Watch the clip. Police comes right up to her and arrests her on camera.
Land of the Free
Bill Hicks had a joke that ended with, “You are free to do as we tell you.”
And now he’s dead.
To quote Tool’s liner notes from the Ænima album in reference to Hicks, “Another dead hero”
I’ll drink to that
Terms and conditions apply.
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy!
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Thanks for saying that. Yahoo tries to set millions of data harvesting cookies, it’s insane. Declining it means no video in this case.
Nazis like to make examples of people
To paraphrase Brennan Lee Mulligan, paraphrasing Michel Foucault, “Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army.”
You guys wanna make some bacon?
How paraphrased are we talking, here? Because I’m pretty sure laws like “Don’t murder” and “Don’t rape” and the ability to punish people who break those laws aren’t just an expression of one socio-economic ethnic group maintaining violent occupation over another.
Except even “don’t murder” and “don’t rape” isn’t equally applied to all citizen. In the US, you got the orange man as the prime example. Here in Canada, you just gotta look at how first nations victims are more often than not left to fend for themselves, while Mounties will ignore them if the case involves any type of effort.
I remember watching a video like this but it was on Reddit and it was top post. It was also happening in Moscow, not the USA.
“The country of freedom” accuses the other country of their censorship in media, but then it starts doing the same things.
Freedom my ass I say
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Fuck every US tech company while you’re at it
Once this is over, and one day it will, we can’t forget this, we can’t forget what IS tech companies did under trump
Which, I’m sure, means that people will forget in about 5 minutes and then they return to the cool US napy tech
Hmmm, I wonder who gives the tech company low-interest loans and much more? This tech bubble would not be possible without the support of international banking. Too big to fail, and so on.
Don’t stop at tech or the USA, that won’t accomplish anything. International banking cartel will buy the drop at bargain prices, AND give loans for the rebuild. I wonder who controls USA money? Oh, the FED. I wonder who these guys in the FED are? Oh look, those same banks.
They are not even hiding it
Reform or revolution.
-Rosa Luxemburg
You can try this
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNxc8YKHlpw
What a shithole country.
🎵 In the laaaand of the unfree… And the home of the depraved.🎵
Land of the fee, and the home of the slave.
🎶Ain’t that America? Home of the fee, baby! 🎶
Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon summed it up so well in Preacher
USA is cooked, man. It’s no longer a free country. Party of no censorship and free speech, yeah right.
If you aren’t a rich white man it was never free. Most of us are just more adjacent to poverty(increase cost of food and housing) and injustice(ice raids in the suburbs) because we’re in an economic valley. IMO If/ win the employment number recover the median voter will forget all about this
Meh. This was the local police. They wanted the group off the road, and the group wouldn’t move. I don’t really have a problem with this. These protests that block traffic and stuff hurt the wrong people. The guy or girl driving wherever shouldn’t be the target. Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.
Yeah, nah. Protests are only effective if they’re disruptive
Yes, but disruptive to who. I am saying this was disruptive to people who have no power to change anything. Go block the access point to a major commercial point of entry or something. That will at least hurt the trucking company because they have to pay the drivers either way.
Try disrupting actual commerce or production if you want to get the attention of the people in power.
Economies utilize roads. Average Joe driving to work is engaging in commerce and/or production.
And the boss will take it out of average Joe’s payif he is hourly. If he is salary he will have to make up the lost time. The company will feel no pain at all.
It appeared to me that she was on the sidewalk?? How you gonna say she was blocking the road when she’s on the sidewalk? Isn’t that where people are supposed to be?
What it said was that she was leading the protest, and both her and others had refused to leave the road when ordered. Likely this was by one or two cops. When they had to call more out, they arrested the people who had refused the order. At that point she was on the sidewalk, but they knew who she was.
A protest with no inconvenience is a parade, not a protest.
Yes, but who you inconvenience matters. Do it to the right people.
“You can beat the wrap, but you can’t beat the ride”
Or possibly losing your job, healthcare insurance, going bankrupt, etc.
Presuming it was autocorrect, but it should be RAP, record of arrests & prosecutions.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap sheet#dictionary-entry-1
Yeah, that’s the real threat. An arrest record will absolutely jack up future background checks on future employment. Which you’re going to encounter since your current employer will drop you for being a no-show. That will leave you without health insurance, threatening your savings until you can get employed again. Which will be very hard to overcome due to high unemployment (in some markets) and that arrest record.
The fact that there’s a through-line from “no social safety net” all the way to “compliant populace” is worrying to say the least.
Soon enough, those threats aren’t going to be relevant.
Thankfully it seems like no one said this yet, so just inb4:
She was not stupid, nor useless or played into their hand. Be inspired and take example. Being arrested for a little bit is not that big of a price to pay for resisting tyranny.
More importantly, without blindly believing it will automatically come true, at least put the scenario where you win into your heads. Going to prison for what’s right can actually be liberating, if you think about it. And people can be taken out of prison too, together with all those that were imprisoned for getting or giving an abortion, those that immigrated “illegally” but spent decades contributing to the US’s society and economy, those that only had a bunch of weed on them, etc. Maybe even the whole “for-profit prison” concept may finally come to an end. Imagine that!
How Russia-esque
Land of the free1, home of the brave
- Terms and conditions apply
*Land of the Thief, home of the Slave
–Brother Ali
Yep, that came to mind, but I wanted to keep the original phrasing.
Land of the free
Whoever told you that is your enemy
That whole ass record goes exactly as hard today as it did on release.
(Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut, shit rips)
I think “brave” also needs a footnote.
Yeah, probably something along the lines of “only if you agree with someone’s ideology”; the same “Terms and conditions apply” also works.
Fight back soon?
What do you think this lady was doing? What exactly do you suggest people do?
Walking around unarmed while being brown. I suggest people don’t do that.
If this had happened in Venezuela in last couple of days the media would be loosing it’s shit. The image of that arrest would be immortalized and treated like the Saigon pistol execution.
Immediately following the attack, bombing and kidnapping of Maduro, journalists were rounded up around the country.
Our media isn’t making a stink about it because they are complicit in the manufacturing of a narrative here and you can’t have people in Venezuela contradicting that narrative.
Getting REAL close to my home fascist pig fucks. I am very please that my State is both concealed and open carry. This shit WILL NOT STOP until they start getting pushed back, HARD. I have been hearing chatter in the streets in regards to ‘while you are in the streets kidnapping us, who is watching your house’?
