Poll question: Who is more correct on violence, Malcolm or Mahatma?

[sabrina 1]

18. I think they are not familiar with the movement, that is what I have

noticed about those who conflate police violence with the protesters. Maybe they don't want to be familiar with it, which is fine. But they should not expect not to be corrected when they produce false information. Fortunately today it is difficult for the police, eg, and they know it, to lie too much. The initial organizers prepared for this by advising everyone to carry cameras and by having their own media.

Those plans were proven to be effective last week in the first two OWS cases brought to court when the cops blatantly lied under oath, only to be outed by the video and photographs provided by the citizen journalists. Both cases were dismissed.

Which is why the cops tried to get laws passed making it illegal to photograph them. They failed, so far thankfully. We owe a lot to the lawyers from the NLG and from other Civil Liberties groups who keep fighting the lies. And to those who got the NDAA amendment declared unconstitutional last week. I often wonder what condition this country would be in if it were not for such people, and for the protesters themselves.