John Lennon's Message To Occupy Wall Street
Short and to the point, and important to remember as we witness police riots in Oakland. Non-violent protest is a right for every citizen, and there is a reason the founders listed it first among the Bill of Rights. Freedom of speech and the right to peaceful assembly, people.
As Cheyenne pointed out today regarding Oakland:
What's especially tragic here is that the Oakland ordinance that had the cops all riled up is most likely unconstitutional on its face. Occupy Cleveland went to federal court and got an injunction striking down the curfew.
Last Friday night, members of the group Occupy Cleveland, which have been demonstrating on Public Square in downtown Cleveland since early October, were told that they must vacate the premises as the permit they had been granted by the city expired at 10pm. Without a permit, city law prohibits camping out between the hours of 10pm and 5am. Several arrests were made, all while the demonstrators peacefully explained that they were expressing their 1st amendment rights to free speech and peaceful assembly. On Wednesday, the group scored huge victory when a federal judge issued an injunction that would allow them to occupy the Tom Johnson quadrant of Public Square at all hours of the day for an indefinite period of time.
The success of the Occupy Cleveland participants in establishing their right to freely assemble and speak may serve as an example for groups facing similar situations in cities across the United States that are also participating in the global Occupy Wall Street movement. Oakland, Cincinnati, and Atlanta, to name a few, may be especially interested in this lawsuit and the subsequent agreement as their "occupations" of public areas were also raided and broken up by police, essentially halting their freedom of speech and assembly.
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/17710
Oct 27, 2011 at 10:56 PM
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Not that I haven't posted ample evidence that flash grenades were used, but here's more proof.
Bette Midler to the rescue.
In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court in CLARK v. COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE held that the challenged application of the Park Service regulations against camping does not violate the First Amendment.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/26/group-of-marines-lead-protesters-to-re-occupy-park-in-oakland/
so they'll incite violence. some right wing asshole will fire a gun, and the cops will start to kill people. that's what these fucks want. they want death. they want cities on fire. they want martial law. they love dictatorial power and abuse of power to come into full unabashed fruition and meaning here. they can't wait to see the next Scott Olson fall.
they'll get their wish. just watch. it'll be another Kent State somewhere that triggers the insurrection and the violence nationwide, and it will have been done by some right wing lunatic inspired by Faux Noise Rupert Murdoch slime.
someday when it all shakes out, we neeed to have trials for these assholes. and real punishment. from real gallows with real heads popping off the bodies so nobody can dispute they paid the price for their hubris and their treason.
but make no mistake about it, this will be started by right wing filthy treasonous scum. just watch. you'll see. a 'false flag' if you will, incited by agent provocateurs of the zionist garbage who have taken over this nation from within.
it'll be started by a dual passport holder with allegiance to Israel, but Janet Napolitano will try to blame it on some patsy home grown terrorist who like the underwear bomber and the other F.B.I. patsies, will have been pre-groomed by the scum at the dept of JUST US aka mossad west.
just watch. just watch.
Right Wing Dude, trying to fight the police is just stupid. That's their game and they will win. We are not "offering ourselves" to be abused. We are standing up and saying it is time for change. If they then abuse us, that only proves our point. Peaceful resistance is so much harder for them to deal with because it doesn't play their game. And the world is watching.
Head of the octopus, then season the tentacles to taste and devour at will. Simple and effective and so nutritious. Hot off the barbeque or chilled. Then change course and set heading for stopping the HAARP warfare and the DH well blowout leakage and Fukushima radiation with your eye on the identity and apprehension of the criminal cabal responsible for all of the above. It is the same little group performing destructive grandiose sick acts. Once you discover who, you will know from your viewpoint what must be done.
Come out from behind that filthy little 'NYC' moniker and openly debate WHO DID 911 you jailhouse tart. I can see the mouth of your den. Your breath doth blow foul and your mouthwash ain't making it.... Well punk, do you feel lucky? I have all day. You are BORING me like that Big Apple boss hog miscreant that you so adore wallowing in the gold.
Go ahead and advocate stacking up the crimes to try to confuse the American people. The better to hang you for. The Big Apple gang is caught red-handed, pants down, pockets full, and nobody home.
Who did do 9/11? It's a question I've thought a lot about over the last 4 years.
We know a few things that aren't talked about in polite company. But fuck them. They think they're better than Pabst Bluie Ribbon.
First, we got building 7, as well as the BBC's prescient announcement that it had collapsed despite standing Viagra-like in the background. To proceed. Who inhabited Buoilding 7? Why, Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the NY Fed's primary dealers, who also happened to warehgouse all Enron documentatation. And, if you've spent time in Manhattan, yoiu know B7 is north of Vesey St. Strange then that B6 south of Vesey wasn't affected.
Yes, yes, yes. All very curious. But who was behind that foul day?
Cui bono?
Good night.