I know I have only made a couple posts so nobody knows who I am, but my partner alerted me to this and I thought others might wish to know

"Justin Adkins is one of those who was arrested on Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday. Justin says he is a transgender man, and was treated differently to fellow police[sic] after alerting officers to the fact:"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/oct/03/occupy-wall-street-protests-live?newsfeed=true#block-15

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I'd recommend not willfully breaking the law and a lot of problems can be avoided.

When the law defends the reprehensible and immoral it us our duty to stand up. If it wasn't for brave people who put themselves on the line where would we be today? Apartheid, Segregation, Illegality of Homosexuality, Universal Suffrage, Fascist Dictatorships and much, much more.

Sometimes it is necessary to break the law and even put one's life on the line.

    First they came for the communists,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews,
    and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

    Then they came for me
    and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Well, not breaking the law doesn't necessarily prevent you from being arrested, and even those who are arrested should be treated humanely, at least according to what I was taught about the principles of the country I was born in.  Protests are supposed to be protected free speech here, and cruel and unusual punishments are likewise meant to be forbidden.  Where you live, it might be different.

Quote from: ozoozol on October 04, 2011, 03:07:55 PM
Well, not breaking the law doesn't necessarily prevent you from being arrested, and even those who are arrested should be treated humanely, at least according to what I was taught about the principles of the country I was born in.  Protests are supposed to be protected free speech here, and cruel and unusual punishments are likewise meant to be forbidden.  Where you live, it might be different.

Exactly, very well said.

Quote from: ozoozol on October 04, 2011, 03:07:55 PM
Well, not breaking the law doesn't necessarily prevent you from being arrested, and even those who are arrested should be treated humanely, at least according to what I was taught about the principles of the country I was born in.  Protests are supposed to be protected free speech here, and cruel and unusual punishments are likewise meant to be forbidden.  Where you live, it might be different.

Shutting down bridges to a major city, blocking street and violating other people's right to do their business and travel through the city is not peaceful.  Get yourself arrested with a 1,000 other people, you should know it going to suck and be crowded. It's rather silly to protest downtown to make any kind of difference.   "Psttt, go to Washington DC where the federal government is. They make they the laws corporations operate under."

Funny also that the Hedge Fund guys contributed to Obama in '08. Research also the reelection campaign for Obama. Wall Street is abandoning him because of the policies that his admin has enacted.
Keep in mind the Street as a whole donated a good 3-1 in favor of the Dems in 2008.

About this occupy Wall Street business. Don't get arrested with some 700 other people and expect any kind  of "special handling."

Besides every news source I come across mentions that the vast majority where cited and released.

It's a good thing people are waking up at last. The Arab Spring is spreading, slowly for now but momentum is growing and the parallels to the situation in North Africa twelve months ago are there for all to see. All that remains to be seen is where things will go, will it be like Bahrain, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia or Libya and how far will the individual governments go to stop things.

Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, UK and now the US. The storm is coming and coming soon.