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The article I'm reposting below was written by S. Brian Willson, author of Blood on the Tracks, an internationally respected peace activist who is totally committed to nonviolence. I agree with Brian's conclusions. Rather than making demands on the system or trying to work within it, we need to develop nonviolent revolutionary strategies of the sort he suggests and that many here on Occupy Cafe are dedicated to.
Link to source: http://www.brianwillson.com/police-brutality-historic-pattern-conti...
July 25, 2012 Alternet article: “Did the NYPD Break International Law in Suppressing Protest?”
As a criminologist I think it instructive to place police brutality in its historical perspective (meaning that this totally unacceptable and egregious police behavior is really not an aberration in US history). For example:
Of course, the NYPD broke international law, which means they also broke domestic law while violating the Constitution. But, I ask, so what? They do it all the time, and always have. It is totally unacceptable, but our oligarchic political economy needs to make it clear that when popular democracy begins to break out, it must be suppressed or repressed at any and all costs.
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