Land of the 'Free' in Washington DC
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Sunday April 13, 2003 18:22
by some chick in DC
just so you know what's going on on the other side of the lake.
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=64515&group=webcast
Suddenly a cop was seen chasing 1 young woman. I do not know what she did to provoke that cop. Probably just yelled or thumbed her nose at him. He brought her down to the ground. She lay passively on her back,her arms over her head. A crowd quickly gathered to bear witness to any possible brutality on the cop's part. But noone did anything physically. We just began shouting "Let her go!" and "Shame! shame!" Someone who looked to be a reporter tried to get in to talk to the girl. A cop roughly shoved her away. The crowd contined to chant "Let her go." Suddenly, 3 or 4 cops stepped in with looks of pure fury and rage on their faces, and they began shoving those closest to the girl. Again, noone was doing anything to menace the police; merely yelling,with finger pointed (not the obscene finger), "Shame!" and "Let her go!" No cop in charge yelled out a warning cry of "disperse", or any other sort of warning. It was as if the police were told they could act however they wished or felt like, and so they did. Some people with cameras and video cameras began clicking away. This provoked the cops even more, and they began shoving and pushing people , willy nilly, or else trying to force them (myself included) into some sort of human cordon with their arms and sticks to prevent our escape.
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photos
Saturday protests
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=64576
New Cages placed on DC streets
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=64210&group=webcast
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=64476&group=webcast
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Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2Rich mass-criminals in the USA send poor, working class enlistees to fight the war. Poor, uneducated enlisteds inhale deadly black plumes of depleted uranium, while the rich boys back home loot Iraqi oil fields and call the UN and Europe "old-world" failures. Poor Iraqis are mowed down in the streets while their hospitals are destroyed, their vital supplies stolen. Then underpaid US soldiers go home with hellishly destructive post-traumatic stress to ruined marriages and become the next generation's loudest boosters of war. A few years later they lie handicapped by the thousands because of depleted uranium, and are easy fodder for rich medical co. scams in which the US denies that their disease is DU related, in the first place. Big co.s profit when poor soldiers die--but rich boys go nowhere near the violence, and, in the end, we pose the casualties as poster boys for further corporate onslaught. Bush votes against further Veteran's benefits---no he cuts them to the bone while giving billions in tax cuts to the rich: maybe it's a fourth house, maybe a third mistress (adds to the two others). "Life is good" under The New World Order.
On the other hand, if we end the aristocratic distinction between officers and enlisteds, we won't demean and abuse the sensitivities of so many good, decent people. Imagine a military meritocracy.
Couldn't live on that in the US 10 years ago. Up goes unemployment in comes the draft when the next war starts methinks
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