Monumental fatuous idiots Megyn Kelly and Bill
O'Reilly discussing on Fox Propaganda Channel the police assault on
immobile protesters at UC Davis agreed that it was "no big deal," and
that pepper spray is a "food product". (This).
I have really had it with these Rightists who tout America and the
Constitution when they neither know anything about it nor believe in its
principles.
Earth to Kelly: police may, according to long
standing interpretations of the First Amendment, enforce certain time
and place restrictions on the exercise of assembly rights, with good
cause and due notice. That could mean, for example, that protesters
engaging in "Sit-Down" demonstrations (a form of nonviolent Civil
Disobedience), could be arrested and physically removed, under certain
circumstances. But if they are immobile, the only acceptable use of
force is... "with reasonable care" bodily removal and arrest. The use of
clubs, sound cannons, or assault chemicals such as tear gas and pepper
spray, on people who are merely refusing to move, is assault and police
riot, and should be prosecuted as such. Anyone watching the campus cop
spraying massive amounts of pepper spray on completely immobile
protesters as if they were weeds who wasn't revolted by that illegal use of police weaponry, has no grasp of what it really means to be an American. If our society blithely tolerates such conduct, we are a long, long way down the road to a republic lost.
22 November 2011
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