[thechat] Bush visit update

[javier velasco]

Erika Meyer wrote:
>
> Open-mic street musician poet friends got on the bus after me, saying
> "we were tear gassed!"
>
> "Why? " I asked -- causing other bus passengers laughed at me, like
> "why" was a naive question.
>
> You know, I don't remember the riot weapons being pulled out at every
> demonstration 10-20 years ago.  I know in the 60's cops beat
> protesters, but I don't recall it being this way in the 80's & 90's.
>
> By the time I got off the bus, my own mucus membranes were getting
> irritated from eu de pepper spray... or tear gas, whatever it was.
>
> I saw a lot of footage, the cops were spraying, firing randomly into
> the crowd, at everyone.  Children, elderly, whoever was in the crowd.
> I don't think there were any arrests... I don't actually think anyone
> was breaking laws... anyway... no bother making arrests, just firing
> weaponry into the crowd.

"Fear, she's the mother of violence" Peter Gabriel