On May 4, 1970, anti-war protesters at Kent State college in Pennsylvania were fired upon by trigger happy national guard soldiers. This event was set to song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young with their song "Ohio". Forty-one years later, Occupy Wall Street and other Occupy protesters across the country are being strong-armed and brutalized by an overzealous police presence against peaceful non-violent protests asserting freedom of speech and freedom of assembly on behalf of the disappearing middle-class and the have-nots; and against the politically powerful corporations and the richest one percent. This week (I write this on 12:02 a.m. Eastern Time Nov. 24, 2011) a ruthless policeman tried to dissuade and intimidate peaceful protesters by blatantly spraying copious amounts at pepper spray on a crowd of defiant OWS protesters at a university in California before they could pitch tents on campus. Instead of scattering the protesters, the arrogance of this brutal and sadistic cop had the opposite of the intended effect. Days later, there are more protesters on this campus than before this incident. At the very least, the power-hungry cop should lose his job for abusing his authority. Hopefully these protests will effect change. In Boston, the powers that be won't allow winter gear like tents for these determined, idealistic protesters. Something has to be done about economic and social inequities and the canyon-sized gulf between the haves and have-nots in this country.
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