OWS: Orwell's Wickedest Scenario

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OWS: Orwell's Wickedest Scenario

(By American Zen's Mike Flannigan, on loan from Ari Goldstein)

The only good thing about fascism and its brutal and oppressive tactics is that it's never subtle. Push these people and you'll always get the answer to Inspector Finch's rhetorical question in V For Vendetta: "What usually happens when those without guns stand up to those that do?" And always there are billions who listen to the answer and its inevitable, blood-tinged physical syntax.

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Arrest one and they will, like the Hydra, come back twofold. Teargas them, they will wave away the smoke with their signs. Take away their tents, they'll huddle together against the cold even if they have to change shifts every hour. You could blow them up with mortars. They'll bury the chunks, hose down the street and come back after the funeral.

Friedrich Nietzsche, anyone?

"Stop Or My Mom Will be Shot!"



This is a picture from Occupy Seattle taken last Tuesday night immediately after an 84 year-old woman named Dorli Rainey was pepper-sprayed by police who apparently have lived their entire lives boning and chipping their batons and making X's across the tops of their bullets for the return of the 60's. It's getting some play in the blogosphere and the Twittersphere and for Goddamned good reasons. It serves to show that even the eldest and frailest of us are not immune to police brutality and that they hold nothing sacred save for the financial institutions and the political institutions they obviously control. It betrays a fascist, paranoid mindset that even regards a peaceful physical presence as a crime. No one can read the thoughts of the man on the street unless they're holding a sign showing it. But when anyone and everyone venturing outside their homes near a protest are assumed to be sympathizers or protesters and are pepper-sprayed in a frenzy of retaliation, we come dangerously close to committing what George Orwell infamously called "thoughtcrime."

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And those on the side of that brutality, those who champion the curtailment of the rights of any faction of humanity, whether they be pro-slavers, southern racists, antiCatholic, antiSemites, homophobes or misogynists will always, always end up on the losing side of history. And such a fate is 110% guaranteed when trying to curtail the rights of 99% of a nation of 300,000,000.

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