Wall Street Protests

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

"Unparallelled police brutality" it is to laugh. I have a video of Syrian protesters getting shot in the face that dumb Naomi Wolf needs to see.

The thrust of the article was that, in contemporary American politics, there has not been an example of a protest movement consistently met with batons, pepper spray, and the wanton destruction of property. In that, she argued that the harsher police and, demonstrably, federal response to the movement is that it begins to threaten the financial interests of our elected officials.

Certainly, the police treatment of OWS has been butterflies and daises in comparison to Syria. But, Syria is a "republic under an authoritarian regime"; we are a "Constitution-based federal republic [with a] strong democratic tradition."

I would expect that the methods of control be different. But the difference does not mean we are not in a society of control.