Just recently, I was checking out some video footage of the Oakland police attacking the Occupy Oakland camp along with some footage of the Egyptian police attacking Tahrir Square, and for a moment or two there, I almost couldn’t tell the difference… and that isn’t good. I’ve seen good before, and that isn’t it.
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After a decade of observing police thuggery against protests in Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York City along with the recent police attacks on unarmed protesters at Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland, and comparing it against similar scenes I witnessed in video from Athens, Bahrain and Cairo, I can’t help but conclude that Nonviolence™ is an ideological luxury affordable only to the cushy-living white middle-class activists of the United States.
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For your further enjoyment:
Ward Churchill’s Pacifism As Pathology (pdf).
Review of Ward Churchill’s Pacifism As Pathology.
Review of Peter Gelderloos’ How Nonviolence Protects The State.
Oakland police raid Occupy Oakland, 10.25.11, 5am:
Oakland riot police turn Occupy Oakland scene into war zone:
More video of Oakland police attack on Occupy Oakland here.
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