"This is the police state currently showing its face in Tampa. Where several sources have estimated an upward of 10 to 1 police to protestor ratio.
So here is the real question. If Occupy and all other related activists groups have had no impact in this past year (as the mass media would have you believe) then why waste so many millions of tax payer dollars on security at the RNC? Furthermore, why bring the practical equivalent of a standing army for peaceful American activists in the first place? What type of government do we have that goes so far out of its way to stomp on first amendment rights through such a showing of force? This is nothing but a downright attempt to quell our rights as citizens. It is surely an attempt to show strength when in reality it is the strongest symbol of the weakness and frailty of our current government. One that relies on force and fear to rule instead of tolerance and intelligence to govern. The marks of despots and tyrannical kings.
This most certainly is not a representation of the people's will as we should have under a representative republic. So I ask again with an upcoming election that many in the public sphere feel has no freedom of choice and that both parties lead to the same politics, (both parties being funded by many of the same private banking and corporate institutions) what type of government are we the people living under?"
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