Have you noticed?

[elfs]

Ever since local state and city police departments have started using chemical weapons against American citizens, the Obama administration has been awfully quiet about the use of tear gas and pepper spray against protestors in Tahrir Square in Egypt and Marjeh Square in Syria.

A popular meme among the right wing is that the President is "ashamed" of America. At the moment, he ought to be. And he ought to be coming out, outraged at the way we're mistreating our own citizens. If he can jump the gun and defend his buddy Henry Louis Gates, he can fucking come out and defend Americans against being punished without due process of law or fair trial.

Grief. Obama wants me to care about the next election. Mitt Romney is an empty suit, but if Obama doesn't come out and change the tenor of this issue, then so is he.

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"Ever since..."

[ideaphile.livejournal.com]

Let me see, 43 years ago in Chicago? From Wikipedia: "The amount of tear gas used to suppress the protestors was so great that it eventually made its way to the Hilton Hotel, where it disturbed Hubert Humphrey while in his shower."

No, that's too recent. How about 79 years ago in Washington, D.C.? Also from Wikipedia: "After the cavalry charged, the infantry, with fixed bayonets and adamsite gas, an arsenical vomiting agent, entered the camps, evicting veterans, families, and camp followers."

I agree with you that Obama didn't have much to say about the Egyptian protests in 1932 or 1968, but I don't think that's a particularly insightful observation.

Anyway, what happened at UC Davis was law enforcement, not punishment.

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[amberite2112.livejournal.com]

'they' are all empty suits. always have been.