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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
What are you talking about? They were free to leave. The videos were free to be distributed. They were free to say what they did without arrest.
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But they weren't free to peacably assemble in that spot, were they?
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
This did not look like a totalitarian state. Most of us don't know what that looks like, and there's a reason for that.
This is not to say there weren't plays of governmentality and power at work.
This was not Orwellian. This was Althusserian...or maybe Foucaultian.
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totalitarian, authoritarian, or whatever. It wasn't a free state. I don't care how liberal or conservative you are, any time you have police lined up 3 deep with heavy riot gear, nightsticks, and shields marching towards you while you are being told that if you do not leave the area, you will be arrested is not a free state. It was a clear cut violation of the peoples right to peacably assemble.