The link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgi5ESpueX8&feature=related
Thanks to Hussain for finding a video that so nicely captures this event.
Here's a link that covers the story in more detail.
This whole thing is a serious hoot, starting off with the fact that these idiots are blocking equipment that's returning from Iraq. They want to stop the war in Iraq, so they're blocking equipment from returning to base in the US. Should the military just dump it overboard at sea? No, then you'd be out in an inflatable dinghy protesting the environmental impact.
First off, the video. Some real highlights for me:
“The people united will never be defeated.” Their initial chant, is very inspiring for them, I'm sure. I guess in dipshit-speak “the people” means “roughly a hundred children all under the age of 25.”
The cops start pepper spraying the wall of protestors. One of them starts yelling: “That's an illegal use of force. You are under arrest, sir.” To a cop, he says this. Apparently he's a legal scholar. And apparently pepper spray is “force.” And apparently yelling makes you correct.
“Whose streets? Our streets! Whose ports? Our ports!” Really? Yours? Cause you're an American? Are the cops not Americans? Is it not also the cops ports and streets? Or even moreso? Cause, see, the cops, being that they're cops, have a job. Which means they pay taxes. Which means it's most definitely “their streets” and “their ports.” But you, protestor guy? You're about 22, and you probably don't have a job. How exactly does any of this stuff belong to you?
“Medic! Medic!” Hussain pointed this one out for me. I wouldn't have noticed it, but it's cute. When they get pepper sprayed, a pre-planned cry of “medic” arises from the protestors. Traditionally this is something a soldier might say when he's been severely injured. Say, a bullet has shattered his femur. Or and explosion has shredded off his arm. But, hey, I bet getting pepper sprayed is almost as bad, right? Sure. You guys are soldiers too, only on the side of justice!
“Shame on you!” This is a big one. They really think it means something. They really think it's something one says from the moral highground. It hasn't occurred to them that it's the cops job to move them, and they're doing it in the most efficient, nonviolent manner possible.
Around 3:42, the awkward tall guy tries to make a break back to the road they've been blocking. He gets stopped dead, then immediately pepper sprayed. It's serious highlight reel riot-copping, I've got to say.
Then, for me, the high point of the video. As the crowd chants “shame on you,” yet more, one protestor begins screaming “kill the fucking cops.” Apparently one of the things you do on the moral highground, is demand the death of people who are just doing their job. People who are, in fact, doing their job with a level of professionalism I can't even fathom. It's a wonder to me that more cops don't just lose it on these crowds of priviledged little infants, and start laying into them with their batons. As you can see in this video, they stick to pepper spray and dragging them out of the way. I didn't see a single baton strike administered in the whole thing.
On to the article:
“Olympia police spokesman Dick Machlan said 43 people were arrested and then released while prosecutors decide whether to charge them.” That's the level of thuggery going on under the evil Bush administration. People arrested for interfering with the operation of our military, something which could reasonably considered treason, probably won't even be charged with a crime. It's really hard for the accusations of oppression to carry weight when you're just let go.
“Anna-Marie Murano, a member of the coordination group, said she has had leg and neck pain since police hit her in the chest last week.” They want, so badly, to be victims. This chick thinks a stiff neck is her badge of courage in the righteous struggle. Seriously? You think this is the real deal? Sweetheart, in the real world, people get shot, killed, they get their familes shot and killed. They get tortured, they watch their families tortured. That's the real deal. Tzarist Russia, the USSR, Mao's China, Cambodia, south America, North Korea, etc. etc. etc. That's where real opporession lives, and where real victims are made. You're so far from a victim, you can't even see what it'd be like. You're playing pretend, and we're humoring you. Please figure that out.
Hell, look at the bearded dipshit getting limp body carried by the cops in the picture in the article. He's looking all peppy and self-righteous as the cops carry him off. Dude, are you aware that in real protests, with real thug cops, people are getting dragged like that because they're fucking unconscious from water cannons and baton blows to the head? You're not part of anything important, you're a childish embarassment. Go ask a black person who really protested back in the 50s how that shit went. No pepper spray. Just big fucking German shepherds gnawing on you, repeated blows from billy clubs, and a water cannon to smash your face into a curb. That's courage. You're a fucking child.
We're not doing our species any favors by keeping these clowns in the gene pool. I think we'd do everyone involved a huge favor by directing machinegun fire on these protests whenever and wherever they happen.
For the protestors, the benefits are obvious. They want to be victims, and they want to be brave. How can they be brave victims when nobody will victimize them? But with machinegun fire, they start dying, and then anybody who still shows up is genuinely brave, and also being genuinely oppressed. Can we really be so cruel as to NOT fulfill their dreams in this way?
For the rest of us, there are also clear benefits. Humans are social creatures. We survive based upon our ability to socialize, to understand the structure of society, and to fill a useful role in that society. Bears, as another example, survive by hunting and foraging. If a given bear spent his entire day dry humping a pine tree, that bear is a retard, he clearly doesn't have anything useful to contribute to the future of beardom, and he should (and will) be left to die without propagating his sad, worthless seed. The same goes for these protetors. They are trying, desperately, to fail at life. They're trying to show us that they are so completely unable to find a useful role in our society that they would like for nature to take its course and kill them off. When we refuse to do this, we're not only hurting the gene pool, but we're really defying nature itself. It's literally unnatural NOT to fire a belt or two of machinegun fire into the crowd.
So, folks, come on. Think of the protestors. Think of society. Think of the law of nature itself. All demand that we send hot, copper jacketed lead hurtling into these people at supersonic speeds. Let's not disappoint them any more.