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Police Force Peaceful UC Davis Students to Open Their Mouths … and Then Shoot Pepper Spray DOWN THEIR THROATS

Posted on November 20, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog
By now, you've heard that peaceful UC Davis protesters were brutally sprayed right in the face with pepper spray:

Professor Nathan Brown of UC Davis notes in open letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi:

When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.

James Fallows writes in the Atlantic:

Let's stipulate that there are legitimate questions of how to balance the rights of peaceful protest against other people's rights to go about their normal lives, and the rights of institutions to have some control over their property and public spaces. Without knowing the whole background, I'll even assume for purposes of argument that the UC Davis authorities had legitimate reason to clear protestors from an area of campus and that if protestors wanted to stage a civil-disobedience resistance to that effort, they should have been prepared for the consequence of civil disobedience, which is arrest.
I can't see any legitimate basis for police action like what is shown here. Watch that first minute and think how we'd react if we saw it coming from some riot-control unit in China, or in Syria. The calm of the officer who walks up and in a leisurely way pepper-sprays unarmed and passive people right in the face? We'd think: this is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population. That's what I think here.
Less than two months ago, it seemed shocking when one NYPD officer cavalierly walked up to a group of female protestors and pepper-sprayed them in the eyes. The UC Davis pepper-sprayer doesn't slink away, as his NYPD counterpart did, but in every other way this is more coldly brutal. And by the way, when did we accept the idea that local police forces would always dress up in riot gear that used to be associated with storm troopers and dystopian sci-fi movies?

For additional details, see this, this, this, this and this.

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US War Criminals murdered our soldiers: all US police have arrest authority

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Carl Herman
source: Carl Herman
Any police officer has arrest authority for the crime of murder. Because US political and corporate media "leadership" lied US soldiers into obvious criminal wars, they must stand trial for these murders of US citizens and state residents under state murder laws.
You may recall that Vincent Bugliosi wrote a bestselling book on this topic in 2008.
The wars are not even close to lawful; we all learned this history in high school. Please note that both political and media "leadership" shamelessly lie about the victory all our families sacrificed to achieve through two world wars.
The wars were criminally driven with lies known to be lies as they were told. This was only possible through political and media "leadership" complicity.
Occupy's victory means peace from criminal wars based on obvious lies, economic security and sufficiency for 100% of humanity, and unleashing suppressed technologies that transforms what it means to be human into unimaginable status.
Occupy's endgame, in retrospect, will be obvious: after a period of "emperor has no clothes" expository communication from independent Internet media to the 99%, those with arrest authority exercise it to remove criminal leadership from power.
I encourage law enforcement everywhere to creatively exercise the authority they have to expose, arrest, and end the massive CRIMES of the 1% that murder millions, crush billions, and loot trillions of our dollars every year.
As an academic in government, history and economics, here are my strongest resources to explain, document, and prove the "emperor has no clothes" obvious CRIMES:
Open proposal for US revolution: end unlawful wars, criminal economics (4-part series)
Occupy This: US History exposes the 1%'s crimes then and now (6-part series)

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The Founding Fathers Warned Against Standing Armies

Posted on November 19, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog
The Founding Fathers distrusted standing armies.
For example, James Madison said:

In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

Madison also noted that never-ending war tends to destroy both liberty and prosperity:

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied: and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

He was right. And see this.
Freud also argued that when men gave up the primal drive to protect ourselves, our families and our communities and that power was transferred to standing armies it disempowered us and made us weak psychologically.
Look at America today: Freud might have been right.

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"If Only They Enforced Bank Regulations Like They Do [Zuccotti] Park Rules, We Wouldn't Be In This Mess"

Posted on November 19, 2011 by WashingtonsBlog

The following tweet captures the fact that the laws are only being enforced in favor of the 1% … and against the 99%:

If only they enforced bank regulations like they do [Zuccotti] park rules, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Likewise:

According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they're treated as public nuisances and evicted.

As Salon notes:

If you're an ordinary citizen, and you get caught on video dousing people with noxious gas like Bologna did, you get summarily locked up. But when you're an NYPD commanding officer…like Bologna was at the time of his attack, you get essentially a free pass.

No wonder one of the central demands of Occupy Wall Street is to enforce the laws for the 99%.

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