PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

just some thoughts
by marcher in the front Monday, Aug. 25, 2003 at 5:12 PM

editorial on A24

honestly i was extremely close to going up to the pocar that was blocking bellefield and asking why they were wasting money the city dosen't have to arrest people who were doing things that were relativley harmless, why they didn't arrest the people who were doing the civil disobedience in front of the city county building, the ones who were laying down in front of cars, also why they think they should keep their jobs when they treat the citizens like this? but my oppinion dosen't matter. the po have learned how to deal with direct action. the first 3 times nothing happened they didn't really know what to do. now they know that if they yell, show force and drive their cars extremly close and hit people we will usually do what they tell us. i mean what is happening with our marches is relativley harmless. we aren't vandalizing anything that dosen't try to harm us. we need to think of some other form of direct action. the po have learned to deal with it. if you want my oppinion they send the brutal officers to deal with us. there are officers who are very nice. they don't all have to be testosterone driven he-men. as of now i don't have very much respect for the police. i think that the ones who treat radicals like shit deserve to have their jobs cut. they seem to forget they are the servants of the people not the beaters of the working class.

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