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In reply to the discussion: So tell me, ...what did this guy do to deserve it? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)How many other groups have had 7 seven thousand of their members arrested and detained and charged over the past seven months? I don't think even that many 'terrorists' have had that many arrests in such a short period of time over the past number of years, other than when Bush's war scooped up thousands of Iraqis in Iraq and threw them in Abu Ghraib. But in the US?
How about Journalists? Before OWS, how many journalists were arrested while covering stories and beaten and detained? Since Doctors Without Borders keeps track of these things and took the extraordinary step, in a first world country, of filing a complain with the US Government and down-grading the US Free Press status to such a low position on the chart, probably very few, if any.
Does any of this bother you at all? I remember when Bush was president and there were huge anti-war demonstrations, the left went wild when, at one demonstration in NY there were some injuries to some protesters by the police. The outrage went on for months airc.
I guess I'm beginning to wonder, was all that fake? Situational ethics, Bush was not really so bad, but he was a Republican? Personally I was genuinely outraged as I value our Constitutional rights but since Bush has been gone, it seems some on the Left are no longer outraged by many of the things they claimed to be outraged over when he was president. Isn't something right or wrong no matter who is in power? It is pretty remarkable. Maybe some just got used to the loss of rights?? Maybe this is what happens, slowly the outrage goes away, and then more rights are removed. Or maybe it never was real outrage after all.
Frankly I think it is absolutely outrageous, the treatment of peaceful protesters we've witnessed over the past several months. And I would think so no matter who it was aimed at, and no matter who was in power.