Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
In the face of all the arrests – nearly 3,000 so far across the country – all the bans on tents, on sleeping bags, on umbrellas… it’s encouraging that some in the judicial system still have an appreciation of the first amendment and the meaning of free speech. Federal Judge Aleta Trauger issued a restraining [...]
At the moment, the Police have just released the bulk of the Occupy London protest. They had kettled them in and were refusing to allow them to leave, and had already made a number of arrests. Despite earlier reports, they do not appear to be taking action against the encampment at St Paul’s – this [...]
Back in the good ol’ days, you could arrest someone and charge them with disorderly conduct or resisting arrest, maybe even charge them with being drunk in public. And you were the police – it was your word against theirs. It must be really difficult for these guys, living in the age of cell phones [...]
It’s no secret that the New York Police Department is no fan of Occupy Wall Street. They’ve indulged in everything from petty harassment (see: NYPD and Fire Department raid Occupy Wall Street, confiscate generators) to urban assault (see: More trouble for pepper-spray cop Anthony Bologna?) It’s even reached the point that crime in the rest of the [...]
Oakland Police undercover cops exposed! Which leaves the question… how many of the bad eggs who escalated the conflict were also undercover cops? How many of the bottle-throwers, how many of the rock-tossers? Keeping in mind that just about every Homeland Security bust of terrorists since 9/11 have been entrapment by undercover cops…. And of [...]
27 members of Occupy Portland were arrested in the early hours Sunday. They were severely manhandles by police without provocation, and several report being injured while in police custody. Portland has been practically a poster child of good city/Occupation relations. Mayor Sam Adams has been a supporter; and Oregon Congressment Peter DeFazio and Earl Blumenauer [...]
It’s only 9 pm on the west coast, so it’s going to be a long night. As the headline suggests, Occupy Oakland decided to march to OPD headquarters to protest police brutality after the crackdown at Occupy Denver earlier today (See: Police brutality today at Occupy Denver) Since they couldn’t just let a peaceful group march [...]
Denver police moved in on Occupy Denver protesters today. They said they wanted to keep the demonstration peaceful, so they attacked them with pepper spray and rubber bullets, and arrested seven. In the picture above, the red item in the right-most officer’s hand is a large canister of pepper spray, which he is using to [...]
This is how it could be. As demonstrators in several other cities were being tear-gassed and shot at for the crime of putting up tents, a very different scenario played out at Irvine City Council. There, they voted unanimously that the tents of the Occupy Wall Street movement were necessary for them to exercise their [...]
Well, if you can’t win legitimately, change the rules. Tennessee is enforcing a brand new anti-free-speech curfew tonight, and there have been at least 20 arrested at Occupy Nashville. And if you’re going to violate a couple of clauses of the first amendment, why not once again go for a trifecta and bust a reporter, [...]
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