Police Break Up "Occupy Sydney" Protest in Morning Raid

Source: Reuters

Police break up "Occupy Sydney" protest in morning raid

SYDNEY | Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:49pm EDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Police broke up a Sydney protest camp inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in an early morning raid on Sunday, making dozens of arrests, police and protesters said.

The 'Occupy Sydney' protest against corporate greed and economic inequality in the Martin Place business district had been going on for a week, with a small group sleeping out in the square despite seizure of camping equipment, setting up solar panels to charge mobile phones.

The raid by about 100 officers came two days after police in Melbourne broke up a parallel protest there in violent scenes. New South Wales state police said they had made 40 arrests in Sydney on Sunday. Some protesters were expected to be charged with crimes, including assaulting police..

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"I was fast asleep. People started yelling - get your camera out. One of the police was yelling something into a microphone," Davis Frank told Reuters. "They basically informed us we had 10 minutes to gather our possessions."

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God forbid the folks with clubs and guns have to deal with peaceful people who are not both exhausted and groggy.

Boston police have done the same.

Boston is a great city, but I am very ashamed of its behavior toward the 99 percenters. And infuriated.

This has made me resolve to work hard to primary Menino. He is coming upon Mayor for Life terms anyway, and, while he approves of that, it is too conducive to dictatorship, stagnation and corruption.

And he's shown hostitility to speech before, during the 2004 Democratic Convention.

Even though the people that are hired to do this are a part of the 99%. Some support the movement, some don't. Either way, just as in Nuremberg, they will all claim to be "just following orders." IMO, that is a cowardly excuse. If you know something is wrong, you disobey "orders."

"They" have not accepted the FACT that people across the world will no longer allow themselves to be used as tools for the wealthy. Hopefully, if we keep the pressure on and hopefully, increase our protests (general strikes, a great idea), they may notice that their "bottom-lone" is suffering. That is the only thing that the corporate "people" care about. Some how, we need to make it crystal clear that we will never again accept the status quo. The bastards THINK they have us. They know that the employed must work to survive. This creates a chink in our armor. Maybe a day of " international strikes" would convince them of our resolve.

We, the people, are tired of living our only life on earth as slaves to wealthy. They have already shown us that they do not hesitate to impoverish, kill and destroy entire countries, so that they can make more money. Besides that, no person deserves to be controlled by another person, business or anything. The resources of our earth as ours just as much as they are theirs. "they" do not deserve to be our "handlers."

It is time to bring justice to an internationally failed system and claim our independence. Going from an average of CEO compensation of 40x of the company's average worker (which was too high), we now have CEO's being paid 4000x the salary of the company's average worker.

We need co-ops and employee owned corporations. We have a few and mostly, they have been very successful. If we are to allow capitalism then it must be people centered. We no longer have a say in the political process. We must change this abhorrent system to one that is fair and allows human beings to be equally important in the eyes of all.
I can envisage a world (like John Lennon) of no borders, no warring governments, just a population of equal people, living, being productive and not owing their lives to corporations that have taken advantage of and claim that (basically) they own these people.