Having been involved with several of the Occupy Wall Street protests I found that in today's New York Times, an article about the NYPD's over the top tactics in the afternoon, only to find the story when I got home had disappeared from the local New York Region page, you now have to find it buried within the City Room Blog and if you missed it, well tough luck because the NY Times doesn't deem it news worthy that the Police Department is a roque element denying the most basic and fundamental rights of assembly.
However the Guardian UK, finds it of merit and has put it on the front page.
Having been a resident of New York City for over 20 years as an adult and having grown up here as a child I have found the police department to be dangerous and not to be trusted. What does it say about our society and our political system that allows such wanton disregard for basic civil rights?
And if you aren't from New York or live here, check out the outstandingly racist profiling which occurs in the Stop and Frisk program. The country is lost as long as people stay silent, more importantly, our individual freedom, myth that it is, is being buried by an increasing totalitarian state of spying on our phone and internet communications all for the sake of protecting the few who have so much. Too much in my opinion.
We are heading into a very dangerous time. And now back to our regularly scheduled arts programming.
See you at the barricades.
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