On Friday, a 31-year veteran police officer in Wisconsin alluded to why Scott Walker’s capitol police corps were arresting people who posed no threat to public safety and it is eerily similar to events in Egypt. According to the police officer, “by arresting people here they are being more beholden to Scott Walker than to the Constitution they swore to uphold” and it is a recurring theme with Republicans in Congress and apparently in Walker’s administration. If any American thinks events in Egypt could not possibly occur in America they are deluded beyond belief because the lead-up to law enforcement opening fire on American citizens exercising their constitutional rights began during the Bush Administration and will progress to their natural conclusion soon enough because Republicans will not tolerate public displays of dissent. During the occupy movement’s protests, Republicans lined up to make public declarations that peaceful protesters were thugs, angry mobs, dividing America during a time of crisis, and stunningly that protesting Wall Street and bankers was anti-American. Eric Cantor and Willard Romney were but a sampling of Republicans decrying American citizens exercising their Constitutional rights. Glenn Beck warned his listeners that occupy protesters would “come for you, drag you into the streets, and kill you” that served the purpose of fear-mongering and eliciting public approval for what would become police violence against peaceful protests.
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 06:05:30 +0000
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