This Is Definitely Not What Democracy Looks Like

Wow. San Diego police arrested congressional candidate and activist Ray Lutz - in Freedom Plaza , yet - for registering voters, or refusing to move his little table for registering voters, or maybe just breathing, 'cause hell, at this point, who knows. Other Occupy activists took over. Lutz is suing, which for now you're still allowed to do.

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Pepper-Spray Developer Laments It Has Become Fashionable to Use on People With Opinions

In apparently his first TV interview, Kamran Loghman, the developer of pepper spray, says he is appalled at its “complete improper and inappropriate use” by police forces against peaceful protesters. From Democracy Now!

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DSK: There Is Nothing to Reproach Me For (Except Being Born and Abusing Every Prerogative of His Power as A Rich White Man)

In a new official biography, slimy serial sexual predator Dominique Strauss-Kahn weaves an insane fantasy account of how a New York hotel maid "unabashedly stared at his organ" and was so dazzled she had to have him, or something. Put this travesty of a human being in jail, please. "The flesh is weak. DSK interpreted this as a proposition. The situation amused him..."

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Occupy Rosa Parks: What Do They Want, Anyway?

It was 56 years ago today that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man; in response, says Jesse Jackson, "People asked, ‘Why's she doing that?'" Occupiers have likewise staked out a bit of ground to dramatize the fight of weak against strong for more seats on the bus. "Occupy can't be pepper-sprayed away. It can't be arrested. Occupy is a spirit."

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