Yeah, indeed.
If you see it from the police point of view, even if the individual cop might be a good person, what you have is an unruly crowd on one hand, and the Money telling you to deal with it on the other.
For a simple mind in a peer pressure environment, the outcome is quite obvious.

The protesters are Right, but that doesn't matter when Wrong decides, and they might have their restitution in some 50 years, but it doesn't so much good then.
So they either have to get violent, or get smart.
If they get violent, one of the ideas I came up with is to dress themselves exactly like the police, so that the police can't see the difference. That way they'll also have protection from spray, sticks, cameras and bullets to a certain degree.
The smart way is to infiltrate the society and change it from the inside.
This is slower, so my idea to speed it up is to spread information as much as possible to convert as many as possible.
I put up stickers, stickers with small pieces of information, like a web URL (rantradio.com) or an interesting thought or fact.
I put them everywhere I go where people will stop for a minute and look. Trams, ATM's, parking meters, telephone booths, pedestrian traffic lights, etc.
Many are torn off by do-gooders, but that means at least ONE person have read or looked at them.
They could be sitting up for years, until a receptive mind comes along.
Also, I sort of know where I've put most of them, so when I'm in that area, I refresh them if they've been taken down.
Some are taken down again and again, but that means that whoever does that might start wondering what radntradio.com is and check it out.
The stickers are like a half a cent each, so I can't really lose.

Seeing as that I don't get any fancy jobs and can infiltrate somewhere important, I reckon this is one of the best ways for me to spread the message.

One word.. Sick!

The part at the end...where they are planning to breach the protesters' line... thats a little scary.  They blatantly say that they arent doing anything, but they are going to essentially attack them.  ON FILM!  i have to wonder what they were thinking.

Something interesting to look up is anti-paparazzi technology.  In a jam, a cheap laser pointer will work.. it overloads the CCD and causes it to bleed over to the next pixel... rinse and repeat.  With imaging software, you can edit out the red channel, and see ok-ish in green.  But multiple colors fucks them over, especially if it randomly changes.

If they think an imaginary bottle is bad enough to warrant spraying a 3 year old with pepper spray then a laser shining at a camera lens is punishable by a rubber bullet to you're head by their standards... or worse

I know this chick, she is the cute red head that did another video in Oregon about protesting the corporate media. Good video. I would not recommend taking kids to any of these kinds of events because they always have the potential to turn violent. That being said, those cops deserved to be stood up to. Less than 100 years ago the people would have pulled the guns on their hips and open fired... cops or not because they know that WE are the sovereigns... or rather, were.


"The only freedom you have is that which I give you." -me

From what I saw the police reaction went way beyond what should happen in the guidelines for use of force.  From my police training I agree that what they did was wrong.

However, I'd also like to argue that the footage is incomplete and really doesn't show everything leading up to the push to disperse.  Sometimes when the video shows police talking you can tell it cut in mid sentence as if to direct you to only hear some of what they're saying.

And it's pretty standard to try and identify the leaders, it's not for revenge afterward, it's so that if things to get violent you know who to question.

I'd like to see all the footage, without editing.  As wogs we can't just start making opinions without seeking every piece of data that we can or that in it's own way leads to our own prejudices.