For my “Anti-Occupy” friends: What Fox News Isn’t Showing You.
I know you disagree with a lot of what Occupy stands for, and I respect your right to have those ideas. I’m asking you to try to put that pov aside for 10 minutes to watch this raw unedited video you won’t see on MSM.
Please ask yourself what was accomplished? How much taxpayer money was spent to surround a group of protesters who simply wanted to have a protest march through public space.
Also ask yourself if you think it is morally, ethically, or legally right to prevent any exit route for peaceful protesters, declare the entire group under mass arrest, and stick the taxpayers with the bill.
Even if you disagree with why they are assembling, they have a right to assemble without being herded and corralled like cattle, beaten, intimidated, shot at, gassed, etc.
NOT because I agree with what they are protesting about, but because I believe they have a constitutionally guaranteed right toprotest and express dissatisfaction with their Govt.
As does the Tea Party, and the NRA, and Westboro Baptist. (JustSayin)
Uploaded by RTAmerica on Jan 31, 2012
According to the eye-witness who captured this footage, an Occupy march was stopped by Oakland PD at Telegraph Avenue and William Street. There protesters were asked to leave but were surrounded. Cops used flash grenades, pointed guns at protesters and used batons against the unarmed demonstrators. Eventually the protesters find a way out.
While I lean towards “Pro-cop” in my personal life. I’ve become increasingly disappointed in the actions of the Police Department
To clarify, I see them as 2 different entities. I see the individualcop as a regular guy, just like my husband and most of the people in America. If we are lucky enough to be employed in the current job market, we get up everyday and go to work. We need our jobs. We have bills to pay, and mouths to feed.
In the current state of affairs, no-one is taking their job lightly. There aren’t many out there, so risking ones employment over a disagreement with superiors, isn’t likely.
I ask myself, why would a Police Officer act differently?
I believe many of the orders given to police over the last 3 months are unlawful. I personally feel that our “Police Force” (taken as a whole, not most officers on the ground) has made a mockery of my constitutional rights, using the “regular guy” Police Officer as a knight on a chessboard. Individual Police Officers are likely to encounter an order they don’t agree with, or even fiercely oppose, yet feel powerless to stand against.
At this point, I don’t yet hold the individual officer completely responsible for carrying out the orders his superiors command him to follow.
However, as in an profession, there are bad guys. It would be unfair of me to hold all members of a profession responsible for the actions of a few, however it would be ethically remiss to lay back and do nothing while bad guys in uniform commit acts of brutality.
At the moment, we as a people are not able to extract just the bad eggs from the entity as a whole to hold responsible. They are too enmeshed with the authority of the Police Force as a whole.
So how can we defend against the individuals in uniform who would commit acts of brutality and entrapment?
We must arm ourselves with our most powerful weapon.
Our cameras.
Film them. Film the Police. This Revolution is NOT being televised. We are now responsible for documenting and disseminating a digital record of what is really happening. it is truly our most far reaching, long range, and powerful weapon.
If you remember bobbing your head to N.W.A. back in the day, you will recognize the reference to the song “F*ck the Police” (and you’re a real O G) in the video below.
FILM THE POLICE – B. Dolan feat. Toki Wright, Jasiri X, Buddy Peace, Sage Francis
B. DOLAN’s “FILM THE POLICE” pays tribute to N.W.A.’s infamous “F*ck the Police,” serving as a call to action for the digitized media movement while responding to the recent explosion of police brutality all across the world.
This free MP3, courtesy of STRANGE FAMOUS RECORDS, features a reconstruction of Dr. Dre’s original beat, brilliantly reanimated by UK producer BUDDY PEACE. Label CEO, SAGE FRANCIS, opens the song by picking up the gavel where Dr. Dre left it 23 years ago, introducing a blistering, true-to-style flip of Ice Cube’s original verse by SFR cornerstone, B. Dolan. TOKI WRIGHT (Rhymesayers Entertainment) follows up by stepping into the shoes of MC Ren, penning the people’s struggle against cops as a case of “Goliath Vs. a bigger giant.” Finally, Jasiri X (Pittsburgh rapper/activist) rounds out the track by filling in for Eazy-E, reminding us that police brutality disproportionately affects poor people of color.
With the Occupy Movement bringing various forms of injustice to the forefront of people’s consciousness, “Film the Police” is a reminder that cops have been a continued and increasingly militarized presence in public streets. Thanks to the widespread use of smartphones and video cameras, along with the popularity of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, the power of the media has been put back into the people’s hands as they document the injustices perpetrated by those who have sworn to serve and protect them.
Ladies and gentlemen, #Ohio is #Occupied! – OHIO FRAUDclosure: OCCUPY OHIO http://ow.ly/82C44
OCCUPY OHIO
Over 1,600 towns, cities, and communities’ across the United States are OCCUPYING
We at OHIO FRAUDclosure support this National Movement…as it provides the
OHIO HOMEOWNER - A VOICE – against the Wall Street FRAUDclosure machine.ASHTABULA COUNTY SHERIFF ALL SMILES exercising Holiday EVICTIONSheriff happily brushes past Christmas Lights (in his face) during “Set-Out” to curbFANNIE MAE adds another ”empty house” to their tax-payer owned portfolio!Lerner Sampson Rothfuss (LSR) adds another Predator Drone Foreclosure kill
Almost a dozen cops (including a paddy wagon) and an equal number of media outlets large and small descended upon an attempted eviction prevention action by 25 peaceful Occupy Youngstown & Occupy Cleveland members Thursday morning in Orwell, Ohio.
Fannie Mae plans to give a short reprieve to those in danger of being evicted over the holidays. Well …except those people scheduled TWO DAYS before the moratorium starts! Unfortunately for the CART family (Christine Cart, her Husband, and their two sons), theywere forcibly removed from their home of 40 years by the sheriff, and will have to find some type of
Christine Cart in Front of her Orwell Home
temporary shelter or accommodation with the temperatures in Orwell, Ohio (Ashtabula county) expected to dip below freezing.
“God help her if it snows” The Occupiers said…..(more here)
Please call the Sheriffs office to wish them happy Holidays
Ashtabula County Sheriff Department civil division: (440) 437-2187
non-emergency number: (440) 576-0055
and for Christmas Card mailings …to the Judge (who authorized eviction) please send to: Judge Ronald Vettel Ashtabula County Court of Common Pleas 25 West Jefferson Street Jefferson, OH 44047
U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn’t Protecting Occupy Protesters’ Rights http://ow.ly/7NkUs
One of the principles is proportionality,” La Rue said. “The use of police force is legitimate to maintain public order — but there has to be a danger of real harm, a clear and present danger. And second, there has to be a proportionality of the force employed to prevent a real danger.”
