NYC Protestors Caged in Squalor, Mistreated

[mburbank]

Excuse me, ENYA?!? ENYA HERE?!? Have they at last no decency? NO DECENY AT ALL?!?

I agree with aspects of both sides of the argument. The arrests were over the top, indiscriminate, and the people were held way too long, almost certainly deliberately.

But up to a point you HOPE the cops treat you badly when you do civil disobedience. Your point tets a lot more widespread attention. Civil rights protestors went knowing they'd face water cannons , dogs and truncheons. Back in the heyday of the union movements Pinkertons would beat you senseless. You did it anyway, and you didn't fight back. That's nonviolence, and the woerse your opponent behaves the better it works.

Legally fighting every aspect of your detention? Good. Take pictures of your chemical burns if you got 'em. But don't be surprised. Things are getting ugly and protests aren't picnics. If you think this is a fight now, wait until you see what it looks like if these bastards win.