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Originally Posted by Willravel
Speaking from experience, they grab the loudest, beat him or her, and then arrest him or her. A few hours later, the video shows up on youtube and finds it's way to reddit, where it's seen by maybe 40,000 people. Complaints are called in, but by the time all is said and done, the loudest protester has been in jail for several days and is somehow facing assaulting an officer charges. Meinwhile, the police continue to antagonize the protesters, who are on the verge of losing their shit because a brave and innocent person was just beaten and arrested in front of them, and then someone in the protest does something stupid and the whole protest is marginalized as violent and is forgotten. And that's if we're lucky. If we're unlucky, tons of cops will show up suddenly out of nowhere in riot gear and will start to fire gas cannisters into the crowd and things will get really ugly.
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They faced that in the 60's and it added fuel to the fire, the protests didn't stop, they became stronger in the face of adversity.
I somehow believe that cops and the military all have families suffering because of the failed economic and government policies and they are less likely to do much. They may even join.
Podcast, have direct video to website coverage of your demonstrations... that way the people can see what is truly happening. Demand to be heard.
We're at a cross roads, it's either stand up and do or cower and die. We may never again have a chance to stand up in a year or 2.