22-11-2011, 03:49 AM
Ed Jewett Wrote:"The pepper spray incident"Albert Doyle Wrote:You should Google the news on the Occupy movement. The US media is becoming increasingly hostile as if this was a frivolous, artsy symbolic protest but all the children should now go home.
I brushed past a brief exposure to "The View" this morning,long enough to hear the phrase -- about the pepper-spray incident -- that we were seeing merely the application of a mechanism of compliance, as though the recalcitrants who were sprayed were children having a tantrum and needed a "time out". The counter thought was that an attack with pepper spray incapacitated the people rather than getting them to move.
So the pepper spray is aimed at all those who were thinking of participating...
It was police brutality and violence on unarmed and peaceful people. It was assault and battery. Any one else would be in the slammer quick smart. But we know laws only apply to 99%.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.