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In reply to the discussion: So tell me, ...what did this guy do to deserve it? [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)Refusal to disperse, when the gathering fully applies to the 1st Amendment, is our patriotic duty. Especially that day when the cops arrived to dishonor the Veterans who were speaking. All shame lies upon the police, and the thugs who sent them to dishonor the Veterans.
If I were at a peaceful, 1st Amendment rally for our troops, and cops demanded it end, I'd stand ground to support our troops. To support the Constitution.
Last March 17, cops screwed over a completely peaceful four-hour celebration Occupy LA were having for the six-month anniversary of the Occupy movement. Cops descended, bullied, confronted, demanded, pushed buttons, pushed through people, and eventually brought "less-lethal" weapons, shoved people, arrested four, one of whom was grabbed from behind without warning. We're working on getting all of that dropped (the first arrest was thrown out immediately). They had orders to turn something completely peaceful (a vegan chili-eating party) into something justifying arrests. Unacceptable.
Use or lose the Constitution. There are no increments in this. And our duty is to the country, not its rich. We have zero duty to do what they say, when they demand anything, after robbing us of trillions of dollars that the politicians won't do anything to retrieve. You may have heard of civil disobedience. Use that or lose it, too. Because right now they're working on an army of drones to patrol the skies, because someone is making incredible money weaponizing the police through calling all citizens potential terrorists. It's time. There is no other time. There are no other people to do this. We are the ones who will make the Change we require, or it will not happen at all, ever.