Re: Occupy Wall Street. The first amendment right to protest is being ignored or squeezed down by selling permits to protest by some cities, and/or forbidding being to close to the state house, or to city hall, or in a park. These are methods for selecting who can protest, and saying no to groups the party of power doesn't like.
Nation wide there is an army of pro bono attorneys working to guide the protests in dozens of cities through the legal maze of exercising their first amendment rights. Thanks to the lawyers, it is said it is the biggest pro bono legal event since the Viet Nam war protests. Thanks.
And........what the hell are the cops doing beating and pepper spraying and turning sprinkler systems at night on these people who so far as I know they have yet to find anyone with so much as a can opener let alone a gun or large knife, but to look at the swat team battle gear of the cops it seems they come prepared for a 1980's Belfast riot. What the hell is going on with the cops, these people have more in common with them than the rich who are begging the politicians they own for a crack down. Wake up cops! These protestors are more likely to support more police hired and at better pay than those asking for busted heads from their penthouses.
Darrel,
ReplyDeleteYou are correct! The Senate Republicans blocked a bill to fund the hiring of more cops and teachers. What pisses my old sergeant ass off the most - they never went after the baggers or don't go after those friggin religious zealots from down your way that protest at funerals of dead GIs - if anyone needs a night stick taken to their asses - it is those cocksuckers.
But face it - aren't most cops Republicans?
Sarge
Sarge,
ReplyDeleteI don't think we can make that assumption about cops, I think in most cities it would be dems and unions. Those that I knew a few years back I think they were dems. Maybe it changed. ???