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G20 2009: Police Attack Students at University of Pittsburgh

From YouTube: “Watch as police use teargas/pepper spray and rubber bullets against University of Pittsburgh students during the Pittsburgh G20 Summit. Many of the students were not part of any demonstration but simply bystanders on their own campus.”

These gentlemen are for whom the term “fucking pigs” was coined. Pay close attention at the 3:45 mark.

When are we going to take our country back?

Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down, shoulda been done long ago! What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground? How can you run when you know?Neil Young
Musician; Activist

I’ll be adding more G20 clips to this post as things progress. You can also follow along on Twitter at the #G20 tag.
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UK transition to Orwellian state now complete

Aug 3

Posted by Patrick T. Lafferty in contemplations | 1 Comment

20,000 families in the United Kingdom are about to receive a forced installation of technology that all free people have feared since Eric Arthur Blair first published his prescient pre-history, Nineteen Eighty-Four, in 1949. These “problem families” will be subjected to 24-hour surveillance, in their own homes, via telescreens. No, I’m not kidding.

Evidently, there are already some 2,000 families that have gone through these “Family Intervention Projects” so far. I had no idea things were so bad in the UK. Britain’s “children’s secretary”, Ed Balls, is the overseer of this £400 million ($668 million) plan to curb “anti-social” behavior. Clearly, he is just acting like an older sibling for those children whose family issues put them in need of a Big Brother.

Simply recounting this news seems to defy all laws of irony and creative license. I cannot imagine anyone reading Nineteen Eighty-Four and thinking of it as a guidebook, but it is evidently just that in the Balls household. How appalling!

Alas, poor Britain! I knew them, Horatio; a nation of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; they have borne me on their back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those ideals that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your minds now?

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