Poet-Bashing Police

The New York Times:

LIFE, I found myself thinking as a line of Alameda County deputy sheriffs in Darth Vader riot gear formed a cordon in front of me on a recent night on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is full of strange contingencies.

Read the whole story: The New York Times

Comments

[Caroleeena]

11:48 AM on 11/20/2011

Remember Kent State.

[MiddleRiver]

10:30 AM on 11/20/2011

WHERE IS THE OBAMA JUSTICE DEPARTMENT? Police cannot beat peaceful protesters.

[IllyaKuryakin]

10:08 AM on 11/20/2011

A poet at OWS: " As my pepper sprayed face caresses the ground, and the policeman's baton on my head it does pound, Liberals say 'shock' recording video from their phones and sleep in their tents as Winter comes to freeze their bones. Looking forward their minds become more bent, as they realize Michele Bachmann will be the next President".

[Caroleeena]

11:48 AM on 11/20/2011

You clearly are NOT a poet. Or a visionary.

[IllyaKuryakin]

01:07 PM on 11/20/2011

“But young Illya is the poet of the Right, and much smarter than the OWS poet that got his head bashed in last night. For the Right Wing poet will watch football today on TV, while the OWS poet has to sneak in the alley just to take a pee. The Republican Poet will spend the next holiday giving thanks, while the OWS poet whines about rich people and bothers the policeman with bad pranks. Illya will share the turkey and enjoy the meat that is dark, while the OWS protester has to eat a pigeon he caught in the park.”

[RationalityPlease]

09:28 AM on 11/20/2011

I love the creative, non-violent response to the unconscionable violence by the UC Berkeley police department. For those who didn't bother to read the article: helium-balloon-erected tents.

Beautiful response.

[knewsreply]

09:27 AM on 11/20/2011

Why not listen to OWS citizens instead of beat them? They may have better ideas than the deadlocked "Super Congress".

[concernedcitizen13]

09:59 AM on 11/20/2011

They haven't quite caught up with your personal record but they are gaining ground on you.

[pyro]

11:41 AM on 11/20/2011

Flagged as hate. Should be deleted.

[1differentdrummer]

07:02 AM on 11/20/2011

Where has our USA gone? What is replacing it? This is a horror.

[MCope]

02:59 AM on 11/20/2011

One hundred cops in riot gear

One hundred cops in riot gear
have come to beat the peaceful kids.
They raise their clubs up high and sneer,
They club an old man in the ribs,
They say, "We are what you must fear
Should you oppose the one percent!
Your right of speech is worth a mere
two farts; also your tarp and tent.

“We’ve pepper spray, and bullets too,
and total power over you,
and we could leave you black and blue,
for trying to express your view.”

One hundred cops in riot gear,
One thousand cops or even more,
Ten thousand cops in masks of fear,
The soldiers of the rich folk’s war,
Will never keep the levee dry.
See how the roaring water rises!
A million occupiers rise
and bring the moment to its crisis.

[qthedancer]

05:37 AM on 11/20/2011

Wonderful! Congratulations!

[latoussaint]

06:33 AM on 11/20/2011

I think so, too.

[lakeside laffer]

01:25 AM on 11/20/2011

I know how this guy feels. 100 police in riot gear came into a Wal-Marts today where I live and just started hitting people for no reason. The went after the elderly first and then the babies. After everyone was laying on the floor the police just started spraying mace on all. After a short coffee break and pure destruction of the donuts they came at the elderly again.

[Tuigim]

01:02 AM on 11/20/2011

Thugs versus thinkers.
Stop paying taxes that feed armed thugs.
To the few who are appalled and want to be good cops:
Stop your fellow cops and state loudly that this is WRONG!

[nolookpass2]

01:41 AM on 11/20/2011

I agree we need to lower taxes so companies can afford to start hiring these people and get them off of the streets. Well may not these exact people but maybe hire other people so that these people have a basement to live in again.

[jsmills]

01:44 AM on 11/20/2011

brainwashed nonthinker....................

[Zeke Hernandez]

09:33 AM on 11/20/2011

Exactly! That's why no companies were hiring in the 90's when taxes were higher! Wait a minute.....

[colin72]

12:43 AM on 11/20/2011

"A Poet's Beating At Occupy Berkeley"

To be fair, if they're going to beat someone...

[Caroleeena]

11:53 AM on 11/20/2011

It should be the bankers and Wall Street execs who prompted this global economic meltdown.
To be fair.

[Scott Zwartz]

12:30 AM on 11/20/2011

Tell the truth, haven't we all wanted to beat some poet at some time in our lives.

[Caroleeena]

11:53 AM on 11/20/2011

No.
Thank goodness for the poets.

[DungBeetle]

11:58 PM on 11/19/2011

Alex Baldwin supports OWS while doing Capital One commercials. More vodka please. And a reach around.

[concernedcitizen13]

10:02 AM on 11/20/2011

Dude it's Alec, but your excused cause you have been drinking

[DungBeetle]

08:03 AM on 11/21/2011

Felt wrong as I typed it but I went with any way. Thanks for the gentle rebuke.

[bcarb]

11:56 PM on 11/19/2011

MysticLady is a tr0//. Don't respond to her, as she gets paid extra for every reply to her comments.

[RationalityPlease]

09:25 AM on 11/20/2011

Um, bcarb, methinks you didn't understand her sarcasm. Check her comment history.

[MysticLady]

11:29 PM on 11/19/2011

Those tents in public spaces are dangerous to our national security and must be confiscated as well as any people found near or belonging to the tents must be punished with the latest in riot deterrants especially if they are sitting on the ground with no weapons.

But then, the OWS, because they are so creative have started hanging the tents. lol

[Yes We CanCan]

11:34 PM on 11/19/2011

Your comment is inane. "Confiscate" the tents? Really!

[barnowl]

12:02 AM on 11/20/2011

It's a lovely snarky comment. Settle down,

[nolookpass2]

01:42 AM on 11/20/2011

Bcarb thinks you are a paid poster. This reply is just for you in case she is correct :) Have a dime on me.