We are not occupying America -- they are

Guest commentary: We are not occupying America -- they are

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Americans generally are unused to images from the Occupy protests being domestic ones. Grandmothers and unarmed college students pepper-sprayed with alarming casualness. Reporters singled out and beaten. Veterans returning from war in Iraq only to be gravely injured trying to exercise the precious liberties for which they supposedly risked life and limb.

Perhaps, we hoped, that these things were only possible in clearly authoritarian regimes such as Syria, Burma and Iran, but they are now home-grown creations, sharing both technique and intention to keep people from peacefully assembling and asking for a redress of grievances, the most precious right enshrined by the Founding Fathers.

New revelations show complicit activity between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and local police forces to repress the Occupy protests, a collaboration that violates a host of regulations, laws and the very Constitution.

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alas, Americans are "used" to images of protests. they tend to ignore them until brought face-to-face with issues or images of violence/repression enter the picture.

images of violence I fear are all too common with these protesters--something conterproductive in our society, counterproductive for officals and cops doing the repression. movements tend to spred and become stronger faced with repression