So, exercising one's 1st Amendment rights is okay for a teabagger with a gun; but somehow not okay for a bunch of unarmed protesters who are fed up with Wall Street theft, graft and manipulation.
Got it.... I think we understand the concept pretty well.
LadyJazzer wrote: So, exercising one's 1st Amendment rights is okay for a teabagger with a gun; but somehow not okay for a bunch of unarmed protesters who are fed up with Wall Street theft, graft and manipulation.
Got it.... I think we understand the concept pretty well.
Just so you know LJ- Defending one's self is not limited to just the tea party- I also believe these hippies should defend themselves. If all the other hippies just stood there and watched their buddies get assulted by the campus rent-a-cops then they are wimps. They all should have attacked the police at once in self-defense.
You know and I know they had a right to defend themselves- it does not matter if the attacker is a gangsta in da hood or a jack booted police thug. The problem is that juries these days will convict even those who try to lawfully defend themselves. I wish a jury could actually tell the difference between lawful self defense and assult- but they are all sheep these days. Self defense could cost you years in jail - even if you were in the right.
The police state is always right- the subjects are always wrong. Welcome to the modern police state- you voted for it.
I suspect that if the police were treating the tea party folks like this- citizens would show up in the hundreds armed with shotguns loaded with rock salt.
The police might think twice about attacking a crowd like that.
And P.S. - politics aside- if I found myself on a jury of some socialist hippie who was only defending him/herself from a police attack like this- I would find the defendant NOT-guilty.
I don't understand this thread...when/where were there Tea Party demonstrators that refused to move from an area that needed to be cleared? Did they block streets or bridges? In what way did they inconvenience the public?
A quick search on Google/YouTube will yield at least 4 videos of forcible police intervention... I'm sure if you're interested enough you will find them...(See Page-1)....
One should remember the Tea Party protests and OWS protests were two distinctly different gatherings: None of the Tea Party protests lasted overnight, that I'm aware of. They protested and went home. The OWS protests are there to "occupy" something for an extended length of time.
Pregnant Seattle protester miscarries after being kicked, pepper sprayed
A woman who was pepper sprayed during during a raid on Occupy Seattle last week is blaming police after she miscarried Sunday.
Jennifer Fox, 19, told The Stranger that she had been with the Occupy protests since they started in Westlake Park. She said she was homeless and three months pregnant, but felt the need to join activists during their march last Tuesday.
“I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” Fox recalled. “I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’”
She claimed that police hit her in the stomach twice before pepper spraying her. One officer struck her with his foot and another pushed his bicycle into her. It wasn’t clear if either of those incidents were intentional.
“Right before I turned, both cops lifted their pepper spray and sprayed me. My eyes puffed up and my eyes swelled shut,” Fox said.
