This is what I was taught in school what a fascist regime/police state looks like... and now we live that. ZW
we can make them cry ... and this is an art of peace . how ? carefully balance opposition and surrender as as an art of action . as an art , this cannot be contrived .
The US is quickly descending into an abyss where the powerful will arrest, brutalize and incarcerate anyone who doesn't dance to their tune. The main reason for the heavy crackdown is that they think it will deter others from joining the protests. In fact, it's having the opposite effect, just like it did all over the arab world. The fascists in charge don't get it. They only use the tools that they control, which is the police and military to repress protests. They don't understand the power of the people, but soon they will. Fortunately, so far, most of the violence is coming from the police. However if they keep this up, they can expect a more violent reaction from the PEOPLE. Already protesters (some black bloc) are starting to react to the overreactions of the police. We can expect this to escalate if the police continue to riot. I was wondering what happened to the armed militias that showed up early on at a few events. One was in Denver and the other in Atlanta I think. Are they still willing to defend the right to free speech, or was that just a sound bite for their own benefit? Not that I think armed militias are necessary. Certainly not at this point. But the path our leaders are taking in trying to stop this movement will surely lead to more violence if more protesters get seriously hurt. The people can only tolerate so much abuse from their own government. It's been proven time and time again. Right now Syria is learning this lesson as that country descends into civil war. I doubt that will happen here, but so far our leaders have given us little reason to hope otherwise...
I think they're counting on a backlash. All they need is an excuse. Sure it will be a poor one, as they will have obviously provoked it, but they don't need a solid excuse, just a debatable one. If they can cast a haze over the origin and cause of the violence, the story will go "we can't definitively say the officers instigated, but we can definitively say that these protests have gone far enough..."
as the protest becomes tactical it becomes predictable , and it receives the traditional response now that everyone is humming the old familiar song . one predictable outcome is genocide . it is within the rules .
What if we all got handcuffs and zip strips and went to New York and arrested the N.Y.P.D.? I mean after all, they are committing crimes, right? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. from the declaration of independence..
at some point some sort of "citizens arrest" is going to have to be made. Unfortunately, this isn't the 18th century and we can't go around with muskets and guillotines restoring law and order. I have been spending a lot of time wondering what the "big showdown" between pig nation and #ows is going to look like. Gill Scott Heron was right when he said "the revolution will not be televised". there is virtually no coverage of what's going on probably due to pressure from the pig establishment.