Conservative, business-oriented FORBES says pepper-spraying peaceful OWS is gross abuse of power.

[pnwmom]

Hopefully, as long as the OWS people stay peaceful -- no molotov cocktails, etc. -- the police over-response will backfire completely.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/19/police-response-to-occupy-wall-street-is-absurd/

By and large, Occupy has been a peaceful affair. Certainly pepper-spraying protesters while they sit calmly in a row like this is a gross abuse of power. It should have our collective blood boiling, whether or not we even agree with the protesters themselves. What was meant to be a protest against economic equality quickly morphs into a protest against the police state.

And make no mistake, the powers of the police in this country have grown out of hand. I’ve written at length on the militarization of the police, of SWAT team abuses, and the way that the war on terror and the war on drugs have both contributed to what is really just a war on individual liberty. Occupy Wall Street may need to grow up and evolve, but a far greater and more pressing issue facing this country is what to do about the security state we’ve erected about us at the local, state, and federal level.

[roguevalley]

1. the life we live now is Bush and Cheney's inner mind taken out

and made real. The bastards.