No Sympathy For The Devil

You know why the rest of the world is not only sympathetic toward, but also joining America in #Occupy? Because, I think for the first time since the 60's/early 70's, they see the same thievery and brutality exhibited by the American government toward its own citizens as they see regularly in their own countries. They see America much like their own countries in that our oppressive rich and arrogant 1% is very much like their oppressive rich and arrogant 1%. Solidarity among the citizens of the world.

In my humble opinion.

And even though the "main stream" media seems to miss all these "main stream" events, we have the internet revolution to fill in...

Boing Boing: Chapel Hill Sends Swat Team to Arrest Occupy "Anarchists"

Crooks and Liars: Chapel Hill Sends Swat Team

Not to mention the false arrests of citizens, reporters, lawyers, medics and uninvolved bystanders; their cracked skulls; brain damage; lacerated spleens; broken ribs; busted teeth; their property destroyed or confiscated and their Constitutional rights trampled by the police all while unarmed and peacefully protesting.

Except, of course, for their highly volatile "linking of arms."

Colbert Report: Occupy Wall Street Decamped

Huffington Post: Scott Olsen, Iraq War Veteran, Injured By Police During 'Occupy Oakland' Protest

The Guardian: Second Iraq War Veteran Injured After Police Clashes

Naomi Wolf: How I Was Arrested at Occupy Wall Street

The Village Voice: Felix Rivera-Pitre, Protester Sought for Arrest After Being Punched by Cop, Inspires March to D.A.'s Office

Lawrence O'Donnell: OWS - Police Violently Beat Protesters, Reporters, Everyone

And Mr. Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg, the more you pepper-spray priests, pregnant women, 84 year-old ladies, penned-in women already on their knees and arrest NYC Council members and destroy books, the more you help the #Occupy Movement grow.

Rachel Maddow: Police Brutality and an Interview with John Hodgman

Keith Olbermann: 84-Year-Old Activist Dorli Rainey On Being Pepper Sprayed
 

Keith Olbermann: NYC Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez on his arrest

The Village Voice: Chelsea Elliott, Pepper-Sprayed by NYPD, Plans to Join Kaylee Dedrick in Pressing Charges

Kudos to you, 1%. Thank you for your arrogance, which propelled this movement against you in ways it could never have achieved on its own.

So keep using fascist tactics. It's worked out so well in the past.

AlterNet: Police State in Oakland? One Reporter's Arrest Contradicts Official Story