Sunday, October 2, 2011
current event # 1 700 arrested on Wallstreet
Most people know already about the protests on Wallstreet, which have been conducted mostly by college students deep in debt due to student loans. This news has been attracting national attention because of what would be considered peaceful protests are being forcefully and rather harshly put down by the police. In this article, the protesters had formed on the Brooklynn Bridge where 700 of them had been arrested by the police despite them protesting nonviolently. Personally I feel as though, this is showing the United States that people's rights such as freedom of speech and to peaceful protest are not necessarily protected by the legal system. I think that the New York City police shouldve handled the situation better than they did because, by forcefully putting down the protests not only did they look like a whole bunch of communist thugs, but they attracted the negative attention of the American people.http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/wall-street-protest-continues-for-third-day/2011/09/19/gIQAKqbffK_gallery.html?hpid=z1#photo=1
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I had heard about the protests on Wall Street, but did not look into it in-depth. It's an interesting point you bring up about freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.
ReplyDeleteThey were obviously not causing any harm, yet the police insisted on arresting them. It's a completely different scene than the court rulings that the Westboro Baptist Church is allowed to protest because of the First Amendment, even though their protests could definitely be considered hate speech and slander.
I totally agree. The shutdown of peaceful protest not only calls to mid communist thugs, as you said, but the reaction to civil rights movement back in the sixties. I wonder on what grounds specifically they were arrested.
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