UC Davis Police Pepper Spray Incident - Occupy Protesters

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on November 20, 2011 at 12:20pm

At the least, it's very bad P.R.  Im starting to have deja vu about the 60s.  Let's hope there's no Kent State.

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on November 21, 2011 at 11:11pm

Yeah I agree with Sentient.

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Permalink Reply by Will Faithless Sophia on November 20, 2011 at 12:48pm

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27708

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Permalink Reply by Jan deBoer on November 21, 2011 at 5:34pm

Finally! Amerikkka gets its own Gestapo.

 

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on November 21, 2011 at 9:03pm

Isn't this a little hyperbolic?  I mean, we haven't invaded Poland.  Or Canada, or Mexico, or Cuba, in the last 100 years.  Haven't rounded up a few million people into death camps.  Haven't bombed Toronto.  I think teargassing old ladies and young protesters is very bad, and the US has plenty of excesses, but please don't throw in the Nazi thing.  You devalue the millions of people who were so horribly tortured and murdered by one of the most evil regimes in history, and lose credibility in this serious situation.

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on November 21, 2011 at 11:12pm

Agreed!

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Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on November 22, 2011 at 7:43am

I never understood why people have this need to compare everything to the Nazi's.

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on November 22, 2011 at 8:16am

I found the images of an officer in riot gear spraying the seated protesters with almost a nonchalant attitude disturbing, to put it mildly.  This IS beginning to harken back to the civil rights marches of the 60's in my mind.  There are no dogs or water cannon, but the behavior of those in authority isn't much better.

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Permalink Reply by joseph f logston on November 22, 2011 at 12:09pm

  This only speeds up the equity and justice for the people,  to take back are country from the 1% of the corporate dictators that control are government and wealth,  We Are The 99% Of The People of America!!

Thanks George!!...........................................joe 

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Permalink Reply by George on November 24, 2011 at 12:30pm

FOX Bill O Reilly On UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident, It's just food...

Bill O'Reilly interviews Megyn Kelly about the Pepper spray incedent. 

 

 

O'Reilly comes off far worse than Kelly does, asserting that you shouldn't question the police's decision.  

 

‘It’s a Food Product, Essentially’: Fox News Starts Spinning Pepper... - Gawker.com

 

 "I don't think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police," O'Reilly says, "particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus." God forbid! We'd never want to question Lt. John Pike's decision to generously and indifferently dust peacefully sitting protesters with pepper spray from only a few feet away. Especially given that Davis is, you know, a liberal campus! And, gosh, even if we were going to Monday-morning quarterback the police, shouldn't we remember, as Megyn Kelly tells O'Reilly, that pepper spray is "a food product, essentially"?

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on November 24, 2011 at 5:46pm

So, if you hold someone's head under water in the bathtub and drown them, is that OK because water is a food product?  George, is this fallacy of argument ignorato elenchi?  

 

Ignoratio elenchi (also known as irrelevant conclusion^[1] or irrelevant thesis) is the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question

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Permalink Reply by George on November 25, 2011 at 2:15pm

"How Could This Happen in America?"
Why Police Are Treating Americans Like Military Threats - Alternet.

"(The crackdowns on the Occupy movement) have brought a military level of combativeness to what many Americans -- even those not in sympathy with the protesters -- would normally see as a police, not a military matter.

"Police, not military. The distinction may seem academic, even absurd, when police are bringing rifles, helmets, armor, and helicopters to evict unarmed protesters."

 

 

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