A case study in how nonviolence can often defeat violence
Many of you have probably seen versions of the first video below, showing campus police officers armed with riot gear at the University of California-Davis spraying pepper spray into the faces of nonviolent “Occupy” student protesters last Friday.
Two campus police officers and the campus police chief have been placed on administrative leave as a result of the action. The president of the 10-campus California university system said he was appalled by police action and would ensure it was not repeated. UC-Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi is also under pressure from students and alumni to resign. On Saturday evening, with campus emotions still raw, Katehi was forced to exit her office to her car through a gauntlet of protesters outraged at what had happened.
But it wasn’t quite what you think it might be:
Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud to see that.
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RF
November 22nd, 2011
12:06 pm
You could hear heels hitting pavement. Silence spoke more loudly than ever.
Normal, Jesus is NOT a Capricorn
November 22nd, 2011
12:11 pm
nonviolent “Occupy” student protesters…
You just have to love it. America at her best.
Normal, Believe what youwant, it's no skin off my nose.
November 22nd, 2011
12:14 pm
The way that Policeman was struting, I bet he thought he was Newt’s own hero, chanting, “Take a bath and get a job”.
Normal, Believe what you want, it's no skin off my nose.
November 22nd, 2011
12:14 pm
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Joe Hussein Mama
November 22nd, 2011
12:15 pm
As far as I’m concerned, the campus police officers who sprayed those protestors need to be charged with assault. And when they’re charged, their attorneys need to get them to accept a plea.
If I was on a jury during the trial of one of those cops and they showed me that video (and I hadn’t seen it before), I wouldn’t need to deliberate. Indiscriminately pepper-spraying peaceful, nonviolent protestors is inexcusable IMO.
Cal
November 22nd, 2011
12:15 pm
Would MLK Jr. be proud to see this too?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=634_1321112099
scrappy
November 22nd, 2011
12:16 pm
A short description of what happened would be nice for those of us that have clips such as these blocked during working hours.
barking frog
November 22nd, 2011
12:16 pm
A sad end to a meaningful carer. I remember the anti war protesters
of the 60’s and they were treated exactly as the protesters today.
50 years and no change.
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:17 pm
Obama isn’t even a deficit dove
The dodo president is steering us in the direction of failed states. Zimbabwe, Weimar Germany, Greece. It is a very very sad day for the US and all due to Obama.
Who care about UC Davis when the whole country is going to go under thanks to spendthrift Obama.
Bruno
November 22nd, 2011
12:17 pm
Looking forward to the day when the Occupy protestors grow up and go home. We’ve wasted millions and millions of precious tax dollars on these crybabies who have no coherent message and no clear agenda.
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
12:18 pm
But I thought the protesters were violent and dirty and need a bath right before they go get a job!
Soros! Solyndra! Socialism! Fast and Furious! Evolution isn’t real because it doesn’t explain life, the universe, and everything all at once! Climate Change isn’t real because it was cold today! Corpse-man, 57 states, teleprompter! Marxist/compromise/communist/fascist/progressive/liberal are all the same word!
You can tell who liberals fear by….
Did I miss anything?
Oh yeah I forgot: Liberals are all mother’s-basement-collecting-Soros-checks and you’re-too-young-to-have-an-opinion
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:19 pm
Obama proposed increasing the deficit today. Way to go Obama. Obama is worse than any Wall St banker.
josef
November 22nd, 2011
12:19 pm
Question…were these two officers ordered to do that?
And I know this won’t set well with the rightists hereabouts, but Rachel Maddow’s segment on this last p.m. was interesting….
barking frog
November 22nd, 2011
12:19 pm
Like it or not, when you disobey the order of a policeman
you change peaceful to criminal.
Armed Liberal
November 22nd, 2011
12:19 pm
F the po po.
AmVet - Just say no to Republican fascists.
November 22nd, 2011
12:19 pm
(CNN) — The University of California at Davis has placed two police officers on administrative leave after video of them pepper-spraying non-violent protesters at point-blank range sparked outrage at school officials.
Friday’s incident has led to calls for the resignation of UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who announced the action in a written statement Sunday. Katehi said she shares the “outrage” of students and was “deeply saddened” by the use of the chemical irritant by campus police.
A group of about a dozen protesters sat on a path with their arms interlocked as police moved in to clear out a protest encampment affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday. Most of the protesters had their heads down as a campus police officer walked down the line, spraying them in their faces in a sweeping motion.
“I was shocked,” Sophia Kamran, one of the protesters subjected to the spray, said Saturday. “When students are sitting on the ground and no way of moving to be violent, being totally peaceful, I don’t understand the use of pepper spray against them.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/21/us/california-occupy-pepper-spray/index.html
Two campus police officers and the campus police chief have been placed on administrative leave as a result of the action.
Somewhere a neo-con just lost his wings…
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
12:20 pm
Oh yeah I missed Bruno’s charge, damn.
If you really think there’s no clear message, it’s willful ignorance at this point, more than 2 months in.
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:21 pm
Egypt revolution appears to be going spectacularly well.
Riots and violence everywhere.
This is the future Obama is bringing to the US.
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
12:21 pm
Jm: So since you oppose Obama’s proposal to “increase the deficit,” I assume that means you want taxes to go up?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 22nd, 2011
12:21 pm
We’ve wasted millions and millions of precious tax dollars on these crybabies who have no coherent message and no clear agenda
Translation: Our storm troopers have abused and horrified the world on these nonviolent protestors expressing their constitutional right to free speech and we don’t like it because their message does not agree with our “keep your government hands off my medicare” protests where costs did not matter.
St Simons - beach philosopher
November 22nd, 2011
12:22 pm
Jesus was the original OWS protester. Matthew 21:12
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
12:23 pm
Jm: Nevermind, I can see from your last post you are just throwing stuff out to get attention. You shall get no more from me. I’ll be here commenting on topics and responding to people other than you. Have a nice day.
Fly-On-The-Wall
November 22nd, 2011
12:23 pm
Cal
And your point is what? Those people in your video were not OWS protestors so why the deflection?
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:23 pm
Occupy is the degenerate result of ignorant people engaging in their ignorant fantasies
Let them burn our country to the ground and we will rebuild it for them
Finn McCool
November 22nd, 2011
12:24 pm
jm, time for your afternoon meds?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 22nd, 2011
12:25 pm
Ummmm… frog, sorry. You do not have to obey any order from a police officer. His order still has to be lawful, both constitutionally and otherwise. And there is no justification for the excessive force attacks by police on nonviolent protestors
Bruno
November 22nd, 2011
12:25 pm
If you really think there’s no clear message, it’s willful ignorance at this point, more than 2 months in
Then clue me in, Adam, and explain what course of action is being proposed by the Occupy portestors. I saw that Jay ran an article last week looking for ideas abourt how to close the “wealth gap” in this country. Lots of thoughtful commentary from the conservative posters, with zero ideas proposed by the Lefties on board that I saw.
Doggone/GA
November 22nd, 2011
12:25 pm
“Like it or not, when you disobey the order of a policeman you change peaceful to criminal”
Not if it’s an unlawful order
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:25 pm
Adam 12:21
I’ve said if taxes need to go up to fix the deficit, so be it
You new here?
Cause I’ve only said it 1000 times.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 22nd, 2011
12:26 pm
barking frog — “Like it or not, when you disobey the order of a policeman
you change peaceful to criminal.”
Shrug. Ever hear of civil disobedience?
josef
November 22nd, 2011
12:26 pm
Jm
Are you calling the OWS the children of Sherman?
barking frog
November 22nd, 2011
12:26 pm
Jm 12:23 that would certainly stimulate the construction industry.
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:27 pm
OWS is missing. What are they doing? Naptime probably.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 22nd, 2011
12:27 pm
“We’ve wasted millions and millions of precious tax dollars on these crybabies who have no coherent message and no clear agenda ”
–Iran’s Revolutionary Council
–Chinese Central Committee
–Egypt’s President Mubarak
–Myanmar’s ruling military junta
Cal
November 22nd, 2011
12:28 pm
FOTW@12:23, an isolated incident of non-violence does not an argument make. There has been plenty of violence within and from the OWScum.
barking frog
November 22nd, 2011
12:28 pm
JHM 12:26 heard it, saw it, never did it…
King Of All
November 22nd, 2011
12:28 pm
JM, put the bong down and go take your Prozac or your Phaggigiz (pronounced Faggy-Jizz)
Fly-On-The-Wall
November 22nd, 2011
12:28 pm
Our police have become too ‘militarized’ of late. Some of the larger departments have the same ‘toys’ that the military has and they have used them on OWS protestors. What does that say about us as as people and a nation?
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
12:28 pm
Bruno: Having a clear message is NOT the same as advocating for one or two specific policy positions as a demand.
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:28 pm
Josef 12:26
Something like that
Matti's Respect for our Rights
November 22nd, 2011
12:28 pm
As a mom, if some uniformed THUG sprayed my kid (and my kid’s friends) in the face like that, while they were exercising their First Amendment rights, I would remain neither calm nor silent.
Bruno:
1- I’m sorry you don’t believe in our Constitution anymore. Shame.
2- I left you what you asked for back on Memphis,p.3.
AmVet - Just send Republican fascists to Singapore.
November 22nd, 2011
12:29 pm
Bru, they HAVE grown up.
They’ve grown up with systemic, wholesale economic injustice and the attempted destruction of capitalism by corporate pigs at the trough.
NO MORE.
Sitting at home is not gonna improve things in this country.
The corporatists will not budge unless they are confronted by focused and sustained citizen power.
This is a patriotic movement to reclaim OUR sovereignty.
Fly-On-The-Wall
November 22nd, 2011
12:30 pm
Cal – BULLPUCKY
stands for decibels
November 22nd, 2011
12:31 pm
[I]n everyday life they use tasers and pepper spray on grandmothers and children, on people already in restraints, in wheelchairs and in sickbeds. They do it all the time. Normally it is considered so “harmless” that it doesn’t even merit a small news story — unless someone dies. Which happens fairly frequently.
getalife
November 22nd, 2011
12:31 pm
The President listened to the OWS chants and then gave his speech NH.
Some police are over reacting but they know they are the 99 % too
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:32 pm
Obama. Nice guy
From a policy perspective, worse than Carter
josef
November 22nd, 2011
12:32 pm
frog
“Jm 12:23 that would certainly stimulate the construction industry.”
Great Granny made a nice chunk of change doing it!
TaxPayer
November 22nd, 2011
12:32 pm
I love seeing these conservatives coming out and showing their true colors with their comments about peaceful demonstrators.
willie lynch
November 22nd, 2011
12:32 pm
Funny how this group of young, unwashed, unemployed, haven’t a clue of how things work collective managed to be more civil in their disagreement than any republican audience I’ve heard, when asked how they would treat a fellow American who has taken a position with which they didn’t agree.
It just proves age is no guarantor of wisdom.
Mick
November 22nd, 2011
12:34 pm
The occupiers have changed the conversation, only people like jm are stuck on that broken record. By the way, you keep blaming obama but congress makes the laws and the president executes, try blaming the no tax house…
Matti's Respect for our Rights
November 22nd, 2011
12:35 pm
Sorry, but I couldn’t find the clause that mandates a coherent message or clear agenda as a condition for “crybabies” exercising our rights:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
stands for decibels
November 22nd, 2011
12:35 pm
You know what was wrong with those dang Vietnam War protesters? They didn’t include complete plans for disengaging militarily and politically in Southeast Asia, they just had this vague “end the war” signage!
I mean, it’s not like anyone’s going to remember pointless gestures like this.
barking frog
November 22nd, 2011
12:36 pm
Is the use of pepper spray and tasers a step up from
dogs and fire hoses and billy clubs? I think so. we’re
getting there.
stands for decibels
November 22nd, 2011
12:36 pm
sorry, messed up link @ 12.35.
here ’tis.
http://thejesusquestion.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/flowerpower.jpg
getalife
November 22nd, 2011
12:36 pm
It’s their future and they decided to step up.
Lets hope we find some leaders in the movement because we are out of leaders after Hillary and our President leaves.
Keep fighting real Americans.
You will win.
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:36 pm
Greece. Italy.
Spain falling now too. Rates up 2% overnight.
What was Trotsky saying about Spain being safe. Ha
Mick
November 22nd, 2011
12:38 pm
stands
Remember how we were told that if vietnam went communist it would have a domino effect? Look at vietnam today, what happened? Same in the middle east, get out and let them figure their own destiny out. Israel can handle themselves, afterall they have our best weapons…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 22nd, 2011
12:38 pm
I have to agree, there is no coherent message. I mean its not like some lobbying group tied to Boehner would be worried about the “message” enough that it would propose a campaign costing almost a million dollars to try to counter the “message” to banker or anything. Why how could a bunch of dirty non-bathing, stupid protesting crybabies while living in their mom’s basement cause any concern among the 1%?
Bruno
November 22nd, 2011
12:38 pm
They’ve grown up with systemic, wholesale economic injustice and the attempted destruction of capitalism by corporate pigs at the trough.
Can you match your emotion with some clear action steps, Am?? Standing around and complaining does little to sway me.
1- I’m sorry you don’t believe in our Constitution anymore. Shame.
How did you come up with that, Matti?? How does expressing frustration that a bunch of ill-informed kids are wasting precious tax dollars have to do with the Constitution??
2- I left you what you asked for back on Memphis,p.3.
Not sure what you mean with this one.
stands for decibels
November 22nd, 2011
12:39 pm
Is the use of pepper spray and tasers a step up from
dogs and fire hoses and billy clubs?
I think it’s debatable. I’m sure fire hoses and billy clubs were considered a step up from shooting and trampling underfoot.
See also…
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/11/21/about-pepper-spray/
any compound that can influence nerve function is, by definition, risky. Research tells us that pepper spray acts as a potent inflammatory agent. It amplifies allergic sensitivities, it irritates and damages eyes, membranes, bronchial airways, the stomach lining – basically what it touches. It works by causing pain – and, as we know, pain is the body warning us of an injury.
In general, these are short term effects. Pepper spray, for instance, induces a burning sensation in the eyes in part by damaging cells in the outer layer of the cornea. Usually, the body repairs this kind of injury fairly neatly. But with repeated exposures, studies find, there can be permanent damage to the cornea.
The more worrisome effects have to do with inhalation – and by some reports, California university police officers deliberately put OC spray down protestors throats. Capsaicins inflame the airways, causing swelling and restriction. And this means that pepper sprays pose a genuine risk to people with asthma and other respiratory conditions.
And by genuine risk, I mean a known risk, a no-surprise any police department should know this risk, easy enough to find in the scientific literature.
Fly-On-The-Wall
November 22nd, 2011
12:39 pm
Next we’re going to hear that Obama has failed on leadership with the Super Committee. I thought Congress had control of the purse strings and not the President? Doesn’t Congress have to make the laws instead of the Executive branch? But even still I guess the plan Obama submitted doesn’t count for whatever reason the righty-tighties want to come up with. Blame Obama, if he does submit a plan then he’s trying to force Socialism on us or become king and if he doesn’t then he’s not leading. Can’t win with this crowd.
Mick
November 22nd, 2011
12:40 pm
jm
Greece, italy and spain combined, still does not campare to the US and you know it but another day, another sky falling…
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:42 pm
Occupy is an embarrassment to this country
Mick
November 22nd, 2011
12:43 pm
Occupy is only an embarassment to the 1% or con brainwashed…
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
12:43 pm
Mick: You can stop feeding the troll now
Mick
November 22nd, 2011
12:44 pm
Feeding the troll? jm has his beliefs, I have mine, we just disagree…that might be a good thing…
barking frog
November 22nd, 2011
12:45 pm
stands 12:39 Having had my nerve function affected by slapjack,
I would opt to try the pepper spray or taser next time…
Bruno
November 22nd, 2011
12:45 pm
Gotta run, but I think it’s laughable that so many of you here are in full support of flushing millions and millions of precious tax dollars down the drain with no hope for positve change. My concern is for all of the legitimate business owners who are being harmed so that a bunch of spoiled brats can throw a public temper tantrum.
Granny Godzilla
November 22nd, 2011
12:46 pm
God Bless The Non-Violent OWS Protesters.
God Damn the violent response.
BlahBlahBlah
November 22nd, 2011
12:47 pm
And none of this will help them get a job when they graduate.
AmVet - Just send Republican fascists to Singapore.
November 22nd, 2011
12:50 pm
Brother B, your wish is my command!
Though written 11 years ago, this man of vision and courage provides a ton of powerful facts that I think directly relate to the newly formed OWS movement and its attempts to end the corporate ownership who runs OUR country:
Corporate welfare-the enormous and myriad subsidies, bailouts, giveaways, tax loopholes, debt revocations, loan guarantees, discounted insurance and other benefits conferred by government on business-is a function of political corruption.
Corporate welfare programs siphon funds from appropriate public investments, subsidize companies ripping minerals from federal lands, enable pharmaceutical companies to gouge consumers, perpetuate anti-competitive oligopolistic markets, injure our national security, and weaken our democracy.
At a time when the national GDP is soaring, one in five children lives in deep poverty, one might expect that a public effort to curtail welfare would focus on cutting big handouts to rich corporations, not small supports for poor individuals. But somehow the invocations of the need for stand-on-your-own-two-feet responsibility do not apply to large corporations.
This is a great article that I would encourage you to read and comment on…
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Nader/CutCorpWelfare_Nader.html
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 22nd, 2011
12:50 pm
So-called “non-lethal” methods should be used only where lethal force would have been used before to meet nonlethal actions that are excessively violent. That was their supposed justification. There is absolutely no justification for use of pepper spray on non-violent protestors sitting on the ground in a line. Unless of course you support and advocate a police state without freedom or a constitution.
SHAME! Not in this country.
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:51 pm
Occupy is not the invalid, the children, or the elderly
They are able bodied, and semi-able-brained people
They choose not to work and want everything free from everyone else
They have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
November 22nd, 2011
12:52 pm
Well, when they get to be the majority, they can do the spraying. Till then, they’re the sprayees and we’re the sprayers. That’s the way it should be in a free society.
What’s this “rights” stuff people are talking about?
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
12:53 pm
Mick: Jm doesn’t believe what he’s saying, he’s just trying to get attention.
Peadawg
November 22nd, 2011
12:53 pm
The kids stopped being peaceful when they sat down and tried to block the sidewalk and not let people walk by. That’s not peaceful. That’s annoying and obnoxious.
Like I’ve said…the OWS movement started off really really well. The message it still a good one. It’s obnoxious students like these that’s starting to obscure what OWS is trying to stand for.
Peadawg
November 22nd, 2011
12:54 pm
“Mick: Jm doesn’t believe what he’s saying, he’s just trying to get attention.” – Same thing goes to getalife. We can only hope.
Matti's Respect for our Rights
November 22nd, 2011
12:55 pm
I think it’s laughable that so many of you here are in full support of flushing millions and millions of precious tax dollars down the drain with no hope for positve change.
You mean the millions and millions that would be spent to amend the Constitution, so Congressweasels could have the extra layer of government regulation they seem to neeeeeeed to actually do the job they’re being paid to do now? THAT waste of millions? Or are you talking about employing a few more municipal sanitation workers? Hmmm…
AmVet - Just send Republican fascists to Singapore.
November 22nd, 2011
12:55 pm
Patching the corporate drain on public resources will require an informed and mobilized citizenry that both forces changes in our systems of campaign finance, lobbying and political influence, and demands careful and critical scrutiny by the media, Congressional committees and ultimately the citizens who lose out from government transfers of resources, privileges, and immunities to corporations… ~Ralph Nader, 2000
An informed and mobilized citizenry that forces changes.
Yeah, baby!
andrew
November 22nd, 2011
12:56 pm
what a bunch of crybaby whiners. These OWS protesters need to get a life! Bunch of losers.
Mick
November 22nd, 2011
12:56 pm
adam
Well, that would be a waste of time imho
stands for decibels
November 22nd, 2011
12:56 pm
The kids stopped being peaceful when they sat down and tried to block the sidewalk and not let people walk by. That’s not peaceful. That’s annoying and obnoxious.
And uppity. They had that hosin’ a-coming.
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
12:57 pm
If the brats are stopping the rest of the students from getting the education they need and want, arrest the bums
Finn McCool
November 22nd, 2011
12:57 pm
we are out of leaders after Hillary and our President leaves
Um, and what doyou call Elizabethg Warren?
Next US Presiden, first female US President.
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
12:57 pm
Peadawg: How are these students obnoxious? They were just sitting there!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 22nd, 2011
12:57 pm
The kids stopped being peaceful when they sat down and tried to block the sidewalk and not let people walk by. That’s not peaceful. That’s annoying and obnoxious.
What a lot of bull! Sorry for your “inconvenience”. So that is how we are now measuring protests. “annoying and obnoxious”. What is next? Step off the sidewalk and we shoot to kill?
Granny Godzilla
November 22nd, 2011
12:57 pm
“millions and millions of precious tax dollars ”
there is a cost to democracy.
RB from Gwinnett
November 22nd, 2011
12:57 pm
These protests are going to continue until……..what? What has to occur for them to stop?
Finn McCool
November 22nd, 2011
12:59 pm
I think it’s laughable that so many of you here are in full support of flushing millions and millions
Kinda like the Iraq War? the war on drugs? yeah, laughable.
Mick
November 22nd, 2011
12:59 pm
These protests are going to continue until……..what? What has to occur for them to stop?
Jobs, jobs, jobs
Jm
November 22nd, 2011
1:00 pm
Just peddling supposed influence on a smaller scale. How lame.
Donate $25 or more, and start thinking about who you’ll invite to dinner:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Dinner
Thanks for being part of this,
Barack
Adam
November 22nd, 2011
1:00 pm
RB: Now we’re talking….
Approach it that way instead of hitting them, spraying them, demeaning them, telling people who have jobs and take baths/showers daily who participate in these protests to go get a job and take a bath, and maybe we’ll actually get a demand and they WILL stop.
So if you want them to stop, you can start by not fueling the fire by attacking them, physically or otherwise.
josef
November 22nd, 2011
1:01 pm
gooe fight
@ 12:50
Maddow’s point last p.m. If you didn’t catch it, you might want to pick up on it…
Finn McCool
November 22nd, 2011
1:01 pm
What has to occur for them to stop?
Some arrests and trials of the Wall Street guys who brought the country to its knees with their greed?
I would start there.
Granny Godzilla
November 22nd, 2011
1:02 pm
Let’s pepper spray speeders and all traffic offenders.
They are annoying and obnoxious.
Hell, let’s add people who break into line, folks who don’t mow their lawns, Jm, people who spit their gum on the ground for someone else to step in AND anybody with a fairtax bumper sticker.
stands for decibels
November 22nd, 2011
1:02 pm
there is a cost to democracy.
You mean freedom *isn’t* free?
JOE Cool
November 22nd, 2011
1:02 pm
Jm must have a VIAGRA moment everytime he mentions “Obama”.
Thomas
November 22nd, 2011
1:02 pm
The only way this blog has credibility is to also speak of the violence that has occurred. From a police/oversight standpoint how does one area ignore the recent history of another area?
AmVet - Just send Republican fascists to Singapore.
November 22nd, 2011
1:03 pm
I think a huge part of the answer lies in two words – public works.
You know, jobs??? Jobs that can’t be farmed out to a certain fascist’s beloved Singapore. And Red China and a host of other countries run by dictators and thugs.
Look at our deplorable bridges, schools, roads and infrastructure.
Screw Boeing, Haliburton, Georgia Power and Donald Trump. Screw Israel and Egypt. Screw having military bases in over 100 countries around the globe. And screw more welfare for Wall Street banksters.
Invest in America. Invest in your own communities.
Invest in American workers.
And for gawdsakes quit being GOP fascists and cowards who lick wealthy men’s boots, all the while being trickled on…
Gator Joe
November 22nd, 2011
1:03 pm
The police officer will, in all likelyhood, use the “I was only following orders” defense. He and his superiors deserve to be disciplined, with the most severe discipline applied to his superiors, up to and including the universtiy’s president. The protesters were peacefully, engaging in their right to assemble and protest, while this “law enforsement” officer was unlawfully, mindlessly, commiting physical assault on the protesters.