OWS Under Attack

Occupy Wall Street Under Attack

9-24-11

There have been many reports in the independent media of arrests during the protests at Wall Street and Union Square. The New York Police Department has been using more force against peaceful protesters. They have been beating unresisting men and women as well as macing them.
Various things have become illegal to use on the streets: umbrellas, tarps, cameras. You need a permit to film anything and everything now, or you can be and will be arrested or detained, which will amount to the same thing for the time being.
The corporate oligarchy that runs and owns the vast majority of the media and the city of New York has decreed that while it was nice that the small people have had their protest, they see the markets fluxuating into a downturn. They are blaming these protests, and this one in particular which started last week, and have decided that it is time for it to end. So, with a major media blackout, they have authorized the use of excessive force on innocent, albeit angry, citizens who are only exercising their protected right to gather in public assembly.
They might succeed in breaking up this particular protest, but I hate to break it to them... no, that’s a lie; I *love* to break it to them: Another one will rise up in its place. Another one will come after that one. What I am afraid of is that the peaceful protest ideal will not hold. I hope it will, though. I don’t want to see the 99% sink to the level and tactics of the 1%.