Unlawful Arrests

Submitted by daniil on

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We are trying to locate our arrestees.  They have not been inputed to the county inmate database and we have been told they will not be.  We demand that they be released in a timely fashion.  We demand that they have access to lawyers immediately.  We still, for the time being, have Habeas Corpus, so it is illegal for these men and women to be held in a secret location.  We appeal to the 1400 officers involved in the paramilitary-style raid to uphold their oaths to serve and protect the constitution and refuse any order that is in violation of this oath.

Police used violence and shock-and-awe tactics (including haz-mat suits and sonic weapons) to establish a kenneled area and arrest everybody in the park.  We were, the police say, an "unlawful assembly".  According to our latest report, 292 peaceful citizens were arrested.  As Tent City, a.k.a. Hoovertown, a.k.a. Occupy Los Angeles fell to hostile forces implementing terror tactics, a hundreds of onlockers congressed around Main and 1st.  Police declared this too an "Unlawful Assembly".  What is an "unlawful assembly?"  I didn't know, so I decided to look it up on Google.  I was morbidly titilated to find that Occupy Los Angeles ranked #4 in PageRank for that term this afternoon.

This is very confusing to me.  According to the constitution, we have a right to assemble.  According to the California DMV manual, pedestrians have the right of way in all streets.  What then, is the legal justification for declaring an "unlawful assembly"?

Someone told me once that we no longer have rule of law in this country.  I am starting to believe this.  Laws were originally designed to protect the meek from the criminally powerful.  Now it has been perverted to protect the criminally powerful from the rest of the population, who demand justice.  We will have justice; all civil servants who know that their oath is to the People, not to Profits, will join us.

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These people are just trying

Submitted by betty on

These people are just trying to fight fot their right and the cops are descriminating! I support the Occupy Los Angeles 100% my brother i s a part of this and i know what these people are going through! We are the 99% Tax The Billionares :)

Insanity

Submitted by gentlewinter on

You people are insane!  The first amendment to the U. S. Constitution is not absolute.  For example, you cannot shout "fire" in a crowded theater!   There is no right to occupy a public park and deny its use to the rest of the law abiding public for months on end.  You are the 99% of the crazy, lazy, and addicted.  Regular, hard working people are growing weary of your nonsense.   

Right.

Submitted by cjrebel on

So, you're cool with living in a corporatocracy then? You know, a corporate welfare state? You're comfortable knowing that 1% of the population have more money than 99% of the rest of us combined?  You're fine with the media spin telling you that people like me who are educated and were laid off are just a bunch of dirty hippies? Yes? You're better than those of us who aren't going to take this anymore? You're fine with the FACT that a random secretary pays more in taxes every year than a CEO of a given corporation?

As I'm sure you're enlightened to all of these points, let me also point out to you that, no, this clearly isn't nonsense. And no, we're not insane (check out the Tea Party for that - I don't see anyone getting up in arms when they threaten to kill the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES on various Facebook pages).

I am a regular hard working person. I, like everyone else am struggling at this point. You however are misinformed. You joined the OccupyLA group just to troll. You are an ass.

Regards,
CJR 

I see....

Submitted by warbstar on

 

So you are content to allow your neighbor to suffer from two solid years of unemployment, periods of cold-stark-starvation, massive increases of homeless families (including children) with the lucky ones living in a car, increasingly corrupt laws like the “indefinite detention” law that the Senate is currently debating that will grant the military police powers without the guarantee of habeas corpus, probable cause, guarantee of a trial, Americans being submitted to torture, and worse.

You sound real bright.

Sounds like you are content to live under Stalin, Hitler, and worse so long as you don’t suffer.

 

 

 

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A Way to beat Wall Street

Submitted by Calvin Leman on

 

Occupy has at least enough talent to set up the Occupy Bank.   This is how to stop Wall Street Banks from treating Occupy people as they do.

 

Ellen Brown http://tinyurl.com/cbh6h7a  explains why and how to set up a State Bank, like North Dakota has.  The interest (profit) goes to the people of North Dakota.  

 

An Idaho State Bank interest will go to Idaho people.

 

With an Occupy Bank, the interest goes to Occupy people.

 

Do you have people who will help set up an Occupy Bank?

 

Big Brother has been physically conceived and born

Submitted by cleansweeper on

I had to leave the "peoples" park at 6 last night and while watching the coverage on the local stations I was horrified by the magnitude of the police presence. Also the mechanical and inhuman manner they maintained. Yes comments were made that it went smoothly with little conflict; however, I was in future shock and the scenario was just like a 70's sci fi film like Logan's Run. The haz mat team was bazaar and implied that the arrestees were unclean and even contaminated. The bigger picture of last night was much worse than the immediate interactions.

We do the right thing because it is the right thing to do!

I was just released from Van Nuys on bail

Submitted by gimmebr4ins on

Was yanked with force and use of pressure points before being arrested, while multiple protesters were beat on the sidelines during a media blackout. Some protesters were held in a bus for 8 hours in zip ties that we...re cutting circulation , aswell as being forced to pee in the same plastic bag. Womenwere transferred to van nuys and have not been able see a lawyer. Many women do not have any means to get back to la, let alone communication. Will be back out tomorrow. . I was just released on bail from Van Nuys (Kat was in my holding cell) around 60 to 70 women are being held there. Email me please @ gimmebr4ins@yahoo.com

Rule of law

Submitted by eperl on

With regard to the rule of law, consider the following passage from the great distributist G. K. Chesterton:


"'So you talk about mobs and the working classes as if they were the question.  You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country.  The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.  The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.'"--from The Man Who Was Thursday.


To those who accuse us in the Occupy movement of being anarchists (in the negative sense of rejecting law and order), we can reply:  It's the 1% who are the anarchists in this sense.  They've set themselves free from the rule of law.

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