Friday, November 18, 2011

Use of "Appropriate Force"

The police in the US are a power unto themselves and have gone beyond reasonable. They are brutes and bullies working to keep the billionaries safely ensconced in their ultra-rich homes looking down on the impoverished and starving. The police work to make blood flow to keep the ultra-rich happy.

From the UK's Guardian newspaper, protester and three-tour American veteran Kayvan Sabehgi was beaten by Oakland police during the Occupy protest's general strike on 2 November. Sabehgi, who was 'completely peaceful', according to witnesses, was left with a lacerated spleen...



And here is just one of many videos of US veterans being arrested for attempting to exercise their 1st Amendment Rights. So much for all the lip service about "honouring their service". When it comes to money, these poor suckers were cannon fodder to win the wars that the rich wanted, not the wars of the people, by the people, and for the people...

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