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Occupy Portland--Dancing with Horses. Mayor Unleashes Riot Police Upon Peaceful Oregon Youth.

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All night Saturday, through Sunday morning, I was witness to thousands of Portlanders who showed up in the cold and rain, and defied Mayor Sam Adams with his legions of riot police, and order to disperse. It was a complete Occupy Portland success, in the face of a brutal horse-mounted assault.
The media lied and said the police were not trying to break up the people's assembly, when they charged horses into the peaceful crowd. It was an incredible display of our citizens' courage, putting their bodies in front of huge horses, and refusing to budge. When the people gather in numbers, and have the courage of their convictions, the police are powerless. A just cause trumps cowardly tyranny. If just for a day, but the fight continues.
Apparently, the media wants us to believe that the police were just practicing crushing people with horses, and they did not really mean it.
In their assault, the police even spilled a man from a wheelchair, who had a broken back, despite the pleas of onlookers, and basically choked him unconscious, leaving him with numbness in arm and leg.
Police should not be puppets. Their duty is to protect the welfare of all of our citizens, not just the one percenters, who watch like vultures from tall bank buildings. Obviously, we need police in our country, but we need protestors more. Police should not be mercendary gendarmes, nor mindless minions, no matter where their paycheck comes from. It is frightening to watch them circle like jackles, sizing up their prey, looking for signs of weekness, and hoping to feast on dead bones. Their faces remind me of the faces of cossacked thugs, with machine guns slung on their shoulders, that I saw in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, that terrorized citizens, back in the dictator days, and even shook down and intimidated tourists.
Their faces seemed like masks, and manifested a corrupt look, just like Portland's police--sullen faces that contrast like day and night with the joyous countenances of a people set free, or at least who can glimpse the light of freedom and justice on the horizon. The police should lay down their arms and join the people.
Tomorrow, Thursday, Occupy Portland will march and try to close down the downtown banks, The mercenary fortresses are formidable, Wells Fargo, US Bancorp, and Bank of America buildings, all toxic Acropolises of towering greed, dominate the once pristine skyline. 
The mass media, including the Oregonian, decry the city's cost for police overtime and Occupy persistence. Yet, it is a comparative pittance, money well invested, if it continues to shine light on the billions that banks and brokers stole from the people, and finally brings the perpetrators and politicians to jail and justice. Our politicians, who look the other way, should resign, en mass.  
Freedom is on the march. Yesterday, the student body of Portland State, a downtown University, walked out of classes and demonstrated, led by the school president. When the youth of America mobilize, the corrupt corporate state had better take notice. Oregon's students, like the nation's, are everybody's children, not just the privileged one percent that mayor Sam Adams represents.
Everyone can help, like the 84-year-old woman who was pepper-sprayed Tuesday in Seattle, told Kieth Olberman, "you just need to take one step out of your comfort zone."  
 
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