To invoke the language of warfare with the term "enemy combatant", and to implicitly threaten violence with violence. Take a cue from Gandhi and don't escalate the situation. Let the violence stay one-sided, and that will do far more good than inciting warfare.
As fellow American citizens, We are calling upon all police officers everywhere to refuse orders to assault unarmed and peaceful protestors.
Ignore the ILLEGAL orders coming down from your supervisors and their corporate slave-masters to beat, pepper spray, mace or tear gas these non-violent demonstrators.
Listen to the words of Sgt Shamar Thomas, former LAPD police officer Michael Ruppert, former Police Captain Ray Lewis (see URLs below).
Know that there is no honor in attacking American citizens who are not threatening you with any violence.
Know from this moment on, that any and all officers who assault unarmed, peaceful demonstrators are hereby determined to be ENEMY COMBATANTS. You will be held accountable for your actions, and eventually you WILL be treated in the manner deserved of enemy combatants the world over.
Lay down your batons, lay down your pepper spray, your mace, your tear gas guns, your beanbag guns and your rubber bullet guns. Turn to your supervisor and say: "Sir, no more. I will not allow you to harm any more of the American people. You sir, are under arrest for crimes against the People of the United States."
The American people are not going to tolerate the abuses coming out of too many American police departments, behavior that seems to be more fitting coming from a 3rd world dictator's security forces, or from the backwards police departments of the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, too much like the fascist police department of Chicago during the Democratic Convention of 1968.
Actions such as those are no longer acceptable police actions. You must stop it now. There are plenty of police officers, and police departments, across America that have not resorted to the aggressive and violent tactics we are seeing on the news.
The Albany (New York) PD, the NY State PD, the Lansing (Michigan) PD and others have given a shining example of how the police and the Occupation demonstrators can PEACEFULLY co-exist.
Show yourselves to be true and honorable American citizens, and live up to those examples. Stop acting like the thugs of some middle eastern dictator. Stop abusing the same people you have SWORN AN OATH TO PROTECT.
Signed,
The American People.
(The promised URLs to see and hear the words of these true American patriots)
Sgt. Shamar Thomas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEHcOc0Sys
Michael Ruppert: http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/item/4774-a-message-to-all-police-officers-from-occupy-wall-street
(Retired) Police Captain Ray Lewis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdnl4XlTOU
(please spread this around!)
Ignore the ILLEGAL orders coming down from your supervisors and their corporate slave-masters to beat, pepper spray, mace or tear gas these non-violent demonstrators.
Listen to the words of Sgt Shamar Thomas, former LAPD police officer Michael Ruppert, former Police Captain Ray Lewis (see URLs below).
Know that there is no honor in attacking American citizens who are not threatening you with any violence.
Know from this moment on, that any and all officers who assault unarmed, peaceful demonstrators are hereby determined to be ENEMY COMBATANTS. You will be held accountable for your actions, and eventually you WILL be treated in the manner deserved of enemy combatants the world over.
Lay down your batons, lay down your pepper spray, your mace, your tear gas guns, your beanbag guns and your rubber bullet guns. Turn to your supervisor and say: "Sir, no more. I will not allow you to harm any more of the American people. You sir, are under arrest for crimes against the People of the United States."
The American people are not going to tolerate the abuses coming out of too many American police departments, behavior that seems to be more fitting coming from a 3rd world dictator's security forces, or from the backwards police departments of the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, too much like the fascist police department of Chicago during the Democratic Convention of 1968.
Actions such as those are no longer acceptable police actions. You must stop it now. There are plenty of police officers, and police departments, across America that have not resorted to the aggressive and violent tactics we are seeing on the news.
The Albany (New York) PD, the NY State PD, the Lansing (Michigan) PD and others have given a shining example of how the police and the Occupation demonstrators can PEACEFULLY co-exist.
Show yourselves to be true and honorable American citizens, and live up to those examples. Stop acting like the thugs of some middle eastern dictator. Stop abusing the same people you have SWORN AN OATH TO PROTECT.
Signed,
The American People.
(The promised URLs to see and hear the words of these true American patriots)
Sgt. Shamar Thomas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmEHcOc0Sys
Michael Ruppert: http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/item/4774-a-message-to-all-police-officers-from-occupy-wall-street
(Retired) Police Captain Ray Lewis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdnl4XlTOU
(please spread this around!)
An Open Letter to Police Officers Across America
- 20/11/2011 03:27:46 AM
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Stupid, Stupid, Stupid.
- 20/11/2011 03:59:42 AM
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I am forced to agree.
- 20/11/2011 04:37:07 AM
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You're right, but stuff like what just happened at UC Davis makes my blood boil
- 20/11/2011 05:52:11 AM
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As such things go, that does not seem too bad to me.
- 20/11/2011 06:14:54 AM
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I'm going to start a counter protest with "Bring back the Pinkertons" signs...
- 20/11/2011 05:19:19 AM
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*NM*
One of the most poorly written pieces of shit I've read in a long time. *NM*
- 20/11/2011 06:30:29 AM
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Declaring people "enemy combatants" means they get to treat you as such too.
- 20/11/2011 01:55:51 PM
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Don't cloud the propaganda with logic, Tim!
- 20/11/2011 04:16:05 PM
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That's the problem with a two-party system: it's practically impossible to form a new party. *NM*
- 20/11/2011 05:42:39 PM
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And implicit in my statement above is the following addendum
- 20/11/2011 06:14:40 PM
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I agree with that. However, many seem to think that means it's OK to beat them up.
- 20/11/2011 06:21:05 PM
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Only if they resist arrest, and then the force must be proportionate. *NM*
- 20/11/2011 09:52:39 PM
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If they resist a lawful arrest, sure. *NM*
- 21/11/2011 11:11:11 AM
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they are breaking the law so it is lawful to arrest them *NM*
- 21/11/2011 10:46:18 PM
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In what way?
- 22/11/2011 09:12:01 AM
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Resisting arrest. Duh. *NM*
- 22/11/2011 10:11:04 AM
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They have to be doing something else before you can lawfully arrest them.
- 22/11/2011 10:30:05 AM
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Then they should be doing what the police say. Because that's the law. *NM*
- 22/11/2011 02:28:00 PM
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You're a smart guy, Ghavrel. You can't seriously think you have to do *anything* the police say.
- 22/11/2011 03:05:06 PM
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*NM*
You are not allowed to just block sidewalks and camp wherever you want
- 22/11/2011 01:54:42 PM
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Most, if not all, of the arrests have been lawful.
- 22/11/2011 01:24:55 AM
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Can you tell me any more about this permit system? *NM*
- 22/11/2011 10:04:35 AM
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Thereby hangs the tale, indeed; I would also be interested in Toms elaboration on that.
- 23/11/2011 08:54:53 AM
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(OWS isn't anti-capitalism)
- 20/11/2011 06:39:37 PM
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It's almost impossible for you to say what OWS is when it refuses to define itself.
- 20/11/2011 08:44:12 PM
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Re: It's almost impossible for you to say what OWS is when it refuses to define itself.
- 22/11/2011 04:20:59 AM
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Why are liberals such whiners?
- 21/11/2011 01:51:03 PM
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There you go again.... 
- 21/11/2011 11:05:04 PM
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- 21/11/2011 11:05:04 PM
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it is a little hypocritical of the guy who called the Tea Party racsit to talk about broad brushes *NM*
- 22/11/2011 04:02:56 AM
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One of these days you should try responding to me with more than "that thing you just said? YOU!"
- 22/11/2011 06:11:20 AM
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one of these days you will respond without going into off topic rants
- 22/11/2011 02:02:46 PM
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A tangent is not a non sequitur, though in this case I do not feel guilty of either.
- 23/11/2011 08:12:09 AM
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oh and stop with the the stupid BS about the Fed veing threatened it is getting old
- 22/11/2011 04:05:10 AM
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Saying a person would not like what one did to him if he came to ones state is a threat.
- 22/11/2011 06:13:35 AM
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No it is just another pathetic attempt of the left to believe the right are bad guys
- 22/11/2011 01:50:32 PM
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Saying one will take an unpleasant action against another is a threat, any way you slice it.
- 23/11/2011 08:17:44 AM
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You've posted this, but you don't seem inclined to defend it, one might ask what the point was?
- 21/11/2011 05:16:13 PM
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