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'the occupy wall street movement was not only about battling back against the rise of a corporate oligarchy. it was also about our right to peaceful protest. the police in cities across the country were deployed to short-circuit this right. i watched new york city police during the occupy protests yank people from sidewalks into the street, where they would be arrested. i saw police routinely shove protesters and beat them with batons. i saw activists slammed against police cars. i saw groups of protesters suddenly herded like sheep to be confined within police barricades. i saw, and was caught up in, mass arrests in which those around me were handcuffed and then thrown violently onto the sidewalk. the police often blasted pepper spray into faces from inches away, temporarily blinding victims.
this violence, carried out against nonviolent protesters, came amid draconian city ordinances that effectively outlawed protest and banned demonstrators from public spaces. it was buttressed by heavy police infiltration and surveillance of the movement. when the press or activists attempted to document the abouse by police, they often were assaulted or otherwise blocked from taking photographs or videos. the message the state delivered was clear: do not dissent.' - chris hedges
but it's really the evil republicans that are fascists...quit hiding obama behind the color of his skin. when it comes to our first amendment rights, our fourth amendment rights, he did more to destroy them than any other president. but all the bougie neoliberal democrats are all afraid of trump...idiots.
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