on 2011-11-25 17:13 William Robb wrote
It is telling that the Canadian protests seem to have been put to bed without the overarching police brutality that has been so common south of the border. It seems that to a great extent, our cops still know the difference between right and wrong (and that perhaps they learned something from the way they behaved at the G20).
i think it's a little more complicated than that; yes, there are some provocateurs in the US occupations; hard to avoid when there is no real hierarchy ... but the police (federally supplied and trained on anti-terrorism tactics they have been itching to use) seem to have been touched by an escalative effect from how the authorities are coordinating their repression, compounded perhaps by the fear and lack of savvy of many of the local politicians who ultimately decide how to react to each occupation; here in Denver, both the moderate mayor and moderate governor have directed the crackdown, and both are terribly afraid of the center drifting right in next election
in any case the physical "occupation" part of OWS is only tactical, and the attention must be transformed now if they are to extend the awareness the public is gaining about the underlying issues; it also remains to be seen how well corpse money can "fix" it
i was struck by this article, even if some of the conclusions are hard to swallow: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
