So, Pro...the conversation seems to be shifting. And, as it shifts, I get the distinct impression that your point in this thread was not to condemn police brutality but to attempt to elicit sympathy for the protester's cause.
My point, honestly...no bs...is that I see an injustice of peaceful protestors getting the shit kicked out of them by the NYPD, on Wall Street. It couldn't raise my "Oh Shit 1984 Fuck the Man Here We Go"-Alarms any more,
unless they were wearing riot gear and gassing people. To simply shrug it off as an ideological "meh" (as I feel you are doing) screams partisan-or-class bias to me. I think because you have had a lot of experience with these things, you're just lumping their cause in with all the rest you have ideologically opposed in your square days. I don't really think you're being fair in your assessment.
These people are peacefully protesting, as is their American right. These thugs roped off sidewalks (that's illegal, btw) and then just started macing, beating, and arresting people. And I mean including journalists, women, old people, anyone. Their Wall Street masters called the city, and they sent an attack squad down to squash the peasant rebellion.
It's bullshit.
