[WS:] That is only one cop, and a retired one on the top of it. They will be in trouble only if a large segment of the police and military forces expressed the same attitude - but I am yet to see any efforts to "organize" these forces the way, say, the Bolsheviks "organized" the Russian military. But hey, it is a good sign.
Wojtek
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> lbo83235
>
> CB: The bourgeoisie are in trouble. Can the ruling class continue to
> rule in the old way ? Will the ruled class continue to be ruled in the
> old way ?
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>
> Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis, who was arrested last
> week alongside others in the Occupy movement, calls the ordeal “the
> proudest moment of my life.”
>
> “I saw all of you sleeping out here,” Lewis recalled to a videographer
> in New York City’s Zuccotti Park. “The cause, you were for justice.
> It’s not like you guys were putting up with this so you could get jobs
> on Wall Street. You were doing this for justice. All over the world,
> in fact. And that inspired me. I had to come down here an join you.”
>
> “That day, I had no intention of being arrested. None whatsoever. But
> when I saw a lot of you sitting down and being drug off, I’m saying,
> they’re losing their freedom for justice, for other people. And that
> inspired me again to be arrested.”
>
> Lewis added: “I’m going to tell you a very important thing here. I’ve
> had a lot of proud moments in my life, a lot of proud moments in my
> career. But when I had those handcuffs on and was being marched over
> there with the other protesters in solidarity, that was the proudest
> moment of my life.”
>
> <http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/20/ret-police-captain-to-be-arrested-in-solidarity-was-the-proudest-moment-of-my-life/>
>
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