A sign is seen posted between tents at the Occupy Oakland encampment Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland is bracing for Wednesday's citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious... (Associated Press)
It is some of the worst police work I have ever witnessed. The police are confrontational and hostile. The demonstrators have never given them a reason to act. This is a peaceful and nonviolent movement. The demonstrators are joined by vast numbers of people in support of their positon. They do nothing but assert their RIGHTS under the US Constitution.
The police appear out of nowhere with ORDERS from headquarters, announce their demands and don't even give people a chance to process what is going on before they become aggressive and out of control themselves. It is police brutality, plain and simple. It needs to stop.
The only acts of violence by the demonstrators are in reaction to the aggression they are faced with. If police want to incite violence then they are successful in doing so. Any person when confronted will seek to defend themselves.
The 'style' of reporting in The Guardian, a British newsprint, is punitive to demonstrators. The Brits have very violent confrontations by their demonstrators due to aggressive police tactics. This is the same style reporting that landed three journalists at the World Court on charges of genocide. It is hostile to human life and attempts to deny Americans their rights under the law, while demonizing them.
Occupy Oakland general strike – live updates (click title to entry - thank you)
...At least one protester was carried away with an injury to his leg. Another who had been arrested, his hands bound behind him, lay on the ground with blood streaming down his face.
Police estimated around 60 protesters had been arrested. Dozens of them were lined up seated along a street curb in plastic wrist restraints as they waited to be taken away.
One of them, Adam Konner, 29, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, said he heard a police announcement ordering "campers to move back to your tents," before police advanced again.
"I was trying to figure what they were saying. I was trying to figure out if I could go back into the plaza," he told Reuters. He said he was suddenly confronted by police who knocked him to the ground and placed him under arrest....
There is a very real reason why this generation is as successful as they are; they are only the 'representative' number of people who know the ? new normal ? for the American citizen. This generation is carrying 'the shame' of this nation into the streets, but, they are joined by everyone else in their focus. So, when the demonstrators are confronted by authority that results in harming them the people that turn out after the fact have been there the entire time. I like to think of the people in support of this movement as "Ghost Riders." They are always there, but, just not present at the time, but, trying to keep the nation afloat while being vigilant of 'the truth.' "# Occupy" will never be alone or abandoned by the Ghost Riders.
It is some of the worst police work I have ever witnessed. The police are confrontational and hostile. The demonstrators have never given them a reason to act. This is a peaceful and nonviolent movement. The demonstrators are joined by vast numbers of people in support of their positon. They do nothing but assert their RIGHTS under the US Constitution.
The police appear out of nowhere with ORDERS from headquarters, announce their demands and don't even give people a chance to process what is going on before they become aggressive and out of control themselves. It is police brutality, plain and simple. It needs to stop.
The only acts of violence by the demonstrators are in reaction to the aggression they are faced with. If police want to incite violence then they are successful in doing so. Any person when confronted will seek to defend themselves.
The 'style' of reporting in The Guardian, a British newsprint, is punitive to demonstrators. The Brits have very violent confrontations by their demonstrators due to aggressive police tactics. This is the same style reporting that landed three journalists at the World Court on charges of genocide. It is hostile to human life and attempts to deny Americans their rights under the law, while demonizing them.
Occupy Oakland general strike – live updates (click title to entry - thank you)
...At least one protester was carried away with an injury to his leg. Another who had been arrested, his hands bound behind him, lay on the ground with blood streaming down his face.
Police estimated around 60 protesters had been arrested. Dozens of them were lined up seated along a street curb in plastic wrist restraints as they waited to be taken away.
One of them, Adam Konner, 29, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, said he heard a police announcement ordering "campers to move back to your tents," before police advanced again.
"I was trying to figure what they were saying. I was trying to figure out if I could go back into the plaza," he told Reuters. He said he was suddenly confronted by police who knocked him to the ground and placed him under arrest....
There is a very real reason why this generation is as successful as they are; they are only the 'representative' number of people who know the ? new normal ? for the American citizen. This generation is carrying 'the shame' of this nation into the streets, but, they are joined by everyone else in their focus. So, when the demonstrators are confronted by authority that results in harming them the people that turn out after the fact have been there the entire time. I like to think of the people in support of this movement as "Ghost Riders." They are always there, but, just not present at the time, but, trying to keep the nation afloat while being vigilant of 'the truth.' "# Occupy" will never be alone or abandoned by the Ghost Riders.
