Bliggity Blog
How confusing. I spend most days trying to make sense of the world, sometimes I even look at mainstream news despite it being owned by the 1%. You have to read between the lines. Protesters clash with police? That means cops attacked people without warning. In Hong Kong there is a massive sit-in occurring, made more massive since cops teargassed and pepper-sprayed citizens just before warning them. I think that's the correct order of events. I do know cops' usual order of business when presented with protesters is to treat those people like scum who must be crushed. Cops see themselves as the defenders of order. When protesters hit the streets cops tend to freak out because they are presented with a threat to their monopoly. Not all individual cops are like this, but it's a good generalisation. I've seen cops, under the cover of being the true and only defenders of democracy, violently assaulting women in a very obvious display of Crusaderitis. They honestly bel...