When Will Americans Begin To Believe

As my coverage of this morning's raid on Zuccotti Park is called fiction, I have to wonder what it will take for ordinary Americans to see that this country is quickly becoming a police state. Or better yet what will it take for them to understand that even if they do not agree with the Occupy movement, they should care when the protestor's constitutional rights are being violated because if it can happen to a group this large, it can happen to anyone.




The reports of NYPD officers beating protestors are being verified by pictures from those on the ground. See this one and another one here of the same officer swinging punches at protestors. Mainstream media has even called the NYPD on its Tuesday morning actions. The police department refused to allow press to cover the raid which means the only news coming out of the park was news reported by those in the middle of the event or by people like me who watched it unfold over The Other 99%'s ustream.

The time has come to stand up to those who choose to attempt to take away our rights as American citizens. Supporting the NYPD's actions or the actions of New York's mayor Bloomberg only strengthen them and as such encourage more political figures and police departments to infringe on our rights. Once they take them away, it will require outright war to get them back.