Having seen the video of the policemen pepper spraying the students at UC Davis, and watching them trying to provoke those students who sat placidly on the ground without resisting, I am angry. In the first place, calling the police onto a college campus to interfere with a peaceful demonstration by students is a radical act unbecoming an administrator. Secondly, if I were a student pepper sprayed under these conditions, I would certainly sue the cops holding the spray cans. Exceeding one's authority as an officer of the law is negligence; and battery -- even by a law officer -- is a felony.
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Sickening all right. Good thing they wern't carrying rifles or ther might have been another Kent State...
It was a terrible assault on completely passive demonstrators --when the movement makes it through the Winter, as I predict it will, it could be a veryt nasty Summer, exceeding that of 1968.
There is such a hostility in the country, such a dissatisfaction with the government, such an anger against our business institutions, such a rejection of our school system, such a decline in our national power. It's hard to see how this an all turn our well. I hope I'm a pessimist, and I hope Dashmann is wrong, but I think Troutbirder may be right. Th next "incident" may not go as well (what an irony) as the Davis one.
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