Sunday, November 27, 2011

Stop the Eviction of Protesters - Occupy Wall Street, Philadelphia, and other Sites At All Costs

I have not been following the news lately.but I seem to have heard that protests at the Occupy Walls Street, Occupy Philadelphia, and Occupy other sites are being closed by the police. This is incredible!!! What happened to freedom of speech and our other rights such as the right to assembly???? Are they only good for a limited amount of time? What justification can there be for ending these protests? Such a clear violation of these fundamental and obvious rights (explicitly enshrined in the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution) is a threat to all of our rights in every city by every branch of government. You don't have to even believe in these protests to be concerned and offended by the abrogation of the Bill of Rights. If such obvious rights can be taken away for no reason by governments, what rights are safe? Certainly not the right to carry arms, the right to counsel, or to a jury trial, and definitely not the right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. Gone are the implicit rights such as the privacy rights which allow two consenting adults, even a man and wife, to do what they want in the privacy of their own bedroom behind locked doors in their own house. To the politicians and police who will participate in these evictions, and to the judges who will fail to grant injunctions against the police and government or who will fine or imprison the protesters, I say shame on you. You have or will have violated the very oaths by which you were given the rights and power of your office.

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