[Vision2020] 11-20-11: Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student

[Sunil Ramalingam]

I just got off the phone with one of my old Davis roommates. We are both shocked by the chancellor's decision and the police actions there. It's inconceivable that the UC Davis chancellor did not know what would be done to the students. Just a week ago the police waded into Berkeley protesters with batons. She had to know there would be violence used on the students.

Just an hour and a half from Berkeley, UC Davis has always been a place where students care much more about studying than anything else. You can spot the out-of-towners at a concert at Davis: They actually get up to dance. I remember a comedy show where my pal Bob and I were the only ones belly-laughing; everyone else was chuckling in the gentlest of tones.

And yet there the students are, getting pepper-sprayed while seated. 

Here's a link to Glenn Greenwalds's article about the Davis attack:  

http://politics.salon.com/writer/glenn_greenwald/

I'm left wondering if the Justice Department has anything to do with the tactics being used all over the country.

I think our national politics are broken. I am disgusted with Obama. He is in Wall Street's pocket, and I doubt he's coming out. The Democrats and the Republicans both are. And given the Citizens United decision, they will continue to be owned by corporations, with ordinary people unable to compete for their attention.

I'm glad that people are confronting this. It's not Democrats vs. Republicans; it's a recognition that neither party is responsive to the people.

Sunil

> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:53:48 -0800
> From: starbliss at gmail.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] 11-20-11: Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis	student
> 
> I can't help but wonder, if the Occupy protests continue and grow,
> which I doubt will happen, but if they become as much of a threat to
> the "dominant paradigm" as the Vietnam war protests that resulted in
> the May 4, 1970 Kent State murders of students by police state
> national guard, if this UC Davis pepper spray attack on free speech
> and assembly is just a warm up and a warning... Stop the Occupy
> movement, or else!
> 
> Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student:
> 
> http://boingboing.net/2011/11/20/ucdeyetwitness.html
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> This summer I hear the drumming,
> Four dead in Ohio
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> Gotta get downto it
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> Gotta get down to it
> Soldiers are cutting us down
> Should have been done long ago.
> What if you knew her
> And found her dead on the ground
> How can you run when you know?
> 
> Tin soldiers and Nixon coming
> We're finally on our won.
> This summer I hear the drumming,
> Four dead in Ohio.
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