Whatt you probably want to get your hot little eye-mits on is this www.occupyoakland.org and who could blame you...it's only a matter of time before America's New! Improved! Patriot-size police force goes a little over the top - what with all those new sorts of guns - and actually maims or kills a protesters. The Occupations provide the barrel and the protests provide the fish...after that it's a free-for-all. And lest's not overlook the 'field test' aspect. Where better place to take the new urban warfare technology for a spin than in a domestic urban theater. In hard times like these can we afford another foreign war? And why go looking for a fight when we have one right here on Wall Street?
And of course with the USA Patriot Act still in full force, virtually any charge comes with the automatic 'Terrorism Enhancement' option. Manyof the elected representatives who signed off on this civil rights death sentence are currently in office and after ten years still have not bothered to read the full impenetrable text of the law to - literally - end all laws. As far as the "Doesn't bother me. I'm not a criminal" crowd is concered, a little less on the sanguinity scale might be well-advised. There are thousands of US citizens languishing in distant limbos of varying degrees of comfort and convenience who stumbled into the net upon their return from some exotic vacation clime. Even the Lists have Lists...Here's one List to which you might have personal recourse:
- KBOO