As a human being, what's your first reaction to this photograph?

[CreekDog]

And if there were a movie and this image was part of the story, do you have any doubt who the good guys would be?

[The Straight Story]

1. Well, just like Iraq, you don't have to be a threat in order for govt to attack you

:)

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. I'm definitely having a lot of reactions.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. When did Star Wars Drag become de rigueur?

I am endlessly embarrassed for my country. What happened to us?

[CreekDog]

4. that was my first reaction too

:cry:

[EFerrari]

9. Mine, too.

Repulsive.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. That's exactly what I was thinking.

Star Wars for sure.

[Warren DeMontague]

23. "We intercepted no transmissions... we're on a diplomatic mission from Alderaan"

Yeah, that's what I saw too.

[sad sally]

28. America exchanged liberty for temporary safety from what we are told are terrorists

out to get us. Here's what Samuel Adams said about giving up liberty for security:

In a state of tranquillity, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war* and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms*, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!

* Note that Adams and the Founding Fathers believed they were engaged in a defensive war against tyranny.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. You can't reason with automatons

There's no translation between our language and those who only speak nightstick and pepper spray.

[whistler162]

6. Other than the obvious....

a protestor talking animatedly and a police officer ignoring it or at least not reacting and a photographer getting a good angle on the photo to make it almost look like it is something that it isn't.!

[CreekDog]

8. the baton?

:shrug:

[evrstrong]

13. did you not notice the one on the ground?

Perhaps the photographer was capturing the whole story.

[sabrina 1]

17. A protester talking anitatedly to a CIVILIAN police officer who

looks an invader from another planet. There is a man on the ground, the robo cop from Star Wars is jabbing an unarmed WOMAN in the chest with a weapon.

Looks like what it is to me, and looks like all the other extremely disturbing signs that we have lost this country. What we have seen over the past several weeks, the violence against citizens by heavily armed, robo cops in riot gear who start a riot each time they show up, tells us we do not have a civilian police force anymore.

The police are now a threat to the American people, having brutalized, nearly killed and wounded so many peaceful American citizens on the orders of, well, that is what we do not yet know. Who is controlling these coordinated tactics and where did they get these silly outfits which belong in a movie, not on our streets where people are exercising their rights, unarmed and peacefully.

We also know our Government has been silent as their people have been attacked as if they were a foreign enemy invader. That tells us that the government is complicit with this assault on the American people.

[KG]

10. i'm SO glad i don't live in a police state!

:eyes:

[Paper Roses]

11. Scares the hell out of me! n/t

[gateley]

12. Overwhelming sorrow. nt

[Downwinder]

14. Where is my can of raid? Spray the cockroaches.

[evrstrong]

15. Why are we doing

exactly what we asked the governments in the Arab Spring countries not to do to their people?

It makes me sick.

:-(

[sixmile]

16. this------->

[stuntcat]

20. I will never forget this

I have that kind of memory too, I remember for years upsetting things some people say to me. And I will not forget the things I'm seeing today.

Look at the girl next to her making a peace sign :cry:

[Warpy]

18. "The people most likely to start a riot are the ones who came dressed for it"

They'd get perfect cooperation if they'd get rid of the Robocop suits. Once they dress like Darth Vader, it's all over, they've allied themselves with the 1%.

[chill_wind]

21. +100

[Rex]

25. +1000

That pretty much sums it up. The irony is that it is OUR money that gave them the fancy robo-armor that makes them feel safe enough to violate some civil rights.

[CreekDog]

33. great quote

:hi:

[Rex]

19. Goon squad

Corporate puppets with weapons.

[Brigid]

22. Riot gear? Really?

You cops are the ones with all the weaponry. :eyes:

[Prometheus Bound]

24. A picture full of cowards.

[laylah]

26. Fear...isn't that sad? nt

[Xicano]

27. Two American citizens trying to reason with a nazi storm trooper.

n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

29. Why do we have riot gear for peaceful protesters

where's this softly softly approach?

[lbrtbell]

30. If I were to post my REAL reaction

I would be banned from DU.

[benld74]

31. I think Reynolds should use it as his family's Xmas card, to show how tuff he is,,,,

[eShirl]

32. "teenage mutant ninja turtles..."