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Arrested for exercising their 1st Amendment rights

Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
edited January 2012 in A Moving Train
This is unbelievable and makes me sick. The OWS protesters have this simple right and they've been pushed, shoved, etc. by police officers. Whatever happened to the right to free speech?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 60sYEOlKlo
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Newch91 wrote:
    This is unbelievable and makes me sick. The OWS protesters have this simple right and they've been pushed, shoved, etc. by police officers. Whatever happened to the right to free speech?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 60sYEOlKlo

    Britain and the U.S are close becoming - or have in fact already become - police states designed to protect the wealthy elites against the majority populations.


    Check these articles out in today's Guardian:


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ja ... ce-schools
    The US schools with their own police


    More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour?

    Chris McGreal
    guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 January 2012


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... rs-cameron
    Bankers can wait. Targeting protesters is much more Cameron's cup of tea

    The Vickers banking reforms are set for 2019. But when it comes to undermining protest ministers don't fanny about


    George Monbiot
    guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 January 2012
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Check these articles out in today's Guardian:


    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ja ... ce-schools
    The US schools with their own police


    More and more US schools have police patrolling the corridors. Pupils are being arrested for throwing paper planes and failing to pick up crumbs from the canteen floor. Why is the state criminalising normal childhood behaviour?...


    im with kady simpkins.... i wouldve been cited so many times for disruptive behaviour purely because i was endlessly curious... not to mention bored cause id already finished my work.


    this is an extremely disturbing story.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • peacefrompaulpeacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Newch91 wrote:
    This is unbelievable and makes me sick. The OWS protesters have this simple right and they've been pushed, shoved, etc. by police officers. Whatever happened to the right to free speech?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 60sYEOlKlo


    I certainly do not approve

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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    peacefrompaul wrote:
    Newch91 wrote:
    This is unbelievable and makes me sick. The OWS protesters have this simple right and they've been pushed, shoved, etc. by police officers. Whatever happened to the right to free speech?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 60sYEOlKlo


    I certainly do not approve

    387683_229011310509197_100002009901592_545722_30520237_n.jpg
    Nice poster!
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
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  • peacefrompaulpeacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Newch91 wrote:
    Nice poster!

    Thanks very much. I got that at a Bob Dylan exhibit in Minneapolis.
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