Oregon Saw a woman dragged by hair today by Portland OR police [also covers John "Pike the Pig" @ UC Davis]

Whenever DHS gives funds to police departments for "training" and equipment, this is the end result. It's absolutely sickening.

More fallout from UC Davis.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/21/uc-davis-police-chief-leave?newsfeed=true

Apparently, some of Amy Alkon's readers think this is all a big joke. You might want to go over and comment. Or perhaps not. I left a brief comment (with the quote about students being pepper-sprayed down the throat and coughing up blood), but it got drop-kicked to spam. Don't ask me why. I've commented over there hundreds of times. The internet gods must be cranky.
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/11/21/lt_pike_pepper-.html

Wow, what a great website. Here's just one creation posted there. I think Picasso would have approved:



It's dubbed "La Pepperica."

Oh, another great one:

I'm struck by the similarity of the tactics used to break up the OWS gatherings across the country--the gratuitous hair pulling against the non violent women, the use of mace/pepper spray to the face at point blank range. These are all tactics of intimidation and appear to have been developed from a central source.

It won't work. Things are coming apart at the seams in financial terms. Nobody in this country is prepared for what is going to happen in the next year, perhaps as soon as several weeks. There is going to be a massive reset and the shock waves from that will result in violence, with food deliveries disrupted etc being one quite possible scenario. The violence, if it occurs, will engulf these people no matter how much mace they bring to the party. These kind of tactics will just make things worse

Totally agree.

Posting something that was sent to me by a friend who's on FB. As y'all know, I'm not. But these links are supposed to work for those of you who are. My friend sent me this last week:

Another interesting post from him:

I, for one, have no confidence left in the Republocrat party. Green/Lib/Indy for me, and at this point my next ballot is looking like it'll operate by a simple rule. "Are they in office now? Yes? GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!"

In a nutshell:

Will also post in the police militarization thread. I didn't know about this incident. Who knows if it's the only one? Who knows what other sick, twisted torture our ********s are coming up with:

And Glenn Greenwald can never be quoted too much, as he's been writing about this stuff for years:

I vaguely recall the pepper spray incident. This came amidst the protests regarding logging and spotted owl habitat.

http://www.nopepperspray.org/factsheet.htm

The case was taken to court and after an arduous journey, the plaintiffs prevailed:

http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/article.php?id=232

Yes, it was taken to court, but took 8 years to get a verdict. This is why, in answer to people's immediate response, "just sue!" I always say that's cold comfort. Do you want to spend 8 years of your life in court?? To prove an injustice that was done to you that you already know was wrong? Not everyone has the time, energy, or money for that.

From Digby's Hullabaloo entry linked above:

Oops.

Apparently the UC PD didn't get the memo.

And out of that 8 years how much actual time was spent in court? Lawyers can make a simple procedure drag out forever. More billable hours.

DHS?

I watched her interview on television Saturday (?) night and thought to myself that she seemed to be completely out of touch with reality. She was like an automaton.