Dare To Be Imprisoned, Beaten, and Downtrodden! Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. It is unconstitutional to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner. The “right to petition” is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution, and specifically prohibits Congress from abridging “the right of the people…to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
An Oakland Police officer fires a shotgun at a group of anti-war protesters near the Port of Oakland
Female Protester hit by Oakland police rubber bullet weapon during peaceful anti-war protest in Oakland, California
This man faces a six-month jail sentence for taking part in the 2006 Peace March to the Pentagon (Photo by Matthew Bradley)
Man being arrested at Antiwar protests in San Francisco (Photo by Franco Folini)
Police use force against a protester 2006 Peace March to the Pentagon (Photo by Matthew Bradley)
Iraq Die-in March 19th - four years of the Iraq war (Photo by Steve Rhodes)
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle… ~ Samuel Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He signed the Declaration of Independence, and played a prominent role during protests against the Stamp Act, and in the protests during the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ~ Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States of America
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The government could care less about us. They just want the money in their pockets and as for our freedom HA we have none… And I do mean none!! THESE atrocities
that the protesters are seeing will keep occuring and in greater numbers even though we supposedly have FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!! Thanks to Bush and others like him there are no freedoms now, and I doubt there ever were. They just wanted us to think there were… SAD…. 
Very nice post at least there are still few people that are willing to post the truth no matter the consequence. WAY TO GO!!!!
unreal..and very disturbing…and yet, not shocking…welcome to america…so sad…What the hell has happened to our country…
Its only going to get worse before it can get better. And I see that you have a RFN trolling the site as the comment above mine indicates.
Oh in case you don’t know what a RFN is or stands for it’s a Republican Fascist Nazi, just like what we have in the Executive House {or what we use to call the Peoples House} and those in both houses of Congress. Along with of course some Democratic Nazi Enablers or Collaborators such as Judas Iscariot Lieberman.
Keep spreading the word.
God Bless.
Yea a troll hit me like you say, but I did to it what I always do to trolls. Treat it like spam. I do not mind people disagreeing with me, but people who call me foul obscene names are not going to last too long around here. I deleted it. The language that RFN used was absolutely disgusting. Bye Bye Troll…
And thank you guys for the support.
Well its obvious that Hitler was one of the trolls hero’s. Too bad he didn’t live in Hitlers time. We could see him on the gallows next to a lot of his Nazi friends.
God Bless.
To anon paranoid:
that makes twice I have had to munge the foul mouth troll’s comments. If he could only learn to disagree in a civil manner, we might actually be able to discuss his viewpoints.
Goodness gracious and golly gee
But like you say “its obvious that Hitler was one of the trolls heroes.” Anyone who would willingly try to stifle another’s viewpoints has to be a facsist.
It’s just not enough for the poor troll to disagree civilly. It has to try to shove it’s obscenity down my throat as well.
So again I say “Bye Bye Troll”
I was glad to see that the protesters at the SPP quashed 3 agent provocateurs. You could tell they were cops. I never knew things like this happened till I discovered Alex Jones. It’s a sad state of affairs I tell ya.
Ya know what’s funny though? Don’t we have a Constitutional duty to defend our country, be it foreign or domestic?
Unfortunately, this kind of maltreatment by the police is found all over the world.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59089088@N00/sets/72157601950330927/
But some of us are not fighting back;
http://teacherdudebbq.blogspot.com/2007/09/beaten-for-taking-this-picture.html
new poem
“The Revolution Will Not Be Organized”
The revolution will not be organized,
the revolution will not be organized .com,
the revolution will not be Yahoo Grouped, Meetuped,
downloaded, uploaded, QWERTY’d, or blogged.
The revolution will not be handled by webmasters,
think-tankers, authors of policy position papers,
authors of anti-policy position papers,
secretaries, executives, executive assistants,
insiders, whistle-blowers, informants, counter-informants,
committees or sub-committees.
Your neighbor with excellent leadership qualities
will not lead you into, through, or out of the revolution.
The revolution will not be inspired, instigated, managed
or controlled by him, her, or them.
The revolution will not be organized.
No matter if you eat at McDonald’s and can barely walk,
no matter if you drive an S.U.V. and rarely walk,
no matter if you were public school indoctrinated,
vaccinated, humiliated, ostracized, terrorized, minimized,
no matter if you live in a house owned by BofA,
no matter if you eat cat food, dog food,
Puppy Chow for your inner child,
no matter if you shop at Salvation Army, Saks, TJ Maxx,
when the Cold Hand of Power touches you,
it touches revolution.
They will come to chip you, rape you,
tell you you are theirs, imprison you in FEMA camps
because you spoke out,
because you doubted the official story,
because you looked with your own eyes,
spoke from your own heart.
They will come for you in black uniforms, black helmets,
swinging black batons, symbols of the New Authority,
and you will say,
“No, my children and I will not come with you.”
You will say no — not because Charlie Sheen
inspired you one night on FOX News
to look more closely at falling towers.
You will say no — not because Alex Jones
led you through the darkness with a bullhorn.
You will say no — not because Howard Zinn
handed you the Book of Truth on a silver platter.
You will say no because you are your own
star of truth shining the way.
At your unique hour, in the dark,
beneath a burning paper currency moon,
the Cold Hand of Power will touch you and revolt you.
At your unique hour,
when they come for you because you asked questions,
because you did not lower your eyes,
because you did not bow down,
at your unique hour,
in your unique circumstance,
you will find yourself in the grip of a courage
you have not known but which you are.
You will stand in front of black helmets with invisible faces,
and you will say,
“No, my children and I will not come with you.”
Daughters and sons of revolutionaries,
blood burning for freedom,
eyes set toward tomorrow,
each of you alone in the darkness,
beneath tender constellations burning gold and silver,
each of you will remember the path to take
when the Cold Hand of Power comes for you,
each of you will make your way without direction or encouragement,
as those before you made their way without direction or encouragement,
forging history, embracing destiny.
You will not march in file.
You will not march.
The revolution will not be organized.
In your darkest hour,
beneath the burning moon,
you will pledge allegiance to the truth,
as those before you pledged allegiance to the truth.
The truth cannot be organized.
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“The Revolution Will Not Be Organized”
written by Jock Doubleday on September 24, 2008
http://therevolutionwillnotbeorganized.org/