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thefuckwouldisaywhatfor: jusqualafin: carton-rouge: 84-year-old Occupy Seattle participant Dorli Rainey, pictured above after being pepper sprayed by Seattle Police on November 15th. She later wrote about the incident: “Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech. Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: “Screw us and we multiply.’” We saw the aftermath of this tonight. Justin, his brother and I walked out of a store to see this lady and tons of people having the pepper spray washed out of their eyes and police with their bikes blocking the road. Having watched stuff like this on the news in Britain, I did not expect to see it right in front of me - it was bizarre and surreal to say the least. “Hey, Natalie, let’s wander up to Sephora while my brother finishes work so you can buy weird hairspray and eyelash curlers. While you find those items I will dick around in the ‘Solutions for Men’ section (Sephora: solving the problems of masculinity since whenever Sephora was founded). Oh my, there seems to be a ruckus in the thoroughfare. Let’s see what it is.” … and cue walking outside directly into Dorli here getting her eyes flushed. I’ve got to hand it to the gas-masked Occupy medical team for being on hand with washcloths and saline, fully prepared for this kind of insane bullshit from police. You think they look ridiculous, don’t you? Traipsing about in their hoodies with their patches on the back, geared up for urban warfare. Then you realize it actually is turning into urban warfare, as it needs to. This woman is old as fuck. This woman is older than plastic, and some fuckwit in the Seattle PD thinks flinging a stream of pepper spray in her face for standing in the street is an acceptable way of ‘dispersing the menace’ of peaceful protest. Fuck peaceful protest. This is what your tax dollars in action look like. It’s time to make swords from plowshares. Octogenarians to the back, the rest of us to the front. We’re paying the police to gas pregnant women and kids, old ladies and priests. Look me in my internet eye and tell me this woman was a menace to the cops, or was ‘threatening’ to the safety of the Seattle PD. I could kill this woman with a small tree branch. I think a ring of 20 cops on bikes in bulletproof vests could handle her. The question is whether they could handle a couple hundred geared up activists who have had enough of this shit. Our tax dollars paved these streets and bought those vests. They bailed out the banks. They fund our illegal wars. Stand against these things and you have to fear for your safety, possibly your life (hey, Scott Olsen, good to see you’re still with us). I want to see the cops on the side of those they’re supposed to be protecting: the citizens. Not lapdogs for the status quo. I want to see speculative finance enthusiasts running in fear of the tear gas, as they should be. Solidarity is lovely, but it’s time to burn this motherfucker down.  In the ashes we will build something better. View Larger

thefuckwouldisaywhatfor:

jusqualafin:

carton-rouge:

84-year-old Occupy Seattle participant Dorli Rainey, pictured above after being pepper sprayed by Seattle Police on November 15th.

She later wrote about the incident:

“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech. Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: “Screw us and we multiply.’”

We saw the aftermath of this tonight. Justin, his brother and I walked out of a store to see this lady and tons of people having the pepper spray washed out of their eyes and police with their bikes blocking the road. Having watched stuff like this on the news in Britain, I did not expect to see it right in front of me - it was bizarre and surreal to say the least.

“Hey, Natalie, let’s wander up to Sephora while my brother finishes work so you can buy weird hairspray and eyelash curlers. While you find those items I will dick around in the ‘Solutions for Men’ section (Sephora: solving the problems of masculinity since whenever Sephora was founded). Oh my, there seems to be a ruckus in the thoroughfare. Let’s see what it is.”

… and cue walking outside directly into Dorli here getting her eyes flushed. I’ve got to hand it to the gas-masked Occupy medical team for being on hand with washcloths and saline, fully prepared for this kind of insane bullshit from police. You think they look ridiculous, don’t you? Traipsing about in their hoodies with their patches on the back, geared up for urban warfare. Then you realize it actually is turning into urban warfare, as it needs to. This woman is old as fuck. This woman is older than plastic, and some fuckwit in the Seattle PD thinks flinging a stream of pepper spray in her face for standing in the street is an acceptable way of ‘dispersing the menace’ of peaceful protest.

Fuck peaceful protest. This is what your tax dollars in action look like. It’s time to make swords from plowshares. Octogenarians to the back, the rest of us to the front. We’re paying the police to gas pregnant women and kids, old ladies and priests. Look me in my internet eye and tell me this woman was a menace to the cops, or was ‘threatening’ to the safety of the Seattle PD. I could kill this woman with a small tree branch. I think a ring of 20 cops on bikes in bulletproof vests could handle her.

The question is whether they could handle a couple hundred geared up activists who have had enough of this shit.

Our tax dollars paved these streets and bought those vests. They bailed out the banks. They fund our illegal wars. Stand against these things and you have to fear for your safety, possibly your life (hey, Scott Olsen, good to see you’re still with us).

I want to see the cops on the side of those they’re supposed to be protecting: the citizens. Not lapdogs for the status quo. I want to see speculative finance enthusiasts running in fear of the tear gas, as they should be.

Solidarity is lovely, but it’s time to burn this motherfucker down. 

In the ashes we will build something better.

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