(6 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
The whole world is watching:
h/t Suzie Madrak at Crooks & Liars
From the Gawker:
How Egypt Justifies Its Brutal Crackdown: Occupy Wall Street
Two people were killed in Cairo and Alexandria this weekend as Egyptian activists took the streets to protest the military’s attempts to maintain its grip on power. And guess how the state is justifying its deadly crackdown.
“We saw the firm stance the US took against OWS people & the German govt against green protesters to secure the state,” an Egyptian state television anchor said yesterday (as translated by the indispensable Sultan Sooud al Qassemi; bold ours).
The death toll in Egypt has been reported as high as 33 and while as he Gawker points out, the US may not have killed anyone yet but we have militarized our police departments to do what the US military constitutionally cannot and two Iraq vets have been sent to the hospital with life threatening injuries.
Thank you, President Obama, for going where President Bush dared not.
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SHOULD allow for peaceful objection. What the campus jerks did was to illuminate the fact that the First Amendment has been subjugated to other interests.
Even the Fox “News” folks were having trouble with this one.
Warmest regards,
Doc