[lbo-talk] NYPD acts like pigs

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 2/19/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:25 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > My response is, one, her perception doesn't seem to be an accurate
> > picture of America today, where, (unlike America of the long sixties
> > or some countries where people are really fed up now), you hardly ever
> > see big, angry protests or uprisings, and two, even if some did behave
> > exactly as Liza says they often do, that's still not a crime, unless
> > in a police state.
>
> So what's your argument? That what Liza has seen (as have I) didn't
> really happen, or that if it did, it's not a crime?

Have you and Liza actually been to "many, many protests" with "many
protesters taunting cops on purpose" in this country?  Like, how many?

 And which protests?

Aside from the riots in LA (29 April-4 May 1992) and Cincinnati (10-12
April 2001), which weren't organized protests, and maybe the Battle of
Seattle (30 November 1999), America in recent years, especially since
9/11,  seems to me to be a placid place, where demos are more rituals
than anything else.

We don't see anything like the general strike in Lebanon, the anti-CPE
protest in France, the gas wars in Bolivia, the uprisings in
Argentina, etc., to take a few recent examples from other countries so
we can put demos here in perspective.

If American demos get any politer than they are now, we might think
they are tea ceremonies.
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Yoshie
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