I'm not in the middle of any of the mess, but frankly, I was quite sure that either the protests would turn into riots, mostly at the instigation of the police, or else they wouldn't get any publicity and would fade away into the woodwork. Because there aren't any independent news sources any more, and the standard sources know which side their bread is buttered on.
It took what-nearly a week of occupation before some jerk in the NYPD snapped. And only now that police brutality is involved is it showing up on the nightly news.
As someone on another forum said: if we would have had tea bags hanging off our hats, there would have been cameras all over the place!
It's going to take civil disobedience to get things changed. It always has taken that, and I expect it always will.
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Date: 2011-09-27 06:32 pm (UTC)It took what-nearly a week of occupation before some jerk in the NYPD snapped. And only now that police brutality is involved is it showing up on the nightly news.
As someone on another forum said: if we would have had tea bags hanging off our hats, there would have been cameras all over the place!
It's going to take civil disobedience to get things changed. It always has taken that, and I expect it always will.