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My Occupy LA Arrest
by Patrick Meighan
Infowars.com
December 7, 2011
From Patrick Meighan’s blog, My Occupy LA Arrest.
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted “We Are Peaceful” and “We Are Nonviolent” and “Join Us.”
As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives to slice open every personal tent in the park. They forcibly removed anyone sleeping inside, and then yanked out and destroyed any personal property inside those tents, scattering the contents across the park. They then did the same with the communal property of the Occupy LA movement. For example, I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA’s First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally contributed that exact canopy tent to Occupy LA, at a cost of several hundred of my family’s dollars. As I watched, the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as “30 tons of garbage” that was “abandoned” by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to dispose of while we were sent to prison.
When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor’s legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor’s left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor’s right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor.
It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist.
My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm.
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Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
Senate Bill 1867: LEO's Are Terrorists. Will The Military Arrest Them?
So if this thing passes will the military come in and arrest the LEO's who are terrorizing OWS protestors and others who are exercising their constitutionally protected rights? After all, the LEO's do meet the bill's criteria for terrorists.
Originally posted by FurvusRexCaeli
No one is accusing the police of being covered persons under the Authorization for Use of Military Force Joint Resolution of 2001. That's the standard. The police don't meet it.edit on 7-12-2011 by FurvusRexCaeli because: (no reason given)
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by Domo1
You do not have a constitutional right to occupy a park for an indefinite amount of time, taking that public space away from others and defecating all over the place. This tread is sad. You really are going to compare a cop roughly arresting someone to a terrorist? How fragile are you? Talk about 1st world problems.
Originally posted by Domo1
Q: You really are going to compare a cop roughly arresting someone to a terrorist?
A: Yes.
Q:How fragile are you?
A: I would think that I'm as fragile as, oh let's say... Scott Olsen:
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by this_is_who_we_are
All I'm getting from this is you are being irrational and spoiling for a fight. My proof lies in your responses.
Originally posted by TheRedneck
LEO's are citizens. They, along with all citizens and legal residents, are exempted from Section 1031 by subsection 1031(e) and from Section 1032 by subsection 1032(b).
Moot argument.
TheRedneck
edit on 12/7/2011 by TheRedneck because: typo in section numbers
Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
Well they should meet it. The spirit of the law demands it, if not the letter of the law. Those who terrorize are terrorists, LEO's or not.
The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
en.wikipedia.org...
Do you feel more free to express your beliefs these days?
Are you free from fear of illegal arrest for exercising your constitutional rights. Does the prospect of being the victim of State Sponsored Terror bother you? The military has an oath: to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. LEO"s acting unlawfully are domestic terrorists. The military is obligated to act.