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In reply to the discussion: Chris Hedges: The Crime of Peaceful Protest [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)country were involved, PEACEFULLY, in the first phase of this movement?
Would you like me to post some video, there are literally hundreds of them, showing the brutality of the 'army' that was sent out, coordinated at a federal level, we know now for certain, towards people who were doing nothing more than standing or walking as is their right to do, expressing their opinions on issues that are of the utmost importance to the people.
I could start with the woman in her eighties, a surviver of Nazi Germany, who was brutally attacked by what passes for civilian police, with pepper spray for simply BEING THERE.
I can show you more of an Iraq Veteran who was nearly killed by an unprovoked attack from a coward dressed like a robo cop who then attacked the peaceful, decent people who rant to try to try to help him.
Or the beating of another Iraq Veteran who lost his spleen, by another mob of cowards dressed like robo cops for simply walking to his home.
And you post a video of one woman out of tens of thousands of peaceful protesters but neglect to show the brutality towards the old, the young, veterans, women, and men for exercising their supposed rights in what is supposed to be a democracy?
What IS your point? The WORLD witnessed the brutality of the US towards its own people for over two weeks and were appalled to the point where the UN Rappateur on Human Rights made an appeal to the US Govt to intervene on their behalf to protect those innocent people from the brutality they were exposed to.
And yet, despite the horrific behavior of these thugs in uniform, the people showed incredible restraint.
Did that cop sexually assault that woman, most likely, in fact more than likely considering what was done to other women by them..