Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical Agent on Peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protesters

Pepper-Spray Creator Decries Use of Chemical Agent on Peaceful Occupy Wall Street Protesters


Attacks on Occupy protesters by militarized police were coordinated by Homeland Security (sic) and a private security firm to which Homeland Security outsourced the coordinating strategy. Once police violence was demonstrated in several municipalities, police everywhere probably felt less inhibited about using inapprpriate force. We saw the same thing happen to soldiers working in Iraqi prisons during the early years of the war with respect to freelance torture and humiliation of prisoners. Humans imitate apparent leaders, especially in hierarchical organizations like the military and police.

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