would not hesitate to use violence where children and old people are involved.
You write:
“JDMysticDJ, you said it was my fantasy. No. Sadly, it is part of the Occupy arsenal. It is evil.
It is your hate filled mind that apparently supports such evil methods. If you dont condemn the use of kids at the front lines of Occupy protests, everyone will assume that you support the idea.
Why dont you write one of your two page posts explaining why its ok to place kids in the Occupy front lines?”
You are a sick, demented, hate filled, lunatic. The contention that using kids as human shields is a part of the Occupy Wall Street “arsenal” illustrates the validity of the insults I’ve directed at you.
Is my mind filled with hate? There is a fine line between hate and disgust, my belief is that such as you are not worthy of being hated. You and your ilk are poor demented fools worthy of no respect or consideration. I’ll save my hatred for soldiers who kill Afghanis for sport and for terrorists on both sides of current conflicts who have no concern for collateral damage.
This post has been more than two pages; two pages are inadequate to refute the hateful nonsense of fools like you. Not being privileged to an understanding of, or having any certainty about divine retribution, I can only hope that your destiny will be the destiny you so justly deserve. To be more succinct; go to hell! The shame is all yours!
SHAME!
Report thisBy Zippity, November 22, 2011 at 6:53 pm Link to this comment
Good one, Clash!
Report thisBy Clash, November 22, 2011 at 5:44 pm Link to this comment
Then if we are to move (jump through hoops on command)so as not to be beaten, sprayed by chemicals or shot, it would only make sense to , when ordered (asked nicely)we should disrobe and move to our place inline, so they can provide the soothing showers that will allow this cultures final solution to those that aren’t in step.
Report thisBy Zippity, November 22, 2011 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment
Whoops…forget some people may not be up on the news. Here you go: “CLGC’s memo proposes that the ABA pay CLGC $850,000 to conduct “opposition research” on Occupy Wall Street in order to construct “negative narratives” about the protests and allied politicians. The memo also asserts that Democratic victories in 2012 would be detrimental for Wall Street and targets specific races in which it says Wall Street would benefit by electing Republicans instead.”
Report thisBy Zippity, November 22, 2011 at 3:40 pm Link to this comment
I see that the internet posters for lobbying firm of Clark, Lytle, Geduldig & Cranford (close chums w/Boehner don’tcha know) are busy getting trolls to cover the internet with the sad, sorry charge that “OWS put children in harm’s way to advance their cause!” They forget that most Americans HAVE brains and eyes. Very entertaining to read the phony outrage on this page though. You have to wonder: How much are they paying these creeps per post?
Report thisBy bonmom, November 22, 2011 at 2:48 pm Link to this comment
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This is classic “Civil Disobedience”. You don’t turn violence on demonstrators without risking a massacre, like the one in India at the hands of the British soldiers. The enforcers think they have a right to take it to the next level in a police state. The police on campus and in Davis ought to be protecting the students. Any campus is a laboratory, and to exercise one’s rights to free speech, peaceful assembly and demonstration ought to be a requirement. This is the United States of American, not Syria.
Report thisBy MoreSensible, November 22, 2011 at 12:15 pm Link to this comment
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I think if you are asked politely to move a few
Report thistimes, and you do not, you probably are going to be
urged to move with increasingly persuasive methods.
The limit to the force and urgency of those methods
is really only equal to the limits of your refusal to
comply. Ultimate refusal to comply would then
require ultimate persuasion, revealing only your
ultimate ignorance, and resulting in only your pain.
Honestly, why does the fly land where it knows it
will be swatted? To bring justice to the other
flies? Do you think more flies landing there will
fundamentally change either fly or swatter?
Shoo, fly!
There is nothing here for you to occupy.
By Mark S, November 22, 2011 at 5:10 am Link to this comment
Cal Davis is a model Teaching Environment. Students get first-hand experience in Corporate Police State brutality and subjugation. Our graduates have tasted the Real World before ever stepping into it. They leave our school completely radicalized and ready to Hit the Streets.
Stop all tuition payments to the College, and demand full refunds.
Report thisBy Skptic, November 22, 2011 at 12:21 am Link to this comment
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Lt. Pike the policeman who sprayed those peaceful protesters
Report thisshould be shunned for eternity
By Mekhong Kurt, November 21, 2011 at 11:04 pm Link to this comment
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waytoomanybottlesofrum:
That’s a barbaric recommendation.
It’s no different, morally, than suggesting that a serial killer-rapist’s newborn child be slaughtered.
And no, I am NOT defending the police.
Report thisBy OzarkMichael, November 21, 2011 at 5:30 pm Link to this comment
This is JDMysticDJ’s attack:
Liar. My first post was an admission that the police went too far. They crossed the line. My second post was a response to some Lefties here who want to push kids to the front and put them in harm’s way.
JDMysticDJ continues:
I am not the one who suggested putting kids and old ladies first. Nor would I ever do such a thing.
As far as Leftist Occupiers putting kids in harms way, lets look at some evidence. Here is a video, look at the bottom and you can see a dark green kiddie cart with two children inside it, placed there to block a door:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=roxvNzyhrp8
Here is the same event, but this time after the kids have been moved aside. The puzzled camara guy asks over and over again…“Why are you putting kids in harms way”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03P1ItyftzQ&feature=related
The Occupy mom answers “This is our protest and they ought to allow us” and “The police are the only ones who harmed them!”
An Occupy sister says “We are the 99% so we have a right to speak up!”
They planted their kids in front of their confrontational protest, so the guards have to move the children in order to open the doors. The mom stepped back to film it while a sister hugs the kids and holds them down. i find this disgusting.
This next video is a little more dangerous. The same kiddie cart is now on the street(probably the same two kids) with a wall of Occupiers, blocking a car from moving forward. The driver might not have seen the kids down that low. Very dangerous. If the driver happened to have gotten scared and slowly puished forward, what would have happened?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fuglmHlxk&feature=related
These people are clearly putting the kids in harms way at Occupy confrontations, just like bpawk was saying.
JDMysticDJ, you said it was my fantasy. No. Sadly, it is part of the Occupy arsenal. It is evil.
It is your hate filled mind that apparently supports such evil methods. If you dont condemn the use of kids at the front lines of Occupy protests, everyone will assume that you support the idea.
Why dont you write one of your two page posts explaining why its ok to place kids in the Occupy front lines?
Putting kids in harms way for your holy cause is disgusting.
SHAME!
Report thisBy Artsy, November 21, 2011 at 4:14 pm Link to this comment
This disgusting display of horrific torture of the innocent by police makes my skin crawl with hatred for them. The already out-of-control police can and will bring out the big guns. Nobody seems to make a serious effort to take them down for blatant violence against anyone. Cops are almost always right and rarely found to be at fault.
It seems like every police group is already armed to the teeth and ready to take on protesters at every level. They will do everything it takes to stop us.
An internal war in this country is raging and it is the 1% who control almost all the power that will try to make the 99% basically disappear. The power brokers want us to fade away and they will use every weapon there is to do it. That includes media propaganda, lock-up, physical abuse, and murder.
Expect everything that technology offers to stop the protests,including the use of drones and bioweapons to poison those who participate. They can use sound that stops us from functioning. This is going to be a long rough ride!
“Don’t tase me, spray me, poison me, or shoot me; bro!” I am merely protesting and speaking my mind.
Report thisBy Octopodian, November 21, 2011 at 4:05 pm Link to this comment
Man, talk about being afraid, THEY are the ones with
Report thisguns, helmets, bullet proof vests and, of course,
pepper spray. Man up, boys, if you can remember how.
By SoTexGuy, November 21, 2011 at 12:36 pm Link to this comment
By one regular: “You’re wrong, SoTexGuy.”
It’s happened before and will yet again! .. in this case I don’t think I am wrong about the signs of sociopathy..
But to each his or her own.
Report thisBy Zippity, November 21, 2011 at 10:41 am Link to this comment
http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/ “Are riot police sent in for health code violations? For peaceful protest on a college campus? This is bull shit, America. How many times did the ARMED Tea Party get pepper sprayed by riot police? What a joke!
Report thisBy Anarcissie, November 21, 2011 at 10:04 am Link to this comment
You’re wrong, SoTexGuy. After awhile one becomes inured: See http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/
Report thisBy SoTexGuy, November 21, 2011 at 5:42 am Link to this comment
The only human responses to the gassing or other abuse of seated, non-threatening protesters are empathy for the victims and shock and anger at the authorities or others responsible.
If one’s personal response and opinion of the incident differs much from that he or she is sociopathic.
Adios!
Report thisBy JDmysticDJ, November 21, 2011 at 4:26 am Link to this comment
O [B] zerk Michael takes an outrageous and cruel act perpetrated by the Right; twists it and turns it and directs it at the Left, as if the Left were the real perpetrators.
Out of his demented hate filled mind comes a fantasy about parents forcing their terrified, crying children, to become martyrs for the holy cause.
The evil is transparent and easily recognized here.
Report thisBy RayLan, November 21, 2011 at 1:36 am Link to this comment
Finally when the youth have engaged the democratic constitutional process, which is their right, especially in a peaceful protest on a college campus, the thugs the government-corporatocracy have hired to keep peace, behave like psychotic terrorists. Not surprising, considering what the protests are about.
Report thisNo longer is this about left vs Right, Republican vs Democratic, private vs public sector. All such dichotomies are meaningless in a capitalist totalitarian state.
By Richard Ryckoff, November 21, 2011 at 1:26 am Link to this comment
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prisnersdilema:
Report thisVery well said—we really do live in a culture of perverted, mindless consumerism, the destruction of the middle class, a police state ruled by government violence and now endless global wars. It is a culture of violence and death.
We are in the “Matrix” and the ‘American Dream’ has metastasized into the ‘American Nightmare.’ (See the movie, “V for Vendetta”)
A benevolent culture with Peace, Freedom and increasing prosperity is almost unimaginable, now, unless one truly breaks free from the current realities.
The depth of depravity of the current system makes crystal clear that real change will never come from working within that system. (Ralph Nader aptly calls the 2 political parties, “flip sides of the same corporate coin”)
Also, see an excellent analysis of the corporate CEO socio-pathology, “Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks,” by Thom Hartmann from July, 2009.
One of the first steps to reclaim the country must be the legal repeal and abolition of “corporate personhood.”
By Haudenosaun, November 20, 2011 at 9:06 pm Link to this comment
@prisnersdilema
Well said. There are indeed some seriously ill people running things. Very high
Report thisfunctioning sociopaths.
By Jess, November 20, 2011 at 8:16 pm Link to this comment
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Fight back, like Tahrir Square. ONly when a few people like this are unable to
Report thiscontrol a crowd of 100 will we change things here….
By prisnersdilema, November 20, 2011 at 8:09 pm Link to this comment
There is something deeply disturbed and ill in someone who cannot create anything..
Even more so in someone who is not content to harbor their illness silently in
themselves but who is compelled to spread it far and wide in acts of destruction that are
expressions of their pathology….
We have witnessed the destruction spread by our wall street elite, from Iraq, to
Afghanistan, to Japan, the Gulf of Mexico, the rainforest of the Amazon, the genetic
make up of our food, and to the jobs lost by millions of Americans, along with the
destruction of American standard of living, and finally the destruction of our youth in
penury to studnent loans.. like a deadly plague everything the elite touches sickens and
dies…
What have they created exept misery?
This is the the legacy of evil men with stunted souls.
The enjoyment they feel hurting others is, is on display here for all to see…And one day
Report thisit will have to be reckoned with because, there is no where safe from men such as this…
By yobro34, November 20, 2011 at 5:40 pm Link to this comment
The pepper spray video has prompted me to get involved in the movement. Maybe I can be one of the “old people” (70) up front to get sprayed. Wehave to make a stand
Report thisBy screamingpalm, November 20, 2011 at 4:31 pm Link to this comment
@ OzarkMichael
I agree with your point, except that I don’t consider it “Leftist analysis”. You can’t judge a movement by the actions of a few bad apples. This is just distracting from what the purpose is.
Report thisBy question, November 20, 2011 at 4:25 pm Link to this comment
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These young people are so brave, at all the “Occupy” cities all over our once great country. It’s true, as another poster mentioned, that not everyone will participate directly in the protests because of jobs or families or whatever.
But as in every great grass-roots movement throughout history, those who can’t march CAN protect those who do. Underground railroad, partisan support groups, food, shelter, showers, whatever we can do.
The 1% and their paid-for shills aren’t yet convinced that their way of greedy exploitation is over. Because of these young folks, they ARE running scared & attempting to pay for “protection”. I believe that very soon they’ll accept (not understand) that their only protection is to stop being vicious, greedy pigs. Ask Newt, the great historian.
Report thisBy OzarkMichael, November 20, 2011 at 4:25 pm Link to this comment
You want to shine light on the problem… by pushing them to the front… and getting them hurt. Essentially using little kids as shields.
Its all for a holy cause, so why not?
Report thisBy bpawk, November 20, 2011 at 3:35 pm Link to this comment
My point about having children and the elderly attend is not to use them as shields so much as to shine a light that the problem of unemployment, depression, helplessness, etc. affects the entire family unit therefore everyone should be involved. We are all affected.
Report thisBy OzarkMichael, November 20, 2011 at 3:10 pm Link to this comment
bpawk said:
Brilliant idea, and its being done already. Occupiers push old ladies in wheelchairs to the front line. They push their children up to shut doors so the police inside cant open the door without knocking the kids down. Or putting the kids in front of a car so it cant go forward.
Personally, I think it makes for great film action as long as you can edit it. You have to edit out the part where the parents intentionally put the child in harm’s way. If you dont edit that part out,the whole project is wrecked.
Or if some conservative agent films the whole thing. shows the parents dragging the terrified kid and plopping her down in harm’s way, that really exposes and ruins the whole project. After all, you dont have the power to edit other people’s films. Or censor conservative agents… yet!
But otherwise, brilliant Leftist analysis. ‘Anything goes for such a holy cause’ and all that.
Report thisBy tony_opmoc, November 20, 2011 at 2:14 pm Link to this comment
You are Now Doing This To Your Own Children.
What Have You Become?
Tony
Report thisBy Textynn, November 20, 2011 at 1:44 pm Link to this comment
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Obama deploying 20,000 troops inside U.S. to prepare for “event” ?
Report thisThis is serious and people should know how far things are going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmzTqHOfVvE&feature=share
By Clash, November 20, 2011 at 1:19 pm Link to this comment
It seems to me after experiencing the shut down of the port of Oakland first hand, and following the stories being told, that like most endeavors of this culture the occupy movement is primarily a complaint that most junkies have when they have been cut off cold turkey, that is in this case that they have been unfairly cut off from this culture off consumption and they don’t care much for this new status. Would it not be, if in fact a conversation is the goal of those who would march for their right to to be a part of this culture of abuse and destruction to maybe start the discussion now on how to dismantle this culture and its religious, scientific, materialist, mechanistic cults?
As for pepper spray and knight sticks what other reaction should one be expected from the zombies who control this abusive culture. This empire that spreads its disease with the barrel of the gun, this culture that is destroying life, this culture of death and it’s death wish cults.
Report thisBy jlab, November 20, 2011 at 1:05 pm Link to this comment
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I would love to be able to bring my children to a rally, unfortunately I refuse to
Report thisbelieve that polica will refrain from violence/pepper spraying just because I hold a
child, as was suggested in an earlier comment. These “law-enforcement officers”
seem to lose their humanity when they put on their riot gear. Many never had any
humanity to begin with. I won’t put my children in harm’s way, but I’ll show up
alone.
By Textynn, November 20, 2011 at 12:22 pm Link to this comment
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This pepper spray picture culminates the entire process that we are protesting in the Occupy Wall Street Movement. We have very good people playing by all the rules being treated like animals and beasts of burden. Rules that are forcing people to be robbed, thrown into the streets, left jobless and vulnerable, disenfranchised from health care, etc. and any fighting back is met with force, extreme punishment, and a taught acculturation that this is all normal and the way it should be.
Students, particularly, have been forced into a kind of sick unbearable slavery. They are forced into crushing debt slavery for educations to get fairly average paying jobs. They go without health care as they are not employed in what our society deems worthy employment to expect benefits, and then they are asked to work for a pittance or donate their work for jobs for years, and then maybe they will get some average paying job and access to health care.
It’s sick and we have been taught like abused women that we are to serve the needs of our masters without complaint as our voice is meaningless.
NO MORE. This will not end. The OCcupy Movement is in its infancy and we WILL PREVAIL over worthless elite running out lives. It IS worth dying for.
Report thisBy bpawk, November 20, 2011 at 11:39 am Link to this comment
I think one idea that might thwart the police from using pepper spray again is to bring the children and the elderly to the demonstrations - make it a family affair as it is affecting whole families - I’d like to see the cops try to pepperspray little kids or old people with canes or in wheelchairs - the masses need to wake up to the police state that they are increasingly finding themselves in.
Report thisBy hadenough, November 20, 2011 at 11:17 am Link to this comment
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This police officer should be fired and arrested for
Report thishis actions. I would wonder what training is given to
our police forces across USA(I think we are still in
the USA??) The police officers seem to show up ready
for a fight and are attempting to goad the protesters
into action.These people are unarmed and sitting with
their heads down.He appears arrogant and in fact
appears to be enjoying himself!!Even if one does not
agree OWS this is a very scary development for any US
citizens. These police officers should be
ashamed. It also would be wise on their part to
realize that they are part of the 99%!
By bpawk, November 20, 2011 at 11:01 am Link to this comment
The majority of Americans won’t get involved in protests even though they should - after having lost their jobs, house, maybe their marriage, their way of life etc. because they are taught to celebrate other Americans’ success - but you have to know how a lot of people get successful in America - it is by exploiting others through low wages, some are already rich - inherited money, there’s also the bribing of government officials who then make more laws to favour the rich and so it goes. Why identify with the rich when you’re poor or close to it? Yet that’s why there’s apathy - the poor and unemployed blame themselves. The poor also fear the law too as the police or FBI or CIA will come after those who ‘step out of line’ and protest. It reminds me of the Buffalo Springfield song ‘For What It’s Worth’ ...
Report this“Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away”
By Joseph Couture, November 20, 2011 at 9:07 am Link to this comment
People often say the truth hurts and the painful reality is that the Occupy
movement in London, Ontario sank itself. Torn apart by internal strife, fear and a
disastrous public relations strategy, their group efforts quickly evaporated with
the morning dew on their now empty campsite.
Read about how it all went wrong here:
http://www.josephcouture.com “How To Blow a Revolution- The London Model.”
Report thisBy rickroberts, November 20, 2011 at 8:56 am Link to this comment
Obama will comment when it’s his buddy Henry Louis Gates or protesters in
Report thisanother country. He will remain silent on this one. He is voting present yet again.
By Charlie1877, November 20, 2011 at 8:31 am Link to this comment
The police haven’t been serving or protecting us for decades, that is not their purpose,
Report thismainly they are here to collect taxes via traffic tickets. For the most part they are
arrogant jerks. What kind of person do you think who’d be attracted to that kind of job,
stupid jock, or peace loving hippie. But let’s face it the protestors want to be sprayed, it’s
the coolest thing that has ever happened to them, and they have video to boot, I bet the
guys in the video are getting sex thrown at them! All these kids love being victims, they
love it, it’s there own little 60’s storie. FIGHT THE MAN! They should all get a
participation trophy, just like their soccer team:)
By Airpilot0712, November 20, 2011 at 8:11 am Link to this comment
Only when the bought and paid for whore politicians at every level are scared enough will they step in to stop this cruelty….but you see we Occupiers have nothing for a stump speech…don’t you know..if we were protesters in another country demanding are rights and that country just happened to have large reserves of oil then and only then would we be given the coverage by the news outlets that we were demonstrating to change our country from the tyrannical oppressiveness that permeates are freedoms more and more everyday, while war mongering murderers such as Baby Bush and yes even OB BLA BLA… live their lives in protected comfort… time has come for a new revolution to take our country and our government back from these carpetbagging scum that call themselves our representatives. “When the government fears the people there is liberty, when the people fear the government there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson
Report thisBy tony_opmoc, November 20, 2011 at 7:36 am Link to this comment
By their complete non-violence despite the most
horrendous violent provocation, the people actually
participating in OWS, are not only growing very much
stronger, they are doing something that the World has
not seen since
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Told Us British
To Please Get out of Our Country and stop trying to
control of us.
We left on Peaceful Terms, and have largely been
forgiven.
We completely love India, and my wife and I regularly
visit.
Tony
Report thisBy tony_opmoc, November 20, 2011 at 7:09 am Link to this comment
I first saw this on Joe Quinn’s website with a full
and complete explanation of what it meant.
The solutions, though are extremely hard and complex
and the vast majority of people would not agree on
them being implemented.
Instead the psychopaths are implementing them on us.
Whilst there are only 4% of them.
They breed.
We are just going to have use other methods to take
over and control this evil.
My initial reaction on seeing this was extremely
Right Wing American, and I am not American, I am not
Right Wing, and I don’t have a Gun.
I still want to blow his fucking brains out though.
Tony
Report thisBy Patrick, November 20, 2011 at 3:59 am Link to this comment
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Didn’t Gore Vidal say that America is like a country with a big hammer. And when
Report thisyou only have a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail.
By Marian Griffith, November 20, 2011 at 3:08 am Link to this comment
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@Gerard
—-Question: Who else will do it? Obama? The Supremes? The Tea Party? The media? The banksters? Santa Claus? The United States Marines? Pat Robertson? The Market?—-
Ideally Obama would speak out, but he knows that if he takes sides he will be crucified by his own party (who after all have very little to gain by supporting the poor seeing that they are kept comfortably wealthy by the super rich). So true to character he does as little as possible and tries to maintain the charade that these are local events to be resolved by local authorities.
However blaming Obama as a person for this is pointless. It does not matter who sits in the white house and capitol hill, the non-reaction would have been the same. The president is no more in control of the country than the people are.
The violence will only stop when the police officers (first, and later the military) individually come to the conclusion they do not want to be part of the brutality and suppression of peaceful protesters. Only when it reaches that point will the powers that be flee the country (like Ben Ali of Tunesia), there will be a more or less bloodless transition with the leader locked in a cage for trial (Mubarak of Egypt) or the country descends into civil war (Ghadaffi of Libya and possibly Assad of Syria, though the renewed protests against the army may yet see Egypt dissolve into civil war as well).
The other possible outcomes are that the stamina of the protesters to meet the police batons with their unprotected bodies runs out before the stamina of the police to beat harmless people into the hospital does.
Or the protests run out of steam when sufficient of their numbers are distracted by another shiny.
The powers that be are currently gambling on the later outcome, while making judicious use of the next to last one to soften up the resistance. The continueing smear campaign is aimed at making the people wary of putting their opinion behind the protests, and the highly visible use of violence is aimed at making them afraid to join. And at the same time these ‘leaders’ pretend to be the grieving parent claiming they did not want it to come to this but <insert politely worded slur of choice> left them no choice. “And really having their heads bashed in, their lungs burned and their arms and ribs cracked was really their own fault for stepping in front of that police weapon.”
Report thisIn other words: try to distance the majority who might sympathise from the activists, make them afraid for their own safety and confuse the hell out of them with mixed and conflicting messages, and trust on the 15 minute attention span of the average television addict to make the protest go away before they can become inconvenient.
By YoungGringos, November 20, 2011 at 12:44 am Link to this comment
Slink back into your holes you fucking cockroaches.
Report thisYour brutality isn’t working out as intended, is it? Instead of cowing the people it is emboldening them and strengthening their resolve.
You come at us with pepper spray, tear gas, LRAD, batons and battle armor. We meet you with the strength of our unified voices and an army of cameras.
“Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Thoreau
By YoungGringos, November 20, 2011 at 12:43 am Link to this comment
Slink back into your holes you fucking cockroaches.
Report thisYou’re brutality isn’t working out as intended, is it? Instead of cowing the people it is emboldening them and strengthening their resolve.
You come at us with pepper spray, tear gas, LRAD, batons and battle armor. We meet you with the strength of our unified voices and an army of cameras.
“Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
Thoreau
By Robespierre115, November 19, 2011 at 9:37 pm Link to this comment
@Outraged, so you’re saying Obama shouldn’t say anything about this obvious, widespread, brutal assault by police forces against peaceful protesters around the country? The country which elected him is turning into a police state and you don’t have a problem with him, THE PRESIDENT, deciding to ignore it, laugh like an idiot and make stump speeches instead? You have a puzzling view of this country and democracy, very puzzling indeed.
@Maani, you forgot to mention that Gandhi had a focused, clear goal (kick the British out and make India independent), and fought for international recognition while facing colonial terror, OWS, while important, still hasn’t set out to achieve any sort of clear revolution or even reform of the system aside from serving as a powerful space for the citizenry to express general frustrations. As for MLK, yes, a titan of the 20th century, but he helped bring about a needed reform within the existing system (civil rights for African Americans etc.), but was assassinated right when he started going wider and beginning to attack the capitalist system itself which remains intact.
Report thisBy Mac, November 19, 2011 at 9:32 pm Link to this comment
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Morons. Your movement is over.
Watch an episode of Cops. When they tell you that you are assembled unlawfully and need to leave, leave.
Law abiding Americans everywhere know that OWS seeks to destroy the Republic and replace the Constitution. An Occupier took a shot at the White House for crying out loud.
Report thisBy Bisbonian, November 19, 2011 at 8:36 pm Link to this comment
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Lt. John Pike needs to be held down on the ground, with a dozen knees on his chest, have his mouth held open, and have pepper spray shot down his throat, causing burns and the coughing up of blood.
Peacefully, of course.
Report thisBy BrilliantBill, November 19, 2011 at 8:18 pm Link to this comment
Why would anyone be surprised? Katehi is the epitome of the 1%—paid over a half-million dollars a year and given a mansion to live in and a job for her husband. She represents the 1% and lives luxuriously at the expense of student debt. She’s the one who should be subject to a chemical weapons assault.
Report thisBy OzarkMichael, November 19, 2011 at 6:47 pm Link to this comment
Yep. Over the line.
Report thisBy Maani, November 19, 2011 at 6:42 pm Link to this comment
“Non-violent protest is beyond pointless.”
Tell that to MLK et al who changed a country. And tell that to Gandhi et al, who took a country back from its colonial occupiers.
Peace.
Report thisBy gerard, November 19, 2011 at 6:17 pm Link to this comment
Sesame Street quote: “Hopefully, it shakes THE 99% into action to put a stop to “security forces” overkill.”
Question: Who else will do it? Obama? The Supremes?
Report thisThe Tea Party? The media? The banksters? Santa Claus? The United States Marines? Pat Robertson? The Market?
By Outraged, November 19, 2011 at 4:31 pm Link to this comment
Inexcusable. Police who continuously engage in
brutality like this need to be fired and arraigned on
assault.
But here again, we got the Obama haters crybabing that
Report this“it’s all Obama’s fault”. Shut up. You sound stupid. I
put them squarely in the camp of the newfound OWS “supporters”
of Palin and Limbaugh. You see how they play it both
ways.
By berniem, November 19, 2011 at 3:57 pm Link to this comment
When our current potus chooses to allow his predecessors walk despite their proven violation of our civil rights, commision of crimes against humanity, and admitted use of torture, one can say that the genie has left the bottle. If what “The Pig” is doing is not torture and use of excessive force not to mention a violation of constitutional rights then what is it? The “Man” is testing the limits of what is to be legally allowed; why are these people permitting this violation unchallenged? Surely one has to realize that this will continue until violence is finally provoked!
Report thisBy Stacey Warde, November 19, 2011 at 3:52 pm Link to this comment
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Here’s the offending officer’s contact info: Records Unit Manager
Lt. John Pike
530-752-3989
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
His voicemail is full, of course, but perhaps we can jam his and his supervisor’s
Report thisemail with LOUD protests.
By Ryan, November 19, 2011 at 3:42 pm Link to this comment
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Interested in what Obama has to say also. Though I’m
Report thiscertain he couldn’t care less.
By hemingdale, November 19, 2011 at 3:16 pm Link to this comment
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One underused and peaceful tactic against abusive police officers whose identities
and faces are known is the practice of shunning, a tactic more often associated
with religious groups censoring a member or members who deviate from the
groups norm.
This involves not recognizing the person’s existence. Do not speak to them, look
away when they approach, do not respond to them. Walk away. If you are in the
service industry and find yourself having to engage with that person, excuse
yourself with a reasonable explanation, such as “I need to go to the bathroom,” or
“I’m allergic to your cologne, soap, etc.” so that you do not get fired from your job.
Read up on shunning. It’s an effective and active/passive technique to isolate
Report thispeople who prefer violence over peaceful resolution.
By waytoomanybottlesofrum, November 19, 2011 at 2:43 pm Link to this comment
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If the young woman ends up scarred from the burns, a woman from the cop’s family should have to provide skin for a skin graft.
Report thisBy Robespierre115, November 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm Link to this comment
Interesting how “liberal” outlets are not asking one big, important question: What does Obama have to say about this? Police forces are brutally attacking nonviolent protesters, ranging from the elderly to college students, and yet nobody is pressuring the COMMANDER IN CHIEF who came into office with his b.s. “Hope” and “Change” slogans to say anything about this.
@gerard,
“Hopefully, it shakes the 99% into action to put a stop to “security forces” overkill.”
You really need to stop living in Sesame Street, this is what the 99% WANT! It will not tolerate the peasants getting restless, there’s little difference between today’s oligarchs and the feudal lords who ruled Germany during the Peasants’ War of 1525.
Report thisBy Maurice Cabana-Proulx, November 19, 2011 at 2:04 pm Link to this comment
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It is truly edifying watching heavily armed police officers huddled together, cowering nervously, as they gradually vacate the premises. Brutality is the behavior of cowards against those who cannot or will not resist.
Report thisBy thethirdman, November 19, 2011 at 1:15 pm Link to this comment
Non-violent protest is beyond pointless.
Report thisBy gerard, November 19, 2011 at 1:07 pm Link to this comment
Absolutely disgraceful use of unnecessary force and violence! Hopefully, it shakes the 99% into action to put a stop to “security forces” overkill. My hunch is, if police didn’t have all this heavy equipment, they wouldn’t be behaving this way. Follow the money, as usual. They have it. Now they have to “prove” they need it, to justify the cost. Irony is, we the 99% paid for this violence-stimulating war-gear with our tax money and never peeped. Now our children and grandchildren meet it head-on. This ought to show us all where we went wrong. Support the Occupiers!
Report thisBy Brandt Hardin, November 19, 2011 at 12:06 pm Link to this comment
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Evicting protesters is Unconstitutional and endangers
Report thisthe basic rights of EVERY last American. Is this the
country we were raised in, were men and women are
beaten, gassed, pepper-sprayed and arrested for their
disapproval of the government? We have to be careful
to protect our Constitutional Rights! Raise awareness
and do your part with these free posters I designed for
the movement on my artist’s blog at
http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/11/propaganda-
for-occupy-movement.html