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like… why the fuck won’t the normal “policy brutality” work?

ows isn’t special. it’s a protest with citizens getting beat up by local cops. happens all the damn time, but this time people are live tweeting it and throwing around geneva goddamn conventions like anyone in the US government gives a shit about those anyway.

Honey, it’s a war crime because it’s white folks who are suffering the brunt of it all. When it was mostly PoC who were getting beat? They were all “oh, well, teh police are just doing their jobs! Stop blaming them for your crime doings!!!” Now that they are getting a taste of what we have to deal with? They call it a crime against nature.

War crime…right that’s it. I’m going back to bed until these people get a clue or I stop wanting to teach them what words mean. Some cases I should not catch.

I didn’t want to say it but yeah pretty much.

I will now wait patiently for someone to point out a PoC who was hurt last night, as if that will disprove the point.

The fact that people don’t understand what the words war crime mean is just another tally mark in the list of reasons why Occupy will fail. There is no grasp of history or facts or context in this argument. There is no war happening here (not even a civil one!), they are not enemy combatants, & the police are not soldiers representing the federal government. That’s before we get into the fact that actual war crimes include things like rape & torture, not getting roughed up by the cops while you’re refusing to obey them. Should be police brutality be covered? Maybe. But it isn’t & co-opting the pain & suffering felt by people who have experienced actual wars & war crimes is not going to accomplish a damned thing. Go to an actual war zone with your bruises & dented cameras that cost more than many people make in a year outside the US. Look around. See what war is, what it smells like, what it feels like not to know if you’ll live through the next 3 seconds, and then kindly sit your ass down somewhere & shut the entire fuck up.

wait.  y’all.  folks are calling this a war crime!!??  ha ha ha…oh god, that is fucking rich.  i just cannot with folks.  war crime? 

let me guess using the hyperbolic term, war crime, is supposed to make the victims seem more sympathetic to the general us american audience?  its all part of their nonviolent strategy of convincing that audience to give a damn…? 

no matter how inaccurate the term is? 

how the fuck do the geneva conventions even apply to this situation?  i mean the only part of the conventions that i can imagine with a huge narcissistic stretch be applied to this situation is protocol 2, (and hi! the us didnt even sign onto protocol 2.  oops!) but by some of the ows-ers logic,  that makes the police a military force, and most of their actions, warfare.  and if that were so, then why wasnt that reflected in the analysis coming out of ows from the very beginning?  if they saw themselves as being in a warzone called the usa.   

it is just a shame.  there is something deeply deeply wrong with the us american left’s analysis, strategy, and identifications. 

Remember when I said I canNOT get down with this narcissistic, white supremacist interest-serving, PoC-erasing, misogynistic, self-righteous movement?

Remember when I said they should stop acting like police brutality is new because PoC have been dealing with it since kingdom come?

Remember when people only started caring about this when the people being victimized were white?

This is the height of arrogance, narcissism, self-importance, self-righteousness, and hyperbole. The thought of these idiots actually having the gall to suggest that a couple beatings (not that I’m condoning police brutality, obviously) are on par with things as monumentally scarring as fucking GENOCIDE makes me physically ill.