USA is a fascist state.
Technically it’s a federation of fascist states.
Kinda wild how the system keeps legions of thugs on-call, nationwide, that can be assembled at a moment’s notice to inflict legal violence on whatever the target population is
The lack of justice system reforms across the nation is the 1% telling us the George floydd protests didn’t go far enough.
First they came for the students, and we said “fuck them”
The right to free speech and peaceful protest, what a funny joke.
Hey now, don’t go spreading misinformation.
You can still have protests and not get attacked by cops; it just has to be a neo-nazi protest.
The cops will still be there, though not officially on duty
Some of those that work forces…
So ACAB, and we are a country with stupidly low quality of freedom despite the morons who just think guns=freedom, and fuck this was a BS move.
However, the Constitution states only that the government will not pass laws that interfere with freedom of assembly. Courts have decided that this includes protests, picketing, labor strikes, etc.
Courts have also concluded that this doesn’t mean you can assemble wherever you want, namely on private property. These students were essentially just trespassed by the university. Can’t really blame the policeor government for this one, unless you want to lean more extreme that they should be saying “fuck off, we disagree”. But I’d rather have a system where the police follow the law because I don’t trust any of them to make any good decisions on their own morals.
The chief even came out with a statement that was a dig at the university president that he only observed peaceful protest, not the bullshit she was claiming.
Public property is fair game.
UT-Austin is public. University of Minnesota is public. Ohio State is public. All of these schools receive billions in government funding.
But the article is about Columbia University. A private institution. It is not a public university
The more totalitarian a government is, the more the police become henchmen of the leaders.
Why is this escalating so much faster than the 1989 Chinese democracy protests or the 2019 Hong Kong protests? In those cases, it took weeks for arrests to happen and months for force to be deployed. Most law enforcement in those cases were unarmed.
Because Chinese police and military exist for different reasons than US police and military
Repression of the citizens and projection of power externally?
Yes, vs Chinese police and Military existing to protect the revolution.
Derp. I’d entirely forgotten about the red guard while writing that. In terms of enforcing the revolution.
…And every other police state for that matter.
Thanks.
Sorry, are you saying red guards enforced every other police state? Or that all police states exist to protect the revolution? Both statements seem very nonsensical
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I just feel the need to tell OP that they are appreciated for posting this, as well as their work in the comments section. Thanks.
Campus protests are close to my heart.
