Silence has pretty much become consent at this point.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/...
While people are now beginning to learn that the police attack on Occupy LA was much more violent than previously reported, few actually realize that much—if not most—of the abuse happened while the protesters were in police custody, completely outside the range of the press and news media. And the disgraceful truth is that a lot of the abuse was police sadism, pure and simple:
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• The bus that I was shoved into didn’t move for at least an hour. The whole time we listened to the screams and crying from a young woman whom the cops locked into a tiny cage at the front of the bus. She was in agony, begging and pleading for one of the policemen to loosen her plastic handcuffs. A police officer sat a couple of feet away the entire time that she screamed–but wouldn’t lift a finger.
It goes on, of course.
No response from the White House. Guess that blank check for brutality is still in force.
This is insane, even more absurdly self-destructive than the DOJ's unwillingness to take on GOP voter suppression tactics. These people are the folks who moved Heaven and Earth to defeat nihilistic American burn-it-all conservatism. And Obama's gonna watch and eat popcorn while they're brutalized into submission.
Well, the man has his priorities.