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Dramatic footage shows what happened when officers at the University Of California, Davis campus pepper sprayed kids that had locked arms as part of a peaceful protest to support the Occupy Movement. Two of the officers have already beee placed on paid administrative leave and the President of the University is said to be appalled and currently investigating the incident.
At this rate there will be a shortage in mase and pepper spray shortly.
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Power Trip: An action undertaken chiefly for the gratification associated with the exercise of power over another or others
“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”
This was written by some German cat way back when. Not to be overly dramatic but we should all be outraged and disgusted in no small way by this. Pepper spraying non-threatening kids knowing full well they are being recorded is a problem. The power structure has become so comfortable with these actions and absense of repurcusions that they’re not even attempting to hide it or limit it to certain segments (i.e. black people).
Truthfully, I haven’t supported this movement because I really don’t know much about it. But I’m thinking it’s probably not the wisest thing to keep sitting on the fence… for any of us.
wow….*loss for words :O
Wow what a great college to attend! The only thing missing at this so called great college are the guns that they used at Kent State! what ever happened to freedom of speech or doesn’t this college know what that means. Those cops should be fired.