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Article at Wired this morning on the subject. Despite Iraq Vet’s Cracked Skull, DoJ Sees No Evil in Occupy Crackdown

I really like the top comment from one of the readers:

This is exactly the type of corruption the founding fathers tried to avoid happening. Thats why they created the country for the people to have the ultimate power & gave us the means of protecting it (freedom of speech, right to bare arms, right to protest, etc).

And look, no one wants a fight in the streets (I loathe violence actually), but the authorities here aren't exactly playing by the rules now are they & seem like they're egging that very scenario on. All the while our government & politicians do nothing about it. Hell, the officers that do this don't even get an investigation & are being promoted even!

This Marine survived two tours in Iraq, supposedly to protect our freedom, only to be done in by the very government that sent him there while peacefully protesting (which is his right). It's a big "##### you" to our military & people in general. Seems we're OK with protecting "freedom" in other countries but not our own. And as soon as people raise a stink about it, the media is so quick to call them worthless hippies.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

So I guess Lincoln & the rest of them were hippies too?? And like I said, I'm in no way advocating that & no one wants a fight (my God, that would suck). But there has to be a resolution to all of this, because things do need to change.